Riches to be developed from shale oil potential
The United States shale oil idea mirrors Scotland where the industry employs many men. Colorado shale is praised for greater thickness and richness potentially yielding twenty billion barrels of crude oil and about two billion barrels of gasoline. Distillation costs hinder US development, but shale gas and ammonia by products could support future fertilizer and chemical uses.
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United States
Scotland
Colorado
Utah
Elephant eared sunfish nets Palm Beach record catch
Ambrose Monnell Jr president of Midvale Steel harpooned an elephant eared sunfish in the Gulf Stream near Palm Beach the oddest fish ever taken in American waters weighing about a ton. Authorities Crimmins and Magill call it an ancient African native species with ear-like fins and emery-like hide and the American Museum of Natural History requested a plaster cast and brain for study.
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American
Gulf Stream
Ambrose Monnell, Jr
Midvale Steel Company
John D. Crimmins
New York
F. B. Magill
Cincinnati
American Museum of Natural History
Music at Cleaners Improves Work Pace in Cin cinnati
A Cincinnati dry cleaners installs numerous phonographs to play lively music throughout the day. Records are chosen to avoid funeral or dreamy tunes while workers sing along. The theory holds that music makes employees happier and more productive, boosting output.
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Cincinnati
Popular Science Monthly
Orting Passes Cow at Large Ordinance and Banished
The town of Orting allows one cow per family to run at large by day for a 50 cent annual license and one cow at large by night per family. Destructive cows may be banished from the streets, and residents warned by Officer Gilliland for excess livestock.
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Orting
Ofcer Gilliland
Women and Children Who Work in This Country
Report claims 5,000,000 women earn livelihoods. 90 percent of widows lack home comforts, 32 percent lack life necessities as many men die intestate. About 2,000,000 children under sixteen are forced to work. Also a dialogue about family insanity and confinement.
Wood durability hinges on tylose content in timber
The article explains that tylose fills wood pores, blocking decay. White oak contains tylose, sealing pores and lasting longer as barrel staves or fence posts, unlike red oak. Preservatives penetrate some woods better than others, with tylose-rich woods resisting treatment and decay.
Building the National Life and Customs Across America
Harrison Rhodes argues that American holiday life has reached cosmopolitan vigor and supports international peace. The piece notes Americans adopt foreign dining and home practices, with English servants and Italian cooks, blending manners across classes. It also reports trouble at the New York Customhouse, where echoes in the rotunda distort speech and challenge communication.
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Harrison Rhodes
America
Mr. Rhodes
Britain
Customhouse
New York Customhouse
Rotunda
The Cost and Call of War on Character
The piece argues war offers heroic chances to ordinary and exceptional men, acknowledging the fearful price paid by others. It praises the transformative effect of war on minds from cynicism to sacrifice, citing W T Tucker in Atlantic as witness to those experiencing the ordeal.
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W. T. Tucker
Atlantic
Bullets Found Embedded in Walnut Gunstocks at Eddystone Plant
A Philadelphia area plant turning gunstocks for allies reports bullets embedded in rough walnut stocks. Stocks arrive from western and southern sources and are stored in a large dry kiln. The bullets may date back to past conflicts between settlers and Native Americans, suggesting long-sealed relics within timber.
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Eddystone
Pheasant Death On Rochester Trolley Sparks Scare
A Rochester trolley car faced a pheasant crash when a bird flew through a window and killed itself, causing fear among passengers. The conductor, avoiding contact, used a stove poker to push the carcass from the car as officials weighed the incident.
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Dean Bird
Rochester
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