A Candle in the Wilderness Opens a New England Journey
Two pioneers cross a moonlit lake on a hand built raft then camp on a mossy island. Amos shares pirate memories while warning of danger as wolves bay and savages loom, foreshadowing a perilous crossing at dawn.
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Satan
High Sea
Robert
Hell
Amos
Israel
Smith
Corfu
Otranto
Naples
LaRoche
Landin
Snorin
Colonial Enters to New World in 1634
Robert Heathers and William Heydon depart England for the New World in 1634. They are welcomed in Boston by Reverend Cotton and meet Amos Todkill. Heydon falls for Elizabeth Brade while Mabel Hartley faces scandal and disappears with Todkill.
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Robert Heathers
William Heydon
England
New World
Boston
Doctor Cotton
Amos Todkill
Heydon
Elizabeth Brade
Mabel Hartley
Robert
Peggy Weld
James Rosewell
Heathers
Todkill
New Amsterdam
Night Crossing Through Maine Wilderness Journey
Amos and Robert move south avoiding a lake and a swamp, stalk a lynx, gather bark, and raft across a two bow shot wide river at night. They swim in darkness, hear geese and an owl, rest by a deer, and ponder Peggy Weld and Todkill's cautions as they press on with improvised gear and stealth.
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Amos
Robert
Peggy Weld
Rosewell
Peggy
Todkill
Amos Dt
Perfume Sparks Travel Memories in Swiss Journey Tale
A world traveler recounted that applying a distinctive perfume to his handkerchief helped trigger vivid dreams. While traveling through Switzerland, he carried the scent, then slept with it near him a year later. He reports the dreams replayed the journey as a sequence of identical images.
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Switzerland
Radium Minerals and Source Regions
The principal minerals containing uranium and radium are pitchblende carnotite and autonite. Pitchblende is mainly uranium oxide found in Czechoslovakia and the Belgian Congo. Carnotite is a vanadate of uranium and potassium mined in Colorado Utah and Australia. Autonite is a phosphate of uranium and calcium mined in Portugal and the United States.
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Czechoslovakia
Kongo
Colorado
Utah
Australia
Portugal
United States
Pastures Dairy Cows on Alfalfa Pastures
Carl Tisthammer of Boone County Nebraska reports three years of high milk with short horn cattle on alfalfa pasture from spring to fall without bloat losses. He feeds at least a half gallon of grain twice daily and keeps gates open for free access. Grain seems essential to prevent bloat and maintain milk flow during pasture use.
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Carl Tisthammer
Boone County
Nebraska
Fred. A. Olson
Capper
Tisthammer
Mr. Tisthammer
Alfalfa Aids Dairymen as Valuable Feed Crop
The article explains alfalfa’s value for dairy farming noting its high digestible protein content around 11 to 12 percent, rich mineral matter and essential vitamins. It argues alfalfa can materially reduce milk production costs by supporting nutrition in dairy cows and other livestock.
Dairy Farming Tips For Cattle Care And Breeding
Guidance on dairy cattle management emphasizes keeping cows comfortable in cool barns, nursing freshening cows with light feeding, massaging udders gently, and preserving milk production through good sire selection. It warns against trusting bulls and stresses ample water for calves.
Phantom hounds and the uncanny human voice in sound
The New York Sun notes that humans may rarely share identical voices yet voices can convey distinct individuality. It compares phantom hounds to confusions between geese cries and hound sounds and discusses how sounds imitate others from geese to wind to instruments.
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New York Sun
Improved Helicopter Lets Lift and Drift Like Plane
California inventor unveils a two way helicopter with an umbrella shaped 10 foot diameter propeller of sixty blades totaling 135 square feet. It moves up and down two feet per revolution and can tilt to about 45 degrees for horizontal flight, powered by a 65 horsepower motor.
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California
Popular Science Monthly
Christmas Game Sparks Quick Quarrel Over Cheating
Wilburta and Jim played a simple Christmas game tossing wooden balls at a target mouth. The dispute escalated over points with jeers and accusations of cheating as the child rivalry grew heated.
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Wilburta
Jim
Chestnut Hope Expressed as Forest Blight Impacts Pennsylvan ia
State Forester Joseph S. Illick says the chestnut is not doomed and may regain importance as valuable timber. The blight first appeared in Pennsylvania about 20 years ago, eliminating most chestnut trees of commercial size.
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Pennsylvania
Joseph S. Illick
Treasure Seekers Probe Spain for Gold Shipwrecks
More than 5,000 people worldwide visited Madrid last year to search old documents for clues to treasure shipwrecks. They pursued leads on recovering gold lost with Spanish galleons in tropical seas.
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Madrid
Spain
Baby births and multiple births projections in 1931
Collier's Weekly estimates about 2.2 million births in the United States in 1931 with roughly 23 000 twin pairs 800 triplet sets and five or six quadruplet sets. The second note urges kindness to friends and warns against neglect as a form of imagined slight.
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United States
Collier’s Weekly
Regular Pains Regular Pains Bayer Aspirin Relief Ad
The ad touts Bayer Aspirin as a remedy for menstrual and other pains. It claims quick relief without heart depression and asserts genuine aspirin is safe, inexpensive, and superior to imitations for headaches neuralgia neuritis rheumatism and sleepless nights.
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Casto
Slow Work World Peace Quote
A compact note quotes a Women’s Home Companion line on peace requiring time effort and vigilant cultivation like tending a garden. It frames peace as a long term project demanding steady work and patience.
Wisdom in Politics and Peddled Remedies
A collection of proverb like lines and an advertisement praising Dr. Pierce's Pellets. It notes that insults are offered but not required, observes a decade to learn friends in politics, and extols liver and bowels benefits with specific pellet dosing. An advertisement line promotes one laxative pellet and three cathartic pellets.
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Irving Bacheller
WIY
Casa
Flit
Tomach RE
St. Louis
Castoria
Chas. H. Fletcher
Rere
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