Fireproof Suburban Home Design Promoted for Safety
An advertisement features Mr. William A. Radford offering free building advice. It details a fireproof suburban house design using cement plaster over steel lath, stone accents, terra cotta tile floors, and a slate roof. The plan emphasizes safety, durability, and cost around $4,000 for a 24 by 80 foot layout with four bedrooms and a bath.
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William A. Radford
Witter A. Radford
Fifth Ave
Chicago
Youth Rules for Keeping Young in Daily Life
Advice urges women to avoid worry and haste and practice self-control to delay aging. Emphasizes moderation, open air, ample sleep, mental alertness, and a youthful heart. Warns that overdoing any way hastens premature aging and urges consistent healthy habits.
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Tarcas
Igorrote customs and market life in Benguet mountains
J Hamilton Lewis describes Igorot society in Benguet, noting their clothing, barefoot life in cold highlands, and market Sunday led by Commissioner Worcester. Dogs dominate trade, with lean, starved dogs valued, while women bargain and manage household money. He cites trial marriage traditions said to originate from ancient Israel and Greece, detailing negotiation, child custody, and potential personal loss for the rejected partner.
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Philippines
Benguet
Regulo
Louleiana
North Carolina
Tennessee
J. Hamilton Lewis
Chicago Evening Post
Adam
Cardinal Wolsey
Worcester
Spain
Mark
France
America
Frederick Starr
Chicago
Balkans
George Meredith
Israel
Greece
Watin
Abbott on Bible as literature not inerrant text
Lyman Abbott argues the Bible is a literature collection with varied genres and truths. Children should learn to distinguish fact from truth, recognizing fiction as a vehicle for insight, using stories like Adam and Eve and Jonah as moral and historical discussion points.
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Lyman Abbott
Bermuda Bound Misheard Farewells
A garbled exchange records a traveler asking where to go and another replying that there is no bridge to Bermuda. The fragmentary dialogue ends with a confusing farewell and a question about a journey to Permade.
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Bermuda
Permade
Desperate hour long bull dog duel ends in fatal kill
In Cheyenne Wyoming A. A. Hawkins witnesses his bulldog Jock fight a monster bull for an hour. The dog dodges each charge and finally clamps jaws on the bull's throat. The bull dies after the struggle as Hawkins and family watch, the dog then freed and lauded as a victor.
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Wyo
Bull Dog
A. A Hawkins
Hawking
Craan
Hawkins
Jock
Cered
Jack
Jace
Daredevil Candy Bet Wins Mock Heroine on Roof
Florence Price 17 climbs a flagpole atop the Broad and Market streets building in Newark for a candy wager. A workman halts her ascent as gale winds lash her skirt, dragging her to safety on a platform below amid a cheering crowd.
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Newark
N. J
Floree Price
Bank Street
Tovin
Retmen
Insurance Company
Tory
Market
When & Workman
Mary
Florence
Heney
Honey
Painter Stories From a Foggy Day at Work
A fragment recalls painters laboring on a dark foggy day when workers toiled atop scaffolds. One instructor guided a debt closings of public schools galas while a student, an Irish bricklayer, sought art learning. A note from his wife explains he cannot attend because he fell behind on bricklaying duties.
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CTI
Abbott
Bull
Canine Ando
Sial
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