Affinities and the Sacred Bond Beyond Divorce Laws
The piece argues true love rests on affinities two souls share a complete unity. It condemns lax marriage laws and trial marriages, urging longer courtships and marriages based on spiritual compatibility, health, and unwavering fidelity. It calls for marriage law reform to reduce divorce need.
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Jore
Should Wives Save Salaries and Equal Household Thrift
An essay argues that wives should gain personal salaries to avoid financial enslavement and enable independence. It critiques the cost of housekeeping, calls for equal earnings, and urges wives to share financial power to transform family dynamics and honor women as equals rather than drudges.
OUR AMERICAN KINGS NEED FOR FARMER-LED TOWN BUILDING
An essay argues farmers are wealth producers for the nation and should invest earnings locally to grow towns. It warns that sending money to distant centers concentrates capital, depresses local farms, raises taxes, and empowers distant financiers while urging farmers to support home industries and new local enterprises.
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United States
Cities and Towns Come From Environment and Enterprise
The article argues towns grow where natural advantages and employment exist. It cites Fall River textiles and Providence jewelry, notes cities depend on surrounding regions for trade, and warns towns decay when business vanishes. It urges readers to help their home town become a great city through enterprise.
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Fall River
Providence
R. I
Union
United States
Theater as a powerful driver of civic life
The theater acts as a monumental engine in civilization with up to 250000 New York theatergoers nightly. Its influence cannot be neutral and will be judged as either good or bad. The speaker asserts that, overall, theater lessons tend toward lasting positive impact.
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New York
Trade's Magnet in Town Newspapers
A western merchant boosted local trade by heavy advertising in the town paper. He published prices and goods descriptions on half pages, lifting his business from fourth to first in the town within three months. The strategy drew trade from near cities and complemented by city department store ads.
A Town Convenience to All Classes in Union
The piece argues merchants and farmers laborers rely on each other. It emphasizes harmony between merchants and rural workers as key to progress in active agricultural towns. The writer notes merchants depend on farmers and laborers, and vice versa, urging united effort.
HOME ENTERPRISES PROMOTE LOCAL INDUSTRY GAINS
The article urges expanding small local enterprises in U S cities and towns. It argues population growth and new foreign markets support home manufacturing, reduces imports of raw materials, and strengthens local wages by keeping profits and employment at home. It suggests milling cereals locally to capture profits and reduce freight costs.
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United States
Colored Gentility in the Happy Valley
A travel portrait of Warm Springs in the Alleghenies, describing a unique Black community. The narrator recalls locals' speech, humor, and customs, weddings and baptisms at Shake-Ray, and the refined society surrounding the Warm Springs hotel run by Carolina sisters. The piece highlights pride, language, and social hierarchy among residents and visitors.
Beware of Peddlers Warns Against Wanderer Dealers
The piece cautions against dealing with itinerant traders traveling through the country selling furniture books and other items. It warns that such goods usually carry enormous profits and a portion of payments leaves the local economy.
Rural telephones boost farm markets and news access
The Telephone. Rural telephones are a boon to the farmers. They can keep in close touch with the markets, and all the doings of the outside world. One the uses that the 'phone can be well put to, is the getting of late market news from the home town. There are very few farmers who cannot use the telephone with profit during the marketing season.
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Alleghany Mountains
Old Dominion
Happy Valley
Markets Reflect Agriculture Strength Across Towns
The Home Market notes that well kept agricultural towns sustain a steady egg and produce market keeping prices stable, while poorer towns face weak markets and uneven prices.
Valley anecdote of two old female leaders in a mountain gap
A narrator recalls a humorous encounter in a peaceful valley involving two elderly black female autocrats. The dispute arose from mistruths spoken by Black residents in the Gap, complicating relations with Sister Jane and her sister.
Warm Springs Bathhouse Tale of Two Characters and Spring Bloom
The piece describes two prominent figures at Warm Springs thermal baths, Jackson and Fanny Sheppard, noting Jackson as a longtime gout expert and occult devotee and Sheppard as a striking, assertive figure who claims a president’s encounter and a missionary son in Africa. The surrounding landscape is praised for its springtime beauty with locust blossoms, apple blooms, lilacs, and vivid mountain flora, ending with a poetic reflection on the blue isles of heaven.
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Jackson
Fanny Shepard
McKinley
Africa
Royal Geographical Society
London
Queen Victoria
Windsor Castle
William Shepard
Warm Springs
Heaven
The Childs Skin
The article notes children react faster to skin treatments and absorbents can be dangerous. It warns against strong poisons like carbolic acid or mercury on large areas, unless well diluted. It highlights that maternal or nurse observations of eruption onset are more reliable than patient reports.
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London Hospital
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