Texas Of Today And Long Ago In Century Magazine
Frederick Simpich contrasts the Texas of yesterday with the Texas of today in The Changing Southwest. Lee’s vision, Fort Worth as the West’s start, soaring wealth, foreign investment, prohibition quirks, gambling decline, judges praising rural witnesses, and UT library prestige frame a booming Southwest.
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Texas
Frederick Simpich
Southwest
The
Century Magazine
Robert E. Lee
Lee
Appomatox
Albert Sydney Johnston
Simpich
Fort Worth
Yuma
Hell
Florida
Alpine
Oklahoma
Arizona
West Texas
University of Texas
Europe
Old Fashioned Girl Is Best Wife College Boys Say
At Santa Clara University three hundred male students were asked to name their wife type. Of 284 responses seven percent chose flappers while sixty four percent favored the old fashioned girl. Fifteen percent preferred a medium type and fourteen percent were undecided. Some comments mixed romance with pragmatism.
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Santa Clara
Cal
Santa Clara University
Choosiness blamed for child malnutrition in education view
An article argues that malnutrition among American children stems from bad eating habits. It notes parental lack of knowledge about nutrition and child choosiness, and advocates improving through education on proper foods and feeding practices.
Your Little Wife Exchanged Verse About Home Life
A brief verse fragment questions the role of a wife who plans a bright future, cooks, praises her husband, and comforts him at home. The light lyric tone depicts domestic warmth and affection with a shopper’s cadence in the Exchange section.
Virgin Islands Bay Rum Industry Taps Tourists
In St Thomas with the tourist season arriving ships bring visitors who buy bay rum. Bay rum is made from bay oil sourced mainly from St John trees. Oil is distilled, sent to St Thomas, and mixed with alcohol plus a denaturant to deter drinking. Profits mainly benefit a few, while buyers come from around the world.
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St. Thomas
Virgin Islands
West Indies
St. John
I Believe in Honest Work and Self Belief
A succinct declaration by Elbert Hubbard stressing honesty, effort, and self faith. Emphasizes work, momentum, courtesy, generosity, and optimistic future rewards for those ready to act today.
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Elbert Hubbard
Sawdust sugar eyed as Britain tea sweetener
Dr. W. R. Ormandy told the Congress of Chemists in London that a process to extract sugar from sawdust has reached a commercial promise stage. In tests 65 pounds of sugar were produced from 100 pounds of dry sawdust, and he noted about 25 percent of global timber cut becomes sawdust.
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Britain
W. R. Ormandy
Congress of Chemists
London
Adoption Trends Favor Girls Over Boys
The article notes that people seeking to adopt prefer girl infants, while boys attract fewer adopters, highlighting gender preference in adoption decisions.
Witty OCR Mixup Blurs Marriage Notice with Grocer Ad
An Arkansas printer, arranging forms in a hurry, mixed a marriage notice with a grocer advertisement. It joked that John Brown and Ida Gray were united in the holy sauerkraut by the quarter barrel, noting Brown as a codfish at 10 cents a pound and Gray’s pig feet sold cheaper than any in town.
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Arkansas
John Brown
Ida Gray
Brown
Miss Gray
Exchange
Bromine Quinine Laxative Tablets Promote Cold Relief
Ad copy notes that colds cause grip and flu, claims Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets remove the cause. Mentions only one Bromo Quinine, with E Grove’s signature on the box. Price 30 cents.
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E W.grove
Obliging Its Folks Begonia Family Plant Ties Gardener
A gardener explains the plant belongs to the begonia family and thanks the lady for caring for it while others are away, reflecting a domestic scene in Progressive Grocer.
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Begonia
A Missouri Man Misses Train and Encounters a Corpse
A reader from Missouri recounts missing a Memphis train and lodging in a crowded hotel. He shares how he joined another man in bed to avoid waking him and later discovered a dead body at the inn. A startled escape ensued as a young couple returned to the room.
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Cappers
Memphis
Marriage License Cost Joke From Old Times
A witty exchange about marriage licenses shows a friend joking that ten shillings upfront would be paid and the groom’s entire future salary goes to the couple. The quip captures historical attitudes toward marriage expenses and humor about lifelong commitment.
Piles Cured Swiftly by PAZO OINTMENT
Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure itching bleeding or protruding piles. Instantly relieves itching and helps you sleep after the first application. Price unknown.
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America
Garcia
Mexico
Yale
University of California
Wrenn
Aitken
British Columbia
American Southwest
Pacific Coast
Wyoming
Houston
Eto
Barteldes
Barteldes Seed Company
Lawrence, Kansas
Cideo
Ompany Iver, Colorado
BAY Rum
Candy Sale
Chesley Rutledge Confectionery
Gordon Bros
Nyal
Whitewright
Kirkpatrick
Faker
J. L. Kirkpatrick
Columbia Records
Jones Drug Store No
Rexall
Sound Principles of Banking
Planters National Bank
Reeves
South Side
Main St
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