Marriage and market schemes in early 20th century editorials
Opinion excerpts from Des Moines News and Chicago Journal discussing marriage delay among young men and the grip of economic forces on pricing and crop control. Authors urge marriage as natural duty, critique bachelorhood, and warn about crop manipulation by speculators and middlemen.
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Des Moines News
A New Farmers Union Gains Steam Across States
A Texas born Farmers Union attracts nearly 1.9 million members and aims to raise farm prices by cutting out middlemen. Backed by labor groups and the American Federation of Labor, its reach is strongest in the South and West with potential to include 4 million by year end. The movement links farmers with workers to push higher prices and wider consumption.
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United States
Grange
Farmers’ Alliance
Farmers' Union
Texas
Vramong States
Arrican Federation of Labor
America
Artians
Weakness in U S Governance Noted Over School Segregation
The article argues that the United States federal government shows limits in handling international disputes when a state action, such as San Francisco schools separating Japanese children, challenges treaty rights. It warns that foreign governments demand redress and that state actions can jeopardize national strength, citing historical fears and the need for federal resolve.
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Gladstone
San Francisco
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Washington
New Orleans
Utility of Polar Research in the Age of Exploration
The article weighs opinions on polar expeditions as modern scientific and statecraft ventures. It compares current motives with historical explorers, noting that commercial aims once fueled risk but discoveries fostered learning, observation, and a view that all Earth facts relate, as warned by the Philadelphia Ledger.
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Philadelphia Ledger
New Cause for High Prices by Dr Powers on Middleman Costs
Dr Powers argues rising prices stem from consumer demand for convenience and vanity. He cites delivered meats and prepared foods, noting the middleman’s profits grow as goods are packaged attractively and delivered to homes. He warns widespread spending fuels prosperity and hoarding would ruin it.
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Dr. Powers
Edward Atkinson
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There Horror of Needless Noises
In Harper's Magazine the nuisance of night noises is explored from trains to steam radiators. The piece notes how unreasoned sounds disrupt sleep and imagines drastic solutions like machine guns to quiet power duties and screams of urban life in summer cottages.
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Harper’s Magazine
Ambitious Claims on Science and Inventions Amid Fresh Notes
The article surveys diverse topics from X ray style discoveries and handwriting analysis to lunar temperatures and wireless telephony. It notes Rontgen like photographs of car machinery, Alfred Binet style graphology limits, and Blaby Slaby wireless talks.
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Atier
Germany
Blaby
Berlin
Naven
Slaby
Illumination in Olden Times Before Electric Light
A historical account describes startling effects of early city lighting. French observer Monsieur Bausaure notes lanterns and glass globes with lamps, chandeliers like crowns, and rapid flame transfer inventions used during coronations and banquets, highlighting awe at medieval illumination.
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Monsieur Bausaure
Westminster
Hall
Cataracts of Iguazu Reach Across Brazil and Argentina
The Iguazu Falls region spans Brazil and Argentina near Paraguay and the Argentine border. The falls on the Iguazu are vast with multiple cataracts totaling about 14,000,000 pounds of energy per second, creating one of the world’s most magnificent spectacles as travelers reach the falls from the Argentine side.
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Artificial teeth export fuels global dental trade
An article by T. D. Jones in the Verhnnet Works laments flippant remarks about gnashing in the afterlife and highlights Philadelphia as home to the world’s largest artificial tooth plant. He notes widespread export to Japan, China, Indonesia, and Africa, predicting cannibal feasts aided by American made teeth.
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Fragmentary Quote Ruins Teeth Making Claim
The passage presents a garbled note about a composition for false teeth and a claim by the Tinman family to repair damages. It includes a voter remark on candidate consistency and a Washington opinion about wisdom of the common people. The text mixes slang and unclear attributions.
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Superstitions of Modern Times in Everyday Life
A essay on modern superstition describes beliefs from lucky gowns to charms and tokens. It notes fears about broken glass Friday travel and Sunday luck and cites curses tied to place ownership and male heirs, suggesting coincidences with possible causes.
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The Wife Who Is Growing Dissatisfied
A Harper's Bazar excerpt examines how newly married women face pity and false expectations about marriage. It argues sympathy can harm by dwelling on burdens rather than acknowledging joy and growth, while noting a wife must bear responsibilities and pains despite social pity.
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Harper’s Bazar
Maid Becomes Waitress In New England Village Home
A New England country house mistress, struck by illness in a servant, presses into service the daughter of a neighboring farmer as a waitress. The arrangement sparks whispers of social impropriety and class boundaries in the village.
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New England
Ee York Press
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