Free Reading Room Receives Consignment of New Fiction
The Free Reading Room and Library Association reports a fresh consignment of many new fiction titles. Highlights include Man in Lonely Land, The Voice, Their Yesterdays, The Net, Little Women and The Unknown Quantity among others. Miss Hattie Dalton, a pupil at Emerson, is home for the holidays.
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Free Reading Room
Library Association
Rupert Houghes
Rex Beach
The
White Shield
Myrtle Reed
F. H. Remeh
Poppea
Post Office
M. O. Wright
Heure van Dyke
E. M. Dell
Susan Glaspell
Clarence L. Burnham
Amy McLaren
Jean Webster
A. E. W. Mason
New Garden of Canada
F. A. Talbot
Roscoe Paine
Jos
Luiolee
Heathermoon
C. N
A. MacWillamson
Lady
Sada San
Frances Little
Florence Barclay
Corporal Cameron
Ralph Conner
White Rivan
Gilbert Park
Hattie Dalton
Emerson
Taft Accepts Kent Professorship of Law at Yale
President Taft has decided to accept the Kent professorship of law at Yale and will likely assume the chair early next spring. He may lecture at other law schools or on public platforms and engage in other occupations, noting he could not practice before the Supreme Court due to his past appointments.
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Kent
Washington
Taft
Yale
United States Supreme Court
Ohio
Indian Talks Slang to Taft in Wrapped Interpreter Moment
A delegation of Indians visited President Taft in Washington. An old chief spoke through an interpreter who faltered and remained silent. The chief then spoke in clear English saying the interpreter did not understand him. He added a final gesture showing rubbers over moccasins at the exit.
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Washington
Taft
Harper's Weekly
Minister Gravely Accused Superintendent Charged With Misconduct
The Rev. W. J. Hubbard, superintendent of the Home For Children in Charleston West Virginia, is jailed in Harrisonburg on a serious misconduct charge. He awaits extradition at Governor Manns request while facing an offense punishable by death.
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Children’s Home
Harrisonburg
W. J. Hubbard
Home For Children
Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Glasscock
Mann
Hubbard
Village Life in Egypt Crude Mud Homes and Roof Garbage
A Wide World Magazine description portrays Egyptian villages as primitive one room mud houses with thatched roofs piled with rubbish. Families sleep in cuplike mud cribs to escape snakes and scorpions, while babies occupy open structures during the day.
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Wide World Magazine
Poison in Its Air in Java's Valley of Death
A description of Java's Valley of Death, a half mile wide, thirty five feet deep basin filled with carbonic acid gas. Heavily polluted air settles at the bottom trapping animals and humans, with explorers rarely entering due to danger.
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Java
Defrauding the Waiter and domestic chatter in old papers
An American in a Paris cafe tries to bonus a counterfeit 1 franc coin as a tip after a 30 franc bill, the waiter rebukes softly. The London Telegraph note mentions a reforming passage and staircase wallpaper repair during illness. The Houston Post jokes about divorce motives and money miserliness.
Two Good Ideas Scott and Matt on counting before speaking
A fragmented quote attributes counting before speaking to Scott and leading after being touched. It includes Emerson on self reliance as infirmity of will, reflecting on anger and restraint. The text shows Norse-like diction and partial phrases in a Boston transcript style.
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Scott
Matt
Nisu
Boston
Transcript
Emerson
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Straus
Wwolf Lieberman
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Aban Hassan
Francis Elliot
Voice
Margaret Deland
Harold Bell Wright
Mary Waller
Ralph H. Barbous
B. M. Bower
Alice Hegan Rice
G. B. McCutcheon
Paul Rundel
W. Harden
Richard Dehan
Pinero Tracy
F. Spearman
Polly
Mary K. Courtney
Caesar
Marguerite Cherry
George Helen
D. G. Phillips
Harold MacGratt
Edith Wharton
Rene Bazar
St. Wader
L. T. Meade
Bashful Fifeen
Change Regnals
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Junior Lords
Alice L. Lee
Motor Boys
Fortune
C. Young
Dave Porter
Case Island
Stratemeyer
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Nina Rhoades
Phoebe
E. D. Deland
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N. Warde
Dandeloin Colt
C. W. Rankin
Aircraft Boys
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EB. Stritemeyer
Little Women
Louisa Alcott
Roser Boys
Out West
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Daily Record
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Piangs
Broad St
Red Bank
Spain
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Chamber of Deputies
Morocco
Globe, Ariz
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Pinal Mountains
Here Sunday
Fort Thomas
Washington Star
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Clara
Julia
Kansas Capital
Village Life IN
Egypt
Fitz- Tomkins
George
Mother
Fitz-Tomkins
London
Telegraph
Ireland
United Kingdom
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Slieve League
Glen Collumbkille
Achill
Croghan
Achill Head
London Standard
Houston Post
A. & P. Store
Brick
Florida
New Orleans
A. C. Bennett Co
Branchport Ave
E. M. Colton
Rockwall Avenue
N. J
R. M. Harris Shoe Store
Westfield Steam Laundry
Little Gents
Hick's Manufacturing Co
Long Branch, N. J
M. Levin
South Broadway
Christmas
Lawyer Studio
W. H. Woolley & Co
Goldberg’s
New York
C. B. Deaver
Rockwell Ave
Chapman
E. J. Miller
Prop
Consolidated Appliance Co
Consolidated Gag Office
J. Hill
New Goldstein Bldg
Ehrenhalt
Fruit and Produce Merchant
Malaga
Maine
W. G. Ejisele
Cedar Avenue
West End
WM. Bryan Elberon
Reason
Long
Mmerman
Harry C. Rehm
Light Store
Gordon Cass Butcher
Truax's Hardware Store
Doors & Bers
Porto Rico
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