Sioux City Girl Wins National Essay Prize on Municipal Problem
Lois Gould of Sioux City wins first prize in the National Municipal Club essay contest on The Municipal Problem in America. She is 18, daughter of dentist C. Fred Gould, and plans Smith College study after graduation. The essay argues that municipal evils stem from faulty city governance and calls for a simple direct form of city rule universal to solve the problem.
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Sioux City Tribune
Low Gould
Sionx City
Eis Cnt
National Municipalite
America
Miss Gould
C. Fred Gould
Smith College For
New Hampshire
Sioux City
Council
Municimatters
Municipal League
Cleveland Gould
Frederick Howe
Frank Goodnow
Phillip Allen
Veeiee
Josiah Strong
American
Allegro Mosaic of Verse and Vignettes in Atlantic Monthly
A collage of curious texts from Atlantic Monthly and New York Times excerpts, including verses with religious interjections, sketches of dialect humor, and a humorous settlement-women anecdote. It blends literary fragments with social anecdotes and a light nod to regional speech.
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Detroit
New York Times
Myra Kelly
Mise Kelly
Moskowits
Wlok
Chea
Alek
Detrot
Moskow
Adam
Mrs. Thomas on Racing Stable Life and Lessons
Mrs Thomas, congratulated after Nemems victory at Gravesend, downplays triumphs in racing. She says success does not erase trouble, and a stable requires steady effort and discipline rather than constant praise. She compares racing to exaggerated claims about American hotels and grand hotels.
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Washington Boar
KB. R. Thomas
Nemems
Gravesend
America
New York
Napkin Joke Highlights Social Stereotypes in Washington Star
A Washington Star fragment recalls a New York sociologist Professor Charles Zueblin mocking society types. The tale centers on misread napkin etiquette and a Pendleton glassworks visitor shocked by a napkin stain, prompting a waiter quip about folding.
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The
Washington Star
Charles Zueblin
New York
Thendleton
Galeaman
Pendleton
The Cat Went Back
A Yonkers Statesman item sketches an exchange about Boston streets and a homely tale of an old cat sent to the river. The narrator admits the city’s crooked streets made navigation hard and credits following the cat for finding his way home.
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Yonkers Statesman
Virtues of the Sluggard in Oxford Varsity style
A fragmentary piece discusses early rising as essential and portrays the “sluggard” as a striking figure against a hostile modern order. It cites George Richmond Hayes and includes jumbled quotes about rough Oregon towns and implied threats of lynching in reading saloons.
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Oxford
Varsity
George Richmond Hayes
San Francisco
Oregon
Cottage Grove
Reading
Crinus
Daddy’s Good Night Stories Folktale Parade
Ethel’s father reads aloud playful tales about Jill Frog and Little Fish, Lady Bug and Dr Beetle, and the Potato Bug family. The stories mix whimsy with moral moments as characters dream of airships and adventures in a child friendly village.
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Ethel
Padagge
Bobben
Jill
Sam
Lady Bug
Dr. Beetle
Potato Bug
Bagville
Mr. Potato Bug
Papa
Hope
Charity
Bugville News
Native-born Lord Hardwicke Confounds Questioning Stranger
In a rambling tale from M A, Lord Mardwicke recalls his early years and a visit to a sleepy hamlet where a stranger probes his origins. The moment turns when his wife appears at the cabin door, forcing the questioner to confront his own ignorance of Hardwicke’s birthplace and residence.
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Mardwicke
Amee
Plotters of Plots in Theater World Show Crazy Schemes
The story catalogs several oddities in early Broadway outreach as managers receive bizarre scripts from unknowns. A Philadelphia author outlines a drama on American women and cooking, while others send telegram plots about Japanese bankers invading U S banks and a Louisville woman ships her scenario in candy.
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Henry B. Harris
Mr. Harris
Joe
The
Astor
Harris
Lee Shubert
New York
Philadelphia
Shubert
United States Secret Service
Louisville
Henry W. Bavage
Kentucky
Charles Frohman
Sayre
Mr. Erlanger
Rudolph the First
King
Castleland
Boston
Harvard
Eas
Elsie Ferguson
Ferguson
Raymond Hitchcock
Matteawan State Asylum
Villian
Hitchcock
The Kiss and Midas Touch in a Grim Nurse Tale
A fragment from Norman Gale's verse echoes through dialog about a kiss turning life to gold. A grim hospital scene follows where a chaplain recalls Hopkins's death and a hospital orderly recounts his futile consolation amid mortality.
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Midas
Norman Gale
Hopkins
Opkins
Ono
Opking
Saya
Eaven
New York Dinner Sparks Talk On Authority And Power
Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes comments on the danger of new authority especially with new weapons. A dinner exchange recalls a boss who asserts control and a foreman who replies with quiet defiance as a joke. An elderly worker mocks someone named Higginson.
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New York ‘Tribune
Rose
Phelps Stokes
New York
His Last Moments
From the Ban Francisce Chronicle a vignette notes nurses in hospitals overstate patient gains and duty of gratitude while acknowledging the suffering of the poor soldier who endures the most hardship.
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Wuffers Moet
Alwaye Bay
Young Machiavellis in Boston Transcript Tale
A fragment from the Boston Transcript features a mother addressing her children about promising not to eat oranges after dinner. The dialogue includes playful refusals and accusations as the children deny the misdeed and blame one another.
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Machiavellis
The
Boston Transcript
Willa
Wamma
Tommy
Ming
Nila
The Frontiersman in Hampton Magazine
A fragmentary scene portrays a solitary hunter in a wild landscape where trees crash and wind gnaws at strength. A nameless figure battles hunger and isolation as rugged nature tests endurance and resolve amid a harsh, desolate clearing.
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Sumer
Vila
Breda Wishtrao
Hampton Mageazine
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Better Business Methods
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Slster
Pat Shdedy
Alory
Bands
Fermer Smith
Jil Frog
Jill Frog
Jack Frog
Jack
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Son
Higginson
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