Making Friends and Workplace Harmony in Modern Firms
A writer argues young workers must examine their friendships and networks within large firms. Favoring individual effort, he cautions against joining cliques that promise quick gains, noting organizational success hinges on visible harmony and disciplined association. He urges organizers to monitor both friction and its absence as paths to unity.
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Many Problems of Modern Submarine
Dr Frederic C Weber argues for a safer submarine design referencing the Pluviose disaster. He proposes horizontal keels with air bags and liquid air tanks that automatically adjust to depth pressures to lift the sub to the surface.
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Secret service in rail robbery work and tricks
The railroad special agent traces missing baggage by numbers from origin to last station, notifies local police along the route, and helps recover goods. He uses seals and careful timing to catch thieves, needing keen human judgment to stay on good terms with local officers.
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Doan s Kidney Pills Banner Ad Story
An ad extols Doan s Kidney Pills for kidney disorders with a testimonial from A. Dashom of Wooster Ohio and notes the price as 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo. The piece includes a second anecdote about Bishop William H McVickar and a Providence town remark about his size and a joking challenge to lick him from the Boston Traveler.
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Cure for Eczema Promised by Cuticura Ointment
A reader reports ten years of hand eczema vanishing after using Cuticura Ointment and three bottles of Cuticura Resolvent. She notes nearly healed sores before completing the course and urges others with skin or blood disease to try Cuticura. Includes another anecdote about family use and a humorous note from Harpers Monthly.
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Caney at the Bat from Coca Cola Baseball Record Book
The excerpt promotes the Coca Cola Baseball Record Book for 1910 with schedules and baseball information. It mentions Coca Cola Company's booklet The Truth About Coca-Cola and an advertising claim about quenching thirst and cooling. It references Pittsburg councilmen but details are unclear.
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Be A wise father drove his own con chinions
A fragment describes a father figure driving or guiding his own actions amid unclear details. The sentence structure is irregular, offering limited concrete facts or named entities.
Painter’s Ebony Front Door Sparks Family Rift
In a tense exchange, Diont balks at dark colors and an attempted marriage, while Thomas reveals his quarrel stems from a mispainted front door, ebony instead of oak, fueling a family dispute.
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Do you remember that you said you would own me
A fragmented romance note and an advertising column describe a remembered promise about ownership and remorse. The piece shifts from dialogue about words spoken long ago to a general endorsement of newspaper advertising, praising Allen's Moot-Kase for feet and warning readers to seek advertised, reputable products rather than imitations.
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Comfort Seeking Applicant Requests Refrigerator Car
An applicant at a railway ticket office expresses a desire for comfort on travel saying they want to be as comfortable as possible regardless of cost. When asked about a parlor car they decline, wanting to stay awake to view the scenery and asks to be placed in a refrigerator car.
Washington crossed the Delaware chicken riddle stumps class
History class confusion as third graders guess life of the Panther of His Country. A teacher asks why Washington crossed the Delaware and students answer with the famous chicken problem. Annie suggests the trip to Atlantic City as the reason, sparking a humorous misinterpretation.
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The Wrong Sort
A Trish peasant sits before his cottage puffing at his pipe in a comic scene. He lights many matches while muttering about the wrong kind of shinss and a vision of a shot on the sun as his wife calls him to dinner.
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Mistress Outsmarts Servant in Tense Exchange
A terse dialogue shows the mistress confronting a servant about her position and a chain of prior hires. The servant replies with deference, promising obedience while referencing past staff.
Ported Kehing Byrelidy and All Eyes That Fis Hugeoreid
Fragmentary text presents unclear names and phrases. It hints at a discussion about men who remain silent and their motives whether for good or evil, money making, and honesty, but the exact event or context is unreadable and cannot be fully determined from the readable fragments.
Willy and the funeral whisky tale from Ramsay memoirs
An anecdote recalls an old Strathspey woman who warned her grandson to use as much whisky at her funeral as at baptism. The resulting chaotic procession ends with the coffin left at a wayside inn and the corpse arriving a day late. Also notes on fate of thieves and a dogman joke about a coarse, uncouth character who drowns unwanted dogs.
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Stiles Questions Remain After Feasts of Arguments
A fragment notes debates labeled feasts of arguments where real original ideas were lost to constipated reasoning. The speaker questions whether the bookworm figure Stiles and others will revert to past patterns or find new originality.
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