The Ordeal of Grammar and Its Harsh Arrival
Ernest C. Moore argues in Yale Review that grammar emerged as a burden on public life after the Macedonian obsession with collecting learning led to cataloging words and forms. He contrasts Greek flourishing with Alexandrian overreach, viewing grammar as lifeless relic rather than a human craft.
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EB. Scott
Philomath
Mary’s Creek
Bend
State Board of Conciliation
Portland
Southern Pacific Company
Public Service Commission
Greece
Egypt
Alexandria
Ernest C. Moore
Yale Review
Army Doctors and the Birth of Modern Military Medicine
War shaped medicine with army doctors advancing surgery, digestion study, bacteriology, and public health. Notable figures include Pare, Hammond, Billings, Sternberg, Reed, Carroll, Lazear, and Agramonte who linked yellow fever to mosquitoes and built key medical institutions.
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St. Napoleon
Charlies H. Mayo
New York Medical Journal
Army
Beaumont
William Hammond
Army Medical Museum
J. S. Billings
Sternberg
Army Medical School
Government Laboratories
Walter Reed
James Carroll
Jesse W. Lazear
Aristide Agramonte
Measuring circumference with a typewriter ruled scale
J Claude Crews describes making a tenths scale on a typewriter by inserting a row of periods with commas every tenth character to mark tenths of an inch. The method yields a flexible rule that can wrap around shafts, collars, and other parts, leveraging the common ten spaces per inch on most typewriters.
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Coos Bay
Oregon
Oregon Normal School
Monmouth
Everfresh
Sutherlin
Hillsboro
J. B. McNew
Douglas County
Sul Kulik
Alex Rushiki
Big Creek Logging Company
Knappa
Hood River
Apple Growers’ Association
Suttleslake Irrigation District
Jefferson County
State Securities Commission
Polk County
Desert Land Board
Secretary of the Interior
Lake County
Willamette Valley
George W. France
Ten Mile
Grand Jury
California
Coos County
Los Angeles
James T. Chinnock
Water Division
Herbert C. Hoover
W. J. Kerr
Oregon Agricultural College
Aurora
Hubbard
Woodburn
J. Claude Crews
Popular Science Monthly
Blissful Occupation and Mr Flubdub Loss
The Louisville Courier Journal notes a boy forced to write I love Bessie a hundred times as punishment yet he would have written it a thousand. A diffident customer asks if Mr Flubdub is busy and the pompous attendant replies he always is. The customer says let him stay busy and a big order is lost.
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Bessie
Louisville Courier-Journal
Flubdub
Little Willie and Johnny Exchange Quip on Names
A short humorous exchange unfolds as Willie asks for the caller on his sister and Johnny jokes that Pop renames him each visit, highlighting playful family banter and punchline.
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Willie
Johnny
Pop
Louieville Courier-Journal Echoes Personal Finances
A fragmented quote from Louieville Courier-Journal reflects a speaker asking how money was spent and to whom it was allocated, revealing financial confusion and personal accountability in a clipped, era-tinged tone.
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Louieville
Barber and Customer Banter From Cosmo First Issue
Dialogue snippet shows Head Barber asking about shaving mug choices and Firet Assistant replying he shaves them all. Puck narrates the exchange reflecting light chatter in Cosmopolitan’s early humor tone.
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Cosmopolitan
Puck
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