New Books at Library
A long list of new library books across subjects and departments prepared for a Saturday mediation. Notable titles cover history religion science art travel fiction and juvenile works with authors ranging from W. Sehaf to Burbank and Whitman to Barr. Many classic and contemporary authors are represented in this sizable acquisitions catalog.
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Mediation
Sehaf—Hist
The
Christian Church
Rexford
Barwell
Aughlin
Fox
Singleton
van Dyke
Meetman
Kodak
Wagner
Nurem- Berg
Miron—Hist
Roosevelt
Brancke
Brenesen
Jorn Uhl
Hevd
Munt—Hesays
Eate
Tee
Jressing
Minna von Barnhelm
Moore
Bwinburné
Jsrum
California
Eaty
Pole
Mhedeo—Hist
U.S
Whitfing
Pike’s Peak
Pacific
Golquhoun—whirlpool
Europe
Bingleton
Venice
Resburger
Riviera
Baedeker
Germany
Romero
Mexico
United States
Wright
Sebdet
Lord Beaconsfield
Barr
Jessie Laurie
Boyles
Langford
Bowen
Stair
Bronte
Warthering Heights
Burnett
Istles
Aferry
Rockhurst
Bambers
Phron
Forman
Mehene
Barbary Sheep
Madson
Crimson Conquest
ecCutcheon
Anderson ‘Crowe
McGrath
Mason
Clare
Aclair
Larkington
Wetster
Jerry Junior
Qharton
Willamsons
Wenus—Brown
Harvard
Guerber
Orden
Earth and Sky
Wofim
Fokn
Garpenter
Africa
Paved with Buffalo Skulls and Early Kansas Commerce
A reminiscence recalls Seneca Street in Wichita being paved with buffalo skulls and horns, a costly mistake as settlers sold bones for profit while heads were discarded. Father Bliss collected large buffalo heads on his roof, and hides and robes trade drove bone disposal to New England.
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Seneca Street
Wichita
Senator Hemenway
Indiana
Harper County
Kansas
Father Bliss
First
Main Streets
New England
The Ohio Farmer Subscription Offer Card
The Ohio Farmer offers practical agricultural matter and sound advice for farmers. One year subscription costs 85 cents. Weekly Express and Onion Warmer subscription for one year is $1.60. Other items and prices also listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Eeree
Oeemecanas
Rene
Pigeon Carrier Sanctioned by English Navy Probed
A Pittsburgh Dispatch critique notes British naval pigeons persist as an obsolete carrier service despite large cost. About 1000 birds trained at Portsmouth Chatham Plymouth Malta and Gibraltar with staff and files. night flying and weather limit usefulness. Critics say trimming naval estimates ignored this branch.
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Pittsburg
Noah of Ark
Naval Board
Portsmouth
Chatham
Plymouth
Pembroke
Malta
Gibraltar
Naval Service
England
The Growth of Life Insurance in America
An Harper's Weekly article outlines dramatic expansion in American life insurance over sixty years. It notes 70 million policies issued, over 3 billion dollars paid to policyholders, assets surpassing 2.5 billion dollars, and annual premiums over 40 million dollars. It compares 1859 and 1905 figures, showing massive growth in in force insurance to 20.8 billion dollars and a 14 248 percent increase.
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Harper's Weekly
New York Insurance Department
A Girl a Man and a Storm
A snowy night drives a lonely girl to a crowded streetcar. A polite stranger offers his seat and friendship as they share a tense ride. A final embrace and quiet forgiveness seal their reunion at her door.
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Ethiel May Storey
Jack
Pneumatic Mail Tubes Demonstrated at Philadelphia Post Office
Report details tests of new twelve inch pneumatic tubes at the Central Post Office Philadelphia. Animals including puppies guinea pigs a rooster and goldfish rode the tubes safely multiple times proving motion and air supply. Human ride remains pending with safety measures described and the system touted to deliver most packages within five years from stores to transit stations.
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Senate Gtarrera
The
New York Herald
Seta
Aise
Philadelphia
Apertia
Cantal
Wiscatin
The Telephone Time Saver and Odd Carrier Experiments
A descriptive piece recounts experimental animal transport in a breech tube with half inch fron and twenty four inch carriers, including a rooster a puppy and guinea pigs. It also notes Brittany burial customs skull boxes and a humorous critique of courtesy in telephone exchanges urging streamlined speech and politeness reduction.
The Drunkards Black List and a French Dial Ring
A Fond du Lac portrait gallery houses pictures of habitual drunkards with saloons as branches. Critics say the scheme wastes effort and willpower, while historical examples show it failing. Also described is an eighteenth century gold dial ring with a sundial function, useful only when oriented correctly to the sun.
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Fond du Lac
Wis
The
New York Times
London
Pennsylvania
Pennypacker
Solon
Athens
Lycurgus
Sparta
Curio Dealer
Beekeeping Inspections, Disease Spread, and Wild Life Notes
A discussion on the importance of systematic apiary inspection warns that mild foul brood can resemble chilled brood. It explains how spring honey can feed diseased brood, spreading infection through a yard and among hives, aided by improper inspections and the extractor. Also notes dangers of extermination of wildlife and cites park efforts to protect beavers, squirrels, and deer.
What Peru Taught Us The Good Roads Magazine Essay
The essay argues that while Peru built good roads four centuries ago, American farmers face soul destroying barriers with crop shipping, child schooling denied, and families jailed or driven away by poverty and tobacco dependence, urging action to match Peru's road progress.
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Peru
Good
Pinkerton Links Crime to Sensational Reading and Opium
William A. Pinkerton of Chicago blames rising crime on yellow journalism and the opium habit. He advocates suppression of sensational publications and punishment for youths showing early criminal tendencies, endorsing juvenile courts and whipping posts while criticizing common jails as breeding hardened criminals.
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Pinkerton
William A. Pinkerton
Chicago
Globe
Also Mentioned on This Page
Petoubet
Sebaniller
Veerholtzer
America
Beriiner
Aristotle and
Froebel
Kirkpatrick
Badd
Science
Burbank
Dole
Young Folks
Rissa Fiske
Janvier
Aztec Trasure House
Johnson
Joyce—Child
Ireland
Kirkland
Italy
Oliphant—Hist
Scotland
Plummer Rob and Roy
Yonge
Lossing
Nathan Hale
Aldrich
Grinnell
Hobson—Burk Jones
Annapolis
King—Rock
Chickamauga
King—Ady
Uncle Sam's
Malone
West Point
Tomlinson
Mad Anthony
Iwinnela
Rover Boys
Winfield
Iwinnesa
Bagon
Cutter
Douglas
Helen Grant
Johnston
Knight
Martin
Abbie Ann
Rice
June
Schwartz
Elinor
Tarde
Betty Wales
Welker
Betty Baird
Baum
Ozma
Calnecott
Hall
Mother Goose
Hatch
Miss Sunshine
Jamison
Tornette
Philip
Mulock
Prince
Poulsson
Whitney
Wiggin—Bird
Kansas Prairies
Boston Post
Japan
Ohio Farmer
the Express
Defiance, Ohio
Boccario
Cheney Lumber Co
Central Post Office
Hut
J.P. Bullington
James Hopple Ney
Brittanny
Keystone Telephone Company
Philadelphia Telephone Company
Telephone Exchange
Clinton Street
W. A. Kehnast & Co
Oklahoma
Maine
New York
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Baltimore American
Agricultural Department
Woolford
Howard W. Ury
Evansport
Ney
De@enee College
Getoner
Hicksetlie
Patterson
Defiance College
E. RevNouns
IBM
Toy Ag
Ft 18
oMrcner
George D- Simmons
Hicksville
Hofiance County
Frank Bricerr
ClandEs M. Lore
EP. Armstrong
David B-Miller
Ok Monaax
Hiwann E- Ckary
Puank Maxwall
Cuype W. Zens
Standard Oil.co
Defiance County
State of
M. Hart
County of
Defiance
Dio
Aus Sotiool Diaieiets
Defiance City
Iva
Vie Delaware Tow
Erwand Vie
Hicksville Iit
Hicksville Speciales Oo
Heksvil Towns
Fora Township
Washington Town
Soo
Wark Town
Mark
Crane
Auglaize
Im Taos
Highland
C. M. Hart
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