Water power and Japanese panic in early 20th century report
The article argues for developing unused water power to save coal and fuel, noting 19 million horsepower could cut coal use by over 100 million tons annually if tapped and transmitted as electricity. It also discusses Japan’s postwar panic, labeling it a short term misstep that may purge imprudent speculation and fuel a cautious recovery.
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United States
Harlan H. Barrows
New York Evening Post
Whiteal
The Political Menagerie and Its Animal Symbols
In Harper's Weekly 1874 cartoons Thomas Nast popularized the elephant for the Republican Party and the donkey for the Democratic Party. The camel joined as a symbol for prohibitionists. The piece notes ongoing interest in donkey camel relations as political figures are stirred by events and trainers struggle to keep beasts in line.
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Elephant
Dondey
Harper's Weekly
Thomas Nast
New York Herald
Central Park
Nast
Harper's
The Lunchbox and the Box Crusade Debate
In a spirited editorial riff, the piece laments the lunchbox trend birthed by the overalls movement and labeled tie collars to ditch downtown noon meals. It argues home lunches save money, but warns excess rush harms work and society, favoring moderation over extremes.
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Ender
Tony
Federal Water Power Bill Moves Through Conference
The long pending water power bill, aimed at financing and regulating hydroelectric projects, advances to a conference committee after passing the House last July and Senate amendments in January. It would create a federal power commission headed by the Secretaries of War Interior and Agriculture, with licensing power over citizens, associations, and corporations.
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House
Senate
Congress
Federal Power Commission
Interior
Secretary of Agriculte
United States
Varied Theft By Women and Political Buzz Around Wood
The article discusses new theft classifications among women in department stores including beginners who steal out of need, kleptomaniacs, and professional thieves. It also touches on Taft and Wood political dynamics, government spending, pacifism, Dee Cook proofs, Borah’s view of a Wood nomination, and Mexico’s revolutions.
Headlines and opinions mix in a storm of reform talk
A collage of editorials and quotes from press sources in Philadelphia New York Chicago and Cleveland spans rent profiteering strikes and labor markets. Mention of President Wilson Governor Cox and reactions to the British railway strike reflects a mood of urgent political and economic debate.
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Wilson
Congress
New York Telegraph
Philadelphia
Wall Street Journal
Chicago
United States
Charleston News
Dans
Women Voters and Politics in Montana Rhetoric
The Montana press clippings discuss women voters and politics, criticizing Miss Rankin for prioritizing gender group claims over state duties, endorsing Hoover as strong presidential timber, and noting mixed Georgia primary shifts. Other items mention vaudeville praise, cannibalism rumors among squirrels, work ethics, and Deer Lodge progress with clocks.
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Livingston Herald
Sai Tom
Herbert Hoover
Lewistown
French Nurse Arrives to Reunite Hus Band in San Francisco
Mrs. Robert Simmons, wife of a chief petty officer from the United States steamship Ausabla torpedoed in Southern France, has arrived in New York aboard the Rochambeau and heads to meet her husband in San Francisco after his rescue and hospital care in La Rochelle.
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Underwood & Underwood
New York
Robert Simmons
San Francisco
United States
Ausabla
la Rochelle
France
Humorous exchanges from a bustling early 20th century page
Snappy quips fuse daily life and society gossip across several newspapers. Jests about folding beds, a dance, Revolutions studies, revolving doors, waiters, facial expressions, wealth judgments, brain work excuses, pen names, and gendered ship pronouns color a collage of short humor items.
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Baltimore American
Pete
Washington Star
Winifred Black and the Childlike Teacher
A portrait of a devoted educator nicknamed an old maid yet praised for her love of children. The piece contrasts her warm, story filled classroom with harsh adult life, noting how she brings legends, ballads, and history to eager students.
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Thales
Earth
Richard
Urape
Ireland
Miriam
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