Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...there a high cost of living? To understand this one must review the economic history of the country since the Civil War. The universal tendency has been to combine and form monopolies. Railroads, industrial corporations, and public-utility organizations have all joined into communities of interest, and have consolidated, usually by owning one another's stocks. Now what is the force at work to bring about trusts and combines in spite of all adverse legislation...
...Hopkinson Smith spoke in the Living Room of the Union last evening on "Old Plantation Days." Mr. Smith's object was to tell of the Negro's life before the Civil War, and create an atmosphere for his hearers, rather than to solve the negro problem...
...Smith first worked as a clerk, later became a civil engineer, but after several years spent in mechanical construction he gave up the profession and took up those of artist and author. He has executed a great deal of landscape painting and has also lectured on art subjects. In 1901 he was awarded a medal at the Pan-American Exposition, and later received medals from the Philadelphia Art Club and the American Art Society, and the Charleston Exposition...
Thomas Leonard Livermore, soldier, lawyer, man of affairs, and writer; who almost in boyhood fought in the Civil War; now a profound student of its history; pre-eminent among statisticians of the conflict...
Wolston, E. S., civil engineering...