Barn Dreams and Big Windows for Hollister Barn
Elizabeth and her brother Sidney pursue a plan to renovate a barn for tenants. They hire a lumber yard contractor to install larger casement windows and build safe stairs with a railing. Elizabeth imagines light, air, and a future where Shirley and the Hollister family will judge and visit, while Sid weighs practicality against desire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carol
Elizabeth
Sid
Shirley
Sidney
Kid
Graham
The Barn Transformation of Sidney Graham’s Estate
Early morning at his office Sidney Graham coordinates with a carpenter and trolley and electric firms to wire his new stone barn. He rushes to Glenside where masons and carpenters work, planning a veranda and fireplace. A telephone is installed for the tenants and he muses about living there while pondering future changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Grahin
Trolley Company
Electric Company
Ros
Glenside
Sidney Graham
Graham
Shirley Hollister
Elizabeth
Mr. Jones
Mystery of life looms over two families in excerpt
A narrator reflects on the contrast between the wealthy Graham clan and the impoverished Hollister family. A young girl named Carol is described as bright yet born into hardship, prompting questions about birth, fortune, and purpose within the two lines of life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graham
Carol
Hollister
Savings of Presidents and Finance in a Century
Leslie's Weekly surveys presidential finances from McKinley to Wilson and Taft. It tracks debts cleared, estates, legacies, and annual savings, noting Wilson's wealth from writings and holdings while in office. The piece cites New York World data on income tax payers and mentions Director Graves defending tax laws amid payer confusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
White House
Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Washington
Carnegie Fund
New York World
Mark Graves
New York
Nena Mangashao
Women and Practical Politics in Pennsylvania
A critical forum denounces the Pennsylvania Republican state committee for barring women from its top offices and accuses party leaders of using “practical politics.” It argues the 19th Amendment promises equality and denounces bunkum about sharing control with women, urging open inclusion and reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican State Committee of
Pennsylvania
Tose
Frank
Penrose
Untermyer
Armstrong Realty Co
Eastern Building Co
Varick Street
United States
Lawrence
White Operating Co
Fifty-fourth Street
Madison Avenue
Columbia Discount Co
Difference in Cartoons Magazine Photoplay Tales
A moving picture director offers 6000 for a filmed book while a professor objects, noting the photoplay diverges from the book. A scenario writer can adapt anything, and a misnamed novel causes confusion. An Eastern judge once ruled train riding as not a crime, and a Japanese freshman with nine children enters Cornell.
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Moving Picture
Sam
Bismarck Tribune
Cornell
Inside Beuthen’s Polish Campaign HQ with Dr Korfanty
An onlooker recalls Beuthen where Dr. Korfanty governs Polish upper Silesia. Guards, wired windows, and a guarded retreat frame a terse office. Korfanty fears murder, defends Polish methods, and notes German provocations as correspondents press.
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Korfanty
Beuthen
Lomnuts
Dr. Korfanty
Upper Silesia
Poland
Europe
Koscivezko
Beuben
Lomnits
Moritz
Korfantry
Deutsch Pinker
Berlin
Germany
Puting On the Muffler Edict Slams Government Critics
Milwaukee Journal notes Washington demands silence from officials on proposed reorganizations. It cites the resignation of Philander P. Claxon over suggesting education belong in public welfare and General Mitchell being questioned for backing his air service plan. The piece argues for independence of public servants and warns against rubber stamp obedience.
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Milwaukee Journal
Washington
Congress
Philander P. Claxton
Education
Department of Public Welfare
Mitchell
Air Service
Public Service
Bureau
Reorganisation Commission
Dictionary bids to add new word to Webster
A Chicago group promotes the term to kennicott meaning uplife by cultural process though experts doubt entry. Captain Boycott and other giants like Edison and Henry Ford are cited as gatekeepers to the dictionary while a national survey questions local school control and argues for a federal education department. In Holstein, married men win a men’s baseball game, trimming the bachelors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago N Phuggers
Malin Bireet
Kennicott
Carol Kennicott
Webster
Captain Boycott
Hall of Fame
Mme. Curie
Curle
Henry Ford
Henry
Henry Mas
Edison
Luther Burbank
Burbanking
Wes
National Child Labor Committee
Federal
Department of Education and Welfare
Confession of Shame and Belgrade Trade Change
A garbled dispatch critiques public restraint on enthusiasm and mentions a Belgrade note: the Yugoslav government rescinded a 60 percent import duty on German goods. The fragment ponders collective knowledge and propriety amid a political shift. It references social decorum and national policy in a single terse item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belgrade
Jugo-Biay
Suit of armor sale sparks musings on war and power
The article reflects on armor centuries old sold for 96000 dollars to an American dealer and muses how firearms and modern tech shifted power. It laments fortifications and portrays war changing from armored defense to swift firepower, submarines, and air power, while noting demographic hints and bureaucratic ironies.
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Earl of Pembrook
Earl of Bambrook
Bignathong
Dempsey
Ireland
United States
London
Rhine
France
Bismarck
Parla
Detroit Free Press garbled item on housing mayors quarrel
fragmented OCR item from Detroit Free Press unclear on main action. reads about John etpensers somark and Voulate officials, mentions housing and a question. readable facts are too incomplete to determine a coherent event, persons, or organizations with confidence.
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Detroit Free Presa
John Etpensers
Eos Rainee
Vilate
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Savings of Presidents
Leslie's Weekly
McKinley
McKinley Yes
Women and Practical Politics
Lenega
Sanford Griffith
The
North American Review
Holstein
Woorcester
Admiral Sims
Mr. Lawin
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