Rope, hemp, and fibers shaped the rope trade through ages
The article traces rope fiber history from hemp to abaca and jute, noting shifts in world markets. It highlights Kentucky’s 1800s rope industry, abaca’s rise, and jute’s impact while comparing hemp with sisal and henequin from Mexico and Africa. It emphasizes global shifts in materials for twine, sacks, and rope production.
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Washington
National Geographic Society
Philippines
Africa
Europe
Italy
America
South America
Spain
Hewneland
Virginia
Kentucky
United States
Ingland
Afanila
India
Yucatan Peninsula
Mexico
Netherland
British East Africa
Cousin Sarah Upsets Florence With Christmas Visit
Florence Gordon frets as her eccentric Cousin Sarah arrives for Christmas with Ted Anderson’s family in a Chicago bungalow. The stiff dinner loosens when Andersons join the humor, transforming a tense gathering into a strained but warmer celebration despite Florence’s worries about appearances and social judgment.
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Sarah
Llorence Gorigdon
Ted
Andersons
Robert Anderson
Anch
Shangha
Florence
Mr. Anderson
Isla Sarah
Plorence
Laurence
Tlorence
Grant Anderson
Irs
Anderson
Katharine Mann Chooses Home for Christmas in Bay Shore Village
Katharine Mann, staying home for the holidays, longs for friend Fred Aldrich though content with family cheer. Thirteen year old Prather Jack arrives with excitement for a Christmas tree quest, skating across a smooth ice to pine woods two miles away, then back to decorate their living room.
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Bay Shore
Jack
Red Aldrich
Tred
Katharine
Fred
Prather Jack
Alster
Pine Woods
Reindeer sleigh ride ends in snowy mishap and reunion
Katharine and Jack, amid a chaotic Christmas Eve ride, crash near a fisherman’s hut after a runaway sleigh crashes into a hut. Fred Aldrich reveals his city visit, while Katharine reunites with relatives and plans Christmas dinner, as the weather clears and hope returns.
City Seizes Slot Machines Dumped in Long Island Sound
New York city officials under Mayor LaGuardia and Police Commissioner Valentine recovered 1 155 slot machines dumped 109 feet deep in Long Island Sound. Values ranged from 105 to 125 dollars each, averaging 115, with total property loss over 132 824. The devices, dubbed mechanical lar ceny by the mayor, had funded a lucrative racket before being seized.
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LaGuardia
Valentine
Pire
Mel Wigot
Long Island Sound
New Yorks
Maschineas
Aledges
Cudsworth
Ratice Pension Fund
Fisherman stabbed by ghost in Calcutta ordeal
A Calcutta fisherman is hospitalized with a serious neck wound claiming a ghost inflicted the stabbing. He says his wife and sister in law, dead two years, haunt the house and have spoken to him. He reports a sister in law’s phantom blew out the light and left him to starve. Doctors fear he may not survive.
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Calcutta
Reverence in Journalism Dept Inspires Controversy
A university journalism excerpt criticizes women reporters as lazy in a controversial take tied to a new book. The piece shifts to a social note at Larchmont Shore Club, describing two large yachts, Corsair owned by J Morgan and Hussar VW Fluflona, docking in Long Island Sound, with night silhouettes and riding lights forming a vivid scene.
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T'S
Larchmont Shore Club
Anohor
Long Island Sound
J Morgan
Fashion show highlights at Booster Nite event
Male members of Kay Cannan Grane modeled the latest feminine gowns and hats at the Booster Nite fashion show in New Cannan Conn. They were allowed to wear their own shoes after struggles to fit into smaller footwear.
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New Cannan Conn
Kay Cannan Grane
Christmas in Christ's Land Without Snow
Christmas in Christ's Land features no street decorations and quiet shopping, with Christmas observed in churches and a focus on the Holy Sepulchre in the old city. The article notes no snow, busy mail, and a visit to a Feat church south of the city commemorating Jesus’ birthplace and the growth of Christianity.
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Christ’s Land
Christa
Oficey
Christ
Jesus
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China
Shen Aung
Antesa
Cucuta
Republic of Colombia
Philadelphia
Stobert Green
Green
Harry Baker
Savahs
Katherine
Sherman
Italan
Ala
Katharine Mann
Santa
Comet J
Ilitzen
Martha Panning Thoms
Dirk
Jack Ansered
Fred Aldrich
Leta
Creda
Kat Trea
Western Newspaper Union
Ligh’ Sc
New York
L. L. Stevenson
FaQuardia
Sears
Con Fresa
Department of Commerce
Trott & Pree
New York University
Los Inza
Stanley Walker
The
Herald Tribune
Spuben
Ritchie
Nice
Albert GC
Rtitchie
Sir Nice i
Sfih
University
Tdttor
Gel & Odicate
Ar Bap
Theo Aspa Aea
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