Welch Idea Ad Emphasizes Service Over Profit
The Welch establishment, a Cincinnati firm, shapes ads for the Saturday Evening Post positioning undertakers as community benefactors in grief times. Welch branding highlights service, top equipment, expert work, and meticulous attention to detail over profit.
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Age for making a will varies by state
The wage at which most persons may make valid wills is twenty one in most states, but California Connecticut Idaho Montana Utah Oklahoma North and South Dakota set the age at eighteen.
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Connecticut
Idaho
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Utah
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The Principal inducement sends men into far corners
A magazine ponders what drives men to distant frontiers asking if it is the lure of newspaper headlines. The reflection hints at the desire for recognition and fame motivating exploration and risk.
London Novelist Peddles Books on Busy Street Corner
A young novelist stood on a prominent London street corner selling her own books. She moved 80 copies in one hour, drawing attention from passersby and local reporters.
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Peddies
London
Disturbed Decision Ends in Selfless Promise
Richard Marsh learns Edgar Brunner left Avery Wells 100000 and must decide whether to accept the fortune. Avery chooses to forgo the money and donate it to a hospital for crippled children, urging Marsh to marry her as they embrace a hopeful future together.
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What Will People Think Snobbishness in Social Policy
The piece critiques the sting of snobbery in everyday choices and the fear of others opinions. It argues social rituals should be relaxed and that class signals, not genuine courtesy, drive behavior. It notes that both extravagance and poverty can mark snobbery, urging natural conduct over convention.
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Mrs. Goldcoin
Tim McCarthy Freed Amid City Welcome Crowd
McCarthy leaves prison with a nurse and a wife beside him. A crowd gathers as he rides to the city, cameras flash, and the parade of cheers follows the former desperado who never took a life. Miss Emory appears among onlookers as the procession continues.
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Tim McCarthy
Miss Emory
Little
McCarthy
Trenton
Harris
Tim
Main and
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Hardin
Emory
Birds and Crops: Protect Refuges for Better Yields
The Portland Oregonian argues that replacing worm fences with larger cultivated areas did not raise crop yields due to bird destruction. Experts urge bird-friendly measures such as protecting farm wood lots, building bird houses, and planting shrubs to create wildlife refuges that boost harvest value.
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Portland
Oregonian
Andree's Balloon Expedition Ends in Tragedy
Andree, a Swedish aeronaut, set out July 11 1897 with two companions on a high altitude balloon voyage to the far North. The team used a rope drag and rubber sail to steer, hopeful to ride air currents, but an accident or miscalculation prevented their return, likely succumbing to polar conditions.
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Andree
S. A. Andree
Obstinacy as a possession of error by Butler
A quotable meditation on obstinacy describing how an obstinate person clings to error like a demon, resisting rational casting out. It likens stubborn belief to sinking, notes ignorance as abrupt and impregnable, and insists the rubbish it defends persists to the end.
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Butler
New Snow Plow With Detachable Cutters For Rails
Louis P. Chicpine of Vaudreuil Quebec unveils a snow clearing device for railways shaped like a V plow but fitted with detachable cutters. Each cutter has a forward cutting point and reinforced knife edge to slice ice and crusted snow. Adopted as a standard on a major Canadian railway.
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Louis P. Chicpine
Vaudreud
Quebec
Canada
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