1000 Things Worth Knowing
by Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr.
About this book
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
Chapters (78)
1Acetylene Gas - Artificial Ice
2Atlantic Cable
3Atmosphere - Birth Stones
4Blind - Brook Farm
5Calculating Interest
6Canals - Celluloid
7Certified Checks - Climate and Temperature
8Coal Industry - Comets
9Common Measurements - Communism and Socialism
10Comparative Population of the United States - Corsets
11Cosmetics - Crust of the Earth
12Daguerreotypes - Digestibility of Foods
13Distances Between Cities in the United States
14Diving Bells - Dynamite
15Earth Facts - Earthquakes
16Earthquake Areas of the Earth - Embezzlement
17Errors of History - Esperanto
18Failures - Farm Production
19First Trans-Atlantic Steamship - Foretelling the Weather
20Freemasonry - Grain Industry
21Gravity - Great Tunnels
22Hair Growers - Health
23Historical Facts
24Holy Grail - Insane
25Iron Industry - Languages of the World
26Large Cities of North America Akron, O. - Muskogee, Okla.
27Large Cities of North America Nashua, N. H. - Winnipeg, Man.
28Law - Liquor and Wine Industry
29Literature - Moon
30Mortality - Naturalization
31Newspapers - Ocean Ownership
32Old Time Ships - Partnership
33Patent Medicines
34Perpetual Motion - Pole Star
35Population and Land Area of the United States - Population Per Square Mile
36Porto Rico - Principal Countries of the World
37Printing Presses - Pure Food
38Pyramids - Roads
39Round Table - Seven Deadly Sins
40Seven Liberal Arts - Ship Bells
41Slavery - Solar System
42Some Things Worth Knowing - Spectacles and Glasses
43Sporting, Speed, and Other Records - Airship Records - Endurance Records
44Sporting, Speed, and Other Records - Hammer Throwing - Shot Putting Professional
45Sporting, Speed, and Other Records - Skating Amateur - Walking Records Professional
46Standard Time - Stars, Their Number
47Star Spangled Banner - Statistics of Population United States, by States
48Stature and Weights
49Steam Engine - Sugar Industry
50Sunday Schools - Telegraph
51Telephone - Thunder
52Ticket-of-Leave - Tom Thumb
53To Produce Different Colors - Turbines
54Type - United States Flag
55United States History in Brief
56University Extension - Watered Stock
57Wealth of Nations - Wedding Anniversaries
58Weights and Measures
59What to Do in Emergencies
60Accidents - Baths
61Bleeding - Chilblains
62Cleanliness - Diphtheria
63Disinfectants - Dog Bites
64Drowning
65Drowning Another Method - Emergencies with Children
66Emergency Medicines - Glycerin
67Emergency Medicines - Peppermint - Emetics and Stimulants
68Exercise - Fainting
69Feeding an Invalid - Fumigating a Sick-Room
70Getting Things into the Eye, Nose, Ear, etc. - Hiccoughs
71How to Avoid Accidents - Neuralgia
72Poison - For Poisonous Mushrooms
73Pulse - Scalds and Burns
74Shock or Collapse -Sore Throat
75Sprains - Sunstroke
76Temperature of the Body - Vomiting
77Wills - Woman's Suffrage
78Women Voters - Yankee Doodle
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