Our Boys and the Call for Parental Involvement
An exhortation to parents to engage with their sons, encourage play, and monitor activities. It argues that boys seek pleasure, compares child behavior to animals, and warns that attentive, affectionate guidance helps track wandering youth and prevent mischief.
The Crown of Character
Henry Van Dyke quotes provide a call to higher aims beyond personal success. The text urges fearless truth telling, virtuous deeds, aid to others, and support for social betterment as the essence of salt in character and moral leadership.
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Henry van Dyke
Mottoes of a Great Merchant
A compact collection of maxims urging frugal saving to grow wealth and strict fulfillment of orders. Emphasizes honoring promises and avoiding overcommitment to maintain reliability in trade and business dealings.
King Drag and Plain Road Reform
D Ward King touts a simple drag device to improve rough earth roads, claiming instant smoothing, reduced ruts, and vast saving on road building. He recounts trials since 1896 including Cedar county logs passage and a gumbo creek bottom road test near Maitland showing no mud deposits after floods.
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D. Ward King
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