Midway at the Panama Pacific Exposition Preview
The 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition plans a grand Midway at Harbor View with international yacht and motorboat races, aviation feats, Olympic games, auto races, and dramatic nighttime illumination. Chinese concession and replications of the Wall of China are featured, with extensive exhibits and travel by land and sea to lure visitors.
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Hamilton M. Wright
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco Bay
Harbor View
Europe
Atlantic
New York
Panama Canal
San Francisco
Royal Yachts
Ince
Senator Dixon a West Republican leader and Roosevelt aide
Senator Joseph M. Dixon of Montana, a key Western Republican figure, led Roosevelt campaign efforts and previously headed the GOP speakers bureau for Taft. A Quaker by descent, he started in North Carolina and moved to Montana in 1892, later serving as prosecuting attorney, legislator, congressman, and ultimately senator beginning March 4, 1907.
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Joseph M. Dixon
Montana
Roosevelt
West
Dixon
Taft
Joe Cannon
North Carolne
Missoula
Mont
Missoula County
Wso
Congress
Senate
William \. Clark
Seattle
Washington
Kansas City
Ceneral
Fred D Grant
Calai
McKinkey
Jointist Commission
London
Wis
Chiease
Dunne
Mystery of the Stolen Papers and Political Figures
The tale blends a real politician Colonel James Hamilton Lewis of Chicago with a naval wartime fiction about a captain and a thief. A crewman Reeves is suspected of theft, then cleared amid a secret exchange with a mysterious woman at the pier revealing letters. The narrative shifts between politics and a naval mystery.
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Reeves
Ape Reeves
Archie
Indy
Champ Clark Defends Honesty of American Politics
At a Washington banquet Champ Clark denounces cheap cynicism in politics. He quotes a joke about politicians and says a man may be a politician without being a habitual liar, reflecting on integrity in public life.
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Champ Clark
Washington
Binks
Young Wife Saved From Hospital Story Promotes Remedy
Upper Sandusky Ohio resident Mrs Benj H Stansberry shares how she suffered three years after marriage with fatigue backache and nervous strain. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills with restored health and urges others to try the remedy.
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Upper Sandusky
Ohio
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Timely Advice Saves Two From Peril in Wisconsin
Mrs C Willoughby of Marengo Wisconsin avoided a dreadful tragedy after her aunt urged Dr King s New Discovery for a persistent cough thought to be consumption. Doctors had little hope but the medicine nearly cured her cough and also aided her sick child. Trial bottle free and guaranteed by druggists.
Truth About Bluing Talk No 17 Delusion of Blueing
Advertises red cross ball blu as a laundry additive. Claims small amounts plus water produce a pure blue and snowy white clothes. Encourages readers to ask their grocer for the product.
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RED Cross Ball
Witty Roast and An Anecdote From A New York Architect
A New York architect guides John Sloan through a house built overlooking the Host with Sloan joking about the vine creeper. The anecdote continues with a revivalist recalling a tale of a cab ride to his Glasgow meetings and a reminder of the fourth commandment.
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John Sloan
New York
Nicoty
Himelf
Glasgow
Mooly
Origins of Charleston Public Library Foundation
A historic note recalls the first public library in Charleston established to serve the community, distinct from a college library, funded by public support and intended for general use by residents. The record dates this origins to the 17th century in Charles Town, South Carolina.
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America
Charleston
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