National and regional highlights from the Washington scene
A wide run of topics spans fiscal bills to stamp treaties and elections. Notable items include Washington bills lifting legations to embassies in Argentina and Chile, Mothers Day designation, Panama tolls repeal delays, and primary costs for Senator Chamberlain and rival Booth. Supreme Court ruling favors the Arizona-New Mexico railroad suit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Argentina
Chile
House
Senate
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company
Arizona Railroad Company of
New Mexico
Colorado-New Mexico State Line
Farmington, N. M
Animas River
Supreme Court
Chamberlain
Oregon
R. A. Booth
Booth
International Council of Women speakers at Rome meeting
Rev. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw of New York spoke on woman suffrage at a Rome meeting under the International Council of Women. The piece notes various sports, legal, and political items from the period, including fines for players, habeas corpus in Thaw’s extradition appeal, and child labor debates.
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International Federation of Trade Unions
San Francisco
American Federation of Labor
Washington
Anna Howard Shaw
New York
International Council of Women
Rome
Edgar Aldrich
Harry K. Thaw
American Association of Physicians
Atlantic City
Harry Platz
Mount Sinai Hospital
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company
Government to amend home rule measure pledge in Commons
Premier Asquith vowed in the house of commons to push an amending bill in hope of party agreement on home rule. Two army airmen were killed when two Aldershot biplanes collided in the air. Lieutenant C Wilson was gravely injured. Captain F D Anderson and mechanic Carter died in the crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Mexican
House
Appropriations Committee
Asquith
House of Commons
Army
F. D. Anderson
Carter
C. W. Wilson
Aldershot
Potato Pay Dirt People Promotes Land Sales
Red River Valley improved and unimproved lands offered with cheap easy terms. Sales agents wanted. Barnesville Minnesota listing by Huxsey Brown Lands Co. POTATO PAY DIRT PEOPLE.
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Red River Valley
Huxsey-Brown Lands
Barnesville
Minn
Unable to See the Joke
A druggist and a young colored servant were harmed in a burst from combustibles during a printed joke gone wrong. The chemist and the boy suffered injuries from an explosion and fire, with the boy quipping that the prank was not a proper way to play.
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Darky
Railway Labor in Prussia Echoes War Service
The excerpt notes that nearly all Prussian railway workers have served in the army and jokes that when trouble comes they retreat to the rear, reflecting wartime sentiment about rail staff and discipline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Redd
Prussia
Greene
False Alarm Farmer’s Wife Hen Cackles Three Times
A farmer’s wife jokes about a yellow hen that has cackled three times without laying an egg. Parmer suggests she may be entitled to a relay.
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Parmer
Living Advertisement Glow of Health Speaks for Postum
A Tennessee woman describes health improvements after stopping coffee and using Postum as a substitute. She notes weight gain from 117 to 170 pounds and credits Postum with her better health, calling herself a living advertisement. The ad promotes Regular and Instant Postum with prices and brewing notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Old By Grocers
Street corner orator wows crowd with dog tale lesson
A London Tit-Bits anecdote describes a street speaker appealing to urchins about kindness to dumb animals. To illustrate, he points to two dogs and asks what to do if they fight. An arab boy replies he would bet tuppence on the black dog, delivering a humorous punchline. Alfalfa seed and farm listings appear in the ad sections.
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London
Is This Efficiency Briggs-I Have a Great Scheme For Upkeep
Briggs describes a method to read many books cheaply by borrowing on trial and returning within three days. Griggs questions the cost and Briggs admits it explains his recent mental deterioration in a joke about life.
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Briggs
Griggs
Notable Shopper Question Misunderstanding at Store
A shopper asks for the range department in a large department store. The polite floorwalker replies with a humorous choice of rifle kitchen or mountain, highlighting a mix up between firearm and kitchen gear in a light anecdotal exchange.
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Havana
United States Treasury
William Wainwright
Grand Trunk Railway
Atlanta, Ga
National Conference of Charities and Correction
Memphis
Eleanor Wilson McAdoo
Martine
Administration
House Public Lands Committee
Secretary of the Interior
Bradley
Kentucky Republian
Gallinger
W. J. Sweeney
Chicago Nationals
Lee Magee
St. Louis Nationals
St. Louis
Tener
National League
Navy Department
Naval
Navy
Pierce Oil Corporation
Tulsa
Okla
Farmington
Utah
Johns. Morrow
Salt Lake City
Jack” Koetters
Chicago
Ilinois
Joliet
Emma Kraft
Cincinnati
Canada
Masonic Order
North American
Missouri
Iowa
Charles W. Post
Cereal Food
J. C. Bainbridge
Post
Bouck White
Milo Woolman
Harvard
Blackwell's Island
Calvary Baptist Church
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Vera Cruz
Rob McCullough
A. J. McKelway
Washington, D. C
Southern States National Child Labor Committee
National Conference of Charities and Corrections
Cehentral Iron Works
Des Moines
America
Joseph Collingwood & Son
Ottamwa
Parker
Druguista
Pettit
Eve
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. Haddock
Urica
Oxra
Mary Ann Happock
Utica
Oklahoma
Lydia E.pinkham
J. Mulhall
Svo City
Dogen
Spohn Medical CO
Sfevrcridisdiste
Goshen
Ind
U. S. Me
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