Sentiment and its role in progress and business harmony
An editorial discusses sentiment as a force driving action and progress, contrasting true sentiment with sentimentality. It cites how love of country and family spurs art and invention, and warns demagogues manipulate fleeting feeling. The piece notes university registration, rising enrollments, and praises business outings for fostering community harmony through social events and informal ties that improve town spirit and trade relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anya
Trenton
Michigan
Pangness Men's Association
Bill Jones
Genius of James Doran Marked North Dakota Loss
North Dakota mourns James Doran of Bismarck a 22 year old scientist whose five year run of remarkable work included radium extraction and wireless telegraphy. His high school Tesla coil achievement and radioactivity led to his legacy through radium tubes donated to Bismarck High School and the State University Chemistry Department. His death from tuberculosis cut short a promising career.
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University News
North Dakota
James Doran
Bismarck
Doran
Foun
J. K. Doran
Chemistry
State University
Northwest
Bismarck High School
Tesla
Whit
George A. Abbott
University
A Thrift Day Movement Urges National Observance
A thrift day campaign promoted by the International Congress for Thrift seeks a Sunday before Labor Day as a national observance. The proposal urges presidents and governors to designate the day with backing from labor groups to foster thrift, reduce poverty, and boost happiness through disciplined saving.
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International Congress For Thrift
Library Notes and Poems Roundup of New Additions
The library announces new weekly arrivals including Mr Wycherly's Words Miss Esperance and Mr Wely and The Doctor's Lass along with Peeps at Many Lands and a Midshipman in the Pacific. New travel volumes Italy Russia England Germany join Folk lore readers and a primer while a soldier song reflects a plea against glorifying war.
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Italy
Russia
England
Germany
Pacific
Cyrus T. Brady
Dark Neuve Chapelle and The Country Editor Reflections
A composite Edinburgh Scotsman piece blends a lament for World War I fallen soldiers from Neuve Chapelle with a didactic prose on brains and hands guiding youth. It closes with praise for a humble country editor chronicling local life and a call for women’s club support and newspaper patronage.
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Neuve Chapelle
Meg Scott
Edinburgh Scotsman
Plan for Mexico Recognition by Conferes May Prove Unclear
The Mexican confer ence concludes after a planned three week follow up that each republic may recognize whichever provisional government shows the capacity to protect lives and property of nationals and foreigners. Carranza’s faction is favored in talks, but observers doubt its ability to secure order and prevent war damage in Mexico. President Wilson's hope for continental help to end the war has not yielded practical results.
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New York Times
Mexico
Carranza
Lansin
Leon
Villa
Wilson
Brains And Hands Drive Town Toward Self Made Success
A moral exhortation argues that combining brains with hands creates progress for all. It urges daily improvement, ambition, and persistence to lift workers above mere survival, noting self made success versus lifelong failure and urging readers to outpace their current bounds in pursuit of opportunity.
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Man
Scotlands
Evers
Aunt Jemima
Harold at the Phone and the Mixed-Up Line
A garbled exchange centers on Harold flirting via a phone message to Gladys while her father dictates a theater ticket in exchange for a fur. Harold apologizes, admits a misdial, and the scene ends with an awkward miscommunication and a mistaken line.
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Gladys
Harold
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Stephenson
Bet Non
Camera Tiendine
Asbury’s
Quality Grocery
Chapelle
Scotland
Dark Neuve Chapelle
Annerepeer
Jemima
Buller Bros
Telephone No
Williston, N. Dak
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