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Identifier: stnicholasserial4721dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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avy Daniels, at Washington.The message went to him because the stationwas set up by the United States Navy and turnedover to the French Government for operation. The dispatch was: This is the first wirelessmessage to be heard round the world, and marksa milestone on the road of scientific achievement. Secretary Daniels sent congratulations, andsaid: We are happy to recognize in this powerfulsignal a symbol of that force and sympatheticunderstanding with which the voice of Franceshall be heard by its sister republic. The new wireless has a radius of 12,000 miles;and 12,000 miles east and 12,000 miles westmeasure about the whole circumference of thisterrestrial ball. BOY SCOUTS ABROAD Perhaps this ought to be the longest piece in thisWatch Tower; as I begin to write it, I imagineit will really be one of the shortest. For—who isman enough to try to tell our young folks thestory of that famous Jamboree? Scouts from twenty-one nations assembled atLondon. .And—the Yanks were there! Such
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(Jeutral Wewb THE STATUE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN PARLIAMENTSQUARE, LONDON an experience will make every boy who shared ita force in later years on the side of friendshipamong the nations. While the Jamboree was going on, a statue ofLincoln, by the American sculptor Augustus St.Gaudens, was unveiled in Parliament Square,London. The English people paid it high honor. It will be a sad day for the world if Englandand America ever cease to be friends. THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN With October, the campaign gets into full swing.The skirmishing is over, the battle is on. Cox and Harding, and the armies of oratorsthey lead, are i)utting the arguments before thepeople; and the people are listening, grantingthis and denying that, weighing one statement THE WATCH TOWER 1131 against another, and making up their minds.Next month we shall stop guessing, and know. A large part of the debate is politics and nothingmore. Many charges and counter-charges aremade that dont amount to much more thansmoke, so f

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