Inventor predicts cargo submarines for England hunger crisis
Simon Lake, submarine inventor and Lake Torpedo Co. president, contends England must use cargo carrying submarines to import food from the United States if the war lasts two more years. He notes a US navy voyage by the G3 shows potential endurance and speed for undersea freight.
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England
United States
Simon Lake
Lake Torpedo Company
Bridgeport
Conn
Captain Lake
United States Navy
Teutonic
English
Louisa Lee Schuyler Receives Historic LL D Honor
Miss Louisa Lee Schuyler the first woman to receive an honorary LL D from Columbia University born in New York in 1837. She led Civil War sanitary work and hospital aid, founded State Charities Aid Association, and established Bellevue Hospital Training School for nurses. A great granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton and General Philip Schuyler, she organized national aftercare for the insane and contributed to blindness prevention and philanthropy.
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Columbia University
Louisa Lee Schuyler
New York
Alexander Hamilton
Philip Schuyler
Polk Chosen as Counselor of State Department
Secretary of State Lansing selected Frank Lyon Polk for the position of counselor of the state department. Polk, a Yale and Columbia Law graduate with military service in the Spanish War, is noted as a lawyer with broad experience and close ties to New York politics. He survived a shooting incident last year when a bullet struck him in the left cheek while accompanying Mayor Mitchel.
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Lansing
Frank Lyon Polk
State Department
Polk
William Mecklenburg Polk
Cornell Medical School
Leonidas Polk
James K. Polk
Yale
Columbia Law School
Ernst
Elizabeth Potter
James Potter
Philadelphia
Bueau
McClellan
Borne Democratic League
New York
Mitchel
Mr. Polk
The Sphinx of Italy Signor Sonnino
Signor Sidney Sonnino Italy's foreign minister is called the Sphiozx by press. A former premier and three-time minister, he has served in finance and diplomacy in Paris Vienna Madrid and sits in parliament for 34 years. He declined guiding Italy during wartime fearing lack of parliamentary support. He is liberal but avoids faction, cultured, a classical scholar and a cautious yet uninspiring speaker.
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Signor
Sidney Sonnino
Italy
Finance
Corpu
Paris
Vienna
Madrid
Ersia
Sonnine
Family of Emma Anderson win Better Babies prize at Illinois fair
Six children under fourteen of Mrs Emma Anderson Springfield captured the final Better Babies contest at the Illinois state fair. The youngsters all scored above 90 per cent and the family received a silver cup for the achievement.
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Emma Anderson
Springfield
Springfeld
University of Illinois expands staff and faculty
The University of Illinois announces several new appointments across ceramic engineering freehand drawing architectural design and engineering stations. New staff include Albert Bleininger William Hekking Carl Berger L. C. Dillenback C. Stanley Sate and C. S. Fazel plus new researchers in electrical chemistry mining and civil departments. Three Pinioned Under Auto. Chicago - ...
Dominican Republic a booming export standout in 1914
The piece notes in 1914 the Dominican Republic increased its export value while Western hemisphere trade generally fell due to the European war. It describes the island as fertile with cotton, cacao, tobacco and sugar ports like San Pedro de Macoris, and highlights Santo Domingo as a historic capital with modern comforts and a nine day New York to port itinerary.
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Western Hemisphere
Dominican Republic
Bulletin of the Pan-American Union
New Hampshire
Vermont
Haiti
Isla Espanole
Santo Humingue
Santo Domingo
Monte Cristi
Puerto Plata
Catbo
Santiago de Los Caballeros
la Vexa
Moca
Republic
Hamburg
Samana
Sanchez
Samana Bay
Sanchez & Moca
Scotch Enterprise
San Pedro de Macoris
Macoris
San Nicolas
Christopher Columbus
Island
Havana
Columbus
Diego Colon
Christopher
Spain
Ozama River
Department of Public Works
Bani
Maximo Gomez
Drake
Club Union
Casino de la Juventud
San Cristobal
Francis
New York
Distinctly Northern Bird Claimed World Migrant Champion
Professor Cooke calls the arc tic tern the world migrating champion. It nests as far north as discovered land or any stable surface. A nest was found within seven and a half degrees of the North pole with a downy chick inside a snow-walled cavity scooped by a parent bird.
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Prof. Cooke
North Pole
Resolve on the grave of his errors by E. W. Wilcox
A reflective verse line urges a steadfast stance against fear as stars revolve and a sad soul moves from regret to firm resolution. The speaker signs as E. W. Wilcox.
Hints for Housekeepers From Practical Domestic Advice
A collection of home tips on cleaning, cooking, and maintenance. It covers brighten metals with soda, cooking cabbage to reduce odors, cleaning tea pots and linens, removing stains with mustard, handling candle grease, preparing currants, expanding whipped cream with egg white, avoiding red hot irons, flushing pipes with lye, using Epsom salts to prevent color fade, filling furniture cracks with beeswax, duplicating laundry lists with carbon paper, flavoring corn and peas with sugar, minting potato water, and a closing quotation on inner beauty by Mark Hopkins.
Practical Household Tips From Old Time Almanac
Useful advice on cleaning and cooking including cloths wiped with whiting to remove marks, bread to soak up overseasoned sauces, kerosene mildew remedy, venison flavored mutton dish, lemon juice for cold, steel wool as cleaner, baking moisture in cakes with apples, headache relief from back neck heat, hot foot soaks, white oilcloth linings for drawers.
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James J. Brady
U. of. Enlarged
Chicago
Crown Point
Ind
Ralph Alyea
Bert Margison
Lee Morrow
Dalton
Hebron
Thompson
Sfa
Minois
E. W. Wilcox
Mark Hopkins
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