Business League appoints trolley line committee for Bryan College
The Bryan Business League voted to form a fifteen member committee to push the Bryan and College trolley line. Plans include a $65,000 electric road with two cars and two trailers, needing $35,000 stock and $25,000 from Bryan.
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Bryan College
Business League
L. L. McInnis
John Vick
Bryan
Harrison
Waco
Vick
F.M. Law
Bryan and College
Saunders
Enterprise
League
J. E. Butler
E. Rohde
J. R. Astin
G. S. Parker
J. Allen Myers
A. W
College
A. and M. College
the Eagle
Etiquette rules clash with a Kansas wedding feast tale
A Kansas traveler recalls a western town where etiquette relies on the logic of old supper times. At a wedding, the hostesses and guests notice he has already eaten, prompting ribbing as everyone saves room to feast, while he feels ostracized for his dining pattern.
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Kansas
Kansas City Times
The Fate of Cities and the Rise of Urban Life
Ancient cities perish for warfare plagues sanitation failures and shifting trade routes. Yet enduring centers like Rome Athens Byzantium Jerusalem Antioch and Damascus show urban vitality despite centuries of change in traffic and prosperity.
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Athens
Byzantium
Jerusalem
Antioch
Damascus
Philadelphia
A Portrait of Herbert Spencer in a Morning Reverie
Two sisters recount a moment when Spencer, absorbed in nebula photographs, rose and spoke in rapid, disjointed thoughts about thirty million suns with their own systems and distances. He then mused about a cushion fluff as he left the room, leaving them awed by his swift mind.
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Herbert Spencer
Patent office humor as seven ton pump travels to examiners
A New York attorney sought improvements for a centrifugal pump. The patent office called for a working model and refused to send an examiner to Trenton. The attorney then shipped a seven ton pump to the patent office to prove operability, with twenty one workers needed to move it into the examiner's office.
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Patent Office
New York
Trenton
Scientific American
German Title Etiquette Divides Society And Military
The article notes Germans closely guard titles in civilian life while military circles complicate usage. Frau Professor, Frau Director, and Frau Doctor prefer personal titles, but husbands’ military ranks blur forms. Lieutenant von B objects to being called Frau Lieutenant, since the title also belongs to wives of other lieutenants in similar regiments.
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Germany
von B
Schmidt
Haff
The Most Curious Known Anime
The most peculiar animal is the Ornithorynchus paradoxus, the egg laying mammal of Australia. It combines otter like shape, beaver like fur, webbed feet, a duck bill, and a fox tail, uniquely fur covered and egg laying. A feathered biped rarity would be a bird that hatches live young.
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Ornithorynchus Paradoxus
Australia
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Business League Meeting
Harrington
N. H. Brown
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E. J. Fountain & CO
Noah
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