Nobles Promise and Julia's Change of Heart
Noble Dill receives Julia's denial of an engagement and a vow to remain unattached. He walks home hopeful, imagining future calls and their still-possible romance while neighbors tease and a street scene unfolds with a playful rival.
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Noble
Julia
Joseph
Mr. Crum
Julila
Noble Dill
Herbie Atwater
Herbert Atwater
Herbert
Winedow
Torbin
Charlotte Corday
Poner
Llorence
Juda’s
Mr. Atwater
Juva
Author and Reader on solitude and authorship
A. Bronson Alcott notes that an author who writes as reader into his own thoughts learns humility. The piece mentions that one hundred takes in the Surplose Alps have subsided and disappeared in the last century.
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Ind
A. Bronson Alcott
New Coast Defense Computers Demonstrated In Capital
In Washington the ordnance department shows two instruments named target computer and battery computer. They electronically compute enemy ship location from observatories and adjust for powder temperature shell type wind drift and air conditions to predict firing solutions for coastal defense guns.
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Washington
Ordnance Department
Panama
Canal
Axed
Sun Spots Prompt Western Union Precaution Plan
Uncle Sam monitors sunspots with the Naval Observatory and Western Union to study electrical storms that disrupt telegraph and telephone services. A bulletin system alerts officials when a sunspot may strike, with Western Union collecting data on currents and direction. This follows a May storm that damaged cables and caused outages across the country.
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Unole Sam
Western Union Telegraph Company
Mariner
United States Naval Observatory
Western Union
Europe
Waashington
National Academy of Sciences to Open Washington Exhibit Hall
The new NAS building near the Lincoln Memorial will open with public exhibits on sunspots Foucault pendulum and other scientific displays. A 60 foot pendulum shows earth rotation while a central dome presents sunspot phenomena. Cost of the marble structure is about 5 million dollars funded by Carnegie and a 200000 dollar public donation drive.
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Foucault
National Academy of Sciences
Washington
Trig
Lincoln Memorial
Carnegie Corporation
Dead Letter Sales Draw Crowd At Government Auction
A crowded Washington auction room displays unclaimed parcel post items as the government auctions months of dead letters. Bidders study sparse lot descriptions while hundreds select from boxed lots of merchandise, jewelry, and odds and ends, sold in three hours. The dead letters division handles millions of undeliverable letters yearly. the government puts these items on sale.
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Washington
Brown
Daughters Help Mother After Using Vegetable Compound
Lydia Peters enlists Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for stomach pains and backache. After treatment she resumes all chores and recommends the remedy to friends in Jasper Mississippi.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Jasper
Mina
Lydia
Pinkham
Mercy
Mra
Jesse Petersen
Ming
Chad
Toniis
Peterseen
Inventor Patents Roller Book Ends with Spring Tension
An inventor patented a pair of book ends mounted on rollers and held by a spring to stay against books on smooth tables. The idea aims to prevent ends from sliding apart, a common problem with weight-based ends.
Edgeworth Tobacco Letters Market Free Samples From Larus & Brother
A garbled message from Walla Walla County Attorney hints at a promotional note praising Edgeworth tobacco. The letter invites readers to request free samples of Edgeworth Plug Slice and Ready-Rubbed and explains packaging options and dealer support through Larus & Brother Company of Richmond Virginia.
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Walla Walla County
Amokst
Edgeworth
Walla 8
Fetter
Toacco
Edgewor
Edgeworth Plug Slice
Larus & Brother Company
South Flat Street
Richmond
Qageworth
Larus & Brother Comepany
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Taunter
National Capital
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Uncle Sam
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Walla Walls
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