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Newspaper
Baxter Springs News
Location
Baxter Springs, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1908
Page
2
Chas L Smith associated with Baxter Springs News appears as waiter and owner in local notices. The fragment references Baxter Springs Kansas and names the publisher and individual in a brief notice.
A survey of education's aims contrasts old fashioned discipline with child psychology and modern curricula. The piece stresses education as training in obedience and method, then shifts to natural science, praising parasite control in agriculture and detailing the Roosevelt Dam project and a long bird study by Edward B. Clark on nesting habits and courage of species.
The article notes Germany imports cotton waste valued at over a million dollars yearly from the United States and globally, mixes waste with wool to produce cheap hosiery and cloths, and exports many products back to the U S. It cites 1907 trade figures and reveals manufacturers keep mixing recipes secret. It adds a social maxims section praising witty women as social catalysts.
A Boston doctor recounts giving a chart to a mother to time a child's medicine. The chart goes blank but the mother says she never missed a dose. The child warned by habit would halloo before each dose, defying the plan.
A Paris built envelope prevents tampering by a thief or reader. It uses two envelopes with blue and lighter inner layers. The letter sits in the blue inner and then is placed in a larger outer with a star shaped opening showing through to seal both layers.
A stranger asks for directions to a good restaurant and is told to the next block. He later finds the meal abysmal and learns his helper delayed guidance to share the misfortune, a tale from Youth's Companion about misdirected kindness and a poor dinner.
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