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Contents for March, 1914

Strong Drink

Being a little temperate talk on temperance

Democracy Chooses an Autocrat

Elbert Hubbard

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William W. Renwick

The city of Dayton, Ohio, has given over its city government to a

manager who has complete power. He is subject to recall but as

long as he is in office he can fire all department heads or order your

window curtains pulled down. Dayton is now a big corporation

with an active superintendent.

The Heart of the Mine

Poem

Wireless' Fate

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Berton Braley

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George H. Cushing

There will be five ages of wireless and at the end of the last one

we shall see it competing with the telegraph lines which at present

form a network of copper over the world. Wireless will inevitably

fail as a private enterprise

This man, who is at present the greatest individual manufacturer,

has turned ten million dollars into the pockets of his twenty-six

thousand employes. Photographs.

When Is Man Old?

The clerk at forty is in danger of losing his job and if he does lose

it he always has great difficulty in finding a new position because

of his "advanced age". But science and a study of statistics

show that this is probably a mistaken conception of the usefulness

of men and women over forty-or sixty

Beating the Meter

How one man avoided high prices for electric current and got better

service

The Hoodoo Drydock

Just because Fate seemed to be on the trail of a big government

enterprise, two contractors were ruined and millions of dollars lost

Establishing the Elephant's Royalty

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Byron C. Utecht

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Jonas Platt

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Warren H. Miller

When Darwin tried to prove his theory of evolution, scientists, who

could not believe it, held the case of the elephant against him.

Lately the line has been established in the heart of the Sahara

New York spends a large part of its time underground.

plan to move to the second city of the world, you may count on

traveling and buying and eating underneath the city.

even do all your work there

Western Coast flats are using a supplementary sun-heating

plant with great success

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Flushing Streets with Mountain Streams.

They sweep the streets with a stream turned through a hose

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Ohio Matzos for Old World

A Cincinnati factory turns out vast quantities of Jewish Passover bread each winter. It is shipped all over the world

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Appalachian coal mines are using waterpower instead of burning their coal.

Insurance Across the Counter

Massachusetts has gone into the business of selling insurance to all who apply. The rates are lower than those of any company

Farming for Furs

Are you interested in fur farming?

The laws of salvage are beneficent ones—for the salvor; and when a big steamer is in distress or wrecked, he who aids or saves her often reaps a huge reward.

Thirteen Knots Through a Typhoon

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Louis E. Browne

Our joy riding fleet passed through one of the most severe storms of history on the Atlantic. They were ready for battle even in the midst of it

New Art to Cheapen Printing Cost

Intaglio printing will enable the magazines to use the finest pictures on cheap paper

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T. C. O'Donnell

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Charles W. Person

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A new form of divining rod is being used by scientists to find water

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There is a man in New York who makes a business of opening every bomb that is found. He has had experiences

Irrigation for Every Farm

Supplementary irrigation will raise crop values

Divining Rod Mystery

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