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...successful "specialty industries" of this year has been that devoted to the manufacture and sale of electric refrigerators. Already about 200,000 of these are employed in this country, and the old-fashioned iceman is preparing to follow the cab-driver and sperm whaler into oblivion. Most electric refrigerators still are located in ice-cream plants; not until quite recently have the smaller sizes suited for household use been extensively made or sold. The "ice interests," if such there be, have not yet expressed an opinion upon this new and formidable electrical rival. But the National Electric Light Association estimated...
...Arctic Ocean for this mysterious land in 1921, gave the island its name. He had heard about it from natives of the Siberian coast. He did not find it, however. It was probably first sighted in 1849. It has always tempted the adventurous American mariner. A U. S. whaler cruised its southern shore in 1867, and it was explored in 1881 by Capt. Hooper, who took possession of it for the U. S. and named it New Columbia...
Thomas Long, American whaler, cruised along the island in 1867, but its real discovery came in 1881, when the U. S. revenue cutter Corwin landed a search party, built a cairn, raised the American flag, made formal claim to the island in the name...
...Kate Ryan, "Old Boston Museum Days"; C. A. Straham, "Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage"; May Sinclair, "The Belfry"; August Strindberg, "Plays," 4th series; W. R. Thayer, "The Life of John Hay"; E. L. Trudeau, "An Autobiography"; E. L. Trudeau, "An Autobiography"; A. H. Verrill, "The Real Story of a Whaler"; Edith Wharton, "Fighting France"; C. E. Whitmore, "The Supernatural in Tragedy"; and Dr. H. W. Wiley, "Not by Bread Alone...