Immune Cow and Typhoid Antitoxin Rays Hope from Vienna and London
From Vienna comes news that Professor Behring has made cows immune to tuberculosis and from London Dr A McFadyean reports an antitoxin that may cure and prevent typhoid fever. The piece details serum therapy and the potential to reduce disease through treated milk, noting uncertainties about adult protection and water infection control.
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Vienna
Behring
Jenner Institute
London
A. McFadyean
Wherein Our Colleges Do Not Educate
Rev W E Barton argues college life today is dominated by fraternities athletics and social clubs at Oak Point Ili and calls for true education focusing on mind culture soul character and disciplined knowledge over dilettantism and muscular bullying. He asserts colleges should publish greater emphasis on real learning and moral development.
Wife Deserves Equal Pay Says Historic Opinion
An argument asserts wives earn as much as husbands through household labor and child care, urging fair sharing of cash income. It cites New York cases of women borrowing against bills and a wealthy bride who loses fortune to her husband, ending in financial ruin.
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New York City
New York
America in decline and call for religious renewal
A fragmentary essay laments America's aging, materialism, and social ills, urging a great religious movement. It critiques lynchings, wealth, and secular progress while praising true Christian faith as a source of vision and duty.
New Rail Link From Irkutsk to Bering Strait Proposed
A company plans a transcontinental rail from Irkutsk to Bering Strait with a Yukon City extension. The project includes a tunnel under Bering Strait, aims to reach Alaska mining regions, and seeks Canadian privileges for land and Pacific terminals. Estimated cost is 200 million dollars, with six years to complete and a 14 day New York to Paris travel time.
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New York
Paris
Irkutsk
Bering Strait
Alaska
Jakoutsk
East Cape
Yukon City
Kinder gardens and democracy forewarns against social ills
A tract argues that kindergarten ideals strengthen democracy by shaping children and, through them, society. It condemns illegal procedures, brutal crime suppression, labor capital conflicts, venality in local government, and displays of unearned wealth, insisting early education can preempt these evils.
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Merica
Sfe Foundation
Union Labor Criticized as Ill-Advised and Led by Unsafe Leaders
A harsh nationalist editorial denounces organized labor for promoting strikes and idleness, urging legalism and order. It asserts the right to labor as fundamental, warns against an emerging labor oligarchy, and insists government will enforce its decrees to prevent anarchy.
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FTI
Rene Ie Neen
United States
Prisons as Instructors of Crime
Editorial argues prisons and local jails foster criminality and must be drastically reduced. It states the criminal class largely emerges from prison life and confinement degrades manhood, urging penal reform to imprison only when community safety requires it and only as long as necessary.
Most Men Marry to Be Respectable
Mrs. Edwin Knowles argues men marry to settle down and gain dignity from a household. Bachelorhood is a vagabondage and eventually a man decides it is time to marry. The piece likens this to a character in Sterne's Tristram Shandy asking which wife to take.
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Sterne
Tristram Shandy
Correct Dressers for Men and Boys Offer Style and Value
Prices range from two fifty to four dollars and up for the Suite items. The Line features handsome dressers with style sufficient to please both the Boy and his Mother as well as the Father who will want sturdy wear.
Evaporated Sweet Potatoes Offer Durable Market Crop
A South Carolina station bulletin details a drying method for sweet potatoes to boost keeping quality and transportability. Boiling in an open kettle then drying in a fruit evaporator yields a shelf stable product, with specific moisture and nutrient content, pack in close boxes, and rehydrate before table use.
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South Carolina
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Andrew Wilson
W. E. Barton
Oak Point, Ili
Mrs. Russell Sage
America
Voltaire
France
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Russia
Emerson
Louis DE Lobel
Kindergartens
Richard Watson Gilder
Harrison Gray Otis
Charlton T. Lewis
New York State Prison Association
Edwin Knowles
Women's Professional League
J. C. Levy's Son & CO
Augusta, GA
Griffin & Mims C. A. Grirry
E. J. Mills
May & May’s
Smith Bros
Augusta
E. S. Johnson
Advertiser ‘Building
Millinery Department
Abe Cohen
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