Heroic switchman saves Limited in perilous station scene
Ralph Walters saves a boy from a train by manipulating a switch, prompting praise from crew and a budding romance with Lucy Delmar. His legal guardian, Walter Moore, plots to help Ralph claim the Jonathan Walters trade name against Morris Delmar, leading to a hinted engagement and final family business maneuver.
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Houge
Ralph
Walter Moore
Moore
Delmar
Jonathan Walters
Morris Delmar
Carpenter Swear Moment Reveals Taft Era Tensions
Fred W. Carpenter, now in the diplomatic service and former secretary to President Taft, is cited as exceptionally mild. Wade Eils recalls the only time Carpenter spoke violently, when a newspaper charged Taft foe Senator Foraker during Taft's first presidential campaign. Carpenter’s reaction, described as deeply worried, ended with the line "Oh, dear!" and marked the sole instance of swearing observed.
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Carpenter
Fred W. Carpenter
Taft
Wade Eils
Ohio
Mr. Taft
Senator Foraker
Foraker
Popular Magazine
Hair policy dispute at Devon village school
A Devon education committee inquiry centers on a girl refused admission to a small Bishopsteignton area school because her hair was not in pig-tails. The medical officer advised hair in plaits for health, but the girl aged ten to twelve persisted with hair down. She is sent home and misses education as managers defer action.
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Ralph
Miss
Devon Education Committee
Board of Education
Bishopste Gnton
South
Devon
London Mail
Life 34 Days After Death by Carrel Findings
An early report discusses Dr Alexis Carrel's experiments on preserve organs and tissues outside the body. It notes initial medium preservation, later experiments with transferring to a plasma water mix, and claims connective tissue activity lasting as long as thirty four days after removal.
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Alexis Carrel
Carrel
Auto Irrigation Joke At Spring LA Luncheon
Luther Burbank, presented with a big compliment at a spring luncheon in Los Angeles, dismissed it with humor. A comic actor joked about planting onions with potatoes to make the onions' tearful power irrigate the potatoes, illustrating a fanciful auto irrigation idea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luther Burbank
Los Angeles
No End to St Dudley S Satisfaction and Income Gap
Quote reflects on the idea of a “good living” expanding with income. It contrasts Wise and Sutisfied views on wealth and contentment, noting the average man’s discontent grows as earnings rise. The piece satirizes perpetual striving for more money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Dudley
The Guardian Telephone System and Its Social Duty
A man on guard aids life and guides ships through peril, yet the telephonic instrument by itself is merely clever. As a vital unit in a system linking thousands of telephones, it becomes a power to aid at any hour. Keeping the system on guard costs effort and money, but it serves the social and commercial needs of all people.
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Ralph Walters
Hitle
Warburton
Ralph
The
Limited
Eastern Shore
United States Mail
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