Toledo and Mason and Dixon lines shaped early United States borders
A historical overview links the Toledo War and Ohio Michigan boundary fight to Ohio and Michigan claims in 1835, plus Michigan’s Upper Peninsula settlement, and a Maine-Language recount of 1700s Mason and Dixon surveying the Maryland Pennsylvania line. It notes how these boundary disputes influenced later Civil War alignments and Illinois’ Chicago rise.
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Bird Cage Pot Holder Set Offers Practical Gift
A Home Craft Co. pattern Package A-8 includes a bird cage and two embroidered pot holders on unbleached muslin with instructions and color scheme. Price is fifteen cents each or four for 50 cents postpaid with self addressed stamped envelope to Dept A Nineteenth and St Louis Ave St Louis Mo.
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Taller and heavier people compare to ancestors in history
W. Christmas of Boston in Collier's Weekly notes that modern people are taller and heavier than those from 50 to 500 years ago. He cites wax figures in a historical museum wearing clothes too small for today’s average citizen, illustrating the change in body size over time.
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Boston
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Collier's Weekly
Historical Museum
Air Service to China Promises New Travel Concept
The Cosmopolitan piece outlines a guided air journey aboard the China Clipper starting in San Francisco. Passengers travel in comfortable compartments with dinner, then traverse the Pacific by daylight to Honolulu Wake Island Midway Guam Manila and finally land in China for luncheon.
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Orient
San Francisco Bay
Eastern Pacific
Honolulu Harbor
Midway Islands
Wake Island
Pacific
Guam
Manila
W. L. van Dusen
Daniel Sayre
Cosmopolitan
Work cure replaces rest cure for idle ness
The passage suggests happiness comes from creating rather than consuming and warns that excessive ability rots when unused. It argues most people need a work cure instead of rest to stay productive and fulfilled.
Creomulsion Ad Warns of Danger From Coughs
A wartime style advertisement urges readers that a three days cough signals trouble and promotes Creomulsion as fast relief. It claims the medicine targets the root of the ailment to ease inflamed membranes and loosen phlegm, with a money back guarantee if not satisfied from the first bottle.
Land Reform in Friendly Islands Promises Equal Land
The Friendly Islands in the Pacific announce land for all with a policy of one youth receiving a quarter of an acre in villages and eight acres in the bush at age sixteen. The plan requires hut building and coconut cultivation. Education is free and compulsory. literacy stands at 99 percent.
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