Three Additions To Uncle Sam's Navy Rise In The Orient
The Wilmington Helena and Nashville ships built by Newport News are tested for speed and efficiency. The Nashville measures 23711 tons displacement with 16 knot potential and advanced engine design. The Wilmington and Helena are river and shallow-water craft with twin screws, two rudders, and heavy armor, intended to operate along Chinese rivers and deliver troops and refugees as needed.
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Wilmington
Helena
Net
Congress
Newport News Shipbuilding Company
Newport News
Veerers
Enuy
Nashville
Veefel
China
Orient
Con
Hichborn
Melville
Atlantic warships speed and design features described
The article discusses quadruple expansion engines achieving about 1800 horsepower for a voyage speed around sixteen knots, and 160 RPM for easier travel. It notes a continuous upper deck, crew quarters for 158 sailors and Marines, officers’ cabins, a main battery of eight four inch breech-loading rifles, and hull protections including a water-light deck, a honeycombed double bottom, and a one inch armor belt along the waterline amidships.
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Nashville
Prison Librarian Questions Convict About Book Choice
A brief exchange in a prison setting shows a librarian asking what kind of book a convict would like and the inmate replying with a demand for bicycle catalogs. The quotation underscores inmate resourcefulness and odd requests within confinement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Puck
Poem Debate Sparks in The Lark Verses
A narrator debates poetry with a poet as he criticizes ornate verse. He urges honesty over florid phrases and asks for verse with substance and a worn, thumbed book rather than flowery lines about beauty and flowers. The exchange ends with a call for genuine writing.
When Liberty Is an Unknown Word in Europe
An interview with Lieutenant Rhein on the German empire reveals a court of honor controlling officers through dueling and uniformed status. He describes how the emperor sustains a porous code of honor, suppresses free press, and extends courts of honor into civil life, threatening personal liberty and political reform.
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London Times
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Europe
Angela
Rugela
Kaiserbund
Abdul Hamid
Nicholas
Francis Joseph
Lesemajeste
Elizabeth
Mane
Bear
Brandenburg
Lord Sallisbury
M. Hanotaux
Marquis di Rudini
Vier Kaiserbund
Army of the Fatherland
Rhein
Haron von Ehrhardt
Herr von
Ingland
Landwehr
von Ehrhardt
Nh Diel
Baron von Ehrhardt
Dusseldorf
von Kampta
Court of Honor
von Kamptz
Hut Baron von Ehrhardt
von Ehrherdt
William the Great
Aclon
Mr. Rhein
Publi
Spiritualist Society
Seoundrela
Courts of Honor
Elyviian
Honor
Elysians
Hussars
Moltke
Leutenant
Courts of
Rohn
Reserve Court of Honor
Ihea
Omcer
Pomerania
Reichstag
Ovarian Congestion Warns Women Toward Surgery
A Victorian health advert warns women that ovarian congestion leads to uterine trouble and possible tumors. It promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy and includes a testimonial from Mrs. F. M. Karr of Milwaukee praising the treatment after two years of illness and an intended operation.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Milwaukee
Mrs. Pinkham
Leason
Lydia EK
Pinkham
Murs
F. M. Karr
Wentworth Ave
Wis
The Old Story of Love and Life Excerpted Promises
An advertisement extols a book offering scientific facts on marriage and a method for natural vigor. It claims home treatment for excesses and disbarments, cures for nervousness and despair, and promises strong benefits beyond medical study. Free copy offered by Erie Medical Company, 64 Niagara Street, Buffalo, with no COD packaging.
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Hood
Alncere Inquirer
Erie Medical Company
Niagara Street
Buffalo
N. Y
Mieg
Matthews
Élot Sorantou
Drunk Twenty Years and a Narvelous Remedy Offer
A correspondent recalls twenty years of drinking and recovery through a wife’s aid and a supposed remedy called Ant Jag from Hevena Chemicals, promising a mailed remedy for one dollar with full directions, sent in plain wrapper from OU Broadway, New York.
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Noel
Hevena Chemicals
Broadway
New York
Old Dominion Steamship Co Pier 26 North River NY
The notice identifies Old Dominion Steamship Company located at Pier 26 on the North River in New York as a business entity.
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OLD Dominion Steamship CO
Pier
North River
New York
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Lote
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York
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EVROP
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Sixteenth St
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Propristor
St. Denis
Eleventh St
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Ater
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de Rathie
William Taylor
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Old Point Comfort
Virginia Beach
Richmond
W.L. Guillaudey
Moosic and Buchdale Works
Laplin & Rand Powder Co
Repauno Chemical Co
Jacenventensi
Opelba
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