Civilizing the Philippines twelfth annual report highlights progress
The twelfth annual report on the Philippine Islands education notes strong growth in industrial training and school construction, including 125 completed concrete schoolhouses and 137 sites. It praises urban schooling, household industries, and a new center in Davao, while Quezon calls for Philippine independence to govern itself.
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Philippine Islands
Australia
Asia
Philippines
United States
Sam
Henry Gilshouser
Davao
Mindanao
Gilsheuser
Islands
Amelian
Bella
Teweblag
Eocres
Burreau
Renault
Vnré
Tratcorps
General Office
Ftemis
Philippine Nortail School
Philipping School of Arts and Tides
Pyirens
Tetele
Bureau of Education
Tropics
Fashion rules of China discussed by Beijing congress
Berlin Tageblatt reports on a ten session congress in Peking debating dress codes. It states officials shall wear a black walking coat and silk attire, with patent feather shoes, and specifies hat rules for men, officials, and women, outlining greetings and etiquette.
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Peking
Berlin
Primitive Kwakiutl cradle rocking device on Vancouver Island
The Christian Herald notes a primitive Kwakiutl cradle in use on Vancouver Island where a mother spins and rocks her infant in a cedar bark hollow hung from a sapling. She uses her big toe to power the swing, freeing her hands for weaving as a life size model was displayed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
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Vancouver Island
British Columbia
Christian Herald
American Museum of Natural History
New York City
Whittier Meditation on Love and Immortality
The excerpt reflects Whittier’s poetic meditation on dreams, love, and immortality. It contrasts earthly desire with a promise of transcendent beauty and suggests nature’s illusions reveal deeper truths, inviting a glimpse of an ideal beyond mortal life. The passage reads as a fragmentary excerpt of Whittier’s contemplative verse.
Royal sport and French athletics shape Paris Olympic prep
Aged discussion traces British royal love of outdoor sports and the king's Henley and Rugby patronage. It reports on a French athletics college forming after Stockholm, with Rodin and medical figures backing training for next Olympics and American coaches to guide later stages. Also noted are plans for English polo bets and boxing talk, plus Gaelic football aims and cross country additions by California and Stanford.
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Hanover
Hewitt
Feason
Henley
Twickenham
Stockholm
Fran
Rodin
Joan Richepin
Welsa
Academy of Medicine
M. Gabril Honvalet
Marquis de Polignac
Hroucard
Maurer Cobrat
France
W. A. Rembert Hall
The
Polo Monthly
England
Efall
New York
The Regulator Coach and Comic Snatches
A fragment from a humor page recounts a traveler aboard a slow coach named The Regulator and jokes about captions and misread signs. It includes quips on investigations, mezzo sopranos, and a painter’s signature as proof, all in breezy newspaper cartoon style.
Out of Service and a Boxing of Humorous Chats
A humorous dialogue excerpt shows a mother asking for butter while Tommy laments lack of gasoline, with a judge tagging the exchange as a fine distinction about investments. The piece moves to a quip about a wife’s financial interest and ends with a joke about Swedish kings and prize dogs on a farm.
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Tommy
Rivers
Sweden
Brooks
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Hera
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Ehippines
Iwgie
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Logie
Manila
Spain
Wies
W. Cameron Forbes
Manila Harbor
Pasig
Gen~ la
Fashion Rules OF China
Pervitar
Dextre
Whittier
Paris
Jam
Jack Toblvent
Suki
Fae
Attell
Johnny
Ray Kertetet
Gomidvd Fren Tel Lifton
Khookert Paneh
Amd Netter
Clavs
Mike Gibbons
St Paul
Eddie McGoorty
Ostikovic
Wis
Frank Kinus
Pittsburgh
le Houck
Lancaster
Billy Paphe
Spring Valley
Jack Dillve
Indianapolis
Chicago
University of California and
Leland Stanford University
Ad Wolgast Angris Sparring
Weekly Illustrated Humor
New York Press
Inquisitor
Star Witness
Washington Star
Nan
Arte Blanche
Mra. Cumrox
ATL
Brown
Robinson
Dustin Sax
Louisville Courier-Journal
Mr. Styles
Mrs. Styles
Ume
Philantheopie
Athena
sAtier
Sven Te
Willis
Gillis
Hoston
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