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Prisoners of Poverty: Women Wage-Workers, Their Trades and Their LivesPrisoners of Poverty: Women Wage-Workers, Their Trades and Their LivesThe chapters making up the present volume were prepared originally as a series of papers for the Sunday edition of The New York Tribune, and were based upon minutest personal research into the conditions described....
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Labor and Freedom: The Voice and Pen of Eugene V. DebsLabor and Freedom: The Voice and Pen of Eugene V. DebsI think if I had been asked to name this work that comes to us from the rare mind and tender heart of 'Gene Debs, I would have called it "The Old Umbrella Mender."...
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The Development of Rates of Postage: An Historical and Analytical StudyThe Development of Rates of Postage: An Historical and Analytical StudyThis book contains a collection of facts and an examination of principles which will be of value to all students of the subject with which it deals. It is more comprehensive than any book...
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The Postage Stamp in WarThe Postage Stamp in WarIrregular ordering and duplicate numbering of figures are retained as in the original. In this HTML version cross-reference hyperlinks to figures are not provided when the figure is adjacent to the paragraph where the reference occurs. To many collectors and...
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Curious Punishments of Bygone DaysCurious Punishments of Bygone DaysIn ransacking old court records, newspapers, diaries and letters for the historic foundation of the books which I have written on colonial history, I have found and noted much of interest that has not been used or referred to in...
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Miscellaneous Aphorisms The Soul of ManMiscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of ManBeauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity. In old days nobody pretended to...
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Anthropological Records, Vol. 16, No. 4The Aboriginal Population of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, CaliforniaThe following pages have a twofold purpose. First, there is extended to new territory an analysis of aboriginal population and ecology in California which has already encompassed the San Joaquin Valley (Cook, 1955) and the...
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What a Young Husband Ought to KnowWhat a Young Husband Ought to KnowIn approaching the work which we have undertaken in these pages, we have not been blind to the difficulties which confront us in entering upon so delicate a subject. If we had thought only of these, we would...
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A Stiptick for a Bleeding NationA Stiptick for a Bleeding Nation - Or, a safe and speedy way to restore publick credit, and pay the national debtsO but a little consider, and you will soon find, Pride and Luxury, Corruption and Bribery, are the greatest Causes of our present...
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How to Observe: Morals and MannersHow to Observe: Morals and Manners"Inest sua gratia parvis." There is no department of inquiry in which it is not full as easy to miss truth as to find it, even when the materials from which truth is to be drawn are actually present...
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The Menace of ProhibitionThe Menace of ProhibitionMost writers, in viewing the question of Prohibition, have followed along a beaten track. They have confined themselves generally to consideration of moral, economic, and religious phases of the subject. While I have not entirely ignored these phases, I have chiefly...
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Anthropological Records, Vol. 16, No. 3The Aboriginal Population of the North Coast of California The present manuscript attempts a reassessment of the aboriginal population of Northwestern California, from the Oregon line to the Bay of San Francisco. There are no natural and fixed limits to the territory. Its outline...
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The Acquisitive SocietyThe Acquisitive Society It is a commonplace that the characteristic virtue of Englishmen is their power of sustained practical activity, and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles. They are incurious as to theory, take...
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Historic Highways of America, Vol. 15The Future of Road-making in AmericaThe present volume on the Future of Road-making in America presents representative opinions, from laymen and specialists, on the subject of the road question as it stands today. After the author's sketch of the question as a whole in...
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The Modern Woman's Rights Movement: A Historical SurveyThe Modern Woman's Rights Movement: A Historical SurveyThe first edition of this book appeared in 1905. That edition is exhausted,an evidence of the great present-day interest in the womans rights movement. This new edition takes into account the developments since 1905, contains the recent...
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The Preliminaries, and Other StoriesThe Preliminaries, and Other Stories Page numbers in this book are indicated by numbers enclosed in curly braces, e.g. {99}. They have been located where page breaks occurred in the original book. Obvious spelling or typographical errors have been corrected. "Inventive" and contemporary spelling...
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Cinderella JaneCinderella JaneIt was the Pageant of the Prophets which gave Jerry Paxton his first chance. There were several links in the primrose chain of fortune which led him from the first opportunity to the last. The first and most important may be said to...
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Emma Goldman: Biographical SketchEmma Goldman: Biographical SketchThe hanging of several anarchists in 1887 as a consequence of the Haymarket bombing in Chicago caused many Americans to sympathize with the gibbeted radicals. Youths swathed in bright idealism, men and women rooted in equalitarian democracy, workers trusting in the...
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Six Thousand Country ChurchesSix Thousand Country ChurchesIn 1913 Mr. Gill and I published, under the authority of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, the results of an inquiry into the condition of the country church in two typical countiesWindsor County, Vermont, and Tompkins...
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Drugging a Nation: The Story of China and the Opium CurseDrugging a Nation: The Story of China and the Opium CurseThese chapters were originally published during 1907 and 1908 in Success Magazine. Though frankly journalistic in tone, the book presents something more than the hasty conclusions of a journalist. During its preparation the author...
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