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“Little Mothers” Write Playlets With Helpful Plots
The Little Mothers’ League was a club for girls in public school that taught them how to properly care for babies. Started in 1910 by Sara Josephine Baker, the idea wasn’t as much to prepare them to be parents themselves, but to give them the means to help their parents by taking care of their […]
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Historical Documents Reproduced In Postal Cards
Let me get this straight. These people found interesting historic documents that were in the public domain, and then repackaged them for a modern audience? That’s genius! HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS REPRODUCED IN POSTAL CARDS: Ingenious French Scheme of Supplying the Man in the Street with Sources of History at First Hand (PDF) From July 10, 1910
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A Tree Near This City That Is Nearly 320 Years Old
Alas, the tree described here as “a beautiful spreading tulip tree towering over 125 feet high” is no longer standing. But there is a nice tribute page online which has several photos of the tree, and of the plaque that now marks the spot where the tree once stood. Should you wish to visit the […]
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Good School Lunches For Three Cents Prove A Success
It’s nice to read an account of a School Lunch Committee that cares about affordable nutrition in schools where poor children are often malnourished. For a child who is really very ill-nourished one meal a day is not the solution of all its troubles, but it goes a good way toward helping. Moreover, the luncheons […]
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The Migratory New Yorker And Where He Goes
Where did 1910 New Yorkers go in the summer? The New York Times Magazine researched 5,000 New Yorkers and came up with the above map and explanation of how people traveled by boat and rail. THE MIGRATORY NEW YORKER AND WHERE HE GOES: How the American Has Become a Wanderer Over the Face of the […]
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How To Get Sleep On Hot Summer Nights
What’s a New Yorker to do when the air conditioner breaks down? How on Earth is anyone supposed to get to sleep? Take some tips from 1910, where sleeping in the heat was the norm. Air conditioners didn’t really become common in public spaces for another ten years. Advice from the article: eat in moderation […]
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Science Measures The Energy Stored In Various Foods
We think about calories as just a number on a food container, and it’s easy to forget that a calorie is actually a unit of energy. It’s the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree. So how did they determine how many calories were in food […]
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Famous Prima Donna Champions Woman Suffrage Cause
Here we have the story of a famous opera singer, Lillian Nordica, who supports a woman’s right to vote. I found it interesting that this article tries so hard to let the reader know that men have no need to worry about too much change if women are allowed to vote. There is the explicit […]
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Can You Tell An Ear For Music By Looking At It?
For a minute in 2007, the blogosphere was abuzz about a Hungarian plastic surgeon named Dr. Lajos Nagy who claimed that making your ears pointy would allow you to better appreciate music. He said this craze was huge in New York, and would soon be sweeping the globe. On his website, he explains scientifically why […]
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Pot Shooting In Central Park
Wild animals occasionally make their way into Central Park. Just a few months ago, a coyote in the Park seemed to be the talk of the town. In modern times, these animals are taken down by NYPD sharpshooters with tranquilizer guns. But back in 1910, there was one man whose full time job was hunting […]
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