Women at Tuskegee reveal industrial schooling and outreach
The Indianapolis Journal correspondent visits Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, describing Booker T. Washington's focus on industrial training alongside academics. He details the extensive campus with about forty four buildings, a student body around a thousand, and a large laundry run by work students. The piece highlights outdoor programs in poultry, beekeeping, horticulture, and sewing, plus Mrs. Washington's leadership and the Saturday Mothers’ Meetings and new model schools on plantations as part of extending education to Black communities.
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Indianapolis Journal
Tuskegee
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Great
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Washington
Hampton
Colored
Black Belt
Tuskegee Institute
In Memoriam and the Question of Immortality
D. P. Baldwin surveys Tennyson and Plato alongside the poem In Memoriam, arguing that Tennyson attempts to prove immortality without Christ's resurrection. He notes the few direct references to Jesus, traces Stanzas supporting faith, and contrasts Tennyson's mood swings with enduring lines of faith, ending with a cautious view of Tennyson as a Christian.
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Huxley
Eternity
Death
George Eliot
Children’s Hospital
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Locksley Hall
Spencer
D. P. Baldwin
The Heroine in Action and the New Romance
A review contrasts modern novels with older chivalric tales, arguing heroines in Parker Ouida and Major works steal the spotlight through action while traditional storytellers kept feats to knights. It likens modern heroines to Carrie Nation, noting female vigor clashes with feminine ideals and stage demands.
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New York Mail and Express
Gilbert Parker
Ouida
Maurice Thompson
Old Vincennes
Charles Major
Parker
Vila
Rosalind
Shakspeare
Avon
Nin Mark Twain
Connecticut
Carrie Nation
Four Serious Problems in the New Century
Francis Newton Thorpe outlines four core national challenges: suffrage and race, transportation, wealth distribution, and maintaining law and order. He argues morality and the protection of life and property are the ultimate tests, with the negro suffrage issue framed as a national, solvable problem.
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Francis Newton Thorpe
Did Not Please Husband New York Tribune Story
A husband senses trouble at home when his wife reveals she sold stories through a literary clearing house. She explains how the business scours editors, buys manuscripts, and shares proceeds, spurring renewed faith in writing despite her earlier refusals. The tale ends with the husband craving the mysterious woman, amid mounting domestic tension.
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New York Tribune
Lous
John
Litte
Life
New York
En Route Home The Speck On The Foam
A poem from Brazil Indiana by C B Greenough. It speaks of a voyage at sea with longing for home. The speaker imagines a motherly moan and a distant speck on the foam while hoping to return to port as lights appear in the distance.
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