Federal prison reform and labor plans outlined
The article details a large new Atlanta penitentiary complex with workshops and stone cutting facilities, proposed expansion at Fort Leavenworth, and McNeil Island usage. It explains boarding out convicts, parole prospects, good time allowances, and the evolving federal system including separate versus doubling up discipline, plus rare executions and a moonshiner case on a distant mountain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Ban
Fort Leaventh
National Treasury
New Atlanta
United States
Department of Justhat
Penitentiaries
Fort Leaven- Worth
McNeil Island
Washington State
Alaska
Washington
Uncle Sam
Atlanta
Fort Nenworth
Hines
Congress
Bich
Department of Justice
Omaha
Sam
District of Columbia
High Seas
Echoes of the Past concludes with frontier tales and market recollections
Excerpts recount a brutal frontier act by Sanford Hansdale, a dramatic Civil War era anecdote about a marksman named Feather, and memories of southern Indiana farm life. The narrator recalls prices for cows, eggs, corn, and wheat, plus early American travel to Cincinnati and social labels like General Polk. A social jab ends with a comic book agent exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phil
Sanford Hansdale
Sanford
Harrison
Taylor
Harry Hurst
Feather
Father
Indiana
Clark County
General Polk
Cincinnati
Reading for Children Through Fairy Tales and Adventure
A father reflects on guiding children’s reading from fairy tales and Bible narratives to adventures in Malory and Col Lindsay. He notes child humor, the need for strong heroic tales, and that kids gravitate to adult magazines over children's periodicals, preferring stories of life, bravery, and discovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Transcript
Andrew Lang
Alice In Wonderland
Gulliver
Munchausen
Israel
Jesus
Joseph
Daniel
David
Bul
Peter
Samson
Jezebel
Col. Lindsay
Alleghenies
Western Reserve
Marletta
Lindsay
Scientific American
Success
Dumas Earnings Show Endurance of Popular Fame
The French minister M Chaumie noted Dumas earned about 4,000,000 francs over forty years starting from 182 to 1869. His annual average was roughly 20,000 francs, yet public demand remained high for decades. The piece contrasts Dumas with contemporary novelists and questions long term literary staying power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
M. Chaumie
Dumas
Iis Pen
Hugh Conway
George du Maurier
Edward Bellamy
English publishers clash over American books in London letter
London publishers condemn Colonel Harvey remarks on U S publishing and note a dearth of engaging American books. They cite examples from New York tastemakers and praise Mr Hall Caine signing a new novel on Nonconformity. The Eternal City stage adaptation trims political content for a shorter edition, with Heinemann and Appleton distributing.
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London
Colonel Harvey
Jonel Harvey
United States
New York
America
Mr. Dooley
David Harum
England
London Mail
Hall Caine
Henry Arthur Jones
Richard le Gallienne
Zion Chapel
reader's taste shifts through eras in fiction
August Atlantic notes that realism and romance rise and fall with culture. Treasure Island proves popular across ages though not superior to Silas Lapham. Both realism and romance satisfy human hunger for fiction, which evolves but endures. The piece cites Wilkie Collins on three guiding precepts: make them laugh, cry, and wait.
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Atlantic
Howells
Treasure Island
Silas Lapham
Wilkie Collins
Dumas Birthday Jests Echo Chicago Quips
The Cleveland Plain Dealer riffs on Alexandre Dumas turning a hundred, quipping that even if alive he might face hoaxes of authorship. It compares Dumas to moderns Hobson and Funston, mocks sensational Sunday journals, and suggests he might be eclipsed by Mary McLane and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Alexandre Dumas
Chicago
Hobson
Funston
D’artagnan
Mary McLane
Novelists and plots ride out the changing tides
Mary B. Whiting surveys literary trends through the years with satire on modern fiction. She notes shifts from heroic devotion to fashionable heroines to detective omniscience, ending with a prediction that future plots will come not in units but boats.
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Mary B. Whiting
Academy
Literary Notes On Washington Burns And Other Authors
Literary notes discuss Booker T. Washington with Ip from Slavery in heavy circulation and Burns cottage at Alloway as a major British literary shrine visited by 2,523 people in a day. Rhoda Broughton plans a new autumn book titled Lavinia and is identified as Welsh, not English. The note ends with a musing on Edgar Poe’s merit.
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Booker T. Washington
Robert Burns
Alloway
Great Britain
Rhoda Broughton
Lavinia
British and American Authors Noted in Global Dispatches
The Washington Star notes Conan Doyle’s knighthood for his Poe detective work while Benjamin Kidd travels to South Africa for economic study and Evolutionary theory’s role in society. William Le Quex sails as British consul to San Marino as he nears finishing a San Marino history for 1903. Owen Wister’s literary path traces from Harvard to Philadelphia law to writing. Kipling values children’s stories, while Lord Acton’s library remains in Britain. Carnegie’s gift to Morley may require housing for its hundred thousand volumes, a burden on Elm Park Gardens.
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Washington Star
Poe
Conan Doyle
Benjamin Kidd
South Africa
Encyclopaedia Britannica
William le Quex
Harvard University
Wister
Philadelphia
Rudyard Kipling
New York Sun
Kipling
Lord Actin
Andrew Carnegie
John Morley
London Globe
Elm Park Gardens
Can You Name the Apostles
A New Orleans Times-Democrat column lists the twelve apostles: Simon Peter, Andrew, James son of Zebedee, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew the publican, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddeus, Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Simon
Peter
Andrew
James
Zebedee
John
Philip
Bartholomew
Thomas Matthew
Alpheus
Lubbeus
Thaddeus
Judas Iscariot
A Home Thrust in Comic Bathing Sult Dialogue
A humorous exchange features Miss Pert objecting to entering a watch and a bathing suit making a fellow look 50 ridiculous, while Reggy protests. The banter turns on appearance and social conventions in a playful mood.
Sleeping Car Misery
A satirical New York Evening Sun piece lampoons sleeping car misery. It details chaotic beds, crowded berths, stifling warmth, intrusive conversations, snoring, and travel fatigue, recalling the narrator’s misanthropic view of travelers’ discomfort and urging reform of the sleeping car experience.
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Biy
Marshall
N. C
John Elfreth Watkins, JR
White House
Eben
Damas
Talk
Malory
King Arthur
Mr. Caine
George
Navy
Reseda
Castor
Cadet
Royal
Royal and Marine
Marine
Apostles
States Court
New York Evening Sun
Calicut
Niagera
C. W. Kriel
Monument Place
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