Business Life and Social Grief in the Modern Press
A reflective piece contrasts business talk with personal warmth, urging humane small talk and patience in professional calls. It laments brisk efficiency and the suppression of genuine conversation, while noting women’s resistance to impersonal business norms and the ironic isolation of rapid, goal driven calls. The narrator recalls advice from friends to stay connected to meaningful work and ends with a quoted personal creed about wealth, fame, and leaving a better world.
Plant wizard replies to critics amid thornless cactus debate
Luther Burbank responds to New York Times criticisms by detailing thornless cactus history and his role in developing rapid growing, thinkable varieties. He notes Carnegie grant support, his aid from sales past age 60, and insists thornless cacti are not mere novelties but valuable agricultural plants.
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Luther Burbank
New York Times_y
Mr. Burbank
Carnegie Institution
Burbank
New York Times
Santa Rosa
Cal
A Complicated Situation in Washington Politics
The article critiques the administration's inability to curb insurgents while noting their alignment with Roosevelt policies and reform measures. It argues the president fears insurgents’ possible defection to Democrats, condemns past deals with Democrats, and calls the political landscape highly complex to navigate.
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Washington
Uniform Divorce Laws Not for New York Readers
The New York Sun argues against a national uniform divorce law. It favors state control over causes while endorsing a uniform divorce procedure to curb fraud. It warns that mass adoption would clash with New York’s fidelity-based grounds and tax-like divorce practices in nearby states.
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Washington
Congress
Cullen
Court of Appeals
Brooklyn Law School
St. Lawrence University
New York
Commonwealth of
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Vermont
New York Sun
Advertising Revealed Fable Ends in Coyote Attack
A rabbit is urged to advertise to be seen while a gorilla notes the roar of the lion. The rabbit shouts in a thicket and is eaten by a coyote who learns of the rabbit’s location. Moral: if you haven’t got the goods don’t make noise.
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Earth
What Virginia Might Do With Lee in the Capitol
The piece argues Virginia should honor George Washington and Robert E. Lee, contending Lee belongs in Statuary Hall or could be left with a vacant pedestal in the U S Capitol to show where sectionalism remains and keep the memory of Lee prominent despite political contention.
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Virginia
George Washington
Robert BE. Lee
Statuary Hall
Lee
United States Capitol
Automobile Industry in 1910 Shows Rapid Growth
It is hard to grasp the size of the auto industry and its rising use in the United States. Sunday traffic on main travel routes can reach about a thousand cars, with an estimated expenditure surpassing six million dollars. Projected 1910 production around 160000 vehicles signals record manufacturing, fewer imports, and improving American cars. Roads, laws, and routes to major points like Savannah are part of the evolving transportation landscape.
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Savannah
Flocking to the Holy Land and Zionist Rise
Letters from Jerusalem describe Turkey’s constitution opening Palestine to Hebrews from around the world. In Jerusalem four fifths of 100000 are Jewish, with tens in Jaffa, Tiberias, Safed, and Haifa. Jews buy Esdraelon plain, expand Dan to Beersheba, and into Egypt’s outskirts. Zionist financiers and the Anglo Palestine Company push colonization, trade, and schools as land values rise and native fellahin are displaced.
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Jerusalem
Turkey
Palestine
Jaffa
Tiberias
Safed
Haifa
Esdraelon
Dan
Beersheba
Egypt
Persia
Holy Land
Odessa
The
Jordan
Abdul Hamid
Europe
America
Deplorable Turkish Roads and Garish Villas Critique
A traveler laments the roads around Skutari as washes and ditches far worse than any colonial lane. He mocks cheap, unpainted villas with iron bars, noting the hareme and misused wealth. The horse doctor adds a sharp quip about neighbors and theft.
Moving Pictures Show Crown Prince in Battle Parade
The royal cinematographer captures the crown prince leading a fierce charge on the parade ground. Afterward he directs officers in cannon handling and loads a shell, with reports from Germany stating the films will be released for public sale to showcase the future emperor in battle array.
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William
Germany
Moving Picture
The Swan Dinner Prank From Devonshire Club
A Devonshire man sent a large swan as a Christmas treat to a club secretary. The swan, placed on a silver salver, proved so tough it could not be carved after a sixteen hour boil. The sender revealed the bird was historic, a 200 year old family swan once fed King Charles I, preserved and stuffed instead of eaten.
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Charles I
Justifies the taking of life by self action
Dr Edward A Spitzka of Jefferson Medical College told the Protestant Episcopal Clerical Brotherhood that murder and death by own action can be justifiable. He cited a soldier facing execution or torture who ends his life as an example of justifiable death by own action, provoking a sensation at a recent meeting.
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Edward A. Spitzka
Jefferson Medical College
Protestant Episcopal Clerical Brotherhood
Spitzka
Sputkka
Physician Remarks on Life, Pain, and Phrenology Claims
Dr. Spitzka discusses the ethics of aiding relief in extreme pain with morphia in terminal cases and questions phrenology and criminology theories. He cites brain studies doubting criminal brains and notes mixed moral traits in individuals born to older fathers, including Benjamin Franklin as an example.
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Spitzka
Lombrose School
Benjamin Franklin
New York World
Not the Least Alarmed Comet Talk In Rural Exchange
A tourist and a farm boy discuss a forthcoming comet and its supposed impact. They joke about moon counts and candle burning while referencing a farm life motto from President Taft. The dialogue blends humor with rural weathered optimism about chores and change.
Arm Gets One Year For Housebreaking Parody
A lawyer argues that a man did not break in but merely removed items through an open parlor window with his arm. The judge counters by sentencing the arm to imprisonment. The man exits with his cork arm, leaving the dock.
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W. W. Jacobs
Success Magazine
England Faces Desperate Plight Under Free Trade
A Philadelphia Inquirer piece warns England’s postwar misery, unemployment, and industrial collapse from dumped imports and protected rivals. It argues liberal victory in Parliament risks deeper turmoil, urging tariff reform to stave off broader global economic harm.
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England
Asquith
Lord George
America
Germany
Great Britain
Britain
Philadelphia Inquirer
Changes in the British Navy Recognition of Specialization and Youth
The New York Herald notes the English fleet promotes eleven commanders to captains at ages 35 to 41, highlighting specialization with seven new captains from gunnery or torpedo posts, only one nonspecialist. Lieutenant promotions also favor gunnery and torpedo officers, while older sea‑dogs fare less well.
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Lowther Crofton
Edward Seymour
Admiralty
Salt Horse
Weevilly Biscuit
New York Herald
No Partnership in Investigation Editorial
The Philadelphia Inquirer argues against partisan influence in the Pinchot Ballinger inquiry. It criticizes Republicans Ollie James and Rainer for pursuing political gain over conservation ethics. The paper urges a neutral, fact driven probe to guide future policy on mineral lands water power and forests.
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House of Representatives
Ollie James
Kentucky
Rainer
Illinois
Congress
Philadelphia Inquirer
Color of Water: Rivers Seas and Geysers Colored
The article notes waters vary in color, citing the Mediterranean as green blue, a red river in South America, pale green St. Lawrence, golden Ottawa, and emerald pools in the White Mountains. It explains colors reflect surroundings and minerals, mentions Ca pir Blue Grotto, Yellowstone geysers, and suggests dyeing water with bloodroot plant as a vegetable dye.
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Mediterranean Sea
South America
St. Lawrence
Canada
Ottawa
White Mountains
Capri
Italy
Yellowstone Park
St. Nicholas
Scientific baby is the new plan
A college woman raises her child on strict scientific methods avoiding affection to prove new motherhood can yield a superior child. By two years old Leonard weighs far above average and shows rapid early growth, suggesting strong physical and mental development from open air, limited feeding, and constant exercise.
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Wiliam Noyes
Leonard
Growth Of Holt Baby Helped By Early Observations
A hospital chart records Holt family infants milestones from third month laughs to walking by thirty third week. Leonard advances from grabbing objects in fifteenth week to standing alone at thirty third week. Nurses tracked health and behavior to guide recurrence of symptoms and improve care.
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Holt
Leonard
Leopard
The Waste of Water and City Water Use
A Cleveland brought engineer for New York argues 45 percent of Manhattan and Bronx water is wasted. He says reducing waste could obviate the Catskills aqueduct. New York averages 135 gallons per person daily, Philadelphia 210, London 36.
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Cleveland
Water Commissioner of
New York
Water Service
Manhattan
Bronx
Catskills
London
Philadelphia
The Sunken Maine: Ode To A Martyr Ship
A long sorrowful poem laments the sunk battleship Maine in Cuban waters. It venerates the dead and honors Old Glory, urging reverence for the martyred crew and the cause of liberty. The piece questions the moral cost of war and the symbolism of the Maine in history. GEORGE SANDS JOHNSON signs the tribute.
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Cuba
Maine
Havana
George Sands Johnson
In Double Harness. Aged wisdom on married life humor
In Double Harness. One of the advantages of being married is the reduced danger of a man going to bed with his shoe son. Women who have their bank ac count In their own names have little cause to complain of husband being stingy. The man who boasts of bossing his wife is evidently a newly wed. Just as easy to legislate peace into the family as to legislate morals into men.
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Florida Times-Union
Traveling With Taft in Alfred Henry Lewis’s expose
The January Human Life installment previews a Beverly Beverly secret conference involving four men and the President’s Cottage visit. Archbold is hinted as the letters writer. the piece accuses moneyed interests of smothering investigations and shaping Taft’s tour route through Capitol power. The narrative promises sharp, unflinching critique in vivid prose.
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Alfred Henry Lewis
Human Life
Washington
Beverly
Standard
Archbold
Roosevelt
Taft
la Follette
Mr. Tawney
Capitol
Arroesa Trusts
Milwaukee
Winona
Lewis
Family budget clash echoes through house of commons
A child recalls a looming budget crisis at home and in Parliament. Ma manages Christmas plans while Pa vows to block the measure, claiming danger in the talk yet Ma shops on. The tension mirrors a nearby political clash as nights echo with heated debates.
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Neptune
House of Commons
House of Lords
War on the sparrow urged by biological survey
Citizens in Bloomfield War worth Summit and nearby villages are warned against sparrows amid a campaign urged by the biological survey. The study brands the English sparrow as destructive and unprotected, urging residents to eradicate it by any means. The bird, introduced about 60 years ago, now spans the Eastern seaboard and parts of Canada due to its hardiness and prolific breeding.
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Bloomfield
Warworth
Summit
New York
Biological Survey
Department of Agriculture
Farmers’ Bulletin
Ned Dearborn
United States
Seaboard
Canada
Pacific Coast
A Poor Memory
A Canadian farmer famed for absent mindedness travels to town and back, insisting he forgot something. He checks his pocketbook thrice on the way home, only to be asked by his son where his wife, mother, has gone.
Van Norden Robbers Not Yet Located
New York Special detectives said they had not recovered the $28,000 in large bills taken from Warner M. Wapden by two women, May Williams and Bessie Ro, arrested on highway robbery charges. The case lacks light as hearings near at market court. Frank Dowdell, Beatrice Dowdell’s husband, freed after being held as a suspect.
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New York
Special
Warner M. Wapden
Thirty-third Street
Prrue
May Williams
Bessie Ro
Ion Market Court
van Norden
Frank Dowdell
Beasierts
Denies Deaths Of Babies Are Preventable
Richmond VA Chief Health Officer Levy rejects a published claim that five sixths of infant deaths are preventable. He notes one in six died by age one, says he did not state such a figure. The board sought 2500 for nurse-educator program to aid mothers and reduce deaths.
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Richmond
Levy
Divorce blamed on women by church group speaker
Mrs Newell Dwight, wife of a Plymouth Brooklyn pastor, told a Gallery meeting that divorce is driven by women. She cited statistics claiming many marriages fail as women neglect housekeeper duties and wifehood roles before marriage. She argued men bear less blame, noting beliefs about family and childrearing.
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United States
Avorce
Newell Dwight
Plymouth Brooklyn
Chiropeamn
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