A Railway President's Day Revealed in Private Car News
A practical railroad man Charles De Lano Hine recounts how a railroad president runs a day. The piece follows a trip to New York for a conference and shows the secretaries, meetings, and decisions affecting shops, expansions, dividends, and rival lines. The president checks earnings, costs, contracts, and passenger service while fielding reporters.
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Charles de Lano Hine
New York
Az Big
Daily Telegraphic
Dan
Beersheba
Utopia
Chicago
Seaboard
California
Truthfulness in Children Teachings on honesty start at home in New Haven
Rev Dr Alexander F Irvine spoke to the Mothers club on teaching truthfulness in children. He argued truthfulness arises from mediumship and reverence, not fear, and urged parents to model honesty while avoiding corporal punishment. The talk urged gentleness, self-control, and consistent truthfulness as crucial foundation.
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Alexander F. Irvine
Mothers’ Club
New Haven
Moses
Solomon
Froebel
Herbert Spencer
Dean Farrar
Cambridge
Harrow
England
Augustine
Fame of Jeremiah Grider Life and Times of a Colored Editor
Jeremiah Grider, of Missouri, rose from kalsominer in St Joseph to editor of a major paper, driven by persistent newspaper attention. He learned to read, gained fame across the state, and leveraged political influence to shape local elections. His career included a stint as custodian of the Missouri House and later leadership of a St Joseph paper.
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Jeremiah Grider
St. Joseph
Omaha
Grider
Kalseminer
House of Representatives
St. Louis
Missouri
Omaha Bee
Vignette of King Alfred for Thornycroft statue
Century for July presents a vignette of Alfred the Great from a Matthew of Paris manuscript in Corpus Christi College Cambridge. The image, never published before, conveys the king’s dress and insignia and accompanies news of the Winchester statue unveiling planned for summer.
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Alfred the Great
Winchester
England
Alfred the King
Matthew of
Paris
Corpus College
Cambridge
Kindly Quality Of The American In War And Mercy
The article cites Professor Shaler noting the humane aspect of Americans in the Civil War. It highlights merciful treatment of non combatants and restraint by disciplined troops, with rare exceptions. It describes 1862 Kentucky campaigns as brutal yet leaving women and children unharmed and a shared resolve to keep fighting clean.
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Shaler
International Monthly
Buell
Bragg
Kentucky
Opportunities for Advanced Students at Washington
The Washington Memorial Institution will admit capable mature students from existing colleges and universities to pursue special investigations under direction or independently. No degrees will be awarded, but the institute will aid universities. It adds government resources to national educational capacity, benefiting students nationwide.
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Washington Memorial Institution
Congress
Washington
United States
Nicholas Murray
Butler
American Monthly Review of Reviews
Proper posture for elegance in women stylishly advised
A Washington Post excerpt argues that true beauty hinges on posture. It contends stand with knee straight chest out shoulders back and torso slightly forward to achieve smartness beyond clothes. Despite fine gowns and Paris hats, many women fail to stand correctly.
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Paris
Washington Post
Calf Tail Knot Hole Tale Moves Justice Harlan
Washington correspondent recounts how Justice Harlan teased Solicitor General Richards with a Kentucky knot-hole calf tale before a court session. Notes sent from bench signaled that the government would win on a minor point in the Downes case, sparking a shared joke as the decision approached.
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Justice Harlan
Richards
Mr. Richards
Department of Justice
Kentucky
Capitol
Justice Brown
de Lima
Downes
Washington
Chicago Record-Herald
Comparisons of sex and brain in health culture era
The article argues there is no inherent superiority of one sex over the other. It cites brain weight differences, then highlights female strengths in affection, sympathy, self denial, and modesty. It discusses tactile sensitivity, smell, vision, breathing, and response to stimuli, noting various gender differences with references to Lombroso and Darwin. It concludes that sexual differences are complex, affecting art, literature, music, and behavior, with no simple ranking.
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Stewburg
Ringville
Grand Army
Western
Prairies
New Orleans
Minnesota
Pumptown
Bucktown
St. Louis
Lombroso
Europe
Schopenhauer
Sappho
Browning
George Eliot
George Sand
Galton
Ferrero
Railroading profits hinge on train load optimization
Carl Hovey argues in Ainslee's that tracking costs and revenues requires simplifying the railroad balance to train miles and ton miles. By raising average trainloads, expenses per ton mile drop and profits rise, a principle described as the touchstone of economical railroading.
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Berryville
Wall Street
Carl Hovey
Ainslee’s
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Emerson
Roland
Oliver
King Alfred
Nature
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