Mount Weather Observatory Nears Completion in Virginia Mountains
The Mount Weather Observatory in the Blue Ridge, near Harper's Ferry, Virginia, nears completion as a premier upper air research station. The site hosts fireproof buildings, a central heating plant, and advanced kite balloon equipment aimed at long range forecasting and atmospheric study.
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Virginia
United States
Mount
The
Weather Service
Washington
Weather Bureau
United States Weather Bureau
Blue Hill Observatory
Boston
Blue Ridge Mountains
Sentinel P St
Mount Weather Observatory
Harper's Ferry
Physical Laboratory
Old Dominion
Mount Weather
Scientific Paras Ia
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Unt Weather Observatory
Sweetness Vindicated In Taste By Dr Hutchinson
Dr Woods Hutchinson declares sweetness a universal flavor with real foods tasting sweet or sweetish while many salty, bitter, and sour items lack value. He warns that most sweet items are safe, though a few are poisonous, but humans learn to distinguish them through experience.
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Woods Hutchinson
Pineapples aid digestion and home treatments offered
A column advertises pineapple benefits for indigestion and cautions against overexertion. It promotes various female disease and pile treatments, touting Cure-Etto from the Home Treatment Association in Indianapolis and offers a free $1 course of treatment with a 20 cent mailing payment. It also mentions Sage Tea as a hair tonic.
Cheap Coals and Grimace Trick on Trains
A humorous exchange notes Smythe asking about coal costs and Jones replying he pays nothing. He lives by the railway and has his son grimace at engineers as trains pass by.
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Smythe
Jones
Cure of Severe Itching Eruption with Cuticura Trio
A Chicago man describes intense itching and skin erosion from a dermatitis eruption. After using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills, itching ceased within days and all traces disappeared in about three weeks. The notice advertises Potter Drug & Chemical Company as sole proprietors in Boston.
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H. A. Krutskoff
Wabash Ave
Chicago
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Sole Props
Bostem
Boy's Essay on Clothing in a London School
An excerpt from a boy's school essay discusses clothing across cultures. It notes savages or natives wearing minimal coverings while colder regions like Eskimo peoples wear more clothing. The piece mentions skating year round and risks of bronkitis from cold exposure, and contrasts hats and frocks for women and girls with general clothing resembling the body.
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London
Eskimos
Engagement of Hiram Hardesty and Suzette Snarley
Atchison Globe reports the engagement announced in the evening of a quiet ceremony at 9:45 in Miss Snarley’s parlor. Suzette wore black with no ornaments, and Har desty showed unusual behavior. both recall it was not their first kiss, and details are printed for the curious.
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Atchison
Hiram Hardesty
Suzette Snarley
Hypnotism Historically Recognized by Medical Profession
Hypnotism has been recognized by the medical profession since the fifteenth century and, after centuries of trial in thousands of cases by figures such as Chercot of Paris and Bernheim of Nancy, its results have not justified widespread practical use in sickness.
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Chercot
Paris
Bernheim
Nancy
New York Press
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Alfred J. Henry
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Solomon
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