American Minds Will Solve Great Problems of Electricity
Sir William Preece asserts American ingenuity will address key electrical challenges. He cites safer power transmission beyond the third rail, overhead London experiments, Pupin’s telephony advances, tungsten lighting prospects, and rapid telegraph improvement as signs of swift American progress in the electric field.
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Iee
Sir William Preece
Electrical Authority
Great Britain
London
New York Central
Rethinking School Vacations For Modern Life
The piece argues summer breaks strain pupils and families, urging vacations be used as valuable adjuncts to the school year. It notes shifts in work and life, the dangers of uncontrolled leisure, and calls for distributing learning across seasons to ease curriculum pressure and teach time use.
Ripe Years and Broader Sympathies Across Time
The piece reflects on aging at seventy noting enhanced experience and judgment, broader compassion for others, continued interest in world affairs, and a stronger desire to do good. It emphasizes valuing genuine character over status, affection for children, acceptance of mortality, and hope for a Christian reunion after death.
Building Up Business: Assisting Small Manufacturers Toward Success
A plan to boost town economies by forming a promoting company with local capital to fund and test small manufacturing enterprises. The Swedish Aid model in Illinois shows loans repaid from profits, avoiding bonuses and stock speculation. The approach uses a holding company, shared facilities, and a board to locate, fund, and scale small firms.
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Illinois
Equity in Business and the Golden Rule in Trade
The article argues for fair dealing in commerce, urging merchants to avoid exorbitant profits and customers to support honest trades. It links equity to community well being, noting towns suffer when merchants overreach and shoppers distrust local shops, favoring fair profits and mutual respect.
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Gautama
General Lee and His Sons Through A Model Father's Letters
This piece recalls Gen. Robert E. Lee's parenting style and a poignant New Hampshire boy story. It notes Lee's Arlington walk with his son imitating his steps and excerpts from letters written from Fort Hamilton in 1846 urging duty courage and kindness, including a tale of a boy who helped his dying father and still drove him home.
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Robert E. Lee
Arlington
Lee
Fort Hamilton
N. Y
New Hampshire
Curtis
Harry
Gen. Lee
Hero of Three Wars Amos Martin Remains Active Veteran
Amos Martin, born March 1798 in Campbellton Scotland, is described as possibly the world’s oldest veteran to have served in three wars. He fought in the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Civil War, was wounded once at Bull Run, and later recalled the memory of his kicking musket. He lives near Princeton, Pennsylvania, draws a $48 monthly pension, and remains remarkably well for a man nearing eleven decades.
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Amos Martin
Chicago Journal
Cambellton
Scotland
Bull Run
One Hundredth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
Canada
Philadelphia
Washington
Martin
Mexico
Twenty-fourth
United States Volunteers
Taylor
Ohio River
Pittsburg
St. Louis
Lawrence
Kan
Texas
James Island
Fort Sumter
Beaver County
Newcastle
Lawrence County
Princeton
No Good to Town: A Harsh Look at Local Complacency
The article condemns habitual loafers who waste time in town stores and bemoan dull living. It argues such men harm themselves and their community, urging action and hustle to improve conditions and opportunities for all.
Town improvements and the value of public spaces
The article argues that clean storefronts and active newspapers reflect town prosperity. It urges building a public hall and parks, noting private or civic effort can profitably invest in small towns. It warns parks require early planning to prevent future trouble and promote recreation.
Stand Up for Your Home Paper Power
A civic note extols the country press as the local mirror and mighty shaper of public opinion. It argues home papers best convey local intelligence and reflect town progress, urging residents to support and strengthen their local publications.
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Country Press
Drummer Boy of Shiloh: Col John L Clem’s Civil War Rise
Colonel John Lincoln Clem, aged under 12 at Chickamauga, rose from drummer boy to sergeant in the Twenty-second Michigan and later served as General Thomas’s orderly. Now in San Francisco, he is senior quartermaster colonel and may succeed Humphrey upon retirement.
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John Lincoln Clem
San Francisco
Clem
Grant
Rosecrans
Thomas
Twenty-second
Michigan Regiment
Chickamauga
Shiloh
Quartermaster’s Department
Regular Army
Humphrey
American Rendezvous Opens for Traveling Americans in London
The American Rendezvous in London welcomes traveling Americans and colonial visitors on temporary stays, serving as the latest form of club in the city.
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London
Londn
Lincoln visits Pickett home in ruined Richmond tale
The day after Richmond fell, Abraham Lincoln visits Gen. Pickett’s home with a guard. He asks for George Pickett, learns the general is away, and is recognized by Mrs Pickett as the Confederate leader’s old friend. The baby bride proffers her child to the president.
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Richmond
Lincoln
Gen. Pickett
President Lincoln
George Pickett
Confederacy
Tam
Abraham Lincoln
George
George Piskett
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Pupin
Columbia
United States
Equity IN Business
General Lee
Hero OF
Pickett
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