Hull House Founder Jane Addams A Guiding Light
Jane Addams founded Hull House in Chicago, a multifaceted settlement serving the city’s working poor. The article portrays her as a generous, pragmatic leader who welcomes diverse beliefs, listens to residents, and built a community centered on help, education, and bodily welfare. Hull House sits on Halstead Street, with the Jane Club guiding young women allied to her mission.
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Jane Addams
Miss Addams
Hull House
Chicago
Hall Caine
Hall House
Hull
Miss Add
Idarville
Philadelphia
America
Halstead Street
Addams Crouch
Helen Culver
Cuilder
Miss Culver
Jane Club
Napoleon the most remarkable man in Doyle’s view
Sir Conan Doyle calls Napoleon perhaps the most wonderful man ever lived noting his shifting moral balance from villain to noble trait. Doyle highlights a thirty year old man facing poverty and limited education who mingled with kings yet won private charm and loyal friends. He praises Napoleon as an originator of grand schemes and meticulous in detail, achieving success others would fail to reach.
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Sir Conan Doyle
Napo
King Oscar Bravely Intervenes In Prison Cell
In Sweden a remarkable tale tells how King Oscar, undaunted by danger, entered a condemned soldier’s prison cell unarmed. He locked the door, persuaded the man, and explained why mercy would not be granted, leaving the convict subdued and prepared to face death at dawn.
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Sweden
Oscar
Attains to Fame as Gas Prober Becomes Insurance Inquisitor
The obscure New York lawyer Charles Hughes rises from relative anonymity to national prominence through leading roles in New York gas company and insurance inquiries. His deft handling of investigations earns him applause and speculation about mayoral, state leadership, and Mutual Life prospects. This ascent illustrates the payoff of steadfast effort and adaptability.
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New York
Europe
Brooklyn
Lond Ing
Charles ©. Hughes
Tis Party
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Bis
American passenger flaunts ticket rule in carriage
An American in a first class English carriage lights a cigar and refuses to stop. A Brit protests, tries to eject him, but the guard confirms the man has a third class ticket. The American explains with a dry quip about the pocket corner color matching the ticket.
May Shape a Senator Roosevelts Post Presidency Path
The piece debates Theodore Roosevelt’s future after leaving the presidency at age fifty one in 1909. It weighs political chances, party leadership, and historical precedents from Washington Adams Jackson Van Buren Polk Grant to Grover Cleveland as it ponders his potential retirement.
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Roosevelt
United States
George Washington
France
John Quincy Adams
Congress
General Jackson
van Buren
Polk
van Bren
Cassiary
Grant
Grover Cleveland
Five Year School Garden Course at Hartford Horticulture School
The School of Horticulture in Hartford Connecticut offers a five year course in school gardening for boys and girls plus programs for teachers and adults. Students progress from early garden work to advanced horticulture, botany, pruning, soil study and fruit culture while earning tuition credits through garden yields and summer labor. The program keeps youth off streets and builds practical agricultural skills with extensive project plots and real produce values.
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School of Horticulture
Hartford, Conn
Hartford
Conn
Francia Goodwin
Philanthropte Citigen
Autunn
School of Hortieniture
Schpat
Two Years Younger Than Lincoln At First Inauguration
The speaker notes he will be nearly two years younger than Lincoln at his first inauguration. He will likely write much history and may or may not hold office again, though a seat in the United States Senate would present an attractive prospect for him, a calm and respected body would likely take note.
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Lintoln
United States Senate
Nerve and revolver save Brooklyn burglar at home
Mrs Charles Neimmenson wife of a jeweler at 987 Fulton Street Brooklyn faced a pistol wielding burglar who entered her second floor sewing room. She ordered him out and kept him covered with a revolver while instructing him on how to unlatch the door. He finally fled as she held firm until the street door closed.
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Metropolis
Charles Neimmenson
Fulton Street
Brooklyn
Wilson
Senate Attitude Resented on Lighthouse Bills
The House committee on interstate and foreign commerce moves to oppose Senate defiance over lighthouse measures and similar bills. It aims to shape legislation in a way that blocks passage, continuing a pattern of House framing acts to thwart Senate aims.
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Senate
House
Interstate and Foreign Commerce
House Committee
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Coloring Matter in Food Testing Methods
A discussion notes widespread artificial coloring in daily foods and cites a recent Department of Agriculture bulletin. The bulletin lists colors used in foods and provides detection methods to determine presence of artificial coloring.
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Department of Agriculture
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W. ML Crave Company
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