It is not an ambition to hold high office
Editorial cites Charles Evans Hughes and discusses Hampshire street pavement in Quincy. It laments faulty public service work, damaged brick and concrete bases, and repeated street holes. It urges citizens to demand efficient repairs and fair treatment, noting political campaigns and arbitration as insufficient to fix streets.
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America
Charles Evans Hughes
Hampshire Street
Whig
Quincy
Illinois
Campaigning Across Illinois Vast Corn Belt State
The piece portrays Illinois as an expansive political arena where state candidates travel vast distances to reach voters. It notes a candidate visiting 70 of 102 counties, leaving 31 unvisited, and asserts Illinois could span several eastern states in a single tour. The roads are described as corn field lanes, with up to 32,000,000 acres of corn spoken for by the landscape.
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Llinois
Rhode Island
Adams County
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Hartford
Richmond
Illinois
Chicago
Cairo
New Hampshire
Vermont
Delaware
New Jersey
Maryland
PESSIMISM by H A Bruce a compact critique
An early 20th century essay argues pessimism signals mental or physical ill health and harms mood, social life, and work. It cites Thomas Scott Lowden, urges readers to seek medical advice, and warns that lingering pessimism worsens life and health if unaddressed.
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Thomas Scott Lowden
Saturn
Ifat
Lowden
Mr. Lowden
U S Denmark purchase debt brawl over $25 million
Editors react to Denmark West Indies sale terms with sharp opinions. Borah mocks the purchase as respect for Monroe doctrine while others call for purchase as weighty, with implications on Schleswig Holstein and world posture. Local papers note German relations and the era’s tradeoffs amid inflation and policy debate.
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Rockford
Borah
Danish West Indies
U. S
Illinois history note on Illinois country trade flow
On August 25 1743 the French governor at New Orleans complained that despite rich resources the Illinois country was of little help to Louisiana because its trade was diverted to Canada, a point noted in This Day in Illinois history records.
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New Orleans
Illinois
Louisiana
Canada
Why Rattles the Kingfisher Is Let Alone
A short animal tale shows Rattles the Kingfisher living by himself in a ground hole with a fish bone nest. Birds like Jenny Wren mock his voice and home, while Johnny Chuck and Welcome Robin defend his quirks, noting social bias against nonconformity in Old Orchard.
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Rattles
Skimmer the Swallow
Jenny Wren
Mrs Rattles
Mrs. Rattles
Blacky the Crow
Samimy Jay
Robin
Goldie
Oriole
Jenny
Johnny Chuck
Rattles the Kingfisher
Our School's Vacation Mischief and False Alarms
A playful fragment shows children planning to run away to Darkust Africker with Torp Stebbins with two cat ridges for defense. Ex and Andy promote the scheme while brother Alexander resists. A false alarm at Griggsy's house follows, with the Hay-Can-&-Will Fire Department putting out a hay stack fire.
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Brigham
Andy Anderson
Darkust
Stebbins
Thay
Phil Wigglesworth
Torp
Alexander
Anny
Andy
Thay Heap
Alexander Woant
Anny Meat
Afritkéer
Pont
Pressant
Hay-Can-&-Will
Griggsy
Grean
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H. A. Bruce
Nithe
Carter
New York
Evening Sun
New York Sun
Denmark
Sam
Schleswig and
Holstein
Jacksonville Journal
Germany
U.S
St. Louis Republic
Liberty Bee
Thornton W. Burgess
India
Paul West
Frank Moses
Hardy
Willie Eustus
Thare
George McLoughlin
Willie
George
Miss Palmer
Boston
Atlantic Coast
New England
Cs Enroute Circle
York
Atlanta
Cat City
Wid
Ntral Railroad
la Salle Street
W. B. Jerome
General Western
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