New Guide for Democracy Homer S. Cummings Chair
Homer S. Cummings is named newly elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee. A Yale graduate and Stamford lawyer, he has held multiple public offices including mayor of Stamford and corporation counsel. He has long served on the Democratic National Committee since 1900 and led the speakers bureau in 1908, 1912, and 1916.
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Homer S. Cummings
Democratic National Committee
Yale
Connecticut
Stamford
United States
Cummings
General Assembly
Clemenceau's American Residence and a Love Story
Premier Georges Clemenceau lived in the United States for five years after arriving in 1865 at age twenty four. He taught French in Stamford Connecticut and married Mary H Plummer, a Michigan or Wisconsin native, who later divorced him and was believed dead but is reportedly alive in Paris.
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Georges Benjamin Eugene Clemenceau
France
Doctor Clemenceau
England
America
New York
Stamford
Conn
Mary H. Plummer
Michigan
Wisconsin
Forest Country
Mary
New York City
Paris
Washington
United States
United States Army
Argonne 2 Forest
Faucom
Meuse
Argonne
Vesle
Frederick Gillett Named House Speaker for Sixty-Sixth Congress
Frederick Huntington Gillett of Massachusetts, veteran lawmaker, chosen as speaker of the house for the Sixty-sixth Congress. Born October 16 1851 in Westfield Massachusetts, he graduated from Amherst College and Harvard Law School and has served since 1892. He represents Massachusetts Second district and will begin his fourteenth consecutive term as speaker. New England has furnished only two speakers since the Civil War.
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Frederick Huntington Gillett
Massachusetts
House of Representatives
Joe Cannon
Illinois
Henry Allen Cooper
Wisconsin
Gillett
Champ Clark
Missouri
James R. Mann
Ilinois
Mr. Gillett
Westfield
Mass
Amherst
Harvard Law School
Springfield
Franklin
Hampden
Hampshire
New England
Better Pay for School Teachers Urged by Education Commissioner
United States education commissioner Dr. P P Claxton urges a minimum average teacher salary of 1500 dollars. He argues for rapid pay increases to restore purchasing power and attract quality entrants to normal schools, proposing doubling salaries within five years and a 50 percent rise within ten more years.
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P. P. Claxton
United States
Claxton
Saben
Tha Echnoala
Unsung Heroes of the Front Drive to the War’s Heart
Washington dispatch honors the truck drivers who carried ammunition and food to American front lines under shellfire. Their courage kept supplies moving, yet many receive little public credit. The piece reflects on postwar readjustment and the lingering urge of veterans to stay active, including memories of escorting magazine editors to the front.
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Washington
Congress
August Flower Remedy Claims Broad Stomach Ailment Use
Advertises Green's August Flower as a universal cure for stomach disorders, including sick headache constipation sour stomach and nervous indigestion. Describes as a gentle laxative that regulates digestion, cleans the stomach and alimentary canal, and prompts bile production. Sold in all civilized countries. Give it a trial.
Dogs Adopt Railcar Names for Popular Fancy
Writers note that dog names follow fashion and shift from imperial and regal tags to stylish given names. Traditional big dog names like Kaiser Bismarck King Duke Prince fall out of favor as owners borrow from Pullman sleeper names. Fayette Gwendolin Edith emerge as the new vogue in canine naming.
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Kaiser
Bismarck
Lena
Gretchen
King
Duke
Prince
Fayette
Gwendolin
Edith
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Claims to Cure Deafness
A medical advertisement argues catarrhal deafness stems from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a systemic cure. It promises one hundred dollars for any untreatable case and notes price and free circulars from J J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio.
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BF. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Albert Pennyroyal Jones Lodges Complaint
The head of the house scolds Albert as he admits plans to lodge a complaint with the dressmaker about the clothes looking too cheap. Albert speaks meekly and defends his intention as a lodging of a complaint rather than any other act.
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Albert Pennyroyal Jones
Albert
Duck of a doctor sparks a quack joke in comic quip
A playful exchange features a dealer in humor as the phrase duck of a doctor prompts a chorus of Great Scott quips. The dialogue centers on a punny misdescription and lighthearted mockery.
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Scott
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Chaumont
St. Mihiel
Edward W. Bok
The
Ladies’ Home Journal
Ellery Sedgwick
Atlantic Monthly
Charles Hanson Towne
Joan of Arc
Domremy
Hatton-Chatel
Flirey
Miss Scott
Hugh L. Scott
Walter Farwell
Chicago
Neufchateau
Sedgwick
Albert Explains
Castoria
Sly Cascara
Mr. Hill
Brothers
American Shorthorn Breedery’ Association
Dexter Park Ave
Cutter
Cutter Laboratory
Berkeley
Cal
Ill
Laboratory
Western Seed Company
15Th Street
Denver, Colo
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