What Oil Means to U S
Sixty years after the first oil well in Pennsylvania launched the industry the Pittsburgh Gazette observes. Oil has grown from an illuminant to a vast keystone of modern life with gasoline the main product and by products fueling medicine and transport worldwide.
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Chicare
Trieste
Leopold Neumann
Hich
Rock River Conference
Methodist Episcopal Church
Thomas Nicholson
Chicago
Sangamon County Teachers’ Institute
Pruitt
Aken
Middle West
Springfield High School
Springfield
W. B. Wright
Pana
Bruce Huffmaster
District United Mine Workers
Spheriff Dunbar
Miners’ Organization
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh Gazette-Tanes
Southwest
Pacific Coast
Mexico
United States
Beacons and Bonfires Signal Scots Defense in 1803
Sir Walter Scott championed a grid of over a hundred beacon fires on Scottish hilltops to warn of a French invasion in 1803. He boasted readiness and even kept a field equipage ready to ride to alarms, though in 1805 a beacon scare proved unnecessary as fires were lit in vain.
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Walter Scott
Edinburgh Castle
Hartehen
Walter
Lake District
Real Diamond Sparkles in Village Pride
Sam the chore man returns from the city with a scarf pin said to hold a real diamond, a prized symbol among villagers. He dismisses inquiries about its value and origin while his employer questions its authenticity, prompting Sam to joke that if it isn’t real he’s been scammed out of a half dollar.
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Lee County Fanners’ Institute
Amboy
Colvin Park
Little York State Bank
H. N. Woodward
Odin
Centralia
de Kalb County Board of Supervisors
Chicago
Joseph G. Kellerstrass
Peoria
Thellinois State Association of
James William Warnick
Pana
Marion
George Bell Jr
Camp Grant
Boone
Winnebago
Ilinois Poultry Association
Williamson County
Farm Bureau
Charles F. Clyne
Washington
Middle West
Illinois
Emden
Congress
Wilson
Thompson
Joseph St. Collins
Springfield
R. O O. Clarida
Ilinois State Teachers’ Pension and Retirement Fund
John J. Gardner
Court of Domestic Relations
James T. Igoe
Lansing
King Albert
Queen Elizabeth
Belgium
Cardinal Mercier
Wood and
Polk Street
Sam
He Wears a Necklace Warbler Describes Canadian Bird
The male Canadian warbler sports a bold necklace of black spots while the female shows only a faint trace. Olive green and yellowish throat and breast contrast with slate gray back and olive brown tail. The bird darts for food, is rarely still, and favors wooded stream banks near underbrush.
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American Forestry Association
Washington
Bold stance on opposing evil and compromise
A quotation urging constant struggle against evil in social and personal life. It rejects licensing wrong for any benefit and calls for unyielding battle against moral wrongs.
Grass Widow Etymology From Canon Law to Gold Rush Slang
A concise origin overview traces the term grass widow from eleventh century canon law ordering widows to live under protection for a year, to its later use for unmarried mothers, wives of absent men, and finally the gold rush practice of boarding out wives to finance Western settlement. The piece links historical meanings across periods and regions.
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Thomas More
United States
Break Break Break and a Beach Budget Joke
A light exchange quotes Brown and his wife discussing a beach trip as a joke about the costs involved. The wife imagines escape from the sea’s murmur while the husband quips about the ongoing expense of the $20 bills.
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Brown
Boston Evening Transcript
The Nurse and Elsie Dialogues on a New Baby Sister
A doctor presents a baby sister to Elsie who questions the doctor’s choice. Elsie vents her frustration about gossip and secrecy, wondering why the couple next door cannot share truth with each other.
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Elsie
Nightfall at a French Village Front Line
Evening at the edge of a small French village, mud and confusion as a line of soldiers attempts dress formation. The captain questions a corporal about squad reports, discovering one missing man trapped in a mud hole named Shorty Meggs.
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Judson
Shorty Meggs
Engine Trouble Delays Boy During Errand
A boy named Ie suffered stomach cramps after eating green apples and delayed on an errand to a neighbor. He lay across a stump until the cramps subsided, then told his mother he was delayed by engine trouble when asked to account for his long absence.
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Allen
Sharpening Tips and Frugal Talk From Baltimore American
Conversation notes the phrase Dear have you any loose change to illustrate money is tight. A separate tip explains sharpening dull files by soaking in diluted sulfuric acid until deeply etched.
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Baltimore American
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KB. S. Smith
Sangamon County
Lanesville
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Breckenridge
Tred Rudin
Husky
U. S
Cincinnati
France
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