Engagement Revealed On Lake After Rescue
Daisy Leonard and Jack Rawlinson become engaged after a mountain lake rescue when Jack saves a boy from drowning. Daisy admits she is engaged to Jack as he recovers, and she confirms the engagement to him at the crucial moment, sealing their renewed commitment.
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Prisoner Dodges Wordplay Before Police Magistrate
A Detroit Tribune snippet shows a back and forth where a prisoner refuses to answer, prompting the magistrate to add ten days to the sentence. The exchange highlights stubbornness and wit in a local court scene.
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Detroit Tribune
Need Watching Dr Price Price Vince Vacatio
Dr Price Vince expresses urgent need for a vacation but cannot take it due to patient load and need for constant nursing care. Wise notes patients’ dependency and comments on others.
A Municipal Dilemma on Public Utilities and Engineering Limits
R A Fessenden argues that cities lack capacity to operate most engineering undertakings. Only certain projects suit municipal control. overreach risks capital loss, higher rates, and stagnation. Depreciation and obsolescence threaten finances, driving manufacturers away and worsening municipal debt.
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R. A. Fessenden
Socialist Economic Evolutionism and Public Ownership
The passage argues that every recognized socialist economist from Marx to Ferri accepts public ownership under capitalism as a stepping stone to full socialism. It contends that when socialism gains political power, it will inherit the assets of previous capitalists, with every dollar of property wrested into public hands contributing to the socialist program.
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Marx
Ferri
Socialist Party
Socialist party handover amid uneasy power succession
The passage from the International Socialist Review hints at the party’s struggle for control as it contemplates the transition of leadership. It suggests tensions and unsettled authority during the shift in power within the movement.
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Socialist Party
International Socialist Review
Government’s Proper Role in Fair Business and Trade
A quotation emphasizes government should safeguard individuals and ensure fair business, keeping the game above board so everyone gets a square deal. It rejects government overreach and warns against sitting in the game itself.
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Leslie M, Shaw
Editorial Flings and Economic Quips Across Papers
A compilation of pungent quotes from major papers. The Atlanta Constitution jokes about shoe price hikes tied to abolishing railroad passes. The Baltimore Sun notes Baltimore as a candy center. The New York World compares Yale salaries to football coaches. The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune mocks Rockefeller living within his income. The Los Angeles Times observes rich men dying to keep heirs and lawyers at bay.
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Baltimore
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New York World
Rockefeller
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Los Angeles Times
Automobile repair tale from Lippincott's Magazine
A double intender and a bursted wheel drive to a garage for quick fixes. The chauffeur groans and swears while the great machine, cured, thanks the skilled leech. He says to the mechanic, You make me tired.
Bridge Lovers Debate Role of Punch in Society
A playful exchange on bridge culture contrasts those who love bridge with others who ignore card games. The conversation hints at social expectations and personal tastes without naming specific events or dates.
Love Will Find a Way in a Comic Leaflet
A playful scene unfolds as a girl announces Claude has arrived not by door but via an airship landing through a roof trapdoor. The father, nursing a goufy foot, reacts to Claude’s unconventional entry and a note of promised not to return.
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Boston Transcript
A Tongue Twister From a Training Ship Tale
A sister of a sailor on St. Mary's training ship misstates a departure scene in a humorous transposition of initial letters. Her intended phrase about the ship being towed out by a tug and George waving in the bow becomes a muddled line about a tugged out by a load and George wept caving in the bow.
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Rabbit family tragedy rumor explained by mother in New Orleans
In a Times-Democrat column a mother defuses a child’s question about a fatal shooting. She explains the gunman aimed elsewhere. the gun kicked, causing a man to sit on another and kill him, a grim anecdote about a hunter incident.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Just Enough to Spoll Her Ragtime Confusion
A humorous exchange shows Grabbitall noting his daughter is trained just enough to ruin ragtime and mispronounce enthusiasm for the classics, in a quip from the Chicago Record-Herald.
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Chicago Record-Herald
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