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  1. Preface

    1:22

  2. Acetylene Gas - Artificial Ice

    5:35

  3. Atlantic Cable

    6:52

  4. Atmosphere - Birth Stones

    5:51

  5. Blind - Brook Farm

    5:38

  6. Calculating Interest

    11:03

  7. Canals - Celluloid

    6:48

  8. Certified Checks - Climate and Temperature

    4:47

  9. Coal Industry - Comets

    4:58

  10. Common Measurements - Communism and Socialism

    5:09

  11. Comparative Population of the United States - Corsets

    12:31

  12. Cosmetics - Crust of the Earth

    5:19

  13. Daguerreotypes - Digestibility of Foods

    4:39

  14. Distances Between Cities in the United States

    28:46

  15. Diving Bells - Dynamite

    5:35

  16. Earth Facts - Earthquakes

    5:36

  17. Earthquake Areas of the Earth - Embezzlement

    5:47

  18. Errors of History - Esperanto

    5:00

  19. Failures - Farm Production

    11:33

  20. First Trans-Atlantic Steamship - Foretelling the Weather

    5:21

  21. Freemasonry - Grain Industry

    4:58

  22. Gravity - Great Tunnels

    4:47

  23. Hair Growers - Health

    4:03

  24. Historical Facts

    14:03

  25. Holy Grail - Insane

    6:26

  26. Iron Industry - Languages of the World

    3:26

  27. Large Cities of North America Akron, O. - Muskogee, Okla.

    11:26

  28. Large Cities of North America Nashua, N. H. - Winnipeg, Man.

    10:34

  29. Law - Liquor and Wine Industry

    8:22

  30. Literature - Moon

    5:59

  31. Mortality - Naturalization

    5:20

  32. Newspapers - Ocean Ownership

    4:50

  33. Old Time Ships - Partnership

    5:41

  34. Patent Medicines

    7:45

  35. Perpetual Motion - Pole Star

    3:29

  36. Population and Land Area of the United States - Population Per Square Mile

    22:55

  37. Porto Rico - Principal Countries of the World

    10:25

  38. Printing Presses - Pure Food

    7:33

  39. Pyramids - Roads

    6:19

  40. Round Table - Seven Deadly Sins

    4:38

  41. Seven Liberal Arts - Ship Bells

    5:55

  42. Slavery - Solar System

    6:10

  43. Some Things Worth Knowing - Spectacles and Glasses

    3:32

  44. Sporting, Speed, and Other Records - Airship Records - Endurance Records

    6:44

  45. Sporting, Speed, and Other Records - Hammer Throwing - Shot Putting Professional

    7:15

  46. Sporting, Speed, and Other Records - Skating Amateur - Walking Records Professional

    9:07

  47. Standard Time - Stars, Their Number

    4:52

  48. Star Spangled Banner - Statistics of Population United States, by States

    12:19

  49. Stature and Weights

    11:01

  50. Steam Engine - Sugar Industry

    4:30

  51. Sunday Schools - Telegraph

    5:15

  52. Telephone - Thunder

    5:07

  53. Ticket-of-Leave - Tom Thumb

    4:45

  54. To Produce Different Colors - Turbines

    5:12

  55. Type - United States Flag

    4:15

  56. United States History in Brief

    9:28

  57. University Extension - Watered Stock

    4:32

  58. Wealth of Nations - Wedding Anniversaries

    3:24

  59. Weights and Measures

    10:14

  60. What to Do in Emergencies

    4:36

  61. Accidents - Baths

    3:54

  62. Bleeding - Chilblains

    4:57

  63. Cleanliness - Diphtheria

    4:48

  64. Disinfectants - Dog Bites

    3:22

  65. Drowning

    3:58

  66. Drowning Another Method - Emergencies with Children

    3:54

  67. Emergency Medicines - Glycerin

    3:30

  68. Emergency Medicines - Peppermint - Emetics and Stimulants

    3:14

  69. Exercise - Fainting

    4:22

  70. Feeding an Invalid - Fumigating a Sick-Room

    4:17

  71. Getting Things into the Eye, Nose, Ear, etc. - Hiccoughs

    3:58

  72. How to Avoid Accidents - Neuralgia

    4:55

  73. Poison - For Poisonous Mushrooms

    5:05

  74. Pulse - Scalds and Burns

    4:17

  75. Shock or Collapse -Sore Throat

    3:44

  76. Sprains - Sunstroke

    3:37

  77. Temperature of the Body - Vomiting

    3:54

  78. Wills - Woman's Suffrage

    3:38

  79. Women Voters - Yankee Doodle

    4:32

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Common abbreviations lead into accounts of wind harps, tree planting and undersea cables in Nathaniel C. Fowler's collection of general knowledge. Published in 1913, the volume presents more than a thousand facts in language intended for ordinary readers. Academic initials, inventions, customs, geography and mathematics all appear in its opening pages. Fowler's preface stresses clear expression, and an index provides a way to find individual subjects within this wide range of material.

Later pages move through sailors' watches, advice on buying soap, planetary measurements and Civil War songs. Household concerns share the page with astronomical tables and historical information, giving the book the character of a reference shelf compressed into one volume. Readers today can examine how a writer of the period selected and explained useful knowledge. Its statistics, health guidance and racial generalizations also make it a historical document whose claims need careful judgment.

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