The Man and the Mass
William Vincent Brags argues that civilization stems from individual liberty and nonaggression. He cites Spencer on equal freedom and self responsibility, saying governments must protect rights without coercion, or progress stalls. Civilization grows as voluntary improvement spreads through a free society. May 1594, St Louis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis Browdiie
Rat Hiralk
Cosroe
Eelf Dotta
Lines Society
Herbert Spencer
Spencer
al- Vathemeot
Gove
Henerlenew
Throwek
Wiliol
Hey
Mr. Spences
Egercion
Teishard
Mr. Spencer
Uae
Jeaden
Usrom
Willliam Vincest Brags
St. Louis
Staies in Samoa Carried Water Up Two Story Rooms
In Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson influenced natives with European work methods. A new house boy, awed by the mansion, carried water up stairs by a bucket to the bedrooms, only to discover stairs were the usual route. He laughed with joy for days. The ad touts Hood's Sarsaparilla and Hood's Pruta as superior remedies.
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Samoa
Robert Louis Stevenson
Stacy
Hearst
Borderland Tales Of Outlaws And Oddities In Indian Territory
A diarist travels by train through the Indian Territory from Arkansas City to Fort Smith, describing outriders, poverty, and a failed Chicago land deal. He recalls encounters with a weary family, two Indians, and a tall white girl, while detailing depictions of desperadoes, deputy marshals, and peculiar frontier life. He laments betrayal by a Chicago land speculator and reflects on land schemes, weather, and frontier anecdotes.
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Arkansas City
Winfield
Chicago
Ciociboati
Indiana
Valparaiso
Kan
Indian Territory
Winfield, Kay
Fort Smith
Cherokee Strip
United States
Marshhie
Cass County
Coffeyville
Anderson
Lo’eh
Mr. Anderton
Kansas
Walt Whitman
Abe
Arkansas
Woman Cuts Off Mustache in Lindenberg Frolic
A woman at Lindenberg joked and cut a famous local figure's mustache during a frolic. The injured party demanded damages and the case went before the local police.
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Lindenberg
New American Surety Building Rising at Broadway and Pine
Work has begun on a new American Surety Company building at the southeast corner of Broadway and Pine Street in New York. Architect Bruce Price won the design after competing with eighteen others, delivering a structure noted for its unique classical design.
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Cventyatery Bakeing
Broadway
Pine Street
New York
American Surety Company
Bruce Price
Chicago
Lis Great
Monadnock and American Surety Building Rise Over Chicago
A survey notes Chicago leading in tall buildings with the Monadnock’s towering design and the American Surety Building, twenty stories in the Greek style with a steel frame and freproof curtain walls. Expected costs run between 40,000 and 1,000,000 dollars, with completion targeted for next year. The piece highlights columnary detail from plinth to neck molding and the restrained, businesslike elegance of the structures.
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Broadway
Pine Street
Chicago
Ornamnad
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Sharif
Specewr
Taro
Helles
Berbent
Staies
Hood
Nye
Cheroker Strip
Edgar W. Sue
Mercantile Emporiums
THE
Town Cowboy
Aberican Suerte Comfant
Exsa
Patel Bre Jong
Grentin
Abia Ip
Oréwes
Pablo
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