Navy Observatory Legacy and Fine Suburban Buildings
The government funded and established a premier naval observatory near Washington. The fine complex, costing about 400000 dollars, houses the best observation devices for planetary movements. The giant telescope sits in a separate building on a concrete foundation, away from city influences. The marble main building houses a vast library while clock and transit structures surround it. George Grantham Bain.
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Garbie
Hoe
George Grantham Bain
Questions and Answers from a bygone era
A long reader Q and A column covers varied trivia from history and geography. Questions touch on dates like Dec 1807 and Patrick Henry, the Thirty-fourth U S Volunteer Infantry, war taxes, railroad lines, Lincoln sons, and Queen Victoria kin. Answers provide concise facts on battleships, monazite, solar distance, sound, and law tolls.
Sleep and its proper balance for body and mind
L N M D discusses sleep as a reparative, cyclical state driven by bodily needs. Expenditure of energy dictates wakeful waste and the necessity of adequate rest, with varying needs by person, occupation, and health. Early to bed is beneficial only when matched to individual endurance and environment.
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Liebig
Carpenter
Elizabeth, Black Elizabeth in the June Garden
Poem fragment invoking Elizabeth and June, describing blossoms and roses. Imagery centers on the arrival of June, with references to bees, spice trees, and rosy growth around an echoing stair. The speaker laments missed companionship and frames June as impending, with a lyrical, period voice.
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Elizabeth
Sleep and health advice from Harper's Bazar
The piece urges sufficient sleep for brain workers and nervous individuals, warns against overuse of compressed foods, stresses proper quantity and quality of food, and advocates ample water, exercise, air, sunshine, and plain wholesome nutrition. It stresses natural restoration and cautions against inadequate rest.
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Harper's Bazar
Evening song by Sidney Lanter
Poetic verse describing the sun melting into sea and red vintages of light across sands and skies. The speaker invites a beloved to join in a nocturnal scene where stars, waves, and night comfort the lovers as they part from daylight and sky.
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Earth
Egypt
Cleopatra
Pile and Fistula Cure Free Book Offer
Red Cross Pile and Fistula Cure and a sample treatment are advertised with a free book sent to any address. Rea Bros. & Co. distribute from Dept. 25, Minneapolis, Minnesota. The notice promotes a medical cure and no-cost mailing for readers seeking relief from piles.
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Rea Bros. & Co
Dept. 25
Minneapolis
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Critical minds and the tempered art of judgment
A reflective piece contrasts harsh critics with balanced thinking. It argues optimism paired with self confidence over hypercritical scrutiny, citing everyday trust in a butcher and general public behavior. The article also touches on historical debates about Uncle Tom's Cabin and the causes of the Civil War, and closes with notes on potato safety and stamps trends.
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F. Hopkinson Smith
Henry Watterson
Mrs. Stowe
South
North
Raatty
Physician Warns Against Immediate Postwear Walks
A Philadelphia physician warns that walking immediately after removing heavy undergarments is not advisable. The remark is tied to a broader reform movement noted in the Philadelphia scene.
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