Reading courses in world literature for adults and youth
The education bureau selects classics such as the Iliad and Odyssey and Dante's Divine Comedy for a first reading course. It offers a second course with nine works and specialized lists for parents, boys, and girls emphasizing moral character and national welfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NCLE
University of the Common People
United States
Bureau of Education
University of Literature
P. P. Claxton
Claxton
Congress
Washington
Cervantes
Moliere
Milton
Ellen C. Lombard
Home Educational Division
Department of Agriculture
Hans Brinker
Lincoln
Lee
Franklin
Cleveland Moffett
Bulfineh
Helen Keller
Government Picks Classic Works for National Library
Government recommends a list of enduring novels and essays including Homer Virgil Dante Shakespeare Tolstoy Dickens Austen Hardy Poe Hawthorne Hawthorne Stevenson and Emerson. The catalog features adventure romance tragedy social critique and moral essays from multiple eras.
Sulphur Mining Process Described Near Freeport Texas
A Texas description explains sulphur mining near Freeport where 1000 feet underground beds are melted in place by superheated water at 336 degrees Fahrenheit under high pressure. The molten sulphur is lifted to the surface, flows into wooden bins built up to 30 to 35 feet as the mass grows, then congeals to the characteristic sulphur yellow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Freeport
Tex
Dorothy Dix on courtship and婚 marriage roles
Dorothy Dix comments that girls should know what their beaux make and notes that, historically, girls receive three fourths of it during courtship and gain a clean sweep after marriage, reflecting a Houston Post sentiment on changing times.
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Dorothy ‘Dix
Houston Post
Fragmentary 1915 Civic and Weather Notes Across U S
Extracted items report farm ownership of 60 percent of 1915 automobile output, projected 60 percent of production to farming areas, underground Paris Observatory clocks with minimal temperature variation, and wildlife bounty data from Atchison Kansas. A Prescott Michigan meteor sighting is noted along with a Cairo correspondent update.
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United States
Charles Salmon
Ear Prescott
Mich
Best Time to Prune Trees Delays and Summer Tips
The Ohio College of Agriculture notes winter pruning generally promotes wood growth while summer pruning checks growth. Delaying pruning to late winter avoids winter kill and double work, while summer pruning is effective only after terminal buds finish growing in late June.
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Horticultural Department
Ohio College of Agriculture
Caring for the Plum Tree
A writer advises careful pruning to avoid injuring trees and recommends lime sulfur sprays before bud break and after fruit set to combat brown rot, with a lead arsenate mix. Repeats every ten days but avoid four to five weeks before ripening. Suggests replacing weak, aged trees and describes digging a deep planting hole with loam and ashes for new stock.
Stony Soils for Orchards and Production Prospects
A stony loam can benefit orchard soils by improving drainage in heavy or clayey ground. However a stony soil does not guarantee profitability. For profitable apple production, the soil must be productive or capable of being brought to production amid keen competition.
Grove's Tasteless Quinine Tonic Ad Promotes Malaria Fight
An old newspaper ad promotes Grove's Tasteless Quinine and Iron tonic to “drive out malaria” and “build up the system.” The label highlights Quinine for malaria and iron for strength, priced at 50 cents.
Had Real Idea of Economy In Japanese Humor
Two Tokyo men discuss saving and frugal living with fan stories. One keeps a fan for twenty years by opening sections gradually. The other uses a fan for generations by keeping it closed and not waving it, keeping the face out of the wind.
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Tokyo
Warrior of Today and the Changing Face of War
George Wharton Pepper spoke at a Pittsburgh training camp luncheon noting major shifts in warfare. He cited the Argonne tale of a French chasseur forcing a German officer to surrender his sword, only to hear the officer claim no sword exists and propose his own chemical weapons as alternatives.
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George Wharton Pepper
Pittsburgh
Argonne
Tyre
Cuticura Soap Baths Advertised for Infants
They afford infants and children great comfort allowing rest and sleep and point to speedy healing of eczema rashes itchings chafings and other sleep destroying skin troubles. Nothing better for nursery and toilet. Sample each free by mail with Book. Address postcard Cuticura Dept XY Boston. Sold everywhere.
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Cuticura
Dept. XY
Boston
Getting Even and a Cook’s Week Off
A cook requests a week off to marry and receives approval. A colleague frets they cannot spare her and contends the decision was the only way to get even with her. The exchange reveals tension over workplace fairness and personal revenge.
The Advantage. We want the bald facts in the case.
A brief statement emphasizes seeking clear, unambiguous facts in the case and avoiding partial or hedged language as the matter progresses.
Red Cross Ball Blue Ad Appeals to Grocers
An advertisement touts Smile brand Red Cross Ball Blue as American made and the best choice for washing, claiming wide availability from grocers. The message emphasizes quality and nationwide distribution.
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Red Cross Ball
Adv
Paw Still on the Job Little Lemuel
A playful exchange prompts a humorous digression about a book loving worm. Paw explains a worm that eats a book would rather digest it than read it, capturing a comic scene of teaching and imagination.
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Lemuel
Motto for a lawyer and a fruit preserver
A compact note contrasts two short phrases used as slogans. It pairs a legal profession motto I will with a garbled second line TI can suggesting a fruit preserver claim. The text presents a playful, fragmentary bilingual wordplay.
Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Promises Relief for Women
A vintage promotional item extols Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a proven relief for women’s ailments citing multiple testimonials. It recounts heavy lifting and childbirth aftereffects leading to weakness, inflammation, and nervous tension, with claims of substantial improvement after using the remedy.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
United States
8. T. Browmonp
Progress Avenue
Providence, R.L
N.Y
Lydia
E. Pinkham
Red
Peru
South Quincy
Mass
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Othello
Faust
Goethe
Anna Karenina
Pere Goriot
Clarissa Harlowe
David Copperfield
Guy Mannering
Henry Esmond
Lorna Doone
Richard Feverer
Robinson Crusoe
Vanity Fair
Vicar of Wakefield
Treasure Island
Emerson
Poe
Henry James
O. Henry
Tom Sawyer
Ins
Paris Observatory
Chicago ‘Craftsmen
Onarative
Mason
Hick Colgan
Atchison, Kan
Cairo
Constantinople
Keep
Bright
Dean
Idoan’s
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Carter
FREH
Dr. F E
Plummer Med. Co
Bellefontaine
Meyer
Eureba Chemical Company
Hoboken
N. J
Maria Irwin
Peru, N.Y
Jane D. Duncan
W. Quincy, Mass
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