Tall Buildings Rise in Maitovidas Uruguay and United States
The Palaclo Salvo in Maitovidas Uruguay claims a new tallest reinforced concrete hotel at 28 stories, 381 feet above a front street. Across the United States several concrete structures reach about twenty stories, with the United Brethren building in Dayton, Ohio noted as a high example.
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Maitovidas
Uruguay
South America
United States
United Brethren Building
Dayton
Ohio
Novel Car Paint Sprayer Aims Quick Touchups
A Paris automobile dealer introduces a compact spray-on paint system the size of a fountain pen. It delivers apeel like paint through a tube to touch up scratches and nicks immediately. The device seals well on metals and can also be used on fabrics and leather.
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Paris
Nigerian native bungalows rise near Lagos capital
A new concrete town exclusively for Nigerian natives is under construction near Lagos. When completed it will offer artfully designed bungalows with 60 by 160 feet plots, a planned garden, health facilities, and electrically lit streets to house residents.
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Lagos
Nigeria
Record of Diverse Local Events and Oddities
The item notes a dolphin reach 34598.47 feet, a quirky extreme. Harald Granner heads Saturday to Naperville Illinois for village duties. Rowan State Bank robbery yields 2100 dollars with no suspects found. two local weddings reportedly held without verification. mentions lingering rain and a cyclone that damaged areas including Klemme and Titonka.
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Harald Granner
Naperville
Rowan
Remarkable Healing Unit Offered for Inexpensive Installation
Come in and inspect this remarkable healing unit. We will be glad to make an exceedingly low price on installation.
Rifle design described with rapid fire features
An article details a 276 caliber rifle with rapid firing claims, noting two shots per one, no overheating, and a breech mechanical action. It describes a three major operating parts, a straight and locked breech, cartridges in ten-shot clips, and a cooling finned rear barrel section. It also mentions ejecting the empty clip with the last case and adaptation to 1917 bayonet style.
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Ita Uhiof Fealirea
Popular Mechanics
Girls Learn Practical Arithmetic From Income Scenarios
A Kansas City Post editorial argues for modernizing girls arithmetic by using real world income and expenses. It suggests problems about a husband earning 36 dollars weekly with 10 for groceries 30 for rent and 20 for clothes to prepare girls for married life.
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Kansas City Post
London Hydraulic System Powers Cranes and Pumps
London hosts a vast underground water network beneath Fairwaye and the sewers, with over 180 miles of pipes supplying water for cranes lifts and artesian wells. Water moves at 750 pounds per square inch, delivering more than 24 million gallons weekly, a rise from 6 million gallons weekly thirty years ago.
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London
Forest receipts fall short of prior year but exceed long term average
Income from national forests totaled 5,000,187 dollars last year, down 281,766 from the prior year yet 409,204 above the preceding five year average. Under Congress authority, 25 states plus Alaska received more than a million dollars for school and road funds in counties hosting national forest lands.
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Congress
Alaska
National Forest Lands
New Electric Clock Delivers Higher Accuracy at Convention
An improved electric clock with a constant mainspring tension uses a small electric motor and draws power from any light socket. The Illinois State Retail Towelers' association discussed the device at its recent annual convention.
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Tlinois
Electric power seen as farming essential in U S states
Farmers nationwide increasingly view electricity as essential to modern farming. Some 24 state cooperative projects study electricity's role with agriculture, often linked to state agricultural colleges and government farm bureaus to promote and coordinate usage.
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United States
Government Farm
Buireasy
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