Better Qualities Are Found in the Small Families
The piece argues American families are smaller but stronger and better educated than in the past. It contrasts New England to the West and Pacific, noting city children are nurtured with hygiene, schooling, and athletics, while country families remain larger for practical labor and early self-sufficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
New England States
Middle West
Pacific Slope
Middle
Far West
The Proliferation of Professional Schools Observed
The piece argues America has too many professional schools and excess graduates. It warns of wasteful, overlapping programs lowering standards while praising adaptive graduates who shift to suitable work. It contrasts American versatility with European caste constraints.
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Germany
Carmot
America
Payne Dies at 60 After Six Hours Unconscious
Henry C. Payne postmaster general and Republican stalwart died at the Arlington hotel 6 10 PM after a week of heart trouble. President Roosevelt, last official visitor, spoke of him as the sweetest loyal man. Funeral plans set for St John s Episcopal in Washington and All Saints Episcopal in Milwaukee with private car transport.
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Washington
Henry C. Payne
United States
National Republican Committee
Arlington Hotel
Payne
Mr. Payne
President Roosevelt
Secretary Hay
Dr. Dunlap
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Cameron
Jamestown
N. Y
Winfield Cameron
Milwaukee
Charles L. Jones
Louise E. Jones
Whitney
Marie Barbieri
W. L. Mason
Alaskan Telegraph System Completed First American Submarine Cable
Gen. Greely reports Maj. Edgar Russell announcing the Burnside has buoyed the eastern cable end at Sitka harbor. Shore connections will take days before commercial service begins. The completion links Nome and Bering Strait regions with the United States via an all American route.
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Washington
Gen. Greely
Edgar Russell
Signal Corps
Burnside
Valdez
Alaska
Sitka Harbor
Nome
Bering Strait
United States
Diamonds stolen from New Orleans found in Huntington arrest
Huntington W Va Oct 4 Chief Davis after six months uncovered diamonds valued at 6500 stolen from Mrs Theodore A Pratt during Mardi Gras. Walter Pratt a nephew disappeared after Mardi Gras and surfaced in St Louis Cincinnati and Huntington before arrest awaiting aunt’s arrival. Oklahoma City Ok Oct 3 seven men are missing after eight rode wagon bridge collapse near Lexington Purcell following flood battle to save the bridge.
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Huntington
W. Va
Davis
Theodore A. Pratt
New Orleans
Piatt
Walter Piatt
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Walter Pratt
Oklahoma City
O. T
Lexington
Purcell
Theater of War Fights Near Port Arthur
Russian forces attack west shore Liaoti promontory near Pigeon Bay on September 28 and 29 while attempting to seize Japanese heavy guns. Japanese hold positions with severe casualties reported on both sides. Advices from Manchuria indicate continued close contact between Japanese and Russian outposts near Mukden.
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Che Foo
Liaoti
Kuropatkin
Port Arthur
Manchuria
Mukden
War News Flows From Far Fronts Quiet at Mukden
The war commission adjourned without new front news. An AP dispatch from Mukden at 10:30 reports only that all is quiet there. Nagasaki Telegram says fierce artillery clashes near Port Arthur with Japanese losses and a completed tunnel later used. Russians and Japanese suffering heavy casualties.
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St. Petersburg
War Commission
Associated Press
Mukden
London
Daily Telegraph
Nagasaki
Port Arthur
Kanagawa
Chinese bands fight with Japanese on Mukden front
Morning Post reports Chinese bandits organized as troops fight daily alongside Japanese on the west flank south of Sinmintin. Meanwhile Russia notes skirmishes on Kuropatkin’s southern front as Japanese probes hint at a possible advance within a week.
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London
Morning Post
Mukden
Sinmintin
Hun
St. Petersburg
Far East
Kuropatkin
Mistchenko
Wrecks Reported After Gale Near Treparsey and Port Au Port
St Johns reports the French fishing schooner Alliance wrecked at Treparsey with 15 crew. Georges Paul ashore at Port Au Port with a 36 hour survival in boats. fears of more wrecks as gale news arrives. Also guards battle robbers near Casa Grande with several guards killed and robbers wounded.
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St. Johns
N. F
Alliance
Treparsey
Georges Paul
Port Au Port
el Paso
Tex
Casa Grande
Mex
Bartholdi, Sculptor of Liberty Statue, Dies in Paris
Frederick Auguste Bartholdi, designer of the Statue of Liberty, died in Paris at his residence at age. The famed sculptor had been bedridden since May and succumbed to tuberculosis yesterday.
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Bartholdi
Paris
Frederick Auguste Bartholdi
New York Bay
Judge D Cady Herrick Albany Democrat and Legal Trailblazer
Judge D Cady Herrick born April 1847 in Esperance Schoharie county rose from classical schooling to Albany Law School. He studied under Gen Lyman Tremain and Judge Peckham, admitted 1868, built a notable career, served as district attorney 1880 83, later corporation counsel, and Supreme Court third department judge. He backed Bryan in 1896 and was seen as a gubernatorial candidate supported by Hill and Croker Murphy factions.
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Albany
N. Y
D. Cady Herrick
New York
Esperance
Schoharie County
Lyman Tremain
Peckham
Albany Law School
Hungerford & Hotaling
Herrick
Emil Lowenstein
John D. Weston
Thacher
Supreme Court
Third Department
Croker-Murphy
Fashoda Meeting Reveals British French Clash Over Flag
The Figaro prints Col. Marchand's account of his 1898 encounter with Lord Kitchener at Fashoda. The dialogue centers on who would plant the khedive's flag, British military supremacy, and the threat of war before they end with a whisky and soda.
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Paris
France
The
Figaro
Col. Marchand
Sirdar
Fashoda
Kitchener
Marchand
Eral
F&neland
A Girl's Opinion of Boys from a Child Essay
A Philadelphia Inquirer quotation presents a young writer’s playful view of boys and men. She compares girls to dolls and jokes about Eve, Adam, and the rest of creation, noting notions of gentleness and rest. The piece mixes humor with dated language about gender roles.
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God
Adam
Eve
Philadelphia Inquirer
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