Why Widows Win Husbands More Than Spinsters
A New York American piece quotes Mark Twain and analyzes widows as more marriageable than spinsters. It argues widows understand men, cater to their whims, avoid arguments, and offer practical home management and economy. The essay notes widows’ popularity draws suitors, sometimes leading to remarriage.
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Tony Weller
Sam
Pickwick
Samuel
Tony
Pickwickianays
Mark Twain
New York American
The Wonderful Y M C A Sets World Enthusiasm Afloat
Leslie's Weekly notes the Y M C A has received more donations than any religious group in ten years with millions raised for new buildings nationwide. Its efficient management, city work, and war-time branches have fueled global support, while avoiding doctrinal theology and cant through active outreach to all Christians and non Christians.
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International Committee
Root
Lesile
Anarchist Colony in Belgium Endures Four Years
Pathfind er notes a Belgian anarchist community near Brussels named Experience founded by Emile Chapelier. The group lives on cooperative principles with motto Neither God nor law and collective ownership, aiming to show anarchists are misrepresented and that love is platonic and impersonal.
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Belgium
Brussels
Emile Chapelier
Pay of Virginia Teachers Shows Rapid Salary Rise
The Southern Workman notes teachers in Virginia saw salaries rise sharply in the early 20th century. Detailed figures show white male teachers earning 42.21 dollars monthly in 1905 rising to 52.29 in 1908, white women from 29.33 to 39.12, with earlier 1875 and 1905 baselines for men and women.
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Virginia
Equine Focus Draws Global Students to Itia
The Itia institution reports a highly international student body with 115 from Great Britain, 107 from the United States, 165 from Egypt, 232 from Romania, 231 from Germany, 189 from Austria-Hungary, 1,356 from Russia, plus entrants from Bulgaria, Greece, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, China and Japan. Turks, Hungarians and Argentines are sent by their governments. Paris appears as a major destination, with foreign enrollment rising sharply over two decades.
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Itia
Europe
Great Britain
United States
Egypt
Rumania
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Russia
Bulgaria
Greece
Canada
Mexico
Panama
Buenos Ayres
Rio de Janeiro
China
Japan
Paris
London Globe
Sailor's Trousers The baggy pattern and purpose of naval gear
The article explains that American sailors wear baggy trousers for convenience and cleanliness. The wide legs are cut evenly from knee to ankle for easy swabbing and turning up, preserving shape and comfort on shipboard.
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Jack
Bowery
New York Times
Detected Russians Mistaken In Danish Square
In Copenhagen a foreign man accused a stranger of murder claiming to be a Russian detective with a warrant. Both men were taken to the station where it emerged the accuser was a railed detective watching over the Empress. The other man was also a Russian detective while tracing paths from Helsingfors to Stockholm.
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Copenhagen
St. Petersburg
Marie
Helsingfors
Stockholm
Denmark
London
German goods sales boost courses for shopkeepers abroad
Berlin hosts instruction programs to promote German products overseas as sales staff are trained in artistic taste. Levi P Morton, at eighty six, chairs the board of a major trust company, signaling broad financial leadership. In China a province reports an eight thousand percent rise in school attendance over five years, highlighting rapid popular education growth. The Atchison Globe laments wishing to focus on duties, not distractions.
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Berlin
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