Books as an Agency to Culture by J H Kappes
The essay argues for reading as the path to high culture, praising Benjamin Franklin as a model of learning through books. It warns against superficial newspaper consumption, urges careful, focused reading of single books, and promotes long-term study, note-taking, and discussion to build judgment and character.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin Franklin
James Russel Lowell
United States
Chicago
Franklin
Thucydides
Greece
Scott
Dickens
George Elliot
Thackeray
Tennyson
Schiller
Tell
Mary Stuart
Wallenstein
Don Carlos
Goethe
Faust
Herman
Dorothea
Tasso
Shakepeare
Gould engagement ends amid public gossip across papers
Across Chicago Washington St Louis Omaha Rochester New York Kansas City voices weigh in on the Odette Tyler and Howard Gould match. Editors condemn the breach and question motives while noting the couple’s age and inheritance tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odette Tyler
Gould
Chicago Mail
Washington Post
Howard Gould
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Omaha Bee
Chicago Record
New York
Harmony
Kansas City
Tyler-Gould
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Fashion notes on fabrics and trims for summer wear
Antelope skin waistcoats in dark blue and apple green and a peach and navy combo appear among new fabrics. Tennis flannels feature tiny silk lines, checks and plain colors with velvet decoration. dresses favor French draping and one piece skirts. Pongee shirts, chambray or crinoline sleeve treatments, and accordion plaited summer silk sleeves shown. overskirts gain popularity despite some opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Humorous Quarrel Over New Coat Delights Chicago Couple
In the Chicago Record a husband scolds his wife for a gift coat calling it a potato sack yet she replies with delight noting it may be stylish. The light exchange captures domestic humor and affectionate banter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Art offers and local ads blend with market prices
A stray advertising fragment shows The Russel Art Publishing Co offering free watercolor pictures in exchange for ten names and six two cent stamps, with sixteen other pictures included. Other notes mention prices for butter eggs potatoes and wholesale produce, plus wagon ads for reduced goods and health product promotions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russel Art Publishing Co
Arch St
Philadelphia
Cupid
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J. H. Kappes
Modiste
Detroit Free Press
Dillon Implement Co
Crownin & Nuckoons
Michael
Dillon Implement Co. Itt
Bee Hive Hardware Co
Newbro
Afrigan
San Francisco
Sam
Cape Town
Transvaal
Mashonaland
Matabeleland
Johanesberg
South African Packet Line
Fred. Holmes
Battery Street
San Franciso
Cal
Dr.Bonjean’s
Jansy and
Savinils
E. Bonjean Et Cie
Paris
New York City
Maiden Lane
Paxson's Pharmacy
Park St
Butte, Mont
W. T. Douglas
W.L. Douglas
W. L. Douglas
le Uglab
Brockton, Mass
Eliel Bros
Dillon, Mont
Wheelers
Hal Ealer
Quanrens
Dillon Implement Company
Congress
N. E. Haimimer
Dillon, Montana
George J. Staudaher
Dillon National
Bank Building
Bannack Street
Mont
Montana
Bayener
Helens
Crowell & Nuckolls
Center Street
J. C. Orem
the ‘Times
J. P. Winters
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