Trade at Home vs Mail Order Ships Support to Your Town
Frances A Harris argues that buying locally saves more than money by supporting community vitality. Mail order bargains incur freight costs and erode local incomes, weakening public services and town prosperity. Patronize home merchants to sustain wages, credit, and civic institutions, and to keep the town a thriving place to live.
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Alfred C. Clark
New_York
Chicago
Frances A. Harris
Wagon Lift Tale From Hillville
An old farmer Eben Jenkins agrees to give a haughty young man a ride. The passenger chats nonstop and ends up insisting on a ride far beyond the planned route, then hoofs it at a road turn, a tale recounted with wry humor from The Youth's Companion.
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Eben Jenkins
Hillville
Mr. Jenkins
A Difficult Choice for a London Critic on Laughter
A London literary critic argues laughter is unmoral while physicians call it a splendid aid to digestion. The piece ponders whether we should remain morally dyspeptic or unmoral ly happy.
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London
Differences in Air Inhaled Conductivity
The note states that air that has been inhaled shows higher electrical conductivity than normal air, implying a change in air properties after respiration. No further context or supporting facts are provided.
Diplomacy's Triumph Joke by Labouchere on Suffrage Meeting
Henry Labouchere, editor of Truth, recalled a suffrage deputation in the House of Commons lobby. He said they talked all at once, then admitted his susceptibility to female beauty might influence his judgment, a compliment that he believed showed his heart was in the right place even if his judgment was not.
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Henry Labouchere
Truth
House of Commons
Catarrh
Fire of the Versailles Exhibit Secreted by a Chemist
In the era of Louis XV a chemist named Depre unveiled a canal side display at Versailles showing an unquenchable fire that water fed rather than cooled. Louis XV banned public dissemination of the invention and the inventor died soon after, taking the secret to the grave.
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Louis XV
France
Depre
Versailles
Louis
Washington Fat and Thin Study From Government Labs
Government nutrition research in Washington explores weight balance amid rising obesity and undernourishment. Studies include diet and digestion, with related university experiments in Maine and Tennessee guiding public health guidance.
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University of Tennessee
Knoxville
Wrong Man and the Medicated Cigar Plot
A government department head and a nearby druggist are tied to a tale of medicated cigars used as relief for a catarrhal ailment. The piece also shares satirical dietary counsel urging the thin man to eat and sleep to gain weight and to move after meals to lose fat.
Swell Society Bans Perry Belmonts and Related Scandals
Reading room member Perry Belmont faces social ban as Belmonts divorce histories surface amid club rejections. Details recount Belmont and Sloane marriages, Paris trip, and a disputed cigars incident linked to a catarrh remedy. Also notes RS. Ida. M. von Claussen’s White House visit seeking a sanity commission.
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Perry Belmonts
Washington
Belmont
Chevy Chase Hunt Club
Perry Belmont
New York
Mr. Belmont
Sarah Whiting
Paris
New York Women Out After Envoy's Scalp
Mrs. Von Claussen accuses Mr. Graves of false statements about an invitation to present to King Oscar. She asserts she was invited and had proper credentials, citing Stockholm dispatch and a cable from President Stires. The row centers on a controversial open letter and perceived motives regarding gowns.
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RS. Ida
M. von Claussen
Stockholm
Sam
Graves
Oscar
Wiesbaden
White House
Loeb
State Department
von Claussen
Stires
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Uncle Sam
Mong
Swell Society
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