Scarcity of time and jokes in Marble Hill column
A Marble Hill Missouri column discusses time scarcity and self restraint in humor, comments on preachers and professionals misaligned with calling, notes a rise in marriages, and praises a streetcar kindness. It references Russell Sage’s wealth, a Madison Square Fair revenue over 15000 dollars with annual revival, and a Rutherford New Jersey teen attempted suicide. It also covers an Eng lish electrical engineers dinner remark on Britain’s coal driven empire and Niagara falls power, warning Britain would lose commercial supremacy without falls power.
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Falls
Niagara
Great Britain
Illinois Advances Clean Athletics Rules
The University of Illinois backs stringent rules to curb professionalism in college sports. After NW conference adoption and later weakening by others, Illinois maintains the standards as the best way to promote sound physical development and legitimate student recreation over athletic business.
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Illinois
Northwest
State University
University of Illinois
English Patriotism and Crimean War Memory
A letter cited from Hawthorne and Atlantic Monthly recalls humble English patriotism. Reformed criminals fasting to donate to the Patriotic Fund are praised as noble. The piece contrasts English vigor with perceived waning American patriotism and warns against too much abroad influence.
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Hawthorne
Atlantic Monthly
London
Patriotic Fund
England
Reeses
Uncle
Inheritance of a Mad Love Entangles Carriston in London
The narrator unravels Carriston's feud with his cousin and a supposed espionage plot aimed at Madeline Rowan's disappearance. Doubts about evidence, the danger of mad-house confinement, and Carriston's erratic travel to locate Madeline drive a tense, cautious chase. The police and witnesses add to the mounting suspense as Christmas passes with no sign of her.
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John Mansfield
Rutherford, N. J
Mansfield
Carriston
Tosh
Ralph
Madeline
Ralph Carriston
Eorly
Madeline Rowan
Ralph Carlston
Cariston
Son
Ralph Arriston
Miss Rowan
Thait
Chancee
Carrigton
London
Dick Fenton
Frenchay
Gloucestershire
Corn but not for cotton on the planter’s tomb
An aging southern planter, who ruled his plantation fifty years yet raised only corn and mint, asks for an epitaph that proclaims “Corn, but not for cotton.” The tale closes with his dying request as julep lingers in the dusk on the vast estate.
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Allence
New York World
Johnsy Child in Distressed Evening Mood Report
The Indianapolis Journal notes a worried mother describing Johnny in a bad humor tonight. The head of the house returns, finding Johnny crying for over an hour and refusing comfort or a blanket. A nurse observes he kicks the scene in distress.
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Johnsy
Johnny
Hi House
Indianapolia Journal
Planetary Signs Readings by Mal Promote Free Horoscopes
An astrology column invites applicants for free readings by mail. Full name and address must accompany requests, initials only will appear publicly. Private readings cost 26 cents. horoscopes read by the astrologer’s system of calculation and forwarded to the applicant. The week’s reading describes Inez M Avoca Iowa with Libra rising, Venus ruling, noting appearance traits and personality, plus a forecast of a long life, travel, and marriage details.
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G. W. Cunningham
Dept
Clinton
Chicago
Inez M. Avoca
Towa
Venus
Astrological Traits and Personal Forecasts From Clarksville Data
The text presents a astrological profile for A. C. Clarksville Iowa with Sun signs Scorpio and Sagittarius as ruling planets Mars and Jupiter, co-significator Saturn, describing medium height and appearance, energy, leadership, headaches, intellect, secrecy, education aims, love life cautions, and Lorene Topeka Kansas personality notes, including sensitivities and artistic talents and marital temperaments.
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A. C
Clarksville
Iowa
Mars
Jupiter
Fiessaant Practice At New York Morgue
Report describes police visiting a New York morgue where bullets were fired into corpses to study powder burns at three feet. The account notes the controversial experiment and its intent to understand ballistics better.
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New York
Fred
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Marble Hill
Missouri
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The
Kansas City Star
Russell Sage
America
Madison Square Garden
International Press Association
Carlston
Mal
Lorene
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