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Adventures in Civics: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 31

The electric power companies at Niagara Falls were beginning to draw so much water from above the great Horseshoe Falls as to bring into speculation the question of how soon America’s …

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Cleaning Up the Patent-Medicine and other Evils: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 30

In 1892 The Ladies’ Home Journal announced that it would thereafter accept no advertisements of patent medicines for its pages. It was a pioneer stroke. During the following two years, seven …

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Keeping Up with Conservation: The National Collection Beds

The National Collection beds are a living museum of rare plants cared for in sixty 12’x25’ growing beds. Each plant is accessioned and assigned and individual number tag to identify …

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An Excursion into Feminine Nature: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 29

The strangling hold which the Paris couturiers had secured on the American woman in their absolute dictation as to her fashions in dress, had interested Edward Bok for some time. As …

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Going Home with Kipling, and as a Lecturer: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 28

It was in June, 1899, when Rudyard Kipling, after the loss of his daughter and his own almost fatal illness from pneumonia in America, sailed for his English home on the …

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The Florida Carillon Festival: Wim Ruitenbeek (December 16, 2022)

Wim Ruitenbeek is city carillonneur of Tiel and Velsen, teacher of music at the Groenhorst College in Nijkerk and conductor of various choirs. Program Notes: AdventAdventi ének Zoltán Kodály 1882-1967arr. …

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The Florida Carillon Festival: Tiffany Ng (January

Program Notes1. “Good Trouble” Music from John Lewis’s trilogy March (2016) an autobiography of nonviolent resistance This Little Light of Mine Spiritual Freedom is a Constant Struggle R. Slavit, arr. …

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Women’s Clubs and Woman Suffrage: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 27

Edward Bok was now jumping from one sizzling frying-pan into another. He had become vitally interested in the growth of women’s clubs as a power for good, and began to follow …

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The Literary Back-Stairs: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 26

His complete absorption in the magazine work now compelled Bok to close his newspaper syndicate in New York and end the writing of his weekly newspaper literary letter. He decided, however, …

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