Great White Way debate and tax on land values essay
The Pella Chronicle discusses promoting the Great White Way as a national travel route with an aggressive advertising campaign, urges immediate action, and references coverage from multiple newspapers. It also presents a detailed argument on land value increments, defining unearned increment, and advocating a single tax to fund social uses while preserving public benefit from land.
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Great White Way
Saturday Evening Post
Secretary Bryans Vacation Sparks Political Parade
The article critiques opponents who oppose Secretary Bryan's vacation lecturing, noting long public service trips by presidents and Roosevelt. It argues Bryan accepts pay for chautauqua work, contrasts with earlier corporate loans, and suggests critics lack courage, mocking their motives as cowardly.
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Bryan
Roosevelt
Bristow
Townsend
Iowa Rail Picnic Speech Sparks “Unearned Increment”
A speaker at a Great White Way picnic argued there is no unearned increment in Iowa land. He credited early pioneers with investing all value into the land, despite a remark about a two hundred dollars per acre value. The remark was questioned as possibly misheard.
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Great White Way
Iowa
No Primaries For Her
A suffragette wife declines primaries inviting her husband to attend. She jokes she has completed postgraduate political science for two seats and will not waste time on primary classes, claiming women are past such affairs while men attend.
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Ethelinda
Harper's Weekly
Two Failures and a Wry Assertion in a Bantering Hint of Love
A brief exchange reveals a benedict boasting of marrying for beauty while an old friend quips about money. The friend retorts that the other did not understand the financial motive, delivering a dry remark that exposes irony in the social talk.
Turkish Names and Visiting List in a Turkish Context
The excerpt critiques health as a form of physical morality and explores Turkish naming customs. It lists fictional or comedic names such as Mrs. Eyn eintbh, Mrs. Tulip, Mrs. Appletree, and Mrs. Nightingale, plus Mrs. Sweetmeat and others. It notes Turk traditions of surname formation by adding the husband’s name and that given souls await birth, then references H. G. Dwight in Atlantic with a curious title-style line.
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Eyneintbh
Hyacinth
H. G. Dwight
Atlantic
Dinocrates Plan to Carve Mount Athos Into Statue of Alexander
The famed architect Dinocrates proposed shaping Mount Athos into a gigantic statue of Alexander the Great, with a city in the right hand and a basin in the left to collect regional waters. The idea was rejected as the surrounding lands could not sustain a protected city.
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Dinocrate
Mount Athos
Dinocrates
Alexander the Great
Alexander
Battleships in a Hurricane Travel Talk by Arthur K Peck
Arthur K. Peck brings a travel talk to Chautauqua with motion pictures and lantern slides illustrating life saving by the United States service. Scenes show ships in heavy seas, rescues by breeches buoy, wrecks, and heroic surf entries to educate and thrill audiences.
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Arthur K. Peck
United States
Chautauqua
Mr. Peck
Peck
Dunbar Singing Orchestra to Charm Chautauqua Audience
The Dunbar Singers will perform a lively one day program at Chautauqua with vocal and instrumental selections, dancing stunts, and comic sketches. Six winsome girls lead a singing orchestra famed for humor, rhythm, and engaging stage presence. Their show promises variety, energy, and broad appeal for warm weather entertainment.
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Dunbar Orchestra
Chautauqua
Sach
Dunbar Singing Orchestra
Perforated coins in U S history and attempts
Harper's Weekly recounts attempts to popularize perforated U S coins from 1849 to 1884. It details a gold dollar with a center hole in 1849, a 1850 ring cent, and several cent designs, none adopted, plus a rare 1852 gold half dollar with a perforation and a note on nonofficial "gold" fifty cent pieces from California jewelers.
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Uncle Sam
United States
United States Mint
Philadelphia
United States of America
California
Harper’s Weekly
The Earth's Shadow Seen At Sunset
A description of the earth's shadow appearing on cloudless summer evenings as the sun sets. The text notes a pink arc on the horizon opposite the sun with a bluish gray segment beneath, rising toward the zenith and beyond, identified as the shadow of the earth.
Premonition at Bellevue Hospital Ends with Wound Care
A patient was brought to Bellevue with a head injury and a surgeon decided to keep him in the ward for a day or two. The distressed man asked the doctor if he would lose his head, highlighting fear and uncertainty in the moment.
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Bellevue Hospital
New York
Quarantine Pioneer Dr Richard Mead and 1721 Plague
Dr Richard Mead pioneered quarantine during the 1721 plague at Marseilles establishing a system of health policing. He advocated cleanliness as prevention and described early quarantine practices. Mead’s wealth supported a famed collection and hosted eminent guests like Pope, with scholars and foreigners among the visitors.
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Richard Mead
George I
Marseilles
Mead
Luzaretto
Pope
Matthew Arnold and the Girls
A fellow inspector recalls Matthew Arnold as a school examiner praising a class of female pupil teachers with excellent marks. When told some could be better, Arnold replies that they are all very nice girls.
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Matthew Arnold
Arnold
Professionally Considered Declaration of Independence Praise
A Washington Star excerpt quotes a patriotic citizen praising the Declaration of Independence as a wonderful and able document, while a legal expert notes no one seems to have received compensation for drafting it.
Fortune teller teases Mrs Gailey about future husband
Mrs Gailey asks where her present husband is when he is absent. The exchange occurs as a fortune teller offers a reading in a Philadelphia Press item.
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Indy
They call him a man of hard solid sense now
A Washington Star quote contrasts past labels with present esteem as the subject rises in achievement, shifting public perception from bonehead to admired practical intelligence. The remark highlights how success alters how others view a person.
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Washington Star
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