Columbus Ship Design Insight Through Sailor Legends
A reader notes how Columbus advertised voyages with bold deck plans and compares sails and sterncastle defense concepts to early ship design. The piece recalls Genovese dreams, crew conditions, and the perilous need for constant pump work to keep the Leaky ship afloat on western ocean ventures.
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Norfolk
Christopher Columbus
Bat
Santé
Maria
Columbus
Genoz
Alumbas
New World
French President Shaves Self Says Paris Soir
Paris Soir asks if the French president shaves and answers yes, noting he shaves himself every morning with an old fashioned razor. It says he has a barber visit twice a week, and uses a chauffeur to send the car when at Rambouillet. It also mentions Herriot shaving himself with a safety razor and Painleve being a regular customer at a small Paris coiffeur.
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Mongheur
Doumergue
Rambouillet
Monsieur Herriot
Chamber of Deputies
M. Werriott
M. Painleve
Boulevard St. Germain
Mrs Charles V Blose Appointed Trustee for Children's Home
Urbana Ohio November 27 Mrs Charles V Blose a Democrat was appointed trustee of the children's home by county commissioners to succeed Tate Benjamin Wan In other news the National Association of Ice Industries voted to spend two hundred thousand dollars during the coming year for public education on better ice usage methods.
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Urbana
Charles V- Blose
Children’s, Home
Tate
Benjamin
Wan
National Association of Ice Industries
Publian & Better
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Paris
Lewis
Mtmicantuaco
Elrsa ¢ Dew
Amcleual Eui
Glove
Milady
Ivory
Woodworth
Toletries
Twc
Bae
Sels
Hari Madeeles
Don
Wy Designs
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