Hundred-Year-Old Doctor Warns of Death by Own Action
Dr. Herman Berry, a physician born in 1817, sits in his Grand Boulevard home reflecting on modern life. He claims speed, noise, and commercialism shorten lifespans and offers no recipe for longevity beyond avoiding today’s frantic world. His family history shows long-lived relatives and a life-long Democrat who voted for Wilson.
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Herman Berry
Grand Boulevard
Dr. Berry
New York
Pennsylvania
New York State
Wilson
Silver wedding fashion born in medieval France tale
The tale recalls King Hugues Capet rewarding an elderly couple with a dowry and a wedding ring, praising a long marriage as a silver wedding. It notes the practice spreading across France after 25 years of marriage and becoming fashionable. An adjacent ad offers a four room cottage for sale in South Holland by Harry P.
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Hugues Capet
France
Hugues
Lippincott’s Magazine
South Holland
Harry P
Skates and Education in the Growth of Youth
An essay extols physical culture for students highlighting outdoor roller skating as essential to muscular coordination and mental progress. It notes four years of physical culture required by high schools, and cites municipal playground funding as a driver of healthier, more capable citizens and stronger societies.
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United States
Travel on Journey Alone
A Century Magazine quotation by Mary Heaton Vorse contrasts birth and death for men and women. It argues women confront birth alone, while men face war alone, each experiencing supreme moments in isolation and risk. The piece reflects on solitary endurance and shared human vulnerability.
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Mary Heaton Vorse
Century Magazine
Broken Hill Mines Roiled World and Country
The article notes Broken Hill in New South Wales as the world’s largest lead-silver mine with ore valued at $383 million from a lode up to three hundred feet wide and two miles long. It describes its impact on Australia including a 33,000 population city, a 250 mile privately owned railway, and Port Pirie smelter town, plus historical zinc exports to Germany. It also cites a satirical tale about a twenty fifth birthday and seventh daughter of a seventh daughter.
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Broken Hall
New South Wales
Australia
National Geographic Magazine
Broken Hill
Port Pirie
Germany
Feathered Music Box and German Canary Songsters
The article notes German influence on canary song training and how the Hartz Mountain canary, a cheaper and skilled songbird, is known in the United States. It highlights long teaching efforts by German peasants and the variety of names used for trained canaries to indicate training level.
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Germany
Paddy Takes On Stoker Job After Notice
A unemployed man named Paddy finds a stoker job after seeing a help wanted ad. He works shoveling coal as the boiler pressure climbs past safe levels and the safety valve blows. He warns the boss that the boiler may come to him if he does not inspect the dangerous situation.
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Paddy
Reward Offered for Stock Room Burglary Suspect
A $100 reward is offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who broke into the stock room and removed several leather belts.
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Hart Schaffner
Marx
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Florsheim
Agri
Art
Beheludr
Mary
Roselands
115Th St
Michigan Ave
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