Grandstand plans and a misfired ball story
A Chicago Daily News excerpt recounts Bobby and Jimmy debating house costs and winders after a rainy day. Bobby recalls a ball slipping through a window, accidentally blamed on a neighbor’s boastful talk about prices, while father and son discuss expenses, burglars, and baseball.
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Bobby
Jimmy
Jimmy Allways
Billy
Nellie Foster
Aunt Mary's
Jimomy
Glasser’s
Torough
Chicago Daily News
Children Versus Church in Suburban Life Magazine
Margaret Woodward critiques modern women for neglecting home duties citing a neighbor family where father and mother fail to supervise several children. The article contrasts church duties with household responsibilities and laments lost traditional roles.
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Suburban Life Magazine
Margaret Woodward
Grumblers and the Call for Upset of Government
A reflective piece argues that chronic grumbling shortens gratitude and fuels discontent with current systems. It contrasts health and hardship as natural balances, warns against embracing constant complaint, and links grumbling to political upheaval and costly reforms.
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Lealie
Blood Tax Between Valleys Of Roncal And Bareton
An ancient crime from seven centuries ago led to a peace treaty between the Valleys of Roncal in Navarre and Bareton in Béarn. To prevent renewed war, they agreed to an annual blood tax paid at a frontier ceremony. Originally three white mares, later three cows of a specific breed, the tribute has continued through wars and revolutions since 1376, a ritual still observed by leading figures from both valleys.
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Roncal
Navarra
Bareton
Bearn
Arles
Pyrenees
France
Spain
Clemenceau the Tiger Turns Away Young Applicant
The tigerish French statesman Clemenceau, said to plan a new journal, questions a hopeful seeking a post about foreign affairs. When asked if he knows about the Orient and pan Slavic politics the applicant says yes, but Clemenceau retorts he would prefer if he knew nothing at all.
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Clemenceau
Monsieur Clemenceau
the Tiger
Moncieur
Start the Real Race for Women and Men
The passage urges equality of achievement, claiming truth applies to both genders. It suggests learning continues past forty, advises starting anew, and stresses perseverance to avoid defeat. It frames work as a path to independence, ending with the goal of earning secure housing rather than dependence on old ladies’ homes.
Just the Place for Her
A man urges his wife to spend the summer on a farm in Elizabeth township near Pittsburg. He proposes she wear old clothes, claiming that on the farm everyone dresses plainly and that this trip would be a chance to “make a splurge.” He mentions seven trunks of old cloth from Pennsylvania.
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Elizabeth Township
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Philosophy and Love in a Long Shared Path
A pair long acquainted drift apart and toward separation as a man in Oxford engages with a woman ready for marriage. He travels to Africa, learns she is widowed, and returns haunted. She greets him with calm interest while he seeks confession and meaning, then she reveals her love with a final kiss.
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Timmer
Ox Ford
Africa
Tle
Clever Cleveland blind vendor quips at corner
A Cleveland Plain Dealer anecdote tells of a blind street merchant with a sharp sign. A passerby dropped a nickel to test him, but the vendor kept his steady gaze and asked for a quarter, joking he might forget himself.
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Cleveland
Public Square
Cure
Cleveland Plain Dealer
One Can Write In the Dark Penholder Lights Notes
A new luminous pencil with a built in light lets writers note in darkness. An electric lamp shines a disk of light on the pencil point, powered by a small accumulator. Designed for doctors reporters and detectives working in streets at night.
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Harper's ‘Weekly
Humorous Cold Hall Dressing Room Misadventure
Mark Sheridan recalls a winter provincial hall mishap where stage space was tiny and ablutions were done in a bucket. During his act the curtain was raised by mistake revealing him in a towel to a laughing audience, a memory that later ached into a theatrical record.
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Mark Sheridan
Strand Magazina
Why has the essay lost ground in America today
Collier's Weekly laments the slow appeal of essays as a form of intimate discourse with great writers. It argues modern impatience favors facts and haste over literary talk that invites long reflection by firelight. The piece praises Johnson, Mark Twain, and past masters while condemning the loss of leisurely, wine‑like conversation.
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America
Emerson
Montaigne
Swift
Addison
Lamb
Haslitt
Newman
Matthew An ‘Nold
Stevenson
Sam Johnson
Mark Twain
Collier’s Weekly
The Discipline of Motherhood in Home Life
Agnes Ed wards Rothery argues in Home Progress Magazine that motherhood remains a constant discipline as children age. In contrast to animal families, human parents require diplomacy and energy to keep family unity, with mothers ever on call while pretending the older children manage affairs.
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Animal Kingdom
Agnes Edwards Rothery
Home Progress Magasine
Moving Pictures In Japan and Nearby Lands
The article notes Japanese film fans favor allegorical warrior tales and sympathetic stories of a father sacrificing to educate his son, with education and scenery praised. Love stories are avoided. China enjoys many subjects but rejects indecency. In Turkey, American cowboy and Indian films and detective dramas prove popular.
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Japan
China
Turkey
Dutch Speaking Man Fined In Benoni Dog License Case
A British subject from Benoni who spoke only Dutch faced court for failing to obtain a dog license. An interpreter was arranged, and a young man emerged from the crowd to assist and was sworn in. The accused paid 6s, the interpreter 7s 6d, and the municipality 7s 6d, with the twist that the interpreter turned out to be the defendant’s son, yielding a small personal gain for the family.
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Rand
Benoni
Jus- Hee
Ergo
Notice to bids for high school addition building Williston ND
Notice calls for bids by the Williston Special School District No 1 for erecting and completing an addition to the high school building with separate bids for heating and ventilation. Bids due July 16, 1915, at 3 00 PM. Requires certified check and surety bond. Plans at Builders & Traders Exchange Minneapolis and clerk's office. Board may reject bids.
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Board of Education
Williston
Williams County
North Dakota
J. C. Woodruff
Minot
N. Dak
A.D. CC. Mackenroth
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