The Senate's Opportunity for Tax Reform
The house passed a weak tax equalization bill with dubious support and no real reform. The senate, shown boldness by trimming $280 in the budget, faces pressure to enact a genuine tax equalization measure to protect the state's honor and finances. The public awaits a decisive move to uphold fiscal integrity and national standards.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
Antasoanu
Finance Committee
Georgia Home for Wayward Girls Faces Narrow Path to Start
Georgia legislators weigh a modest start for a state backed home for wayward girls. Chairman Crawford Wheatley and the appropriations subcommittee favor a nominal annual grant of 500 to 1000 dollars to secure official sanction and attract private support, arguing the need to curb youth losses each year and reduce future state costs. The move gains backing from advocates including Georgia women and state officials.
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Crawford Wheatley
House Appropriations Committee
Appropriations Committee
Wheatley
Good Women of
Georgia
Dishonor's Reward and Miscellaneous Observations
England and Germany skip San Francisco exposition for Panama canal opening over tolls, a move the writer hails as justified to avoid honoring a bad deal. The piece laments U S repudiation, urges immediate recantation, and warns of trade war and national shame. It also blends satirical notes on editors, politics, misdeeds, and oddities from various states, including mish stories and local gossip.
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England
Germany
San Francisco
United States
Europe
Disappointed Class Poems and Georgia Citizen Letters
A clipped page of verse and columns features Frank J. Stanton’s “Disappointed Class” with satirical poems on politics and office seeking. It includes a Whitsett Courier critique, musings on ambassadors, and a Georgian citizen's plea to lawmakers while recalling local figures and toads as allegories.
O Cowley and Wellington Name Debate in Irish Lineage
A New York Sun correspondent notes English writers on Waterloo ignore the Irish roots of the Duke of Wellington. The piece outlines how the name was once O Cowley, tracing ancestry to the O Plinn O Tuirtre clan and Mornington.
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Mora M. Campbell
New York Sun
Waterloo
H. J. Jackson
Duke of Wellington
Wellesley
O'Cowley
Cowley
O'Plinn
Lora
Tuirtre
Clanab
Ireland
Public satire on fad diets and patent medicines
A satirical piece mocks a merchant and hotel keeper discussing meatless living and fad diets. It lampoons quacks selling tonics like Bildad’s syrup and Playfate’s tincture, noting the public’s hunger for notoriety over genuine remedies and exposing the absurdity of sensational health cures.
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Tye
Qld Quackenbush
Han
Ningsta Falls
Sven
Dr. Bildad
United States
Congrest
Dr. Bilfan
Banean Ai Island
The Lack and the Hope Beyond The Infinite Night
A reflective piece on happiness, charity, and hope. It speaks of inner seeds of joy, the need to impart generosity, and the belief that faith can illuminate even the darkest times. The text ends with a call to understand a crystal revelation that might right past wrongs.
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Allence
The Lyttelton Ghost Folklore From Pall Mall Gazette
The Pall Mall Gazette recounts the Lyttelton family legend. Thomas Lord Lyttelton dreamed a bird turning into a white woman who foretold his death within days. He dismissed the omen but died within three days, shortly after learning of the message.
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Pall Mall Gazette
Lyttelton
Thomas Lord Lyttelton
Bilk the
Ticket to heaven sparks grief on Main Street
The Atchison Globe recounts a poor, elderly colored woman wandering Main Street in visible distress, crying and wringing her hands as she searches for a lost ticket to heaven. She had bought the ticket through church dues, believing it would grant her a berth in heaven after years of hard labor.
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Atchison Globe
Main Street
Abe
Pala
You're a Crook. A Leslie's Weekly verse on profits and power
Poem satirizes prosperous business leaders and their paid labor force. It mocks claims of virtue when dividends soar and workers thrive while exploitation looms. The piece questions morality in a booming era and labels the subject a crook.
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Leslie's Weekly
Jove
American Indian origins debated across time and races
An early 20th century column weighs competing theories on the origin of American Indians, arguing for native emergence, examining Asiatic and Polynesian links, craniology, philology, and biblical context, and noting ongoing scholarly disagreement.
Lime Salts and Health from The Indianapolis News
The Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift notes lime salts influence on health and hygiene. Reinhardt cites rapid recovery in overworked individuals and youth-boosting effects, while acknowledging enthusiasm. References Dr Brown-Sequard and aging, plus the line about decay from age in Shakespearean mood.
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Indianapolis
Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift
Reinhardt
Dr. Brown-Sequard
Jacques
Arden
Cape Henry Then and Now in The New Dress
The piece recalls John Smith and Jamestown colonists landing at Cape Henry in 1607 and contemplates a 1901 vision of a large fort on 200 acres. It contrasts historic resistance by Native allies with modern government land acquirement debates, suggesting Captain Smith would face scrutiny today as his explorers faced arrows centuries ago.
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Ganeats
America
North America
South America
Daniel G. Hritten
Bolog
St. Paul
John Smith
Jamestown
Cape Henry
House of Representatives
Smith
Parahontas
Shaw on Order and Public Fame as Jester of Demos
George Bernard Shaw proclaims love of order and dresses to fit his persona. At a public talk he recounts comic theater anecdotes, including resisting theater dress code and triumphing in the stalls with his cocoa colored jacket.
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G. B. Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Shaw
Demos
Mademoiselle Sorel Receives Parisian Laureates’ Praise
At a banquet for Mademoiselle Sorel, renowned academicians and ministers congratulated her. Professor F., a leading surgeon, reported a recent patient who admired her and died after requesting surgery she could not attend, thanking her in his final act as he perished.
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Mademoiselle Sorel
le Cri de Paris
Jesters
tRmedienne
A Hot Shot from The Oglethorpe Echo on tax equalization
The article argues that several legislators oppose tax equalization and want full per diem while forcing other taxpayers to pay more. A contrasting note from The Monroe Advertiser criticizes silhouettes and slit skirts, advocating modesty and leaving more to the imagination.
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Oglethorpe Echo
The
Monroe Advertiser
Tacoma’s Irrepressible Rise and Rivalry with Seattle
A vivid retrospective portrays Tacoma as a hardy Pacific Northwest city on Puget Sound’s edge. The piece tracks its growth from 1883 origins through rapid early 20th century change, noting population, architecture, rail access, health, governance, and a cheeky aim to outpace Seattle in later censuses.
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Takoma
Wash
Pacific
Tacoma
Seattle
Chicago
Puget Sound
Nis
Achilles
Portland
Long Literary Life in Century-Long Writer Records
From The London Chronicle a discussion of age and longevity in authors. It cites M. Francois Fernault who published his first volume at 17 in 1830 and remained active until 1912, comparing rare centenarian writers such as Michel Chevreul and Caroline Whit who produced works late into life.
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London Chronicle
Francois Fernault
Legion of Honor
Michel Chevreul
Caroline Whit
Heri
M. Fertiault
Witlin
New Schoolhouse Design Shapes Wadsworth Street Lot
A new educational building design in Los Angeles places a large interior court inside the single story structure. Each classroom opens directly to a light filled stretch room, with external light and air from the sides and a rapid, orderly exit through the main office.
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Prom the Popular Mechanics Magazine
Wadsworth Stai
Los Angeles
Fice
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Mexico
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Washington
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Constitution
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Albany Herald
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Albania
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Honor
Hanley Livingston Murshaw
Une Gonaeliers
Cedartown Standard
B. Russell
Homer
Troy
Helen Ty
O'Cowley, Duke of Wellington
Aaguata Wall
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Polynesia
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George Fitch
Mount Tacoma
Mount Ranier
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