Back-to-the-farm plan aids aging business women
The article discusses a movement to help aging business women find work after retirement through model farm colonies in Texas, Missouri, and Alabama. Each colony pairs 40 acre plots with expert supervision, school facilities, and homes, offering profits estimated at 3600 dollars yearly and modern conveniences to attract older women to country life.
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Idleven
Plons
Wilson
J. Bryan
Jacob Riis
B. F. Yoakum
Abbott
Jane Addams
Joseph W. Folk
Texas
Missouri
Alabama
Tie
Eeach
Europe
Ife
To Tip or Not to Tip A Washington D C Issue
A newspaper column analyzes tipping as a nuisance and potential law. It details a proposed House committee bill to criminalize tipping for hotel and restaurant staff in Washington with penalties for tipsters and tippees. It argues public opinion and business leadership are key to abolishing tipping, noting wage concerns and ethical questions.
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House Committee of
District of Columbia
City of
Washington
Build Vitality to Restore Joy in Life
The piece argues that disgust with life stems from low vitality. By boosting health through exercise, fresh air, and good food, one gains energy, improves mood, and regains appetite for living. It contends effort and resilience follow renewed vitality, improving all daily tasks and experiences.
Dormant Capacities and Roosevelt’s Energies
A discussion cites Roosevelt as an example of awakening dormant capacities. Psychologists warn many people possess untapped energy and abilities, only used under pressure. The piece urges studying daily life to identify leaks of energy and to live up to one’s full potential for a richer, healthier harvest of contentment.
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Roosevelt
Wry maxims from the Sioux City Tribune
A collection of humorous aphorisms and satirical quips on topics like marriage money politics and education. The items poke fun at bigamy insurance agents public morals and human foibles with a wry newspaper voice. Several lines contrast timely social issues with wordplay and ironic observations.
Couldn't Say It. A Stuttering Boy Delivers a Note
A Wall Street broker with a stuttering son George carries a note across the city for a neighbor. After a three hour trip he asks how much he charged. The boy gasps out Fifteen cents. The neighbor suggests a quarter. George replies I couldn't say it.
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Metropolitan Magazine
Wall Street
George
Story of a Log Pain Joke Reveals Human Folly
Professor William James of Harvard uses a grim superstition tale to show how awkward facts mislead. A man claims a wooden log caused pain to a friend Jones before a punchline reveals the log was beaten by the wife, exposing a misapplied cause.
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William James
Harvard
Janieu P
Jones
Foreordination Versus Free Will Predicted By Plato Era Wit
The mock exchange has Plato asking how foreordination fits with free will, and Bocrates quips that a future T year old prodigy will decipher it. The passage suggests even ancient thinkers foresaw a highly capable American student in the 20th century.
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Bocrates
Plato
America
Marse Henry on Wives and Women Rights
Kentucky editor Colonel William Henry Watterson discusses matrimony and woman suffrage. He warns against excessive drinking, urges discretion about women, and argues rights rest with God and nature while expressing skepticism about nationwide woman suffrage. He cites Colorado sparsity and notes some advocates as childless or socialites like Mrs Mackay and Mrs Belmont.
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New York
Henry Watterson
Kentucky
Win McKey
Germany
Watterson
Mary Jane
Lars
Colonel Watterson
Colorado
Mackay
Belmont
Bankers and professors clash over ice cream and love
A Western Banker column playfully mocks college professors who blame ice cream for bad complexion and misused romance. It riffs on social norms, flirtation at gates, barbers, and bankers while lampooning ethics codes and retail habits in a satirical, period voice.
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Cupid
Breach of Precedence at Cleveland Baseball Banquet
Los Angeles Times recounts Cal Wright’s tale of old time baseball tours as melodramas. He recalls Josh Brady’s 1872 season traveling on a stock train with actors aboard and a humorous inspector incident prompting a joke about ordering actors first.
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Los Angeles Times
Calvin J. Wright
Cleveland
Bnow
Josh Brady
Georgee
Do Not Be Discouraged Preach the Gospel
A young minister fears criticism from scholars in his college town. He asks his father how to preach when geology myth and literature teachers could challenge his examples. The father advises keep to the gospel for they likely know little of those fields.
May I See My Father’s Record? New Buffalo Student Question
A Buffalo Express snippet shows a new student asking about his father’s record from the class of ’77. The dialogue explores expectations and the stake of not disgracing a family name as he debates his future path.
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The
Buffalo Express
Day Is Dying Poem Fragment by George Ellot
A poem fragment titled Day Is Dying echoes in a requiem tone praising a mighty Giver. The verses describe time piercing, rivers, clouds, and a drifting swan as imagery shifts between earth and heaven. The speaker names George Ellot as the author.
Jews Flocking to Palestine From The Christian Herald
The article notes a dramatic Jewish migration to Palestine driven by industrial revival and pogroms in Russia and Romania. It cites a jump from 606 Jews in 1827 to about 60 000 in and around Jerusalem, highlighting new red houses and transformative life in the Holy Land.
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Christian Herald
Holy Land
Palestine
Moses Montefiore
Jerusalem
Russia
Revival of Industry in Jewish Colonies of Galilee and Judea
Decayed towns like Tiberias and Hebron now host modern workshops with cabinetmakers carpenters smiths and tailors all Jews quietly reviving ancient crafts. In these colonies the language of Moses and David is once again spoken as a living daily tongue. The revival, once derided, has become an accomplished success.
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Galilee
Judea
Tiberias
Hebron
Safed
Moses
David
That Held Father
Melrose man recalls his harsh barn session with his son as the boy pleads to stop the spankings. The father notes his own punishment as a child and reflects on whether such discipline cures misbehavior. The exchange ends with the father saying he has not spanked the boy since.
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Melrose
A Match in The Figaro Play Exchange
A Belle asks Nell if she and a suitor are suited. Nell responds they are perfectly matched as their tastes align, though neither cares much for the other.
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Nell
Window Ledge Unsafe Place to Cool Feet
A hot day prompts Dick Richard to rest his feet on a hotel window ledge. A loosened window falls, injuring his toes and ending his stay as he leaves town. The incident highlights unsafe ledges and unusual cooling locales in a Sioux City hotel.
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Bronx City Tribune
Missouri River
Dick” Richard
Boyd Hotel
Richard
Sioux City
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Jack
Love
Loveuilt
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