Romance at Siwas a College Quarrel Sparks a Bet
Peter Simmons recalls eight years of campus quarreling with Martha Scroggs at Siwash College. He recounts his shift from aiming to win a plain friend to chasing a bright classmate through library study sessions and church socials, amid professors and jealous rivals.
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Artha
Martha
Peter Etherbridge Simmons, Jr
Queen Anne
Siwash College
Siwash
Hague
Lincoln Park
Kiti
Chicago
Mike
Chapel
Martha Scroggs
Peter Simmons
Miss Scroggs
Old Henry
Petey Simonons
Scroggses
Browning Hall
So Farm
Harris
Macaulay
William of Orange
Professor Harris
Billy
England
William
P. Simmons
Hume and Macaulay
Tye
Electric range uses clock timed oven for automatic cooking
The Scientific American describes an electric cooking stove with a built in clock and thermostat that starts heat at a set hour. Food placed in the oven can be baked roasted or boiled with heat cut off automatically when the target temperature is reached. High insulation keeps heat for hours and breakfast can be prepared the night before ready on time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scientific American
The Black Woman's Burden Portrait
Jean Kenyon Mackenzie discusses the fate of an African girl as a child bride in a harsh colonial market. The piece notes the daughter's precocity in sex, her hatred of an old buyer, and a feast of marriage in her father’s town when the master brings the ivory or barter. The passage ends with the girl weeping as she joins the caravan of her husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Kenyon Mackenzie
Atlantic
Life of a Gas Well Explains Drilling Costs and Territory
The article explains that acquiring and holding undeveloped territory is the largest expense for gas companies, often overlooked by consumers. It notes the average Ohio gas well lasts four years and six months, based on records from about 2,000 wells, with some wells ending sooner or lasting longer.
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Ohio
National Magazine
Silent electrical Prompter for Stage Text Displays
A new electric prompter displays the play text on a moving transparent band. Text scrolls past stage lamps in front of the audience. Boxes may be multiple and partly under the stage, connected by gear. The machinist runs the system from the side, using a crank or motor.
Two Scottish Soldiers Gap Busier London Taxi Collision
Two Scottish soldiers en route to France toured London for the first time. They stepped into a taxi near Victoria Station, one man knocked over but quickly picked himself up uninjured. His partner quipped that London must be busier than Kirkintilloch now.
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Miss Scroggs
Mr. Pierce
Pierce
Mr. Simmons
Simmons
Petey’ Simmons
France
London
Victoria Station
Kirkintilloch Noo
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Siwasa
Eel Ata
Amareh
Bangs
Allen
Bingo Bailey
Boggs
Miss Willoughby
Kappa Kap
Petey Simmons
Miss Scroges
Queen Elizabeth
Miss Evans
Evans
Lizzie
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