Learn to Swim and Exercise for City Parks Debate
The piece urges swimming lessons and water safety at summer resorts, notes teachers can help progress, and discusses city officials exploring parks and athletic programs. It highlights concerns for child safety, the role of training staff, and an economist view of athletic qualifications while recounting stories of instructors and athletes including a cyclist known as Plugger Bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jupiter
Iake
Howard Ever
Pacific
Brewer
United
Civil Service
Amateur Athletic Union
Farber
Olympian Games Association
Australia
Lowell
Mass
William Martin
Skeeter
Arthur Zimmerman
Martin
Bill
Melbourne
Austral
Massachusetts
Westlake
From bones to soaps and fertilizers at a bone mill
A Tribune report explains how bone processing recovers every material. Bones are cleaned in sulfuric acid, digested to extract liquid glue and gelatine, grease becomes scouring soap, glycerine forms, and remaining bone is ground for fertilizer. Spent liquors yield glycerine, while dirty wash water becomes manure. Aluminum horse shoes tested show aluminum outlasting iron in cavalry trials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Convertible cradle chair designed by Adele Nadeau
The article describes a furniture piece that transforms a cradle into a chair, enabling dual use in homes. Adele Nadeau of Fitchburg demonstrates how the cradle sections rotate and lock to form a rocking chair, with arms created by lifting end panels and securing with hooks. It also notes a separate scientific observation about fish growth rings and aging estimates by J. Stuart Thompson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adele Nadeau
Fitchburg
Mass
Louisville Courier-Journal
J. Stuart Thompson
Cheap Cottage Planned for City or Country Plot
A neat inexpensive cottage designed for a narrow city lot or country plot features a full basement under the house, brick walls, cement floor, and a cellar containing an air furnace that heats the entire home. The frame is hemlock lumber, fully sheathed, papered, sided, and shingled as shown in the drawings.
Senator Bailey Loiters At Lexington Trotting Track
In Kentucky the Texas statesman, famed as a railbird and horseman, roams the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders Association track. He sponsors Prodigal with trainer Joe Rea and keeps brood mares at Todhunter farm near Lexington under Ernest Featherstone. The senator, in blue broadcloth, watches workouts and chats with trainers as horses like Prodigal and Ettie Baron run practice miles.
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United States Senate
Lexington
Kentucky
Bailey
Texas
Beveridge
Joe Rea
Bitter Root
Marcus Daly
Prince Albert
Joe
Reu
Rea
Buiey
Red Chute
Ren
Senator Turtman
Died in Albania at 160 Years Old
The Tribune de Geneve reports ove Ismail Hudge born in 174 and dying aged 160 in Albania. He remained lucid and vigorous, reportedly walking 11 miles at age 158, with a full set of teeth and a healthful appearance. Also noted is Vienna's rising horseflesh trade with 23 butcher shops and growing sales.
Congressman Aldrich Endorses Peruna Tonic
A letter from Congressman W F Aldrich of Alabama praises Peruna as a safe vegetable remedy for debility. Other testimonials from I S Emory of Omaha and a note about summer catarrh claim Peruna tones the system, aids digestion, and promotes sleep. The Peruna Medicine Co invites requests for a booklet on catarrhal diseases.
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Peruna
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
W. P. Aldrich
Emory
Omaha
Neb
North Sixteenth Street
Pertina
Catarth
I. S. Emory
Ohio
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Hme
Himming
Inter
Joo
Ino
Beor
Gexgo
Stanley A. Dexale
Broadway
New York City
Lorax
Clos
Texas Statesman
Prodigal
Senator Batley
Vienna
Aldrich
Tlon. W. F. Aldrich
Alabama
Washington, D. C
W.F. Aldrlen
Sawyer’s Aces
Thei Ferproof
Cambridge
Jeri
Chicago
Hazard
Black and
Keene
Jortern Wisco
Iron County
Lincoln County
Oneida County
Vanda
Wacker
Wis
University OF Notre Dame
Notre Dame
Indiana
St. Edward's Hall
Ncas
A. Morrissey
A.N. Kellogg Newspaper CO
W. Adams Street
Sarum
oUraale
Pleugo
Dae Baek
Nawauny & Sons
Uaek
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