Special Classes for Special Children
Dr. Arnold Gesell of Yale concludes that 12 percent of public school pupils are mentally unusual and need special treatment. He cites a large Eastern city’s ungraded backward class as an example and urges municipal and county systems to create departments of child classification as part of social hygiene and early discovery of at risk children.
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Arnold Gesell
Yale University
Gresell
Humber
James Moriarity
Ong Yung
Arcangelo Christiano
Nishan Kalehadéarian
Gesell
Conservation meeting in Washington on water power ownership
Gifford Pinchot presented at a conservation meeting in Washington about concentrating ownership of water powers. He argued for safeguards and national oversight to prevent monopolies and ensure public benefit.
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Washington
Gifford Pinchot
La Follette Sees Roosevelt as Past Factor in Politics
Senator La Follette argues Roosevelt is a fading political factor while the GOP will realign on progressive lines. He says the Republican party has long been progressive but resists rash experiments that fail. He cites appeals to the people as demagogic yet stresses steady obligation to God and man.
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Department of Agriculture
Atlantic States
United States
Western Upland
Piedmont
Bureau
la Follette
Roosevelt
Republican Party
Buffalo Express
God
John A. Sleicher
Confession Turns on Marriage Snag in Sarcastic Quip
A husband ridicules his wife’s past misstep with a biting line while a brief American dialogue hints at marital strain and irony, illustrating a conflicted domestic moment.
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Aevin Bac
An Hibernianism. O Brien- what s a tin wedding
A brief Irish quip from the Boston Transcript noting the joke about a tin wedding meaning a marriage of many years. Casey explains a tin wedding as a union that has lasted years, reflecting humorous banter on married life.
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Casey
Boaton
New York Gossip on Love and Labor Beneath the City
In a New York style column the writer extols Manhattan’s romance and cites government inspectors finding more wireless love around skyscrapers. The piece notes a boom in dynamite currency via subway and contractor theft, and describes Frank L. Crawford’s underground banquet for Section 1 and 14 workers with a moving picture show, cabaret, and live band amid St. Paul’s graveyard excavation.
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New York
Manhattan
United States
Frank L. Crawford
Crawford
St. Paul’s Churchyard
Casey Jones
Thanksgiving. Old and New.
The article discusses the history of Thanksgiving as a U S holiday tracing its origins to ancient harvest festivals. It notes similar customs in Rome and Europe and discusses how Plymouth settlers began the celebration in 1621.
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Tabernacles
Rome
Europe
England
Plymouth
Fatal well duel over love in Brittany
Pierre Court and Jean Tanguy once friends, both in love with Marie Aubry, quarrel at a deep well. They flip a coin to decide who works below while the other must stay at the top, Pierre descends and is killed as Tanguy fights a moral struggle between mercy and murder.
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Pierre Court
Nantes
Jean Tanguy
Brittany
Jacques Mordaut
Marie Aubry
Chance
Pierre
Marie
Tanguy
Washington Letter on Diet and Home Canning Practices
A USDA expert in the Bureau of Plant Industry urges daily fruit and vegetable consumption to improve health and reduce reliance on laxatives. He advocates year round home canning to maintain affordable, nutritious supplies and cut winter costs, highlighting waste in vegetables and fruits and how local canning can save transportation expenses.
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Victor Elliott
Washington
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Plant Industry
Corn Drug ‘Store
Distan
Colorado
Maryland
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