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Here we read about a generation so ghostly-gone that their departed souls were being summoned in seances of the 1940's. In N.Y.City, suicides among prominent people seem epidemic. There is a wide spread belief that Mars has canals and an advanced civilization: a dizzying, new, accepted 'fact of life' that immured people from any more "future shock". There are cars, suddenly, but few traffic laws. There is 'wireless' and "musical sparks' may fly through the air someday...
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- How about...a heat index?
- Mayor's Displeasure An Unexpected Crisis For Local...
- Mrs. Howard Gould's "The Crystal Rood" (1914)
- The Gould Trial: Her (and my own) Phyrric Victory
- Mrs. Gould Continues Testimony
- Wright Brothers progress
- Wright alarms public regarding bicycle and automob...
- Lusitania and Maurentania Cut Rates
- Snarky Editorial Questions English Motives
- England Willing to Celebrate "America Day"
- Mrs. Gould has explanations
- Editorial: School Lunches and the 'gradual disuse'...
- Gould Divorce Trial considers Manahattan Cocktails
- Gould Evidence
- Mr. Gould's defense complete and catastrophophic
- 1909: Navy May Ban Cigarettes
- Mrs. Gould looks into Philidelphia mirrors...
- Coney Island dresses up in a hurry
- Mrs. Gould and the 'Up All Night Look'
- Nude Painting Controversy
- Emma Goldman: 'Puritans' still using smelling salts
- Emma Goldman : Class dismissed
- Gould Divorce Trial: Now the Footman too
- Heaven help us: busy Martians
- Mrs. Gould's Servants Testify
- Mrs. Gould in the headlines
- Hapless husband arrives home early
- AKA: "The Smoke Fairy"
- One Triple Alliance
- The Kaiser's Kindly Feelings
- Africans Reject Prussian 'Virtues'
- Fort Des Moines Murder
- Dipsomaniacs Plead For Mercy
- "Nerve Weakling"
- "Those Awful Hats"
- The Gould Divorce...and the editorial
- Astonishing News
- Taft at Howard University commencement
- 1900's popular expressions, slang...
- Movie Show Prudes: First, leave the lights on
- We are not amused
- "Treacherous fellows"
- 1909 History of Armenia
- England's almost daily 'Tuetonic thrill"
- Germans Hiss English Play
- Easier on the eyes...
- The Addelle Boas Nobody Knew
- 1909 : Doctor of Insane Diagnoses Himself Mad
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