Leadership Points Out Way to a Satisfying Country Life
Dr. L H Bailey of Cornell and chair of Roosevelt's country life commission urged rural leaders to rebuild open country societies not just farms. He highlighted teachers, clergy, farmers, and other leaders as essential to a permanent rural civilization and urged young men to answer the call.
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L. H. Bailey
Cornell University
N. Y
Roosevelt
Country Life Commission
Country Teacers’ Association of Illinois
University In Normal
Corn Belt
Denmark
Horace Plunkett
Ireland
Commission On Country Life
Duke of Durham recites chair tale in Brussels visit
In a Wasp anecdote recalled by a Durham tobacco magnate known as Uncle Wash Washington Duke, he recounts visiting Brussels and sitting in an armchair marked as the Duke of Wellington’s chair. A guard protests, Duke declares his American title, and the chair is moved.
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Washington Duke
Durham
North Carolina
Uncle Wash
Brussels
Duke of Wellington
Duke of
Reading Through a Book for Its Soul, The Atlantic
The Autocrat Oliver Wendell Holmes preferred reading through a book to reading within it, claiming the page or paragraph that left an impression becomes part of one’s intellectual furniture. The piece notes our reluctance to abandon begun books and urges opening in the thick of the text to reach the work’s soul.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Holmes
New England
the Atlantic
Gourt House Items and Real Estate Transfers Reported
Receipts show 4834.50 paid 4061.63 balance 193.47 applied on Mike Donovan estate insolvency. Minor Anna Eichmann final report balances due Anna 1429.94 Carl 1568.93 Joseph 1574.93. guardian discharged. Numerous real estate transfers listed with buyer, seller, tract details, and prices across Collinsville Maryville Le Claire Edwardsville and surrounding areas.
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Mike Donovan
Anna Eichmann
Anna
Carl
Joseph Eichmann
Anna Hiehmann
D. W. Garnet
Emma
Mersinger
C. J. Gonterman
Troy
Anna Lucas
Louis
Maryville
George W. Tiedmann
John Remlicus
Leclaire
Henry Schmidt
J. T. Lohane
Bond County
W. C. Hadley
Albert Ballard
Trastee
Montvue
Collinsville
Edith M. Tuxhorn
Alvena
J.W. Davis
M. G. Peers
BE. W. Collins ' Aid
James O'Neil
Mary A. O'Neil
Margaret Caples
SATIN VICTORIA'S PRESENCE
Few men were allowed in Queen Victoria's presence. Gladstone and Sir James Alexander Grant, M. D., of Ottawa, reportedly the only two who met that privilege. During a journey to England, the queen, not in good health, summoned the physician who, sitting beside her, heard her voice clearly. He apologized later, calling it un ceremonious but explained his seating.
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Queen Victoria
Gladstone
Sir James Alexander Grant
Ottawa
England
Royal Palace
Hank Slocum Seeks Beauty Treatment Gaffe
The croror quotes Hank Slocum asking a beauty doctor about treatment. The doctor replies with a small book claiming beauty is only skin deep. Hank reportedly took the treatment and was “skinned, al right,” a quip reflecting the scam.
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Hank Slocum
the Croror
Maddergrass
Hank
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