A Patchwork Echoes of News and Opinion from Athena Press
A column riffes on politics, industry, and culture featuring remarks by J. B. Boyd and reflections on ships, paper textiles, and the six pointed star in U S heraldry. It notes Shaw and Harriman, Peary, and Maybrick while musing on divorce, aviation, and future labor.
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Shortage of able Protestant preachers calls for renewed appeal
An editorial in a religious monthly argues that Protestant ministry attracts fewer able youths due to easy education paths, rising secular competition, and reduced prestige. It notes free tuition and stipends lure but fail to draw energetic students, while ministers face lower pay, creeds, and crowded platforms against modern media and books.
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Walt
Irish Emigration to America Reaches Immense Scale
Erin surveys mass Irish migration to the United States from 1840 onward, noting 2 million arrivals 1840–60, 1 million 1860–80, and another 1 million since 1880, with 5 million total. Twelve agricultural states hold a quarter, yet many Irish settled in towns and industries in the East, challenging farming demographics.
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Mystery of Boy Pocket Turns Up a Hoard of Odd Items
A New York Times report recounts a 12 year old pupil forced to empty pockets after a marble dropped revealing a cache of 110 items. The haul includes copper wires, purses, transfers, a live mouse, marbles, cards, screws, buttons, and several odd curios, illustrating the far reach of a schoolyard collection.
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New York Times
Rare Skeleton Found by Museum Team in Wyoming
A skeleton of a loxolophodon, a large mammal likened to a mix of elephant and rhinoceros, was unearthed in southern Wyoming by a museum expedition led by Professor Walter Granger. The find includes about 100 species from Washakie, Bridges, and Wahsatch basins, noted alongside other prehistoric mammals and fossils.
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