Dog Show Counsel Teaches Safe Show Etiquette
Old Man Negley answers Vine Street crowd on dog show prep emphasizing health at open-air events. He warns of distemper risks, shares home care steps, and urges kindness to dogs while stressing value of companionship over ribbons.
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Vine Street
Nesley
Vinestreet
Negley
Géle Née Prouse’s
Dogmann
American Wenner Club
Distemper
American Kennel Club
Motorist Receives Local Rumor of a Fatal Shooting
A Kansas City Star reader recounts a rumor of last year's lightning strike memory, a quarrel over a wife and alleged shootings near a dry creek road. The tale involves a plowing man, his wife, possible brothers in law, and a fatal chase or suicide, ending with advice to detour due to road repairs.
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Jim Sock
Dry Creek
Hisself
Tuther Felier
Hire
Tuther
Yan
Kansas City Star
Urban shift slows as smaller towns gain housing
Thrift Magazine notes a 17 percent gain in housing construction across the 25 leading cities in the first nine months of 1925 compared with 1924, with 344 smaller towns excluding 23 metropolises showing a similar rise. The data, from a major building information source, suggests a potential shift toward revival in small towns as urban migration patterns evolve.
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Swibt
Thrift Magazine
Shade Tree Planting Spreads Across Polytechnic Fort Worth
Residents of Polytechnic Fort Worth Texas initiate a tree planting campaign to shade parkways with uniform trees along every street. A Avenue M resident started the beautification push which inspired others to form self appointed committees. Each street is expected to select a different tree variety, creating a boulevard of trembling sycamores and elms with a final route to Greater Fort Worth shaded by pecans.
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Polytechnic
Fort Worth
Texas
Avenue M
New England
Greater
Christian Science Monitor
Face Failure When Fettered by Fear in Everyday Speech
A dated essay argues that self stated fear halts effort. It cites three simple lines I am afraid I cant I am afraid I drop them I fear I cant manage it showing how fear produces failure by paralysing nerves and muscles. The piece warns that fear in servants leads to breakage and that fear drains power to act. It concludes that progress stops when people say I am afraid.
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Wind
Monsele
Rare Maori Burial Cave Found in Auckland Highlands
A newly discovered Maori burial cave in rugged Auckland province reveals hundreds of well preserved skeletons and a high ranking chieftainess burial. Discoverers lowered into the cave by rope and candlelight exposed grisly skulls and rare relics including a vothe site and notably preserved teeth across ancient skulls.
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Auckland
Australia
Cubist Portrait Anecdote Reveals Sargent Wit
Joseph E Wideng recalls John Sargent’s dismissive view of cubist art at a Philadelphia luncheon. The Chelsea studio remark involves a rich Englishman showing a cubist portrait to his valet and the valet praising it as divine, with playful banter between Jarkins and Jar kins.
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Joseph E. Wideng
Philadelphia
John Sargent
Chelsea
Jarking
Jarkins
Rai
Home Judged by Quiside
Keep up both interior and exterior of your home while the exterior bears the brunt of weather. Proper care protects your investment and spurs neighbors to maintain their properties. A well kept home sells easier and at a better price than one in disrepair.
Good Roads and the Town Beyond Prospects for Prosperity
Good roads extend a town's commercial reach and attract increased travel. Whether that travel becomes profitable hinges on the town's own invitation and opportunities. The broader national trend mirrors local outcomes as roads link communities and markets.
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Bie
Boost? Town Pride and Outside Influence
A fragment from Albany Decatur Daily discusses pride in the town amid changing local affairs and the impact of shifting operations outside the community. It cautions against feeding family tensions or spreading dislikes as the seat of operations moves outward.
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Albany-Decatur
Keep House in Order in a Domestic Lesson
An old admonition urges that every person should value tidiness at home. It argues that orderly surroundings bring greater comfort and pleasure, linking clean spaces to harmonious living and responsible habits.
Fishing victory after party fails to tempt hungry angler
Gertle Hunt Buddy Celien buys a new pole and wins a big catch at Redonda pier next Sunday. A hungry moment tests safety as Buddy faces a food request while a flowered young lady passes by.
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Buddy
Celien
Redonda
Cam
Max
Angeles Times
Demolition of Berlioz House in Montmartre Sparks Mourning
In Paris Montmartre a house once lived in by Berlioz and linked to his work The Cameration at Faust is torn down to make way for a modern hotel. Admirers visit the site to display sorrow and regret as the demolition proceeds. Berlioz, famed for novel instrumental effects, remains a celebrated figure in French music history.
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Berlioz
Paris
Montmartre
Geriloz
Faust
Texas fig industry grows in southeastern Texas
The fig industry in southeastern Texas is expanding rapidly with thousands of acres planted in the last two years. Not more than half of the trees have yet come into bearing and several large plantings will be added this winter according to reports. The crop is seen as best suited to the fertile coastal plain country of Texas.
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Texas
Washington Star
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Terhrae
New Jersey
McNaught Syndicate
Ines
Fletcher
Brown
Green
Bayer
Gertle Hunt
Uncle Jim
Najel
Billie
Nell
Najol
Nujol
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