Illinois as an economic giant in a century of growth
An Illinois Journal of Commerce feature extols Illinois vast size and wealth, surpassing several nations in sectors from railways to coal. It traces growth from 1851 Illinois Central origins to today, noting population, manufacturing, banking, higher learning, and auto industry expansions.
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Illinois
Illinois Journal of Commerce
Illnois Gnumber of Commerce
Belgium
Holland
Denmark
Sweden
Italy
Japan
Australia
Hungary
Great Britain
U Canada
Asia
Dominion of Canada
France
South America
Illinois Central System
Illinois Central
Tilinois
Chicago
Quincy
Galena
Peoria
Springfield
Cairo
LaSalle
Centralia
la Salle
Dunleith
East Dubuque
Bloomington
Freeport
Woman's Protector Seen As Child Not Kin
A fragment suggests a woman is protected by a very young child rather than an aged father or calf brother, attributed to Mme de Girardin.
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Mme, de Girardin
Garbanzo Chickpea Grown by Irrigation in Central America
The garbanzo or chick-pea is a staple in Central America and Sonora Mexico grown on alluvial plains near Mayo and Yaquai rivers. It thrives at low elevations and up to about 800 feet inland, is frost sensitive, and relies entirely on irrigation as rains come July to October. Harvest occurs in May after manual uprooting and drying on threshing floors.
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Sonora
Mexico
Mayo
Yaquai
Garbanzo
Yaquai Valley
Mayo Valley
Charles Bell Hmersor
Adventure Magazine
Alma shouse child to star Jenny Lind fades into legend
Mentor Magazine recounts how a Stockholm almshouse girl with a sweet voice became Jenny Lind the Swedish Nightingale. She trained by government support, marveled Europe and America, married Otto Goldschmidt, retired in England, gave charity, and lived 85 years after retirement.
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Jenny Lind
Stockholm
Royal Opera House
Hurope
Europe
America
Otto Goldschmitt
England
Mentor Magazine
Domesday Books in Public Record Office Archive
The Domesday books form part of the Public Record Office collection established after 1835 when the national archives were centralized. The records include the chancery exchequer various courts and state departments such as the treasury home office foreign office and war office among others.
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National Archives
Public Record Office
Chancery
Exchequer
Treasury
Home Office
Foreign Office
War Office
Admiralty
Board of Trade and Customs
England
London
Trap Tricks For Mice From London Opinion
A London Opinion item suggests humorous methods to deal with mice by startling them from their holes and striking them with a frying pan. The antics end with the mouse realizing it is a vermin and dying of a broken heart, a satire echoed by the Boston Transcript.
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London
Boston Transcript
Tea Consumption in the United States in 1926
The fiscal year ending June 30 1926 saw tea imports reach 98,551,814 pounds with 457,637 pounds rejected for quality. This amount could supply 98 million people with a pound of tea annually, implying many drinkers fall below that number and per capita use is over a pound.
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United States
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