Wealth does not guarantee happiness in poverty says survey
The Christian Register laments enduring poverty amid wealth as readers are unsettled by a rush for electric cars and crowded seats. A Belgian government report shows Belgium has Europe’s densest population with 605 persons per square mile, versus 410 in Holland and 649 in England, while over twelve percent of Belgian soldiers remain illiterate.
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Christian Register
Belgium
Europe
Holland
England
Society of the Cincinnati selects merit tune for medal
The Society of the Cincinnati committee may choose a meritorious tune and award its medal but getting the public to adopt the selected tune in place of the well known "America" is another matter, per the Philadelphia Press.
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Society of the Cincinnati
America
Philadelphia
New York Dominates Collar and Cuff Production
Census shows 57 US firms producing collars and cuffs, 54 of them in New York. Output totals 15,534,401 dollars annually, while the remaining three factories in other states generate only 57,188 dollars per year.
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New York
United States
Illiteracy Rates Among Immigrants by Nationality
Immigrants arriving now show lower illiteracy. Last year 62 percent of adult Syrians landing at New York could not read or write. Southern Italians 55 percent, Greeks 21 percent, andPolish immigrants 31 percent.
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New York
Farming as a scientific factory run by skilled labor
The Galveston News notes that every farm is a factory with nature as boss the soil and seed as materials and the farmer as worker. It argues farming must be done scientifically to ensure success and calls for farmers to master their trade like machinists printers or steelmakers.
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The
Galveston News
Woman Opens Kitchen Jobs in Chicago Stockyards
The report notes 207 licensees conducted 11 645 experiments in 1901 with 287 trend tensees. It calls the fifty four page record a monument to state interference in science and cites Woman in Chicago stockyards taking kitchen work duties in packing and canning plants including sausage stuffing and dried beef cutting.
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British Medical Journal
Chicago
Tran
Parental Consent Rules Govern German Youth Marriages
The article explains that in Germany young people cannot marry without parental or legal guardian consent and required formalities. It notes that once a girl reaches marriageable age, parents invite several suitors to the home to avoid seeming targeted, but no man is invited until he has first visited to express social interest.
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Germany
Name change nets Vassar 12000 from Holmes Frisbie
Springfield dispatch reports Louise Irisbie's will left 12000 dollars to Vassar College if Lumas W. Holmes of Springfield changed his name to Frisbie. Holmes refused to change, but has now chosen the Frisbie name, enabling the inheritance.
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Springfield
Vassar College
Louise Irisbie
Lumas W. Holmes
Frisbie
She the
Holmes
Vassar Will
Thanksgiving Reflections After a Long Day and Night Sky
A weary day ends as stars emerge bringing quiet after doubt. The speaker seeks freedom for the soul and uplifted prayer, catching a larger view and a shining goal on barren moorlands. Thanksgiving arrives as the hour passes, offering rest.
Outlaw Chase Across New Mexico Ends in Indian Adobes
Sheriff and Jim push toward Ojo Caliente chasing Ed Tilbury in a tense pursuit. Seven shots left for Jim and four for the captain as they ride toward a distant mesa framing Mexico. A rugged pursuit through Las Cruces backstories and a high-stakes showdown amid desert towns and old rustler lore.
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Ojo Caliente
Jim
Mexico
Cap
Caliente
Adobes
Captain Early
Tilbury
Silver City
Santa Fe
el Paso
Crews
Rio
Early
Las Cruces
Biff Hickey
Chase Across the Sand Hills Ends With a Kid Hero
Sheriff Early and Jim pursue Tilbury through desert towns and canyons with a daring chase across Ojo Caliente. A brown cheeked boy on a buckskin horse helps, then disappears toward the Rio Grande after Tilbury is shot and the bandits flee toward Mexico.
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Jim
Early
Eand
Oman
Cap
Sheriff Early
Bowlderstrewn
Tilbury
Rio Grande
Barry
Lim
Kid
Cunnin
Manana
Ojo Caliente
Bif
Bare tale on a bear hunt amid a traveler's train
In a Florence to Denver overland trip described by The World's Work a group of vacation seekers share tales of a grizzly hunt, a Wisconsin native nicknamed Billy recalls his uncle’s bear chase, and a dog and boy survive a railcar close call as the party ascends toward the Continental Divide amid striking Arkansas River scenery.
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Florence
Boston
Denver
California
New Orleans
Idaho Mountains
Missoula
Meeker
Billy
Continental Divide
Tennessee Pass
Arkansas
Pacific
Perk
Geneval
Bearr
Wisconsin
Oregon
Jumpoff
Gilly
Kaiser
Age and Appetite in Old Age Debate
Sir Henry Thompson warns against increased eating to sustain strength in older age and opposes heavy animal nourishment. Overfeeding can cause pains, impaired excretion, and gout, while artificial teeth may fail as digestion changes. Indigestion signals misfit diet rather than illness, as no food is universally wholesome for every person.
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Sir Henry Thompson
Baltimore Sun
Expenses of the White House in the 1900s era
The government spends about 65 000 dollars to operate the White House economy. Of this, 50 000 goes to the executive payroll for thirty staff from a 5000 dollar secretary to low paid messengers. The remaining 15 000 covers furniture, repairs, stationery, and horse feed. The office benefits from economies such as free official mail and discounted telegraph and cable rates.
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White House
Two Heroes of Loyalty Between Boy and Dog on 110th Street
A ragged boy walks with a large bundle along 110th Street when a mastiff charges him. The boy defends his master with a fierce, brave struggle, displaying devotion and courage in a brutal moment. The scene underscores a bond between boy and dog amid hardship.
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Boy
Bundle
New York Commercial
110Th Street
Eighth Avenue
Treed by Huck and the deer scare Bowles homeward
Olen Towles of Costello Pennsylvania, employed by a tannery, spotted a wounded fawn on a woods road. As he prepared to help, a snarling buck pursued him and the fawn, forcing Towles to climb a tree and wait until dark. A neighbor finally assisted in the escape from the pursuing deer described as a terror of the neighborhood.
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Huck
Olen Towles
Costello
Bowles
Stregele With Muskallonge and Dunlap’s Great Fight
Charley Dunlap battled a twenty pound muskallonge on a rough lake with a hand line in a frail canoe. The fish circled the boat trying to snag the line, winding it around Dunlap’s ankles and threatening a capsize. He freed himself, resumed the fight, and finally hauled the exhausted muskallonge aboard.
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Stregele
Charley Dunlap
Dunlap
Dunglap
Danlap
New York Sun
Swordfish Boat Battle Ends with 300-Pound Catch
The Forest Maid, a Boston bound schooner from George's with forty one swordfish, reports A Scott wrestled a 300 pound fish off the bowsprit. The creature pierced the boat’s bottom during the struggle, forcing the dory to be hoisted to the deck to free the fish, which died afterward.
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Forest Maid
Sinnett
Boston
George's
A. Scott
Scott
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