Old Water Mill on Indian Creek Marks Missouri’s Slow History
Stubbins Watts, 75, descendant of Daniel Boone, tends a mill built in 1839 on Indian Creek near Westport. The grandson recounts generations of settlers, Civil War memories, and a landscape of gray mill and rock blending with the creek’s placid flow as Kansas City expands beyond.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Indian Creek
Watts’s
Fold
Mill
Stubbina Watts
Daniel Boone
John Fitzhugh
Westport Landing
Westport
California
Pacific
Independence
Dead Sea
Stubbins Watts
Samuel Watts
Lafayette
France
Washington
Charleston
Shelby County
Kentucky
Missouri River
Yellowston
Sallie Dodson
St. Charles County
Anthony B. ‘’Atts
Gon c
Tadian Creekk
Stubbins
Market Strain After British Coal Strike Hits Drug Supplies
The coal strike in Great Britain has left New York with scarce supplies of crude drugs and botanical products. Shortages extend to menthol, buchu leaves, ipecac, celery seed, cloves, cascara, gum camphor, matico, kava kava, cardamoms, balsams, and copaiba oil, altering the local drug trade.
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Great Britain
New York
Precaution Led to Disaster Aboard Steamship Hardy
A British Board of Trade report records a marine disaster from carrying two tons of sodium and chlorate of potash on deck. A heavy sea burst the chests where the sodium stored, causing ignition and flames that reached the oxidizer and triggered a violent explosion that split the vessel.
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British Board of Trade
Hardy
Mill Preserve Echoes Of An Old Wooden Mill
The text describes a flour mill with a turbine replacing the old wooden wheel years ago. It notes the lack of modern machinery aside from the turbine and preserves the original features such as wooden pegs flooring doors hinges and wooden cogs from eighty two years past.
Drug Habit Gains in Paris Dope use spreads among all classes
Investigations after several fatalities in Paris reveal widespread cocaine and morphine use. A city physician reports detecting dozens of victims each round of patrols while ether declines. The dope habit is said to affect all social classes in the Quartier Latin and beyond.
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Quartier
Paris
Brooklyn Eagle
Mission Weddings Draw Crowd To Mission Ceremony
A bustling wedding at the mission fills the room within minutes as the superintendent notes the moral impact of such rites. He praises the example of regeneration and laments few brides accepting a mission wedding, while grooms show willingness.
Shooting for a Wife in Serbian Village Contest
Lubinka Vutchitch, youngest granddaughter of an elderly Serb peasant, married a top local sharpshooter after a family contest. Granddaughters were vowed to the first man who could shoot an apple on a pole, Velko Simith winning the prize in a close race as suitors rode toward the gate.
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Lubinka Vutchitch
Tchatchak
Servia
Old Vutchitch
Velko Simith
McStab Pursues College Way Unlike Wealthy Help
A contemporaneous remark notes a young McStab working through college rather than seeking aid from wealthy benefactors. It highlights how some men do odd things to preserve their self respect and independence.
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McStab
Cargo Safety Failure Blamed for Loss of Sodium Shipment
Investigators blamed misdirected safety efforts for the loss of a cargo shipment. They concluded the sodium would have remained safe if it had been properly packed and stowed below deck, indicating a preventable failure due to handling procedures.
Surgery by Wireless on Swan Island Laborer
A laborer on Swan Island, cut off from land by distance, had a foot crushed. With no medical books or nearby help, a wireless operator called a surgeon aboard the nearest ship who guided an amputation remotely, marking a historic remote surgery event.
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Swan Island
London
Oxy Scheme Sparks Curious Plan Involving Bets And Treats
Ambiguous dialogue hints at a scheme to lure others with a three cent bats and a fifty dollar confection as part of a playful event. The fragment names no specific people or places.
Beaver Advocate Praises Beavers as Water Helpers
A Fur News correspondent defends beavers in British Columbia describing them as industrious and essential for water management. He notes beavers build and maintain dams, reducing rancher losses, and offers tips on humane coexistence and domestication as guides for avoiding conflict with the animal.
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British Columbia
False Teeth Drive Post Offices To Higher Salaries
A Greenfield Massachusetts weekly advert offers three cents each for old artificial teeth prompting a rush of mail to post offices. Residents scour attics barns and wells for teeth while a Colrain youth confesses to stealing a scarecrow’s false teeth. In one case interest in a baseball pool rivals the effort to collect teeth.
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Greenfield
Masa
Franklin County
Colrain
Spare Room Fetish Hurts Home Comfort and Harmony
The piece argues the spare room, often kept for rare visitors, forces children to cramped space and the bread-winner to hide papers in a dark cupboard. It notes the husband’s temper worsens from constant disruption and the wife’s pride over appearances adds strain, harming home life.
Subsequent Growth Quote On Rubens Output
A quotation notes that Rubens left about 2,000 pictures yet an estimated 10, and more of his works circulate today. The speaker asserts that quality work proves enduring after the creator's death.
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Rubens
Automatic horn plays music from perforated rolls
A New York inventor designed an automatic horn resembling a cornet, with transverse pipes fed by a perforated music roll. Key arms operate valves, the roll revolves, and the player blows steadily to reproduce the music. With many rolls a man can mimic a skilled cornetist.
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New York
Device Helps Bedbound Patients Exercise Limbs
Popular Electricity notes a new motor driven device to move the lower limbs for bedridden patients, imitating walking movements. It claims to impart motion to the limbs and aid rehabilitation for those confined to bed.
Aviation funding and fleets in France in 1912
The latest French aviation appropriations total 4.8 million dollars for aeroplanes and 1.6 million for airships. Fifteen airships will be built, and by end of 1912 about 334 aeroplanes are planned in operation. The French army already fields over two hundred aircraft.
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France
Remarkable Tuberculin Test Findings On Paris Children
Tuberculin tests on 1 226 children by three Paris physicians show tuberculosis rises with age and most people are infected at some time. Recovery often occurs spontaneously. The test detects TB in few infants under one year, but 90 percent of those over 15 react, while disease shows in only about a third.
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Paris
Soft Bells Tone Through Craft and Silence
The softness of Japanese and Chinese bells comes from careful manufacture and the absence of row clappers. Bells are struck from the outside with wooden mallets, producing a gentle tone.
Sunshade for Autos Invention Adjusts to Any Angle
An English inventor develops a sunshade for cars with an adjustable angle on its handle, aimed at shielding drivers from glare. The device promises customizable shade positions for different seating angles and sun directions.
Brains of Great Men More Than Weight Alone
Prof Frederick W Mott lectured on The Brain noting 88 percent of weighed brains of great men were above average weight but brain weight does not guarantee quality. He explained tissue function and overgrowth can raise weight, cited racial and sex differences in brain weights, and contrasted civilized and savage samples with birth and adult disparities.
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Frederick W. Mott
Royal Provincera
Great Britain
Mott
Pocket Size Tripod Marketed in France
A tripod that disassembles to fit a coat pocket is being marketed in France. Each log consists of two parts with three telescopic members, and the parts fit into the flat case shown.
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France
Notes on global facts and figures from 1911 era
A compact compilation of varied statistics including Ireland 70 000 linen workers, China exports tripling in 20 years, New Zealand Maoris 42 000, New York Chinatown 6 000, whale bone 45 tons, Bible in 70 languages for Canada, Italian war plan with dentist, English post office deposits 1 000 000 in ten years, Nile region wages six to eight cents daily, Bellum population density 636 per square mile, American missionary gifts over 13 000 000 in 1911, Berlin sewage farms 40 000 acres, doge wagons in London until 1830, Shanghai city wall fragment.
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Ireland
China
Vyhe
New Zealand
New York
Canada
Post Office Savings Bank
Blue Nile
Egypt
Bellum
Missionary Societies of America
Berlin
London
Shanghai
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