What is Life
A child calls life play youth says life is love the man of toil claims life is work the aged sage declares life is a dream. The piece contrasts four views across ages, from playful innocence to dreamlike reflection.
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New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1908
Page
2
Tin Can and Paddy Sweeney Clash With Creekers in Brooklyn
Tin Can the goat helps Paddy Sweeney in a street fight against Creekers from the Point on Douglass Street near the Gowanus Canal. After a jailbreak from the schoolyard, the pair beat Chuck Downes and others until police arrest Paddy and Tin Can protects his owner through the clash. the Children’s Court releases Paddy as Tin Can watches from the ash heap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gowanus Canal
Douglass
Tin Can
Paddy Sweeney
Paddy
Tin
Tadin
Tim Can
Pridy
Cnet
Douglass Street
Fourth Avenue
Lesc Sarviirs
Can
Sweeney
Ben
Guring
Public School
Brookhdar
Creekers
Dells
Flynn
Chuck Downes
Creecker
Fifth Avenue
Chuck
Mugg Murphy
Sheeney Ike
Pointer
Fiona
Finnan
Childrens Court
Atlantic Avenue
Children’s Court
The
New York Sun
War on Rats Proposed by Copenhagen Society
A Copenhagen based society of about two thousand people plans a global war on rats with Danish government backing. It aims to mobilize nations, raise funds, and employ shooting trapping and poisoning to exterminate the rodent enemy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copenhagen
Culture Versus Education by Emily James Putnam
The essay argues some youths are better suited for immediate work and should receive practical education, while the free-born deserve extensive culture. It advocates separating those likely to earn a living from the gifted readers and pushing thorough, severe cultural training for the latter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emily James Putnam
Possibilities of Country School by Andrew S Draper
Andrew S Draper New York Commissioner of Education argues that rural schools can be as good as urban ones. He notes rural teachers come from decent backgrounds and are well trained. He contends inherent disadvantages exist in both systems and condemns conservatism that blocks improving country schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew S. Draper
New York
Commissioner of Education
Hard Work and Domestic Discord in Farm Life
A farmer column argues excessive work and large farms strain marriages. Couples trap themselves in endless toil for status, while smaller homes and shared finances could boost happiness. The piece cites mutual plans, joint savings, and preserving affection as remedies.
Safeguarding Insurance Holders
Analysis of laws limiting official salaries and political contributions in insurance firms. Discusses New Jersey 1907 dividend limits, Wisconsin findings on policyholder versus stockholder interests, and New York contingency reserve caps for domestic life insurers. From The World Today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren Milton Persons
New Jersey
Wisconusin
New York
Game Birds Along Railroads In Minnesota Decline
T T Peters of St Paul says chicken and grouse shooting may fall short next season in Minnesota tributary to Deluhh. He notes fewer birds seen from trains, birds gathered along rails for grain, and large flocks dwindling to twos and threes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deluhh
T. T. Peters
St. Paul
Minnesota
Sneezing Teacher Attracts Curious Lesson Seekers
A New York Sun squib notes a “professor of sneezing” who claims sneezing can be cultivated into a gentle, melodious trill. He argues sneezes are unavoidable and offers lessons on how to modify a stertorous sneeze into a refined sound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bii
New York
New York Sun
Living by electricity in the motor age era
The New York Tribune essay praises electricity as the driver of modern life and industry. It notes Edison’s forecast of electric transportation replacing horses, highlights Western Electric GE and Westinghouse as leaders, cites 1907-1909 sales above 160 million, and praises electricity powering telephones, clocks, bells, lights, dairies, and mills while expanding transport and communication globally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Thomas A. Edison
Franklin
United States
Western Electric Company
General Electric
Westinghouse Electric
Western Electrc Company
Western Electric
Bell
Chicago
Tucle
Sam
Federal
Senorts Electric Transportation
Snes
Yankee Push
Egypt
Pyramids
International Note
Paris Teasrooms Rise as English Tearooms Spread
English tearooms proliferate in Paris, surpassing Neale’s once sole English shop. Tearooms offer tea, muffins, scones, music, and fashionable scenes with English fashion adverts. Women may now visit alone, a cultural shift noted by Travel Magazine as Paris embraces this new social avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Neale
Channel
Quaint and Curious World Items From A Century Ago
A collage of curiosities notes New York streets long enough to reach the Atlantic to Pike’s Peak and monthly precious stone imports of 5566 dollars. It mentions Count Posadewsky at Grenoble, Napoleonic legends, and Alfred Nobel’s regrets. Also covers Block Island battles, oxen cavalry in Madagascar, Windsor royal visits, and Pulque production economics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Atlantic Ocean
Pike's Peak
Untried rower tests tailor with boastful claim
A young man enters a tailor shop and, posing as a champion rower, proclaims I am a rower and wants measurement for two pairs of rowing trousers with siding seats, as recounted by the Washington Star.
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Washingston Star
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Tate
New York Tribune Farmer
Gensralitter
Count Posadewsky
University of Grenoble
Napolon
America
Wilder
Baton
Mass
Charles J. Cheney
Rumford Falls
Boston
Anthony Burns
Alfred Nobel
Scotland
Royal Society of England
Block Island
John Gallop
Pequot
St. Dé Moorway
Africa
Madagascar
London
Windsor Castle
Kaiser Wilhelm
Edward
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