Heart to Heart Talks by Edwin A Nye
An essay on dual natures and the Jekyll and Hyde within each person. It urges harmony in marriage and partnership, advising patience, kindness, and honest sharing of income and expenditures. It highlights enduring love, restraint, and mutual sacrifice for harmony and right relations.
The Front Porch as a National Institution
The author extols the American front porch as a year round, multifunctional space transforming the home into a public forum. It acts as sitting room, nursery, library, and hearth, binding family life to national character and communal wisdom.
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Remembering happiness in marriage and daily struggles
A short admonition on maintaining harmony in marriage. It urges spouses to resolve quarrels quickly and emphasizes that married life is a fallible human partnership. It notes that marriage is for better or worse, with emphasis on the tougher moments.
The Making of a Boy
A Cleveland supervisor inspires Louis Vosburg a butcher’s apprentice to aim higher. Once content in Andes alley he adopts ambition attends night school saves money and plans college study to become an architect. The piece extols divine yeast in youth and the impact of guidance.
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A Woman's Wail Warns Against Drink And Drugs
An editorial excerpt urges readers to heed the desperate cry of a once famous actress driven to consumption by drink and drugs. It warns women and girls away from casual use and stresses the dangers of stimulant potions and social drinking.
Habit and ruin in women and men linked to stimulants
The article argues the rise of stimulant use among two men and asserts women are equally susceptible. It notes late hours, dissi pations, poverty or abuse intensify risk, and that liquor and drug harm worsens for women. It ends with a despairing cry “Too late too late.”
A New Definition of Success Calls for Reform
The piece argues against money worship and for a life beyond meat and raiment. It declares success as noble reform over frenzied finance, condemns graft and rebates, and urges determination to secure reform with a spirit of self purification.
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Daffodils and Hyacinths Linked to Poisonous Plant Skin Ailment
T S Bridges notes in Grand Magazine that many commonly viewed harmless plants carry poisons. Daffodil pickers often suffer daffodil poisoning with nail bed crystals of lime from stem juice causing skin irritation. Hyacinth bulbs share similar effects. workers use oil and tallow under nails to protect hands.
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T. C. Bridges
Grand Magazine
The Particular Man and His Hair Raising Shriek
An eccentric Chicago News piece describes the Sterile Dome man using a new Unguent Dope to reclaim a deforested district and discovering a tuft of fuzz on his brain region. He consoles himself with a dramatic Hair Raising Shriek, signaling a peculiar scientific milestone.
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Chicago News
Minister's Door Knock Produces Witty Mrs Smith Reply
A parish minister visited a family and, hearing a voice say the minister is at your door, was amused by Mrs Smith's repsonse as her whisper floated around the corner She later told him she was sorry to miss his call after service.
Oven For Books And Book Sterilization Device
A new oven by M Benioz sterilizes closed volumes at atmospheric pressure and below boiling temperature. It uses aldehyde evaporation to disinfect without damage to covers or bindings, though delicate bindings may be harmed by two hours of exposure. A 1300 page book was sterilized in two hours with a page contaminated at the inner margin.
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M. Beniioz
Scientific American
A Grotesque Army In Moroccan Sultans Camp Displays
London Times correspondent notes both rival Moroccan sultans rely on deserters for troops. Abdul Aziz’s army shows anomalies with uniformed NCOs selling sweatmeats to marchers, and a naked bandsman performing headstands before the war minister, then in a white shirt playing a trombone.
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Minnesota man wins homestead by vigil at land office
Edward McIntyre of Minnesota stayed seventeen hours in a corridor with his hand on the door knob to win the first entry to an abandoned Saskatchewan homestead near Eastvan. The St. Paul Dispatch notes Western Canadians could learn from his patience and endurance.
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Record-Holder Budnikoff Longest Serving Soldier
Russian noncommissioned officer Budnikoff, aged 128, began service in 1797 as a private in the hussar life guards and served over eighty years. He fought in wars including 1812, earned four St George orders and about forty medals, and now receives $600 annual pension. He remains hale and had a son and two daughters, the son killed in the Russo-Turkish war.
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St George's Order
Paris Traffic Wardens With Fume Signals
Men in uniform appear on the Champs Elysees and Paris boulevards carrying tubes with three white fan signals labeled fum ee trop vite and odour to warn motorists they are speeding or emitting smoke. The officers are employed by the Automobile Club and approved by the police prefect.
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Will of Berlin landlord imposes odd flat restrictions
The will of Boernitz, a wealthy Berlin landlord who died last week, leaves numerous flats to his heirs with strict conditions. Tenants may not employ servants or have children, dogs, cats or birds, may not do night work, may keep one musical instrument, may not place flowers in windows, and must wear silent slippers indoors.
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Malta Goat Milk Found Responsible for Fever End
A 1907 commission traced Malta fever to goat milk in the garrison and ship crews. The fever disappeared wherever goat milk was banned, signaling goats as the source and banishing their milk may end the ravages on the historic island.
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Malta
A Hero in Amateur Theatre Play Debut
A speaker recalls a recent amateur company production asking who the hero was. The other person replies that they were a hero, claiming they got through the performance.
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