Copyright Gain Unjust to Author and His Posterity
A speaker argues that current copyright terms unjustly deprive authors and families as books often fail to prosper after renewal. He cites statistics on new books and survivability, warns against limiting literary duration, and notes publishers profit at authors’ expense while many works do not endure.
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Republic
America
Brunkard Advocates Probation for Drunkards in London Courts
The piece discusses Judge Pollard's probation method for drunkenness, which suspends sentences for non hopeless cases and requires weekly reports to a probation officer. It argues keeping breadwinners at work and stresses teaching temperance and morality to children in schools to curb intemperance long term.
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London
William I. Pollard
St. Louis
Pollard
House of Commons
A Gord’s Opinion of Woman
A Gord argues that women’s liberty leads to license. He says he supports gender equality in theory but warns that extending the vote could make women a political nuisance, asserting influence over men as a means of kedwin oversight.
Menace to All by Centralizing Wealth in Mail Order Houses
A 1906 piece argues mail order giants from Chicago drain funds from small towns, hindering home growth. It cites 1905 Chicago firms at about 80 million dollars, warns of wealth concentration, calls for local spending, and predicts hardship in hard times unless smaller communities retain profits locally.
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Alfred C. Clark
Chicago
Secretive merchant near marbiehead solves vanished funds
In Marbiehead Mass a late hour discovery at a merchant’s store reveals a missing confidential society. The owner notes cash and bank books are correct yet realizes the business partner has eloped with his wife, solving the puzzle of the missing funds.
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Marbiehead
Mass
Piano Prodigy Quips Prompted by Wife’s Jibe
A humorous exchange unfolds as a wife teases David for always sitting at the piano and never playing. David retorts that others cannot play either while he claims mastery, revealing playful bravado about musical ability.
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David
The Hound Columbus A Prisoner of Fate
The poem contrasts a youth bold and adventurous with a man who ends crushed by life’s toils and chained by fate. The speaker recalls a mariner’s daring and the gods brew of life, then laments the captive existence under dull toil and sordid gains. The contrast underscores lost glory and constrained aspiration.
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Columbus
Theodosia Garrison
American Magazine
Tramping Along the Trail Poem by James Leddy Pequignot
A poetic piece by James Leddy Pequignot in Arecreation celebrates wandering through woodland and wold. It portrays tramping as pleasure not hardship and describes independence, cooking, guiding, and marking paths with tree blazes.
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James Leddy Pequignot
Arecreation
The Clock Will Tick It Away
The poem by Nixon Waterman appears in Success Magazine as a reflection on time, joy, and memory. It contrasts fleeting pleasures with lasting praise and notes that every night yields to a new day despite sorrow.
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Nixon Waterman
Success Magazine
The Snowiest Hand and the Two Hands Compared
A poem fragment contrasts two hands, one white and delicate, a hand of gentleness and jewelry, with another strong and busy hand marked by labor. It notes May blue veins and inner palm-work, a scornful look, and the balance of gentleness and effort between Mildred McNeal Sweeney's voice and the magazine's context.
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Mildred
McNeal Sweeney
Success Magazine
Roses and memory sting the heart in autumn poem
A poem fragment by Thomas Wood Stevens in Everybody's recalls roses, soft air, twilight sounds, and memories that sting as night returns. Bees of memory gather on time's fadeless flower, and the speaker questions how to face darkness after deep emotional lines.
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Thomas Wood Stevens
Everybody's Magazine
Afterward and the Endless Pageant of Summer
Poem notes that life continues after death with lovers persisting and seasons renewing. It imagines April blooms, June returns, and birds gathering as the earth remains green. The speaker reflects that words and love endure beyond personal memory and mortality.
The Man Who Spoke Loud With Much Complaint
A Washington Star verse about a man who always voices disapproval and rarely praises others. His pompous manner and sharp critiques attract listeners though his logic is odd, while people accept his loud judgment as wit.
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Washington Star
Quick Cure Claim For Cold With Laxative Tablet
An old ad asserts a one day cold cure using Bromo Quinine tablets with a money back offer if it fails. Each box bears the signature of E. Boyes and sells for 25 cents.
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E. Boy3
Noted Quote and Medical Ad for Dr Kline Cure
An advertisement proclaims a remedy by Dr R H Kline for nervous diseases and St Vitus Dance. It promotes a free bottle and treatise from 931 Arch St Philadelphia with a bold marketing tone.
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St. Vitus
Kline
R. H. Kline
Arch St
Philadelphia
Pythagoras Quote on Choice and Custom
A maxim notes that the best path may be rough at first yet custom makes it easy and agreeable, attributed to Pythagoras. It emphasizes perseverance shaping habit and skill.
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Pythagoras
Dr Williams Pink Pills Claim Cure After Grip Decline
Mrs Jennie Cowan of West Bay City Michigan credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with curing her severe grip after a long decline. She describes restored color strength and relief from neuralgia and rheumatism. The pills claim to build up the blood and fight disease germs, sold widely for 50 cents a box or six for 2 50 from Schenectady New York publishers.
Love's Dreams in a Trusting Heart
A short lyric notes love as a heavenly dream with bliss and joy in a trusting heart. It contrasts calm content with Anger and imagines paradise on earth when lovers attain perfect happiness. Martha Shepard Lippincott is cited as the author.
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Fair Paradise
Martha Shepard Lippincott
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