Public lands and census plans spark national debate
The Baltimore Sun notes public domain lands hold national value despite farmer concerns. The Chicago Record-Herald argues the census will cover the U S territories and Puerto Rico with about 65 000 enumerators. It advocates merit based, non political selection and business like management to ensure accuracy and public confidence.
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Montana
Idaho
Nevada
Baltimore Sun
United States
Haweaii
Porto Rico
Panama Canal Zone
Guam
Samoa
Chicago Record-Herald
Harvard Liberal Arts First in New Training Course
The New York Times notes Harvard must require humanities before a new business oriented course. It argues this liberal education preserves tradition while acknowledging the need for finance, commercial law, and economic knowledge. The plan aims to produce adaptable graduates for modern business shifts.
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Harvard
New York Times
The Wext Census and City Population Counts
The article notes a 1910 census start in April with a permanent bureau led by Director North. It cites a $14 million cost estimate to Congress and mentions progress from preliminary work reported by a New York dispatch.
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United States Census Bureau
North
Congress
New York Sea
Sf Sin Mae Bint Pan Ont
Farmer Wifes Plight and Rural Labor Shifts
The Boston Transcript argues farm families face aging wives and scarce domestic help as rural depopulation grows. It calls for leisure and social opportunities to aid country mothers and daughters, noting the need for remedies to the farm problem.
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Boston Transcript
Weather science and two day forecasts in the modern era
The piece notes the U S weather effort and compares it with European long range studies. It emphasizes attempts to forecast two days ahead despite historical limits and the quest to turn data from instruments into reliable near term predictions.
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Europe
St. Louis Glebe-Democrat
Indiana man patents lumber measuring machine
A Louisiana inventor unveils a patented lumber measuring device that speeds measurements, records each foot as stock passes a rotating shaft, and reduces errors. The machine resembles a lawn mower at first glance but functions as a precise measurement tool for planing offices and carpenters.
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Louisiana
Indiana
Paper bottles and folding crates in new product ideas
The piece describes innovations including a dual blade tool with adjustable depth, a hand pushed device, and a shift from glass to paper milk bottles to prevent disease. It notes folding crates for poultry shipping and an Ohio designer’s collapsible crate. Also a humorous exchange on teaching swimming and mild counsel on sparing punishment for culprits.
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Ohi
Real estate broker suffers rare paralysis from cigarette fumes
Alvah Mac Creary of 17 Arch street, Penn Square Building broker, was seized by a strange paralysis after inhaling cigarette smoke on June 24. Doctors report a brain clot caused by fumes. he faced weeks of immobility and underwent successful surgery with nurses guarding against a recurrence.
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Petindolphin
Alvah MacCreary
Penn Square
The
Philadelphia Inquirer
MacCreary
Dr.Mercer
Arch Street
Mactreary
Mercer
Millw
Fragmented excerpt on origins of crops and population estimates
The text discusses origins of crops such as asparagus cabbage radish eggplant and endive with notes on Europe Asia Africa and the Mediterranean. It mentions unintended markers about livestock and vehicles and cites population growth projections reaching hundreds of millions by 1020 1050 and beyond.
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Europe
Sweden
Asia Minor
Versia
Caucasus
Afghanistan
Siberia
Tussia
Legal and economic notes from a distant era
A miscellany of legal opinions on duties of drivers and railway conductors, settlement of debts, and constitutional divisions. The piece also surveys food guidance from a New York caterer, a London prisoner anecdote, trade statistics, long working hours, mining wealth in Africa, and colonial union talks in South Africa under the British crown.
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Shaitarn
New York Journal of Commerce
Bedsworth
Warwickshire
England
Robinson
Transvaal
South Africa
South Dakota
Nevada
Cape Colony
Tranavaal
Read River
Natal
Rhodesia
The Stage Manager Reveals Father’s Fate in Play
In dialogue from The Pathfinder a stage manager assigns Craptie the role of the heroine’s father who dies ten years before the first act. The passage adds a reflection on burdens and the idea of a square deal, suggesting men bear burdens poorly when they feel treated unfairly.
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the Pathfinder
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Uncle Sam
Wiges Mowr
Prates
Bill
Jill
SVR
Africa
Western
Asia
Clyde
Bern
Madeira
Morocco
France
Spain
Italy
Mediterranean
Canaries
Algeria
Abyssinia
Western Asia
India
Siabrica
Department of Government
New York
New, Yorks Press
Lugi Pina
Tow Street
London
Crapt
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