City Plans Road Improvements and Savings with Avery Razer
Fairfield officials tout improved streets based on diligent work led by Superintendent Chapels. The Avery road razer lowers costs by enabling faster grading with a single operator, saving at least ten dollars daily versus the old team drawn grader. Next year will bring more paving to alleys near the square and East Burlington street toward Chautauqua Park.
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Fairfield
East Burlington Street
Chautauqua Park
When You're Old What Will You Be Doing Then
A note on active living in old age cites Halsbury and others: long-lived leaders like 99 year old Earl of Halsbury guiding law and politics while peers and founders such as Lodge Millingham Culberson and Uncle Joe Cannon show sustained influence. The piece urges valuing wisdom over youth in government and business.
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Earl of Halsbury
House of Lords
Halsbury
England
Earl of Ducie
Gail Meme Baron Eversley
Senator Lodge
Senator Millingham
Senator Culberson
Joe Cannon
Titan
Battle of Lepanto
von Moltke
Commodore Vanderbilt
Socrates
Pasteur
Columbus
Voltaire
Newton
Spencer
Talleyrand
Thomas Jefferson
Galileo
Brain Over Age: Train Your Mind for a Fulfilling Later Life
The article contrasts impulsive youth with cautious elders and urges older readers to join forces with younger colleagues. It argues aging stiffens joints and toughens arteries but stresses that the brain remains capable of growth and suggests training the mind to think clearly to make old age successful.
Memorial buildings rise to honor World War dead nationwide
Seventeen states plan memorial structures that blend beauty with utility to honor fallen soldiers. Universities in Illinois Kansas and Nebraska build memorial stadiums and gyms while others consider milestones on highways and a giant memorial bridge in Pennsylvania. Additional projects include memorial libraries, armories, and a national tree-planting movement along major highways.
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England
France
University of Illinois
Illinois
University of Kansas
University of Nebraska
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Harrisurg
Indianapolis
American Legion
Massachusetts
Boston
Colorado
Virginia
Utah
New York Harbor
Golden Gate
Chicago
Florida
Public utilities and ownership in France compared with U S systems
The Davenport Democrat argues government ownership of utilities may be less efficient than private or corporate management. It notes France’s 1889 takeover of its telephone service and a 220 million franc loss last year, while praising U S lines as best. It cites railroads as evidence that competition improves service and warns government routines can hinder efficiency.
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France
United States
Louis Deschamps
Millerand
Davenport
Northcliffe denies interview on King George Ireland views
The article notes Lord Northcliffe’s strenuous effort to disclaim authorship of a controversial interview about King George III and Ireland. It implies he aimed to influence Editor Wickham Steed to reject or "eat" the interview, suggesting an attempt to avoid responsibility.
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Lord Northcliffe
King George
Ireland
Wickham Steed
Lloyd George
Buckingham Palace
Commons
Lord Northcliff
Northcliffe
Isle
King
H. Wickham Steed
The
London Times
Roads and farms interplay in Iowa’s enduring advantage
The piece contrasts eastern states with Iowa, noting thin paving cannot endure wet soil while Iowa’s strong soil requires heavy concrete foundations for permanent surfacing. It argues roads tie farms to towns, giving Iowa a broad advantage beyond mere travel.
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Iowa
Lord Northcliffe Crisis Sparks British Politics
A chaotic London exchange features Lloyd George accusing Lord Northcliffe amid telegrams and embassy squabbles. Northcliffe denies the charge as political fallout spreads through Bucking ham Palace, the Commons, and newsrooms.
Extravagance Cited as Cause of Many Ills by Senator Cummins
At a dinner Senator Cummins decried extravagance as a root of society's ills calling Americans the most extravagant people. A club remark about the Neweds in a dreadful predicament follows, noting excessive spending on a going away outfit. A garaging mishap joke about a carburetor adjustment hints at temptation to tamper.
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Senator Cummins
County Sunday School Picnic Draws Huge Crowd at Chautauqua Park
A county Sunday school picnic last Thursday drew an estimated 8 000 attendees. A 26 block parade with about 800 vehicles featured floats from all denominations including Woolson Quaker church. Dr Black of Washington and Rev Roland Butler of Minneapolis spoke.
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Chautauqua Park
Quaker Church
Woolson
Unkrich
Black
Washington
Roland Butler
Minneapolis
the Baptist Church
Kentucky Driver Tricked by Tobacco Warehouse
A Kentucky man brings a load of tobacco to an Indiana warehouse and learns the weighing and selling expenses exceed the value. When he cannot pay the 59 cents, the cashier jokes to bring a chicken next time. He returns with two chickens as payment, claiming another load of tobacco.
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Kentucky
Indiana
Ohio
Indianapolis News
Struggling English heir seeks stenographer at Penn
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports John Jeffries VI of England, an $80 000 a year law student at the University of Pennsylvania, is hiring a stenographer to handle shorthand and dictation for cases. He already has one, but seeks another competent young woman to join his staff. He is descended from John Temple and is popular among peers for his democratic nature despite wealth. He lives modestly despite the allowance.
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University of Pennsylvania
John Jeffries VI
England
Philadelphia Inquirer
Jeffries
Blackstone
John Temple
Ireland
House of Lords
Japanese Remain Buddhists In Hawaii Plantations
Rev Ulysses G Murphy of the American Bible Society spoke in Honolulu about Japanese communities in Hawaii sugar camps. He said 80 percent have not faced Christian propaganda and criticized plantation owners for aiding Buddhist missions. He warned aging Japanese are decades behind home country in modern thought and stressed language schools as the key to Americanization.
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Hawaii
Ulysses G. Murphy
American Bible Society
Honolulu
Murphy
Almanac contains colonial era prophecies and frontier buying tips
A Keene New Hampshire collection of almanacs dating to 1754 quotes a British nobleman predicting American independence and a thriving colonies future. It urges Westward land purchase at 20 cents per acre in Spanish money and notes mortuary statistics from 1797 showing high infant mortality and low life expectancy.
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America
Keene
N. H
Washington
Lord Raines
North American
Britain
Ireland
Ohio
Almanac
United States
Cowboy Survives Stampede Over Canyon Jumps
A cowboy guiding steers near Leadville camps by Bear River finds cattle stampede when several steer fall into a deep canyon four miles long with walls 15 to 20 feet apart. His horse makes leaps as he circles the herd, and a dozen steers are found dead below after daylight reveals the canyon.
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Leadville
Bear River
Little Snake
Night in the Forest by Stewart Edward White
A lyrical meditation on a forest night where silence, wildlife, and river sounds weave a delicate tapestry. The narrator notes whippoorwills, owls, loons, birds of passage, and the white throated sparrow as the moonlit chorus that elevates contemplation under the great quiet.
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Stewart Edward White
Netting Wild Animals in Asia Magazine Style
Charles Mayer explains netting as an easy method to collect animals. Nets sized to target, placed across trails, camouflaged with leaves and grass, springing when animals pass. The entangled catch may require cutting the net to free the animal.
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Charles Mayer
Asia Magazine
Not Entirely to His Liking
A South Grand Avenue businessman asked his six year old son if he wanted to grow up as a motor car salesman. The boy paused and replied, Please papa, could I just grow up. The exchange appears in the Kansas City Star.
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South Grand Avenue
Kansas City
Heard at a Reception
A Boston Transcript remark recounts a reception chatter about art and culture with one guest noting dozing moments and joking that the topic had an anaesthetic effect.
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Ann
Boston Transcript
Glassware at Leber's weighs as much as an elephant foot
An article explains how elephant foot height relates to weight and food rations in Indian commissariat practice. It notes current annual measurements use a crossbar standard while a rope-and-multiplication method sometimes yields slightly larger results.
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Indian Commissariat
Peat as Fuel Could Reduce Northern States' Coal Dependence
A Minneapolis firm develops peat fuel to rival coal. A machine digs macerates and dries 700 tons of wet peat daily to yield 100 tons of dry fuel. Testing occurred in a Minneapolis building after peat from Minnesota bogs was burned at the University of Minnesota. A 500 ton daily crusher will produce powdered peat, with ten digging machines planned for spring.
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Minneapolis
University of Minnesota
Minnesota
Delivering the Goods by Wire Portraits
Edouard Belin spoke in New York on the need to deliver photographs by wire, noting predecessors failed to implement despite solid theory. He warned backers demand prompt results and recalled Whistler’s tale of a sitter hurrying to see her portrait finished.
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Edouard Belin
New York
Whistler
Mr. Whistler
Boys Form Reforestation Clubs in Louisiana Schools
Reforestation clubs for boys are being formed in Louisiana public schools with seeds and trees supplied by the state department of conservation. Prizes will be given for the best results as the forest service notes timber is cut and burned four times faster than it regrows in the United States.
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Louisiana
State Department of Conservation
Forest Service
United States
Not Wasted, Miss Sue Brett
Quoted exchange about courting six years ends with the film star now. The speaker notes the actress’s fame and remarks on her screen romance, highlighting a light theatrical mood and banter about love and opportunity.
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Sue Brett
Venus
Dishes at Leber's Some Solidity to Mercury
Mercury is described as a hot small planet about three times Earth's moon in size and a more solid body than Earth, weighing like a lead sphere of equal bulk. The note links kitchen topics to planetary science in a concise, casual piece.
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Mercury
Moon
Earth
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