Taft avoids kitchen and tennis cabinets as lonesome president
A Washington man of letters notes President Taft has no kitchen or tennis cabinet and seldom hosts formal visitors. Taft favors casual drop-ins, walking in parks or streets, and receives old friends who arrive unannounced, while keeping cabinet heads responsible for policy.
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Roosevelt
Mr. Taft
Chevy Chase
Plas
Jonathan Bourne
Oregon
Taft
Raft
Washington
White House
Rock Creek Park
Senator Newland
Woodley Lane
Pennsylvania Avenue
Horace Y. Lurton
Supreme Court
Judge Lurton
Eeljay Meyer
Na Kitchee
Hind
Ile
Navy
Secretary of the Treasury
Breau
Roosevel
Mr .Taft
A Race of Vegetarians
Dr. Horace Fletcher spoke in Pittsburg about rising living costs and predicted meat would largely disappear from American diets within ten years. He argued autointoxication from meat resembles alcoholic poisoning and claimed meat is unnecessary and harmful to the body.
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Horace Fletcher
Pittsburge
Maxine Elliott Takes In New York Newsboy for Education
The red haired Rusty McGillan, a 13 year old newsboy, became a protege of actress Maxine Elliott. He was sent to Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault Minnesota to receive an education. His real name is Aloysius and he was born in Boston.
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St Paul Express
Lake Shore Railroad
Rusty" Mc Gillan
New York
Maxine Elliott
West Thirty-ninth Street
Miss Eliott
Miss Elliott
Daly’s
Rusty
Rusty McGillan
Shattuck Military Academy
Faribault
Minn
St.aul
Aloysius
Boston
Lincoln's War Substitute Statute Proposal for Staples Statue
A proposed bill by Representative Palmer would grant 20000 for a statue to J S Staples of Stroudsburg Pa the Civil War substitute for Abraham Lincoln Staples died in Stroudsburg where a tablet marks his grave Staples enlisted in 1863 after meeting Lincoln in the White House and served as a personal substitute until war’s end
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Abraham Lincoln
Representative Palmer
Pennsylvania
J. S. Staples
Stroudsburg
Staples
J. Summerfield Staples
Lincoln
Young Staples
Washington
White House
Second
District of Columbia
Juicy First Class Style Stomach vs Conscience Insight
A humorous inner dialogue contrasts taste and safety with a stomach craving. One side laughs at luxury dining while the other warns of danger, creating a tension between indulgence and health concerns.
Roses for Portland in annual city rose planting fete
Japanese roses will bloom in Porthind area parks for a city fete on February 22. Yokohama sent 170 native rosebushes for display in public squares. Holland France Germany Persia and other nations plan to contribute plants through consuls, showcasing international rose culture.
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Porthind
Yokohama
Holland
House of Orange
France
Germany
Persia
Omar
Children Learn Aeroplane Swimming In Pittsburg
Sixth ward public school pupils in Pittsburg practice aeroplane swimming under instructor Walter W. Shook at a long standing swimming pool. Fourteen year old Sarah Herzberger glided from a balcony, shook her wings, somersaulted and dived. Shook hopes to take the children to rivers and ponds to glide from boats bridges and banks next summer. The activity was inspired by a Carnegie Technical Schools student who says it is far more thrilling than a normal dive and safe from many heights.
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Sixth Ward
North Side
Pittsburg
Walter W. Shook
Sarah Herzberger
Shook
Carnegie Technical Schools
Wooden Bell Syndicate Forms in Paris
A new Wooden Bell Syndicate established in Paris aims to simplify tenants’ night departure to dodge rent by moving residence to the tune of the wooden bell. Registered and incorporated, the group meets at the Labor Exchange and reports 43 moonlight fits arranged on January 8.
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Wooden
Paris
Labor Exchange
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