Attentive Home Stores Beat Mail Order Catalogs
The column argues against mail order shopping citing the risks of inferior quality and impersonal service. It compares catalog purchases to trading for “insight” and notes salesmen at local stores provide honest guidance, while metropolitan catalogs lack individual attention. It cites Taft era politics and La Follette critiques as context for a broader trust in local, knowledgeable merchants.
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New Zealand
Winona Republican-Herald
Taft Campaign Chief Criticized For Primary Spending
R B Geratt in Leader Press questions chairman Connor of the Taft republican campaign committee over a claimed 114000 spent for Cook and Fairchild in the primary. The piece argues money cannot salvage a failed anti La Follette bid and mocks the effort as a joke noting a missed 600 payment and lessons from Stephenson campaigning.
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Don’ts for a Safe Christmas Tree From The Tribune
The Tribune presents eight dozen cautionary tree safety points compiled by Mr. C. W. Dickinson urging parents to guard against fire risks. The article stresses a sane Christmas like a sane Fourth and lists no flammable decorations, recommending metallic tinsel and similar nonflammables to prevent accidents.
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Holiday Fire Safety in Homes and Public Buildings
A wartime style warning urges non inflammable decorations and secure trees to prevent tip overs. Do not use harmful snow substitutes like asbestos fibre and keep matches and candles away from children. Emphasizes supervising lighting and avoiding electrical wiring changes. warns of fires from dry needles, gas jets, and air currents.
Carnegie and Rockefeller as Magnates of Philanthropy
The piece lauds Andrew Carnegie for massive peace and library gifts and notes John D. Rockefeller’s large educational donations. It questions the moral calculus of wealth, suggesting the vast fortunes were taken from the people and amount to a burdensome burden on society.
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United States
Christmas Tree Drive Aims to Help City Mission
It is not too late to help out that Christmas tree at the City Mission. Some poor little child will be thankful to you for what you give, and every little bit helps.
Newspaper Bias Question Sparks Debate
A reader argues that a newspaper cannot be accused of improper use of influence when aligned with a cause, claiming critics overlook journalistic independence and the paper’s right to opinion. The remark raises questions about media neutrality and advocacy.
Shopping promotion lists a world of varied gift items
A lively poem from the Houston Post catalogs dolls and dishes shoes and silken stockings gifts for sister and baby, a shooting gun for a boy, beads for a wife, candy, a drum for a child, and many colors and items urging readers to begin shopping today.
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Houston Post
Family quips on letters and dignity in a humorous exchange
A minister, a physician, and a child exchange jokes about mail marked with initials. The minister’s daughter says packages for her father bear D D, the doctor’s daughter claims M D, and the youngest adds that their house receives C O D parcels.
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Ladies Home Journal
Smart School Teacher’s Roasting That Stays With You
Judge Simpson S. Ford recalls a Jefferson court story about a clever boy who prepared for punishment by layering underwear and trousers. The teacher, noting George’s bulk in a February cold, sentenced him to stand by a stove for two hours, a disciplining roast that proved memorable.
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Time Service Request Turns Brickmaker Joke
A gentleman orders a general servant to clean windows boots knives and beds mind horses and pony chop wood tend garden fetch vegetables and do odd jobs for ten shillings a week. The worker asks about clay to make bricks prompting a humorous exchange in the Sacramento Union.
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Sacramento Union
Sidelights on table manners from an old carving article
An amusing clipping notes that ladies should not help themselves to wine or spirits during meals. It adds a Scottish anecdote about McPherson, illustrating practical-minded generosity and quick responses in social dining.
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Public Debate on Dunn Ballot Slant Sparks Exchange
In a public clash reported by the press, Polly Mahoney cites a speaker claiming the Dunn ballot would misprint party symbols an elephant for Republicans a mule for Democrats a beer stein for socialists and a water pitcher for prohibition. Sam Johnson rebutts asserting an ass represents the Democrats.
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Why He Didn't Come
A misty London day fails to impress a country guest as the Thames fog, crowds, and grand buildings dull his senses. At Trafalgar Square the farmer is suddenly struck by the Nelson Column and the four lions, remarking in blunt humor that they have “freed” the old man.
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Unclear campaign clash and juvenile boasting fragment
Reformer vows a fair campaign while the Oldtimer denounces crooked tactics. The text shifts to youths boasting about their families, ending abruptly with incomplete dialogue.
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Twainisms Tribute to Colonel Sellers
Mark Twain offers a fitting epitaph for James Lampton, the original Colonel Mulberry Sellers, calling him a pathetic but beautiful spirit a manly and straight man with a big unfailing heart born to be loved and beloved by friends and family.
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Mulberry Sellers
Homemade Mentho Laxene Cough Syrup Promises Quick Relief
Public notice touts a home made cough syrup using essence mentho laxene and sugar syrup. It claims faster relief than patently expensive products, with dosing of 8 to 10 times daily and alleged prevention of pneumonia and other cold complications.
The Heroic Child and the Silent Street Tragedy
In a shattered street scene, Ishikichi risks his life to stop a runaway car, while a grieving mother and a crowd confront loss. Barbara, in her cabin, is haunted by visions and an eerie phonograph voice from Austen Ware as night drags on.
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