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