Vast array of facts from 1918 era miscellany and trivia
Compiled statements cover divorces in Japan, albatross size, trout fertilization, star heat, birth rates in China, ship sizes like the Pennsylvania, Constantinople’s triangle form, Oxford Trinity College date, devil fish length, Berlin to San Francisco routes, Uranus distance, 1872 typesetting parts, German aviation lines, 1918 gasoline output, eel markets, continental hotel soap absence, battleship water use, US Printing Office origin, Philippine school age mix, Philippine tribes and dialects, morphine vs cocaine, wood paving in Russia, Russian women as politicians, ancient cities like Damascus Benares Constantinople, Indian prohibition, Aztec documents, furnace ash heat, engineer per population, word usage, paint brush care, sparrow insect feed, Ceylon railways, LA death rate, floods in Arkansas, Porto Rican school funding, French army post-1923, Queen Maria charity proceeds, German submarines lost, 1920 vs 1915 motor deaths, milk plate marriage rite in India, acid proof fabrics, Chile iron ore, New York health talks by radio, Brazilian gold mine, global proximity to New York, 1755 sewing machine, Chilean fire arrests, dreams of the blind, wooden dishes revival, Tibetans tea cup measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
China
Pennsylvania
Constantinople
Trinity College
Oxford
England
San Francisco
Germany
London
Europe
United States Government Printing Office
Philippines
Russia
Damascus
Benares
India
Ceylon
Los Angeles
Arkansas River
Boone
Colo
Maria of
Romania
United States
Lancashire
State Department of Health of
New York
Schenectady
Brazil
Pittsburg
C. F. Weisenthal
Chile
Elephant tusk weights and Belgium stamp ads
A tusk of an East African bull elephant can weigh 235 pounds but the average tusk of the old wild bulls today is not more than 40 pounds. Belgium uses stamps instead of small coins. Some storekeepers sandwich stamps between celluloid and display their ads on them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belgium
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Dopce Brothers
T. J. Dugger & CO
South Court
Indiana
Sullivan
Newton W. Haines
John L. Durham
Graysville
Tarman Township
Sullivan County
Poland
Mitchell
Oliver Sulkey
John Deere Sulkey
Janesville
Thomas M. Durham
William W. Watson
Big Springs
Union
Terre Haute Daily Star
Terre Haute Star
Sullivan Union
Indianapolis News and Sullivan Union
Globe Democrat
Chicago Daily Tribune
Toledo Weekly Blade
Terre Haute Daily Tribune
Terre Haute Daily and
Sunday Tribune
The
Ind
Palm Beach
the Palm Beach
Clothiers
H. C. Steel
Prop
Fidelity Loan CO
Paul Kuhn & CO
Cherry St
Terre Haute, Ind
Chicago
Telephone
Wabash No
Shelburn
James W. McHugh
Hymera
Walker McHugh
McHugh & Son
W.H. Hill, Jr. Farm Loan Co
Sullivan County Loan & Trust Co
North Side
E. A. Billman
W. K. Frakes
L. A. Stewart
P. A. Barco
Grover Clayton Carlisle
E. Lindley
H. L. Stratton
I. J. Keys
Carlisle
H. 8S. Leach
Shady Beach
Elliston Bridge
MR. Farmer
Sullivan County Farm Bureau
Sul
Livan County
Terre Haute Star and Sullivan Union
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