American Shipbuilding Pushed by Sail to Steam Era
A history of American seafaring from the age of sail to steam shows how speed and seaworthiness propelled vessels like the clipper Flying Cloud and the Mississippi paddle ship. It notes Donald McKay’s clippers, the Great Eastern's era, and the Monitor Merrimack duel shaping naval armor.
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Rae
America
California
Australia
Donald McKay
Nova Scotia
United States
Boston
New York
San Francisco
Mississippi
Admiral Farragut
Hartford
England
Great Eastern
Hampton Roads
Monitor
Merrimack
Norfolk
Jutland
France
British Isles
Britain
Orient
South America
Europe
Adventurous American Irish Lad Shields in Three State Senate
The life of Jimmy Shields spans from Tyrone to a U S senator. After shipwrecks and a military career, he became Illinois lawyer, state auditor, judge, and senator, later serving for Missouri before dying in 1879. He is noted as the only man to have served as senator from three states.
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Arly
Jimmy Shields
County Tyrone
America
Scotland
Carolina
Shields
Florida
Illinois
Kaskaskia
Illinois Supreme Court
Cerro Gordo
United States
Minnesota
Senate
United States Senate
Missouri
George Washington
Boston
Gates
Sullivan
Rhode Island
London
Benjamin West
John Andre
West
Copley
John Trumbull
Bunker Hill
Cornwallis
Yorktown
Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Mecom
Antigua
Leeward Islands
Jane Franklin Mecom
West Indies
Benny
Father Abraham
New York
New Haven
Parker
Philadelphia
Burlington
N. J
Benny Mecom
Western Newspaper Union
Breakfast Wins the Day A Guide to Morning Meals
A 1939 advice column urges homemakers to start the day with a substantial breakfast. It highlights fruit, cereals, eggs or bacon, bread, and milk or cocoa, notes cereals’ nutrition, and offers varied serving ideas. It also answers readers on dental health and calcium needs for adolescents.
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S. C
Wm—C. Houston Goudiss
Around the House Tips for Stains Syrups and Moths
Coffee stains on silks or woolens are treated by soaking in pure glycerine then washing in tepid soapless water. Lumpy sugar becomes simple syrup with water heat and a hint of vanilla. Save clean newspapers for moth season as printers ink repels moths. A polishing method uses whitening dissolved in water for mirrors brass and chromium.
How Sew Here Pattern Notes and Sewing Book Offer
Step by step instructions for rag rug motifs using wool scraps and crochet, detailing circles squares and triangles with slipstitch and single crochet borders. Includes color changes and stitch counts. Special notice promotes two sewing books by Mrs. Spears with order details and gift leaflets, urging immediate purchase.
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U. S
India
China
John Ericsson
Merrimac
C. Houston
By C. Houston Goudiss
BY Ruth Wyeth Spears
Lorange
Kool-Aideet Yardstelei
Froude
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