The Club of Seventy Families and City Life Reform
An essay recounts a self helping club of seventy families formed to ease city isolation. It formed before the war with a simple ten line constitution based on mutual aid and the Golden Rule. It grew through informal meetings, Sunday gatherings, and neighborhood services fostering intimacy, recreation, and support across diverse households.
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Binghams
Omaha
Ashmont Club
Milton
George Jones
Singing School
Albert
Jamaica Plain
Rhodora
Howard Everett Hale
Miss Jane Brownlee Announces National Ethics Teaching Tour
Miss Jane Brownlee, Toledo public school teacher, has quit her Lagrange position to lecture nationwide on her ethics system. She explains the body and mind as two servitors guiding behavior, then assigns a month by month virtues program with kindness first, spanning September to June, emphasizing practical acts toward parents, teachers, siblings, playmates, and animals.
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Jane Brownlee
Toledo
United States
New England
Pacific Coast
Miss Brownlee
Lagrange School
Fra
Amusement as Moral Agency in Progressive Thought
A fragment argues amusement acts as a moral force, contrasting Puritan bans on pastime with a modern view that entertainment can uplift society. It suggests that science and social progress support this stance, though the text remains incomplete and unclear in places.
Marriage Means Escape From Ennui in Domestic Life
The Delineator essay argues marriage can be a battlefield yet a well planned domestic campaign brings harmony. It praises shared rituals like evening conversations over the day’s events, warns against monastic withdrawal from outside interests, and urges wives to maintain reading and conversation beyond housework.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Helen Corinne Hambidge
Allah
Alice
Diet and Cookery and Appetite in Urban Life
The piece argues nutrition and cooking influence vice and crime, linking poor meals to intemperance in city districts. It discusses breakfast and dinner habits, noting bland meals leave hunger that drives appetite for alcohol and lower-quality foods, suggesting improvements could curb drinking urges.
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Apostles of
Gooding
Old beams for organ pipes discussed by city builder
A St. Louis Globe-Democrat note explains that organ pipes benefit from wood aged in old buildings. White pine from century old beams, dried and knot free, yields rich tones. European organs aged 100 to 300 years show mellowness. American builders rely on seasoning but not old beams.
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Germany
England
Alwo
Peter Oe
Er Tory
Europe
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Despoiling the Fields by River Erosion Threatens Farmland
A Technical World essay warns that inland waterways of America, led by the Mississippi valley, are eroding farmland at an alarming rate. Dr. W J McGee estimates over a billion tons of soil lost annually, with shifting river bars and muddy floods reducing farm area and stripping soil salts, endangering future prosperity and land ownership.
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America
W. J. McGee
Mississippi Valley
A Woman's Heroism in Folsom Flood Tragic Toll
A bold tale from Folsom New Mexico tells of Mrs H J Rooke a telephone operator who chose to warn subscribers by telephone as flood waters approached her valley. Her body was found downstream twelve miles with the headset still on, and more than forty families credit her with saving their lives.
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St. Louis
J. Rooke
Folsom
N. M
Baltimore Sun
The Dramatic Capital of New York Theaters
A study shows millions invested in New York theater as managers accept about five percent risk. The Times notes Times Square dominance, rising uptown outposts, and the huge scale of production costs, advertising, and weekly expenses.
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Union Square
Times Square
Dramatic Center
New York City
New York Times
Union Square Theater
Star Theater
Academy of Music
Mansfield
Triumph
Moving Pictures
Tony Pastor
Fourteenth Street
Rialto
Majestic
Circle
Times Square Belt
United States
New York
Theater arrangement guarantees home if play fails draws
The arrangement provides that the theater owner is guaranteed against a poor run, while a profitable show that plays to capacity earns about $2000 a night, with the theater receiving 60 percent of the larger returns.
Fads and Fashions Spur Parisian Directoire Styles
Autumn fashion advances from Paris showcase Directoire ideas with wide variety of forms and details. The article counsels that most women can find a flattering style, noting tall figures have natural advantages while all should dress becomingly.
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Paris
Directoire Influence Shapes Fall and Winter Fashion
Last week imports showcased Directoire styled costumes modeled on Paris designs. Broad chevrons in two tone colors dominate, with fabrics praised for quality and color though many women will avoid the loud looks. Prefer plain breada cloth, single tone cheviot or serge, or subtle checks and stripes for wear.
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Paris
Directoire
Ornamental coats feel the chill as fashion blooms
Fashion reports the craze for fancy coats persists despite cooler weather. Current coats are lace and satin trimmed, mainly ornamental, with plans to expand into velvet and satin. A smart old blue messaline outfit features a pelerine-like coat of two long bands meeting at midsection, stitched straps, and ornamental buttons.
Handsome satin wrap with empire back and pointed fronts
A description of an elegant fashion wrap among importations. Satin or lustrous silk lining, plain smooth shoulders, fronts meet low over the bust then curve to long side points slashed at the back. Empire back hangs rabot full. Sleeves are tucked and tapering, with little armside gathering.
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New York
Met
Bishop Potter
Charity Organization Society
Coney Islands
Atlantic City
Fashion advances in wool cloth finishes and ornate trims
Modern manufacturers impart a satin like finish to wool cloth, giving broadcloths a new sheen and soft look for winter. Diagonal woolen fabrics in two tone colors, velvet or braid trims, and lavish embroideries mark the season. Coats grow longer, waistcoats gain prominence, and Paris imports showcase Watteau silk coats and delicate net trims.
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Paris
Directoire influences in broadcloth coats and suits
The piece describes directoire style dominating broadcloth coats and suits with short waist, narrower shoulders, smaller sleeves set into the arm, and fronts cut square or sloping. It notes an incrorable collar, variable revers, and occasional satin sashes or neckties, reflecting late 18th century-inspired tailoring.
Suit coats with braided contrast for season style
The plain material of the skirt is used for suit coats but with an allover braiding for a contrasting effect. The coats are described as extremely smart for a costume where a refined appearance is desired.
Jacket Styles With Braids And Bright Satins
Some jackets feature long light fitting sleeves or Japanese designs while others are braiding all over. Bright satins and silks braided with soutache form handsome coats usable with multiple gowns. Plain satin coats may be edged with shirted puffs pairing well with cutaway coats and crossover waistcoats of soft silk.
Fashion notes on collars from Paris and local trends
The piece reviews summer collar fashion fading with cooler weather. It notes arches of Dutch and Puritan styles, widening Paris neck rubes, various materials like crepe lisse lace and chiffon, and describes the Parisian collarette with batiste folds and a taffeta scarf finish.
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Paris
Idle gold in banks bill eyed by House of Commons
The House of Commons read Mr Bottomley’s bill to require banks to report unclaimed balances and valuables held for six years or more. Banks would surrender such assets to the state and public trustee, uncovering vast dormant wealth amid dead, missing, or relocated account holders.
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House of Commons
Bottomley
United Kingdom
Ee Steel Ae Mei Iyi En Neenterest
London
London Mail
Royal Chickens of Japan Capture Global Wonder
L J De Courcey of Yokohama praises the royal family bred chickens as the world s most beautiful. Roosters boast tails up to twenty feet, blue tails buff bodies and a white neck ring. A pair once sold to a wealthy Englishman for 1000 dollars to export them. rumor says the Mikado plans to halt breeding, risking disappearance.
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Japan
L. J. de Courcey
Yokohama
Baltimore
Opening Mesopotamia to Trade Amid River Route Growth
The Bagdad railway advances eastward while the Euphrates delta under Daira Sanieh development expands cultivation and river trade. As trade opens and farming grows, demand for mechanical appliances rises, with oil pumps already sought at Basra and Bagdad.
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Mesopotamia
Bagdad
Euphrates
Basra
A Cowboy's Breakfast at Abilene
Topeka capitalist T. I. Sweet stopped in Abilene at the early city hotel for breakfast. He asked for eggs and received a bowl of a dozen hard boiled eggs, all staring back at him. The amused waitress explained it was the regular cowboy breakfast.
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T. I. Sweet
Topeka
Abilene
Mr. Sweet
Sweet
Kansas City Journal
Rural Revelry Reflections on England’s Festive Decline
Millgate Monthly laments a bad day for England as rural revelry fades. It argues old English sports feasts and pageants once bound communities in fellowship, offering amusement and education amid social change.
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England
Millgate Monthly
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Teaching Children Ethics
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