Organized Gossip as a Modern Newspaper Argument
A dissenting view on Prof Charles H Cooley's claim that papers are organized gossip argues the bulk of a newspaper is not mere gossip but a complex medium of news, ideas, and social reflection. The piece defends veracity and cites literature as equally exerting to the mind, contrasting with the professor's critique. Whiskered Jurors is noted as a Chicago anecdote about juror prejudice toward facial hair shared by a Illinois judge.
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Cooley
Charles H. Cooley
Homer
Boswell
Johnson
Stevenson
New York Evening Post
Unois State Attorneys’ Association
Chicago
American manners and taste noted by visiting official
A Governmental visitor from Japan observed two main traits in the United States. He found Americans display bad manners from overfilled schedules yet hidden generosity, and he judged bad taste as the more evident flaw. The remark reflects Harper's Weekly commentary on cultural impressions during cross cultural exchange.
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Harper's Weekly
Seattle Hills to be Reduced by Hydraulic Sluicing
The city plans to remove 34,000,000 cubic yards of material on completion using hydraulic sluicing. Scientific American notes reinforced concrete progress and new lamp reflectors. It mentions Professor Karl Harries of Kiel on synthetic rubber and a joint Paris Pasteur lab on radioactivity under Madame Curie.
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Seattle
Karl Harries
University of Kiel
Western Railroads
Scientific American
University of Paris
The
Pasteur Institute
Paris
Madame Curie
New York
Illuminating Engineering Society
Clayton H. Sharp
John Wesley Health Rules and Quirky Remedies
John Wesley, founder of Methodism, urged cold baths, fresh air, and abstinence from strong liquors as health basics and praised a quiet mind for well being. His baldness cure involved onions, honey, boxwood decoctions, or daily electrification. nosebleed tips included whey and raisins plus a white paper under the tongue. He advised milk for consumptives and a ritual of breathing into turf to aid deep consumption when cured by morning earth exposure.
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John Wesley
Disagreeable Work at British Public Record Office
A veteran note on the toil of seeking important old manuscripts in the British Public Record Office. Dust and fragility threaten many documents, including items rescued from the 1834 House of Lords fire. Cleaning the vast collection would take fifty housemaids fifty years.
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British Public Record Office
House of Lords
Money Mystery Nurse Burned Found Bills in Vienna Hospital
A nurse at a Vienna hospital run by nuns burned a pile of money found in a deceased patient’s bed, thinking it rubbish. The mother superior stopped the flames, revealing the notes were a fortune. The nurse, raised in the nunnery since age three, had no exposure to money or worldly affairs.
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Vienna
Power of Suggestion and Short Verses in 1920s Press
A collage of ad copy and brief quips appears: Capudine headache relief ads with price points, notes on London's hansom cab decline, a line about a wasp cutting a seashell, then a list of “The Fourteen Errors of Life” as told by Judge Rentoul with aphorisms. Included are two light exchanges from maud and ethel about Tom and a proposal, illustrating social humor.
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Hick
London
Rentoul
Bartholomew Club
London Evening Standard
Winslow's Teething Syrup Ad Sparks Controversy
A cluttered page features old ads and quips from early 20th century publications. Mentions Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething and various patent medicines, along with brief jokes, anecdotes, and promo notes for Cuticura remedies and Allen's Foot Ease.
Vegetable Compound Recovers Woman After Tumor
A Holly Springs woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health after doctors warned of a tumor and surgery. She advises others to seek the remedy and letters Mrs Pinkham for confidential guidance. Ads and jokes follow about germs in money and kidney remedies.
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Lydia E. Pink
Ham
Holly Springs
Miss
Lydia E. Pinkham
Willie Epwakrps
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Plesee
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Sewin
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