Mississippi Floods Strike Lowlands Along the River
The Mississippi flood surge brings fear to the Cairo to Gulf lowlands as levees are reinforced and guards patrol banks. Hundreds of workers rush to fill sacks, build bulkheads, and defend the banks while refugees crowd levees and boats haul stock and families to safety. The flood's reach stretches across twenty seven states contributing to a vast, perilous rising, with wreckage of homes and farms and a somber panorama of inundated plantations and frightened families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi Valley
Cairo
Gulf
New York Evening Post
Mississippi
Hudson
Middle Pennsylvania
Lake Winnipeg
Montana
Arkansas
New Orleans
Memphis
Greenville
Holly Bush
Marion
Ark
Chandler Plantation
Fount Coupee Parish
The Woman Past Fifty And The Rise Of Women Thinkers
A physician notes in the Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette that women often reach peak intellectual growth after age 50, surpassing earlier limits as they assume leadership in community life. He cites cases of married graduates where the wife’s progress outpaces the husband after 50, while men decline later. The piece contrasts gendered intellectual trajectories and praises late bloomers, especially women. A second item recalls a Taft supporter joking about pay and boss roles, illustrated by an old man directing woodwork for 35 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dietetic and
Joseph Cook
Fraf. Shaler
Gallavantin
Taft
Custom House
Ike
Dad
Louisville Times
Virginia Moore
South Carolina
Carolina
Conference For Education In
Nashville
Miss Moore
Bradford Knapp
Farm Demonstration Department
Department of Agriculture
Marie Samuella Cromer
Miss Cromer
Aittle School
Abbeville
8. C
Marile Samuella Cromer
Aiken
John D. Rockefeller
Thomas Hitchcock
New York
Hitchcock
Court House
Winthrop College
Miss Cramer
Seaman Knapp
Wilson
O. B. Martin
Canning and
General Education Board
Rockefeller
Dr. Brown
Union Theological Seminary
Conference For Education
South
Walter Fage
Italy Faces Uphill Tripoli Campaign Cost and Desert War
In a sobering analysis from Tripoli, Alan Ostler argues that Italian efforts to dominate Tripoli, Homa, and Benghazi face overwhelming logistical and military hurdles. He warns against overestimating victories and outlines the huge costs of offensive desert warfare, including supply lines, water, and mountain fighting, while predicting Arabs will resist regardless of Turkish peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alan Ostler
Tripoli
Washington Star
Italy
Homa
Benghazi
Ain Zara
Tunis
Egypt
Turkey
Zouara
Zawal
Gharlen
Yefreen
Gharien
Wales
Scotland
England
Memory feats and a dry town saloon tale
A parade of memory marvels spans scholars, poets, and librarians famed for recall. In Kansas City a dry Missouri town tale unfolds as the drunk claims he was fishin when the town voted dry, provoking a roiling melee as six brawny locals confront him and the marshal looks on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Missouri
Calaboose
Jist Fishin
Kansas City Journal
Dignity of the Law Exchange in Cross Examination
A Chicago Record Herald cartoon dialogue features a lawyer questioning a witness about jail, indictment, arrest, infidelity, and horse trading. The witness denies each, culminating in the lawyer conceding the witness is excused. The exchange satirizes legal proceedings and evasive testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Record Herald
Who Started It in McCall’s Magazine
A short dialogue from McCall’s Magazine recalls a boy asking if grandpa, father, or both started a tradition of thrashing. The mother confirms each generation’s discipline before the boy asks who started this thing, highlighting a cycle of punishment across generations. The piece uses a humorous, reflective tone to question origins of parental behavior.
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Grandpa
Yeos
McCall's Magazine
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Fort Adams
Rapides Parish
Antony Maglilabecchi
Cosmo III
Florence
Magliabecchi
Grand Duke
Constantinople
Prescott
Macaulay
Addison Alexander
Princeton Theological Seminary
New York Evening Sun
Chrysanthemum Club
Ira Williams
Williams
Woodrow Wiiison
France
Cardinal Mezzofanti
Byron
Marie Cromer
First Tomato Club
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