Doffing The Hat Origins From Submissive Custom Tale
Legal notice of sale by the Olympic Mining Company in Alaska, detailing an August 1912 judgment and the June 1918 U.S. Marshal sale of patented and unpatented mining claims in Wrangell District. The piece also includes a 1918 essay arguing hat removal as a historic sign of respect and courtly manners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Playter
Olympic Mining Company
U.S
District of Alaska
Wrangell
Alaska
Laura Lode
Territory of
U. S. Commissioner’s Office
Petersburg
Dark secret lingers after china dish mishap tale
A Kansas City Star item recounts Mrs. Miller's prized chinaware and a broken platter. After the accident, her husband and his brother-in-law hide a dark secret as they haunt shops to replace the piece, bringing a hidden past into view each time guests praise the set.
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China
Kansas City Star
Mr. Miller
What’s in a shoe lesson in commercial geography
A Salem News feature traces the global web in one pair of shoes listing materials from Texas hides to Italian wax, Argentinian sheep, Brazilian kid skins, Jamaican dyes and many others. It highlights about forty seven components and the worldwide trade from tanning to finishing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Pennsylvania
Brazil
New Caledonia
Jamaica
Austria
Nigeria
Massachusetts
Argentine
Australia
Sumac
Sicily
Labrador
American Chemical Laboratories
East Indies
Valonia
Turkey
India
Michigan
Maine
Russia
Chicago
Degras
France
Patagonian
Georgia
Sea Island
New Hampshire
Packingtown
Ceylon
Portugal
New Jersey
el Dorado
Aboe
Globe
Salem. News
New Shipboard Mess System Rolls Out On U S S New York
Sailors on the U S S New York line up at a shipboard dining counter where food is plated by mess men and billed by a blackboard, replacing the old mess system. The change, to be used on all battleships, aims to provide hot meals tailored to each man.
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Isaiah
Assyria
Christ
Madonna
U. S. S. New York
Our Pensioners in England and a Sailor’s Rescue
The Westminister Gazette recounts John Davis of Bermondsey who died at Blue Anchor Lane after aiding about 150 Civil War veterans in England. He secured pensions from the United States for men living abroad and disputed rumors that pensions would end unless veterans returned to America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
John Davis
Bermondsey
Blue Anchor Lane
Westminister Gazette
United States
America
Oldest Banks in Europe and the World
The article traces early banking origins from Italy in 808 by Lombard Jews to England’s Francis Child who opened the first London bank in 1663. It notes England’s historic financial leadership shifting to New York and cites the Bank of Barcelona, founded in 1401, as the oldest bank still in existence.
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Spain
England
London
New York
Francis Child
Tower of London
Charles I
Lombard ‘Street
Italy
Bank
Barcelona Y H Spainy
World Rubber Production During War Years
England imposed an embargo on crude rubber early in the war and used control of Far Eastern plantations to enforce it. Later rubber shipments from central powers and certain neutrals were allowed to some manufacturers. Global production this year is about 250,000 tons, roughly twice the prewar level, with about 60 percent consumed in the United States.
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England
United States
Vain Thought Reflects on Appetite and Weight
A speaker contemplates appetite and body weight noting a furnace like hunger. They imagine tipping the scales toward two hundred pounds if their food craving matched their coal furnace’s voracity.
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Godspur
Snake devours mate in strangest zoo tale
A London Zoo incident recounted in H. Perry Robinson’s book describes two boas sharing a pigeon. The larger snake swallowed the other’s mate, then stretched its body for days before digesting the meal and resuming normal appetite.
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H. Perry Robinson
London Zoological Gardens
Most Difficult Golf Learning For Beginners
A Dispatch quote notes the hardest thing for a golf beginner is keeping from thinking about it all the time. The line reflects practical advice on focus and mental approach for new players.
Slat beds replace cords and declare snakes a national asset
An old discussion on bed supports notes the shift from corded ropes to slats and box springs, while a Cincinnati Enquirer report marks the bed inventor’s death at seventy three. The piece then champions snakes as a valuable national asset, citing their role in reducing rodents and boosting grain for humans.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Lard substitutes eyed as suet and oil mix
Dr Louise Stanley from Missouri college suggests housewives use suet as a cheap fat substitute for lard. Suet costs about 10 cents per pound yielding 14 ounces of pure fat at 12 cents per pound, then mixed with oil to match lard consistency.
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Louise Stanley
Missouri College of Agriculture
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Erick Ness, Mer
the District Court For
District OF
Juneau
Olympic Mining
SALE
Corporation
J. M. Tanner
Noah Howell
The
Salt Lake Tribune
Pioneer Store
Petersburg Packing Co
American Forestry
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