New Library Additions Catalog Page Highlights
City library announces new acquisitions across children, adult fiction, non fiction, and reference. Notable titles include Stevenson Treasure Island, Cooper Last of the Mohicans, Hawthorne Marble Faun, Oppenheim The Avenger, and Deland R. J's Mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miller
Harry
Quirk
Blake
Pitcher
Hurst
Great Forest
Otis
Tomlinson
Cotton
Mississippi
Hamp
Crawford
Vaile
Sue Orcutt
Jamison
Lady Jane
Husted
Eggleston
Carroll
Carpenter
Bauvet
Cooper
The
Mohicans
Stevenson
Warren
Nature
Hare
Jenks
Pa Long Long
Ivorgot
Lang
Robert Bruce
Skae
Wallace
Ben Hur
Blackmore
Lorna Droon
Hawthorne
Craike
John Halifax
Bullen
Davis
Stage Door
Deland
R. J
de la Pasture
Hewlett
Loone
Mason
Agatha
Oppenheim
Atlizabeth
S. Vorse
Austin
Santa Lucia
Bates
le la Pasture
Man’s Cancer Treated With Formaldehyde Injection
Hot Springs South Dakota resident Geo Harris suffering from neck cancer near the jugular vein sought help after a local doctor warned that surgery would be fatal. Illinois specialists in Rockford injected a formaldehyde compound around the jugular and carotid vessels to harden tissue and block cancer spread, a method claimed to renew health for many deemed incurable.
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Hot Springs
S. D
Geo. Harris
Harris
Illinioi State
Rockford
We Know a Lot and the Editor's Waste Basket
A reflective piece argues editors hear countless private indiscretions and gossip that never reach print. It notes scandals, divorce temptations, and social ostracism would flood papers if all were published, yet editors sustain reputation while facing community fault.
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Hell
McCosh Surprises Visitor With Chapel Rout
At Princeton Matthew Arnold visits for a lecture tour and morning chapel delightfully unsettles a nervous professor. President McCosh announces in a stage whisper We have Mr Arnold here this morning We will pick a lively hymn and pray short. Arnold remains expressionless.
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Matthew Arnold
Princeton
McCosh
Mr. Arnold
Dr. McCosh
Glacier Park as continent's great watershed
The article describes Glacier National Park in Montana as a vast watershed where meltwater feeds three oceans. It explains rivers and currents directing waters toward the Gulf of Mexico, Pacific, and Hudson Bay, with streams like the Missouri, Mississippi, Flathead, and Columbia forming the continental drainage toward respective seas. The writer notes the park’s strategic position dividing continental waters.
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Glacier National Park
North America
Gulf of Mexico
Pacific
Hudson Bay
Montana
Saskatchewan
Arctic Ocean
Missouri
Mississippi
Flathead
Columbia
Glacier Park
The Hollowness of the Earth Debate
A modern philosopher William Reed argues the earth is hollow. He cites Nansen's long voyage without progress and asks where polar wildlife feed, how icebergs form, and why the sun vanishes in winter. He questions scientific models and the origin of the aurora and electric lights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Reed
Nansen
Harper’s Weekly
Contraption as a creeping Americanism and English sense
The article traces the word contraption from American usage to entry in the Standard dictionary as a colloquial term not yet fully common. Bartlett calls it a genuine American vulgarism for new devices, while Farmer’s Americanisms ridicules it. Henley and the Dictionary of Slang later classify it as English, noting 1838 as its first currency and linking Standard’s cow and trap etymology to sense rather than origin.
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Bartlett
Mr. Farmer
Henley
England
Transference Case Sparks Coin Swap Debate
A shop scene shows a woman noting a phantom transfer as a sovereign vanishes from a purse and reappears as two coins in the car. The observer’s friend dismisses it as plain swiping, not mystic guidance.
Huggins and Muggins Comment on Fan Ning's Illness
Huggins asks what has become of Fan ning. Muggins replies he is laid up as a victim of baseball. Huggins notes he never played the game. Muggins jokes he does not play but sprained his larynx scolding the umpire.
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Huggins
Fanning
Muggins
The Quintessence of It in a Borrowing Row
In a heated exchange, Stryker is accused of chronic borrowing. The speaker recalls telling him they must stop lending since they wed, prompting a sharp backlash from Stryker who resents the marriage expense.
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Stryker
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Music House
Sedergren & Pittman Baraboo
Wis
Ed. V. Price & Co
Chicago
Julius Hoppe Baraboo
C. E. Ryan
EWE
Ieee
4Th Street
Fourth Street
City Hall
Sixth Street
Third St
Bartlett & Booth
NEW Library Books
Ellis
Arkansaw
Harker
Kinkard
Travis
Spargs
Martin
Palmer
Alice Freeman Palmer
Jones
Thomas Alva Edison
Babbitt
American College
Andrus
Hirth
China
Cramer
Egypt
Hale
Baseball Critic
Bradfield
Atlanta
Sauk County Fair
the Fair Association
W. H. Aton
Oak Street
Eta
Cine
Madras
Foile du Nord
Eee
IiDée
Asia
Iesus
South Side Dept. Store
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