Campaign crank visits highlight oddball ideas at party HQs
Story sketches humorous encounters of campaign managers with cranks in Chicago national headquarters. A balloon plan to win the White House fails to explain voter impact, a cartoonist reveals the wrong reel, and a poet delivers mock political verses. The piece notes cranks cross party lines and disrupt operations.
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Chicago
Senator Jones
Bryan
White House
Republican
Babcock
Congressional Campaign Committee
Democratic
Hanna
Heat and temper gun casting and Tokyo street railway franchise
The article describes a two stage heat tempering process for a gun, with the weapon moved from a furnace and lowered into a deep shaft under steam. It discusses Tokyo street railway franchise terms set by public authorities and a 7 percent profit cap. It notes Denver and Allegheny City population figures and Dr Hideto Ikeda studying tobacco and cotton agriculture in the U.S.
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Gokio
Tokio
Japan Weekly Mail
Denver
Allegheny City
Hideto Ikeda
Japan
America
Virginia
The Hobo Candidate Filipino Joe for Vice President
Filipino Joe tours as vice presidential candidate on the National Tourists ticket, billed as hoboes. The rough speaker is a heavy tobacco chewer famed for a homely countenance and a globe trotting past with memories of war dead. He drifted from a cowboy job with Buffalo Bill to a nomadic road life.
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Joe
United States
Britt
Iowa
Wheaton
Lawton
Buffalo Bill
Wolfe's Aromatic Schiedam Schnapps advertised medicine
An advertisement touts Wolfe's Schiedam Schnapps as a cure all for colic flatulence stomach pains and kidney and bladder troubles appealing to households to use it and to demand the genuine product. The Empire State Sugar company orders ten autotrucks of five tons to haul beets from farms to Lyons New York and reports 5500 acres contracted.
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Wolfe
Empire State Sugar Company
Lyons
N. Y
Yucatan Chill Tonic Promises Health Benefits
The Best Chill Tonic Known is Yucatan Chill Tonic improved with fixed proportions for consistent doses. It claims to drive out malaria purify blood strengthen nerves and aid appetite. Sold at druggists with formula including iron and pepsin. Frederick McMonniesBrooklyn publisher to win Paris exposition gold medal for seven pieces in exhibit.
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Yucatan
Frederick McMonnies
Brooklyn Pulpturer
Bacchante
Sir Henry Vane
Venus
Army structure and pay in historical China noted
Report mentions 23000 regular army, 650000 national army paid about 5s monthly, cavalry earning 15s, with horses their own. It notes social ideas about respect, mentions Paulina's Haim Balm and Putnam faceless dyes, corns remedy, and a tongue in cheek line on debt.
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China
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Willis J. Abbot
Charles A. Walsh
Paulina
Haim BaLaan
Putnam
Mitchell
Hall & Ruckel
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