The Textile History of Clothing and New Fibers
A compact survey tracing humanity gains from skins to fibers pulsing through wool flax silk and rayon. It notes wool shrinkage fixes with soap and the new chlorine-based process for unshrinking wool, plus castor oil and coal fibers and casein wool substitutes. It also mentions salt's role in life, a wireless electric treatment to keep salt free flowing, and lists local notices and marriages from a 1909 issue.
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Mongolia
War Department
News of Earlier Days March 5 1919 items recap
John Thorson, brother of Mrs. Geo Shadle, returns from France. Mrs James Rainey and daughter back from Chicago visiting Rainey’s mother. Inez Sauer becomes Estherville post office clerk. W A Beymer in Chicago buying stock. Mr and Mrs J E Stockdale spend days in Des Moines. Gladys Kaiser returns to Strube Brother’s Music Store. Emmet county residents attend Iowa picnic in Los Angeles: Lou Woods, R E Ridhey and sister.
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Vindicator
Republican
Robert Penn
A. E. Loucks
Iowa Savings Bank
C. C. Lindsey
Lindsey and Warner
Fred Barstow
Barstow and Warner
J. H. Griffith
W. W. Howard
Company D
Spencer
Armory
H. H. Fosdal
Luella
Northfield
Harry
C. P. Turner
Colfax
Wm. Turner
Victoria Hotel
C. E. Person
Texas
Chas. Lyons
Nelle Nicholson
Denver
John Thorson
Geo. Shadle
France
James Rainey
Chicago
Rainey
Inez Sauer
Estherville
W. A. Beymer
J. E. Stockdale
Des Moines
Gladys Kaiser
Fort Dodge
Strube Brother’s Music Store
Emmet County
Iowa
Los Angeles
Lou Woods
R. E. Ridhey
Sis
Belgian engineer unveils seven ton clock with 144 dials
Edgard Wheirman, a 19 year old Belgian engineer in Brussels, has built a clock weighing seven tons featuring 144 dials. It records time, day, week, month, season, and year with a leap year device, and shows sunrise and sunset, daylight hours, and tides. The inventor plans future dials for moon phases and planets.
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Edgard Wheirman
Brussels
Hospitals Through the Ages in Asia and Europe
The article traces early hospital origins in Ceylon under Duttha Gamani and Persian exchanges, noting the transfer of medical knowledge and chess as a side link. It covers Asoka’s animal hospitals, Greek and Roman sanitary facilities, Charlemagne’s duty to care for the poor, and the rise of major medieval and Renaissance hospitals across Europe, including Constantinople and Venice.
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Ceylon
B. C
Duttha
Gamani
India
Christ
Asoka
Turkey
Greece
Rome
Europe
Lyons
France
Charlemagne
Italy
Germany
Venice
It’s Smart to Drive Carefully Tires Tips
Check your tires frequently. Keep them at the right pressure. Underinflation wears tires and makes wheels shimmy. Overinflated tires give a hard ride. You can’t tell by kicking. Use a gauge to be sure. It’s Smart to Drive Carefully.
Hard Work and Monkey Business in Courtroom Gossip
A man charged with murder bribes a juror to push a manslaughter verdict, the juror recalls the long deliberation and the other jurors voting for acquittal. Meanwhile Harry Hopkins stays busy with business ties, prompting whispers of “monkey business.” The New York District Attorney is seen as rising to hero status similar to Dewey.
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Harry Hopkins
New
Alice in Wonderland and the man behind the tale
A shy Oxford math tutor known as Reverend or Professor Dodgson wrote Alice in Wonderland after a Thames boat ride with three girls. He published it as Lewis Carroll, despite initial reluctance, and the tale became a global hit with 169 English editions and enduring fame.
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Thames River
England
Dodgson
Reverend Dodgson
Professor Dodgson
Oxford University
Thames
Wonderland
Alice
Lewis Carroll
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Frank Parker Stocker
Idoe
Irving Finley
Whitmore
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Constantinople
Dale Carnegie
Rev
Chas.l. Dodgson
Tennessee
Timbuctu
Alice In Wonder
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