Congress Ready for Action
Democratic leaders in both Senate and House say Congress may stay in session indefinitely for prompt enactment of emergency war measures. An amendment to provide five hundred million emergency currency will be passed today. An obituary on Anson B. Yeager, a respected Ada Mason, honors his life and service. The excerpt ends with a Roosevelt essay excerpt on headball from Scribner's Magazine.
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Washington
Senate
House
Congress
United States
Indians Play Football With Their Heads
An account of Parcels Indians playing a head football game using a hollow eight inch rubber ball. Two sides contest as players butt the ball along the ground then lift and strike it with their heads, sending it into the air for teammates to return. The play continues with quick, skillful head play and multiple exchanges.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Scribner’s Magazine
Gore breaks cane over Man's Head in Altus
United States Senator Thomas P. Gore struck farmer Tom Moore with his walking cane on a Altus street after an introduction by Ellis Gore. The blow followed a dispute over Gore's 1894 speech and a fusion with the Democratic party. No arrests were made. Moore is described as a socialist.
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Gore
Man
Altus
Okla
United States
Thomas P. Gore
Tom Moore
Moore
Ellis Gore
Senator Gore
St. Louis
William Jennings Bryan
Oklahoma Supreme Court Affirms Amendments Yet No Vote This Tuesday
The Oklahoma City edition reports the Supreme Court affirmed the Secretary of State on West's Constitutional amendments. The initiative petitions were upheld but no attempt will be made to proclaim them for a vote on Tuesday. A vote is expected at the November election.
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Oklahoma City
Augpreme
Secretary of State
West
Secret of the Chorus Man Breaks Engagement
A young couple, Clarence and Clarissa, confront a painful truth they fear to share with friends. He reveals that his father was once a chorus man in a musical comedy, a detail perceived as despicable by Clarissa and driving a potential breakup. The Chicago Record-Herald notes the social sting.
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Clarence
Clarissa
Chicago Record-Herald
Basis for Happy Marriage and the End of Romance
A Mothers Magazine piece argues marriage follows romance as history follows romance, with romance as play and marriage as serious work. It warns that couples must build friendship to sustain life beyond the honeymoon, noting love is spice but friendship the nourishing food for lasting unions.
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Greece
Mothers Magazine
John Horace Lockwood
Not So Great After All Sir Robert Ball Story
Not So Great After All recounts a tale from Sir Robert Ball, the late English astronomer. At Dunsink Observatory a farmer asked to view the moon. Ball invited him to come at night, noting the telescope could not show the moon during the day. The farmer dismissed the instrument, claiming he could see the moon without it.
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Robert Ball
Dunsink Observatory
Ball
Dainty Arrangement of Flowers in Sunlit Rooms
The passage describes filling every available space with flowers to brighten summer rooms. A flat bowl of nasturtiums, a brass jar of daisies, a tall coreopsis vase, two lilac larkspur vases, and white or yellow rosebuds in bud vases create a cheerful, eye pleasing effect. The growing discover of flowers enhances decor in lieu of drapery.
A True Optimist Joke Exchange
A brisk quip sets a light tone as a patient jokes about rheumatism shifting location rather than vanishing, prompting a grin at the idea of rest from pain.
Dont Take Calomel Better Remedy Dodson Liver Tone
Calomel is risky and may harm health, while Dodsons Liver Tone offers a gentle, vegetable alternative that starts the liver as calomel does but without overactivity or salivation. A large bottle costs fifty cents at Ramsey Drug Co with a money back guarantee if not satisfied. The piece notes strong anti temperance activity in Ohio politics ahead of a governor race.
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Dodson
Ramsey Drug Co
Anti-Saloon League
Personal Liberty League
Ohio
Logan Honored With Shaft and Memorial Plan at Birthplace
General John A. Logan is honored in Murphysboro with a stone shaft at his birthplace and a memorial association formed to seek state and federal funds for a monument and memorial hall. James Black presides. notable figures including Senators Lewis and Sherman, Governor Dunne, and Joseph G. Cannon attend. Mrs. Logan speaks. New York artists offer designs for the monument.
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Trinited
Murphysboro
Ill
John A. Logan
U.S. Grant
Illinois
James Black
Chicago
Logan
Memorial Association
United States
Hamilton Lewis
L. Y. Sherman
Dunne
Joseph G. Cannon
Danville
Mary Logan
Washington, D. C
New York
Wets and Drys in Ohio Death Struggle
United Press dispatch from Cleveland reports the start of a major battle in Ohio between wet and dry factions. Dry forces filed a proposed constitutional amendment to scrap the county local option law and make township and municipal units the basis for liquor legislation.
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United Press
Cleveland
Ohio
Secretary of
Rail strike averted as railroads accept arbitration
Washington reports Western railroads agreed to arbitrate employees wage demands on August 3, averting a strike by about 80,000 workers. The move brings relief to labor and management and ends an impending disruption.
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Washington
Western Railroads
Bankers Meeting Postponed Until Tomorrow
Washington Aug 3 due to Secretary McAdoo's absence the bankers conference scheduled for today was postponed to tomorrow. The meeting will examine the financial situation arising from the European war.
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Washington
McAdoo
Bankers’ Conference
Kansas Primaries On Today By Wahited Press
Kansas primaries underway as over 150000 women expected to vote statewide. Despite 300000+ women with full citizenship, fewer than three fourths registered by July 20 when books closed. Also notes South Carolina farmers bought over 1,000,000 tons of fertilizers this year, a record.
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Wahited
Topeka
Kan
Kansas
South Carolina
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Syracuse, N. Y
Nyntar & Bros
Gen. Logan
R. R
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