Home Building Advice by William A Radford
Building a modest house becomes more appealing as prices rise. William A Radford explains the joys of home ownership, urging readers to design with their wife, noting the porch, living and dining rooms, kitchen, and secure storage. The article also covers paint upkeep, room sizes, and a two bedroom second floor with ample closets, emphasizing permanence and family security.
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Willam A
Radford
William A. Radford
Prairies Avenue
Chicago
Thas
Sewing Circle
Secret anecdotes about Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish's wit
The wealthy socialite Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish is famed for lavish dinners and sharp humor. She reportedly quipped about a New York heiress’s marriage to a spendthrift nobleman, explaining the wife protects her principal to sustain interest.
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Stuyvesant Fish
Pillow Play Sparks Ben's Leaves Question
A group of children played with an old pillow and debated its stuffing. A young boy asked why, answering that pillows are always filled with Ben’s leaves, a line that hints at a local saying or inventive misstatement.
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Ben
For That Paint Smell Inhaled Hay Remedy
An odd remedy suggests placing a handful of hay into a palifal of water to counteract paint odors. The note mentions leaving it overnight, but details are unclear and garbled.
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Nene Ai
Guide Piece Invented to Sharpen Tools Safely
A New Jersey man patents a scissor sharpener with a wide guide piece that attaches to the sharpening rod. The curved edge guides the tool to the correct angle, reducing risk of damaging a sharp edge while sharpening blades, knives, scissors, and razors.
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New Jersey
Working of suction pump limits and lift heights
A suction pump cannot raise water higher than about thirty four feet in theory and commonly not beyond twenty eight feet in practice due to atmospheric pressure supporting a water column. To reach greater heights a force pump is used, driving water up by motive power.
Self Cleaner for Suckets Described by Scientific American
The Scientific American outlines a self cleaning drag scraper bucket by W H Morse of New Orleans. The bucket automates unloading by dragging sticky contents during dumping, aimed at excavating or dredging uses. Iridium demand rises as an alloy for hardening platinum, replacing purer platinum in many applications.
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Scientific American
W. H. Morse
New Orleans
Wigs of spun glass and marble from ashes revealed
France pioneers artificial hair from crystal glass and fibers, achieving near human hair likeness in fineness, shine, and hygiene. A German engineer conceals a secret method to turn ashes into beautiful marble using a small gas stove and kettle, capable of making a slab in about thirty minutes.
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France
Elastic guard for emery wheels in Germany
An elastic steal guard for emery wheels has been brought out in Germany. It is designed primarily to relast the shock and to hold the fragments of a bursting wheel. The guard is made up of bands of corrugated sheet steel bound together in an elastic framework of crossbars.
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Germany
Helles
Hathor
Man Who Found Celluloid
The eighth impression of the Perkin goldedal for important work in industrial chemistry was presented to John Wesley Hyatt, inventor of celluloid, at a joint meeting of the New York sections of the Society of Chemical Industry, the American Chemical Society and the American Electrochemical Engineering. Hyatt, born in 1837 at Starkey New York, learned printing in youth and later pursued experiments that led to celluloid, influencing billiard balls and other products.
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John Wesley Hyatt
New York
Society of Chemical Industry
American Chemical Society
American Electrochemical Engineering
Mr. Hyatt
Starkey
Yates County
Illinois
Albany
London draft exhibition showcases 60 plus vehicle makers
More than sixty manufacturers attended London's draft exhibition of industrial motor vehicles exclusively. A Pennsylvania woodworking plant is building the largest draft yet, capable of processing six feet of boards in one pass. U.S. iron ore mined in 1918 is estimated between 60 and 80 million long tons.
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London
Pennsylvania
United States
Nile steamer voyage through Egypt described by Laura Grover Smith
Laura Grover Smith recalls a Nile steamer journey with German management and native staff, detailing uniforms, rituals, and the sensory sights of Cairo and an Orient-inspired night scene. The piece notes a New Year’s Eve celebration, village streets, and the complexity of cultural interactions aboard and ashore.
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Laura Grover Smith
Milwaukee Sentinel
Yorkshire
England
Scotland
Kipling
Egypt
Yorkatifreman
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Sven
Long House
Ibed
Sclesora Sharpener
Franca
Humatt
Joann Wesley Hyatt
Nile
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