How Fires May Start from Ordinary Substances
Damp lampblack and moisture on cotton waste can ignite spontaneously under certain conditions. Nitro acids and chamoael create spontaneous combustion. New printer ink on paper near a steam pipe ignites quickly. Boiled linseed oil and turpentine with cotton waste may ignite within hours. Bituminous coal must be stored dry and ventilated, not near wood or steam pipes. Iron chips and turnings stored in wood boxes can self ignite when damp. Swept office and machine shop waste should not lie on iron shavings, as disintegrated iron can heat and combust. Steel turnings with oil can ignite when damp. A steam pipe against wood can carbonize and ignite, especially if hot steam enters the pipe.
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Coasier
Waate
Standard Time Origins and Railroad Belt Divisions
The article explains Standard Time as a railroad coordinated system dividing the U.S. into east to west belts about 15 degrees wide to streamline business. It notes Canadian and Maine use of the sixty minute meridian, while New England to Buffalo align with the seventy-first meridian and Washington time, with further zones extending to ninety, mountain, and pacific meridians. It states boundaries are irregular, mapped to railroad junctions and terminals, and that sun time is an average rather than exact astronomical time.
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United States
Catan
Maritime Provinces
Canada
Maine
Greenavich
New England
Pittsburg
Bufalo
Washington
New Orleans
Denver
Alvision
Detroit Free Press
Elaborate Danish rank system and its quirks in memoirs
A Danish life piece describes a very elaborate rank system with nine classes and many subsections. Titles incur annual taxes from 44.50 down to 3.38 dollars. wives add Inde to titles, and formality grows with class. Verbal and written address forms vary, with phrases like excellencies and high well born, and ninth class being “well honorable and well bred.”
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Dennnark
J. Brochner
Kammerherrvinde
Mexican Etiquette and Social Customs in Modern Mexico
A dated guide outlines Mexican manners such as mourning customs for funerals, kissing the bride’s trousseau, and serving the hostess first. It notes greetings, use of tu among close relations, and social etiquette like not letting visitors carry parcels and notifying friends when changing residence.
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Mexico
Why I quit shaving according to Rivers and Brooks
Rivers says he quit shaving after calculating it takes about fifteen minutes daily, equaling ten to twelve working days per year. Brooks quips that meals consume about ten and a half hours weekly, totaling sixty-eight days a year, prompting the joke to quit eating.
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Rivers
Brooks
Kansan City
University defined as campus of funds and faculty
The quotation contrasts John Henry Newman’s view of university as a forum for thought with a modern description: a complex costing 15 million dollars in buildings, 10 million in apparatus, and 5 million in salaries, where students of any faith who can pay may learn to use tobacco.
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University
John Henry Newman
Tnis
Campaign Debate Clipped by Punctured Speech
fragmented quote from a political contest shows the newly nominated candidate opposing public meetings in favor of a house to house canvass. another candidate counters the plan as unfamiliar and awkward, with garbled dialogue and dialect.
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Sudge
Untitled note on palmistry and Henry
A fragmentary 19th century note remarks on consulting a palmist to learn Henry divine life and character. Grace reportedly saw the hand lines last evening while they were out driving and was perfectly satisfied.
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Sophia
Henry
Grace
Washington
Are you married yet old chap dialogue exchange
A curt exchange features a humorous quip about marriage status and divorce with a dash of wit. The exchange suggests a lighthearted social moment, referencing someone named T and a possible misunderstanding about divorce.
Style in Typewriting Distinguishing Operators by Hand
A discussion on the distinct characteristics of typewriter work. Experts note spacing, paragraph beginnings, and punctuation reveal two operators on the same machine and paper. The substituted sheet shows shaky letters and different alignment, suggesting a novice and a calm experienced writer authored the other sheets.
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Cnoud
Wesl
Sneeze customs and a comic bread cook vignette
The text notes sneezing in Turkey as a social cue signaling truth or health with cultural phrases, then shifts to a humorous dialogue about hiring a cook. A husband asks for a perfect cook, the wife proposes a trustworthy thirty year old with ideal traits, then the husband worries about finding such a cook and the wife shrugs to hire any available.
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Turkey
von Blimer
von Blumer
Von
Blumer
Shen
Wallatlas offered free to Herald subscribers
The Herald publishes a new wallatlas at considerable expense and offers it free to every subscriber. Front page shows world flags, second page an Iowa map with county seats, third page a United States map, followed by circular maps of the hemispheres. It lists state capitals with population and area data. The atlas, valued at 1.00, is exclusive to The Herald office and available for viewing and pickup.
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Herald
Wallatlas
Earth
Iowa
United States
Callat-Tha Hera
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