A Griffin replies to Daily News on freight rate advances
Chicago businessman T. A. Griffin defends his views against a Daily News editorial on freight rate increases. He cites intercity railroad earnings, wage gains, and stock dividends to argue railroads must raise rates to fund improvements, asserting his own shipper interests and Chicago operations justify a freight rise.
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A. Griffin
Daily News
Chicago Daily News
Mr. Griffin
The
Railway, Business Association
Shippers’ Conference
Ilinois Manufacturers’ Association
Chicago
St. Louis
Interstate Commerce Commission
Illinois Manufacturers’ Association
Dend
Illinois
Girls Dominate Spelling Contests In New Orleans Schools
The article notes that in public school spelling contests in New Orleans the girls won most victories, with the boys largely defeated. It questions whether this feminine edge extends to other subjects and praises school efforts to improve spelling.
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New Orleans
A Patron Roars With A Cleansing Sport Joke
In a crowded cafe a patron quips about ham and a waiter mocks him with sport and shaving jabs. The exchange heightens the playful tension as the patron resists the waiter’s jabs while trying to place an order.
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Long Walt
Invitation Receives Militia Captain Courtesy Reply
A western Kansas town woman invited Captain of the state militia company to a reception on Friday evening. The captain replied that, aside from three men sick with measles, the company would attend with pleasure.
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Kansas
What the Ants Tell Us
The passage observes ants at different times of day to forecast rain. Morning activity with dust and nest cleaning suggests fair weather, while afternoon retreat and scavenging signal rain. The text notes we do not understand how ants predict weather but asserts they do.
The Outing Spirit for a Happy Worker Outing
A guide urging workers to adopt the outing spirit by accepting roughing it without complaint. It stresses not overextending, staying healthy, avoiding bad water and messy foods, and sticking to budgets. The aim is a cheerful, well planned outing with rest and strength building.
Pocket Wireless by Mer Cerebotani in Munich
The Italian savant Mer Cerebotani, papal nuncio at Munich, invents a pocket wireless receiver. The device resembles a large watch and uses a wire bobbin and metallic cane as accessories. It can receive transmissions from stations within twenty to thirty miles.
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Mer. Cerebotani
Munich
Midas Reaches Point Where Touched Things Turn Gold
The tale describes Midas at a career peak with gold touching everything. His entourage worries about the consequences, while Midas remains confident, predicting future benefits as others react with alarm about his gift.
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Midas
Puck
Truly Wonderful Climate Tragedy In Southern California
Hyperbole Gassaway left for health reasons and soon reported feeling years younger. Two weeks later he faded from letters. A month after arrival, the town telegram revealed he died of cholera infantum, leaving a grieving family.
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California
Portable dog kennels for hotels proposed by Hotel World
Hotels should provide portable four foot long dog kennels for guests who bring pets. Kennels to be wooden with zinc lined partial interior, open wire upper section, and broad treadcasters on the bottom to roll through room doors.
Hester's Old Farm Buyer Offers New Future
A weary farmerwoman Hester Craig faces ruin on her fallow land. King, a rich landowner, offers 1600 for the farm and proposes marriage, gifting her chance at stability, love, and a full partnership in farming. Rover the dog and a loyal horse witness a turning of fortune.
Fudge Fame for the Misses Chang and Debating Fodder
The Cleveland Leader weighs feminine civilization by praising the Chang sisters, praising their English and alleged devotion to fudge. It argues a societal standard favors women, notes fudge as a popular college dish, and suggests rewarding the fudge inventor with a pension and statue.
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Cleveland
Chang
United States
Amber fossil gum from ancient forests near Black Sea
The article describes amber as a fossil gum from a former age. It notes its crystallized minerallike form, ancient Roman name electrum, and origins from pine or fir trees. Deposits lie around the Black Sea where vast excavations suggest former forests submerged by a flood.
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Europe
Black Sea
Amber Deposits Grow as Centuries Span Rapidly
The fragment hints at the impact of forming large amber deposits over long time scales. It suggests a link between deposition rates and geological time, noting how amber creation adapts as centuries pass.
Philosophical verse about happiness and winter woes
A humorous reflection on simple comforts like crackers and pressed pants. The speaker contrasts fleeting happiness with philosophy, recounting a grim night when the steam failed at eleven and left them cold, seeking a thawed Heaven.
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Harvard Lampoon
Feminine Logic in a Humorous Domestic Exchange
A domestic dialogue features a wife urging her husband to quit his pipe and switch to cigars. The wife claims the change could help him stop the pipe dream and make better habits, while the husband questions why she wants him to change.
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John
Why Ruskin's Wife Left Him
Ada Garlands Ruskin and His Circle offers a glimpse of the young Mrs Ruskin a fashionable socialite whose marriage waned as John Ruskin pursued architecture. He kept his focus on work while she enjoyed wealth dress and society, often leaving the home. Her status remained a figurehead in a dull household.
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Ruskin
Ada Garland
Mrs. Ruskin
Mr. Ruskin
Hair Health Certificate Tale in Sly Exchange
A health certificate tale unfolds as a woman, fearing fever, contemplates selling her hair before illness causes it to fall out. A surgeon and a buyer clash over proof of hair health, prompting a change of doctor when a second physician is summoned the next day.
Emigration of Children From England
Two large groups of children left Liverpool aboard the Corsican for Quebec under the London Times report. One group from the Birt home was led by Miss Birt, who for 37 years has rescued and settled over 6,000 children in Canada. The Corsican voyage marks the eighty first such departure under the home auspices.
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England
Liverpool
Cook
Quebec
London Times
Birt
Miss Birt
Dominion of Canada
Why She Raged
Colonel Falsom reads the morning paper and learns a married woman in a rage hurls a coffee cup at her husband. The cup shatters, a fragment wounds his jugular vein, and he dies instantly. The woman laments and attempts self harm. The scene ends with Mrs. Falsom noting the broken cup likely came from a new china set.
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Colonel Falsom
Casey at the Bat in Coca Cola Baseball Record Book
The Coca Cola Baseball Record Book for 1910 includes Casey at the Bat along with schedules and records for both leagues. The volume, sent by Coca Cola Company of Atlanta for a 2 cent postage stamp, also contains The Truth About Coca-Cola brochure promoting the beverage as pure and refreshing.
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Casey
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola Co
Atlanta
Summer girls boast of engagements with unknown suitors
In a playful exchange the first summer girl says she has been engaged several times to men whose names she did not know. The second summer girl retorts that she engaged herself last season to a stranger who proposed from a passing yacht.
Work While You Sleep Health Miracle Claims
An advertisement urges readers to try CAS CARETS claiming they help health as you sleep. It promises a 10c box and asserts the product is the best and replaces other medicines.
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T. A. Griffin
Pocket Wireless
Hester
Craig
Hardy
Kester
King
Leeds
Mr. King
Old Tom
Rover
Fairyland
Miss Hester
Dolly Madison
Vassar College
Otel de Samuel Toner
Ifi
Bears
the Centaur Company
New York
Foodard
Castoria
GITV
Standard Oil Company (Incorporated
Cascarets
Western
Canada
Rernor Deneen
Irnor Denetion
Ilinois
Aec- Land
Katchewan
Thounds
Manitoba
Baskatchewan
Alberta
Western Canada
Ilway
Ce Com
Fortice
Ottawa
Vv. Bennett
Omaha, Wed
Dr. Pierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Dr. R.V. Pierce
Pres
Buffalo
N.Y
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