A Cheerful Lesson in True Temperance
A reader letter and supporters argue for temperance using baseball figures from New York City. Brooklyn and New York American League clubs advocate light beer with meals while condemning whisky and gin as drugs. Letters from C H Ebbets and John Burke push temperance over total prohibition.
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Association of American Advertisers
New York City
Germany
France
America
Brooklyn National League Baseball Club
New York American League Baseball Club
Shanley’s
C. H. Ebbets
Brooklyn
John Burke
New York American League
New York American Club
Where the corn goes in the United States in 1906
The Kansas City Journal reports the 1906 corn crop of 2,666,000,000 bushels was allocated to flour and grist mill products 241,000,000 bushels, starch 8,000,000, distilled liquors 9,000,000, glucose 40,000,000, export 190,000,000, seed 13,000,000, totaling 518,000,000 bushels or 19.3 percent. Feed use accounts for 8.7 percent or 218,000,000 bushels.
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Kansas City Journal
The Bashful Lover Ends With Quick Wit
A study in courtship humor reports a youth debating how to propose to a girl. He asks a bachelor friend if kneeling is proper and the friend quips that if he does not kneel the girl should get off. The exchange appears in the Washington Post.
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Washington Post
Success After Failure Heine in Glowing Portrait
A vivid tribute to Heinrich Heine lauds his brilliancy wit and critical range. It recalls his failed law career his struggle with poverty and a decade of severe illness yet credits his late years 1848 1855 with enduring literary fame and a will that defied pain.
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Heine
Uncle Solomon
Allgemeine Politische Annaien
Annaleg
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Life in London and Scotland Tenement Realities
A Providence summary notes Britain suffers crowded housing with high death rates. Three hundred thousand Londoners live in one room with multiple occupants while seven other cities tally 20 000 preventable deaths yearly. In Scotland many families lack two rooms and eight million UK residents have minimal weekly income, with high rents.
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London
England
South Africa
Scotland
Glasgow
Kilmarnock
Sizge
Milllion
United Kingdom
Providence
Thrilling Close Call Told From Wallet Story
A man recounts a dramatic escape near Santiago with a ravenous wolves chase as a listener hangs on his tale. The speaker roars of fleeing for life and the wolves closing in, while a woman reacts with astonishment and relief.
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Santiago
Dor
Aiding Nature at Virginia Resort Natural Bridge Restored
A severe winter storm carried away a small natural bridge at a Virginia resort. Local natives rebuilt the bridge but a sign by the builders read NATURAL BRIDGE Erected by John J. Simmons & Co. Lippincott's.
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Virginia
Dulldera
John J. Simmons & Co
Lippincott's
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Lover
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Perdi Ue Ti
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Goethe
Beranger
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