Muckraking, wings, and a teething baby headline the times
Topics touch on muckrakers and a warning that magazines would not exist without railing and digging. Halley’s comet tail is gas, vegetarian politics rise, and Sarah Bernhardt nears farewell Americas tour. Carrie Nation and King Edward receive attention amid London bridge plans.
Lessons on marriage and secret matches in moral prose
The piece condemns runaway marriages and warns that secrecy signals fault in plans. It argues marriage demands serious consideration by both young and mature, urging guidance over impulsive elopement and decrying flippant attitudes.
Rearing Children and Social Responsibility
A fragment reflecting on parental responsibility and the critical role of nurturing children for the future of society. The speaker laments inadequate means and equipment for childrearing and argues it shapes the nation’s artists and workers.
Rearing Future Citizens Beyond Schooling
The piece argues that society should focus on nurturing character and opportunities for children, not just schooling. It notes U S leaders and educators stressing moral and social development, and cites music education from universities, orchestras, mechanical pianos, and phonographs as tools shaping a musical public.
Ink Stain Tells of Forbes After Sedan and Napoleon
Archibald Forbes and a fellow war correspondent slept at the Napoleonic chateau the night after the Sedan surrender. Forbes wrote dispatches at the adjoining table while his companion gnawed a ham bone. A rage struck ink from an overturned inkstand, later claimed to be Napoleon’s anger over German peace terms.
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Lion feeds to sugar hand in menagerie scene
In a curious moment at the menagerie Jack and Joey watch the lion eating sugar from the trainer’s hand with equal interest. Joey is astonished while Jack asserts he could do the same, claiming he is as capable as the trainer with a hint of bravado.
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Man longs to ride an airplane amid gravity law jokes
A playful exchange on aviation and gravity appears in a Boston Transcript snippet. The speaker quips about riding a plane while noting gravity imposes a real law, sparking light banter.
It's Easy for a Girl to Be Good Sayings
A narrator recalls a boy remarking that a girl being well behaved is easy to claim while a boy cannot. The text notes that no man ever escaped being a provincial mark at some point, reflecting on social judgments of behavior.
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Mark
The Appeal of Politics to Woman by Rosamond Lee Sutherland
A prose piece argues that political equality for women would elevate the nation. It contends women are loyal citizens who seek good governance and child protection and would value suffrage as a sacred privilege. It acknowledges imperfect judgment but maintains many women are worthy voters and deserve the ballot. North American Revie.
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Northwestern University
Music Teachers’ National Association
Chicago
Pigteburg
New York
Boston
Rosamond Lee Sutherland
America
Amcrita
Revie
Hunting, in Its Various Phases
Hugo Krause argues against chasing only grand opportunities and urges aiding city horses in need. He points to Chicago as a field for philanthropic effort and invites readers to join in rescuing overworked, neglected beasts of burden rather than pursuing fame elsewhere.
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Hugo ‘Krause
Chicago
Rand
Srhich
Report Violations and Uphold Truth in Public Service
Encourages officials to stay vigilant against irregularities and wrongdoing by those chasing wealth. Urges reporting law violations to defend the helpless and promote truth, righteousness, and justice in public life.
Reincarnation and its Necessity by y Rn nile Besant
The excerpt argues three sources of human inequality, condemning creation by God and heredity while promoting reincarnation as freedom from fixed fate. It claims each soul’s past shapes present, with growth through pain and virtue guiding future perfection and national service.
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Rnnile
Earth
Is Woman Fitted To Rule
An analysis by Charlotte Perkins Gilman on women's history and status. The author argues women suffered through history yet survived and should strive toward equality to raise the race, noting current dependence and urging society to benefit from female advancement.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Notes of Foreign Lands in Consular Reports
A Berlin company forms to manufacture Wright aircraft rights granted to Germany. Chinese education expands under educated leadership from abroad. Aden imposes a license tax boosting American kerosene use. Brazil plans fire brigade improvements. rubber factories in Scotland shift to American methods. Liberia seeks American goods amid local demand. China buys little foreign paper. Euphrates bridge planned. Turkish mining concessions grow. new Adana governor favorable to concessionaries.
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Berlin
Wilbur
Orville Wright
Germany
General Electric Company
New York
Japan
Europe
United States
China
Oiu
Ceater’s
Aden
Fire Brigade
Celty
Sao ‘Paulo
Brazil
Scotland
Aimnéricdh
Edinburgh
Liberia
West Africa
Euphrates
Adana
How to Cut Meat From a Snail? A Curious Vitality Note
A column discusses the snail’s biology noting its airless survival, lungs and heart, and Spallanzani experiments showing life functions without usual life conditions. It cites Leppert on oxygen and heat as essential, yet claims snails endure with shells hermetically sealed before frost.
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Leppert
Spallanzani
Russian scares flare in early Melbourne misread threat
A recalled Sydney Melbourne episode shows how a London mail steamer firing guns to signal a fast voyage led Melbourne authorities to mobilize forces earlier misreading a supposed Russian invasion. The piece likens the city to a poor man with extravagant tastes in perpetual alert.
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Melbourne
Australia
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