Aberdeen Herald and Opinion Snippet
A brief local notice from Aberdeen Washington discusses newspaper subscription rates and circulation claims. It also includes brief political commentary about Iowa Senator Allison and the Ohio Democratic state committee's candidate indorsement, with remarks on Republican views on popular election of senators.
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Iowa
Allison
Iowa Republicans
Democratic State Committee
Ohio
United States
Reorganizers Use Platform Tactics in Party Realignment
The needful equipment drives efforts to republicanize the democratic party. Reorganizers avoid openly sharing their platform with Democrats while implying a platform similar to the Republicans. Voters would see little reason to switch from one side to the other.
Comedy of the Catechized reveals civil service auditions
A two page McClure's fortune feature titled Comedy of the Catechized presents freak answers from classified civil service job applicants. The responses are earnest yet grandiose, many seeming intelligent people attempting a great impression, producing vaudeville worthy humor.
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McClure
Fortune
Precival Landen Reports Philippine Confidence Questioned
Manila correspondent for the London Daily Mail says the American campaign fails to impress the islanders, firing lines reach along the coast, and headquarters feel insecure. He notes agriculture dominates, land is rarely abandoned, and the US should reconsider its five year policy. The truth about the Philippines is gradually reaching the American public.
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Precival Landen
Manila
London Daily Mail
Iowa idea cited in Des Moines Register critique
The Des Moines Register and Leader argues the Iowa idea remains central to Republicans while Democrats and independents may oppose admitting that Attorney General Knox backed by President Roosevelt has removed the trust issue from politics. It notes a potential revival if new developments arise and questions the paper’s duty to inform readers at Herald Printery 89 Wishkah St.
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Hawkeye
Iowa
Des Moines Register and Leader
Knox
Roosevelt
Tafve
Manila
Lowa
the Register and Leader
the Herald Printery
Wishkah St
Knox clash over Roosevelts tariff and trust shelter
The Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph criticizes gambling elements in American commerce and urges removal from schools and public life. It also questions newspapers sponsoring gambling through guessing contests and their influence on both children and adults.
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Pittsburg
Infants and Court Darlings Face Prisoner of Passion in Past Tales
Betty the infant Roscius once walked with ladies when rival admirers rushed in to kiss and pull him away. He was bruised and sidelined for nights. Elsewhere M de Langy a courtier to Louis XV endured mock embraces until a blood vessel burst and he died days later.
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Betty
Roscius
M. de Langy
Louis XV
The climbing skills of the rabbit and rat observed
A comparison notes rats as versatile climbers capable of scaling barn roofs and ivy covered walls while rabbits are rarely seen climbing. A Field writer recalls a rabbit leaping from a tree and quickly returning to its warren, and records of rabbits scaling quarry faces and walls despite fences.
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Field
Cinder Ella Footwear Revision Sparks Debate
A critic disputes the common title Cinder Ella and the Glass Slipper arguing the original pantoufle en vair means fur, cloth, or felt slipper rather than glass. The mistranslation allegedly created an out of place image for the fairy tale heroine.
Editor’s quip on etiquette sparks odd wage proposal
The Glasgow Echo editor jokes that a sport is not worth much, then recalls a friend’s proposal to pay a woman a coin for each time a man’s dress behind is checked. He describes agreeing to a counteroffer of sixty-two nickels and one dime when a woman with parcels passes by. The passage reveals the era’s social attitudes and humor.
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Glasgow Echo
Wax palm of the Andes yields tall tree with durable wood
Weer From Trees describes the wax palm of the Andes growing nearly 200 feet tall on plains and mountains. The wood is tough for carpentry and the wax from the trunk pits is beeswax like. Gatherers can collect twenty to thirty pounds per climb.
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Andes
Intelligence of the Ant Demonstrated by Penn Student
A University of Pennsylvania biology student built a two foot metal roadway with red and blue paths and a cake at the end. An ant chose the red path first, the path was heated, but it reached the cake. later the ant avoided the blue path after memory of the hot route was formed.
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Biological
University of Pennsylvana
Philadelphia Record
Tailors and a boy detective mix in old tales excerpt
A Boston ten year old dreams of becoming a noted detective as his family jokes about a vanished umbrella and a closet photograph. The piece shifts to Broadway tailors lamenting misfitting clothes caused by cutters and lazy measurements, then to a trivia list on long vowel words and monosyllabic terms.
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Boston
New York Press
Dumas and a 100 franc note controversy at a soirée
In a Spurr biography an improvident French author who despised avarice is said to have slipped a 100 franc note to cover a tip after a millionaire gave 50 centimes to a servant. Dumas retorts that the mistake was the other gentleman's.
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Alexandre Dumas
Harry A. Spurr
Dumas
Physician and Surgeon Office Address and Hours
Physician and surgeon located at corner of Heron and H streets above Haye and Hayes' Bank. Office hours 8 am to 5 pm and 7 pm to close. Telephone numbers listed for office and residence contact.
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Heron
H_ streets
Haye & Hayes’ Bank
Weather mystery reversed as rain triggers lightning
Meteorologists state that the sudden downpour does not follow lightning but rather makes the flash highly probable. The finding reverses common belief by showing precipitation can cause the lightning it accompanies.
Curiosity Shop Adopts Venetian Silver Umbrella
A London society woman opened a curiosity shop and kept a 50 shilling umbrella in stock. A friend left the umbrella to mend and returned to see the handle displayed in the window as an "Antique Venetian silver umbrella mounting" priced at 10 guineas.
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London
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