The Messenger Boy Trade A Chicago Office View
The A D T manager reflects on messenger life three months on average, noting the bicycle revolutionized the field, the increase in wages up to twenty three dollars, and how boys prove brave and mischievous on their routes. He recalls training, camaraderie, and the dangers of street traffic as they deliver messages around town.
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Washington Street
Keystone Avenue
Seventeenth
Ashland Avenue
Journal Office
Union Station
Denison House
Prospect Street
Brightwood
Garcia
Illinois Street
Man Guards Sleep by Watching Gum Chewing Woman in Church
An Atchison man claims it is impossible to sleep in church if a woman beside him is chewing gum. He asserts that watching her keeps him awake and alert during services.
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Atchison Globe
Atchison
Two High Schools Schooling Graduation Activities at Shortridge and Manual Training
Shortridge High School and Manual Training High School prepare diplomas and June 12 and June 10 commencements with 130 names on the Shortridge roll and about 125 likely graduates. The Annual, art exhibits, and senior speeches highlight activities, with English's Opera House hosting ceremonies and a $150 gym fund gift from the senior class.
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Shortridge High School
Manual Training High School
Board of Education
English
Opera House
Ernest Sims
Mises Ruth Woodsmall
Roy Blossom
Louise Pugh
Mary Ritter
Emmett Hall
Ernest M. Sims
Mary A. Pratt
Gladys H. Nehrbas
Jean S. Rawls
Carl Hetherington
Nellie Wheeler
Mary Quinn
Shortridge
Pratt Institute
Brooklyn
Lilla Ketcham
Ruth Ritter
Mary Pratt
Paul Edwards
Mark Dennis
Margaret Mahoney
Mayme White
A. Glenn Diddle
Harry Hunt
Charles Jennings
Florence Wills
Thomas Sherrin
Elizabeth Everitt
Fred Davidson
Herbert Moore
Sylvanus Kingsley
Louisville
Mooney High School
Franklin, Tenn
Indiana Belle
F. Krull M. T. H
Rey
Mr. Haines
Sancpspeye Sap Espaes
Charles R. Williams
Mennett
John Holliday
Grace Hunter
John Hotz
West Point
Two War Memorials at Harvard Hall in Cambridge
Memorial Day in Cambridge centers on Memorial Hall at Harvard, a building completed in 1878 to honor graduates who fought for the Union. The transept bears 136 names from Harvard and affiliated schools, with Latin inscriptions praising patriotism, sacrifice, and civic virtue.
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Cambridge
Mass
Memorial Hall
Harvard
Union
Humphrey Ward
Eleanor
St. Peter's
Rome
Law
Scientific
Divinity School
Astronomical Observatory
New England
United States
Republic
The Extravagant Empress Josephine's Wardrobe Excess
A Tarbell sketch of Josephine shows a life dominated by dress. Her daily pleasures centered on personal decoration with jewels silks laces cashmeres and gowns. She bought hundreds of items yearly overspending her modest toilet budget and gifting or discarding pieces at will. Her jewel collection rivaled Europe’s, with a million-dollar crown jewels stash and a perpetual buying and trading habit that continued through her reign.
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Josephine
Senate
Ducrest
Mason
Europe
Orient
Italy
Arenes
Hortense
Soldiers Field Dedication to War Dead at Harvard Campus
A Charles River monument near Soldiers Field honors fallen Union soldiers named on the inscription. Henry Lee Higginson funded the dedication. An Emerson quatrain titled Sacrifice accompanies the shaft beside a elm, linking student sport with duty to the state.
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Charles River
University
Soldiers’ Field
Charles Russell
Edward Barry Dalton Stephen George Perkins
James Jackson Lowell
Robert Gould Shaw
Henry Lee Higginson
Emerson
Punishment Beneficial in Boys Youths Say D Measure Helps
This excerpt from Everybody's Magazine notes a survey where many respondents credit punishment and plain talk with positive effects. A “dressing down” is valued, as tenderness fails for certain youths. Conscience is weak before nine, and unsolicited preaching does little good. Influence peaks between ages ten and fifteen, second only to home.
Mystery Bill Posters Meet Defeat by Night Watchman
A yearlong dispute over illegal billboards on federal property ends when janitors led by night watchman William McClellan trap two posterists. After extensive official efforts failed, the janitors’ organized action culminates in a successful seizure of the offenders near the post office, with Captain McClellan anticipating official praise.
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United States
Post Office
Bill
A. A. Young
Customs
Federal
Mr. Young
Wishard
Messrs. la Follette
Nichola
United Sates
United States Circuit Court
Mr. Butler
William McClellan
United States Marshal's Office
Jehoshap At
William
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Waledletonyeciis
Leland Lowe
Carmen
Bizet Orchestra
G. W. Sloan
Losey
Helen D. Ballard
Roy Bodine
Jessie Burt
Frances M. Cahill
Edwin Denzler
Katherine Dearinger
Herbert L. Eckhouse
George Hays Eckhouse
Ada M. Fink
Olive Katherynne Funk
Nettie E. Gilray
Anna Griffin
Rena Gwin
Joseph Gelman
Earl R. Hunt
Harry E. Helm
Grace King
Walter Krull
John Thaiman, Jr
Anton Vonnegut
Nelle Wales
Bertha M. Seitz
Clifford H. Seiden
Olive Elizabeth Staples
Thomas C. Shirk
James Tandy
Ralph J. Teeter
Anna Tacoma
Annie Cornelia Tacoma
Frederic L. Weisenheimer
Mamie White
Lorenz A. Wachstetter
Clarence Yocum
Fred D. Yeaton
Sons of Harvard
Napoleon
Everybody's Magazine
Bill Board Mystery
Bill McLellan
Post Office Guard
Uncle Sam
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