Reciproc ity debate fuels letters from consumers and producers
Washington COLUMN describes clashes over Canada reciprocity as President Taft touts consumer letters while senators hear from small producers and re spond with partisan barbs. It notes Davis Elkins and Henry Gassaway Davis visiting the Senate and hints at future career moves for N. P. Bryan of Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Clinton
Washington
Uncle Sam
White House
Mr. Taft
Canada
Senate
Heaven Imagines an Economy Of Excess And Scarcity
In a dialogue about heaven a speaker confesses difficulty defining it and muses that in that realm goods may not be universally cheap or plentiful nor purchases always scarce and costly. The exchange contrasts earthly commerce with imagined celestial abundance and lack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heaven
Morality Has No Natural Link to Religion Says Kroeber
Professor A L Kroeber argues in Berkeley that morality is innate to humans and that religion is a cultural product not a source of morals. He outlines four moral stages from instinctual to potentially fully intelligent, asserts incest and cannibalism are instinctual, and urges letting instincts stand as reason rather than justify them by argument.
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Berkeley
Cal
Philosophical Union
A. L. Kroeber
San Francisco
Anthropology
University
Professor Kroeber
Kroeber
England
Propose Gardens for Poor in Buffalo New Jersey
Louis J. Kenngett proposes that the city lease land to the poor for municipal gardening. He notes prior gardening used donor plots could revert to owners if lands were sold, risking labor and crops. He argues long term plots would protect the poor from sudden loss of work and harvest.
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Buffalo
N. J
Louis J. Kenngett
Eighth in New Buildings for Kansas City in December
Kansas City led the nation among smaller populations in December building permits, with a 216 percent rise over December 1909. The total value reached 1,005,920 dollars, while average building value placed sixth among the twenty largest cities.
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Chicago
United States
Kansas City
Baltimore
St. Louis
Cleveland
Pittsburg
Milwaukee
Portland
Ore
State Egg Costs 300 Declared by Pine Grove Poultry Dealers
Local poultry dealers in Pine Grove Pa announce egg prices to hotels in Philadelphia and New York at 55 to 60 cents per dozen for guaranteed fresh eggs. One dealer earns 60 cents with a novel deal, forfeiting the price for 300 eggs if a single stale egg is sent, but daily forwarding mitigates the risk.
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Pine Grove
Philadelphia
New York
Qne
How to Become Beautiful Says Boston Artist Bailey
Boston artist Henry Turver Bailey outlines timeless rules for women of all figures to achieve beauty through dress tones and cuts. He urges quiet color for larger women, horizontal lines for tall individuals, vertical lines for short ones, and warns against overdoing outfits and animal trims.
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Boston
Henry Turver Bailey
Bailey
Swiss Alps Beckon English Visitors This Winter
London reports the Swiss Alps attract more English visitors than ever this winter season. The south of France and the Italian Riviera drew many who left England, but crowded hotels in the Alps show increasing interest in winter sports such as skating, spring, and sledding.
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London
France
Italian Riviera
England
Switzerland
Alps
Hawaiian Five Cent Blue Stamps Fetch $1200 Each
Boston collector Warren H. Colson completed a Hawaii trip to study postage stamps and bought two rare five cent blue stamps from 1861 52 missionary issue printed by Henry M Whitney. He also notes a two cent Hawaiian stamp seen in Bishop Museum exhibits valued around $5000, illustrating stamp collecting’s rising appeal among serious collectors.
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Boston
Hawaii
Warren H. Colson
Colson
George V
Royal Philatelic Society of London
Materal
Henry M. Whitney
Honolulu
Samuel Whitney
Board of American Missions
Bishop Museum
Humiliated by Hobble Skirt Prompts Arrest of Tailor
Miss Anna Berkowicz sued George Casco after a hobble skirt split, tore, and transformed during her ride home. She testified she would never wear that style again, received a new skirt, and won $26 in Alderman Donahue's court for damages.
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Wilkesbarre
Anna Berkowicz
George Casco
John F. Donohue
Casea
Donahue
Rockefeller of Mexico Controls State Politics
Gen. Luis Terrazas is a political and financial power in Chihuahua Mexico. At eighty four he remains sharp and combative and has dictated state leadership for decades. He owns vast ranches and livestock holdings and controls banks and major businesses in Chihuahua and beyond. He employs over ten thousand people on Terrazas ranches and farms.
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Luis Terrazas
Chima
Hua
Mexico
Terrazas
Diaz
Gen. Terrazas
Eugene C. Creel
Creel
Washington
Chihuahua
Mr. Creel
Sanchez
Sanches
Death removes wife of famous magazine writer
The death of Mrs. Mary J. Lincoln Steffens at her Riverside Connecticut home ends a brilliant career as collaborator to her magazine-writer husband. Born in 1856 as Josephine Bontecou she studied in Germany and Paris and wrote articles and a novel. She was admired for her intellect and hospitality, survived by her husband, her mother and one brother, Dr. R. B. Bontecou.
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Mary J. Lincoln Steffens
Riverside
R. B. Bontecou
University of Leipsic
Germany
Sorbonne
Paris
Leipsic
Steffens
London
Steffena
Troy
Where the Danger Lay Escape at Seashore Tale
A dialogue recalls a near escape at the seashore last summer. A man says he rescued a woman from drowning but reveals she was married, leading to a humorous twist about her son-in-law and the narrow escape.
Widow of Standard Oil Magnate Quietly Plans Charities
The richest widow in America, Mrs. H. M. Rogers, widow of John D. Rockefeller's ally, stays out of society and public glare. She focuses on home life and public works for wage-earning women, quietly expanding charitable efforts while remaining unostentatious and devoted to her husband’s memory.
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Amer —Ica
Rogers
Last Survivor of the Patriot War of 1838
E Price Senter of Auburn New York died aged ninety believed last survivor among American raiders who entered Canada in 1838 to free Canada from British rule. At eighteen he joined Salina and Ogdensburg forces, stood at a wind mill for seven hours with 200 men against 3000, was captured and pardoned by Gov. Seward, while Asa Priest and Remia Woodbury were banished for life. Senter lived the rest of his days in Auburn.
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E. Price Senter
Auburn
N. Y
Canada
Senter
Ohio
Salina
Syracuse
Ogdensburg
Fort Henry
Kingston
William H. Seward
New York
Asa Priest
Remia Woodbury
van Dieman’s Land
Mr. Senter
Keeping Up Appearances Prompted by a Dictionary
In a family scene the father seizes a moment to define a term for his son, saying he will explain a transcendentalist once the dog is chained. While the boy Bobby is away, the astute parent consults a dictionary to reveal the needed definition.
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Bobby
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West Virginia
Stephen B. Elkins
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Erin
Congress
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Pennsylvania
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N. P. Bryan
Florida
Bryan
William Bryan
Niagara Falls
THE
Mitchell
Bobby” Leach
Ontario
Falls of
Niagara
City of
Worthy
Ockefeller
Standard Oil
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