United States Trade With American Nations Tops Forty Years
Trade with the American continents in the year ending June 30, 1914 reached 1,303 million dollars, 30 percent of U S port commerce. Imports from North America were 427 million led by Canada, Cuba, Mexico and Central American States. Exports to North America totaled 629 million led by Canada, Cuba and Central America. South America bought 223 million in imports, Brazil supplying nearly half and Argentina about 20 percent, while exports to South America were 135 million with Brazil and Argentina leading buyers.
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Washington
United States
New World
North America
South America
Canada
Cuba
Mexico
Central American States
British West Indies
Central America
Brazil
Argentina
Chile
Colombia
Venezuela
Peru
North American
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Department of Commerce
Special Agents
Otto Wilson
United Kingdom
Germany
France
England
Europe
Ayailebias
Great Britain
Australia
Austria
Hungary
Enelana 2Rasil
Legislation Seeks Volunteer Officers Retirement Roll
Congress weighs creating a volunteer officer retirement roll as of 1910 to 1918, with pension tallies showing 21,985 officers on the Denalon roll in 1910, 13,159 officers dead by 1918, and current pensioners around 426,000. An audit of pension bureau files suggested about one officer for every four men among living officers.
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Congress
Pension Office
Pension Bureau
Dr Eliot proposes private property exemption to curb wars
Harvard president emeritus Charles W. Eliot urges in a Carnegie Endowment letter that two passages from his 1912 Far East observations point to preventing wars. He argues fear of invasion and disruption of food and raw materials drive armaments, and proposes exempting private property at sea from capture as a path to relief.
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Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard University
China
Japan
Far East
Europe
Ses
West
Switzerland
Belgium
Great Britain
German Crown Princess as Diplomat in Family Row
The crown princess of Germany seeks a life in a hotel to cut palace duties, while Kaiser Wilhelm I resists. The crown prince is ordered to join his regiment at Danzig, and the empress is made a colonel by mail. Diplomatic tension yields with light banter between royal in laws and the emperor.
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Germany
Pless
Danzig
Berlin
Kaiser William
Making Millions of Dollars Yet Broke
Joseph H. Ralph of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing narrates an amusing self story. The agency runs day and night, producing emergency currency at twelve million dollars daily, while Ralph states he spends hours at the plant yet cannot scrape together much cash at home. His wife notes a few dollars in pocket money, highlighting the irony of immense earnings versus personal cash. The piece mentions worker meals at a cooperative restaurant amid rising food prices, offering a cheap dinner for cents.
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Joseph H. Ralph
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Washington
Congress
Ralph
Senator Perkins to retire from Maine senate after March
Maine loses its representation in the U S Senate with Senator George W Perkins announcing retirement after March four. The longtime Maine senator known for regular attendance and fortitude during hot summers plans to leave, reducing the state’s presence to two native sons in the Senate.
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George ¢. Perkins
Maine
Senate
George O. Perkins
Call
Bertram of Lübeck Rise From Scullion to Merchant Chief
A tale paralleling Dick Whittington follows Bertram, an orphan boy raised as a kitchen lad by Marquart von Hardewick in Lübeck. Education and Riga ties lift him to wealth as he returns, undisguised, to claim the family business and marry Marquart’s daughter, becoming Liebk’s leading trader.
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Marquart von Hardewick
Lunbeck
Riga
Bertram
Lubeck
Marquart von Bardewick
Jakob of
Marquart
Wilson King
Faith in Men and a Sherman Dispatch
A graphic Harper’s Weekly account recalls Adjutant 8. H. M. Byora of the Fifth Iowa Infantry delivering Sherman’s North Carolina advance news to Ulysses S. Grant at City Point in 1866. Grant’s eager reaction and Ord’s relieved comments frame the moment of news and confidence in Sherman’s march to the sea.
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H. M. Byora
Fifth
Iowa Infantry
Grant
Richmond
Sherman
North Carolina
Harper’s Weekly
City Point
Mr. Byers
Ord
Births and Deaths in the Alp Aerial Law Debate
The international congress for codifying laws on marriages births and deaths aboard aircraft has drafted a recommendation. The pilot must report a death to authorities at the nearest stopping place or consul if abroad. The issue of aerial births is noted as minor despite a Paris 1878 precedent from a captive balloon voyage.
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Alp
International
Geneva
Paris
Breaking Tidings Carry News Gently in Cottage Tale
A fragmentary report recalls a bearer delivering news as instructed to break it softly. The scene centers on a cottage setting with an emphasis on careful communication and the weight of the message conveyed.
The Love of a Dog by Madge Arthur
A reflection on canine devotion and owner responsibility contrasting two dogs. The essay laments human thoughtlessness in treating dogs as mere pets, urging true guardianship, understanding a dog’s restless nature, and honoring dogs as loyal friends deserving freedom and respect.
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Madge Arthur
Bason
Rolf
Chigago
Fatal Insertion Look Thundered by Large Pressive Man
A garbled OCR fragment shows a dramatic cry quoted as Fatal Insertion Look here shout by a large man described as pressive. The text is incomplete and unclear but implies a tense moment or misread line from a historical paper.
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Pan-America
Netherlands
Norway
Uruguay
Franklin K. Lane
Interior
Mr. Lane
U. S
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
New York State
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
DR. Eliot
Capitol
bin Eent
Tle
Rose
Scullion
Dick Whittington
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