Matte Beverage Of Distant Countries
Matte is to Chile Paraguay Brazil Uruguay and Argentina what tea is to Europe, a green infusion from a hollies family plant grown 100 to 3,000 feet high. In Parana it spans about 140,000 sq km. Leaves are brewed as powder for the gourd or as tea flakes. Two brews yield stronger flavor, and the infusion is color varied from green to brownish green. It allegedly sates hunger during war and may purify blood when taken plain.
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Chile
Paraguay
Brazil
Uruguay
Argentina
Parana
Indianapolis News
Madstones Said to Prevent Hydrophobia Myth and Fact
A varied report describes madstones as objects believed to draw venom from wounds and prevent hydrophobia. The USDA labels them mythical with no scientific basis, while examples cited include bezoar stones and halloysite. Tests of genuineness, funny claims, and misidentified items are noted.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Indianapolis News
National Museum
Kentucky
Semaphore line by Claude Chappe linked Paris to Litle
In 1798 Claude Chappe established a semaphore telegraph line between Paris and Litle. His apparatus used an upright post with a movable cross arm and two end arms whose positions could be changed from within the tower. Various sequences encoded messages, including surrender news from Conde, and the system influenced Europe and the United States.
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Claude Chappe
Paris
Litle
Carlyle
Conde
Chappe
France
United States
Isolated Pitcairn Island History and Settlement
Pitcairn Island lies in the Pacific between Australia and South America, about 2 miles by 1 mile. It was discovered by Carteret in 1767 and seized in 1790 by mutineers of the Bounty with Tahitian men and women led by Christian. Adams alone remained in 1800. Annexed by Britain in 1839, many islanders were moved to Norfolk Island in 1856 with some later returning.
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Pitcairn Island
Pacific Ocean
Australia
South America
Carteret
H. M
Bounty
Britain
Norfolk Island
Saloon Keeper Aided Navy Recruitment With Knockout Drops
A Collier's Weekly note recalls England’s 16th to 19th century press gangs recruiting sailors. A female saloon operator allegedly profited by using knockout drops to produce 26,000 recruits over twelve years for the king. The Public Health Service links warm-day cold chills in healthy people to nervous reaction.
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England
Collier’s Weekly
Public Health Service
Malta Knights Through History Noted Military Order Facts
The Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem founded around 1113 by Gerard the Blessed. Isostasy describes crust float on a plastic layer. Birds have tiny wing claws, generally nonfunctional. notes on Knights of Malta trace names from Knights of Rhodes to Malta since 1530.
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The
Knights of Malta
Hospitallers of St
Market Quotations and Beauty Consult Offered
Market quotes list Wheat 1.03 corn 1 oats 40 barley 70 hens 4 percent pounds up No 1 11 No 26 under 40 No 18 No 2 3 leghorn hens No 1 6 No 2 3 springs No 1 10 No 25 springs under 4 No 18 No 23 leghorn springs No 1 7 No 22 old roosters colored No 1 6 No 2 2 leghorns 4 butterfat 28 eggs No 1 28 No 2 15. Miss Evelyn Belecke of Theo Bender Cosmetics will be at Ideal Beauty shop all day Friday and Saturday to consult on skin trouble. Telegraph WANTADS Get Results.
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Evelyn Belecke
Theo. Bender Cosmetics Company
Ideal Beauty Shop
Senator Norris a Proven Liberal Leader and Nation’s Champion
The message praises Senator Norris as a faithful representative of Nebraska and the nation, highlighting his fights for justice human rights and better government. It credits him with ending Cannonism and the lame duck Congress, backing farmers and labor, taxing wealth fairly, promoting conservation rural electrification, and voting against the German war. The text urges voters to mark their ballot for him.
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Norris
America
Senate
Congress
Nebraska
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