Oldest US periodicals and Franklin link to Gazette origins
The text argues the New Hampshire Gazette founded in 1756 is the oldest US weekly, with the Weekly Mercury (Newport RI) 1758 next. It notes Franklin did not found the Saturday Evening Post in 1728, the Pennsylvania Gazette began 1728 by Keimer and later passed to Franklin. It mentions Keimer’s success and Samuel Atkinson and Charles Alexander merging lists to launch the Saturday Evening Post in 1821, with the Gazette and Bee ending. Cotrell Clarke is cited as first editor of the Post, with 1821 as its establishment year.
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United States
New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth
Mercury
Newport
R. L
Benjamin Franklin
Saturday Evening Post
Pennsylvania Gazette
Samuel Keimer
Franklin
Universal Instructor In All Arts and Sciences
Keimer
the Gazette
Samuel Atkinson
Charles Alexander
the Bee
The
Gazette
Thomas Cottrell Clarke
Bossy Milk Sparks Sand Coulee Camp Delirium
A Bo hawk miner’s wife in Sand Coulee Montana after a home brew spill caused her cow to drink and go sober. The cow aimed at Deputy Sheriff Adolphson and hallucinated multiple Zs while charges fell away. Milk from the cow reportedly sold at a premium for several days.
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Sand Coulee
Montana
Bossy
Wellington
Adolphson
AdolphSons
Jaz
Wall Street Journal
Ammonia by New Process at Marmore Falls Terni
An American secures a concession from Italy to use 800 horsepower from the Marmore cascades near Terni to produce ammonia driven plant food at about 1 lira per kilo. Falls reportedly could generate 150000 horsepower. Alfred P. Dennis, U S commercial attaché in Rome, notes the ingredients are water air and electric energy.
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Marmore Cascades
Rome
Iyron
Childe Harold
Alfred P. Dennis
United States
Department of Commerce
Reality of Disease Germs
The Journal of the American Medical Association replies to a Christian Science protest by Lee White, arguing that a diphtheria death in a girl treated with Christian Science methods shows germs like Klebs-Loeier bacilli cause damage as real as bricks, through their toxins.
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Lee White
The
Christian Scientists
Journal of the American Medical Association
Simple three wire wall net telephony for youths
A Scientific American note describes a three wire wall net telephony using two ordinary dry cells. The toy system is wall mounted with two screws, easy to connect and operate up to 1,000 feet with no extra dry cells needed.
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Scientific American
Giving Him Room and a Doctor Ordered Break
Quotations from a New York judge about a wife planning a stay with her mother for several weeks as her husband quits smoking on medical advice. The exchange highlights domestic welfare and medical guidance influencing household routines.
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Mother's
New York
Plucky Terrier Dies After Killing Fox On Mountain Crags
A terrier from the Bien cathra pack battled a stout hill fox for hours above St Johns In the Vale. The terrier killed the fox and lay beside it to die from exposure during a bitterly cold night, a London Times report says.
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Lake Country
Biencathra
St. Johns-In-the-Vale
Wanthwaite
Huntsman
Whip
Terrier
Fox
Borrow
Loth
London Times
When In Doubt Add Ten Percent
A Wall Street man negotiates for copper gutters and learns prices rise from 19 cents to over 50 cents a pound. The tinsmith explains labor costs, insurance, overhead, vehicle use, and boss fees, revealing he actually earns only a living with no profit on the job.
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Wall Street
Wall Street Journal
Women Life Savers Preferred for Beach Patrols
Mr. Gray, manager of parks pools in St. Louis, says Red Cross expert Col. Longfellow notes he would rather employ women lifesavers than ten men after testing them during the war. Many women qualify and train at Y W C A and school pools nationwide.
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Mr. Gray
Parks Pools
St. Louis
Col
W. EB. Longfellow
Red Cross
Gray
Y. W
Gifted Imagination Quoted in Boston Transcript Note
A Boston Transcript snippet records a remark about Mrs Ayres possessing great imagination. The exchange questions where the couple lives and references a flat and a town house, reflecting social commentary in a casual dialogue.
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Postoffich Building
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