Power of Running Water Deepens Rivers and Wears Mountains
The article explains how water velocity scales erosion and transport, noting that doubling velocity increases transport power fourfold, tripling velocity increases it 729 times, and quadrupling raises pebble transport 4098 times. It discusses sediment transport, bed deepening, and channel widening, with examples from the Platte, Hudson, Delaware, Susquehanna, Potomac, and Appalachian rivers, and cites erosion carved canyons and gorges across North America and beyond, illustrating rivers’ long-term evolution with mountain uplift. It also includes a medical advertisement for Dean's Kidney Pills from Foster-Milburn Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Platte River
Nebraska
Hudson River
West Point
Hudson
Delaware River
Delaware Water Gap
Blue Ridge
Delght
Susquehanna
Potomac
Co Jambia
Oregon
Amur
Bareya
Poria
Matchmaking in Japan An Up-To-Date Young Man Seeks Marriage
The Wide World notes Orio Tamura, about twenty, has finished university studies and informed his father he wishes to marry. A discreet marriage broker and family consultations lead to a formal look-at-each-other tea at the bride’s home, where the couple first views one another and exchanges restrained observations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orio Tamura
Wide World
Japan
Orio
Miss Z
Fate of a Merchant of Fez Ends in Public Shame and Death
A Morrocan merchant Ali Mahmoud rises from humble beginnings, buys slaves, and enjoys family life until a rival frames him for false weights. Bribed arbitrators convict him, and he is hung near his own home at sunset as the crowd derides him, ending his career in disgrace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fez
Morocco
al Mahmoud
Businese
London Graphic
Ali Mahmoud
Hla
Mohammed
Mahmoud
Ali
Kismet
Burning Eruption From Head to Feet A Case Report
A 1909 testimonial recalls severe eczema cured after using Cuticura remedies, noting dramatic relief after first bath and ointment with continued Resolvent, ending in full recovery. The ad also references Coca Cola health claims and a quip about gas meters during a pastor’s school talk, plus a dental product jingle and a pipe joke.
Roosevelt Arrives Home to Ovation and Fast Cars
After a fifteen month absence Colonel Theodore Roosevelt returns aboard the Kalerin Auguste Victoria and receives a monumental welcome in New York. He avoids interviews but answers rapid fire questions, while embracing automobiles over horse carriages, with White Steamers ferrying the party to Long Island and Travers Island for events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Roosevelt
Kalerin Auguste Victoria
Lam
Roosevelt
Elba
New York
Douglas Robimao i
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-ninth Street
Fifth Avesse
Colonel Roosevelt
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Col Lector Loeb
Baat
House
Wichita
Long Intend City
Travers Island
Eink House
New York Athletic Cin
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Yenisei Rivuas
Minunsinsk
Siberia
Susquehanna River
Allegheny Mountains
Wyoming Valley
Williamsport
Ohio River
Mississippi Valley
Mississippi
Dean
A. E. Fulton
Skidmore St
Portland
Ore
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola Baseball
Pierce
Buttale
Ydr
White Company
Els
Hanes
Continental Oil Company
CASH
Tg Bay
Galt Lode City
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