Design of the New Gold Coins Draws Criticism and Praise
Curator T. L. Comparette of the United States Mint in Philadelphia weighs the new nineteen dollar gold coin against the older piece. He argues the old coin’s merit lies in tradition while urging balanced design, clarity of mottoes, and better placement of the national slogan in a thoughtful update.
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United States
Philadelphia
St Gaudens
T. L. Comparette
United States Mint
Inter. Br
A Bunch of Old Love Letters
Stella Avery wrestles with a trunk of Perry Lawson letters and her wedding plans. After reading Perry’s tender words she contemplates her true love, then confronts reality when Perry returns after years. The choice between Perry and Howard Patterson tests her future.
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Angela Morgan
W.R Hewat
Stella Avery
Buttons
Minx
Avery
Abeert
Perry Lawson
Perry
Howard Patterson
Stella Louie
Stella Louise
Clive
Tloward Patterson
Shiv
Bee
Hutton
Wien
Terietf
Diouiniel
Perry Lewein
Yale's Hannibal Silliman Caricatures and Campus Legend
New Haven, Conn.—G. W. Hannibal Silliman, Yale's famed ambidextrous caricaturist and campus legend, taught a class, sold homemade candies, and entertained students with Latin scraps. His doublehanded drawings and stagelike theater presence made him a lasting, if quirky, figure in Yale lore.
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New Haven
Conn
Yale
Hannibal
Westville
G. W. Hannibal Silliman
Wero
Oak
Horace
Pastor uses stage performances to teach morals in Indiana
In Galveston Cass county Rev. N C Becket, a prosperous pastor, forms a church dramatics group open to all, using plays like Arthur Eustace and Pot a Miner's Daughter to sway voters against saloons. The club funds a stage and plane for the church and draws interest from other ministers to replicate the method.
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Indianapolis
N.C. Becket
Galveston
Cass County
Einners
Indiana
Becket
Flo
Mr. Mecker
Arthur Eustace
Eustace
Wu Ting Fang Return to America as Reformer
Amid a flood of text a battered dispatch recalls Wu Ting Fang returning to the United States in 1902 to advocate reform and oppose Chinese exclusion. The account notes his critiques of the boycott and his push for modernization while recounting questions from officials and public reactions during a train journey.
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WU Ting Fang
America
China
Washington
Wu Ting Pang
Ching
Foreign Office
Yados
Pat
United States
Phelan
Binfrancisee
Li Hunkhang
Wooshineton
Pith
Helphia
Wau
Tibet
Amusing tales and Confucian pragmatism in text
The passage recounts humorous anecdotes about a bald man unable to tell tea from water, compares American and Chinese jokes, and notes Wu's view that Confucius offers practical moral guidance while Jesus ideals are sublime but hard to live up to. It ends with Wu criticizing Christian teachers as impractical.
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Confucius
Jesus
Crist
Inpatient Theorists at Boston Religious Liberty Congress
The text reports a speaker from the Inter national Congress of Religious Liberty in Boston criticizing new theories as insufficient without practical work. It references a New Hampshire autumn report and a geologist observing a rock being rolled down a mountain, ending with an anecdote about a dinner and a rock reaching its intended place.
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Witlette
Tibia
Tooker T. Washington
International Congress of Religious Liberty
Boston
Fragmentary Local Note Describes Morning Conversation
A distorted OCR fragment mentions a morning lit scene, a missionary, a person named Stapp, and assorted scattered phrases about a city, a bed, and a wake. The legible parts reference names and places but lack a coherent event or clear report.
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Peottan
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