Bread and flour health study from home health notes
The article summarizes 1897 studies on bread making and flour types, contrasting white straight grade flour with graham and whole wheat. It notes white flour digests more fully, yields more usable energy, and is cheaper, while whole grains offer nutrition with slightly lower digestibility. It discusses bran and germ effects, varied bread outcomes, and continued research on mineral digestibility and nutrition. It also includes club notes addressing a reader’s dyspepsia with advice on chewing, digestion, and dietary habits.
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West Chazy
David H. Reeder
Laporte
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Pope Pius XI jokes on trains and robes during audience
The pope entertains visitors with humor about women’s skirts and the inconvenience of train bells. He notes trains on cassocks are unhygienic and mimics a lady by lifting his robe to illustrate the point. The exchange shows his playful, candid style in private audience.
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Pius XI
City Rebuilt Fifty-Seven Times in Herat
Herat in Afghanistan has suffered the most destruction with fifty six ruins and fifty seven rebuilds, a cycle of devastation and renewal that marks the city’s persistent resilience through history.
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Herat
Afghanistan
The Simplest Mouse Trap Yet Devised
A quick home mousetrap uses a bottle mouth with a board or cardboard leading to cheese crumbs. Large bits are dropped in to attract a mouse, forming a simple improvised trigger system for capture.
A Simple Mouse Trap Using a Bottle
A reader explains a cheap mouse trap using an old bottle with a mouth about an inch and a half wide. Place the bottle tilted as shown. a mouse enters for bait but cannot climb out as the smooth glass offers no grip for its claws.
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Chicago Inter Ocean
The Rainbow As Water Pump Across Cultures
A fragment excerpt posits the rainbow as a legendary water conduit in diverse cultures. It cites Russia, Hungary, Malaya, Greece, and Turkey, describing beliefs that the bow drinks, drains wells, or changes sex upon touching its end, with notes from Golden Days.
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Don
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Hungary
Chaikov
Saratov
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Greece
Gossip on Marietta in Dolly Varden dress
A fragmentary gossip note mocks Marietta in a Dolly Varden dress as vain and self important. The column suggests she believes she is superior to others and implies feathers do not prove quality.
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Marietta
Make a Compound Pulley for a Penny Card
A six wheel compound pulley project costs three cents for screw hooks and simple materials. Steps include cutting spools to form wheels, drilling axle holes in strips, assembling with blocks and glue, and attaching a cord loop to raise objects from a high point. The Washington Star notes larger multi wheel pulleys are possible and compares their work.
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Washington Star
Confederate generals killed in battle data reveal high casualty rate
Archival data compiled by Maj. Gen. Ainsworth through the Army and Navy Journal shows 74 of 415 Confederate generals killed or mortally wounded in action across 1861–65, an 18 percent rate. Comparisons note higher general officer losses in the Confederacy than among Russian and Japanese forces in Manchuria, with casualties among Union generals also documented.
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War Department
Ainsworth
Army and Navy Journal
Manchuria
Far East
Biles
Grant
Fredericksburg
Minnesota
Gettysburg
Williamsburg
Arkansas Post
France
A Cool Commander and Lincoln Anecdotes
Anecdotes praise Col Thomas for front-line bravery at Bisland and his steady Vermont leadership. Lincoln humor and a Butterfeld memorial are cited as examples of leadership under fire. The piece notes 33,580 ex soldiers found permanent work in Great Britain in recent years.
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Bisland
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Memorial Tablet honors Ranger and crew from Portsmouth
A granite tablet two by three feet on a six foot shaft marks the story of the Ranger and its crew. Erected near the Portsmouth Dover York street railway ferry landing, it pledges daily visibility to readers nationwide. The tale recounts Gen Wilmon W Blackmar saving a life in battle after a dramatic exchange with a mysterious stranger.
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Wilmon W. Blackmar
Gove
kUlei
Bostor Herald
Wallace’s Regiment Story Reveals Early War Numbers
Col. R W Holloway recounts to the Indianapolis News an incident from the Civil War about Indiana regiments and Gen. Lew Wallace. To avoid duplicating Mexican War numbers, six was chosen as the inaugural regimental number, with Wallace briefly considering eleven. The Eleventh Indiana became renowned for drill, discipline, and providing officers and leaders to multiple units.
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R W. Holloway
United States
Halifax
N. Y
Gov. Morton
Indianapolis
Lew Wallace
Indiana
State of Indians
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Wallace
Gov. Mortor
Lot
Todlana
Union
In Memory of the Ranger Tablet Unveiled on Badgers Island
The ceremony at Portsmouth marked the bronze tablet on Badgers Island where the continental sloop Ranger was built in 1777 under Captain John Paul Jones. Ranger sailed to France in 1777 carrying news of Burgoyne's surrender. The tablet cost $150, funded jointly by Massachusetts and local groups.
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Ranger
Portsmouth
John Paul Jones
France
Burgoyne
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