Relation of Railroad Rates to General Business
A 1910 argument urges business leaders to support higher railroad freight rates, claiming investments funding rail expansion rely on investor returns. It links rail condition to national prosperity, notes rising costs, and warns that insufficient rates threaten shipper costs and overall economic growth. The piece frames investors as key and urges readers to lobby legislators. June 6, 1910.
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Inter-State Commerce Commission
Chicago
St. Louis
Iron
States Supreme Court
Consolidated Gas Company
Comet Described as Celestial Wanderer Sparks Debate
The New York Tribune criticizes remarking a comet as a celestial wanderer while noting its fixed orbit and known position. The editorial argues the metaphor is as improper as claiming a slow dasher is racing to the pole.
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New York Tribune
Leisure and the country life in a Country Parson
The text argues leisure is essential to truly enjoy rural scenery and countryside. It warns that hurried visits blindfold a traveler to the country’s real essence, noting hedgerows green lanes silent cottages and hills as parts of a larger whole he may miss. The country itself remains unseen without patient, unhurried observation.
Remedy That Uncle Marjorie Storyline
A remark about Marjorie who married a millionaire prompts a counterclaim that she would be happier with a man of less wealth. The speaker argues the husband’s finances may fall short in a few years, implying an expected change in fortune.
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Marjorie
Latest Cooking Range Combines Electric Power and Steam
A new cooking range uses electricity to heat food on top and steam to generate oven heat. The dual system aims to boost efficiency by boiling water to produce steam for the oven.
Irishwoman builds 28 foot wings biplane glider
Miss Lillian E Bland designs and constructs a 28 foot wide biplane glider. She has completed several satisfactory glides controlled from the ground by ropes. The engine and propellers are planned for later installation.
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Lillian E. Bland
Boss Finds Note From Stenographer During Cleaning
A Boston professional returns home to a humorous note from his stenographer claiming she is unavailable due to dentist or illness while joking that his desk was a mess and that he should answer his letters promptly. The note underscores a playfully insolent office dynamic.
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Boston
Just as Good as Seeing
A reader asks a blind man if touch can reveal color. He says occasionally yes, giving an example that touching a red hot poker would reveal it as red.
Cheap Mexican Cigarettes Spark Cross-Border Trade
Home made cigarettes sold in Mexico for 3 to 20 cents per pack of 14 to 18. Even the three cent grade is said to compare favorably with the 15, 20 and 25 cent grades in the United States.
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Mexico
United States
Our Nation’s Growth Since 1776 in Nine Decades and Change
A reflective survey tracks territorial expansion from 1776 to end of the century, noting purchases of Louisiana Florida Texas Alaska and more. It contrasts per capita wealth and debt, rail freight, production, and public services, ending with a forward look at future progress.
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England
Wales
Richard
Great Britain
Beadle
United States
Louisiana
Florida
Texas
Oregon
Outdated English Words From A Queen's Perspective
A 1910-tinged column notes stylistic shifts in language with examples like lady versus loaf giver, woman versus girl, dress versus gowns or frocks, and relatives versus relations, alongside renaming the venerable rooster as chicken and fowl fading from common usage.
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Mayfair
Belgravia
People of Other Planets and Height Calculations
Discussion on planetary sizes for humans uses gravity and light as bases. Jupiter could yield pygmies around 28 inches tall, while Wolflus argues giants near thirteen feet seven inches tall, aligning eye pupil size with body proportions.
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Jupiter
Wolfius
Goliath
Wolflus
Bashan
Male Fashions in 1850
The piece details 1850s male dress with tight trousers and high collars. It notes hats pressed by a crescent of cloth, absence of opera hats, and evening use of a folding chapeau bras. It cites Sir Algernon West on beaver rubbing and social habits of apothecaries and solicitors leaving hats.
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Algernon West
English Emigration to Canada Grows Large
English economists worry as over thirty thousand Britons depart to settle in Canada this month amid a rising tide of emigrants. The emigrants are notably well-off with an average capital of about $1,000, including groups from Liverpool bound for Canadian Pacific Railway farms. Similar parties are planned for this month and summer.
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London
England
Canada
Great Britain
Liverpool
Adian Pacific Railway Company
Daily Thought About Humor as Ornament and Safeguard
Walter Scott praises humor as an ornament and safeguard, arguing it far surpasses mere wit for poets and writers. He calls humor a genius that defends against inanities.
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Walter Scott
Pays to Encourage Birds on Hoxsie Farm
Westerly Sun reports George E. Hoxsie's farm hosts 11 bluebirds and many swallows for winter, with 300 insect destroying birds total when young and old are counted. Birds forage at dawn and dusk, using 22 bird houses. owner credits pest control and higher apple yields to avian activity.
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George E. Hoxsie
Bdirjij
Hoxsie
Biggest Dam in the World Opens Rio Grande Project Plan
The secretary of the interior directs the reclamation service to begin immediate preliminary work on the Rio Grande project in New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico. Construction on the Eagle dam foundations should finish by 1911, creating the largest artificial reservoir with 2 538 000 acre feet capacity and a 265 foot height. The project aims to reclaim 180 000 acres at a cost around 9 million dollars, surpassing Roosevelt and Asuitan dams in scale.
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Secretary of the Interior
Reclamation Service
New Mexico
Texas
Rio Grande
Mexico
America
Eagle Dam
The
Roosevelt
Arizona
Assotian
Nile
Innuendo Analyzed as a Cruel Social Tactic
The piece examines how insinuation harms reputations more than full disclosure. It contrasts the clumsy slanderer with the skilled innuendo expert, praising the latter as a refined, covert strategist who wrecks trust through careful, deceptive praise.
Perils of the Haircut
A barber describes an ingrowing hair under a thumbnail that can lodge and fester after a haircut. The barber warns it hurts and suggests customers may not notice until it causes pain, noting that many barbers would confirm the tale.
Benefits of Hard Work
A man at labor takes upright pride and grows interested in his craft. Hard work crowds out melancholy and imaginary ailments, leaving no room for destructive passions. Focused on producing a finished, permanent value, he pursues a single life purpose.
Central Canada lands lure settlers as crops rise
The article urges readers to consider homesteading in Western Canada where crop prospects are strong. It notes rising land prices, a flood of U.S. and international immigrants, and railways expanding into new districts. Government agents offer maps and guidance to locate 160 acre plots and plan moving plans.
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Canada
United States
Grand Trunk Pacific
Canadian Pacific
Canadian Northern
Scrambled Shirts Stir Mild Household Banter
A humorous exchange from a column notes the trouble of putting on boiled shirts. Mr Jones complains the stiff shirt is a foolish custom while Mrs Jones suggests patience and time. A Tit Bits writer and a line from Youth's Companion provide the playful backdrop.
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Mr. Jones
Routt County Land Boom Predicted for Wannland Colorado
Keen observers predict a big land boom in Wannland Colorado as a new town rises in the Little Snake River Valley Routt County An irrigation system will irrigate 60000 acres of land sold by the State of Colorado at 50 cents per acre with water rights at 35 dollars per acre payable in ten years Possible industries include sugar factories flour mills and canneries Information available from Routt County Colonization Company Denver Addison notes neutrality in public danger is unpatriotic
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Wannland
Colorado
Snake River
Routt County
Wantland
State
Routt County Colonization Company
Weltes St
Denver
Colo
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Washington
Maj. O. P. Austin
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