Fleming's Comeback Plan Brings Family Troubles
Burton Fleming, a civil engineer, yearns for wealth through an interurban electric road. His wife Alice and father‑in‑law Old Williams appear supportive yet enabling, with Fleming sacrificing savings to push his dream. A night of drinking with Williams leads to a reckless idea: Williams may finance the project, sparing Fleming from further ruin while easing family embarrassment.
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Burton Fleming
Alice
Old Williams
Fleming
Shylock
Flemings
West
Burton
Old Williamsa
Burt
Weming
Houseman
Handy match receiver keeps Bobbs home neat
A quirky feature in Mr. Bobbs' new house is a homemade match receiver hanging over the piano. Mrs. Bobbs crafted it to catch spent matches, preventing floor fires. The owner demonstrates its use by scratching a match, placing it in the device, and returning the ladder and piano to normal placement. This ritual, he says, promotes neatness and discourages smoking.
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Caer
Weather vane on Seamen's Institute building New York
The Seamen's Institute on South Street New York features a weather vane shaped as a three mast schooner. The vessel design reflects modern sailing craft with only the mizzen sail set to keep the figure facing the wind. It is likely the only weather vane of this kind in New York.
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Seamen's Institute
South Street
New York City
New York
Don’t Think Your Meal Is Drying Up
A New York Times spectator column humorously argues diners should avoid thinking aloud before ordering. It suggests clearly stating what you want to speed service and prevent delays caused by uncertain decisions.
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Sald
New York, Times
Good Roads and Fair Taxation for Highways
The piece argues state backed road funding should come from the general public, not just towns. It notes urban traffic exceeds local road use, cites Illinois property shares, and endorses state county and town cost sharing, praising New York’s three tier split as fair and workable.
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Ilinois
New York
Preparing soil for beautiful flowers with fallowed depth
To insure beautiful flowers the soil should be spaded to eight or ten inches early and left to crumble with air and showers. Pulverize with a sharp toothed iron rake, apply manure such as barnyard or bone meal, and work it in thoroughly. If poor, apply more later. mix first, then surface-scratch if needed.
Tobacco tax fund for national highways proposal
Representative Warburton of Washington introduces a bill to tax tobacco consumption to finance a nationwide system of highways. The plan would set a small levy on tobacco users, with trunk routes linking state capitals, the national capital, and national parks. Estimated annual revenue would reach about $80 million, doubling current federal internal revenue.
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Warburton
Washington
United States Good Roads Initiative Potential Gains
The piece estimates that US road improvement has exceeded 9 percent in three years and could reach 20 percent with targeted work. It argues improved highways would boost efficiency, save millions yearly on crop transport and wear on vehicles, and reduce waste in truck farming by enabling farmers to move perishables to markets more reliably.
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United States
Eradication of Dandelion Practices Discussed
The text discusses methods to remove dandelions and the challenge of obtaining or producing useful targets. It notes that once they become valuable, significant effort will be needed to produce them.
Crossing is Harmful to Sheep Breeding
The article warns that no flock owner can achieve success in breeding sheep for market or breeding purposes if he relies on constant crossing of two different breeds. It emphasizes maintaining breed purity and cautions against hybridization as a path to improvement.
Training Trees Into Shape For Better Fruit Growth
The article advises shaping trees by pinching buds and bending limbs during dormancy, creating fruit spurs near the trunk and along major limbs. It recommends keeping the top open for sun, performing light pruning in full leaf, and frequent summer pinching to encourage bud development and even spur distribution.
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Mirror
Harmer
Insecticide Mix for Summer Use Arsenate of Lead Rules
A summer insecticide uses eight pounds of arsenate of lead in sixty gallons of water or Bordeaux mix. The arsenate is a thick white paste that dissolves in water, adheres to foliage, and does not burn leaves. Applied against toddling moths plum curculio canker worm tent caterpillar and other leaf eating insects.
Windbreak plantings for farm wind protection
Trees for windbreaks and hedges around paddocks and farmstead improve comfort for stock and people. Willow ash and Norway poplar grow fast for windbreaks while hackberry and evergreen spruces provide slower growing but longer lasting screens.
Value of Apple Crop Across United States
A historical note estimates the apple crop bears over two hundred trillion apples in bearing and nonbearing ages with an annual value around eighty three pullion dollars. The figures reflect broad agricultural value rather than current market specifics.
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United States
Saturday Half Holiday Through History and Law
The piece traces the Saturday half holiday from medieval times when eight-hour limits and noon Saturdays existed, through English statutes of Henry IV, to the revival by unions, noting bathing customs and city by city modern legislation that preserves a Saturday half day in places like New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Maryland Tennessee Virginia New Orleans and Delaware.
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Parliament
England
Henry TV
Ferdinand I
Holy Roman Empire
France
Germany
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Tennessee
Virginia
New Orleans
New Castle County
Delaware
Debating Society Question Sparks Formal Exchange
In a brief exchange, Miss Watt asks Mr. Watkins if he belongs to any debating society, and Mr. Watkins replies humorously that he is married, prompting a light moment in the proceedings.
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Miss. Watt
Mr. Watkins
Watkine—Wellver Aera
How to Be Gentle and Avoid Vulgar Familiarity
A moral essay on social conduct arguing that calling people by Christian names breeds arrogance and conflict. It contrasts true gentility with overfamiliarity, cites Cowper and a Manchester Guardian writer, and warns that premature intimacy harms reputation. It praises restraint, respect for women, and the dangers of forward youths who mock decorum.
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Saya
Manchester
England
Guardian
Tom
Harry
Jones
Robinson
Joan
Jane
Betsy
Misa
Tom Fytton
Ife
Cowper
New Use for Old Chaka Chairs on Front Steps
Do not throw away your old chairs. By cutting them down you can make them useful for the front steps. Take a saw and cut off the back legs entirely, then measure the depth of the step and cut off the front legs so they reach the next lower step. The chairs will fit on the steps and the back seats make it pleasant to air on summer evenings.
Grief and Remorse Stage Note
A stage manager directs the leading actress to portray heightened grief and remorse, insisting the heroine emit deeper suffering while Pa protests about the effort of convincing an audience that two dollars paid for the agathie play justified the emotion.
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Guffer
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