Poor Man Woos and Wins in Pursuit of Invention
The author praises humble inventors like the Wright brothers and Morse while criticizing large endowments from Carnegie and others. He argues that landmark breakthroughs came from poverty and hands on effort, not from funded institutes, laments the lack of recognition for unsung workers, and lauds the democratic truth found by modest origins.
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Carnegies
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Carnegie
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Wrights
Manteo
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Morse
Bel
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National Bureau of Edtocation
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Tions
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Cambridge
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Opinions by and about women and bachelors in society
A controversial piece attacks single men as dangerous elements in the community and argues for more wives and home cooking, fewer working women, and less self centered bachelors. It ridicules bachelors as social drains and calls for expatriation.
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Patagonia
Siberia
What Woman Ever Knows by Mlle Domino
A prose piece exploring gender roles and social restraint from a gendered perspective. It contrasts wry observations on male modesty and female ego, noting how affection and bravado influence attraction and behavior in domestic life.
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Mlle Domino
Gentle suffragette profile and political notes in Seattle
A long feature praises a refined suffrage activist Nellie Mitchell Fick wife of Dr Edward P Pick detailing her domestic life and public work for women’s emancipation. It notes her finish in West ten high school and study of national government plus her shift from household duties to political activity in Washington state. A parallel letter from Rath discusses President, a muckraker, and a new bread line for hungry residents.
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Nellie Mitchell Fick
Edward P. Pick
Atate Ofashington
Ahe
Rm. Kick
Tate
Neae
Weten
Washington
Correspondence on Congress Cuts to Playground Funds
Washington letters lament the cut from 15000 to 1600 for children's playgrounds amid a broad vote on a 4 006 000 appropriation. The writer critiques Tillman, Aldrich, and a corrupting senate culture while urging readers to study the Congressional Record for the voting list.
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Washington
D.C
Dad
Congress
Jim Tawney
House
Fragmented comic bits and notices from a 1900s page
A collage of humor snippets and stray notes includes banter between characters about goodness and liquor, a London cabbie exchange, boarding house chatter about Sunday turkey, soldier and sailor quips, stage gossip, and an orphanage and hospital count. Many lines reference magazines and newspapers of the era.
Sammy Tattered Ambition Dreams Vaudeville Fame
Nearsighted Sammy with talent and stage fright longs for vaudeville success. He hides behind curtains, mimics stage stars, and finally debuts with a brave performance that wins over the manager and crowd, securing a fifty week contract offer. The scene shows his struggle, nerves, and eventual triumph on opening night.
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Sammy
Lemmy
Bammy
Eta
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