Home Trade Boosts a Midwestern Town into a Boom
A station master argues that supporting local merchants rather than mail order houses keeps money circulating in town. Brown the hardware dealer demonstrates better local pricing through advertising. Local trade grows, leading to a board of trade, stronger papers, and a women's improvement society that beautifies the town and attracts residents.
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Middle West
Jones
Brown
Brown and Jones
Board of
Woman
A. B. Lewis
Publicity Boosts Public Improvement Work
A guide argues that civic improvement crews gain public support by engaging the local press. It notes small pamphlets funded by ads from leading businesses can document progress and policies, building stability and public confidence in the project.
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Gswork
Colors in the Ocean Show Varied Hues at Sea
The sea displays hues from muddy sediment and reflected sky with olive brown lines and blues. Red sea coloring comes from tiny algae called sea saw dust, while distant waters may look chocolate due to countless microscopic organisms moving by hairlike cilia.
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Red Sea
Pearson
Traces of the Beasts in Malay Wilds
Cornhill Magazine describes the Malay forest as marked by animal traces. Elephant rubbed against trees leaving nine foot mud belts with hairs, rhinoceros scratches, a tiger print only hours old, and numerous deer tracks around elephant footprints.
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Cornhill Magazine
Evarts Ignorant of Sign Up In Elevator Incident
In a secretary of state era, a new elevator attendant posted a conspicuous no smoking sign. William M. Evarts rode with a famous senator who smoked. Evarts tore down the notice and claimed not to see any sign while the guard learned the visitor by the door.
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William M. Evarts
Oman
Mr. Evarts
England's Prettiest Villages Listed
The Strand Magazine lists six English villages as the prettiest based on careful survey and impartial opinion. The named villages are Bonchurch Isle of Wight Clovelly Devonshire Witchampton Dorset Sonning Oxfordshire Shere Surrey and Clapham Yorkshire.
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England
Bonchurch
Isle of Wight
Clovelly
Devonshire
Witchampton
Dorset
Sonning
Oxfordshire
Shere
Surrey
Clapham
Yorkshire
London Strand Magazine
Quote about a performer from Life magazine
Short critique notes a performer lacking acting talent but possessing striking looks and stylish clothes. It highlights eyes as her strongest asset and comments she could rival top ladies in the business for fashion.
Wayward Money Woes and Shared East Sixteenth Street
A physician jokes about never losing money on newborn fees and warns that debts burdening a child predict misfortune. At Atlantic City a man and a woman, both claiming prominent East Sixteenth Street roots, discover they live in adjacent clerkly neighborhoods and part ways.
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Atlantic City
New York
East Sixteenth Street
Gaspard Goat and Peregrine Pig Speak on Scapegoats
Gaspard laments being the scapegoat while Peregrine tells him not to worry and recalls Sylvester Steer confessing to earning his gains by beefing. Both discuss fears of ending up in a pickle someday.
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Gaspard Goat
Peregrine Pig
Pshaw
Sylvester Steer
Dowling Pushes Law Banning Chauffeur Theft of Cars
New York Alderman Frank L Dowling argues for a stricter ordinance making it a crime for chauffeurs to take masters cars without leave. He cites accidents linked to stolen rides and compares a doubtful minority of chauffeurs to a Hoboken grocer who refuses credit and trust.
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Frank L. Dowling
New York
Alderman Dowling
Hoboken
Man's Marvelous Ingenuity
An eloquent tribute to human inventiveness praising ingenuity in mechanism and the power of human intellect as a dominion over the world reflecting grand design and divine inspiration.
Jasper Mayne Death and His Red Herring Valise
Sardonic humor noted for Jasper Mayne who died in 1620. He left his servant a valise claiming it held something to help him drink. When opened, the valise contained only a red herring.
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Jasper Mayne
Warm home with coal stored for winter
An advertisement urges filling the cellar with good clean coal to keep the house warm and inviting through winter. It emphasizes not wearing outerwear indoors and urges placing an order today.
The Diamond Beyond Imitation
The diamond remains the hardest and most brilliant precious stone, a transparent crystal of pure carbon. Its natural value defies imitation and the era’s economy, per the Bloemfontein Weekly Post.
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Bloemfontein
Flattery Overdone In Praise Of A Monarch
A terse meditation centers on excessive flattery of Louis XIV, noting the danger of inflated praise. The aphorism treats royal vanity and political optics as timeless hazards in courtly life and governance.
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Louis XIV
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