Each of these 11 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
Sarah Chancey (1845-), an American author, better known by her pseudonym of Susan Coolidge. She has written stories and poems for children as well as books for older people. What Katy Did and What Katy Did at School are among her most popular stories.
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CONSTANCE born in Claremont , N. H., March 5, 1848. Her principal books are: "Castle No where" (1875); "Rodman the Keeper" (1880); "Anne" ( 1882); "For the Major" (1883); "East Angels" (1886); "Jupiter Lights" (1889 ); "Horace Chase" (1894); "The Front Yard, and Other Italian Stories" (1895 ). She died in Venice in January, 1894.
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a town and county of Kent, on the Thames, 8 miles parliamentary borough of England , 3 miles along the river, and owes its imbelow London Bridge. It stretches about portance to the great arsenal, which has of gun and carriage factories, laboraa circumference of 4 miles, and consists tory, barracks, ordnance departments, etc. At North Woolwich, on the oprosite side of the river, many houses and extensive factories have of late years sprung up. Pop. about 120,000.
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FRANK W., an American merchant, born at Rodman, N. education and also attended a business Y., in 1852. He received a public school college. After serving an apprenticeship New York, he conceived the idea of as clerk in stores in various cities in establishing a store in New York in which no article should sell for more than 5c. He opened such a store in Utica , ter, Pa., in the same year, where he N. Y., in 1879, but removed to Lancasopened a similar store. He opened stores in various cities, until before his death they numbered over 1,000 in the Britain. These were controlled by the United States , and about 75 in Great Woolworth corporation, of which he was for either 5 or 10c. The stores were president. The articles in his stores sold exceedingly profitable and he became the possessor of a large fortune. He built the Woolworth building, at the time of its construction the highest in the world, died in 1919. on lower Broadway, New York City. He
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a city in Providence co., R. I.; on the Blackstone river, and on the New England, and the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads, 16 miles N. by W. of Providence. It contains a public library, churches of the principal denominations, a high school, Soldiers' Monument, fair grounds, waterworks, electric lights, National and savings banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. A bridge here crosses the river, besides numerous others. The city is the trading center of northern Rhode Island and adjoining Massachusetts towns. The prosperity of the city is chiefly due to its industries. It has large manufactories of cotton cloth, woolen and worsted mills, rubber shoe factories, knit goods, wringers, mill and general machinery, boxes, rubber boots, harness pads, etc. Pop. (1910) 38,125; (1920) 43,496.
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now generally called curara, obtained from the Etrychnos toxifera, and used by the South American Indians as an arrow poison. An alcoholic extract, called curara or curarin, is obtained from the crude woorali, which is in commerce a black-brown resinous mass, soluble in water, but slightly so in alcohol. The alcoholic extract, obtained by Roulin and Boussingault in 1828, was a solid transparent mass, of an excessively bitter taste, and possessed all the virulence of the woorali poison. The woorali poison contains no strychnine, but belongs to the narcotic rather than to the tetanic poisons. It is extremely virulent and rapid in its action, so much so that a large animal may be killed by a poisoned arrow in five minutes, and it may retain all its properties for an indefinite length of time if kept dry.
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a city and county-seat of Wayne co., O.; on Killbuck creek, and on the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore and Ohio railroads; 25 miles W. of Massillon. It is in an agricultural section. Here are Wooster University (Presb.), the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, a high school, court house, electric lights, waterworks, National and other banks, and daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. It has manufactories of doors, sashes and blinds, carriages and wagons paving brick, harness, furniture, flour, mill gearing, boilers, engines, pianos, etc. Pop. (1910) 6,136; (1920)
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a coeducational institution in Wooster, O.; found ed in 1866 under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 41; students, 671; president, Chas. F. Wishart, D. D.
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a part of Oxford University; founded in 1714, out of the older older Gloucester Hall, by Sir Thomas Cookes, for a provost, six fellows, and six scholars. Of the fellows four, of the scholars five, must be sons of clergymen, needing support at the universities, and six of the remaining scholarships are for scholars of Bromsgrove School. WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC IN- STITUTE, a technical non-sectarian institution in Worcester, Mass.; founded in 1865; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, about 50; students, about 600; president, Ira N. Hollis, Sc. D.
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WYNKYN DE, an English printer; born probably in Lorraine. It is not known when he entered Caxton's service, but most likely it was at a very early age, as he was still living in 1535. In 1491 he succeeded to the stock-intrade of his deceased master, but he did not append his name to his books till 1493. From about 1502 onward he worked in Fleet Street, London, at the sign of the Sun. He used on his books many varieties of Caxton's "mark," and Mr. Blades gives as many as 14 variant forms of his own name. Wynkyn de Worde made great improvements in the art of printing, and especially in that of type cutting. The books printed by him-408 in number, according to the list in Diblin's edition (1810) of Joseph Ames' "Typographical Antiquities" - are generally distinguished by their neatness and elegance, hardly by their accuracy, nor, a Vol. X 27 their contents.
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JOHN LORIMER, an American naval officer; born in Sing Sing (now Ossining), Westchester co., N. Y., March 12, 1818; was appointed a midshipman in the navy, Jan. 10, 1834. At the beginning of the Civil War he was captured by the Confederates, and after being held seven months was exchanged. He was ordered to the command of John Ericsson's "Monitor" which armed with two 11-inch was smooth-bore Dahlgren guns, carrying a shot of 168 pounds, and which left New York March 6, 1862. He arrived at Hampton Roads on the evening of the 8th, after the iron-clad "Merrimac" had destroyed the wooden frigates "Cumberland" and "Congress." On the morning of the 9th a memorable battle was fought by the "Merrimac" and "Monitor," the former of which was partly disabled and abandoned the fight, after several violent collisions with the "Monitor." He was promoted commander in 1862, captain in 1863; and commanded the iron-clad "Montauk" in the operations against Fort Sumter in April of that year. In June, 1868, he was promoted commodore, and in 1872 rearadmiral. He was superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1870- 1874; commander-in-chief of the European squadron in 1875-1877; and was retired, at his own request, with full sea pay, Dec. 23, 1886. He died in Washington, D. C., Oct. 18, 1897.
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