Rockefeller Gifts Total Vast Education Funds
The article details John D. Rockefeller's gifts to the General Education Board totaling $59,000,000 and his overall known philanthropy reaching about $120,000,000 with estimates exceeding $135,000,000 when including unknown gifts. It compares $10,000,000 gifts to the value of homes and notes Gates's $16,000,000 gift, while citing wealth estimates and the impact on American colleges nationwide.
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General Education Board
Frederick T. Gates
Brooklyn
Rockefeller
United States
New York World
D. Rockefeller
Matrimonial Diary Raises Divorce Trial Questions
The piece argues diaries kept by spouses in divorce cases reveal how trust erodes and warn against diaries dating from marriage. It notes harm in recording every act and cautions about diaries fueling malice and renewed marital strife.
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Ben
Tongs of Chinatown Quarrel Mentioned in Hohemian Rant
A fragmentary report labels San Francisco Chinatown tongs as formed by "highbioders" with names Ping Kong Sing Hop Sing Bo On Bo Leung Suey On Quong Twek Hip Hip Sing Suey Ying and asserts they have no quarrel with the new Chinatown area.
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New York
Hop Sng Tong
Suey Sing Tong
Chinatown
San Francisco
Ping Kong
Buey Sing
Hop Sing
Bo On
Bo Leung
Suey On
Quong Twek
Suey Ying
Missouri Pipe Production In 1908 Reaches Millions
Missouri State Bureau of Labor and Statistics reports 24,071,460 cob pipes produced in 1908 across seven factories. Franklin county led with 28,268,096 pipes, plus 415,214 wooden pipes and 1,729,350 extra stems. Total product value 481,810 dollars. Franklin county contributed 401,043. Wages topped 128.29 dollars. 303 men and 63 women employed.
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Missouri
Missouri State Bureau of Labor
Franklin County
Mone
Franklin County County
United States
St Lovle
Suited to the Price in Insane Asylum Inquiry
A Baltimore American report quotes a committee chairman shouting about management at an insane asylum. The superintendent pleads for caution as the investigation unfolds.
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Baltimore
Tact and Talent Honored by Preferment in London Aiting
A London tribute notes that tact earns favor while talent wields influence. The piece praises tact guiding talent toward approbation and stable advancement, asserting careful conduct shapes recognition and advancement in society.
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London
Phrase on chores shows delays in daily tasks
The Los Angeles Express quotes Said Uncle Silas noting it takes nine women longer to enter a bus or shop than it takes him to pack for a six month vacation. The remark frames men and women’s routines as a humorous comparison.
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Silas
Los Angeles Express
Remarkable Afghan caravan to bring roads and machines
The Ameer of Afghanistan plans a nationwide road network aided by ten elephants transporting a steam roller a motor car a stone crushing machine and a motor boat to Cabul The car and road system will let him tour distant provinces quickly and may replace months with days for travel
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Ameer
Afghanistan
Claman
Catul
Cabul
Fair Womanhood in Dantean Verse
The passage extols a woman’s gentle grace and radiant beauty that silences onlookers. It praises her modesty and elevated presence, suggesting a vision that evokes divine inspiration and tender feeling from those who observe her. Dante is cited as the source of this exalted view.
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Dante
Heroic river rescue sparks engagement in Brownsville tale
In Brownsville a staged river rescue by Mindil Phillipstein and Pincus Cohen ends with Miss Rose Goldwasser praising Phillipstein as hero. Cohen saves bystander, then Prince Phillipstein uses feigned peril to win admiration. Engagement announced a month later in New York Telegraph.
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Mindil Phillipstein
Mindil
Pincus
Herr Einstein
Pincus Leben
Pincus Cohen
Hoe
Rosenstein Minera and Sappers’ Corps
State National Guard
Ignatz
Sarah Minzer
Iver
East River
Dea
Mr. Philipstein
Brownsville
College Point
Eisenstein
Miss Goldwasser
Mr. Cohen
Misa Goldwasser
Mr. Phillipstein
Conaardice
Bure
Mr.Phillipstein
Miss Rose Goldwasser
Mindie Phillipstein
New York Telegraph
Ladies Window and the Secrets of General Delivery
A dramatic portrait of the nations post offices general delivery window titled Ladies Window, revealing varied truths as letters pass unseen. It depicts cases from schoolgirls awaiting letters to a wealthy wife using the window to veil affairs and a cautious woman fearing police surveillance.
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Herp
Bess
Weenan
Eso
Ag Gres
Trumpet Calls and a Moral Gripe on Personal Faith
A rural admonition column rails against hypocritical religion and moral laxity. It mocks reliance on a spouse’s faith, stresses backbone in scripture, warns against wasting time splitting hairs, and urges personal integrity over public preaching. The piece also lampoons attention to others’ faults while ignoring one’s own.
Drowning Myths Debunked By Swim Experts
A New York Press writer reassures bathers that drowning is rare when calm and proper technique are used. He notes cramps often scare swimmers but rarely prove fatal, and advises relaxing, not exhausting, and floating on the back until rescue.
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Saya
New York Press
Sun's Heat Will End World, Scientist Says
A famous scientist lecturing on solar heat declares the sun will exhaust its energy in millions of years and life on Earth will end, provoking an audience member to ask the time frame. The professor replies seven million years, prompting a brief correction.
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Success Magazine
The Craving for Sugar in Children
The article contrasts sugar craving with appetites for sour, acid, vinegar, alcohol, and other luxuries. It argues sugar is a real food with high value and quick absorbability, noting children reduce sugar cravings when diet is balanced, while no child is born with a taste for alcohol tea coffee or tobacco.
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