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War cartoons Title: War cartoons Author: John Francis Knott Release Date: July 8, 2022 [EBook #68473] Language: English Original Publication: US: , United States: John F. Knott,1918. Credits: Brian Coe, Brian Wilsden and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced...

The slave-auctionThe Nineteenth Century is generally believed to be an enlightened one. Great discoveries have been made in the fields of science. Countries which were almost unknown a century ago are now competing in art and wealth with the mother countries. Civilization has made...

Tom the telephone boy; or, The mystery of a messageMeanwhile, Tom was coming up the stairs with a rush, and when he reached the top he found his mother in the hall waiting for him. He kissed her affectionately, and then followed her into...

Fossil plants, Vol. 2: A text-book for students of botany and geologyI REGRET that pressure of other work has prevented the completion of this Volume within a reasonable time since the publication of Volume I. Had Volume II been written ten years ago, the...

French life in town and countryAmong the nations of the earth there exists no more striking contrast than that between the people of Paris and the people of France. While the capital is a political furnace, where all sorts of conflicting ideas and opinions...

Told by the ColonelFour Americans were sitting in the smoking-room of a Paris hotel. One of them was a grizzled, middle-aged man, who sat silent and apart from the others and consumed his heavy black cigar with a somewhat gloomy air. The other three...

Nick Carter Stories No. 122, January 9, 1915: The suicide; or, Nick Carter and the lost headOnto it, eh? Dont you run onto it while Im in the car, not if its a live one. You may fancy absorbing the output of an electric-lighting...

Building a championship football teamTo a few close associates who were genuinely dedicated to the game of football. These men were not only great assets to the game; they also exemplified the true American way of life. Had it not been for men like...

A collection of Latin maxims and phrases literally translated - Intended for the use of students for all legal examinationsAfter a busy and practical experience of many years the writer can now in all earnestnessas during the days of studentship he did in all...

Specifications for street roadway pavements - with instructions to inspectors on street paving workIn offering to the public a new edition of Specifications for Street Roadway Pavements the author has taken advantage of the opportunity to revise and expand somewhat the matter in the...

The Salton Sea: An account of Harriman’s fight with the Colorado RiverI desire gratefully to acknowledge my indebtedness to the Smithsonian Institution, the U. S. Reclamation Service, the U. S. Geological Survey, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the officials of the Southern...

Einstein and the universe: A popular exposition of the famous theoryThis book is not a romance. Nevertheless.... If love is, as Plato says, a soaring toward the infinite, where shall we find more love than in the impassioned curiosity which impels us, with bowed...

Entisyyden varjoJokohaman satamassa keinui keulasta pern saakka kirkkaasti valaistu amerikkalainen huvipursi. Sen ja rannan vlill kimalteli tyden kuun vlke vedenpinnalla, hipoen mustien, leveiden rantaportaiden askelmia. Itisen yn viehtysvoima ja kuutamo loivat yhdess tenhoista hohdetta nyttmlle, joka pivisin on meluisa ja riken kirjava, ja lukemattomat...

Nick Carter Stories No. 121, January 2, 1915: The call of death; or, Nick Carter's clever assistantAs sure as water runs downhill. I refer, of course, to the mechanical part of the work. I looked it over on the morning following the burglary, every...

The Rambler Club's motor carThe various adventures which have befallen Bob Somers and his fellow members of the club which the boys formed at Kingswood, Wisconsin, are related in The Rambler Club Afloat, The Rambler Clubs Winter Camp, The Rambler Club in the Mountains,...

Motley, and other poems THE LITTLE SALAMANDER THE LINNET THE SUNKEN GARDEN THE RIDDLERS MOONLIGHT THE BLIND BOY THE QUARRY MRS. GRUNDY THE TRYST ALONE EMPTY MISTRESS FELL THE GHOST THE STRANGER BETRAYAL THE CAGE THE REVENANT MUSIC THE REMONSTRANCE NOCTURNE THE EXILE THE...

Right and wrong in MassachusettsBefore bringing forward upon the stage the characters who figure in the drama, I have endeavored to make the reader acquainted with the ground on which the different scenes were to be acted. The position of New England in 1829,...

The jet jockeysThere was something in the way that little Venusian fire dancer looked at me when I passed her on my way down the ramp to the rocket racks to get Suvia Jalmin's shiny Space Midget that started me thinking. This jet burn...

The deadly dust[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Thrilling Wonder Stories August 1947. By Murray Leinster (William Fitzgerald Jenkins) writing as William Fitzgerald. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] A sturdy, small fishing-boat...

Whale hunting with gun and camera - A naturalist's account of the modern shore-whaling industry, of whales and their habits, and of hunting experiences in various parts of the worldAlthough the commercial products of whales have contributed largely to the comfort and welfare of...