New York School Grants Learning Without Rules
A New York City school runs without fixed hours, exams, or punishments, inviting children to arrive and learn by curiosity. Teachers guide via questions, using real objects and local history to spark inquiry, with focus on individual development over memorization, and parents fund the venture.
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York
New York City
East Twelfth Street
Francesco Ferrer
Mr. Coryell
Little Inquirer
Arctic Ocean
Siberia
Russia
Buenos Aires Hippodrome Bets Run Deep
Travel Magazine notes the Hippodrome, run by the Buenos Aires Jockey club, draws vast wagers from Argentinians. It cites last year’s reported 26.8 million dollars in American gold bet on races, averaging 60 pesos per person, with true totals likely much higher. The jockey club takes ten percent plus entrance and gear fees from all bets.
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Hippodrome
Buenos Aires
Jockey Club
Plight of a Sibliophile in a Paris Bookshop Tale
A tale from Curiosites Litteraires recounts a Bordeaux man chasing a sought book. He rushes by morning express to Paris, returns with the prize, and discovers he travelled 860 miles in dressing gown and slippers, unaware of his attire. The shopkeeper quips at the odd misidentity.
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Charles Monselet
Curiosites Litteraires
Lving
Boxdeaux
Paris
Bordeaux
Meadowbrook notes on farm care and feed
The farmer must have a horse. Sott corn makes an excellent late fall feed. Norst allow the ewes to get wet during the winter.
Farming Notes on Hogs Cows Sheep and Planting Practice
Practical guidance on hog care and slaughter, dairy cows milking, sheep health, and crop planting. Details cover water, sawdust use, manure, pasture, milking, feeding, breeding ages, barn sanitation, seed selection, and autumn tree planting with emphasis on thrift and efficiency for farm operations.
Attitude of Medical Men on Alcohol Use
Dr Richard C Cabot explains the changing stance of physicians toward alcohol as medicine. He notes three main roles for alcohol historically: as a quick stimulant, as heart and fever support, and as a food. The use in stimulants and heart support has fallen, while alcohol as fuel for ill health remains rare. Data from Massachusetts General Hospital show costs for alcohol drinks declining from 1898 to 1907, with overall medicine use also shrinking.
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Richard C. Cabot
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
Cabot
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston
Effect of Small Quantity on Drinking Controversy
The piece reports physicians like A. W. Ives arguing that moderate drinking causes no pathologic brain changes but disrupts cranial circulation and self-control. It cites the Detroit Medics Journal noting drug effects impair judgment and intellect, increasing gullibility and inaccuracy, with alcohol described as a subtle, hereditary poison shortening life.
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A. W. Ives
Detroit Medics Journal
London school children drink alcohol says investigator
F G Mackereth reports at the Women's Temperance league meeting that in one London school 40 percent of children are regular drinkers. He estimates about 00,000 child drinkers in London and possibly 2,000,000 in larger districts. Some parents give strong drinks thinking it helps children, a woman at the meeting says beer is nearly compulsory in some public schools.
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Coryell
Herbert Spencer
Froebel
Saleeby
England
Dunces
Harvard
University
Ife
Ferrer School
F. G. Mackereth
London
Women’s Temperance League
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Towa
Hin
Catalpa
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