Building Up Business and Original Plan to Test New Enterprises
A brief note outlines a strategy to grow business activity and assess new enterprises. It emphasizes developing core capabilities, exploring innovative ventures, and evaluating risks and returns to guide future investments.
Toward a Practical Manufacturing Plan for Towns
A discussion on boosting local commerce through a city wide industry incubator. It outlines using a holding company with subscribed capital to fund a shared manufacturing building housing multiple small firms. The model avoids bonuses, reduces risk, and rewards investors from profits, promoting sustainable growth for towns.
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Equity in Business and the Golden Rule in Trade
The piece urges fair dealing in commerce, arguing buyers and sellers both deserve honest profits. It warns against exorbitant pricing and grasping merchant practices that drive customers to distant stores or mail order houses. It calls for a town-wide commitment to equity to strengthen home communities.
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Gautama
Overlooked Opportunities in 1900 Food Production
An excerpt discusses U.S. 1900 census figures for total production including poultry and butter. It argues that local exclusive markets for butter, meat, and eggs enable trusts, with producers selling through merchants to large buyers, suggesting farmers would gain from local, exclusive establishments and natural laws of trade.
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United States
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First Ming Julep and the Greek origin of a plant tale
Text appears garbled with many missing letters and unclear references. It mentions Ovid, Modiie, a young Greek woman, and a plant linked to aromatic use but lacks coherent facts or events to anchor a clear narrative. No verifiable details or dates are present.
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Italy
Ovid
Modiie
Foot on the Treadmill and a Tale of Fraud Trial
In a clipped Bohemian tableau a man identified as Joacker faces a harsh sentence for fraud. He boasted clothes and a fine turnout but no money or assets, insisting on his innocence while the crowd notes his strength and lack of work. The case centers on his dealings with their mutual friend Jack Smith.
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Mammon and Mamma End Tale From Sunday School
The article recalls a Herman Melville era moral in a Atlanta Sunday school where a child’s quip altered the golden text to Ye cannot serve God and mamma. It also includes an ad note for Defiance Starch praising a thinner, stronger finish and a brief tale about Gordon Goddard recounting touring misadventures with sheep and shepherded by clever dogs.
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Atlanta
Harper's Magazine
Dasa Goddard
American Automobile Association
Worcester
Wouldn't Take His Place
A Chicago stage tragedy prompts a New York Riaboan to offer to fill a leading actor role for 150 dollars weekly. The manager replies that the job is not available and would require twice that amount if offered.
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Chicago
New York
Hayling
An Early Discovery and Odd Occupations Noted
A fragmentary clipping notes Marcus Aurelius praising epigrams and adages as wise. It then mentions a Lewiston Maine young woman cobbler and a Beare shop in New York run by three. The source combines literary quotation with brief local occupation items.
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Marcus Aurelius
Lewiston
New York State
The Modern Child Harms Yet Honest From Harper's
Five year old Nellie dodges punishment as a portly mother lifts her across the lap. Nellie peeks from the dress and proclaims that if she is to be spanked she must have all the consequences.
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Nellie
Harper’s
Allen's Foot-Ease Promoted For Swollen Feet Cure
Ladies can wear shoes one size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease. A remedy for swollen sweating hot aching feet. Sold at all druggists for 25 cents. Act no substitute. Trial package free. Olmsted Le Roy N Y.
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Olmsted
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Tokio's New Harbor Works Cost Ten Million
The new harbor works at Tokio will cost ten million dollars funded by a foreign loan raised by the Japanese government.
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Tokio's
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Red Cross Ball Blue advertised with health claim
An old advertisement fragment urges readers to ask grocers for Red Cross Ball Blue powder. It promotes a large two ounce package priced at five cents and ties cheerfulness to health, attributing the slogan to Haliburton.
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RED Cross
A Wife's Letter to George About a Check
A wife writes to George expressing thanks for his letter and asks him to send a check by return. She remarks that she cannot think of anything else to write about, conveying a light domestic tone.
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