Pottery Expert Miss Foord to Help Pueblo Indians
New York potter Miss Josephine Foord, appointed by Indian Commissioner Leupp, will organize pottery work among the Pueblo Indians in New Mexico to preserve native excellence and build a self supporting industry. Her six years of prior study includes kiln construction and practical pottery techniques for aiding native makers.
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Josephine Foord
New York
Leupp
New Mexico
Miss Foord
Pioneer potter sparks Native craft revival in New Mexico
An English woman Miss Foord builds a kiln and trains Native workers to make pottery, improving strength and glazing through inside firing. Health issues force her to pause, but she returns with government support, seeking market outlets as she travels to promote the work. She remains hopeful of government assignment success. Engagement Rings, 'An engagement ring' should 'never be regarded as a woman's 'property ' to
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Josephine Foord
Iit
Miss Foord
New Mexico
The Middle Aged Back Remedy
The piece notes a common postures issue in middle age with a forward neck and rounded back. It prescribes a simple remedy: imitate youth by throwing shoulders back and neck straight, and tailoring gowns to emphasize the desired effect.
Things Beautiful and Refining
The passage argues beauty stems from labor, care, skill, and refined taste, not expense. It stresses that homes and dress can be refined through artistry rather than costly materials, noting that many well-dressed yet tidy neighbors look superior to lavishly dressed, slovenly individuals.
Household Tips From An Old Cook Book Era
Advice on homemade laundry starch using wax and spermaceti for stiffness and gloss. Guidance on refrigerator care cleaning weekly with hot water and soda, air drying, and keeping foods covered to avoid cross contamination. Camphor ice recipe with olive oil for smooth dry hands, melting waxes and camphor into oil, then pouring into jars.
Burlap as a Wall Covering Offers Recoloring Benefit
Burlap walls can be recolored as they fade without removing from the walls and can receive a dull or glazed finish. Although burlap costs more initially than paper with similar effect, its superior wearing qualities reduce long term expense.
Brighten a Fire and Hygiene Tips From Old Advice
A vintage guide warns against pouring kerosene on a slow fire, suggesting grease or fat bits for a bright blaze without explosion risk. It advises daily baths, outdoor time, and simple dress tips for a crimson nose, plus cold water use and chamois care, plus a tiny sprig elm slip for sewing ease. It also mentions making towels with linen inserts and plain huckaback.
Picked Men for Public Life and the Rich
A Washington interview with Speaker Cannon discusses whether young intelligent men should enter public life. He argues merit plus patriotism justify public service, notes that wealth can aid but not replace hard work, and warns against demagogues manipulating power. He condemns inherited fortune controlling politics and calls for leaders chosen from both rich and working classes.
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Cannon
Washington
The
New York World
Republic
New Use of Thumb Marks Prevents Check Raising
A Trainfield New Jersey merchant protects checks by stamping a thumb print on each check. He plates an imprint using ink and a steel plate to create a unique design that banks must verify before cashing. The method relies on the unique pattern of each person’s fingertip to deter alterations.
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Trainfield
N. J
Business Man's Magazine
Banis
Sea Salvage of Galveston Reveals Large Protective Wall
The London Chronicle notes the Galveston salvage as a major American effort to rebuild after the 1900 hurricane. A four and a third mile sea wall now surrounds the town front facing the Gulf of Mexico, seventeen feet high and sixteen feet thick at the base. The British consul reports progress on raising the protected district, with sand pumped from the gulf to reclaim land, a striking example of ingenuity and reconstruction.
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San Francisco
London Chronicle
Galveston
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf
Civil Engineer Traces Old Berkshire Lines Snag
A Berkshire County surveyor in southern Berkshire Conn identified by the World reports a snag in establishing old property lines. A deed describes a path from a pine tree to a pine stump a bush and a turkey nest by the brook highlighting unclear landmarks in the survey.
News gathering method gains favor in Ripon Press
Editor Howe adopts a novel system as tablets placed in principal business houses invite shopkeepers to jot down items for coverage on press days, a practice noted by the Milwaukee Sentinel.
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Howe
Ripon Press
Milwaukee Sentinel
Making a Steam Engine From a Can and Tin
Step by step guide from Woman's Home Companion explains building a small steam engine using a tin can, a tin box box shape, a balance wheel, and a shaft. It details cutting tin pieces, assembling a box, drilling holes, mounting fans, and using water and an alcohol lamp to heat. The project improves with larger cans or vessels, following proportional increases for more power.
Shaw lambasts doctors at antivivisection meeting
English dramatist George Bernard Shaw criticizes the medical profession as coercive and profit driven in remarks reported from London. He cites police repression in France, defends liberty against cures, mocks surgery fashion, and contrasts vivisection with militant anarchist aims, highlighting alleged doctor pecuniary motives and unnecessary operations.
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George Bernard Wo
Morcy Jy
George Bernard Shaw
London
New York American and Journal
France
Elc
Derturs
Tam
A Jolly Peanut Game for Round Table Fun
Children sit at four per table with a cupful of peanuts and bouton tongs. They remove one peanut at a time without disturbing others and continue until they fail, passing to the left. After twenty minutes a bell rings, and the table winner moves on to face other table winners until a single winner remains.
Billy and Me the Tiny Tales in Little Chronicle
A fragmented passage from the Little Chronicle features playful riddles and juvenile musings. It contrasts wordplay on par tel untied and tied again with a child named George and his mother’s shopping trip for a petticoat. It muses on language, schooling, and childlike priorities amid poems and sketches.
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George
Little Chronicle
New July Fourth Plan Aims Public Ballhouses
Rev Charles M Sheldon proposes a national Fourth of July plan to replace fireworks with funded public ballhouses in each town. The halls would include playgrounds and spaces for civic gatherings focused on uplifting the city’s moral and aesthetic life.
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Charles M. Sheldon
Topeka
Kan
United States
Kansas City Times
Cyclone Crier Appointed in Ringwood Oklahoma Town
The Ringwood Oklahoma town council appointed an official cyclone crier to awaken residents in a windstorm and summon all to the newly built city cyclone cellar as reported by the Chicago Record Herald.
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Qulahoma
Ringwood
Okla
Chicago Record Herald
Rubber heels in flats spark rent reform satire
A New York World spoof mocks renting agents in Washington by urging flat dwellers to adopt rubber heels. The poem teases modern living with folding furniture and keyholes, imagining landlords and tenants negotiating through ironic scenes of daily life in a flat.
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Washington
Denatured Alcohol Could Revolutionize Heating and Power
Advocates hail denatured alcohol as a cheap, efficient fuel that could replace gasoline and kerosene. The bill, passed by Congress and sent to the president, would tax-denatured alcohol and expand its production from grains and other starches. Proponents say it could boost farm markets, cut costs, and power autos, ships, and lamps, with potential to upend Standard Oil pricing and auto fuels.
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Congress
Washington
New York World
Internal Revenue
Murdock
Kansas
GUM SHOE NOW: WASHINGTONIANS REQUIRED RUBBER HEELS
A New York World dispatch reports Washington landlords require tenants to wear rubber heels in flats to reduce noise. Leases say every family member must wear the noiseless heels and even go carts in buildings must have rubber tires. Tenants are fitted at move in by a contracted shoemaker, and complaints about racket overhead have largely ceased.
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Washington
New York World
Disappearing Forests Report Warns of Rapid Loss
The National Hardwood Lumber Association met in Memphis and warned that within about thirty five years U S forests could vanish. It cited 1 475 060 000 000 feet of standing lumber and an annual cut of 45 000 000 000 feet, urging a ban on log exports and tax exemptions for tree plantations. It called for state laws and a federal provision similar to France requiring planting another tree for every tree felled.
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National Hardwood Lumber Association
Memphis
United States
France
Prize Awarded for Hawaiian Stamps Exhibit
An old cup prize was awarded to B. J. Crocker of San Francisco for his exhibit of Hawaiian stamps at the Later Nation Philatelic exhibition.
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B. J.,crocker
San Francisco
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