Consistency Thou Art A Jewel in the Senate Record
A 1906 Senate speech by Henry Cabot Lodge is cited, noting his claim that Congress has no right to intrude on ongoing foreign negotiations. The piece contrasts Lodge with Reed and Borah, who then pressed into treaty negotiations, highlighting a shift in views on treaty making.
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United States Senate
Henry Cabot Lodge
Senate
Roosevelt
Lodge
Reed and
Borah
Empty School Houses Summer Course Potential
The piece notes idle public school and educational building stocks during ten weeks of summer, argues for expanded use through college summer courses, and suggests many youths could pursue lectures and training in public schools during hot months. It highlights colleges already running summer programs and the broader value of summer education.
Grand Speech and Simple Words in Duty Post
A quotation praises a distinguished American gentleman using plain Saxon words. It notes the speaker’s humility about a hard post and his promise to do his best once in office. The passage emphasizes plain language over Latin terms.
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Ife
Howard Everett Hale
Memor notables on life insurance and probability from Pascal
A Flemish nobleman in the 17th century sought fair division of stakes in a disrupted card game and was aided by Pascal. The tale links to the birth of probability theory and its use in insurances. It notes that long runs of dice throws reflect fixed odds and that mortality rates can be forecast by comparing large patient groups with similar ages and conditions.
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London
Pascal
Dong So
Music of Our Indiana Indians Voices Without Instruments
A description of Native American music notes vocal purity and lack of instrument borrowing. It states Indians sing without words in many songs and use syllables to carry tones. It highlights no standard pitch and that each singer begins where their voice and mood allow, with pitch varying by individual.
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Indiana
Red Men
The Russian a Child in Shadow and Naivete
Ralph J. Block notes in the New York Tribune that the Russian remains a child in honesty and fear, despite modernity in government art and music. He contrasts other peoples’ sophistication with Russia’s persistent ingenuousness and bold self confession.
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Ralph J. Block
New York Tribune
Reverence for Life and the Value of All Creation
The passage argues that life should be valued before the child and that love of animals teaches reverence for life. It warns against pity as mere sentiment and frames reverence as religious cultivation inspired by God in nature and thought, highlighting disinterested affection toward living beings.
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Ralph Waldo Dmecison
Little Nell in Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop
The text describes Little Nell as a sweet innocent fourteen year old girl living with her miserly grandfather who loses all their money to gambling. They become beggars and move near a country churchyard where Nell mourns and the grandfather dies beside her grave.
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Little Nell
Netty Trent
Old Curiosity Shop
Steve Nelly
Human sponge soaks up stories in Ontario town
In Ontario town residents nickname Pun Theresa as the “human sponge” for soaking up news. The local humor highlights his constant readiness to hear and share every detail, leaving him unable to feel well unless he’s fully immersed in conversation.
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Theresa
Ontario Post
Hit or Miss Verses on War and Modern Life
A? satirical column on war weariness and politics references Kaiser Bill in Holland, Mexico and League of Nations, Ford trial witness, Dempsey, river water, weddings, automobiles, cowed conspirators, and public life with wry humor and dated jokes.
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Uncle Sam
Mexico
U. S
The Clocks on Clothing And Hats Explained
The article explains that glove marks and stocking clocks arose from seam placement in old fabrics. The glove four chette pieces matched finger gaps and back seams, later concealed by braid. The clock on stockings hid the seams, from cloth stockings when seams ran where clocks now appear. A leather hat bow survives from old hat making using holes and string.
People Strike for Higher Wages and Shorter Hours
Daily Thought cites Bacon on living in houses not ornaments. The quote contrasts use over uniformity. A second line claims Americans will strike to force higher pay and shorter work hours.
Fish Fights In Malay Sports Showdowns
The Malay sport features two tiny fish about one and a half inches long. Owners display their contenders in bottles and bettors pick favorites before pitting them together. The combatants dart and strike until one sinks to the bottom, drawing a crowd and headlines.
Bacon's Rebellion Begins With Virginians Rising
In 1678 on April 20 the colonists of Virginia rose against Indian raids and asked Governor Berkeley to let them form a guard led by Nathaniel Bacon. Berkeley refused and Bacon led volunteers in defiance. Bacon was declared a traitor and ordered executed but died of a fever before trial.
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Bacon
Virginia
Berkeley
Nathaniel Bacon
The Thrall of the Open
An evocative reflection on men who venture into the wilderness for game or butterflies. It asserts they gain something deeper than the hunt, a peaceful, enchanted calm evident in their eyes, evidence they have heard the great man and his music in the pines.
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Richard le Gal- Hienne
Where Cats Are Popular Among Spanish Guinea Traders
In parts of Spanish Guinea rats plague the region and traders greet travelers by asking for a cat. They would even exchange a sheep for a cat to control the rat problem.
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Spanish Guinea
Omelets From Turtle Eggs On Sea's Culinary Line
The sea yields a dueling pantry to hens as turtle eggs populate hot countries and nests. Eggs are palm sized, white parchment shells and edible when fresh. Fresh water turtles also lay edible eggs with hard and soft shells in Florida Louisiana lakes and Orinoco rivers. Indians of British Guiana collect 25 000 000 yearly for oil.
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Florida
Louisiana
Orinoco
British Guiana
Know Nothings and evolution of the American party
The Know Nothings were a secret political group in the United States known for professing to know nothing. Organized about 154, they grew strong the next year and nominated Millard Fillmore in 1856. The party split over slavery into North and South factions and merged into the Constitutional Union party in 1860.
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Know-Nothings
United States
Millard Fillmore
Constitutional Union Party
Cleaning Kodak Lenses and correct recombination
Kodakery explains that lens removal is rarely needed and only the outer surface tends to get dirty. It warns that if inner and outer lens surfaces are cleaned separately someone may swap front and back combinations, in which case the lens becomes useless until the two pieces are returned to their proper positions.
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Riverdale
Illinois
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Holland
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League of Nations
Villa
Cy DeVry
Bob Fitzsimmons
Jack Dempsey
Déar Is
Peoples
Gateley Bros
Michigan Avenue
Roseland
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