Mothers' Day Reflections on Love and Lincoln's Honor
The essay recalls Mother's Day origins by Anna Jarvis and Wilson's 1914 proclamation, celebrating motherly love across races and classes. It quotes Abraham Lincoln on his motherly debt, cites Nancy Hanks Lincoln's memorial, and references poets Kipling Louis Untermeyer and Eugene Field. It contextualizes enduring reverence and poetic tributes to mothers in a period voice.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Anna Jarvis
Philadelphia
Woodrow Wilson
Abraham Lincoln
United States
Lincoln City
Ind
Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Indiana
The Kitchen vs Cabinet in Crane’s Greatest Things
A 1928 Western Newspaper Union excerpt lists Frank Crane’s punchy maxims on life. Highlights include the greatest mistake giving up, the most expensive indulgence hate, and the soul’s worst bankruptcy losing enthusiasm. It frames the cleverest man as one who acts rightly, and praises common sense and forgiveness as top needs and gifts.
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Frank Crane
Early Vegetables And Fruit From The Spring Garden
Spring gardens bring green vegetables to the table with fresh fruits like oranges and grapefruit still in season. Dried fruits such as prunes apricots dates figs and raisins may be added occasionally while fresh rhubarb makes a spring tonic. Recipes include Apricot Shortcake Corn Puffs Chicken Scrapple and Fried Apple Sandwiches, with notes on preserving meat flavor and vitamin content in meals.
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New Orleans
Deserving Employer-High Salary Request in Experience Gap
An applicant challenges a high salary claim by noting inexperience. The employer asks skeptically how such pay is justified, while the applicant admits the work is harder when lacking knowledge. The exchange highlights tension over pay versus expertise and learning on the job.
Worth Weight in Gold Tully New York Woman Praises Remedy
Mrs Chartis Morean of Tully New York recalls illness and weakness until Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash restored her vigor after four bottles. She plans to finish two more bottles and credits the remedies as priceless.
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Tally
N. Y
Myrother-inlaw
Lydia E. Pinkham
Letters by Torpedo Aerial mail system proposed by engineers
Two French engineers have invented an aerial torpedo to transport letters and parcels at speeds near 300 miles per hour, promising rapid delivery by air.
Joint-Ease pain relief advertisement
An advertisement touts Joint-Ease for rapid relief of rheumatic pains and muscle aches. It promises fast absorption, frequent use, and faster results with a 60 cent price and a trial offer from Pope Laboratories in Hallowell Maine.
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America
Pope Laboratories
Hallowell
Maine
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Rudyard Kipling
Mother O
Louis Untermeyer
Eugene Field
Elizabeth Akers Allen
Mother
Western Newspaper Union
Beyer
Bayer
Hanford
Pinkham
Wright
Pearl St
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