Reforming vagrants through Belgian and Swiss models in New York
An essay argues the current American jail system fails to deter vagrancy and rehabilitate offenders. It contrasts harsh county jails with Belgium’s depot de mendicite and Switzerland’s compulsory colonies, urging New York to adopt a farm colony model with definite sentences, steady labor, and stronger reform efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Park Bench
C. F. Lewis
Charity Organization Society
New York Times
National Prison Congress
Sant
Germany
Merxplas
Belgium
Switzerland
New York State
Depot de Mendicite
Brussels
Merxpius
Merxplan
Witzwyl
United States
Ines
Witewyt
Reading Charitable Societies
New York City
New York
Woman Sporting Editor in Colorado Paper
The Denver Chronicle News boasts a young woman sporting editor as a distinctive feature. The piece notes a rise in women employed in daily newspapers in roles from compositors to editors, highlighting the Trinkaed Evening Chronicle as notable for this advancement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Cal
Trinkaed
Cal) Evening Chronicle News
United States
Ina Eloise Young Sporting Editor Beats Male Rivals
Ina Eloise Young, 24, sporting editor of the Chronicle-News, describes how she won the job by proving adept at scoring and covering baseball and other sports. She learned baseball from her brother, developed her own scoring method, and has since covered football, horse racing, and mining-camp events, noting limited local horse races lately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chronicle- News
Ina Eloise Young
Eoen
University of Colorado
M'Kinley Hut From Ireland Exhibition Piece
London reports the cottage birthplace of McKinley’s grandfather is shown at the Franco British exposition after being brought from Dervock County Antrim. Dramatic banter and a joke about a stage elevation appear in the piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ancestor
London
Dervock
County Antrim
Lewis Single Binder Cigars and a Train Car Moment
An ad touts Lewis Single Binder cigars as superior with claims of no substitute and urges buyers to ask dealers to try them. A humorous Youth’s Companion anecdote from a passenger train near Oshkosh depicts an elderly matron asking a boy for the station name after a sneeze by a brakeman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis
Lewis Factory
Peoria
Ill
Wisconsin
Bobby
Oshkosh
Moroccos Harem Faces Rivalary of Decorated Looks
Fragmented text describes Moroccan harem women with facial decorations elongating eyebrows to ears and chin dots. Also cites sunless complexions from being indoors. Mentions Ball Blue detergent and various unrelated ad-like phrases about birthdays and wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morocco
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Ala
Jack London
Erie Copunty
Charles R. Henderson
University of Chicago
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Massachusetts
Centrale de
Edmond Kelly
Seo
Colorado
Girl Hay
Scorse
LY Ina Eldine Young
M'Kinley Hut
Ireland
McKinley
Bangs
Palmer Corntosse
Shises Lal Tm
Arch Bereet
Poissripi
Winslow
Dodds
Maxdlla Hee Bits Eer
Carters Iver Pills
Smal
L Guar
WELZ
Frye “Merlth
Paxton
Paxtine
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