Twelve Year Old War Bond Salesman Seeks New Record
Carl J. Buehler Jr a Verona New Jersey twelve year old tops his three prior campaigns with twenty four thousand three hundred dollars in war bond sales and aims to raise more during the Sixth War Loan. Accompanied by six high school girls the boy known as The Kid Behind the Man Behind the Gun tours schools clubs and industries in New Jersey to push Series E bonds and has earned praise from President Roosevelt and visits to a flying fortress.
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Newark
Carl J. Buehler, Jr
Verona
N. J
Carl
America
Our Lady of Ie Lake School
Roosevelt
Hell’s Angels
Carl J. Buchler, Jr
Ube Este
New Jersey
No Perpetual Motion Machine Ever Discovered
Scientists and the Patent Office agree perpetual motion machines cannot exist. The law of energy conservation holds that energy is constant and cannot be created or destroyed but only transformed. Beginning the device requires energy, which would be consumed or wasted as heat by friction, forcing external energy renewal.
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Patent Office
The Country Doctor Worth More Than Wealth
A portrait of a small town physician loved by neighbors and valued for saving lives over money. The piece argues against socialized medicine and warns of forced standardization harming local doctors and communities.
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America
Senate
Indian Captain Pipe boasts of killings after St Clair defeat
Indian murderer Captain Pipe a Delaware chief of Ohio boasted of killing many white men with his hatchet and that he could no longer lift his hand to wield it after the battle with Gen. St. Clair ended in a decisive defeat.
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Captain Pipe
Ohio
Gen. St. Clair
Velazquez Immortalizes Hunchback at Spanish Court
The painter Velazquez depicted the Hunchback dwarf at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, immortalizing the figure in a notable royal setting.
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Philip IV of
Spain
Velasquez
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