Playgrounds For Missouri Children Lead State Movement
Missouri leads a state wide playground movement under Dr C W Hetherington to provide play grounds for all counties. Plans include athletic fields intermediate spaces and kid corners with first year costs around 3500 dollars for towns including St Joseph Charleston Mexico Joplin and more. The initiative aims to train directors and integrate physical and moral education through play with 3000 plus children benefiting in initial sites.
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New York Evening Post
Missouri
Federal
Jacob A. Riis
Missouri Playground Movement
C. W. Hetherington
University of Missouri
United States
St. Louis
Kansas City
Mins Florence Alden
T. W. Burekhaler
Missouri Downs
Hetherington
St. Joseph
Charleston
Khelbina
Poplar Bluff
Columbia
Lexington
Butter
Lamar
Flat River
Mexico
Unionville
Joplin
Plan to signal Mars via mirror array in July
Boston professor William Henry Pickering outlines a plan to communicate with Mars using a system of mirrors attached to a large axis to reflect sunlight toward Mars. The device would rotate every 24 hours, producing flashes by briefly blocking sun rays, forming a telegraphic dot dash code expected to attract attention and elicit a reply.
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Boston
Massa
William Henry Pickering
Starvard
Mars
Earth
Coirse
A High Class Kicker From the London Telegraph
Bir Charies Wyndham described a dinner scene involving a young man courting a daughter. The girl's father warned of consequences if the courting continued. The father later confronted the suitor after weeks, who arrived claiming to speak for the president of their football club.
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London Telegraph
Bir
Charies Wyndham
Mao
Din
England Forest Land to Expand Use of 17 Million Acres
In Japan the note lists dress fabrics sold by weight while noting England holds 17,000,000 acres of land available for forestation. The fragmentary source contrasts industrial goods with land use.
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England
Japan
Remarkable Life of Daniel Defoe
A vivid reminiscence traces Daniel Defoe’s turbulent path from aspiring minister to stock trader and writer. He endures failures, imprisonment, and poverty before the triumph of Robinson Crusoe at age 68, which redeems a career marked by misfortune and perseverance.
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Daniel Defoe
New York American
Yietiin
Tie
Gol
Defoe
Ife
Newgate Prison
Callus
Hfe
Where Justice Is Given to State Universities
An annual Carnegie Foundation report notes several states contribute about 1,000,000 dollars yearly to state universities. In many cases this comes as a mill tax that auto adjusts with property revaluations, with no legislative action required. The piece highlights that a million dollars a year remains modest for large states like Wisconsin Illinois or California.
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Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of
Wisconsin
Illinois
California
Reading fortunes ends in family joke at party
Mr Wiggins performs a burlesque palm reading for his wife Ruth as she listens with seriousness. The mock prophecy about a dark man, a light man, a journey and fortune closes with a joke about future generations and a grandmother.
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New York Times
Ephank Codi
Women in the labor field reshape American workforce
The piece argues women now form a large share of factory and store workers, many are married, and popular notions about gender roles face critique. It calls for re organizing industry, giving priority to men supporting families, and extending training to ensure stability amid rising female employment.
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Washington
United States
Hushanda
Ehdrend
Harvard's New President Abbott Lowell Chosen by Harvard
The selection of Abbott Lawrence Lowell as Harvard president is presented as an event of national importance. The piece lauds Lowell's diverse qualifications, noting his rare blend of scholarship, executive skill, social aptitude, and capacity to earn alumni and donor loyalty, marking a shift from the old model of appointing clergy or classicists.
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Lowell
William Roscoe Thayer
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Eliot
Harvard
America
Mr. Bot
Linevard
Humorous Old Time Jokes and Witty Sayings
A collection of quips and exchanges from a bygone era featuring banter about marriage, wealth, cars, flying machines, and wary servants. Highlights include a jab at henpecked husbands, a boastful automobile talk, and a military joke about a kicked captain and a dead substitute.
Education versus commercialism in American thought
From the New York Press, a discussion by investors and scientists about the primacy of education over business. Edison argues for technical training while Schwab and Harriman face criticism for valuing commerce over letters, warning that future fame may favor literary figures like Poe and Irving over industrial magnates.
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New York
Bunny
Charles M. Schwab
BE. H. Harriman
Thomas A. Edison
Edison
Schwab
Harriman
Jedison
America
Redwood Exhibit at Seattle Exposition
The United States forest service plans to show redwood growth sections at the Alaskan Yukon Pacific Exposition in Seattle. A 47 year old sprout from the Dupont Powder Works tract near Santa Cruz measures 80 inches around and 125 feet tall, illustrating rapid diameter and height growth. More rapid growth was observed in Mendocino county where sprouts over 80 inches in diameter rise 125 to 160 feet tall on land cleared 40 to 45 years ago. Redwood sprouts thus demonstrate surprisingly rapid growth rates.
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California
United States Forest Servicer
Seattle
Dupont Powder Works
Big River
Mendocino County
President Tift Scarred by Street Harassment in Washington
A Baltimore Sun letter criticizes the abuse faced by the U S president in public, noting crowds at the White House gate on Sundays and comparing US manners unfavorably with Britain and Europe. The writer argues Americans should offer more protection and dignity to national leaders.
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Baltimore
Tift
United States
Washington
Trance
England
Wing Manard
Hagland
France
Germany
Unitedates
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Gretna Green
University of Maine
Pennsylvania State College
New England
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Mossback
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Green
Wise
Loe
Longfellow
Westminster Abbey
Europe
Walt Whitman
Poe
Emergon
Jay Cooke
Cooke
Newton
Clauleo
Galileo
Voltaire
Carlyle
Byron
Harrimans
Sehwabs
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Irvings
Redwood
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