Topics of the Times reminiscences and social observations
A collection of editorial snippets and satirical thoughts on society religion and culture. It notes high talk versus action in subscriptions, the cost of wealth, fashion and vanity, open-door policy in China, crime jokes about marriages and divorces, nervous disorders among piano students and college athletes, public health warnings about consumption and disease prevention, water filtration, religious life pay and attendance, and the evolving influence of science liberalism and education on church life.
English Sailors Sing Hymns with Familiar Tone
An American traveler aboard an English ship was embarrassed by locals. The Sunday service began with the hymn America led by the captain, three stanzas sung with dropping volume and organ alone finishing. In contrast, Save the King was sung with confident power by a small group of Englishmen who knew their anthem well.
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America
Growth of Electric Rail Lines in U S Surges
Figures released show electric rail growth in the United States accelerating. Over twelve years the system miles rose by 177 percent. In 1800 there were 8,128 miles of single track across the systems. Now the field numbers and roads by are expanding rapidly.
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United States
Suburban electric railways transform American life
The article lauds electric railways for linking towns to cities, expanding home ownership for middle income people, and enabling suburban living with easy commutes. It notes vast capital of 2.08 billion dollars and 4.8 billion riders in 1902, arguing the industry will continue to grow and reshape the nation.
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America
Cardinal Bourne Named Likely Westminster Archbishop
The Cardinal Vaughan successor in London Bishop Bourne, age 42, is the youngest English hierarchy member. Born in London, educated at Ushaw Ware St Sulpice Paris and Louvain Catholic University. Ordained 1884. He was rector of South-.
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Bourne
Cardinal Vaughan
Westminster
London
Ihe
Ushaw
Ware
St. Sulpice
Paris
Catholic University
Louvain
South
English Catholic Bishop Administrator and Teacher
The text notes Bourne’s rise in the English Catholic Church, becoming Titular Bishop of Epiphania and Coadjutor Bishop of Southwark, succeeding Bishop Brett. It praises his organizational ability, expertise on educational questions, tact, and popularity among English Catholics and at Rome.
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Nocesan Seminary
Leo Nitt
Epi Phania
Southwark
Auce
Brett
Bourne
Rome
Worth an Admission Fee
A golfer arrives early to a bond golf course and faces a jittery start as a caddie offers to ride along for fees shrinking from fifty cents to a dime. The man swings badly, missing the ball each time, while the persistent caddie haggles for a chance to join, finally offering to go for fun off.
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New York Sun
Florida Fishermen Find Green Turtles By Ball Flocks
Florida fishermen describe green turtles feeding on turtle grass in deep water then bathing at river mouths for freshwater. They say turtles form clay bonded balls in creeks, drift with tides, and fishermen spread nets to catch them as these balls drift to sea.
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Florida
Questioning Illness and Comfort in a Household
A man named Mr Meekton muses on his health with a humorous misgiving about appendicitis. He confesses fear about his condition while a Washington Star quotation notes a comfort that his wife could brag about to neighbors. A separate line claims women wear corsets for personal enjoyment in taking them off each night.
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Mr. Meekton
Washington Star
Why the Men Don't Propose
An analysis of marriage trends by Edwin Oldfield contrasts male and female reluctance to wed, noting financial and social hurdles. The piece explores love versus prudence, class constraints, and the lure of independence, while touching on wireless telegraphy and monitoring of signals for military use and international regulation.
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Meien Oldfield
Edwin
Angelina
Jess
Wireless Telegraphy and Its Development by F Braun
Dr. Ferdinand Braun surveys the historical arc from Hertz to early 20th century, noting Hertz’s wireless waves and mirrors, then Right of Bologna’s oscillator experiments. He explains how oscillations arise in induction coils and how wave length relates to apparatus size, tracing progress toward modern wireless telegraphy.
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Ferdinand Braun
University of Strassburg
Marcon
Hertz
Maxwell
Right
Bologna
Indeterminate sentence extension proposal by New Jersey justice
Justice J Franklin Fort argues for indeterminate sentences across penal institutions with parole review. He envisions a discharge court led by a governor designated judge and wardens to determine release, with parole and possible recall for relapse, and records kept as public facts.
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J. Franklin Fort
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Pena
New Pinless Clothesline with Twisted Wire Pins
A new clothesline uses two strands of taut wire twisted together with wooden spacers at intervals to grip fabric. The device, featuring a novel clothespin, allows easy thrusting of the cloth between wires to hold it in place without traditional pins.
Inventions Spark Privacy Yet Costly Loss at Auction
A Victorian article describes a novel soundproof phone attachment allowing private conversations by enclosing the mouthpiece within a reinforced tube. Inventor William J. Dunthue proposes tensioned wooden blocks to secure garments, while a tragic auction scene ends with a pale-faced widow buying a high chair for ten cents, the crowd moved by her loss.
Noted Southern Entertainer Mrs Fairfax and Antebellum Ties
Noted Southern entertainer Mrs Ronald Randolph Fairfax hosts society parties at Greenway Court Virginia, hailed from prominent ante bellum families. Her great grandfather served as Virginia’s Attorney General and the Fairfax lineage traces to English noble lines. The piece notes aristocratic connections and a Washington social circle.
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South
Ronald Randolph Fairfax
Greenway Court
Washington
Fairfax
Gen
Jubal Anderson Early
Nicholas Salter
Sir Humphey Weed
London
The Little High Chair Sale at Downtown Auction
A pale sad-faced woman stood among a crowd as an auctioneer sold her worn furniture to cover a mortgage. One by one items went to buyers, including a bureau, rocker, and bedstead, until the aged child’s high chair was presented to laughter from onlookers while she wept.
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Fnally
Ok Bureau
Adelaide Kane
Everrbenty
Inventor’s nibble of praise fuels clever desk accessories
Dr. Holmes enjoyed ingenious desk aids like pencil sharpeners and penholders placed on his study table. He quipped that he awaited a mucilage brush impossible to dip into an inkstand to spare him moments of humiliation, a line reflecting his wit about clever inventions.
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Dr. Holmes
New York Milk Supply At Doorsteps Cites Danger
A Century article notes New York residents consume a daily two and a half million quarts of milk via back doors tenement halls and depots. It warns bad milk can cause disease and death, more harmful than doctors can repair, and contrasts steel in fiction with a woman’s corset while remarking some avoid religion for cash.
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New York
GATLINGS ON GUARD DURING FOLSOM PRISON DAYS
Memories recall Charles Aull, famed Folsom warden, and his wallless prison. He built ten Gatling gun towers, trained guards, and kept convicts under tight control as a dramatic, perilous era unfolded after the 1900s escape. Aull boasted no escapes in his 25 years, with a cemetery of guards and a stark lecture to new inmates.
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California
Charlies Aull
Folsom Penitentiary
Sacramento
Cal
Charles Aull
Folsom Prison
Aull
Folsom
Pot & Man
Sontag
Tedget
Ae Ner
Fredericks
Arrivar
Walla
Noted Prison Warden Aull and Historic Escape Attempt
Aull, praised for fairness, led a California prison where a 10 year old escape plan by George Fredericks and George Sontag failed after discovery. Forty inmates were in the Pilot quarry when guards fired on fleeing convicts. most escape attempts dwindled as years passed.
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George Fredericks
George Sontag
Fredericks
Sacramento
Prises
Wealth distribution across nations in a world total
A writer notes world wealth is about 400 billion dollars. About one fourth lies with the United States and Europe, with the United States near 100 billion. The United Kingdom holds roughly 60 billion, France about 45 billion, Germany around 40 billion, and Berlin near 32 billion.
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United States
United Kingdom
England
Scotland
I Land
Great Britain
France
Germany
Berlin
Household Servants in France and Missouri Industry Notes
The piece contrasts French domestic service with English norms including intimate worker relationships and a magistrate case over crockery damage. It highlights Missouri’s corn cob pipe industry in Lafayette County, noting 1,120 corn pipes from 35 acres worth £330 and costs of $198, plus a remark on Senator Cockrell and social attitudes shaping campaign lore.
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France
Missouri
Lafayete
Rwee Gehels & Ty
Cockrell
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Ani Cruisr
Kansas Harvest
Mao
Vem
Cardinal Vvaughan
Green Turtles
Ocean
Sible
Berlin-Lassen
Zenneck
Earth
New York City
William J. Dunthue
Jamestown, N. Y
Mrs. Fairfax
Ante Fellaum
Gatlings
Aull's Cemetery
John Blank
Fim
Lal
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