Colored Citizen Knew His Qualifications and the Job Was His
A Cairo lumber yard hired a crew of Black workers to wash mud from planks after floods. One man assumes leadership by saying he is the wash man, illustrating racial bias in a brief anecdote. The piece then shifts to an advertisement about Postum coffee substitute, praising its health benefits and listing product forms and prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver QO. Agier
Cairo
Fred W. Upham
Ohio
Mississippi
The Bent Bow of Rich and Poor Childhood Playtime Contrast
The essay contrasts wealthy and impoverished childhoods focusing on play, parental burden, and the need for trusted child care. It argues boys in poor families miss outdoor play due to chores and supervision duties, while affluent youths enjoy toys, and urges communal support to allow safe outdoor time for all children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topsy
HER HUSBAND S FRIEND
A moral tale warns young women against flattery and meddling with a married man who uses an unhappy home life as a lure. The piece portrays the dangerous lure of an eager suitor who charms women while courting their friend's husband.
Married men should guard honor and avoid tempting liaisons
The article urges married men to maintain fidelity and warns that fascination with other women harms family honor. It counsels wives to set boundaries with unwanted guests, urges frank talks to mend matters, and stresses love and mutual care as safeguards against temptation. It also advises single women to seek husbands for love and honor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ender
Safeguarding Young Girls Seeking Employment
Aged advice urges protecting working girls from predatory employers and men. It stresses practical safeguards, avoiding social entanglements, and the need for female support to prevent exploitation in a harsh job market.
Mary Alice Explained At An Over Jookers Club Meeting
Tom meets Mary Alice at the Over Jookers club, they share a waltz and conversation. Tom grows suspicious of a glum man who has followed them, and Mary Alice reveals the man who bought her ticket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Alice
Tom
Tyrol the Beautiful in Climate Range and Beauty
Tyrol a crown land of Austria near Italy offers pure alpine air in the north and Mediterranean warmth in the south. Its 909,060 residents, many German speakers with a large Italian-speaking minority in the south, live largely by pastoral farming and cheese making. Generals Honor Artist. Hoffbauer, French painter turned war artist, is honored by five generals at Soissons. Francois Torretti and wife, sculptors, gain access to Carrel’s ambulance at Commégne for medical drawings for museums.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austrian
Tyrol
Italy
Austria
Europe
Austrian Tyrol
Vosges
Germany
France
Carpathian
Hungary
Galicia
Switzerland
Dante
Hell
the Alps
Siberia
Franz Joseph Land
Brie
Neufchatel
Roquefort
Hoffbauer
Richmond
Soissons
Paris
Reims
Francois M. L. Torretti
New York
Alexis Carrell
Commegne
Germany grants patent for acid proof concrete pipe coating
Patent rights in Germany cover a process to make concrete pipes acid proof by mixing asphalt into the concrete before molding and then hot coating the inner wall. The asphalt in the concrete anchors with surface asphalt after sand blasting, providing a durable interior seal for acid conveying pipelines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Much Cheaper Rheumatology Travel Plan Mentioned
A fragment notes a patient considering travel south for rheumatology care with a counterpoint that local treatment may be cheaper. The source lacks full context or details.
Low Round Trip Fares to California Expositions
Northern Pacific Railway advertises low round trip fares via Scenic Highway to California Expositions with liberal stop overs and a Yellowstone Park stopover via Gardiner Gateway. Agent A M Cleland invites plans for 1915 western vacations with literature and quotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northern Pacific
California
North Pacific Coast
Yellowstone National Park
Gardiner Gateway
A. M. Cleland
Northern Pacific Ry
St. Paul
Minnesota
Adv
Real Skin Comfort and Free Sample Offer
Ad copy touts Cuticura emollients for tender irritated skin with intense comfort. Includes a mail sample via postcard to Cuticura Dept XY Boston. Then a light humor vignette about a man named Jones and a mis take for not consulting an expert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuticura
Dept. XY
Boston
Ady
Castoria and Remedies Prominently Advertised
An advertisement montage touts Castoria as a safe infant remedy with a seven signature claim and a 30 year history. It promotes Allen’s Foot Ease powder for feet and a Marine Eye Remedy for weak watery eyes, urging readers to consult their druggist for eye care and to request a free book by mail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Allen
Marine Hye
Mull Free
Marine Lye Remeds Co
Chicago
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Gilbert
Glenn
Beth
Daisy Fly Killer
Orésex Express
Harold Somers
du Kath. Ave
Brooklyn
Parker
Deerointa
Gatnogne
Elias
Baltimore
Omar Khayyam
Topeka
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Groceta
Bor
California’s Expositions
Pacific Coast
Fletcher
Jones
Earth
Dean
Pennsylvania
John W. Bentley
Warnock St
Philadelphia
Bright
Doan
FOSTER-MI_ BURN CO
Buffalo
Hustrut
A. Allen
Berclay St
Carter
Thomas E. Green
Green's Sons
Box A
Chatsworth
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. Waters
Carmen, N.J
Hanover
Penn
C. A. Rickropt
R.F.D. No
Lydia E.pinkham
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