Heredity and Environment in Modern Thought
A column echoing Dr. Jordan of Stanford on national vitality and the need to strengthen blood and spirit amid prosperity. It calls for improving environments, notes that the rich and poor both bear fault, and questions the replacement of military virtue with peaceable patriotism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jordan
Leland Stanford University
Rome
Pittsburg
Taft chooses Beverly Mass as summer White House
The Taft family will return to Beverly Massachusetts for a summer retreat at Burgess Point. Mrs Taft recovered there last year and will enjoy quiet seaside rest with golf and social visits. President Taft plans a longer 1910 vacation, with trips to nearby fairs and conventions and several golfing rounds daily.
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Beverly
Mass
United States
William H. Taft
Tafts
Little Seashore
North Shore
Massachusetts
White House
Burgess Point
Taft
Ray Bay
Ontario
St. Lawrence River
Murray Bay
Canada
Mabel Boardman
Red Cros
Mrs. Taft
Boardmans
Manchester-by-the-Sea
Miss Boardman
Massachu
Secret Service
Congress
Washington
Alaska
Deverly
Jack” Hammond
W. J. Boardman
C. P. Taft
Cincinnati
Archibald Butt
Galf
America
Efforts Mount to Preserve Gowanus Stone House Site
Miss Georgia Frazer and Charles M. Higgins spearhead plans to acquire a two block plot near Gowanus for a monument and children's playground. The site, key to the Revolutionary War battle of Long Island, lies between Third and Fifth streets and Fourth and Fifth avenues in Brooklyn, where the old Stone house once stood buried under 16 feet of earth.
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Georgia Frazer
Charles M. Higgins
Prospect Park West
Brooklyn
Long Island
Third
Fifth Streets
Fourth and
Fifth Avenues
Washington
East River
Gowanus
Higgins
Miss Frazer
Louis Grube
George Anderson
Board of Estimate
Maryland
Lord Stirling
Lord Cornwallis
Cortelyou House
Nicholas Vechte
Cortelyous
Litchfields
Gowanus Creek
Rebuke misapplied in business setting sparks concern
In a private office a general manager rebukes a junior secretary, prompting reflection on leadership. The speaker argues the reprimand was excessive and public, harming morale, and suggests a private, measured approach would have preserved loyalty, allowed explanation, and avoided embarrassment.
Dangers By Teresa Moore on Girls Choices
The author discusses the crossroads in a young girl's life between being a mother's girl or a good fellow. She contrasts quiet home life with social freedom and warns of temptations facing the paths, noting outcomes range from marriage to bachelorhood.
Opportune Western Lands Offer Free Homesteads
A speaker asserts the day of opportunity in the United States remains strong with vast openings in the western territories. Montana offers 320 acres of free homestead land at low prices, with rich soil and a healthy climate. Wyoming and Idaho also present numerous chances for settlers, professionals, and workers as new towns arise.
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Western Territory
Chicago
Montana
Illinois
Wyoming
Idaho
How to Be a Certain Failure
A satirical list advises readers on flawed approaches in business and life. It mocks avoidance of risk, self-reliance, and optimism, urging persistence in bad habits and predicting inevitable downfall through a sequence of negative maxims. The tone imitates a cautioned warning against defeatist mindset.
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Conault
Tom
Harry
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