Gazette readers give views on social changes
Citizens across the country provide views via NEA Service to the Gazette, expressing opinions on glands, scientific schemes, and modern social trends, with many deeming such topics as buncombe and resistive to reform.
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Unclear Fragment Notes Communication on Monkeys and Farm Life
Fragmentary text discusses foolishness and debate on a hatcho or man, mentions payment, ideas on weight and farming, and usefulness of childhood labor. The readable lines lack coherent event or clear entities.
Ezra Meeker and the modern woman in old Oregon
Ezra Meeker at ninety two recalls crossing the country with an ox team and witnessing how women helped build the West. He blames mothers for letting daughters neglect duties like weaving and cooking, arguing that modern science cannot change nature or a man’s time.
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Oregon
West
Daniel Kennard Urges Simple Life Against Prolongation
Brooklyn man Daniel Kennard argues against life extension experiments and urges a plain lifestyle with outdoor work and abstinence from tobacco and liquor. He warns against younger critics and says scientists may die earlier than him.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Old-time girls vs modern ones, Benedict argues
Co P Benedict of New York laments a change in morals, praising the old-fashioned girls of the 1860s for wholesomeness and healthful living. He contrasts this with contemporary concerns about prolonging life through science, calling such worries rot.
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New York
Woman Politician Seeks Abolishment of Justice Office
Yonkers New York reports Justice Justha Thomas, the state's first woman elected to aid an office, plans to resign to push a reform. She proposes courts of conciliation with free legal advice and no paid judges, enabling swift decisions on small claims and easing hardship for the poor.
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Yonkers
Justha Thomas
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Birthplace marker honor for Pershing kin joins Legion project
The Indiana section of the American Legion plans a bronze birthplace marker for Anne Elizabeth Thompson mother of General John J. Pershing born February 16 1835. Captain Emerson J. Lonas leads the effort with the Tennessee Historical Commission funding a two by three foot bronze plaque. In Indianapolis Kenesaw Mountain Landis has sent a 20862 check as the Legion's share of the last World Series proceeds alongside Disabled Veterans and Veterans of Foreign Wars distributions.
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John J. Pershing
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Indianapolis
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Mustache Ban At Defiance College Campus
On Defiance College campus freshmen are forbidden facial hair above the lip. Two freshmen were awakened in Sisson Hall by barber clippers and a third student faced the same fate, leaving only two professors with mustaches.
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Defiance
Ohio
Defiance College
Sisson Hall
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