Temperance in Russia and the Narodny Dom movement
A historical overview of temperance committees across Russia and Moscow's Narodny Dom network. Describes government role, aims to provide recreation, watch alcohol sales, spread anti alcohol info, and shelter alcoholists. Notes Moscow's large Narodny Dom system and St Petersburg's parallel efforts, including theaters and hotels for the working class, plus a pledge section and a Chicago murder remorse tale.
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Russia
Moscow
Narodny Doms
St. Petersburg
Nicholas II
Fragmentary Prohibition on Marriage in Waldeck Germany
The text describes an old rule in Waldeck Germany prohibiting a marriage for an individual with a habit of overdrinking. It suggests that proof of reform is required for eligibility to receive a license at a future time.
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Germany
Waldeck
Conflict of Ideas Over Chaperone Plan Aboard New York Visit
Two Western girls visiting the East clash with their hostess over social propriety. The plan to attend a theater and supper is approved by the girls who insist on being chaperoned. They arrange that each will chaperon the other, defusing the host's worry with humor.
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East
New York
Ethel
Edison's Readiness to Finish Every Book He Starts
The story portrays Thomas A. Ellison, nicknamed Edison, as ever finishing a book before resting. His wife distracts him with The Count of Monte Cristo, and he reads it in minutes. After dawn, the prior problem returns, driving him to lab work for 36 consecutive hours without food or sleep, as reported by the New York Times.
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Thomas A. Ellison
Count of Monte Cristo
Mrs. Edison
Dumas
New York Times
Vindictive Woman Forces Struggle on Rush Hour Car
A crowded city car becomes a scene of petty warfare as a tall angry woman blocks seating and jabs shoppers while moving from Fourteenth to Seventieth street. A shrinking man pleads to sit, but the punctilious rider insists she can stand longer, provoking uneasy smiles and an ominous homeward mood.
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Fourteenth
Seventieth Street
New York Press
Divines Tree Natural Grafts In Indian Flora At Colombo
The article describes divine trees in India with two species grafted together. A notable example in Colombo, Ceylon shows a slender borassus palm growing from the heart of a banyan. The trunks are fused about 50 units strong, and only force could separate them.
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India
Colombo
Ceylon
Hives of the World and Global Bee Production
The largest bee farm near Becton, Canada spans four acres and, in favorable years, yields at least 75,900 pounds of honey from 19,000,000 bees. Countries report hive counts and honey output including Greece 30,000 hives, Denmark 90,000, the Netherlands 40,000, France 950,000, Germany 4,450,000, Austria 558,000, and the United States 2,800,000 hives producing 41,000,000 pounds annually. The record single-season honey haul from one hive was 1,000 pounds in Texas.
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Becton
Canada
Greece
Denmark
The
Netherlands
France
Germany
Austria
United States
Texas
Villon's Last Verse In Swain's Verse Echoes
John D. Swain reprises Villon in a Critic excerpt detailing a dying man's confessions of regrets. The narrative frames a medieval poet’s last verse found beside a buried abbey, listing sins and trifles from abbey plunder to loves and misdeeds. The piece preserves names like Captain and thief, a bishop, and a maiden in Picardy, concluding with remorse and endurance in dying.
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Francois Villon
Villon
Willon
Hell
John D. Swain
The
Critic
Hand Decoration and the Gentle Art of Home Craft
The piece extols simple hand decoration as a cherished craft amid mechanized reproduction. It recalls personal memories of wall adornments that uplift mood, cites William Ellery Channing on modest elegance, and notes years of placing these preachment style sermonettes in homes with water color hangings and encouraging text for daily uplift.
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William Ellery Channing
Nikko Destruction Dims Japan's Sacred Beauty
Special correspondence notes Nikko once famed for sacred bridges temples and Shogun lore now beset by a landslide from Mount Nantalisan rainfall. The flood and slide wiped out hundreds of homes and trees, severed temples, and may never restore the site’s former religious and artistic grandeur for Japanese and foreign visitors.
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Tokio
Japan
Nikko
Power Put Into Music Reveals Instrument Efficiency
Eminent investigator Dr. Webster at Clark University measured mechanical efficiency of wind and string instruments using a phone pure tone apparatus and phonometer. Input energy tracked by air pressure, wind instrument air flow, and bow velocity. preliminary results for cornet and violin show efficiency between 1 in 1000 and 1 in 100. A single horsepowert capable sound would require 5 to 10 million cornets.
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Webster
Clark University
New York
All Alike Widow Debates Insurance Payment
A widow visits an insurance office to claim her late husband’s policy. The clerk, expressing sympathy, is stunned when she retorts that men are always sorry when a poor woman gets a little money. Also notes New Zealand omnibus service proposal for eight towns.
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Nicholas
St Petersburg
Tauride Gardens
Petrowsky Park
Michel Manego
Beng Gut
James R. Dunn
D.D
National Temperance Jociety
Mary. Flynn
Chicago Avenue
Chicago
Pita
Aoe Pe EY
Edison
John C. Swain
Kate
Enid
Stark
Picardy
Enterprise
New Zealand
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