Harvard President Emeritus Leads Spending Health Study
Physicians and philanthropists in the American Federation of Sex Hygiene headed by Dr. Charles W. Eliot report a total annual U S spending on various luxuries and comforts amounting to eight billion dollars. The breakdown includes intoxicants two billion and tobacco twelve hundred million with jewelry eight hundred million and cars five hundred million. Other large categories include church work at home two hundred fifty million confectionery two hundred million soft drinks one hundred twenty million and foreign missions twelve million.
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American Federation of Sex Hygiene
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard
Psychology of the Mob and Mass Influence
The piece analyzes crowd hypnosis turning individuals into a mass driven by blind instinct. It cites Americans reacting to Admiral Dewey’s return and a New York spectacle, noting temporary loss of reason, inflated emotion, and ritualized displays at political conventions.
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Philippines
New York
Industrial era rhetoric on conformity and progress in Berlin
A prose fragment rails against herd mentality and hypnotic influence, noting a lack of individual judgment. It cites rapid Berlin expansion with twenty four bridges over the Spree as a counterpoint to collective conformity, then tempts with an ad offering free theater tickets to The Old Homestead.
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Agine
Berlin
Spree
Restoration of elk herds aims to repopulate Rocky Mountain ranges
The biological survey and forest service adopt a plan to transplant elk from Yellowstone and other northern areas to western forests in Oklahoma Arizona and New Mexico. Young elk are trapped roped and moved by sleds then shipped to railheads with several transfers and limited losses. The effort seeks to restore abundant elk across the West within a decade and hopes to double the US population in about three years.
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Washington
Rocky Mountain
Canada
Biological Survey
Department of Agriculture
United States Forest Service
United States
Forest Service
Yellowstone Park
Wyoming
Jackson Hole
Knowles
Sun Dance National Forest
Wichita Forester
Oklahoma
Washington Chiefs
Allied Services
Wichita
Yellowstone
Sun Dance Forest Reserve
St. Anthony
Idaho
Sun Dance
Arizona
New Mexico
Palmer
Bureau
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America
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Terrill Medical & Surgical Institute
J. H. Terrill
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Gray
CAI
DR. Stotts
St. Mary's & Houston Sts
Tex
C. H. Parkhurst
Tageles
Los Angeles Heights
Dickinson & Kile
George Hagelstein
A. L. Dickinson
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A. Collman
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Alamo Trunk Co
Bee Candy Co
Bell Jewelry Co
Carter-Mullally Transfer Co
Dalkowitz Bros
Maureéaux
Paul
Maverick-Clark Litho
San Antonio Express
San Antonio Drug Co
San Antonio Printing Co
St. Anthony Hotel
Steeves, Ed & Son
Stowers Furn. Co
Tips Home. Co
Travis Club
Washer Bros
Woodward Carriage Co, West Texas Bank & Trust Co
Globe Fire Insurance Co
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