Notable industrialists loom over future plans and rail power
A Robert son led firm vows 12 million dollar additions while envisaging a high tech urban future including windowless houses and flying machines. Texan financier Robert R Young rises from obscurity to loom large in Rail System power after a proxy battle for Chesapeake and Ohio.
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van Sweringen
Mr. Young
Chesapeake and Chilo
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Texas
the Alamo
First National Bank of Canadian
Culver Military Academy
Robert R. Young
Culver
University of Virginia
du Ponts
General Motors
Frank F. Kolbe
Young
Anita Ten Eyck O'Keefe
Williamsburg
Georgia O'Keefe
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Astor Estate
Newport
Senate
Senator Wheeler
Consolidated News Features
WNU Service
Early origins of skating traced to Norsemen and Europe
The text credits Norse sagas with the birth of skating with bone runners bound by thongs and notes how Swedes, Danes, Finns, and Dutch contributed to its spread. It mentions ironworking in Europe in the third century leading to metal runners and improved skating techniques.
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Europe
Secrets of Ancient Skills Outlast Modern Science
A London Answers writer notes ancient know hows enduring amid modern tech. Greeks used an undetectable leather cuirass called pilema. Romans drilled deep wells, dye, cement, and Egyptian stone dressing and embalming advanced details survive only as lost arts from Alexandria.
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London
Egypt
Alexandria
Reading and Thinking: How Mind Gains Knowledge
Quote-centered reflection on how reading provides material and thinking makes it meaningful. It argues that apprehending the connections of ideas turns information into personal knowledge, while without thinking it remains loose matter in the brain.
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Locke
Must Books Be Read
The collector of books need not fear the challenge of readers asking if he has read them all. Arnold Bennett valued unread volumes, believing a library remains rich even if much of its contents lie unopened. He kept hundreds he might never open, yet he would not part with them.
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A. W Robertson
Robertson Board of
West
Remedyinghouse Electric For Gloom & Manufacturing Company
Robertson
H. G. Wells
Panama
New York
Philadelphia
Arnold Bennett
Best Thoughts on Caring Beyond Selfish Desires
Quote from George Eliot urges readers to care for what is best in thought and action. Look beyond personal comfort to understand other lives and their troubles.
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George Eliot
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