Naval Engineers Keep the Ship’s Heart Ringing in Battle
A piece from London Answers extols naval engineers and stokers who keep engines running amid shellfire and flooding fears. They bear no glory yet face extreme danger, with steam and fire their constant risks. their calm discipline sustains the vessel while others fight, and a single failed valve or burst pipe can doom the ship.
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Wall Arm
Offvers
Selentins
Batle
Corm
Keech
Wessel
Walt
Tiut
London
The Human Body as a Perpetual Power Plant
John H. Van Deventer notes in E o aineering Magazine that no pump could meet the absurd specification for a machine to run seventy years without maintenance. He argues the brain and nervous system remain the ultimate, superior designer, making such a perpetual motion pump a fantasy.
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Piant
John H. van Deventer
Eoaineering Magazine
Bathing, Boys Should Lead Indoor Water Fun Movement
A collection of humorous essays and quips discusses bathing habits, boys as natural bathers, and a vision of accessible swimming pools. It notes a humorous tension between indoor baths and public bathing, suggests boys should lead bath time, and mixes in brief jokes about cooks, training officers, and domestic life from various periodical clippings.
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Sahara
Gulf
Imitation Dressmaker Echoes Gown I Had
A fragmented note recalls a dressmaker making a gown identical to one the speaker possessed. The fragmentary text hints at imitation and following suit, with garbled references to Philadelphia Ledger and a Rio event.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Glimpse of Swinburne by Laura Stedman in North American Review
Laura Stedman quotes Bayard Taylor on Swinburne calling him Paerverss and an unreasonable, wilful youth. The reader notes Swinburne’s imagination over morality, predicts potential poetic power, and fears disorganised tendencies hindering artistry, while hoping guidance could shape him into a splendid poet.
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Bayard Taylor
Laura Stedman
The
North American Review
Shelley
Byron
Bhelley
Ewinburne
Clothes and Clothe Care Facts and Language Fragments
A collage of quips and notes on textiles and language from older papers. Includes guidance on fiber length and fabric durability, dead languages, and a string of dated jokes and captions reflecting period humor and quick-change satire. The text mixes practical cloth advice with miscellaneous quotes.
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Naval Engineers
Grohers
Charity
Detroit
Golence
Mra. Mellen
Joba
Christian Hegister
Wilstike
Chicago News
Hone Journal
Harold
Lehigh Burr
Washington Btar
Rio
Swinburne
Long Ghent
New York American
Mary
Philadelphia
Maud
Abe
New York Post
Dean
Helen
Lusomala
Yonkers Statesman
Mint
Continental
Petty & Company
Denham
Denver, Colo
N. Croasett
L. E. Rose
Mens Toggery
Bonham & Currier
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