1000 Things Worth Knowing

Narrators:Larry Wilson, Logan Lorenz, Pamela Nagami, Zozue, BettyB, Greg Giordano, Adele Pooley, Pam Jameson, Amelia Chesley, GrimsonB, Eva Staes, WilkieMills, Marta A, Foon, RussellEric

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1. Preface
2. Acetylene Gas - Artificial Ice
3. Atlantic Cable
4. Atmosphere - Birth Stones
5. Blind - Brook Farm
6. Calculating Interest
7. Canals - Celluloid
8. Certified Checks - Climate and Temperature
9. Coal Industry - Comets
10. Common Measurements - Communism and Socialism
11. Comparative Population of the United States - Corsets
12. Cosmetics - Crust of the Earth
13. Daguerreotypes - Digestibility of Foods
14. Distances Between Cities in the United States
15. Diving Bells - Dynamite
16. Earth Facts - Earthquakes
17. Earthquake Areas of the Earth - Embezzlement
18. Errors of History - Esperanto
19. Failures - Farm Production
20. First Trans-Atlantic Steamship - Foretelling the Weather
21. Freemasonry - Grain Industry
22. Gravity - Great Tunnels
23. Hair Growers - Health
24. Historical Facts
25. Holy Grail - Insane
26. Iron Industry - Languages of the World
27. Large Cities of North America Akron, O. - Muskogee, Okla.
28. Large Cities of North America Nashua, N. H. - Winnipeg, Man.
29. Law - Liquor and Wine Industry
30. Literature - Moon
31. Mortality - Naturalization
32. Newspapers - Ocean Ownership
33. Old Time Ships - Partnership
34. Patent Medicines
35. Perpetual Motion - Pole Star
36. Population and Land Area of the United States - Population Per Square Mile
37. Porto Rico - Principal Countries of the World
38. Printing Presses - Pure Food
39. Pyramids - Roads
40. Round Table - Seven Deadly Sins
41. Seven Liberal Arts - Ship Bells
42. Slavery - Solar System
43. Some Things Worth Knowing - Spectacles and Glasses
44. Sporting, Speed, and Other Records - Airship Records - Endurance Records
45. Sporting, Speed, and Other Records - Hammer Throwing - Shot Putting Professional
46. Sporting, Speed, and Other Records - Skating Amateur - Walking Records Professional
47. Standard Time - Stars, Their Number
48. Star Spangled Banner - Statistics of Population United States, by States
49. Stature and Weights
50. Steam Engine - Sugar Industry
51. Sunday Schools - Telegraph
52. Telephone - Thunder
53. Ticket-of-Leave - Tom Thumb
54. To Produce Different Colors - Turbines
55. Type - United States Flag
56. United States History in Brief
57. University Extension - Watered Stock
58. Wealth of Nations - Wedding Anniversaries
59. Weights and Measures
60. What to Do in Emergencies
61. Accidents - Baths
62. Bleeding - Chilblains
63. Cleanliness - Diphtheria
64. Disinfectants - Dog Bites
65. Drowning
66. Drowning Another Method - Emergencies with Children
67. Emergency Medicines - Glycerin
68. Emergency Medicines - Peppermint - Emetics and Stimulants
69. Exercise - Fainting
70. Feeding an Invalid - Fumigating a Sick-Room
71. Getting Things into the Eye, Nose, Ear, etc. - Hiccoughs
72. How to Avoid Accidents - Neuralgia
73. Poison - For Poisonous Mushrooms
74. Pulse - Scalds and Burns
75. Shock or Collapse -Sore Throat
76. Sprains - Sunstroke
77. Temperature of the Body - Vomiting
78. Wills - Woman's Suffrage
79. Women Voters - Yankee Doodle

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Part almanac, part encyclopedia, part dictionary, Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. gives us his idea of important, but sometimes obscure, facts that he thinks should be in our bank of general knowledge. He includes a large section on medical emergency and health. Items are arranged in alphabetical order, so there is no logical presentation, but reference is made easy. Or, it is just interesting browsing, and a glimpse into the world of the early twentieth century. - Summary by Larry Wilson

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