Air age musings and world affairs echo in Holbrook
The column mixes wry quips on aviation and wireless tech with social notes and brief on current events. It touches on stock market fraud, butter and margarine thoughts, a New York band leader’s imprisonment, and general progress lore. It also surveys pork production trends, western trade policy, and Japanese expansion in Manchuria, highlighting risks to U S and western commerce.
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Nikola Testa
United States
China
Japan
Manchuria
Korea
Science and love clash over planned marriage proposal
A Kansas agricultural college professor advocates a scoring system for marriage akin to livestock breeding. He argues for formal standards in selecting mates, citing scientific breeding of animals. Critics warn this would strip romance and human choice from love and marriage.
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Agricultural College of
Kansas
Freckle Cure Tale from Salt Beach Fortune Teller
A reader recalls a Philadelphia Record item about a supposed freckle cure sold by a Salt Beach fortune-teller. Nurses bought the $1 treatment, read a moonlit letter, and learned the cure involved removing freckles with a penknife and smoke treating them, a hoax that heeded no real science.
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Philadelphia Record
Salt Beach
Moon
Three Churches and Odd Hotel Banter In 1900s Style
A humorous hotel exchange portrays a traveler asking about local denominations. The clerk jokes that the town has three churches one of which is neither Reformed nor United. Scattered snippets include a barber gag about egg shampoo and a tip on sealing gasoline leaks with soap.
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Ohio
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Michigan
Missouri
Nebraska
Commonwealths
United States
Emall Southwestern
Papers on the Youthful Criminal Problem by Thurde Rayle Bruce
The article treats youth crime as a national challenge in big cities. It argues lenient parenting fuels delinquency, notes youths steal from family first, and cites cases of boys aged about 15 pilfering jewelry and clothing. It highlights parental embarrassment over theft.
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Thurde Rayle Bruce
United States
Influence of the Mind Upon the Body
Dr Hr Cradle explains how mind governs only some voluntary muscles while interior nerves regulate organs like blood flow and digestion. Mental states can disturb or ease bodily functions. focus and fear can amplify pain, yet the mind can lessen suffering though it cannot alter disease duration.
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Hr. Cradle
Fragmentary medical note on mental influences on illness
A fragment discusses how mental impressions can lessen annoyance of an ailment and lead the sufferer to claim a curative effect, even if the disease's course remains unchanged. It notes the influence of the patient's frame of mind on perceived improvement.
Children the Great Conservatives
Mary O Connors essay argues that children resist modern toys and simplified editions, preferring timeless old tales and rhymes. She contends that ancient stories endure because children naturally gravitate toward original, elemental forms rather than elaborate modern paraphernalia.
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Mary O'Connor Newell
MAN NEEDS RELIGIOUS FELLOWSHIP
Professor George Burman Foster argues that a living religious life requires communal fellowship. He urges united believers to shed individualism, rekindle brotherly love, and restore the early Christian spirit to heal division and renew life in God.
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George Burman Foster
The Optimistic Japanese Amid War Debts and Tax Zeal
The piece extols Japanese optimism amid postwar taxation and debt. It notes heavy taxes on cigars and tobacco, a booming commercial scene, and scarcity of horses in urban Japan. It argues horses threaten labor and rickshaw jobs, linking animals to economic and war debt impacts.
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Japan
English lecturer argues women valued by employers
Miss Ethel Arnold of England told New York an audience that political power leads to economic independence and that employers prefer women for steady habits and absence of drinking or gambling. She praised 700 women seen at a factory exit and warned wage gaps persist unless standards rise.
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Ethel Arnold
England
New York City
United Kingdom
Quote on married women's wages and legal share
The speaker argues that excluding married women from factory work requires ensuring she receives a definite legal share of her husband's wages as keeper of the house and mother of his children. The remark highlights wage rights and family responsibilities in that era.
Statue Honors Late Empress Ruler Treasures Masterpiece
A new equestrian statue of the late empress of Austria, modeled by Prof. Friedrich Haussman, moves from studio to private possession of the aged emperor who treasures it as a masterpiece. The figure shows the empress riding a thoroughbred, reins loose and a rose in the other hand.
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Vienna
Austria
Friedrich Haussman
Men Who Paid Back
Levi P Morton, Quincy A Shaw, Potter Palmer and S A White are cited as living examples of success after failure. Morton, once a vice president and partner in Morton Grinnell Co, saw his house pend, with firm debts settled after 1861. A Century tale recalls Morton’s dinner where creditors found checks repaying amounts owed.
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Levi P. Morton
Quincy A Shaw
Potter Palmer
S. A. White
United States
Morton, Grinnell & Co
Mr. Morton
Quincy A. Shaw
Boston
Notable Finance Moves and Wit from the Era
The article recalls investors returning Calumet and Heele stock to Shaw after honorably repaid creditors with interest when copper wealth rose. It notes Potter Palmer’s resurgence post fire and Stephen V. White’s fortunes from stock ventures, ending with Frederick’s ironic remark about a $2.60 crib. It also presents opinions from Howells Slossen Grant and others on women’s suffrage and civic education.
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Shaw
Calumet & Heele
Potter Palmer
Stephen V. White
William Dean Howells
Edwin E. Slossen
Percy
Grant
New York
Saltably Named and a Fragmented Conversation
A quirky exchange praises Boaxin's new suit as a perfect poem. The dialogue shifts to a plan to grow hair to help pay a mortgage on a beloved home. A question about a doctor attended to an aunt ends with the answer that she died a natural death.
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Boaxin
John
James
Mission Doctors In China Offer Low Cost Surgeries
Dr H N Kinnear leads a Foochow hospital operating in a home seitting room with limited staff. Last year he performed over 800 operations for nearly 18 000 patients. a new hospital is being built on high ground to serve the city. Fees max 5 cents to 25 cents with native Christian aides providing daily religious services and patient support.
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Foochow
Boston Transcript
H. N. Kinnear
Kinnear
United States
How Money Gets Into Circulation and Other Items
A compilation of explanations on types of legal tender and how metal is replaced by certificates, plus anecdotes: a joke about a baby named Shady Bow er, a hunter praising a powerful old shotgun, and notes on summer research plans and wealthy men.
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Treasury
United States Treasury
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Arizona
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Arctic
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Helen
William B. Watt
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Empre
Frederick
Amelia
Nottinghamshire
Shadrachen
Bower
Shady
Shady Bower
Cleveland Plain Dealer
New England
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