Local Option and Party Policy in Georgia Debate
The article discusses the Georgia Democratic convention's stance on local option versus state prohibition, comparing with Vermont's approach. It argues for reaffirming local option, noting Georgia’s progress against liquor, and urges party unity on home-rule policy. It also notes irrigation bills advancing in Congress to reclaim arid western lands.
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Commonwealth
Georgia
Ifa
Campaigen
Vermont
Montpelier
McCullough
Clement
Proctor
Maine
Democracy of
Reclaiming Arid West Lands and Critique of Foreign Decorations
The article argues 600,000,000 acres in the public domain could be reclaimed by irrigation to support up to 24 million people, urging rapid action despite costs. It then condemns eighteen officials seeking foreign decorations as vain symbols, noting many recipients lack public merit and criticizing the practice as un-American and servile.
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Congress
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Newspaper
Barhive
Mississippi Valley
United States
Senate
Philippine Islands
A Mussed-Up Party Paragraphs on Republican Turmoil
The piece compares the Republican Party to a mussed canal boat in a storm, criticizing leaders for blocking reform and channels of corruption. It argues that monopolies and special privileges fracture the party, urging a return to equal rights and conservative democracy led by Jeffersonian ideals. It also references contemporary figures and events to illustrate internal strife and calls for “Death to monopoly.”
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Republican Party
Mulligan Guards
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Republic
United States
Democratic Party
Lfe
Equal Rights Motto Drives Political Platform
The speaker proclaims equal rights for all and special privileges to none as the gospel of the nation’s salvation, urging voters to embrace a platform that promises government by and for the people and a return to true democratic conditions for posterity.
Insects and Civilizations and Wireless Telegraphy Notes
An 1880s Harper's piece cites insect-driven losses from chinch bugs to cotton bollworms, with totals from 309 to 400 million dollars yearly. It then reports on Maiche wireless telegraphy tests using a ground base wire to extend signal reach from 1,200 feet to over 41,000 feet, including Monaco's Princess Alice yacht loan for Mediterranean trials.
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Harper’s Magazine
H. C. McCook
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Iowa
South
B&b
D. Walsh
United States
C. V. Riley
Division of
Entomology
James Fletcher
Dwight Sanderson
French Society of Civil Engineers
Matcha
Monaco
Mediterranean
Sparks From The Wires In Early 1900s News Roundup At Aurora
Fire at royal wheel works in Aurora Indiana partially burns. Over 300 workers lose jobs. In Valley City Noah Daley shot dead by partner Jeannie Daley. killer William Bennett dies by suicide after the quarrel. In Cincinnati Henry Rechtin charged with misappropriating 7600 dollars waives examination. case moves to grand jury. In Knox County venue change granted for William Edison case. In St Paul, executors challenge sale of Fanny Davenport McDowell plays. case requests accounting for profits.
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Aurora
Ind
Valley City
Noah
Jeannie Daley
Wiliam Bennett
Restaaurant
Henry Rechtin
Cincinnati
Washington
Department of Justice
Vincennes
Knox County
Q. H. Cobb
Daviess County
William Edison
St Paul
Most Sentenced to One Year in Penitentiary
Johann Most, noted anarchist, was sentenced in New York to one year in the penitentiary after conviction for printing an incendiary article in his newspaper. The item appeared around the time President McKinley was shot and the case upheld by the court of appeals.
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New York
Johann Most
McKinley
Court of Appeals
Wise Men and Books Across Historic Figures
A compact survey of famous readers: Lord Clive, St John Chrysostom, James I, Bunyan, Salvator Rosa, Mrs Biddons, Hume, Locke, Hoe, the elder Pitt, Shelley, Tennyson, Beattie and the Ballantynes. Each figure’s favored authors or works is noted, from Tacitus to Shakespeare and Bible imagery, reflecting diverse literary appetites.
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Chapin
Lord Clive
Robinson Crusoe
St. John Chrysostom
John
James I
England
Bunyan
Salvator Rosa
Pitt
Shakespeare
Bhelly
Tennyson
Duke of Wellington
Light Brigade
Beatt
Ballantynes
Dinion
Beets sugar insurgents win sympathy in party fight
Washington report notes sympathy for beet sugar republicans amid a factional GOP struggle over a reciprocity bill. It describes perceived leadership arrogance by Henderson Grosvenor Payne and Dalzell and the role of Roosevelt, the sugar trust, and a proposed compromise that was derailed by party leaders. The piece weighs whether a binding caucus or a conference approach will determine the bill’s fate.
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Washington
White House
Henderson
House
Iowa
Roosevelt
Sugar Trust
Grosvenor
Payne
Dalzell
My. Long
Kansas
Senate
Aldrich
Rhode Island
Joe Cannon
Illinois
Cannon
Moat
Senator Bacon Defends Filipino Character in Debate
Washington June 20 Special. The house begins five days general debate on the Philippines government bill with party lines. Senator Bacon of Georgia credits Filipinos as a Christian, civil, and nationalistic people, arguing their de strong virtues and desire for independence warrant liberal institutions and considerate treatment.
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Washington
House
Philippines
Republicans
House Committee
Senate
Islanda
Bacon
Georgia
Asia
Siberia
Ghurman Commission
Thirteen
Colonies
England
United States
Schurman
Mindanao
Indiana
Virginia Carolina to Erect Fertilizer Factory at Americus
The Virginia Carolina Chemical Company plans a 154000 dollar fertilizer plant in Americus, surveying land and sidetracks for immediate construction on a 100 acre site along the Central railroad. Building will start at once. Americus Oil Company also enlarges its plant with about 15000 dollars in improvements, boosting Georgia’s largest cotton bale warming capacity to 30 bales daily.
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Virginia-Carolina Company
Americus
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company
Central Railroad
Americus Oil Company
Georgia
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