Mind and Brain Indissoluble in Soul and Crime
A discussion with Dr. Albert Wilson links brain cortex layers to instinct and intellect, arguing mind and brain are inseparable and crime stems from heredity. He suggests a new standard of punishment focused on neurological origin, and posits the soul as an energy form that survives after death, likening humanity to a seed of corn needing nourishment to flourish.
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Albert Wilson
Dr. Wilson
Wilson
Cal
Knowlerge
Typewriter's Global Reach Expands Across Languages
The article notes typewriters aid civilizing influence by transcribing Japanese ideograms and Arabic Syriac Armenian Hebrew scripts. In Turkey all printing requires government permit, yet demand grows. Baghdad with 200,000 people houses twenty Arabic machines. In Syria Persian Hindustani and Chinese usage expands in commerce, while China resists the tool.
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Turkey
Bagdad
Syria
Persia
Bombay
India
Harper's Weekly
Deepest Mines Near Calumet Michigan Revealed
Four deepest mines in the world lie near Calumet Michigan within a mile. Red Jacket shaft at Calumet and Hecla shafts 3 4 and 5 at Tamarack mine reach depths of about 4920 feet and more. No. 4 shaft shows depth around 6136 feet. Bottom temperatures average 87.6 degrees Fahrenheit, cooled by limited air inflow from surface.
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Tne
Calumet
Mich
Calmet and Hecla
Tamarack
Remarkable soundless room at Utrecht university lab
In the Youth's Companion description the Physiological Institute of the University of Utrecht displays a square chamber designed to block external sounds. The top floor room uses layered walls and sound deadening materials to create a nearly silent environment, with some visitors reporting ear sensations during experiments. Sounds are generated inside and also piped in from outside through a copper tube.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Physiological Institute
University of Utrecht
Kubelik Silent on Honor and Dinner Invitations
A New York entertainer asked violinist Jan Kubelík to dine with celebrities during his Gotham appearance. His reply implied his violin would not travel, saying the instrument never means. The note reflects Kubelík's reluctance to tour with his violin. The piece also notes British shipyard output making up about twenty to twenty five percent of world production.
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Jan Kubelik
New York
Kubauik
Gotham
San Francisco
A Lonely Old Man Plans a Van Life Across Regions
An elderly Berkshire author contemplates leaving a fixed home for a mobile life in a self built van. He imagines cooking outdoors, reading by fire, and old books enriching new places as he travels between the Berkshires and White Mountains with two sturdy horsemen and a simple cabin on wheels. The letter invites readers to consider a quieter, wandering life.
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Berkshires
Greylock
Atlantic Monthly
Reddleman
Troy
Veun
Dickens
White Mountains
New York Saturday Times
From Victorian drawing rooms to modern manners
A reflection on changing manners compares Thackeray's critique of English humorists with shifts in middle class tastes. The piece contrasts Queen Anne and Victoria eras, noting how a great city has risen over ancient meadows and how public sentiment toward death in the highwayman era would now evoke horror.
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America
Thackeray
England
Steele
Tyburn
Harper's Magazine
Bird Armies Defend Crops and Forests Says Roosevelt
President Roosevelt urges Congress to support the Biological Survey noting forty three bird species prey on cotton boll weevil and fifty seven feed on scale insects. He highlights cuckoos and orioles destroying leaf eaters and hawks owls aiding in grasshopper and mouse control with woodpeckers essential to trees.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Rice and Flowers in Shanghai Burial Ground Scene
An English sailor plans to lay a wreath at a foreigners' burial ground near Shanghai. A Chinaman jokes about the grave and asks when the sailor’s friend will come, prompting a muted reply about the timing and social customs in a rough frontier exchange.
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Shanghai
John
Cleveland
Typewriter Yourself Lets You Write Any Document
A reader advised that you can easily operate a typewriter for letters abstracts insurance policies hotel menus and all kinds of writing on any kind of paper. It emphasizes personal handwriting and avoiding the need for a stenographer.
The Oliver Typewriter Offers Quick Mastery and Versatile Use
An advertisement extols the OLIVER Typewriter as the simple rapid option for writers with or without a stenographer. It highlights alphabethic accuracy, edge-to-edge writing, low per-edit cost, and suitability for professionals from doctors to merchants. It lists the OLIVER Typewriter Co address at No. 310 Broadway New York City and pricing options of 16 down and per month or 20 down and 10 per month through H Morrell, Agent at 81 Main St Irvington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kastan
Oliver
Oliver Typewriter Co
Broadway
New York City
New
Notice to creditors for Hugh Crooks estate in New York
NOTICE PURSUANT to an owner of TION. FRANK V. MILLARD Surrogate Westchester County NY NOTICE HEREBY GIVEN that all persons having claims against the estate of Hugh Crooks late of the Village of Tevington in said County deceased are required to exhibit them with vouchers thereof to the undersigned one of the Adminstrators of said estate at his place of business Hackett Willis Street Poughkeepsie New York on or before the first Day of July 1908 dated December 1997 TARRY J SELMIDGE Administrator Hackett Willis
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Frank V. Millard
Westchester County
Hugh Crooks
Tevington
Wiiter
Tarry J. Selpridge
Nail
Hackett & Willis Street
Yougkeepsie
New York
Tarry J. Selmidge
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G. H. Wagner
Proseos Hastings
N. Y
Worthington Farms Dairy
Joseph Coggins
Dobbs Ferry, N. Y
Irvington, N.Y
Gazette
F. H. Morrell
Prop
Main St
Irvington, N. Y
Beacon
Friberg
Raymond Blathwayt
Alexander Macleod
New York Telephone Company Way & Centeal
Tarrytown
Hackett
Will
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