Inauguration Day Recount of Early Presidents
Elmo Scott Watson surveys inaugural day traditions from 1841 to 1941, detailing Harrison Andrew Lincoln Grant and Roosevelt ceremonies. The piece notes crowds, processions, weather, security, and milestone contrasts across eras.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Union
Washington
Old Tippecanoe" Harrison
Baltimore
Capitol
Virginia
Maryland
America
Laurel
White House
Rail venture roots in 1876 and foreign loans
A historical survey traces the 1876 Madeiran river expedition to build a Brazil Bolivia railway, its 941 men, 250 deaths, and bankruptcy. It notes U S loaned funds via the Import Export Bank to Brazil for rehabilitation and electrification with American firms.
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U. S
United States
Import and Export Bank
Brazil
South America
J P Clark
Adventurers’ Club of
Chicago
Dad” Clark
Philadelphia
Madeira River
Bolivia
Mason Warner
Clark
Margarets Seduction Plot on Elmwood Farm
Margaret Adair, nicknamed Heartless, schemes to win Bill Dickinson from Claire Elmwood by posing as a carefree city girl. She lures him to Sunset Hill for a kiss, then hears his truth about wanting Claire and mocks her own ruse. The episode exposes her manipulative plans and the fragility of relationships.
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Taney
Supreme Court
Stephen A. Douglas
Ulysses S Grant
Margaret Adair
Margaret
Elmwood Farm
Claire Elmwood
Bull Dickson
Bill
Adair
Claire
Sunset Hill
Claire Kissin
Accenting the Width of a Narrow Room
A practical home improvement note shows how a handyman and helper used a hammer screw driver curtain treatment and expansively arranged eight inch deep cupboards with plywood doors to create an illusion of width in a dining room. Curtains and horizontal cupboard lines widen the space and a stage for storage was added by guiding the reader to Mrs Spears books 1 and 3 with plans and pictures.
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Ruti Wyeth
Spears
Explosive Dusts Mentioned In Household Accidents
The article notes that dusts like face powder chocolate dried milk sugar and flour can explode on contact with flame or spark Colter cites examples. It recalls a woman in England who discarded a bag of old flour down an incinerator shaft causing an explosion that killed her and three tenants and damaged the building.
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Colter’s
England
Gems of Thought Collection Proverbs and Quotes
A compact compilation of notable sayings from Shakespeare Carlyle Dr Johnson Schiller Jeremy Taylor and Channing. The phrases celebrate courage friendship daily growth natural virtue and helpful friendship.
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The
James Buchanan
Illinois
Grant
Pennsylvania Avenue
Abraham Lincoln
William Henry Harrison
Nellie
West Point
Wilson
Cleveland
George Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Tippecanoe” Darrison
Woodrow Wilson
Wright le Eaeee
Henry Allen
Kansas
Republican
Olhe Little
Alma
Kan
Hoover
Everett Saunders
National Republican
Herman Roe
Northfield
Minn
Republican Committee
Ollie Little
Wheeler McMillen
Farm Journal
Covington
Ind
Guy A. Hardy
Canon City
Colo
Daily Record
Congress
Adelaid D. Huff
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford
New York
Emerson
WNU
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