Genius vs Talent in Mind and Work
The essay argues genius equals a capacity for hard work and unique personal force. It contrasts genius with talent, noting most minds vary in degree rather than kind. True genius, like Da Vinci or Angelo, excels in one supreme area, with a distinctive stamp that few possess.
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Ber Jonson
Bex
Byron
Tennyton
Poe
Coleridge
Dee
Tilo
da Vinci
Angelo
Whitman
Vocational Education Favored to Curb Truancy
DR RR Reeders argues in New York that school curriculums must align with industrial needs to engage youths. He contends traditional liberal studies fail to compete with work and practical labor, urging broader vocational training to prevent truancy and prepare workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RR. Reeder
New York
Gas Differences in Hogs and Men by Richard W Howes
Rich W Howes notes differences between hogs and men in meat quality and training. Canadian peas and barley fed porkers yield leaner, finer ham with more leaf fat than corn-fed U S hogs. South’s mast-fed pigs differ from dairy fattened ones in texture. Experts spot grades. laymen see only pigs. Also mentions vermiform appendix, overcoats, drinking, and storms shaping Michigan crop timing and purebred sheep breeding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hove
Costly myths of small homes and building costs
The piece argues that affordable compact homes can be built with modern amenities, citing editor William A. Radford and urging readers to study real construction costs. It notes public fascination with low cost housing, explains that total project costs exceed apparent prices, and outlines a specific house plan including room sizes and layout considerations.
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Wiliam A. Rayford
Vals
William A. Radford
West Jackson Boulevard
Chicago
Til
America
Marking End of Greatness In Augustan Rome
A contemporary portrait notes that during Augustus era the Roman people grew rich and luxurious while morals deteriorated and birth rates fell. Literature and the stage were deemed indecent as men chose bachelorhood and women divorce, signaling a grand but fragile society.
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Augustus
Building a modest home amid rising costs and moral concerns
The text argues building a low cost, attractive small house is feasible despite high land, furnishing, and embellishment costs. It urges prospective builders to start now, noting materials stay expensive, and frames morality as the true driver of national welfare rather than money alone. It blends housing economics with a moral digest and miscellaneous curiosities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uttle
Lighting Journal
Hindue Students In Britain and Edinburgh
The Montreal Gazette reports 1600 to 1700 Hindu students in Great Britain this winter with 18 percent at Oxford and Cambridge, 700 at inns of Court, 300 in Edinburgh. It notes most students excel yet Edinburgh cohort shows race prejudice discouraged by authorities and calls for Indian education parity. Chevalier Arrigo Bocchi plans lighting at St James Hall London to keep audiences in semi darkness so performers are unseen by the audience.
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Britain
Great Britain
Oxford
Cambridge
The
Inns of Court
Edinburgh
Montreal Gazette
London
India
Chevalier Arrigo Bocch
St. James' Hall
Great
Portland Street
England
Nancy Cricket Finds Ride to Love and Marriage
In a crowded boarding house Nancy Cricket gains a life changing ride with Benjamin Dickson in his red car. He asks her to marry him after a park outing, and she accepts with plans for a cozy home and shared life. The rector’s light interference ends with a firm wedding date set for a month hence.
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Cricket
Pam
Miss Brown
Belle Brown
Miss Cricket
Mr. Dickson
Jaca Bell
Biddy
Beeks
Benjamin Dickson
Masters
Breks
Milas Brown
Misa Cricket
Mr. Benjamin Dickson
Miss
Misa
Nancy Cricket
Nancy
Beeks House
Dickson
Miss Nancy
Benjamin Dig¢kson
McClure
Hopeful French Furniture and Odd Fare Scene
A Kansas City Star fragment mentions a Louis XV bedroom set in a large furniture store window admired by two women one of whom quips about ex-wee furniture. A light-haired woman pays a conductor the fare, as a brief, curious anecdote closes the clipping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wood B. Highbrow
Kansas City Star
Teaching on Prayer from Luke and Matthew Sermon
A Sunday school lesson outlines Jesus teaching on prayer through example and formula. It treats reverent example as the primary teaching method, presents the Lord’s Prayer as a pedagogical tool, and uses the parable of a friend at midnight to illustrate persistent prayer and trust in God.
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Jesus
John the Baptiver
God
Heaven
Earth
Christ
Phil
Henry Ward Beecher
Reproof in Memory of Dr Keate and Franco Prussian Veteran
Anecdotes recount a cold morning rebuke by Eton headmaster Dr Keate and a musketeer from the Third Dragoons later famed for bravery at Sikhs battle. Also noted is General McAdams of Scotch birth who earned a French parliament seat despite uncertain naturalization after wartime service.
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Keate
Eton
Keats
Fr. Keats
Third Dragoons
Ang Regia
Bobraon
Agnes Reppiler
Atlantic
McAdams
France
Cannas
Brance
Chamber of Deputies
Chamber
Sizing It Up. Hiram and the wife of a countryman in the city
A garbled humorous scene shows Hiram arguing over kitchen purchases and misplacing a roast while buying small items. A quirky exchange reveals frugal habits and a wary talk of concealment before a punchy aside on household budgeting and food spending.
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Hiram
Woman Refuses Operation in Logansport Ad Claim
A Logansport Indiana advertisement features Mrs Damier D. B. Davis praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female troubles. She says she avoided surgery after using the remedy and recommends it to others. The notice asks readers to write for confidential advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Logansport
Tnd
Pinkham
Tim
Tam
Damier D. B. Davis
Franklin St
Logemsport
Ind
Lydia E. Pinkham
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Columbus Journal
Cozwess
Wendder
Emily
Fliegende Blaetter
Livine Froort
Wecaa
Pearson's Magazine
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Agri Co
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