Town Meeting Echoes on Education and Edification
In a forties Granite State farming town a heated town meeting resisted a $500 appropriation for a new schoolhouse and education talk. A veteran farmer derided eddication as a farmboys’ madness, while a witty jab about starch and laundry hints at local humor. Also notes on radium debates and a Berkeley student selling queen bees to fund tuition.
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Granite State
Syme Agia Della Philistine
Nestor
Guild
Skalehouses
Harry
Danny Webster
Paria
Toneys
Whiskey a veteran's shame in Kansas City court
In a police court in Kansas City an elderly veteran faced a drunken and disorderly charge. His long suffering wife spoke for him pleading that whiskey ruin his life, and the judge discharged him after allowing the couple to separate briefly and reunite.
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Union Blue
Saya
Kansas City Star
Ated
Pappie
Sudee
Jasper County
Papple
Moderation Myth in Beer Use Highlighted by Sun
A New York Evening Sun piece argues broad beer consumption statistics mislead public opinion. It estimates 15 million habitual drinkers nationwide, with many moderate and non-drinkers, while many women at West London court cases show family distress and poverty linked to alcoholism among the respectable classes.
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New York Evening Sun
West London
Crunkenness
Does your back ache from chronic troubles
A collage of old advertisements and brief notes describes remedial claims for kidney pills, eye glasses, Allcock's Plasters, tide power devices, Defiance Starch, marble quarry uses, and health products. It mentions Don's Kidney Pills and Garfield Tea Company without coherent narrative.
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James R. Keeler
Fenner Street
Casenovia
N.Y
Don
Foster Milburn Co
Buffalo
May Light on History and Defiance Starch Promoted
Excitement over the Henhohelohe memoirs and possible forthcoming publications touches the late Duke of Cambridge's correspondence and Emperor Frederick's diary. Defiance Starch is advertised as safe for fine fabrics, offering strong finish with less quantity, plus a money-back guarantee if not improved.
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Hohenlohe
Europe
Beilieh
Duke of Cambridge
Frederick of
Germany
England
Japan Builds 40 Vessels Including Two Battleships
A Detroit Free Press item notes Japan plans a shipbuilding program in its yards totaling 40 vessels with two battleships included. The piece mentions Defiance Starch as an invention and a safety note about the era's domestic products. It presents a fragmentary dialogue about a boy named Tommy and Romy Smith in a domestic scene.
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Japan
Tommy
Slater
Romy Smith
Detroit Free Press
To Wash Velveteen Echoes A Laundry Riddle
A garbled note describes washing velveteen by shaking in warm ivory rain and rinsing, then drying. The text suggests hanging and careful handling, but the fragmentary lines are garbled and mostly unreadable.
Thinks Clergy Lose Ground Says Booth Exiles Spiritual Role
Mr Charles Booth famed local scientist argues in Religion In London that clergy are diminishing as spiritual guides and becoming charity organizers and servers of tables. Lord Ronaldshay, aged thirty, has traveled extensively through the Himalayas Persia Kashmir Baluchistan Ladak Thibet and the Persian Gulf plus Ceylon.
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Charles Booth
London
Lord Ronaldshay
Iran
Himalayas
Persia
Kashmir
Baluchistan
Ladak
Thibet
Persian Gulf
Ceylon
British schools to teach rifle shooting in curriculum
In the House of Commons Mr. Birrell announced that elementary schools in Great Britain may include rifle shooting in their curriculum. Educational authorities have permission under restrictions to teach children of certain ages to shoot at miniature ranges, with instruction funded by public money.
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Great Britain
Birrell
Board of Education
House of Commons
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Flora McIntyre
Berkeley University
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Dodds Reat
Catare
Warre. Street
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Hamel
Retief
William ©. Weber
Boston
South Thomaston
All Good Grocery
Garfield Tea Company
God
Ariatotle
Adam
Caffere
Denver
Australia
T. Roberta
Zee Sivert
Lewis
Quintus Curtius
Winslow
Sastoria
York
Bears
Castoria
Webster's International Dictionary
C. Merriam
Ation Nitia
ST. Jacobs Oil
Saul
Acanara
J. S. Crawford
Ninth Street
Kansas City
Missouri
Defiance
Frecraarsint Thompson's
Wichita
Sloas Liniment
Earl S. Sloan
Mass
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