Untainted wealth debate fuels praise for Rockefeller and Carnegie
A defense of wealth and philanthropy argues that tainted money cries reflect socialist bias. The author defends John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, claiming foresight and philanthropy justify wealth, predicting a future reversal in public opinion and remembrance of benefactors.
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John D. Rockefeller
Mr. Rockefeller
Chicago
Rockefeller’s
Carnegie
America
Rockefeller
Abou Ben Adhem
Advantages of Home for Rearing Children
An argument favors detached houses for growing families highlighting suburban growth, transit access, and the home’s individuality. It counters Roosevelt’s critique of flats as a threat to family life, noting flats suit many without young children and that suburbs support natural child development.
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Roosevelt
Perils of a Career in Wall Street
The piece warns that 95 percent of those entering Wall Street ventures fail and urges entering on a legitimate business basis. It argues success requires extraordinary aptitude for studying, analyzing, and judging industrial indicators, and questions whether the game is worth the candle even in favorable conditions.
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Wall Street
Punch
Wedding gown petticoats with Valenciennes lace edging trend
The Chicago Tribune notes ornate lingerie petticoats replace silk undergarments for wedding gowns and tea gowns. Circular flounces in fine batiste, Valenciennes lace edging, and Normandie lace are highlighted. Bargains this season let brides save on materials while buying ready made petticoats.
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Valenciennes
Chicago Tribune
TOWELING FOR ART WORK
A Good Housekeeping note explains turning heavy Russian crash into a sofa pillow for drawing rooms. Use dull colors and coarser weave, with darning stitches in mercerized cottons or rope silks. The stone gray fabric resists washing and can outlast trends, though crash may fade from vogue.
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Europe
The Season's Fashions
A Philadelphia Press note reviews long tight fitting coats with minimal seams and front darts, describing a circular skirt ending four inches above the hem. It highlights a conspicuous new top coat for street wear, weather, and evening use in heavy Scotch tweed with black and white checks, long circular cut, and leather trim.
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Philadelphia Press
Muffins From Warm Milk Yeast Batter
Warm a quart of milk with a quarter pound of butter and salt then add yeast to make a batter. Stir in two eggs well beaten and a cup of yeast. Do not beat after adding yeast. Let rise until light and bake in rings on a griddle. If using yeast cakes dissolve half a cake in half a cup water.
Apple fritters with apple slices in batter
Instructions describe cutting a dozen apples into slices, dipping them in batter, and frying in hot lard and butter. Fritters are fried brown, drained briefly, and served dusted with powdered sugar and nutmeg.
Preventing Colds by Treating Each Cold as Infectious
A doctor says many colds could be avoided if each cold is seen as infectious. A patient should sleep alone possibly in a separate room. Items used by the sick person must not be shared and kissing should be strictly forbidden.
Eye protection tip for sewing under artificial light
A threading technique notes eye strain from glare on the sewing machine plate. Remedy: cover the plate briefly with a dark cloth to reduce reflection and ease threading in dim lighting.
Timing and method for rose cuttings in frames
The article explains best timing and steps for rose cuttings. It describes using a garden frame with a six inch deep loam self-mold sand mix, preparing four inch cuttings from half ripened shoots, planting with an inch above soil, spacing, and air control. It covers winter protection and spring lifting for transplanting. It notes similar results without a frame are possible but less reliable.
Duties of a Wife in a Melodic Era
An exhortation outlines a wife’s duties after marriage including prudent use of her husband’s funds, maintaining a clean orderly home, ensuring servants perform their tasks, properly raising and feeding children, avoiding debt, providing quality meals, and dressing suitably, with the wife as the home’s wise head guiding all.
Fall trimmings parade atop fashion notes from Brooklyn Eagle
The Brooklyn Eagle details fall fashion trims including silk piping on gowns and bodices, lace shoulderettes, colored ribbons on sleeves and yokes, narrow velvet piping, lace chemisettes and yokes, double lace frills, chiffon velvet girdles, lace epaulettes, big shoulder puffs, ribbon waist bands tied in rosettes, diamond shaped silk appliques, and matching hip and waist yokes enhancing lace and button detailing.
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Eton
Brooklyn Eagle
One Color Scheme for Uniforms Prescribed
A regulation enforces a single color scheme for costumes from head to foot. Brown coats cannot accompany black skirts or blue blouses with brown skirts. If shades do not match, all attire should be one color, allowing four tones of one color but limiting two colors to sparing use.
Nature and human appeal in the vacation mood
The piece contrasts post vacation lethargy with a pull toward nature and simple living. It cites Mary Wilkins Freeman's The Slip of the Leash to illustrate choosing kinship with earth over family. It praises nature stories and rural cultivation while noting urban admiration for authentic humanity.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Niagara
Mont Blanc
Sounding by Telephone in German Navy
The German navy uses telephone based depth sounding. Sound waves are emitted and reflect from the sea bottom. timing of dispatch and return, with known sound velocity, yields depth. The recorder must be highly sensitive to provide meaningful data.
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Deutsches Offizierblatt
Baby camels as pets in South Africa
The article notes baby camels as pets in South Africa, cared for by attendants who nurse and tend them and even carry them. It describes the young camel as awkward with a long neck and wobbly legs, weighing only about the size of a dog in the early months.
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South Africa
Noted Negro Physician Leads New England Electro-Therapeutics
Dr Marcus Fitsherbert-Wheatland of Newport Rhode Island, a colored physician, is recognized as New England's leading specialist in electro-therapeutics and the X ray. In early life he was a shoemaker.
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Marcus Fitsherbert-Wheatland
Newport, R. L
New England
Market Prices Across Cities on October 18 1905
New York reports wheat No 2 red 31 to 31 1 2 cents corn No 2 60 4 cents oats clipped white 36 to 36 4 cents hogs Yorkers 5 65 5 85. Cleveland shows Minnesota spring patent flour 4 75 to 5 50 wheat No 2 red 86 to 86 5 cents corn No 3 yellow 60 4 cents oats No 2 white 32 cents. Toledo cash wheat 64 4 to 64 4 cents corn 57 4 cents oats 3 1/2 cents. East Buffalo prime cattle 5 25 to 5 50 sheep wethers 5 25 to 5 50 lambs 7 00 to 7 90. Pittsburg cattle choice steers 5 95 to 6 65 hogs heavy 5 70 to 5 80.
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New York
Cleveland
Minnesota
York State
East Buffalo
Pittsburg
Pink Pills Claim Nerve Recovery From Weak Nerves
Mansfield woman credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with restoring nerve function after years of numb hands and pain. She reports improved sleep and lasting health, saying pills improved blood flow and cured various nervous ailments. The ad notes the pills are sold by druggists and by Dr Williams Medicine Co.
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O. S. Blackston
North
Bowman Street
Mansfield
Ohio
Dr. Williams
Facts About Korea Across Society and Land
A historical digest paints Korea as poor and aristocracy dominated yet fertile and scenic. It notes a climate of harsh taxation and corruption, with officials buying offices and justice bought and sold. It also mentions Seoul as mean, sorcery tied to civic power, and public decorum imposed on women.
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Seoul
Italy
France
Korea
Coffee Neuralgia Restored Health With Postum Change
A woman suffering nervous neuralgia and prostration from long term coffee use reports full recovery after switching to Postum Food Coffee. She states eight months without headaches or neuralgia and resumes all her work, regaining lost flesh and happiness. Names of endorsing friends are provided by Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan. Ten days off coffee with Postum proves the remedy.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Postum
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