Business Honesty as a Guide for Young Men in Trade
A miscellaneous essay by Jobi Wanamaker argues that business honesty is essential for success, requiring disciplined display and judgment. The piece contrasts honest motive and conduct with the effects of poor advertising and outlines a rigorous golden-rule approach to ethical commerce. It also quotes a statistical note on college women marrying college or professional men, with minimal health differences across classes and children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jobi Wanamaker
New York
Lfe
Joan Wanamaker
Smith
College Training Favors Woman's Marriage
A study based on the University of Chicago data updates the link between college education for women and marriage rates. It notes many graduates remain unmarried, with rising single proportions across classes, while average marriage ages differ between college and non college women and professional work influences are limited prior to marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Holland
University of
Chiago
University of Chicago
Duried
Mary Roberts Smith
Leland Stanford, Jr
Ife
Fwett
Maurites
Imagination the ozone of life and its moral aim
A defense of imagination as vital to religion and moral progress contrasts imagination with fancy. It likens imagination to the star of Bethlehem guiding seekers to Christ, while warning that perverted imagination becomes ruinous, with imagery of the ozone as essential to sustaining higher vision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Sherman
Hmerson
Tessure
Star of Bethlehem
President Elliot Opposes Women in College Athletics
Harvard President Charles W. Eliot argues that women cannot compete with men in athletics. He condemns women shot putting and boating as injurious and says women’s colleges should limit sports to moderation, insisting women cannot reach male athletic levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elliot
Harvard
Eliot
Unknown Hour of Love and Power in a Century Poem
A fragmentary poem compares time and beauty to a moment of love and divine power. The speaker contemplates an hour that neither named moment nor familiar image can define, yet asserts it as a personal, almost sacred meeting with the beloved. The piece bleeds toward a transcendent union beyond ordinary experience.
When Greek Meets A Tale Of Durham Family Feuds
In a vestibuled car a young girl claims danger from a rich Chicago father and a poor doctor fiancé. The Drake-Durham feud centers on alleged insanity, with money and power shaping the attempt to separate lovers. Years later a western-bound reunion hints at ongoing fallout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Durham
Lowell
Ioan
Jack Lowell
David Drake
Chicago
Edith
Durham
Colllege
Drake
Jove
Washington
Conductor remarks on the family visit after a stroke
A fragment from the Indianapolis Sun shows a conversation about a married couple visiting a father who suffered a stroke. The dialogue includes thanks to Mr. Lowell and a forgiving father, with light banter about Lowell being “a brick” and a remark about Greek meeting Creek.
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Lowell
Dad
Condictor
Creek
Justice and simplicity in Virginia magistrate tale
A Washington lawyer returned from the Virginia mountains recalls a Rappahannock county magistrate who balances justice with farm duties. While milking a cow, the magistrate handles a drunken arrest, orders two dollars fifty cents plus costs, and delivers a practical, plain approach to law and order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Virginia
Rappahannock County
Washington Star
Rapphanilock County
Speech Fragment Delivers Nonsense Dialogue in Fragmented Text
A garbled quotation presents Aly Polk and Mias Baril amid disjointed lines about delusion and delay. The chaotic excerpt hints at stalled work and a pun about baldness, with nonsensical phrasing and unclear context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aly
Polk
Mias Baril
Philiaselpha Press
War on Rio Grande Exploits by Rangers and Raiders
A Texas frontier veteran recounts relentless rear-guard fighting along the Rio Grande. He details clashes with Mexican rurales, cattle thieves, smugglers, and frontier desperadoes, including ambushes, raiders driven back after cross-border skirmishes, and a canyon battle that left seventy raiders dead and forty Mexicans plus ten Rangers killed.
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Alverlen
Cianth
Texas Rangers
Alain
Rio Grande
Mexico
Argentina
Ciudad Juarez
Hever
Don
Tle
South African Soldier Death Notes Cause Confusion
A misdated register entry records a soldier killed in battle later listed as dying by mistake. He died from injuries, with conflicting notes stating death by colonel’s order. The incident touches regimental record keeping and hospital treatment amid wartime confusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whigstad
Appendicitis Causes and Remedies In Odd Medical Note
Physicians contend appendicitis stems from digestive imbalance and lowered intestinal vitality. The article cites cases and studies from John Hopkins and Osler noting foreign bodies and fecal concretions as causes, with remedies including hydration and regular bowel movements and odd notes on backward walking for nerve relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonn ¥. Mitchell
Johun Mopkins Hospital
Johns Hopking Hospital
Osler
Montreal
Learning a Trade in Modern Machinist Work Told at Length
The article argues that true learning of a trade in modern machinistry is rare. It contrasts specialization to broadened skill sets, noting many shops keep workers confined to narrow tasks. It cites large shops where individuals vanish in the crowd and yearns for broader, solid training for better employment prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jines
St. Nicholas
Ready Permies on to Ank Might Lask you who owna this au tomobile
Fragmentary OCR reads a pompous citizen questioning a man beside a large touring car on the pavement. The garbled text includes stray phrases about ownership and reference to Automobile Mags Nadine, yielding little coherent context.
Keon Ahead Kookie Your Work and the Inquisitive Chap
A fragmented item notes dialogue about keeping wheat in the show and an advance man’s muted reply about two weeks salary. It cites Cinehimati Wines Star Indies Exporta and states India exported 10,218,185 bushels of wheat last season. It comments on wealth and poverty arising swiftly.
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Cinehimati Wines
Indies Exporta
India
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