Modern Rubber and Curious Gravel Walk Tales
A rambled essay-like report discusses rubber innovation including natural and artificial varieties, new sources in Madagascar and New Zealand, and the shift to efficient machinery. It notes rising interior prices, forest owners profiting, and cautious optimism amid bee destruction and supply concerns. It also describes a St. Louis coffee firm owner building a $15,000 gravel walk using Brazilian pebbles found in coffee shipments. The piece blends technical progress with whimsical modern curiosities.
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Prado
Africa
Madagascar
New Zealand
Uravel
St. Louis
Popular Science Notes On Everyday Tips And Observations
A column of brief science tidbits covers seed preparation with hot water, coffee and ammonia for cleaning black clothes, benzoin to ease toothache, precision scales, an ant lifting three thousand times its weight, thunder described as trash due to simultaneous air vibrations, and rust stain removal using boiling water, trichloride acid, and careful washing without soap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Lubbock
Faith of the Centurion Echoes in Gospel Lessons
A Sunday school text analyzes the centurion's remarkable faith in Jesus. It contrasts humility and authority, notes Jesus marveling at such faith, and reflects on the healing of the servant and the boy raised from death, framing the scene as evidence that God visits his people through Christ.
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Jesus
Heise
Adel Dt
Agel
Ely
Amio
Min
Bole
Lange
Mao
Centurion
Jesus Mar
Mark
Edersheim
Notable Authors Quick Composition Timelines
A historical note lists several authors and their reported writing durations. DeFor allegedly penned Robinson Crusoe in six months while Cowper claimed three days for John Gilpin. Motley took six years for The Rise of the Dutch Republic. George Eliot supposedly wrote Middlemarch in four months, and Eugene Sue required eighteen months for The Wandering Jew. Hawthorne’s romance compositions ranged from six months to three years.
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DeFor
Cowper
John Gilpin
Motley
Dutch Republic
George Eliot
Middlemarch
Eugene Sue
Hawthorne
Wild Run of the W F Babcock Off Cape Horn
The American ship W F Babcock arrived from Liverpool and docked at Green street wharf after a dire voyage from Patagonia to the Pacific. Captain Graham fought fierce seas and freezing spray with his crew, drying ice from rigging by dawn as gallons of seawater frozen on deck. The yachtlike vessel, about 250 feet long and 3,500 tons, carried cargo while Captain and Mrs. Graham, Seattle-born, traveled with their child onboard.
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Cape Horn
W. FP. Babcock
Liverpool
Green Street Wharf
San Francisco Examiner
Babcock
Horn
Patagonia
Capt
Graham
South Pole
Pacific
W. F. Babcock
Seattle
Lince
Practical Cookery Hints From Everyday Kitchen Tips
Useful domestic guidance on preserving lemon and orange peels as kindling, dissolving soda in cold water to avoid gas loss, salting before cooking dredges, delaying other seasonings until served, and trimming fat for clearer stock. Ham adds a delicate flavor. one ounce per gallon of water is ample.
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Cooper Bros
Shreveport Transfer Co
Teras St. Col
Louisiana
Shreveport
Eon M. Carter
Texas and
Spring Streets
IL Winter
Levee Street
Nb. Dreyeus & CO
Corner Spring and
Crockett Streets
Herman Loe
Vicksburg
New Orleans
Galveston
Houston
Merchants 2 Farmers Bank
Texas Street
L. M. Carter
Hk. B. Rand
Prometaess and
Shipaton
Deak
Popular Science
Lure
Desoe Bois
B. McCutchen
T, L. Stringfellow
Caste
Spring
Milam Streets
O. A. Alston
Cori
Crockett and Spring
Adva
Tur
Texas
LFA
Memphis
Arizona
Old and New Mexico
Oregon
Colorado
California
Little Rock
Denver
el Passo
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Texas Es4 Preidie Railway
Viv Tiew Man
Dallas
Tex
DR. Winchell
Dr. Faque
Norma
Emmett Proprietary Co
Chicago
L. M. Carter and
Whitworth Bros
U. 5
Wilblerton
Dow
Acral
C.a.snow&co
Washington, D. C
Aive
Whitworth Broa
Horges
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