Ancient Spanish Locomotive Oversees Brownsville Rail Route
A Kansas City Star account describes the Rio Grande Railroad once Browneville’s main outlet. It was a foreign enterprise with Spaniards in ownership and staff, Spanish bookkeeping and correspondence, using a primitive locomotive that remains a curiosity to visitors. The line linked Point Isabel to Brownsville for nearly forty years.
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West Tee
Point Tex
Spain
Rio Grande
Browneville
Point Isabel
Brownsville
Kansas City Star
Working girls seen as better wives by college head
Mary Woolley of Mount Holyoke argues that working girls make better wives than college graduates or idle girls. They manage housework efficiently, avoid divorce, and contribute to a stable home, while educated or idle daughters struggle with marital life. The piece praises practical experience and class collaboration in governance and public affairs.
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Mary B Woolley
Holyoke College
Massachusetts Institution
Mike Woolley
Chicago Journal
Direct nominations debated by energetic clergyman
A clergyman advocates direct nominations arguing for government by the experienced leaders over amateurs who push reform. He warns the plan could edge toward socialism and notes its tentative, mixed results in elections, urging cautious revival and leadership from the mourner's bench.
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Orst
Navy leadership age limits criticized by Washington Post
The Washington Post argues that capable naval officers are blocked from command due to mandatory retirement ages, hindering peak performance in crisis times and wasting decades of training. It urges reforms to let seasoned leaders wield full authority while maintaining high standards of efficiency and readiness.
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United States Navy
Geet
Washington Post
The American Woman
The piece argues Americans have not yet defined a stable American woman type due to our complex ethnographic mix. It notes that both American men and women appear undeveloped and that perceptions of an American woman vary over time as attitudes shift with distance and history.
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Columbia
8. C
Dinner Talk at English Circuit Honoring Eminent Judge
A dinner hosted by members of an English circuit honors a eminent judge. Legal talk dominates as lawyers discuss matters while the nonlegal guests listen. One spectator, a large cheerful man in ill fitting attire, breaks the silence with a bold claim about skinning steers.
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H. G.brown
New Ideas in Millinery at Elegant Evening
A social gathering featured a relaxed mood with a prominent judge as guest. Conversation wandered from etiquette at legal banquets to hats and jewelry. Mrs. Wirich announced new souvenir spoons as guests admired hostess gifts and fashion touches.
Legal Precedents on Railroads and Public Safety Duties
A survey of cases holds that private railroad siding contracts are not against public policy, that railroads are not liable for an engineer’s death due to a foreman’s negligence, and that union strike actions to enforce wage adjustments are illegal. It also notes duties in depots with poor access, invalid interstate commerce penalties, and premises liability for injuries from unguarded elevator shafts.
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Panama Canal
Gnander
Minneapolis Journal
Whalen
Baltimore
0. R. Co
Chicago
L & L. R. Co. Ve. Barker
Ind
N. B
Reynolds Ve. Davis
McNary
N. G
Faurotte
Oklahoma Wholesale Grocery Co
Okla
Johnston Ve
New
Omaha
Thomece- Houston Electric Light Co
Neb
Ain
River and War and Waterways in Old Favorites
A collage of verses and prose passages features The Spanish Cavalier, River Lea imagery, war ballads, and magazine humor about water power. It blends lyric lines with short anecdotes on editors, publishers, and habits, ending with a quip about agreeing to avoid arguments.
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New York
Bill
John Fox
Success Magazine
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