Bishop Potter on church service and social unity
The speech argues that charity alone does not build brotherhood. It urges recognizing the dignity of workers and honoring the woman’s home, aligning church life with people who work with their hands. It warns against grand theories and calls to follow Christ as the model for service and social progress. It notes ongoing intermarriage taboos and race mixing amid social change.
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H. C. Potter
Divine Society
Christ
Church of God
Is the Black Man Disappearing by Prof Giddings of Columbia
The article argues the South resists social equality and interracial marriage, fearing amalgamation, yet claims the black population is rapidly disappearing as the full blooded negro diminishes in the American population. It treats race as a central civilizational issue and notes white sentiment against social integration.
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Prof
Giddings
Columbia
South
American Women are Superior in Liberty and Influence
A passage extols American women as the finest and most capable globally, noting greater liberty, intelligence, and energy. It argues women and men work as partners, boosting national progress and community welfare through cooperative effort.
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Vieira
Padlock For Muckrakers
United States Senator Foraker of Ohio argues for a padlock to silence muckrakers, praising American people and business ideals. He urges fair treatment and presumption of uprightness, defending due process before condemnation.
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United States
Foraker
Ohio
Shah of Perala Faces Bomb Attack and Protests
The Shah of Perala, described as a mighty ruler, defends himself as protesters demand freedom and a bomb is hurled at his motorcade in Teheran. His bodyguard fires, killing two attendants and injuring several others as the Shah vows no more such stunts. He later confronts the governor and police amid threats of further violence. A lengthy ethnographic note follows about Perela’s population, army, and religious zeal, with a separate domestic scene depicted of two women discussing tea and business.
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Shah
Perala
Peesa
Hem
Teheran
Otsohae
Hiaval
Majesty
Soundry
Secannon
Perela
A Cup of Tea and an Unexpected Reception
A fragmentary scene shows Amos reading a cord perplexedly and an exchange about an agent and expectations. Names like Ken Dielen Foster and Mare appear in garbled dialogue as a woman plans to join in the afternoon.
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Amos
Dielen Foster
Mare
Strange Dihes: Elephant Foot And Tiger Meat Debate
An old newspaper passage discusses eating elephant flesh and tiger meat with mixed views. It notes in India superstition links tiger flesh to strength, while Brahmin and Buddha followers avoid meat. Elephant foot is debated for delicacy, with European explorers offering contrasting opinions.
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India
Beanley
Drew Stanley
St. Loula Hequitte
Mitchell of Onondaga Sends Tibetan Animal Skins to Museum
Mason Mitchell an actor and Rough Rider friend of Roosevelt sent Tibetan wildlife to the National History Museum. He supplied skins skulls and horns of tak ins gorals serows and blue bears with photographs and notes from Chungking. He also sent ancient scrolls to accompany the zoological gifts and recounted a long career from Samoa to the Spanish American War and beyond.
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Mason Mitchell
National History Museum
Roosevelt
Tibet
New York Herald
Mr. Mitchell
American Museum of Natural History
Mitchell
Chungking
Tachinglu
Onondaga
N. C
Riel
Canada
Samoa
San Francossco
FY Inlands
Rough Riders
San Juan Hill
China
United States
Zonnibar
The Price of Life. Woman Explorer in African Wilds
Pennsylvania explorer Ida Vern Simonton recounts encounters with driver ants in western Africa. She describes their tiny size yet fierce aggression, their organized colony behavior, bridges built by the workers, and the danger posed by other venomous creatures in the jungle.
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Persia
Ida Vern Simonton
Pennsylvania
Africa
Joe
Oradles
Misa Simonton
Chicago Population and Police Staffing in 1900
Chicago population 1900 DD Ker tin 2 01 Chicago area 190 square miles Hierlin area 24 batt square miles Chicago police patrolmen 40 or 19 per square mile Ker tin police patrolmen 200 or 216 per square mile Each Chicago officer guards 5 people Barth Berlin policeman 33 dollars per head back tier The Coulonge police force covers about 195 Maret territory for the Evelath Pirie tibia Trivume.
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Chicige
Kertin
Chicago
Hierlin
Chicago Policeman Has Sb Peo. We To Look After, Hach Berliy
Coulonge
Iellet
Disturbing Innovations in European Etiquette in the Orient
Lady Burton recounts forcing European courtesy on Orientals at a reception. She notes the dragonians resisted serving their own women, who blushed and begged not to be served. A husband mocked the practice, prompting Burton to shift her approach to avoid bad taste.
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Burton
Orient
Byrin
Unclear wildlife and music motifs in strange text
A garbled piece references ants, tarantulas, snakes and elephants reacting to violins and flutes, with odd names and phrases. It reads like decoded or invented animal responses to music, lacking coherent events or dates.
Chicago United in Global Grandeur and Progress
Chicago exceeds other cities in population and industry with 96 square miles, 4 300 miles of streets, 1 500 miles of sewers, eight large parks and many smaller ones. It leads in grain trade, manufacturing, and transportation, boasting vast yards, elevators, and a massive department store network.
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Chicago
Boston
Sf. Louis
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Onmba
Penver
Des Moines
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Pennsylvania
Mile Square
Firth Avenue
Lake Street
Amd
Loop District
Monadnock
Bowser
The Conquered
A verse meditation on striving and endurance in life’s race. The speaker recalls the exhausting journey, dust and effort, the unyielding pursuit of an altar of attainment, and finds joy in the effort itself rather than final victory.
Photograph of a Trapper and a Hidden Past on the River
Bat Pinaud hosts Doc Willets Col Case and Jack Phillips at his cabin and on the river. Phillips hides a photograph of a young woman, later admitting he wrongfully discarded it and must face a past he clings to. The tale blends memory, regret, and the fiddle’s haunting call over the water.
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Bat Pinaud
Owl
Monsieur
Doc Willets
Cal
Core
Jack Phillips
Bourliuge
Cure
Jack Pipa
Jack Phillipa
Doc Willetts
Agaln
Bat
Col. Case
Dec Wiliers
Co. Case
Liv
Jack Philips
Hat
Stein
Phillips
Phillipa
Tias
Jack Philip
Doc Wilets
Jack
Rut
Pingud
New Orleans
Democrat
Not an Artistic Race But a Nation of Action Born People
Hamilton Moable argues in Atlantic that American greatness stems from a people not bred for art but for action and perseverance. He credits ordinary men and women, shaped by English roots, with forming a national character that drives vast enterprise and prosperity, even as artistic impulse remains secondary.
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Wentminster Gyeette
Hamilton Mable
Atlantic
After the Prom a cryptic reflection on love’s echoes
A fragmented reminiscence questions past romances and a nostalgic woman who shared old fashioned counsel about love and appetite, recalling times when couples fell in love under simplistic social eyes.
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