Curious Mix of News Bits From A Parisian Scientist To London Fads
A Parisian scientist claims the secret of Ife is simple chemistry while a scare about peroxide blondes is debunked by jealous sisters. Whisky barrels in Cincinnati set a dangerous precedent and tariff talk prompts protective measures for young men. A New York milliner doubts suffragette fashion, and Persian appeals echo for deposement of the shah. Representative government ideas spread, with jokes on air travel, a French map of the skies, and English unlikely to supplant English as a world language. Pittsburg churches push pew rent abolition, boosting receipts and charity. An American postmaster trading his job for a yellow dog highlights ambition. Guatemala makes English compulsory in primary schools, and London crowds greet cowboys with war cries.
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Modern Ideals and the Money Quest for Young Men
A column argues that chasing money undermines idealism in business. It contrasts two paths: merchants and manufacturers driven by profit versus workers who value their craft as a privilege. The piece warns that money chasing harms long term happiness and calls idealism in business a difficult, often unsellable, asset.
College Is But Part of Life by Woodrow Wilson
College Is But Part of Life argues that university study should develop reasoning and discipline rather than social activity. It contends pleasure and business invert priorities, urging students to train the mind for real work and to recognize whether they truly possess the brains to be educated.
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Adam
The Fifth Wheel By VNA EREVORT ROBERTS
Dinner with Arkwright and wife Edith is shadowed by Edith confessing she loves Carlton not her husband. Arkwright, smugly thinking himself blind, faces his wife’s truth and the painful realization that Carlton is the man Edith truly loves. The scene ends with a quiet, unheroic confrontation and a fragile, unsettled peace.
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Dangers of Mixing Sexes in Public High Schools
Dr William Tee Howard argues that coeducation harms adolescent development and mental health. He says current methods ignore physiological changes, mislead parents and teachers, and that wiser nations limit mixed schooling at the high school level.
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William Tee Howard
Alfalfa and Cow Hay Boost Dairy Efficiency in Tennessee
Tennessee dairymen explore replacing part of concentrated feeds with alfalfa and cow pea hay to cut costs. Experiments show lower feed costs per ton and per hundredweight of milk, with silage as a palatable roughage, and suggest optimal substitutions for bran with alfalfa or cow pea hay.
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Fred Sin
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Profit in Making Butter at Home Advice for Dairymen
A transcribed tips column urges home butter production using a separator, noting a potential 25 percent return after creamery deductions. It discusses churning at home, proper handling, and selling higher quality butter, while stressing clean milking, cold storage, and avoidance of late feeding.
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