Huerta the Man analyzed by Edwin Emerson
A Fortnightly Review piece by Edwin Emerson profiles Victoriano Huerta the provisional Mexican president. It sketches his background at Chapultepec, mapping work, and army staff founding, arguing his strength lies in obstinacy and ego while noting harsh leadership and limited military genius.
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Huerta
Mexico
Edwin Emerson
Emerson
Mr &Merson
Aly
Military Academy of
Chapultepec
Porfirio Diaz
Diaz
Beig
Tmerson
Wuerta
United States
Emer
Emerson Dimest
Freichert
Winan
Salvation Army Christmas Appeal Spurs Atlanta Giving
The Salvation Army launches its Christmas appeal in Atlanta amid prosperity, urging public subscriptions to support year round relief. The message highlights the organization’s long standing fight against destitution, rehabilitation of the needy, and efficient use of funds to aid the community.
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Salvation Army
Atlanta
Ata
Georgia
Yuletide
World Hero Dawd Gaillard Who Died For Panama Canal
A South Carolinian born army engineer, Lieutenant Colonel Dawd Gaillard, supervised the Culebra excavation for the Panama Canal. He died in Baltimore from a head growth linked to overwork on the isthmus. His death preceded the blowup of the Gamboa dike uniting oceans, a monumental canal achievement. He saved the government about 17 million dollars through economy and effort. Congress may honor his widow with salary and pension. He shares canal glory with Goethals.
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Dawd Gaillard
Colonel Gaillard
Culebra
Panama Canal
Gallard
Baltimore
Gamboa Dike
Two
Oceans
Gaillard
South
Congress
Goethals
Wilson's Diplomacy on Suffrage and Politics
President Wilson declined to push a suffrage message to Congress, noting emergency or political nature as limits, while endorsing a standing suffrage committee for the House. He urged educative agitation and warned against radical moves, favoring candor to bolster the long-term cause.
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Wilson
American National Woman's Suffrage Association
Congress
House of Representatives
From Georgia By Frank Bl Stawtov A Wayside Citizen
A poem by Frank Bl Stawtov in From Georgia, voiced by a wayside citizen content with humble life. The speaker laments political focus and praises personal peace while noting moonshine lore and a Georgia movement to shut beer saloons, content with national government restraint.
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From
Georgia
Frank Bl Stawtov
United States
Fragmented Musings and Rural Humour Across Wartime Lines
A collage of crooked dialogue and whimsical verse from a rural newspaper page. It weaves a hotel lobby encounter, a creekside raft tale, seasonal fire imagery, and scattered comic snippets about hunts, weddings, and dances. The piece shifts through regional quips, political quips, and homely ads, airing light satire and local color.
A Modern Woman's Notion Of Entertaining Faced
Mrs Jamesworthy argues against costly refreshments for a Daughters of Delilah meeting, preferring simple home hospitality. Her husband objectes, recalling traditional quailty gatherings with quilts, apples, and home baking. The piece satirizes changes in social norms and gender roles.
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Sasay
Jamesworthy
Halcyon
Otr House
Heldames
Strongbo
Mra Jamesworthy
Fashion notes on medieval style and ship tech in 1913
The piece critiques women’s robes described as diaphanous yet modest, suggesting an all enveloping mouse gown with fur collars and colored girdles. It warns against amateur tailoring and praises horse sense fashion. A separate note describes a dirigible balloon coated with aluminum to reflect heat for the British navy. Japan’s 1913 rice crop is estimated at 283,932,975 bushels.
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New York
Barbara
What Became Of A T Stewart's Body
The 1876 New York merchant A T Stewart died wealthy and childless. After burial his body was found missing in 1878, with a ransom note and apoliced probe, but no conclusive proof of theft or recovery, leaving the fate of the body a mystery.
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A. T. Stewart
Alexander Stewart
New York City
United States
New York
Henry Hilton
St. Mark's Churchyard
Judge Hilton
Hilton
T. Stewart
Stewart
Nobogy
Belew
Hiiton
Chicago
Garden City
Croquettes From Century Cookbook Provide Fried Or Oven Bakes
The Century cookbook describes croquettes as minced meat in a thick sauce formed into shapes, breaded and fried to a creamy interior with a golden crust. Variations include plain meat, mushrooms, brains, sweetbreads, and lobster garnishes, with a sauce of milk and flour, plus butter and optional eggs and bread crumbs for coating.
Macaroon Pudding and Canarium Notes From Far Lands
An old time pudding recipe combines macaroon pudding with eggs wine sugar gelatine and nuts for a mold dessert. Separate notes discuss Canarium commune fruit kernels oil uses tree height and balsam copaiba substitutes withCanarium harvests and a London-bound shipment of honey from Tamworth Australia.
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Canarium Commune
Moluccas
China
Canarium
Nemingha
Tamworth
Australia
London
Cedar Rapids in Jest and Smoke by George Fitch
Cedar Rapids is lampooned as a booming metropole with 35000 residents and Bohemian roots. Fitch satirizes the city’s skyline, factories, and hospitality while joking about depots, parks, clubs, and late night jaywalking in a playful portrait of Cedar Rapids Iowa.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
George Fitch
Good Old Siwasah
New York
Praise. By George Matthew Adams on Encouraging Praise
The piece argues that praise should travel beyond the recipient to friends and unknown listeners. Sincere, face to face praise lifts spirits and motivates others, with honest, future-oriented praise boosting effort and efficiency in workers and in all who hear it.
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George Matthew Adams
Military Vanity at Fontainebleau Barracks Gate
A Paris reported dispatch quotes an order posted at Fontainebleau barracks guiding new recruits. It instructs walkers to study shop window details of their dress and, if needed, to correct or alter it following a simple formula: wall dressed soldier good soldier.
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London
Daly Mall
Fontainebleau
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