Reckoning Time by Fixed Stars Governs U S Clocks
The article explains how the U S government uses a fixed star for timekeeping instead of sun time. Astronomers observe star positions each night to determine when the sun crosses the 75th meridian and transmit the time signal via electric lines to offices and time balls in cities. Clocks connected to the observatory set to precise noon daily, with time signals dropping the time balls and triggering clocks to strike at 12.
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Sam
United States
Ashington
New York
Washington
War and Navy Department
Renovated Butter Industry Grows with 70 Factories
Government reports show about 70 renovated butter factories in operation in the United States. The largest produced 4,500,000 pounds in a year, another started plant yields 4,000 pounds daily, and many firms rely on low grade stock from country stores. Major Lewis Wells notes contamination risks and that the product is marketed as a creamery substitute.
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Goverment
United States
Butte
Lewis Wells
Our Old Coffee Pot Poem Echoes Spring Aromas
A poetry snippet from Dillon Double Jack features John W. Fellow celebrating the old coffee pot. The speaker longs for its simmer and hum, imagining vapor like incense filling a room and recalling June memories, harvest hopes, and the fragrance that outshines any other tunes.
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John W. Fellow
Dillon
Immense Mail Brought By Teutonic To New York
Immense mail cargo arrived with the White Star liner Teutonic. News reports state 21 865 feet of letters and 021 270 letters, equivalent to a line over four miles long. Second class mail weighed and stacked to 870 feet high, with one foot per bag. The discharge of mail took 30 minutes by a crew of 20 on the mail boat.
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Teutonic
New York
Ata
Waiting and Fate in Quiet Resolve by Burroughs
A verse excerpt by John Burroughs echoes patience with time and destiny as friends converge. The text references Roosevelt era travel and a World’s Fair context with an engineers exhibit being shipped to New York for forwarding to St. Louis. A fragmentary exchange between a husband and wife and a judge appear in the clipped item.
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J. A .Dvckerson
Department of Liberal Arts
St. Louis
Ling
Argentine Republic
New York City
Books Not a Husband’s Task for Him
Mrs. Newrich replies that her husband relies on clerks for reading and studying, indicating a division of labor in their household. The Detroit Free Press note captures a dismissive social exchange about intellectual pursuits.
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Roosevelt
William
World Produces
Gorenia
Louis Vate
Wadhams & Kerr Bros
UTES
Portland
Oregon
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