The World's Greatest Fleet and Other Cold War Era Reflections
The article catalogs the Hamburg-America fleet and global shipping scale, noting 383 vessels and vast tonnage that could form a colossal behemoth at sea. It then shifts to critiques of modern clothes and comfort as germ traps, urging a return to nature, followed by vivid nature scenes of trees, insects, and woodland predators. It ends with a Miss Lillian Hull remark praising clothiers for advertising fashions and discouraging hand-me-downs, recounting a family memory of a beard removal.
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Great Britain
Hamburg
America
Stone
London Lancet
Ibely
Hawka
Lillian B. Hull
Grand Rapida
Duty and Honor Versus Disgraced Veterans in Uniform
A clipped magazine style essay argues that honoring the uniform depends on not allowing dishonorably discharged soldiers and sailors to appear publicly in uniform. It ties duty to obedience and moral courage, cites historical anecdotes, and closes with light humor about telepathy and a quip on money.
Dialect of New York Newsboys and Rain Measure Lesson
The New York Sun notes the city newsboys speaking a shared dialect. A weather clerk explains rainfall in inches by converting an acre to 6,272,640 square inches and 100 tons per acre, equating one inch of rain to about 22,000 gallons or 230,000 pounds across an acre.
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New York
Hive Lerwity
City Hall
Dlairiet
Umbrella Dilemmas Between Charlie and Fanny
In a rainy moment Charlie and Fanny debate who should carry the umbrella. Fanny jokes about not wanting a large spread of alpaca and notes Charlie’s awkward arm. Charlie protests yet admits to the awkward burden and hints Tom Clark knows how to manage his arm with Mary Martin.
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Charlie
Charle
Fanny
Tom Clark
Mary Martin
The Black Hand in Art and the Opera Claque
The piece describes methods used by the Black Hand to fund the opera claque and placate a hostile crowd. It notes how guests or debuts trigger pressure on artists to appease the claque or face hostile reception and derision.
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Catcalla
Missouri City Grasping for River Channel Change
A Missouri City, once off the river map and inaccessible to steamboats, benefits as a high water change reopens a channel. The Chester steamer will now offer freight and passenger service from the town, restoring ties to the Missouri River and attracting activity to Clay County near Kansas City.
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Missouri
Missouri City
Kansas City
Clay County
Chester
Old Landing
Cup of Joy
Une Company
College Professors on Defensive at Clark College
President G. Stanley Hall of Clark University declares professors must organize for elf protection and boycott news gatherers as enemies of academic dignity. He laments that a professor cannot speak without appearing foolish, urging action to preserve seriousness amid public ridicule.
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G. Stanley Hall
Clark
University
Disputed County Notices and a Grumpy Music Hall Manager
From Lincoln County Nevada records, Board of Trustees notices and a state finance form appear, with last publication date Nov 2 and a clerk and treasurer’s signatures. A separate Nevada report recounts a manager scolding a new orchestra for playing too well, saying it reduced drink sales and ordering the band to lower its standard.
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Fourth Judicial District Court
Tate
Nevada
Lie
Taunie
Shadeceaml
HiUah Marshall
Asid Mt
Judicial District Court
Corte Toot
Plocha Lancolt
Neva
Wea
Ereenataane
Behoun
Maid Board
Truxteon
Tremurer
Lincoln County
Bena Lipintens
Board of Schon
Pioeheehail
State of
Spongy chromium produced by heating chromium boron alloy
Bi net de Jassontex reports a spongy form of chromium made by heating chromium containing 15 per cent boron in an electric furnace with copper. The ingot yields a white spongy residue after copper removal, forming interlaced filaments like moss. The spongy chromium resists oxidation but burns brightly in flame and dissolves in acids.
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Binet de Jassontex
When Men Wore Wigs and Early Powder Taxes
A historic look at wig powder and a penny guinea pig tax during the era of Sir William Pitt. The text notes social norms requiring powdered hair, royal taxes on powder, and the Whigs reducing hair queues while servants could wear half powder.
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William Pitt
Pitt
Lang J Register Date of First Publication
Lang J is listed in the register with the date of first publication noted as Oelabae th tae in the readable portion of the page.
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Lang J
Oelabae Th Tae
Nevada Utah Mines and Survey Record Patent Notice
Serial No 0685 Patent application notice for Nevada Utah Mines and Survey through altered survey description with magnetic variation notes. Mentions plat, lot numbers, corners, field measurements, and record by Louis J Coun, Rewriter, in probate at a public land office.
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United Stas Carson
Serkterniet
Severty
Nevads
Utah
Semel
Iu Alter
Walter Foot
Marvay
Ploehe
Louis J. Coun
The Will Our Bodies Are Gardens and Wills Growers
A fragment invokes Shakespearean imagery on the will as a garden tended or neglected by choice. It quotes a line about planting nettles and herbs to shape life’s outcome and notes power in our will to direct or misdirect effort and industry.
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William Shakespeare
Electricity from the Body Study Prompts Public Experiments
Londoner Frederick Hovendon asserts electricity heat and other forms are one fluid. He claims humans exhale electricity from the fingertips and can capture the process on moving pictures. In his demo he fills a glass box with cigarette smoke and air, inserts a finger, then a strong arc lamp reveals etheric discharge, photographed for Popular Mechanics.
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Frederick Hovendon
London
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Mked
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Main
Pioche
Wm. Culverwell
Meadow Valley
A. S. Thompson Co
General Merchandise
Tare
Pabst Beer
Leon
Mre
Jesse Simmons Plocha
Paul McIntosh
Caliente
F. R. McNamee
Delamar
Chas
Lee Horsey
Blonain
Champ Clark
Cannon
Champ
Chicago
John
Saturday Evening Post
A. Herschel
Royal Meteorological Society
Northumberland
TAGE
Fingent Cobry Probe Assay Office Analytical Chestlate
Asanyers
Phone & Mochenev
Furth Judicial Disteiet Court of the State
Pat R. Ryan
Heraig
Patrick
Ate
Wall County
Aatea Ram
Adeninitrator
McStarnes
Aitiovey
John M. Breeze
P. Murray, M. D
Ralph DeWitt
Peter Schuttler
A. D. Knowlton
Eonste . Ee Apt Une Pioche
L. Webster Wickes
Salt Lake City
J. S&s. Pree
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Ploche
Solletted
Farmer Corntensel
Nee Lanes Land Omor
Carson City
Loum J. Com
Hammond & Fuller
Redwood
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