Now East Now West Excerpt on Love and marriage
An excerpt from Susan Artz's Now East Now West discusses love and fidelity. It argues that troubles come from loving the wrong woman and not loving the right one, and offers advice on how men should approach loving all women in order to love one. It also presents two methods for losing a wife and one for keeping her by remaining in her original environment.
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United States of America
Patagonia
Susan Artz
Bismarck’s Appetite and Exaggerated Feasts Revealed
In Emil Ludwig’s portrait of Otto von Bismarck, the chancellor confesses to overeating as a remedy to hunger. The anecdotes describe stuffed eel and ham, sausages, figs, maraspan, Erfurter beer, and heavy cigar and champagne consumption over five years.
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Otto von Bismarck
Emil Ludwig
Samplers: From Pattern Patterns to Display of Skill
The sampler, a needlecraft staple since the Sixteenth Century, began as sam cloth made when lace pattern books were scarce and expensive. It evolved into a display of an embroiderer’s skill, often framed by school pupils with silk and gold thread, featuring animals flowers trees and verses as part of a young lady’s education.
Triumph Over Handicap Among Woolloomooloo Residents
M Wilson an engineer's clerk works despite loss of hands from a childhood amputation. He supports a wife and six children at Woolloomooloo Australia writes sketches paints swims plays cricket and billiards. He endured a burning pile accident drowning scares buggy and bicycle crashes and other injuries yet remains active.
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M. Wilson
H E
Woolloomooloo
Australia
Sails as News Signals in Dutch Windmills
Holland houses over 10 000 mills and mill sails serve as signaling devices. The Wide World Magazine notes the sail configurations convey events such as weddings births or requests for millwrights. A cross-shaped sail signals a death, showing mills used as ancient semaphore messages.
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Holland
Wide World Magazine
Eminent Domain Defined as Public Property Power
The article explains eminent domain as the right of a government to take private property for public uses with just compensation. It notes land is acquired for parks post offices forts and other public purposes and that private companies in essential callings may be empowered to act.
Governor Small leads road hearing tour through Carrollton
Governor Len Small addressed a large gathering of road boosters in Carrollton and held a public hearing on two proposed routes Route 108 between Kampsville and Litchfield and Route 109 between Grafton and Route 3. Col C R Miller and Frank T Sheets conducted the hearing with county delegations from Macoupin Greene Montgomery Jersey and others present. Public works plans also include Illinois River deepening aid and state drainage issues.
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Len Small
Carrollton
Governor Small
Macoupin, Greene
Montgomery
Jersey
Carlinville
Kampsville
Litchfield
Grafton
Col. C. R. Miller
State Department of Public Works and Buildings
Frank T. Sheets
Rockford Leads In Growth Among Illinois Cities
United States Commerce figures show Rockford from 65,651 in 1920 to 80,900, growing more in seven years than any Illinois city 30,000-plus. Chicago’s 1920-1929 rise reaches 401,095 to 3,102,800. Springfield at 66,400. Peoria tops outside Chicago. state teachers’ meeting in Springfield reports amidst speeches by Rhys Davies and remarks on women presidents.
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Rockford
United States Department of Commerce
Illinois
Chicago
Quincy
Peoria
Ilinois
Springfield
Illinois State Teachers’ Association
Capital City
Rhys J. Davies
Fannie Spaits Merwin
Manito
Merwin
Ella Flagg Young
Bertha S. Armbruster
James Nelson
Cuba
Fulton County
Association
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A. §. Cuthbertson
Bunker Hill
H. V. Teel
Rushville
A. T. Dunn
Beardstown
William Mulvihill
Stillman J. Stanard
Federal Departments of Agriculture
A. J. Surratt
Mr. Surratt
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Utica
Army Engineers
W. E. Hull
Republican
Hull
Assembly
Oscar Nelson
Gillespie and
Beald
Wilsonville
J. S. Ransome
Shelby County
Windsor
Strasburg
Stewardson
Cumberland
Jasper
Orville Arnold
Casey
Marshall County
Trumpeter & Son
Peru
Tazewell
McLean
Henkel Construction Company
Mason City
Iowa
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Joliet and
Chester
Cook County
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Farm Organization and Management Department
College of Agriculture
University of Illinois
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