Cecil Rhodes Dream and Last Will Analyzed
The article surveys Cecil Rhodes last testament and its vast endowment aimed at global education. It notes $25,000,000 for scholarships at Oxford, five American scholarships per US state, and aims to foster Anglo Saxon and Germanic links through higher education while acknowledging utopian scope and mixed outcomes.
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Cecil Rhodes
Kipling
Cesar
Rome
Orford University
Great Britain
World
United States
Germany
Oxford University
Rhodes
Mr. Rhodes
Iowa Governor Pay Rise Sparks Fiscal Debate
The article touches on wider costs of war and governance, noting Iowa’s governor salary rising from 3000 to 5000 dollars and contrasting with other states. It cites political commentary, library gifts, and various international quips, reflecting a period voice on public finance and public service.
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Iowa
Massachusetts
Ohio
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Beautifying the School House Yards
Efforts to involve pupils in beautifying city schoolyards begin soon. The plan aims to engage every student in keeping yards well maintained and to extend the influence from schools to homes.
Verses on Wealth, Home, and Language Metaphor
A collage of verse snippets and prose notes on wealth’s glare versus honest work, home life, and personal recollections. It interleaves lines about a monarch of money with musings on home fireside joys, poetry about love and memory, medical adverts, and light humor from period magazines.
Moline street chatter and public concerns aired
A fragmented local column records a overheard talk with Schneider voicing complaints about city railway tracks by the river and calls to Governor Yates and mayor Kohler for action. Other snippets mention four in hand ties, a trunk prized by Ole Olson imitators, and a street corner loafer amid a smallpox era warning.
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Schneider
Kohler
Moore
Walters
Ole Olson
August Colberg
Jule
Colberg
Sweden
Women and Men Suffer Kidney Trouble Alike
An advertisement touts Swamp Root as a remedy for kidney and bladder issues affecting both women and men. It claims in Mrs. Kilmer’s cure that the kidney disease causes fatigue, poor appetite, bed wetting in children, and general misery, offering samples by mail from Dr. Kilmer and Co. in Binghamton New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Editorial remark stirs debate over Brown poem claim
In the Sanctum a debate erupts over an editorial notice about Brown's poem. The piece asserts he is the greatest lyricist of his time while the paper labels him the greatest liar. The editor questions whether the claim is truly an error.
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Prince Henry
America
Bantos-Dumont
Earl
Brown
Atlanta Constitution
Nighttime carriage encounter ends with bruised finger
A hackman slams a door trapping a fair maid's finger causing pain. Knight of the lance berates the driver, orders a return to the office, then the hackman drives off, never to return that night as the doctor releases the man.
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Hackman
Hacky
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