City planning in America explored by Baxter Springs editor
Baxter Springs editor Charles L. Smith traces the history of city planning from 1666 when Sir Christopher Wren drafted London’s plan to America’s early planners L Enfant Detroit and Chicago. He contrasts orderly preplanned cities with king and emperor built metropolises, noting the shift from improvised growth to civic pride and improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Christopher Wren
London
County Council
L’enfant
Buffalo
Detroit
L'Enfant
Danny
Siberia
Chicago
Cleveland
New York
San Francisco
St. Petersburg
Madrid
Paris
Clinton R. Woodruff
Atlantic
The Child's Right and Playful City Needs
A call for more urban play spaces argues that playgrounds boost child growth and civic prosperity. New York trails behind cities like Chicago and London, with vacant lots converted into supervised play areas urged while noting funding for maintenance and equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York World
Seward Park
Chicago
London
Sleepiess
Health, Happiness and Pills in a Bold Ad Tale
A nostalgic health advertisement proclaims Dean's Kidney Pills eased rheumatic aches and boosted strength after other medicines failed. It asserts dramatic personal recovery and urges purchase from Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo NY for 50 cents a box. The text also includes a humorous dialogue about a lunch parcel and a zoology professor's gag involving a ham sandwich and a boiled eel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Dust Step Down
A collection notes a saying on love and risk, remarking that many lovers do not fall from great heights. The line reflects a witty perspective on romance and danger, implying subtle insight into how people choose to entangle themselves in affection and loss.
Death in Paris From Merry Widow Hat Critique
A Paris man seated opposite a Merry Widow hat in the Bois de Boulogne grew red at the sight and spoke to the wearer. She retorted and he collapsed, dying shortly after. Doctors ruled apoplexy, noting the hat as the comic source of fatal irony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hetty Green
Hetty
Suring
America
Parnall
Cooper
Biological Survey
Hawks
Corvus
Paris
Bois de Boulogne
Wife Converts to Postum After Coffee Woe
A letter from a wife recounts relief from coffee distress after adopting Postum. She describes scary symptoms from coffee and credits using Postum after following package directions. She notes a tastier, satisfying beverage and says they are no longer coffee slaves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mich
Wallville
Also Mentioned on This Page
Baxter Springs
Chas. L. Smith
Kansas
Boston
Herald
High School of Commerce
Brazil
Edward B. Clark
American Ornithologists’ Union
Joseph B. Bowles
Uncle Sam
Cooper Hawk
H. Justin Roddy
Hunter
Hunted
Cooper Hawks
Bobby
Lippincott's
Husband
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