Cutting Down Time of Apprenticeship in San Francisco
The Industrial Association of San Francisco starts a three class apprentice school. Five weeks of school followed by four weeks in shop, then back to school and 80 hours of shop per term. The plan aims to cut apprenticeship to 12 to 18 months saved, making plumbers fully trained in two and a half to three years. Apprentices are paid for time at work but not for time in school.
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Industrial Association of
San Francisco
Cal
Edgeworth tobacco inspires costly brag and free samples
A rambling letter recounts a man swapping a gold mine for Edgeworth and paying a high price, then urges pipe smokers to try Edgeworth with free samples. Larus & Brother Co advertises Edgeworth Plug Slice and Ready Rubbed, offering samples by mail and dealer support to ensure affordable pricing.
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Edgeworth
Larus & Brother Company
South 21St Street
Richmond
Navy unveils in-flight etype for air to ground messaging
The Navy reports a new in flight etype device allowing naval aircraft to print letters via radio signals. A keyboard sends impressions to ground stations and can receive messages, reducing transmission errors. It promises faster, clearer combat and scouting communications from air to fleet headquarters.
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Vvashington
Navy Department
Navy
Department
National Park to Park Highway Plan Promotes Truthful Travel Info
The National Park to Park Highway Association, led by Gus Helms in Denver, aims to educate motorists and schoolchildren about the western United States. It criticizes boosterism, pledges reliable publications on scenic attractions forests and streams, geology and botany, and maps 6500 miles of travel across mountain ranges and western industries.
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National Park To Park Highway Association
United States
Rocky Mountains
Pacific Coast
Association
Gus Helms
The
National Park
Park Highway
Denver
Tanlac Promises Broad Health Benefits for Frail Indeed
Thousands of nervous and convalescent people report Tanlac restores health strength and working efficiency. Mrs George G Owen of Salem Oregon claims nerves improved appetite returned and weight gained twelve pounds after TANLAC. The tablet claims to invigorate digestion purify the system and rebuild blood bone and muscle. Get a bottle today at any good druggist.
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Tanlae
George G. Owen
Salem
Oregon
Tanlue
Weather Note From Nauru Describes Tropic Rainfall
The passage observes constant daylight length on Nauru with no daylight saving and a minor seasonal shift. It notes violent tropical rains during the wet season, including a record of 150 inches in the year following a drought, with 10 inches in a single night.
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Pacific
Nauru
Stamp-Buster Pieric Acid Distributed to Farmers Nationwide
The U S Department of Agriculture with state colleges has distributed 3 000 000 pounds of pieric acid a surplus war explosive to farmers for farm work. In Minnesota 774 000 pounds were allotted to 8511 farmers averaging 222 pounds each benefiting 86 00 acres and saving over 70 000 dollars. The program saved about 800 000 dollars over the cost of other explosives last fall. 6 000 000 pounds are available with 1 500 000 for the lake states Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota. Pieric acid is a stable high explosive now distributed for peaceful use with no charge for the explosive itself but farmers pay for drying and priming. It keeps indefinitely it is not affected by temperature and has no headaches when used outdoors.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Ince
Department
Agricultural’ Colleges
Minnesota
State Agricultural College
Michigan
Wisconsin
Pierle Neid
Say
Oil Bubbles Up at Sea Across Years of Sailors Notes
Logs from British stemmer Etella and other ships report oil bubbles and kerosene streams on the sea surface from off Texas to Cape May. Navy hydrographic records show about 20 such observations in the last two decades, mainly southeast of the Florida coast and Gulf of Mexico, with several sightings near Galveston at various depths.
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Texan
Navy Hydrographic Office
Ben
Dunstan
San Jacinto
Caredian
Hydrographic Office
Cape May
Atlantic
Gulf
Pesas
Suilea
Galveston
Citizens of the era seek wit and peril in a crowded station
A colored man in a police station jokes about suicide and an inquest while a harbor scale uses water depth to weigh ships. A colored woman asks for advice about her flighty husband and a flying machine, hoping another husband will follow. The dialogue blends humor, danger, and social stereotypes of the time.
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Bikchange
Geneva Three-Year-Old Runs Away To Visit Aunt
Geneva, age three, ran away to visit her aunt across the street. The aunt lectured the child on dangers and threatened punishment. Despite entreaties, the girl insisted she would stay, then her aunt carried her home. Geneva cried briefly as she saw her father leaving, proclaiming she must hurry back.
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Geneva
Vale
Jeneva
Cutlura Trio Ad Promises Clear Skin Daily Care
The Cutlura Toilet Trio advertisement urges daily use to keep skin clear. It promotes Soap for cleansing, Ointment for soothing and healing, and Talcum for powder and perfume, claiming no toilet table is complete without them.
Voltaire Known as Patriarch of Ferney in Ferney Peru
The Patriarch of Ferney was a name given to Voltaire the noted French philosopher of the 18th century. Thomas Carlyle described Voltaire in the eighteenth century and noted his retirement to Ferney near Geneva where he produced much of his work.
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William
Edgeworth
Ferney
Voltaire
Thomas Carlyle
Geneva
Switzerland
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Compliments Health
A St Louis reader endorses Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female troubles and cramps. The letter praises relief from backache and pains, claiming renewed strength for daily tasks and housework through the remedy's restorative influence from natural plant ingredients.
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Wits Louis
Bani Bohol
Salisbury Street
St. Lou
Lydia BE
Pinkham
Trolls' Bis B Gentle But ‘Gitlent Perner
Was Thia Blackmall London Tit-Bits excerpt
A brief dialogue excerpt portrays a young man requesting a daughter’s hand with insolence, a patriarchal rebuke, and a denials scene, ending with a paternal blessing. The speaker clarifies a mistaken assumption about a different “essence” while referencing a corner-boarder.
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Thia Blackmall
Allence
George
London
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