Had Fun With: Conductor On an Outbound Trip
An Indianapolis News item recounts a humorous incident on a city streetcar. The whistling motorman’s antics livened the ride as passengers drifted toward semi consciousness and later giggled at a string of misread street names. A fat passenger mispronounces a stop, and the conductor scowls while the car proceeds down Oriental Street.
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East Washington
Dearings
Oriental Street
Whetstone
Avendal -Keystone
Fat Man
Indianapolis News
Old Story Claims Indian Tactics Shaped Early War
The article recounts Chief Strongheart of the Yakima Nation asserting that Indian camouflage and stealth influenced early warfare. It notes Strongheart’s lineage to Rumlings Bit and his grandfather Standing Rock, who fought at Custer, with Strongheart linked to Roosevelt and the Spanish-American War era through family history.
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Chieg
Strongheart
Yakima
Rumlings Bit
Stout
Howard
Roosevelt
Standing Rock
Custer
Swiss Watch Exports Shift Toward Movements Without Cases
Trade Commissioner H Lawrence Graves reports a 1919 Swiss export trend favoring finished watch movements without cases. Exports totaled 11,211,051 with 8,280,728 in movements only, about 83 percent of finished movements. England Canada and Japan take the remainder.
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H. Lawrence Graves
Zurich
United States
Switzerland
England
Canada
Japan
Indian Potlatch Season Sweeps Northwest Tribes
The Indians of Northwest and central British Columbia enter the height of the social season. Morricetown hosts a large gathering where personal belongings are exchanged in a gift drawing. Hagwilget in the Hazelton district now hosts another potlatch with more gatherings planned in the north as white traders buy spring fur catches.
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Northwest
British Columbia
Morricetown
Hagwilget
Hazelton
Scientific advances yield ebullioscope and cryoscope tools
A scientific advance and prohibition era research describe two instruments the ebullioscope and the cryoscope. The ebullioscope measures the boiling point of liquids to gauge alcoholic strength in brewing at the plant while the cryoscope assesses milk quality by density at the freezing point.
The Particular One Ma Tell Me If Cornelia4
Fragmentary dialogue from a historic text includes a child named Cornelia4 and a mother asking about whipping and a burst of laughter or tears. the damaged snippet hints at family speech and quoted phrases.
Palolo Worms Singly Seen Off Samoa Each Year
A Samoan belief links ancestral origins to palolo worms that appear on the sea surface for 48 hours at year end. The worms are sought as delicacies and, in myth, their transformation explains men and women. The tale involves the goddess Tudgatoa and the vine that turned to worms and then to people.
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Samoa
Tudgatoa
Bamonia
Turl
Sarth
Senreh
Best Friends for a Reader in Sidney Dark’s London Weekly
The essay argues books are lifelong companions that banish loneliness and boredom. It lists twenty cherished literary friends drawn from Dickens Thackeray Daudet Wells Hardy and Meredith, noting imagination sustains happiness beyond daily life.
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Rodka
Booka
Dickens
Thackermg
Dumps
Daudet
Wella
Hardy
Meredith
Sidney Dark
Toni O'London
Unctuous waiter and a word gem on the Goldaborough
Reporters aboard the destroyer Goldaborough encountered a caterer whose love of grand words drew money from diners. A staffer named Unduons impressed with the term simultaneous, repeatedly pronouncing it with dramatic cadence as he lingered over the strange linguistic treasure.
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Goldaborough
Negro Walters
New York Dvening Sun
India builds iron and steel base with two major works
India has laid the basis of a steel industry with two key plants. The Bengal Iron and Steel works at Kutti produce about 100000 tons of pig iron monthly, while the Tata Iron and Steel works at Salcchi near Calcutta output about 20000 tons monthly. Most pig iron is converted to steel for rails and structural shapes, and new furnaces under construction will triple Tata’s capacity, yet a large share of Tadlo’s iron and steel needs remain unmet locally.
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India
Bengal Iron and Steel Works
Kutti
Tate Iron and Steel Works
Salcchi
Calcutta
Tata
Tadlo
Hyo
Supremacy Shift in Global Rubber Markets
The text notes Brazil’s rubber dominance waning as the Far East dominates production. It recounts H. A. Wickham’s 19th century idea to cultivate rubber trees in India, with seeds sent on an India government commission and early tapping beginning in 1881 at Heneretgada.
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East
Brazil
Far East
H. A. Wickham
Ocr
India
Amazon
Heneretgada
Strange Winds of Chance in Tahitian Door Art Tale
In a New York gallery a primitive door from the southern Pacific bears a Tahitian figure linked to Gaugin. W Somerset Maugham notes Gaugin's wild Paris to Tahiti journey and a door taken from his cabin. The piece sparks a ripple of artists and writers heading toward Tahiti.
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New York
Southern Pacific
Marquesan Islands
Paul Gaugin
Mi6
W. Somerset Maugham
Tral Hotfoot
Paris
Tahiti
Arenshaw
Tarper
Eight-year-old Raymond Visits Indianapolis Village
An eight-year-old boy from a waterless village visits Indianapolis and remarks on the local sprinkling can in the bathroom used to water the flowers. He notes the lack of indoor plumbing and showers, then comments humorously to his tall uncle about growing sober in the city.
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Raymond
Indianapols
Indianapolis
Potatoes as Currency Used in Polish Districts
The American Red Cross reports that in Grodno region Poland the value of potatoes fluctuates less than paper money and local help in warehousing receives weekly wages in potatoes. This indicates a potato based payment practice adopted by aid workers in remote agricultural areas.
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Poland
Grodno
American Red Cross
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