City Country Which? Public libraries aid industrial workers
The City Country column argues public libraries expand industrial education by offering affordable books on building, metalworking, textiles, chemistry, and design. They provide guidance, exhibitions, and lectures, helping workers advance beyond shop floor limits and link libraries to schools.
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Lincoln
Franklin
Boston Society of Printers
Boston Public Library
Massachusetts
Opportunities for Rural-Born Youth to Succeed Locally
D. M. Carr urges country boys to view the hometown as the kindergarten of success. Brains, industry, and honest effort turn small town work into city opportunity, with the country store as a training ground and merit as the reward.
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D. M. Carr
Keep Up Front to Succeed in Business
The piece urges readers to join the front ranks of progress in business, stressing intelligent, consistent work, current market awareness, and staying up to date. It warns against lagging behind and emphasizes front-line effort with the analogy of marching toward success.
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Step-Lively
Sounded Like It Mrs de Style Piano Practice
Dialogue notes a judge hearing Mrs de Style and her daughter practicing piano. Mention of Patrick Shure and a quip about music as food of love leads to a comment on the idea of food as steak. The scene centers on domestic interplay in a courtroom ambiance.
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de Style
Pleasures of Farm Life in a Modern Age
An essay celebrates the modernization of farming noting how machinery, electricity, and advances such as telephones and rural delivery shrink the rural town gap. Farmers now share information with city folk, value good roads and local improvements, and recognize the farm’s role in supporting nearby towns.
The Home Paper as Local Advertiser and Voice
A discussion on the role of the home newspaper in small towns as the main local news source and public opinion megaphone. It highlights the seller’s need for advertising revenue, the auction as a test of reach, and the link between successful merchants and newspaper patronage.
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John Jones
Power of Advertising in the Mail Order Era
The article argues advertising powers merchants against mail order rivals. It notes that well crafted ads draw local customers, while price claims by big houses justify profits. It suggests farmers in a town can be reached cheaply via home printers and joint local circulars to reduce costs.
Stand by Your Home Place and Home Trade
A call to support local products and home industry urges residents to buy goods made in their city or town. The message emphasizes keeping money local, aiding home labor, and resolving to stand by home trade and protection to help manufacturers produce better goods.
Verse Worth Reading by Edmund Clarence Stedman
A meditation on longing for a blessed land beyond mortal life. The speaker imagines serene hills, radiant vistas, and celestial beings. He questions endurance of earthly trials until reunion with a lost beloved in a peaceful afterlife.
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Edmund Clarence Stedman
Open Air Bakery Rhyme and Trail Poet Verses
A experimental lyric showcases a whimsical open air bakery dialogue where a childlike baker and a master reach a playful bargain over mud pies replacing real confections. The piece blends playful verse with a broader Appalachian travel mood and cast of rural images.
Who is the Sir Knocker in this old world
A verse from the Birmingham Age-Herald mocks a chronic critic who finds fault in everything. It laments a perpetual naysayer who ignores the good and focuses on the bad, suggesting life would continue its course even after such a figure passes away.
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Sir Knocker
Birmingham Age-Herald
Fragment of verse by Witter Bynner in American Mage zine
A short poem expresses a mother's plea for protection and comfort for her young daughter. The speaker asks Earth to share light and gentleness as she remembers the child, reflecting themes of care, memory, and loss.
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Earth
Witter Bynner
Magezine
Glinting Hillside Describes Desert Freedom and Wildness
Poem excerpt portrays sunlit hillsides turning canyons golden and roads lit with patches of light. It extols rugged wildness and the sense of a desert's last, unspoiled freedom as a God given, lazy landscape. Margrette Moore reflects in the Los Angeles Times.
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Margrette Moore
Los Angeles Times
Practical Fashions Paris Pattern No 2270 Child Dress
Pattern description for a turquoise blue delaine dress with full waist yoke tucks and short gathered skirt. Four sizes from two to five years. fabric yardage varies by width. three yards 27 inch, 1½ yards 36 inch, or 1½ yards 42 inch plus three yards of insertion. Send 10 cents to Pattern Editor with name address size and pattern number.
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Paris
Paris Pattern No 2069 Walking Skirt For All Figures
Pattern editor notes a ankle length walking skirt with inverted centerback plait and side-plaits. Three bias bands trim the design and it adapts to fabrics from 20 to 54 inches wide across seven sizes. Material and bias band yardages listed for waist 22 to 34 inches.
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Paris
Dame Fashion
New Roller Skate Aims To Tackle Rough Roads
Swiss inventor Mr Koller unveils a roller skate with a foot diameter wheel and foot suspended on hangers keeping it near the ground. Safety brakes prevent backward movement and the device is claimed usable on ordinary country roads.
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Koller
Missionary Contributions Rise in World Statistics
Rev. Dr. D. L. Leonard compiles foreign mission data showing total missionary society contributions last year at 22,459,680 dollars, up about 1.2 million from the prior year.
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D. L. Leonard
Foreign Missionary Statistics of the World
Missionary Societies
Foreign Missions
Another Hero and a Death by Own Action
A New York Herald report notes a man who died by his own action after leaving a letter claiming his wife urged him to end his life. The piece portrays him as a hero who did not believe in divorce despite the tragedy.
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New York Herald
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