Notable Figures and Affairs Highlight Early 20th Century Life
A survey of prominent figures from publishing to railroads and religion outlines J Ridgway of Everybody's Magazine as a civic athlete and clubman, General Booth’s Oxford honor and Salvation Army tours, and William Finley’s rise to Southern Railway president amid North Carolina rate disputes. The piece also notes Fairbanks family hospitality, mining strikes in Minnesota, and Governor Johnson of Wisconsin balancing reform with politics.
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William Booth
Salvation Army
Tventy
Oxford University
Oxf Yori
Mark Twain
Iso
Salvation
Bhu
Elvil Aw
Walleludah
William W. Finley
Southern Railway
North Carolina
Mr. Pinley
The
Road
Samuel Spencer
Mr. Jpley
Pass Christian
Miss
New Orleans
Jackson
Great Northern
Grent Northern
Ind Wna
Saine Road
Spencer
Finley
James 7
Great Northern Mid Inted
Hill
North Carolina Railway
Pritchard
Federal Court
A Novelist's Own Romance Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The article details Arthur Conan Doyle's approaching marriage to Miss Jean Techie of Crowborough in September after a first marriage to Miss Louisa Hawkins of Milnst erworth. It notes his career rise, World War I service as a surgeon, knighthood, and his Surrey home Frilhead filled with travel mementos, with remarks on his financial success and literary perseverance.
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Arthur Gonam Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
Fle Mirried
Louisa Hawkins
Milnsterworth
Gloucester
Doste Med
Arthur
Jean Techie
Crowborough
Kipling
Frlidhead
Surrey
Doyle
Iid
Be Bayle
Ju We
Assessor Failure Mentioned in Boston Transcript
An excerpt notes calls for compensation or reassessment of Megius' husband. A truthful wife questions his value while suggesting the city should pay him for the way he stunts her, reflecting a newspaper digression on local officials.
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Canning
Megius
Boston Transcript
Examples of a Quotation Fueled Exchange
A Washington Star quote highlights a stammering boarder and another man in a humorous dialog about the country’s growing appetite. The exchange ends with a pun on mosquitoes, reflecting satirical mood in the periodical.
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Washington Star
A Fair Nature Student Grace Gallatin Thompson Seton
Grace Gallatin Thompson Seton wife of Ernest Thompson Seton is portrayed as a talented artist and writer who favors outdoor life. The article notes President Roosevelt’s remarks on nature but questions some stories about animals tied to her husband, while praising Mrs Seton’s accomplishments and Connecticut estate background.
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Minnesota
Joh Vn
Johnson
Jobe Ras
Iles
Annally
Roosevelt
Duluth
Wisconsin
John A
St. Peter
Jounson
Grace Gallatin Thompson Seton
Roosevelt Talis
Grace Gallatin Thompsen Seton
Ernest Thompson Seton
Seton
Fife
Connecticut
Sacramento
Packer Collegiate Institute
New York
Doubleday, Page & Co
Peter Schuttler Wagon Makers Catalog Ad
For sixty five years the leading farm wagon. Send for a catalogue. Peter Schuttler Co. Chicago Ill makers. Ketchum and Gaston Co Marshallton Pa distributors.
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Peter Schuttler Co
Chicago
Ill
Ketchum & Gaston Co
Marshallton
Oregon Fruit Land Prices and Prospects in Willamette Valley
The article argues Oregon has ample idle fruit land, especially in the Willamette and Rogue River valleys, and urges converting pasture land to orchards. It cites profits from Spitzenberg trees and other yields, notes high per-acre land values now, and urges growers to overcome difficulties to capitalize on the state’s climate for apples, pears, peaches, grapes, and baring grain like tickle grass.
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Heed
Rogue River
Oregon
Une
Wilhemette Valley
Wood
Willamette Valley
Southkern
Southern Oregon
Wigh
Head River Apple Growers' Union
Oregon Experiment Station
Sheep Breeding Report Highlights Dorset Cheviot and Oxford Down Worth
A farmer outlines breeding three sheep varieties Dorset Cheviot and Oxford Down. Dorsets are described as profit makers due to early lambs with examples of eight month old lambs selling for 24 dollars per pair. Cheviots are praised for appearance and desirability for a refined flock. Oxfords are valued as show sheep favored for size and premium at fairs.
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Dorsete
Cheviots
Oxford
Donbet
New Magkind Fomestead
Monster Capybara Described as Giant Water Dweller
A historical note portrays the Brazithin capybarn as a 280 pound, stout rodent with a huge head and coarse bristly hair. It is water loving and can stay submerged for eight to ten minutes, hunted by jaguars and sometimes smoked for meat.
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Faunta
South America
Poultry Talk From Farmers Journal Advice
Poultry talk emphasizes a steady diet with whole grain and careful mash use. It notes bran keeps birds in good order and warns against overwatering feed while mentioning popcorn growers in Iowa selling at about 2.75 dollars per hundredweight and predicting satisfactory crop outcomes with high yields per acre.
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Tarm Journal
Towa
Lowa Homestead
First National Asylum for the Insane in York 1786
In 1786 William Toke a Quaker opened York s first national asylum for the insane. A few years earlier a Frenchman named Pinet devised a nonrestraint plan to restore the mentally deficient to humanity, a concept ridiculed as heresy at the time.
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William Toke
York
England
Pipet
Pinet
Also Mentioned on This Page
Everybody's Magazine
Urman J. Ridgway
Magaine
Eldizen
Ws College
Fime
Montcloir
N. J
Commonwealth Club
Madyse
Upper Monteloir
Mr. Ridgway
Muskingum County
Northwestern University
Yale
Lonors
Ivrank A. Muncey
Everybody’s Magazine
Cunalauqua
N. Y
Ridgway
Yellow Journal
British Isles
Rome
Sincs
University of Oxford
Booth
Great Britain
W. W. Fenley
Goysend
Hildah B. White
Philadelphia
Juan Fertinandes
Alexander Selkirk
Daniel Defoy
Mairbanks
Emman J. Ridgway
Governon
Joan A. Jounson
Arthur Conan Doyle and
Hia Fis Anoel
Thompson Seton
Peter Schuttler
Orchard Land
Iowa
John Matd
Young, Casnizr
WL. T
Rat
Asu'y
Cashigr
Rath’s Exchange Bank
Esta EssaisHep
Bakker
H. Lynch
Lynch & Anne
Lynch & Bannon
Ll, P. Bannon
Castor Boare
Mgnatara Anil
People of Action
Vita
Disco
Hollister
Jowan
Andrew Ratu
Ivone
Ackley
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