Newspaper Peril and Power in Public Life
The piece argues newspapers curb crime by informing and shaping public morals. It notes readers, including immigrants, grasp cartoon and image language, while print content educates on jail realities and public risk. It contends cartoons influence opinion more than speeches and that readership determines a publication’s impact.
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Russia
America
Emphasize the Glories of Peace in Education
A historical essay argues for teaching history from a peaceable perspective. It urges honoring scientists like Pasteur and philanthropists like Carnegie over war leaders, and valuing humanitarian acts and nursing as heroic equivalents to battlefield service.
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Pasteur
Napoleon
Carnegie
Promises and Promises How Promises Endure
The author warns men against making too many promises and urges doing what one can reliably. A promise well kept builds a reputation, while endless promises resemble borrowing money and fail to achieve outcomes. The piece argues choosing one’s best work, whether racing horses or teaching, matters for personal integrity and financial prudence. It ends noting the costly trap of poverty and the value of small savings building to future security.
Merchants and Farmers Jointly Build Local Produce Company
Town merchants and farmers form a producer buying and storage cooperative. The plan creates a cold storage facility, provides a butter and egg renovator, and issues due bills in place of cash. Farmers and merchants become stockholders, share profits, and keep trade local.
French Prize For Reliable Sign Of Death Discovery
A French researcher wins for a death sign test using subcutaneous fluorescein. If blood circulates, the skin turns yellow within hours, signaling ongoing circulation and death assessment.
Wise Parson Dares Couple to Seek Common Sense
A dialogue shows a Parson rebuking a couple who accepted a dare to marry. He counters with a dare to return home and cultivate common sense, reflecting a cautionary tone about impulsive choices.
Iowa farmer urges home merchants to advertise prices in papers
A Des Moines Capitol reader argues mail order firms win rural business by showing prices and advertising at home. He says local merchants should publish prices in home papers and speak up in ads to compete, noting homes see mail catalogs more often than store catalogs. He insists merchants can often beat mail order on price and urges open in-home talks.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Bankers urged to favor home trade over mail order
West bankers are urged to back local merchants to protect town prosperity and bank deposits. The piece argues mail order and catalogue shopping drains money from the town, harming farmers, laborers, and the local economy while bankers, though conservative, should promote home patronage to boost community commerce and deposits.
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Smith
Chicago
Duchess Seeks Lady's Maid Replies With Witty Quip
A duchess interviews a prospective ladys maid. After assessing her, the duchess asks if she can dress her hair, and the applicant boasts it takes only half an hour. The duchess retorts that with the rest of the morning left, she wonders what she will do with herself.
Leadin' authors anchor mule-water tale from Bill ville
A Bill ville farmer quips that in their settlement they call all the literary types leadin authors because they are handy at leading mules to water, a quip published by the Constitution of Atlanta.
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Billville
Alanta
The Future of the American Federation of Labor
Secretary Frank Morrison argues the AFL is an ideal form of labor unity, urging organized unions and relentless education to pressure capital. He notes capital’s ignorance of workers’ rights and the need to press for higher wages and shorter hours through organized action.
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American Federation of Labor
Frank Morrison
Great Labor Organization
American Federation
United States
Organizing for Education and Emancipation in Labor
Washington reports that U S industries endured fewer strikes in 1905 than any year since 1892 as the American Federation of Labor pushes education and united action. The speech urges patient progress, organization as education, and a future where every man and woman gains schooling, better pay, and social reforms.
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American Federation of Labor
Washington
United States
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