Parkway plan for great city of the future drives growth
Mayor Chas A Bookwalter outlines a north and west Fall creek parkway system for Indianapolis. He cites increased land values, higher taxables, and Kansas City as a model where parks and boulevards boosted frontage values and city tax revenue, urging quick action to acquire lands and start construction from Indiana Ave to Northwestern Ave along Fall creek and White river.
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Bockwalter
White River
Fall Creek
Chas
A. Bookwalter
Indiana Ave
Thirtieth-st
State Fair Grounds
Bayond
Howland Bridge
Fort
Millersville
Milburn
Indiana-ave
Emrichsville Bridge
Crawfordsville Pike
The
Water Company
Creek
Kessler
Tenth St
Gas and Water Companies
Indianapolis
Ft. Benjamin Harrison
Garfield Park
Brookside
Davidson
Military Parks
North-st
Fairbanks
Kissel
Osgood
Thirty-fourth-sts
Northwestern-ave
Capitol-ave
Kansas City
Potatoes Vanish From Oven In Chicago Anecdote
Mrs Zogger mutters about six potatoes in an oven, finds only five after counting twice. The cake bakes well while Theophilus notes a white island in a yellow sea on the slice. She declares one potato must have fallen through the top shelf yesterday in Chicago.
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Mrs. Zogger
Belinda
Mr. Zogger
Theophilus
Chicago Tribune
Sultan’s Jewels Guarded in London Vaults Amid Turmoil
The Sultan of Morocco keeps $5,000,000 in valuables in a bank vault near Charing Cross London. The jewels lie 30 feet below Strand and are watched day and night. Nearby in the same vault are several million pounds in unclaimed jewelry from owners long since gone. An offer of £220,000 as a loan has been made, but the sultan seeks more to fund his army and pay the ransom Raisuli demands for Caid Maclean’s release.
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Morocco
Charing Cross
London
Strand
Raisuli
Caid Maclean
Woman's Independence and Household Dependency
The essay argues that women need personal responsibility beyond mere schooling to keep pace with men. It contends independence strengthens character and intelligence, clarifying that financial autonomy is not required but first hand engagement with the world is essential. It cites Prof. Thomas in Leslie's Weekly noting historic male dominance and the misused role of women.
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Prof
Thomas
Leslie's Weekly
Return of Matthew Rutherford Prompts House Visit
Matthew Rutherford inherits his father's fortune after a sudden death and confronts a choice between hiding his guilt in a murder confession or seeking a fresh start. He receives a telegram from Gabrielle summoning him to a city mansion, where tension and romance resurface.
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A. M
Matthew Rutherford
Ainsley
Rutherford
New York
Gabrielle
Facts and Folklore About Bar Education and Bread History
In New York City about 12,300 men educated for the bar work outside law offices. They have long used peanut meal bread in Spain, described as light and porous yet unpalatable, eaten mainly by the lower classes. The first silk hat appeared in London worn by John Hetherington on January 5, 1797, leading to an arrest and later a reprimand.
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New York City
Spain
London
John Hetherinton
Notes of a Southern Journey Features and Oddities
A travelogue section surveys Southern life from Richmond to New Bern and Fredericksburg. It notes barber shifts, wire screens to fence hogs, New York drummers, Richmond nursery trees, a skating pond, Wilmington women’s clubs linked to powder production, and graveyard habits. The piece visits Chancellorsville and Stonewall Jackson’s wound site, mentions mistletoe in gum tree branches, parasitic ferns on elms, and railroad timetable quirks. It closes with Carolina coast blooms and lingering portraits of travel.
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South
Richmond Society For the Prevention of
New York
Gaston
New Bern
Richmond
Wilmington
Del
Fredericksburg
Chancellorsville
Stonewall Jackson
North Carolina
Washington
Pullman Foltks
State Lines
Carolina Coast Line
Reader Magazine and American Review Highlights
The February issue mix announces a union with Putnam's and previews major articles by Hugo Munsterberg, Herbert Quick, and Bryan Beveridge topics. It lists fiction by Curwood and Lopes, notes from The Circle, Delineator tips on doilies, and features on Lincoln, Mars life, Warfield, and Daingerfield with other periodical contents and department notes.
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Putnam's
Union of Interest
Hugo Munsterberg
Harvard
Herbert Quick
Bryan-Beveridge
Bryan
Beveridge
J. ©. Curwood
Great Lakes
John T. McIntyre
Monsignor
John S. Lopes
Mister Cowen
Theodosia Garrison
Alexander SK. McClure
Lincoln
David Todd
Amherst
Mars
Edwin Markham
Man With
Porter Emerson Browne
Harvey Origgins
Mary Tracy Frarie
Maude L. Radford
Anne Warner
Sophie Kerr Underwood
David Warfield
Warfield
Dr. Hale
Lyman Beecher Stowe
America
Elizabeth M. S. Fite
Elliott Daingerfield
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J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
H. H. Rogers, Jr
Earl P. Shaw
Secretary of the Treasury
Laura Jean Libbey
Matt Rutherford
Wallst
Philip Ainsley
Matt
West Afton
Papa
Mrs. Ainsley
Castoria
China
Moses
Ikentucky
Martha McCulloch-Williams
Lord Kelvin
J. F. Springer
Willam Atherton du Puy
George Meredith
G. W. Thattis
W W. Fforbes-Lindsay
William H. Allen
Red Cross
Army of Industry
Arthur B Reeve
Frances Maule Bjorkman
Charles Sumner Lobingier
Min
Womer
Raia Dance
Kushion Komioil Shoes
Pythian Hlag
Mass. Ave
Penn- St
Schneider
W. Monument Place
Son
Sete
Sun
R. Kinklin
N. Delaware
the Union Trust CO
E. Market St
Walser Stowanko “Terme
Ndiana
Domb Bros
W. Washington
Vonnegut Hardware Co
Optician
Llinois St
Ferger’s Drug
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