Nice Carnival Costs and Civic Pride Drive € Prized Festivities
The article reviews Nice during carnival season when the city, famed for luxury and spectacle, hosts elaborate parades, illuminated streets, and masked balls. It highlights the fete committee led by Joseph Durandy, costs of celebrations, civic support, and the economic impact on tourism and local commerce.
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Nice
Europe
America
Opera House
Redoubt
Veglione
Avenue de la Gare
Juges Tribune
Massena
Monsieur Joseph Durandy
Lodka
Victoris
Edward VII
Stay Young by Cultivating Hobbies and Varied Interests
A physician urges middle aged women to combat obesity and monotony by exercising and pursuing varied outside interests. He warns that marriage can curb activity and happiness, urging home women to maintain hobbies to keep youthful spirit and warm home charm.
High Place for City of Glasgow
The city of Glasgow with a population over a million is praised for its cleanliness. It has an up-to-date sewerage system a plentiful water supply and a highly regarded municipal government reflecting credit on its officials.
One Haven State of Matrimony Solves Women’s Suffrage Debate
A witty exchange notes that marriage law stifles the need for women’s votes in one state. The remark: women need not vote to make laws when bound by matrimony, a quip reflecting on gender rights.
Untrue Figures of Speech by G K Chesterton
Chesterton argues a phrase can become a literal truth and produce shock when the figurative sense matches reality. He imagines absurd scenes where words trigger unintended consequences, noting how language fails at the moment of literal coincidence.
Bedtime Story From Tom Morgan
Johnny Chuck suffers a head ache after pondering how much wood a woodchuck would chuck and fears his brain is leaking. Sammy Jay mocks him for worrying about larger issues while urging him to focus on what he can do for his family and everyday life.
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Tom Morgan
Johnny Chuck
Johnny
Sammy Jay
Aunt Frettie
Uncle Pepys
Polly Chuck
Chucks
Nile
Kansas City Star
Birds Learn to Fear Airships in French Forest Study
An inspector reports birds once fled quail and partridges near aerodromes in Le Mans and Rheims. After scouts observed aircraft closely, birds returned to preserves, and game stocks recovered to former levels.
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Ministry of Agriculture
Quail
le Mans
Rheims
Imbeciles Best Able to Judge Heavier Weight
Belgian physician Dr. Demoor tested 380 children aged six to fifteen using two bottles of equal weight but different sizes covered in black paper. About 370 judged one bottle heavier, while ten claimed equal weight. The ten were described as abnormal or degenerates, per Lancet analysis.
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Demoor
Fearful Manchineel Tree Described By Explorers
An African manchineel tree, famed for deadly sap and fruit, is warned against resting beneath its shade. Tremaux’s expedition noted the poison in milky juice that can kill upon skin contact, used by tribes to weaponize wounds. trees reach up to 24 feet in height with large trunks and slender branches.
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Africa
Tremaux
Cacane
Making the Nation's Money in a Year
Harpers Weekly reports the U S government printed 348,129,172 bills totaling 1 443 820 320 dollars in a year. Notes ranged from 1 to 10 000 with a couple of large notes. if laid end to end they would nearly circle the globe. The pile would cover 1550 acres if spread. stacked, the top note would be about 27 miles from Earth. Printing cost was 9 25 per thousand, totaling 3 690 000 dollars for the year.
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United States
Harper’s Weekly
Oil Boom on Snake Indian Lands in Oklahoma
Rich land owned by Indians in the Creek country Oklahoma yields vast profits as oil prospectors strike in the Snakes territory. Since nine years ago government allotments of 160 acres per Snake were set at two dollars an acre, the oil wealth has sparked extensive drilling while the interior department protects Native rights.
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Creek Country
Oklahoma
Indiana
Department of the Interior
Difficult Lesson Prompted 100 Repeats on Board
A teacher corrects Johnny on verb tense by forcing him to write I have gone 100 times. After finishing he waits for return and, frustrated, adds a note reading Piss Smith, I have wrote I have gone 100 times and have went home.
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Johnny
Piss Smith
Alfalfa Wilt No Known Remedy Warns Oregon Experts
Oregon Agricultural College experiment station experts say there is no practical remedy for alfalfa wilt which thrives on heavy slow drainage soils. They advise crop rotations in serious infections and note the disease also affects clover, with stems rotting at or above ground, white cottony mold, and sclerotia formations. The report recalls the disease’s spread from Europe to the United States and mentions apothecia appearing in very wet climates.
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Oregon Agricultural College Experiment Station
Europe
New York
California
Oregon
Fattening Feed for Chickens Explained
Benjam in J Kirntier asks how to fatten chickens. Prof James Dryden of Oregon Agricultural College says fattening rations vary by grain price. Ground oats and barley with middlings and bran in milk form a good mix. if milk is unavailable use animal meal or beef scrap. Feed twice daily, start lightly, then full amount, and confine birds in dark crates or pens for quiet, lamplight at night optional.
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Benjamin J. Kirntier
Corbett, Or
James Dryden
Poultry Department
Oregon Agricultural College
Farm Home Should Have Furnace Room
Mrs. Henrietta W. Calvin of the Oregon Agricultural College urges farm homes to include a basement furnace room for muddy garments and washing before entering living areas. She argues this would reduce dissention, improve cleanliness, and justify labor with better floors, water, baths, lighting, and electric machinery.
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Henrietta W. Calvin
Oregon Agricultural College
Work for Men and Women in Society
The passage emphasizes distinct roles for men and women. It asserts there is space for both genders, with women tending the inner life and men filling external duties.
Happiness and Peace in a Clever Quote
A brief quotation on happiness praising peace after struggle. notes only married women and single men as truly happy, attributed to Smart Set style.
Ranchman’s Bread From Oregon Bulletin Recipe
A traditional ranchman bread method from an Oregon Agricultural College pamphlet explains sour dough fermentation. Mix two thirds full of flour and water batter with sugar, let it ferment, then combine with salt lard and flour to form a soft dough. Fry and bake after doubling in size, reusing starter for continued sourness.
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Éamp Cookery Bulletin
Oregon Agricultural College
How Burbank Would Treat a Child
Luther Burbank argues child training should mirror plant cultivation. Be gentle and loving, avoid harshness, provide music art laughter and cheerful, purposeful activity. Create constant, bright environments with sun and air, for the child’s lifelong growth and posterity.
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Burbank
Luther Burbank
Michigan Grange Buletin
Co operative Marketing Flourishes in Wisconsin
Wisconsin reports 17 successful co operative stores with about 7500 members and 400000 dollars in paid capital. 1913 sales exceed 1508000 dollars as profits are rebated to members at 5 to 10 percent while non members receive little or no dividend.
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Wisconsin
America
England
Signature Secrets Mark a Sneaky Businessman
A hotel manager asks how to spot a great businessman. The clerk answers that the man is known for keeping secrets and only reveals his name when he chooses.
Innocent bystander hurt as man falls before train
A New York man attempting to approach a woman in a hobble skirt fell in front of a train. The incident underscores how bystanders often suffer injuries in accidents.
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New York
University Missourian
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G K. Chesterton
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