Music lessons wasteful in Chicago say experts
A Chicago music master estimates over 3,000,000 yearly wasted on lessons for girls and boys with no talent. He notes one in five girls takes piano or voice. many parents push piano lessons despite lack of ability, suggesting selective tutoring to match a child’s real potential. He compares efficiency to evolving engine tech and notes progress from Watt to triple expansion engines.
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Gil Burner Fo Replace Steam Engine
Daniel McTarisn argues the steam engine, though central to civilization, is doomed by wastefulness. He notes coal energy and furnace inefficiencies, with 90 to 95 percent of fuel lost as exhaust, urging a shift to more efficient prime movers.
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Gil Burner
Daniel McTarisn
Partisanship in Municipal Affairs by Mayor Weaver
Mayor Weaver argues that partisan politics poisons municipal government and urges publicity non partisanship and vigilance as the gospel of reform. He condemns party camp followers and calls for a nonpartisan civic faith to improve city governance.
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Pailadelphia
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AYER
Divorce Not an Unqualified Evil
Rev. Minot J. Savage argues that modern divorce often serves oppressed women by offering a legitimate path to a freer, healthier life. He says law and church cannot create marriages, only protect and recognize a born reality, and that staying in a sham harms children and women alike.
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Minot J. Savage
Aleady
Marrie
Miracle of Change Pageant Sparks Youthful Wonder
Fragmented OCR passage describes a vivid pageant or poetic tableau celebrating life, age, and change. It references a New York audience and mentions scenes of gold tapestries, a yearly youth parade, and reflections on life’s marvels. The text includes stray dialect and dialog about meals and travel.
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New York
Comfort Fairhaven Aids Beleaguered Travelers At Farm
In a dusty road scene Miss Comfort Fairhaven counsels two poor travelers, a sick father and a young girl, before guiding them to a hopeful home. A later arrival, a refined young woman, rekindles old ties and offers shelter to the family at the Fifth Avenue home.
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Miss Fairhaven
Mitie Fiste
McDougal's Creek Frontier Tragedy and the Silver Tip Bear
In the McDougal valley near a tributary of the Peace River a settler family endures a silver tip grizzly raid. The bear destroys livestock, slashes at the shack, and the mother dies after a cow and calf loss. The squaw Mizzkeok aids, cooks, and confronts the threat as the family shelters, hoping for the father’s return while enduring night fears. garrisoned by the Indian and the resilient family, the harsh frontier life unfolds with grim survival.
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Question on Name Change Probed by City Census Taker
A Chicago census taker asks a woman her pre marriage name while noting the change of identity after marriage. The Detroit Free Press records the exchange as part of routine demographic inquiries in the city.
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Chicago
Detroit Free Presa
The Ladies Aid and the Big Church Fundraiser
A Reformed Church Hertakh poem laments the Ladies Aid fundraising for an elaborate church with a gallery dome and organ. It recalls costs of five thousand for the gallery ten thousand total and three thousand for the organ, with plans for sociables, teas, and repeated campaigns over seven years while noting the gendered labor behind the effort.
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Ladies’ Aid Society
Bear-Driven Calf Survival and Tribal Stratagem
In a remote tale a squaw sets a bear trap to defend a calf inside a shed. Stones pile on the roof to deter a grizzly. The bear collapses the shed as it roars and dies under the weight, while Mizakook guards the scene and the cow until MacDougal's return.
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Missionary Work in China Reassesses Conversion Efforts
A London Times report recalls how early Chinese conversion attempts through medical missions and schooling largely failed. It notes the Tel-Ping rebellion and limited impact of Christian prophets before evangelists opened stations and attracted leaders, while Japanese actions and anti-Christian sentiment influenced thousands of Chinese students. The piece ends calling for prayer and cooperation to renew a world-changing effort.
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Landigrat Bond
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Timothy Richard
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al- Thast
Allan
Ireas
Refara
Diadis Press
Osmoo
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China
Orisia
Grace of Eastern Women Presented in Classic Procession
A writer from the Metropolitan sketches a single file procession of Eastern women. He notes their white garments and headpieces as they pass, comparing the scene to antique sculpture and pondering gender relations with dry humor. The piece reflects on social attitudes toward men and women in a dated, observational tone.
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