Rural editor longs for quiet life and returns to town news
A Kansas City journalist recounts leaving a country weekly for a quieter setting, only to face rival papers, farm reports, and local notices. He notes a cow death, bread loaf counts, a dawn editor’s pride, and a neighbor painting a home on Proteston street as spring nears. The piece highlights village life and the tug between rural pace and town deadlines.
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AURA
Kansas
Ohy Dany
Uiet
Kansan
Zum
Lathur
Wwe
Wdman
Inlet
George W. Tiasklaus
Ats Eazy
Proteston Street
Gfr. Harkins
MA Smith
Iearn
Moses Wetmore Fights Trust To Build New Tobacco Plant
St Louis magnate Moses Wetmore, former president of Liggett & Myers, vows to use his vast wealth to wage war on the tobacco trust. He has long opposed the trust and now plans a massive new tobacco manufacturing plant in St Louis with eastern capitalists, to challenge the corporate monopoly.
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Moses
Wetmore
St. Joule
Forum
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company
Tas
Wetmore Dugan
Itebaccy Businese
Dolore
Tomcco
Wetmarn
Tt Tobacto Trust
Hub Hla Associates
Nally
Ald Min
Tiggell & Atyersems Ployers
Wetmore Mvill
St. Louis
Fragmented thoughts on conventions and lore of old Texas and Europe
The excerpt blends discussion of state and national conventions held in Texas with reflections on hosting venues, hotels, and the market house, then shifts to historic and literary notes on figures like Erin and Ireland, Edison and popular slang, a sensational tale of a failed elopement, duels and social proprieties, and ends with public notices on punishment and governance.
Genealogical guides guide a hopeful historian
A long fragment offers genealogical advice from early American sources. It highlights using Ahnentafel style charts, Family Histories like American Ancestry and Savage’s Dictionary, and notes pitfalls such as spelling variations and private data. It then shifts to a soldier’s letter recounting battles near Jaro and Manila with American casualties and movements.
Publicity and art in fashion modeling contrasts in ad displays
An essay notes how advertising favors male and modern female figures, with back views and bare backs used to signal athleticity and perfection. It argues that fashion imagery often masks artificial construction, using tight retouching and provocative poses to sell garments while undermining natural form.
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New York Sun
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Grand Army of the Republic
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Kettering Board of
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