Our Problem is to Make This Truly A Commercial Age
A public exhortation argues for collective effort to accelerate the shift toward a fully commercial era, urging cooperation across sectors to harness economic growth. The text stresses unity, productivity, and policy support to realize widespread market development.
Duty for Makers of America A Call to Pure National Life
The Rev Dr Lyman Abbott argues for a cooperative industry and a moral national life. He condemns needless friction and class antagonism and urges duty to employer customer and Commonwealth. He envisions a truly commercial age built on mutual service and harmonious homes.
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America
Graft Is Common Thievery In Which Biggest Thief Wins
The text contrasts theft amounts from $10 to $1,000,000 to classify criminal labels and social perception, arguing that small sums are theft while large sums provoke admiration and notoriety for the thief. It discusses misappropriation and public opinion across escalating money values.
Graft discussed as public malady in civic reflection
A broad critique labels graft as a common, systemic theft affecting politics and society. It argues graft lies in ordinary citizens and institutions from transport passes to religious and financial sectors, warning how politics can purify and reintegrate thieves.
Consumption as a National Crisis and Cure
Dr Woods Hutchinson argues tuberculosis as a civilizational disgrace and calls for strong preventive laws. He envisions tubercle bacteria replaced by a robust immune defense and urban hygiene reforms to render TB rare within five years.
Hand Bag Fashions and Modish Shirt Waist by Judic Chollet
Exclusive weekend seal leather fitted bag with red leather lining and rose frame plus compact blue saffion bag with imitation ivory frame. Also a dark green morocco bag with grey lining and flat folding handle. The shirt waist features full fronts and a youthful modish style suitable for flannel linen and cotton fabrics. Judic Chollet.
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Morocco
May Manton Pattern 6797 for Misses Childs Ages Eight to Sixteen
Advertises a May Manton pattern cut in sizes for misses ages fourteen sixteen and eight een years. Send 10 cents plus number 6797 to this office to receive by mail. For quicker delivery add a two cent stamp for letter postage.
Snapshots of the mode color trends and designs
The article highlights new colors Bokhara red and Magyar blue green plus blue greens and wedgewood greens in fabrics. Fur stoles feature musquash with tailless ermine lining and banded white fur, while one piece velutina frocks in navy olive and brown show empire waist and kimono sleeves with side buttons. Lace collar tones brighten simple dresses with straight skirts and novel waists.
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Bokhara
Magyar
Prompt delivery by mail for stamps request
A small notice urges sending 10 cents for stamp number 6807 to receive prompt mail delivery. If haste is needed, add two more cents for letter postage to speed the response.
Westport News Roundup Buoys Local Visits and School Events
In Westport several residents visited Greensburg Noblesville Anderson and Geneva while others shopped in Greensburg. The high school orchestra will play at the farmers institute next Monday and Tuesday. Sunday schools in Hartsville and Newbern concluded a three month attendance contest with totals near 300 at Newbern and 247 at Hartsville.
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Farmers’ Institute
Hartsville
Newbern
New York
Jerusalem
Atlantic
Hartsville Christmas Visits Spread Nationwide Headlines
Hartsville brief notes several Christmas visits and holidays across Indiana. Mentions include Miss Nellie Bottorff and family in Indianapolis and Greenburg, Dr. Beck of Patriot with parents, and many Clapp family members visiting Beech Grove Trafalgar and Indianapolis. Others travel to Shelbyville and New Castle for holidays with relatives.
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Nellie Bottorff
Indianapolis
Charles Morrison
Seymour
Frank White
Muncie
Hal White
Calvin C. Clapp
Beech Grove
Fannie Bottorff
Marion Lane
Milford
G. W. Rominger
Columbus
Leona Rawlings
Will Frazier
Greensbur
Jessie Wieley
Shelbyville
Orval Padgett
C. B. Beck
Patriot
W. H. Beck
Lyle Clapp
W. T. Rominger
Noble Cravens
A. N. Phillips
Elza Markland
Clancy Markland
Charles Clapp
Samuel Clapp
E. K. Westhafer
New Castle
F. W. Westhafer
Dee Rutherford
Waldrun
Amusing mix up at the station ends with a stone twist
A young woman who forgets names meets a stranger at a railway station. She recalls meeting him at a friend's house but cannot name him. When he shakes hands she identifies Mr Tombstone, Mrs Walker's guest, but he replies that the place is right yet the name is altered to Mr Stone gave.
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Mr. Stonegave
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
The Lengthy French Marriage Process and Elopement
The piece notes F. Berkeley Smith in Success Magazine on marriages in France requiring months of paperwork and parental consent before the wedding day. It contrasts this with elopement, describing a simpler option with a small budget and quick forgiveness, highlighting the contrast between marriage and divorce challenges.
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France
F. Berkeley Smith
Success Magazine
Hypnotism Breaks Hallucination in Paris Doctor Case
The American Magazine recounts Dr. Pierre Janet’s hypnosis treatment of a woman tormented by a persistent hallucination of a man in the room. After initial failures Janet uses a pig-headed image to provoke revulsion, and the vision fades as the patient loses desire to see her former lover.
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H. Addington Bruce
Pierre Janet
Janet
Dr. Janet
His Modest Proposal
A brief dialogue between an old gentleman and a youth discusses economic life with marriage. The youth argues two can live nearly as cheaply as one, suggesting that the added cost of a wife would be modest within their circumstances.
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Wilson Shafer
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Leafy Richardson
Jacob Ketchum
Waldron
Josie Dishinger
Rushville
Jennie Burroughs
Joy Colson
Noblesville
Cumberland
Thomas Ketchum
Melville Cornutt
Anderson
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Mary E. Stewart
Fannie Robinson
Joseph G. Wieley and
Luella Carr
Geneva
Peon
Anne W. Clouse
Ord Pleak
Letts
Will Tempest
East of Town
Herschel Powner
Clara Westhafer
Indiana Harbor
James O Bline
Mishawaka
Mary Bline Wood
LaCross
Wis
John W. Bline
Sherman Bline
Lena Capper
Harry Miller
Frances Miller
M. E. Parsonage
Our Place
Will Carr
Forest Hill Presbyterian Church
Westhafer
Maggie
Mr. Carr
Meek
A. J. Cottle
Mrs. Garshwiller
Trafalgar
Nellie Anderson
Shepherdsville
Shelby
Morris Clapp
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