Thirty Dollars a Week and the Life We Built
A young couple marries after buying furniture on installments and faces rising costs as they raise a family. They curb expenses, juggle salaries, and navigate social life while Ruth builds a home and the narrator anticipates advancement at work. The chapter traces debt, daily routine, and growth of a family in a growing city.
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Morse
Rath
Ruth
Big Park
Standard Oil
Mae
Ore
Cii
Sweeteart
Roth
Ihlow
Woolens
Osler's Accuracy and Weather Lore Recalled
Sir William Osler discussed his chloroform theory and a Yale lectureship while a weather analysis notes cloud forms such as cirrus cumulus and nimbus. The piece blends medical anecdotes with atmospheric observations and local Toronto context.
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William Osler
Toronto
Regius
Oxford
United States
Silliman
Yale University
Yale
Johns Hopkins University
Sir William
Osler
Redmond Outlines Irish Parliament Vision
The Irish leader John Redmond describes a future Irish Parliament with varied members from business, science, literature, and art, plus non Catholics. He foresees an era without old party battles, focus on practical work, and settling issues the Imperial Parliament could not resolve.
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Suh
Westminster
England
Clouds as Weather Prophets and Cloud Forms
An overview of cloud science describes how water vapor condenses into drops and ice crystals, with ten principal cloud forms. It details cirrus cirrostratus cirrocumulus stratocumulus stratus cumulus and euomulo-pimbus shapes, their typical altitudes and appearances in varying conditions.
Obesity in Trees and Iron as a Remedy
A historical piece explains tree obesity likening it to human fatness and describes how overnutrition harms wood and sap. It notes chiorosis, anaemia in plants, and how powdered iron introduced into the trunk tissues can restore vitality, with an anecdote of iron contact altering a tree's growth.
Electrically Cured Meat Cuts Time in Brine Processing
A Cincinnati packer reports curing meat in 30 to 35 days by introducing alternating current into pickle brine, far faster than the usual 90 to 100 days. A Cleveland plant recently adopted the method, with ten 5,000 pound vats in service driven by a 100 kilowatt generating plant. Direct current from the plant is partly converted to alternating current via a rotary converter for the curing vats.
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Cincinnati
Cleveld
Ohio
Artificial Wind Proposed To Ward Off Frost In Vineyards
M F Chavernac proposes an artificial wind system using electric fans to protect fields orchards and vineyards from frost. He argues frosts are less feared when wind blows and suggests this method mainly for vineyards with possible orchard use.
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M. F. Chavernac
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