The Aero Sphinx and a Woman Who Changed Fertilizer
A meditation on flight and science contrasts aviation’s grandeur with a woman’s hidden wind powered innovation. Mme Lefebre of Paris devised extracting nitrogen from air to make nitric acid and fertilizer, a half century before its urgency became clear.
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Norway
Sweden
Austria
Germany
France
Earth
Depemee
Mme. Lefebre
Paris
Hoe
Mme Lefebre
Goole School Lesson On Color Symbolism Ends With Remark
A Goole school lesson on colors ends with a pupil interpreting the headmaster's hood colors as signs of sin and attempts at goodness. The child says the black shows sin and the white shows the effort to be good.
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Sinker
Goole
Ad copy guidance from Rhode Island Advertiser
A quotation urges advertisers to avoid generic claims. It stresses highlighting specials to attract customers and create specific interest in a store and its goods. The advice compares dull ads to simple signs and promotes vivid, targeted appeals.
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Rhode Island Advertiser
Tact in Sales and Hair Shade Requests at the Store
A humorous exchange shows a merchant urging tact with a customer asking about false hair. A salesman replies by inquiring shade preference, then the merchant cuts in, asking for the man’s salary.
Will Bring It Back.
A brief comic exchange shows the caller asking if the boss is in and the office boy replying the boss has gone out and will return after dinner. The judge character comments on the timing.
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National
Snail Tpausand Co
Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
Thackeray Quote on Gender and Society
A reflective line by William Makepeace Thackeray questions whether life and society endure if women judged men as men judge women and if women did not idealize or idolize. The remark probes mutual perception and social balance.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Quote on happiness and principle by Dr Johnson
A brief maxim notes that happiness cannot be increased by sacrificing principle. The author emphasizes the danger of delusion in such thinking and cites Dr Johnson’s authority to warn against moral compromises.
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Dr. Johnson
Mothers Fight Parcels Post Thief Of Country Town Education
A public appeal urges Auburn mothers to oppose the parcels post as it threatens high schools and small-town livelihoods. The piece argues mail order catalogs drain town stores, force closures, and push boys toward city life, calling for organized women to lobby Congress and protect rural education.
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Auburn
Agrippa
Nero
Samuel Eels
Provident
Bingbang &Co.’s
Chicago
Brown
Bingbang
Andrew Dodds
Andrew
Smith
Wheezer & Wheeze
New York
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Switzerland
Child
Tors
Robert
Hostetter
Aretha Best
Eclipse
Christopher & Son
Mira
Wichita
Kans
Bigelow Gas Light Co
Lucoln,Neb
Gleaner
Lincoln Photo Supply CO
Lincoln, Neb
SILGS
C. H. Barstow
Welles
Lincoln Hat Works
Panama
12Th St
Burr Bik
Lincoln,Neb
Wesleyan Hospital
Rt. D
M. D
All Deniers
Capital Collar & Cuff Co
Mfrs
Prescott Music Co
Lincoln, Nebr
Branson
U. K. Acetylens Co
Icushman
Lincol
Gabi
Benj
F. Bailey
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