Nature and nurture shape the child’s future growth
A discussion on heredity versus environment argues that heredity is the aggregate of past conditions and that environment can change a child’s development. It advocates raising children with nature, pleasant surroundings, balanced nourishment, and avoidance of fear, claiming this yields the best future adults and national character. It also describes patterns and sewing instructions for a young girl’s waist and skirt.
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Hich
A Beady for Rural Exodus
The article argues that railroads telegraph and especially the telephone and electric car shorten urban rural distance. It notes that small towns lack industrial opportunities and that establishing a single factory or workshop in each town could attract youth back, restoring population balance between city and country.
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Bureau of Statistics of Labor
Pattern No. 5547 Shirt-Waist in Mohair Fabric
This smart tailored shirt-waist uses brown mohair with matching stitching. A seamless yoke adds a wide-shouldered look, a popular style. Suitable materials include French flannel cashmere albatross taffeta linen and madras. The medium size uses three and a quarter yards of 36 inch material. Sizes 32 34 36 38 40 and 42 inches must fit.
Made in Baltimore Exposition Planned for Easter
A Made in Baltimore exposition is projected in the Monumental City for next Easter. The event will showcase the products of local box mills, shoji makers and factories, highlighting regional industry.
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Etout
March Bluff Invites Spring in Farmers' Voice Verse
Poem by J Vila Blake in Farmers' Voice exhorts March to yield to spring. The lines praise sunny heavens, rippling brooks, birds, buds, and verdure as signs of the new season.
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J. Vila Blake
Brilliant starts and slow finishes in hard work tale
Strickland W. Gillilan reflects on early genius and later decline in a piece stressing stamina and perseverance. Quick starts boast talent but lasting success comes from steady effort, pluck, and consistent practice rather than flashy beginnings.
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Strickland W. Gillilan
Success Magazine
The World Is Mighty Strange in Georgia Sermon Parody
A playful verse from the Atlanta Constitution critiques worldly greed and social hypocrisy. It portrays sinners seeking earthly gains while wisdom calls for repentance. The piece lampoons a preacher delivering gospel across a ferry and warns of judgment in a fiery gathering place.
How Bravely Now I Face the Marching Days
Poem fragment by Charles Hanson Towne contrasts youth and aging with marching days and a distant land of dreams. It blends reflections on youth, fear, sorrow, and the lure of a promised realm beyond life as printed in Metropolitan Magazine and the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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Charles Hanson Towne
Metropolitan Magazine
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
April’s Arrival in Verse and Ocean Imagery
A curated vintage pair of poems contrasts springtime verse with maritime prose. C G Blanden’s lines celebrate April’s renewal, while Warwick James Price paints a shipboard moment of blue sea and clear decks, the tapping of a key amid vast horizons.
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Warwick James Price
New Window Sash Combines Case ment and Sliding Features
A glass framing attachment for sash windows allows the glass frame to swing into the room for easy cleaning and full ventilation. Made of light steel with a flange contact and spring catch, it preserves light while maintaining traditional sash operation and height adjustability.
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Scientific American
Electric perfume particles studied by Baldit in France
A French researcher Mr. A Baldit reports that strong perfumes may reduce electric discharge from a charged body. Using an electrostatic balance and smoke, he observed a decrease in charge loss near odorous substances like vanilla, suggesting odor particles interact with atmospheric ions and may reveal the nature of perfume.
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A. Baldit
Cosmos
Paris
Literary Digest
Brooks Discovers First Comet of 1906
Dr. William R. Brooks of Smith Observatory Geneva New York and Hobart College astronomy professor discovers the year's first comet. It marks Brooks's twenty fifth such discovery with right ascension 16h 19m 30s and declination north 47°10'. The object shows moderate motion toward the northwest.
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William R. Brooks
Smith Observatory
Geneva
Hair as health record says Matsura discovery
Matsura, a Japanese physiologist, reports that hair like nails grows thinner during disease. The length of the thinner hair segments may indicate illness duration, with strongest contrasts in coarse-haired races.
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Matsura
Highest Kite Ascension at Lindenberg Prussia
A record kite ascent reached 21 100 feet in Lindenberg Prussia with six kites and 16 000 yards of wire. Surface temperature fell from 41 to 13 degrees below zero as wind at the highest point surged to 56 miles per hour. The event noted extreme cold and strong upper winds.
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Lindenberg
Prussia
England Sees Rise of Three-Wheeled Cars
Three wheeled automobiles gain popularity in England. The English Tri-Car system uses gasoline motors with seating configurations that place two passengers in the rear and one in front for the driver, or tandem seating as shown in the illustration.
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England
Leprosy Cure Report From Dr Dyer in New Orleans
Dr Isadore Dyer, New Orleans, says the second leper he fully cured has left the Lepers' home. The discharged patient is a woman whose name is kept confidential. The other recovered patient is a boy with early disease. Other patients under his treatment are improving.
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Isadore Dyer
New Orleans
Salt in the Ocean and Dead Sea Grain Density
The ocean holds about 2 189 grains of salt and solids per gallon while the Dead Sea contains roughly 19 700 grains per gallon.
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Dead Sea
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