The Problem of Child Labor and Industrial Education
A discussion on how early work curtails education and lifelong prospects. It argues for restricting child labor, expanding industrial education, and aligning schooling with community needs and future wages. The piece cites Massachusetts findings and stresses public funding and parental patience for long term gains.
The Traveling Public Its Curious Frame of Mind
The essay divides humanity into the traveling public and real travelers. It describes the public as bold yet insecure, spending savings on discovery, seeing the wider world as a band of strangers, and turning travel into a form of freedom and renewal after confinement. It praises travel as the season’s active, restless pursuit.
Why One Woman Wants to Wade
A suffrage advocate argues for the vote as a weapon to protect women from oppression. She decries legal and social barriers that keep women from political power and notes that in the four states with suffrage women enjoy greater protection from male brutality and greed.
Virtue in Harmony in German Colony of Missouri
An essay extols clannishness and home cooperation in Gasconade county Missouri where German settlers built a self supporting community. They kept wealth local by patronizing nearby mills stores and trades and avoided public charges, showing prosperity through roads schools churches and cooperative commerce. The piece argues such cooperation could raise progress in other agricultural districts.
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Massachusetts
Greece
Rome
United States
Gasconade County
Missouri
St. Louis
Mfe
Mississippi Valley
West
Opportunities Near Home for Country Youths in Business
Sociologists note pessimism about rural youths_ chances yet urge focus on home town growth. As towns rise in the West and population booms, small firms flourish where natural advantages and local support attract manufacturing and commerce. Many leading businessmen once farm sons who started locally and prospered as towns progressed.
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United States
Common Sense Economics on Fairness and Local Markets
The author argues for fair treatment of neighbors and honest earnings for day laborers. It criticizes merchants for importing produce when nearby farmers offer comparable or cheaper potatoes, noting no benefit in paying a commission in such cases. The piece champions supporting local producers and fair local trade.
Local fruit surplus prompts idea for small drying plants
From fruit growing reports it is noted that crop rot results from poor transport and low city prices. The text urges local enterprise to start small drying and canning establishments to use surplus fruit and benefit the community.
Storekeepers urged to sell perishable goods at cost
A call urges shopkeepers to clear old stock and sell at actual cost to prevent items from becoming outdated or devalued, allowing neighbors to enjoy the lowest prices.
Merchants Emphasize Prices in Home Paper Ads
Advertisers stress listing prices to attract customers as readers seek cost information. The passage highlights the value of local papers as a medium for pricing and commerce in the community.
Local Wealth Depends on Within-District Dollar Circulation
A dollar circulated locally is worth more than fifty dollars in distant places. A district grows wealthy by keeping earnings earned locally or brought in through commerce.
Verses on exile longing and aging across time
A collage of poems by Martha G. D. Bianchi Lucy Larcom and McLandburgh Wilson. Exile longing for homeland contrasts with deserters left idle and the enduring blessing of shared faith and fellowship. Aging and memory are explored with humor and reverence as voices reflect on human striving.
Long-Sought Favor Outweighs Earned Acclaim
The verse argues that true value lies in hard won approval rather than readily given smiles. It contrasts unsolicited grace with wooing praise, claiming genuine pride comes from effort and perseverance.
Lovers Will Go On Loving In The Long Run
A meditation on time and continuity after death. The speaker envisions enduring spring and summer cycles, lovers continuing their affection, and recurring natural beauty as future generations read again the same words. A reflective verse from Charles Hanson Towne in Smart Set.
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Charles Hanson Towne
Learning to Have Done Without
The poem from the Baltimore Sun extols the ultimate triumph as learning to do without. It contrasts material or visible victories with the quiet discipline of restraint, contentment, and steadfast faith in love while carrying one’s duties and load.
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Baltimore Sun
My child and I poem from the Baltimore Sun
The excerpt presents a nostalgic verse about a parent and child enjoying daily adventures under varying weather. It describes walking together, finding glory beneath the sky, and a loving, hopeful tone about carefree days and dreams.
Attractive Spencer waist pattern for washable fabrics
Pattern No 5819 shows an unusually attractive blouse waist with front tucks a patch pocket and deep cuffs. Suitable fabrics include linen gingham French flannel pongee and madras. 32 to 44 inch bust sizes. Send 10 cents with size and pattern number to Pattern Department.
A Stylish Little Blouse Dress Pattern No 5826
Pattern No 5826 presents a chic blouse dress for girls in Scotch plaid gingham. It features a kilted plaited skirt attached to a body lining with a back closure, elbow sleeves with turned back cuffs, and a round collar. Mohair delaine challis linen and pique yield attractive results for sizes 6 8 10 and 12 years requiring four yards of 36 inch material for an eight year old.
Encores and Patience Dialogue Sparks Audience Response
A Yonkers Statesman remark notes a performer’s demand for encores after a kiss and Patrice confirms she screamed, revealing the crowd’s reaction to the staged moments.
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Patrice
Yonkers Statesman
Bones of Santa Claus bones lie in southern Italy
The article notes that the original Saint Nicholas bones rest in a southern Italian town after a nine century repose there. It recalls that he was buried in Myra for six centuries before the transfer.
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Santa Claus
Italy
St. Nicholas
Myra
Oregon farmer grafts apple stump with 23 varieties
An Oregon farmer reports a single apple stump successfully grafted with 23 varieties of fruit including peaches plums prunes and nuts. The experiment aims to diversify production and expand options on a single rootstock.
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Oregon
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