A soldier saved himself from a shipwreck using a pillow-slip
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Title (Dublin Core)
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A soldier saved himself from a shipwreck using a pillow-slip
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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In Case of Shipwreck Grab a Pillow-Slip
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a man attired in regulation army
uniform, with a rifleand eartridge-
belt, appears at Palm Beach. Holding
a pillow-case in his hand, he wades out
from the shore. He dips the pillow-
case into the water, whirls it about his
head, and thus fills it with air. Then
he twists the mouth of the slip. Lo!
he has a life-preserver, inflated and
ready for use.
He places his rifle across the pillow-
slip and propels himself through the
water at a fair speed merely by kicking
in the usual swimmer fashion. The
supporting qualities of this improvised
preserver buoy up the man and his
gun, when at rest, without swimming
movements. After floating about for
fifteen minutes, the man comes ashore
and turns over his outfit to a totally
inéxperienced young man, who dupli-
cates the feat with perfect ease.
For simplicity and quick use the
pillow-slip commends itself as a
possible means of saving life. Any
camping party has a supply of pil-
lows on which to rest the weary
head, and a few experiments such
as this would be of great interest
and possibly of great use. A com-
pany of soldiers might ford a river in
this manner. Only a second is re-
quired to fill the slip with air, and
preparations are all complete.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-05
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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62
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Davide Donà
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 94, n. 5, 1919
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