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    Plant and Process for Fireproofing Wood

    Danger in the Approaches to the Brooklyn Navy Yard

    Wireless Telegraphy to Report the Yacht Races

    The "Oceanic"

    New Ways of Using the Big Corn Crop

    Money Spent by Travelers

    Financial Problems of Cuba

    Government Aid in Forestry

    Some Calendarial Facts about the Twentieth Century

    Observations of Polaris

    News of Lieut. Peary

    A San Francisco Fire Fighter

    By Herbert I. Bennett

    An Improved Vehicle-Tire

    A Recently Invented Rotary Engine

    The Grant Roller-Bearing

    In the Path of the Porto Rican Hurricane

    The "Great Eastern" and the "Oceanic"—A Comparison

    A Novel Menu Card

    The "Shamrock" Disabled

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      Correspondence - September 23, 1889

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      Business and Personal - September 23, 1899

    • Recently Patented Inventions - September 23, 1899

    • Index of Inventions - September 23, 1899

    • Notes and Queries - September 23, 1899

    • Patents - September 23, 1889

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