Hysterics and History in a McClure's Magazine piece
The article notes William H. Allen describing key "high spots" in education amid teaching method flaws. It quotes student questions from quizzes and playful misdefinitions, such as specific heat, election polls, and a joke answer about a barbecue, reflecting the era's educational humor.
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Pinchot
William H. Allen
Institute For Public Service
McClure’s
Tak
Electrical College
Pacific
Germany
Austria
Wolfe
Magazine Section Preview Promises Family Interest Reads
The passage promotes next Sunday's New York World Magazine Section with questions on moon weather hair color heredity and historic mysteries. It invites readers to explore dramatic moments mysteries and puzzles in a family friendly format.
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Prof. Baines
Mme. d’Alvaro
Jesus Salas Barraza
Gen
Pancho Villa
Jonah
New York World
Daily Cus Letter Gossip of Staff at World Center of Population
Labor leaders attack hypocrisy after Frank Hodges plays golf with the Duke of York. Hodges, once a fiery union leader, now Civil Lord of the Admiralty, won the Wales game. Ramsay MacDonald likens governing to fishing, while Lords face longer sessions under a Labor government and debate whether to extend sitting days.
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Luther A. Huston
Ee News
London
Fone
D. B. Jones
National Federation of Colliery Enginemen
Jones
Frank Hodges
Miners’ Federation
Duke of York
Wales
Hodges
England
Admiralty
Duke
Detroit Woman Credits Vegetable Compound For Relief
Mrs Gus Vogel of Detroit Michigan describes years of back pain headaches and sleepless nights. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she reports improved sleep reduced nervousness and strength to do her own work. She says an operation was once advised but never believed in it and that the product helped where other medicines failed.
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J. Russell
Havana Ave
Detroit
Mich
Michigan
Lydia E. Pinkham
Gus Vogel
Pelouze St
Lydia
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
Farmer Seizes Rattlesnake After Bite in Alabama
Tom Coffield, a farmer near his home in Alabama, was bitten on the ankle by a rattlesnake. He was treated within 40 minutes and soon began to recover, then returned home to find the snake still nearby and captured it alive in Troy to show friends.
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International News Service
Ala
America
Tom Coffield
Coffield
Troy
First Southern Cooking School Opens at Peace Institute
The first cooking school for women in the South opened in 1880 at Peace Institute in Raleigh North Carolina.
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South
Peace Institute
Raleigh
N, C
Governor Pinchot Aims Capitol Hill Summer Retreat
Harrisburg June 24 Governor Pinchot returned from a week at Yale alumni reunion in New Haven and said Capitol Hill would be his summer retreat. Newsroom speculation targets the New York Democratic convention with names such as McAdoo Al Smith and Davis floated for committees. Meanwhile Dr Potter and her staff will resume their probe of alleged brutality at Eastern Penitentiary ordered by the May Philadelphia grand jury.
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Harrisburg
Pinchot
Capitol
New Haven
Yale
Capitol Hill
New York
McAdoo
al Smith
Davis
State retirement costs to be paid by warrants from retirement board
An attorney general's opinion states expenses of the state retirement system must be paid by warrants drawn by the secretary against the retirement board's funds and not from the general state treasury. The summer pardons board session opens with many rehearings scheduled and two men set for potential absolute pardons after commuting from death to life. Oiling of roads in Pennsylvania nears completion with surface work in seventeen counties this week. The first organized move to
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the Commonwealth
King
Board of Pardons
Hiladelphia
George Henderson
Cambria County
George Lee
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
State Highway Department
Pennsylvania farmers to gain power as PSC begins inquiry
The public service commission will start an inquiry July 9 to improve and extend electric service for all Pennsylvania farmers. The plan relies on the boosted power output from Governor Pinchot’s giant power scheme. Meanwhile, fashion notes say American women bob their hair while Siamese upper-class women grow long hair but many still shear theirs like men.
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Pennsylvania
Public Service Commission
Pinchot
Siam
Korean Tradition Names Woman After Birth of Son
The article describes a custom in which a Korean woman receives her given name only after she bears a son. It notes cultural expectations and social status linked to motherhood in traditional society.
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