Influence of Organized Labor in the Postal Service
The article outlines that the postal workers' union is not an industrial or strike-driven body. It acts as a benevolent social group and advocates for fair treatment, grievance remedies, and improved conditions. It stresses government acceptance, no demand for action, and aims to make the postal service more attractive through faithful service.
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Association of
Organization of Labor
The Public as a New Idol and Personal Duty
The piece critiques the worship of the Public, Society, and the Twentieth Century, arguing true greatness arises from individual effort. It urges citizens to measure personal contributions to invention, art, law, and liberty, warning that an era is only great if individuals build it.
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Voltaire
Stratford
Arno
State of Ignorance and the Value of Knowing It
A reflective essay argues that admitting ignorance is rare yet valuable. It contrasts honest ignorance with feigned erudition, warns against hurried judgments of knowledge, and urges thoughtful inquiry rather than snap conclusions about what one does not know.
Home Patronage Guards Rural Town Prosperity
D. M. Carr argues that home patronage prevents wealth drain to distant towns via mail order. He contends that supporting local labor, stores, and services builds up towns, boosts real estate values, and fortifies schools and churches while limiting dangerous trusts and industrial concentrations.
Schools and Churches as Pillars of Civic Life
The article extols the U S public school system and religious liberty, arguing that strong towns with active schools and churches foster higher education, moral development, and good citizenship. It notes rural districts rely on nearby towns for higher education and stresses community investment in education and church life.
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United States
Overlooked Opportunities in Farm Produce Trusts
The 1900 census shows U S output of eggs 1 293 662 433 dozen butter over 1 000 000 000 pounds and cheese about 20 000 000 pounds per year. Town merchants can consolidate farmer sales into exclusive produce shops to fetch better prices and boost local farm prosperity.
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United States
Egg and
Good Roads Movement Promises Big Rural Savings
The article extols the good roads movement as a major recent initiative. It argues improved highways save American farmers time and horse wear, estimating about 80 million dollars a year nationwide and 50 to 100 dollars saved per farmer. It notes towns with agriculture support road upgrades and foresees extensive legislative action to build and maintain highways over the next dozen years.
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United States
Women Find Work In Typewriter Age
The invention of the typewriter has opened employment to more than 1,000,000 women, expanding job opportunities and reshaping labor in the evolving workplace.
Twilight in the Rockies Poem by Warren EK Comstock
Verse in a reflective mountain scene describes sunset over peaks and a flowing torrent. The speaker finds a parable in granite and darkness as moonbeams weave in canyon halls while an eagle nests above and night wind sings.
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Warren EK
Comstock
Birthday Devices Sigh for Eternal Youth in New York Sun
A reflective verse set recalls aging birthdays and the desire for lasting devices to renew youth. The piece contrasts laments of aging with romantic longing, interweaving lines about love and resilience across the poem by Ada Foster Murray with imagery of Shelley's Mercy and laments from William J. Lampton.
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William J. Lampton
New York Sun
Ada Foster Murray
New York
My Dearie Brings Light In Storms
A verse from the Atlanta Constitution poetically expresses comfort and enduring affection. A speaker describes a beloved who brightens the darkest day, offers warmth during storms, and pledges lasting love as shadows gather.
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Atlanta Constitution
Wedding Gown Reflections and Poem Passages
A fragment from Mary Street Whitten in Housekeeper recalls how a bride sews her dreams into her wedding dress with dainty threads and quiet hope. The second piece, James O Tyron in New York Sun, presents a dramatic lament of love's masquerade and a traitor's remorse set beside a childlike fable about a rainy cloud and sunny sky.
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Mary Street Whitten
James O. Tyron
New York Sun
Three Little Songs Buried and Rising
Edith Summers writes in Smart Set of three songs hidden in earth and fear. The first two songs speak of love and hope rising toward a dayspring, while the third remains buried as the dead cannot rise.
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Edith Summers
Meeting Eccentricities Echo in Singers Tale
A humorous scene at a church gathering features a deacon shouting for a gospel-fly to fly while the preacher hopes for wakefulness in the dim light. The deacon wishes for healing yet admits he must close his eyes as the hymn proceeds, illustrating stubborn habit and comic faith.
Ten Years of Pain Ends for Napoleon Woman
Mrs. Margaret Emmerich of Clinton St Napoleon Ohio suffered kidney trouble for fifteen years with back pain poor eyesight and dizzy spells. Ten years of housework denial and two years indoors ended with quick relief and cure from Doan's Kidney Pills. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Margaret Emmerich
Clinton St
Napoleon, C
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Rule of Cornish Chapels Prompted by a Seating Rule
A Cornish chapel visitor and his fiancée were told to leave their pew just as services started. The steward publicly admonished them with a statement that sweethearts were not allowed to sit together in the chapel. The incident highlights strict seating rules based on gender and propriety in local chapels.
Milk adulteration scare in small western town
A man buys a quart of milk, discovers water adulteration, posts bills around town offering to drop charges if given another quart. The next day three quart cans appear on his doorstep as three local dairymen are named in the tale.
Fresh Fuel
A marital spat subsides to muttered exchanges and a caged canary considers singing again. The wife boasts of family regard for her intelligence, while the husband retorts with a biting remark. The quarrel then flares anew with renewed energy.
Bald Spot Quietly Undermines Man’s Conceit
A girl comments that modest baldness softens male vanity as they stroll behind a hat with a small bare half moon. She points to John’s pricey baldness fix that fails to impress and explains a careless glance toward his vulnerability makes him retreat.
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John
Old Belfry Curfew Still Rings at Sunset in Bury
A centuries old curfew bell in the parish church at Bury England is still rung each sunset. The function survives as a local tradition with no change in practice, while the town reflects on the saying that men bear what they must and call it happiness in their own way.
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Bury
England
Goethe
Grape-Nuts Nourishment Claims Draw Reader Support
Food advertising extols Grape-Nuts as yielding more usable nourishment per pound than meat or bread. Claims include natural preparation and conversion to a readily absorbed sugar form, with testimonials and a nod to health balance.
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Moman
Wellville
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