The Spirit of Single Purpose and Mourning Badges
A column contrasts Edison Marconi Bell and Rhodes with focused aims, then argues for a deliberate, unwavering purpose as key to success. It weighs modern mourning etiquette, defending its intent to comfort the bereaved while questioning overuse of mourning bands in public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Edison
Marconi
Bell
Cecil Rhodes
South
Peary
North Pole
Faz
Jefferson
Roosevelt
Power of clear speech in modern business success
A historical note emphasizes fluency, clarity, and precision in speech and writing for leaders. It argues that decisive, well-structured statements require independent thought, deliberate planning, and practice, including writing or dictating to sharpen judgment and ensure listeners share conviction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dow
The Greatest Health Factor Work
The article argues for healthy work engagement over rest alone. It warns absolute inactivity can harm and obesity poses risks. Encouraging a desire for occupation aids recovery and provides health benefits and personal example.
Japanese Grief Etiquette Shows Silent Mourning
The excerpt discusses how Japanese practice mourning through restraint and smiles after a bereavement. Lafcadio Hiro mat notes bereavement is deeply felt but publicly hidden to spare others from distress. Public display of sorrow is considered burdensome to society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Mail
Lafcadio Hiroarn
Segeeason
Japan
Wearing Fats in Church History Note on Hats
Pepys records show seventeenth century churchgoers, both men and women, wore hats during worship. He mentions a minister preaching with hat off, and a diarist noting a chill from removing his hat at dinner, reflecting hat as a staple of attire and ritual.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pepys
New York
Cribune
A Terrible Fire Scenario and Automatic Stove Regulator
Readers are told of a perilous moment as a door was locked to prevent a fire after a mislaid quilt in the house. The narrative weaves through concern for relatives and a practical note on an automatic stove regulator shown in an illustration. A damper mechanism uses a aluminum regulating rod linked to a temperature dial to automatically adjust air flow and fuel admission as heat rises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malcolm
Greenley
Palmer Malcolm
Huara Mas Eared
Eudora Ee
Sophronia
Punta
Sondronia
Hermitage of a Recluse at Gath’s Gap
At Cranston's Gap in Washington County Maryland sits the summer home of George Alfred Townsend known as Gath. The famed writer and war correspondent’s estate on Mt Town Send includes several stone buildings and a mausoleum, with an arch honoring his contemporaries.
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Cranston’s Gap
South Mountain
Washington County
Maryland
George Alfred Townsend
Gath
Pittsburg Dispatch
Cor
Townsend
John Hay
Middletown
Antietam Field
Mt. Town Send
Paris
Gapland
Bearnard Shaw
Thin
London
Bernard Shaw
County Wilkenny
Sir
Frederick Shaw
Bushey Park
Dublin
George Bernard Shaw
Walter Bagnall Gurley
Old School
Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend
Regulating Stove by Kent of Freiburg Draws Interest
A newly patented device regulates admission of air to the grate, an invention by Kent of Freiburg Germany. The stove is praised for reducing labor and improving efficiency, with a mechanism that expands or contracts to adjust combustion based on need.
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Aix
Kent
Freiburg
Germany
Try
Quips on Fashion and Marriage in a Cleveland Paper
The Cleveland Plain Dealer ponders whether a woman can dress well on a tight budget and jokes about thrift, family, and marriage hopes. A remark about a daughter inheriting clothes exposes social humor on wealth and courting.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Seaside hotel dinner misadventure ends in French menu trick
Ma Jones tries to boss a seaside dining room scene while Pa adopts a humorous forthright approach to the French menu. A waiter, a Belgian waiter in a textile joke, and a clever应 Chickens chase through an etiquette clash at a New Jersey or Atlantic coast hotel.
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Ma Jones
Mary
Hez
Pa Jones
Jin
Henry
Russian prodigy runs railway push in southern Russia
Judah Leon Leschinsky, 23, heads the Michael Leon M.Leschinsky Company with contracts to build 3000 miles of rail in southern Russia and work on canals. He lives in Brooklyn with a wife and infant, arrived from Europe on the Pennsylvania, buys American locomotives and steel rails for a future railroad to be government owned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. R. Thomas
Seventh National Bank
New York World
Russia
Judah Leon Leschinsky
Michael Leon M.leschinsky
Rostov
Baku
Brooklyn
South 9Th Street
Williamsburg
Pennsylvania
Europe
Michael Leon Leschinsky
Judah Leon
New York
Constitutional Democrats
Terjioki
Finland
Law and Order Party
St. Petersburg
Ekaterinodar
Sumy
Kharkoff
Novorossyk
Black Sea
Yuzovka
Sea of Azov
Smicla
Khicff
Riga
Teutonic Knights
Hanseatic League
Letts
Nenenberg
Courtland
Notable 1905 American novel and literary figures
The piece surveys Mrs. Wharton's The House of Mirth as a leading 1905 American novel and touches on Dr. John Watson's retirement gifts, Oscar Crosby's plateaus project, Gabriel dAnnunzio's Amaranta, a sensational inspired tale from Paris, and a sketch of George Bernard Shaw including his lineage, London exile, and 1898 inheritance.
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John Watson
Ian Maclaren
Liverpool
Oscar T., Crosby
Tibet
Turkestan
Tibetan
Mexico
Abyssinia
Gabriel d'Annunzio
Amaranta
Paris
War Crisis Mood Shifts as Russian Gov Touts Quiet Winter
St Peters burg reports the government believes the worst is over for winter aside from the Baltic Caucasus and Don regions where chaos could persist. Armed insurrection fears linger while liberals and Reds trade threats amid a nationwide pause and upcoming assembly actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Petersburg
Baltic
Caucasus
Don
National Assembly
Weighty Jests From A Gum Powered Press
In a Philadelphia Press cartoon style exchange a satirical automatic scale complains of heavyweights harming its view of balance. A chewing gum machine counters with pithy quips about future weight and consequences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Press
Dialog about rocks and diamonds in a Yonkers Statesman excerpt
A short, pithy exchange contrasts rock and diamond sizes with a father and son. The fragment hints at rural wisdom and linguistic humor from a Yonkers Statesman page.
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Pop
Yonkers Statesman
Odd Looking Siberian Cradle Used by Gilyaks
The Gilyaks on the Amoo River in Siberia use a two piece basswood cradle with martin fittings. It is hung indoors from rafters and in summer is attached to a swaying sapling to rock the baby in the trees. Russia also uses a similar cradle and Peter the Great was rocked in one like this though without a hood.
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Amoo River
Siberia
Martin
Russia
Peter the Great
The Youth Abraham Lincoln
The piece portrays Abraham Lincoln as a tall, strong frontier youth who excelled in physical feats and sports. It notes his unusual height of six feet four inches and his powerful arms, while emphasizing his strong craving for knowledge and desire to master speaking, spelling, arithmetic, and writing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abraham
Nicholas
No art yet or price change in Nuritch’s remark
Nuritch says the item was art when bought but not now and notes the price then was unaffordable yet affordable today. A friend questions why it was art then if it isn’t now. The Philadelphia Press records the exchanged quip and mutual frustration.
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Nuritch
Phila
Delphia’ Press
Seventeen Believed Dead After Haverstraw House Collapse
Seventeen people are missing after thirteen Rockland Street houses in Haverstraw toppled into a sixty foot deep clay pit used for brick making. Twelve residents were asleep in the homes at collapse and five rescuers were among those aiding neighbors.
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Haverstraw
N. J
Rockland Street
Eruption of Vesuvius Draws Thousands of Visitors
Naples residents and many Americans witnessed a sudden eruption of Mount Vesuvius with three lava streams reaching the Funicular lower station causing damage. Officials report indications the activity may be waning and connect the event to Mount Etna in Sicily.
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Naples
Italy
Vesuvi
Jower
Etna
Sicily
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Darkey
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Old New England
America
New England
Berkshire Hills
John C. Coffin
Alexander Holley
Connecticut
Coffin
Barnum
Roswald B. Mason
R. A. Burger
W. H. Hall
Boston
Capt. Rodmann
Berkshire
F. O. B. Richmond
Hudson River
County Leschinsky
Rubbian
Luly
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Don Regions
Gilyark
Abraham Lincoln
Dea
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