What Wonders From Long Distance Phone Linking Cities
A century marking feat linked San Francisco and New York by long distance telephone last week. Presidents Wilson’s voice carried clearly to both coasts with echoes to Boston and Jekyll Island, highlighting Bell and Vail. The piece credits many engineers and notes how telephones, like elevators and skyscrapers, propelled modern business and city life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
New York
Samuel FE. B
Morse
Wilson
Boston
Jekyl Island
Georgia
Alexander Graham Bell
Theodore N. Vail
Bell
Bell Company
Tire of War Sacrifices Across Nations
The piece notes war financing costs including a December Reichstag loan of 1.2 billion dollars and rumors of February March follow-on funding. It contrasts Civil War sacrifice with current European strains, speculating on European social and racial dynamics affecting support as England may deploy a large army.
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Reichstag
Springfield
Mass
Europe
Germany
England
War rhetoric shifts as supply and morale loom large
The passage argues that while Russia advances into Prussia, a crucial test awaits the war chest and public zeal. It contends Sir Edward Grey overstated victory by gold, and suggests England currently holds the greatest stock of this supposed “golden bullet.”
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Field
Russia
Prussia
Edward, Grey
England
Tillman Fears Armament Lessons From Europe War
Senator Tillman opposes hasty armament builds and warns against depending on submarine supremacy. He notes uncertainties in open versus closed formations, German siege guns, and argues for cautious policy, emphasizing preparedness without financial strain while Europe’s outcome remains unsettled.
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Tillman
Europe
Panama
Taner
City Men on the Farm and other notes on labor training
The Massachusetts Board of Agriculture debates placing city men on farms. It argues success requires training, patience, and experience, noting many city men fail when faced with outdoor work and hard labor. It urges careful selection and long term adaptation rather than benevolent rule of thumb.
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Massachusetts Board of Agricultura
Maun
Mister Sparrow Teaches Life In A Little House Of Straw
A fragment from a children's piece features Mister Sparrow answering questions about building a house high on a three story frame. The tale ends with children learning a life lesson from the bird about resilience amid storm and strife. A reader letter follows, echoing concerns of memory, knowledge, and a world in stirring times.
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Sparrow
House of Life
The
Mountain Patriarchs
The Bright Day and Old Mules in a Rural Page
A collage of quips, poems, and anecdotes from a small town page. It features Uncle Jules on The Bright Day promising smiles and film dreams, a plea to be kind to old mules, comic verses about The Spin of the Dollar and editor troubles, plus local vignettes on winter, light, and neighborhood taboos.
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Lee
Tim
Wien
Gates
Fairmount Citizen
Laat
Rogers
Ola
Ius
Minute-men myths and oddities headline brief
A collage of old notices and anecdotes features debates on the Lexington Concord militia myth, a Grand Central Palace safety exhibit with a drowning test, a Waldorf stairwell reunion story, clothing sale oddities, a tigress cage incident, a rare foot and mouth case, early gun introduction in England, and quirks about United States abbreviations, all drawn from 19th or early 20th century press items.
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Lexington
Concord
Minute-Men
Revoluton
France
New York Journal of Commerce
Grand Central Palace
James M. Booker
United States Bureau of Mines
Edna Sweeney
Boother
Viewing Grand Opera in Wartime America
War disrupts grand opera as U S audiences face lean seasons and limited productions. The piece lampoons opera as a social game, noting war drains top singers and stage spectacle, leaving only sketches, cheap seats, and mere sound for the winter.
War Readiness and Peace Themed Rhetoric Across Nations
A column blends quotes from statesmen urging heavy defense buildup with Europe’s history of armament. It cites air power, naval fleets, and taxes as safeguards, while weaving folklore and a Boston dispatch about a grave scrubber. The piece also notes a decline in whaling publications and a comic cemetery tale alongside a chilling roadside incident of a man in a hearse smoking a cigar.
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Europe
Unrest Views and Charity Efforts From New York Merchants
The Holland Letter reports Merchants' Association secretary Christy Meal estimating about 450,000 wage earners unemployed in New York City, most of them respectable, plus notes church basement workshops paying 10 cents an hour aiding workers. It covers foundations, Guggenheim and Perkins testimonies on causes, socialism, and government duty to aid idle citizens amid high living costs and industrial distress.
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Christy Meal
Merchants’ Association of
New York City
New York
Europé
Europe
Merchants’ Association
H. H. Cary
United States Steel Corporation
Mead
Fifth Avenue
Red Cross
Rockefeller
Carnegie
Sage
Daniel Guggensheim
United States
Gudeenheim
Hita
Hla
Guggenheim
Union
Perkina
George W. Perkins
Young Men's Christian Association
Perkins
Ase
Algo
Ned & Pound
Wen
Rolla
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Atlanta
Mexico
Houliday
Constitution Building
Areq
Washington
S Street
N.W
John Corrigan, Jr
Constitution
Hotaling
Broad Way
Forty-second Street
Times
Napoleon
Frank L. Soares
Ereo
Mister Sparrow
Jules
Judd Lewis
L Mouston Post
Mr. Lewis
DAS
New York Times
James Donnelly
the Waldorf
J. C. Sinclair
Gentry Mo
St. Louies
LeRoy
Smith
Philadelphia
Bill Snyder
Central Park
George Sickert
Alice
Snyder
Ebert
Arsenal Station
Fartey
Philip
Ely
Farley
Bellevue
Baltimore Sun
Hopkins
Edward IV
Duke of Burgundy
U.S
U. S. AL
U. 5
U. S.A
United States Army
States of America
U.S. A
U. S
Indianapolis
Stonehenge
George Fiton
Walt ‘Maron
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Ireland
Salisbury Plain
Mount
Ambre
Avon
Boston Dispatch
New York Sun
Orlando H. Davenport
Roxbury
Forest Hills
New Bedford Dispatch
Whalemen’s Shipping List
New Bedford
Fair Haven
Nantucket
Jefferson
Ohio
Philadelphia Record
Chapel
Will Hodge
Hodge
Sarah Stevens
Holland
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