Aged Battleships and the Fate of Obsolete War Vessels
Obsolete battleships cost vast fortunes to build yet are commonly broken up in British waters. Ships are stripped of guns and stores, towed to breakers, and left as steel shells. The wrecks yield timber and metal sold for fuel, furniture, and railings, with parts ending up in homes and various products.
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London
South American Republice
Turkey
Spain
China
Hood
Medway
Sweet Lipa Gun Changes Hands in Revolutionary Tale
The Sweet Lipa gun, famed for influencing the American Revolution and Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown, has passed to pensions commissioner Mr. Ware. It belonged to Darling Jones, a southern Continental soldier in Shelby and Sevier regiments, who carried it at King's Mountain in 1780 and allegedly fired the fatal shot at Ferguson. Jones died in 1848. the gun flowed through his son-in-law William Duncan to Frank Montcastle before reaching its current owner.
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Sweet Lipa
Lord Cornwallis
Ware
Darling Jones
Col Shelbys
North Carolina
John Sevier
Tennessee
Jones
Jonesboro Tenn
William Duncan
Frank Montcastle
Dangers of Uncontrolled Basketball in Girls Schools
Miss Lucille Eaton Hill of Wellesley College warns in Good Housekeeping against the abuse of basketball in girls secondary schools. She links uncontrolled play to injury and heightened competitiveness leading to slugging, urging athletics within modest bounds to preserve femininity and health.
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Lucille Eaton Hill
Wellesley College
Good Housekeeping
Charce
Miss Hill
Maine Mill Converts One Day Output Into Vast Paper Strip
The Woman's Home Companion notes a Maine mill in Burmie that produces a 144 feet wide strip of paper spanning 150 miles in a single day. Across the U S mills yield 1,100 papers and 60,000,000 dollars yearly, burning 3,000,000 tons of coal and shredding 2,500,000 cords of wood. About 12,500,000 trees are cut yearly. One month’s issue needs as many trees as a whole farm.
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Burmie
Woods of
Maine
United States
The
Woman's Home Companion
Not the judge's initials and the C. C. D. decanters
In Washington guests noticed the letters C. O. D on English glass decanters. The judge’s family name and his wife’s maiden name do not begin with C. The mishap arose when the judge’s son-in-law bought decanters in London and asked the package be sent with C. C. D. initials. The British clerk misread the initials as belonging to the recipient.
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Washington
New York Times
Jus Uce
England
London
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ICES
J. Levens Rams and Toot Co
Chicopee Falls
Mass
New England, Watch Co
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Baie Eluat
Wroith
Kwoping (Ua
Tali
Chicago
Hert
Boca
Cardui
Cardus
Lads ‘Ory
Dicive Co
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Tean
el Paso
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New Orleans
Shreveport
Louis
Los Angeles
Lovin
Acksa
Ora
R. W. Curlis
Southwestern
L. G. Leonard
E. P. Turner
Price Baking Powder
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Evans Building
Washington, D. C
Ir Journal
Fatente Nieat
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Via
Thang
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