Washington intimations threaten McKinley bid to veto Senate needs
The piece questions a possible McKinley move to withdraw the Hay-Pauncefote treaty if the Senate amends it. It accuses the administration of executive overreach and links a ship subsidy to Standard Oil interests, Rockefeller and other magnates, arguing the scheme stalls until after the election and may be defeated by public demand.
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Washington
McKinley
Senate
United States Senate
Congress
White House
Hay
Standard Oil Trust
International Navigation Company
Rockefeller
Rogers
Griscom
Standard Otl
Pet City Bank of New York
Hepburn
Gage
The Republican of Today Revolt Against Orthodoxy
A critique of modern Republicans torn between conscience and interest. The piece argues they have abandoned slavery principles, constitutional supremacy, and isolationist policies, tolerating imperial and corporate influences while dismissing the Declaration and Constitution as back numbers. The author questions loyalty when personal interest governs party stance.
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Republican Party
Sulu
United States
Unfortunate Mistake Hits Middlesex Club Dinner
A Washington congressman’s inflammatory Lincoln birthday remarks at the Middlesex Club dinner stirred the crowd and drew sharp editorial condemnations. The piece questions the guest’s tact, praises the Middlesex hosts for restraint, and laments the broader lack of eloquence paired with decency.
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Massachusetts
Lemuel Eli Quigg
Essex
Middlesex Club
Congress
Washington
Lincoln
Senator Hoar
Cushman
Hoar
The Subsidy Job and McKinley Re-election Plans
Protests across the nation against the Hanna Payne ship subsidy bill appear to influence Washington on the bill. It is believed the drive to pass the measure this session may jeopardize McKinley’s prospects for re-election in November. Massachusetts Republicans seem to have based themselves needlessly by.
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Hanna-Payne
Washington
United States Treasury
McKinley
Congress
Hanna
Massachusetts
War in Kimberley Reveals Suffering Besieged
The account details the humanitarian crisis in Kimberley during the siege. Residents face famine, disease, and rising deaths as December mortality soars, with canned meat nearly exhausted by January and price of food escalating amid siege conditions. The writer questions Cecil Rhodes about paying a large ransom to halt the distress.
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Kimberley
Cecil Rhodes
Weather, transit talk, and social notes from a New England paper
Observations on warm wet weather and disease risk, Lucius Tuttle’s rail history talk at the Neighborhood Club, and notes on swimming lessons and a Roxbury Latin School play. Local mischief at Salem church, windy streets and shoppers, plus a Tillman Williams anecdote and Henrik Ibsen’s new English staging in Chicago.
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Chicago
Authors’ Club
Henrik Ibsen
Scandia Hall
Aage Engel
When We Dead Awake Clarifies Life’s Final Realization
A theater piece notes that as life ends some awaken to the one thing worth having. Arnold Rubeck, the sculptor and lead figure, embodies the missed joy of love. The director Thorwald Kofoed oversees the production with a cast including Mrs Arra Rutzow and Miss A Gunitz.
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Arra Rutzow
W. Rossmusen
W. Jual
Edward Hansen
A. Gunitz
Thorwald Kofoed
Arnold Rubeck
Romance of Concord Town Love in a Revolutionary Morning
Dorothy Dent, a lively village girl, and Reuben Hale, the parson’s scholar, drift toward love as tension rises among colonial militiamen. Dorothy aids wounded on the village green at Concord after Paul Revere’s ride and the battle, only to faint in Reuben’s arms.
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Concord
New England
Dorothy Dent
Reuben Hale
Reuben
Dorothy
Faith
Boston
Paul Revere
Lexington
Sister of
Mercy
Concord Town
Daily Table Hints Breakfast Lunch and Dinner Plan
A vintage daily menu outlines meals for breakfast lunch and dinner with items such as grape fruit rolled oats minced chicken on toast and buckwheat cakes for breakfast and corn soup broiled lamb chops hashed brown potatoes roast beef mashed potatoes and green peas for other courses. The note at the end credits Mrs L C Kirtland of 15 Paul Gore Street Jamaica Plain.
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L. C. Kirtland
Paul Gore Street
Jamaica Plain
Waifs o Fun and Fragments of Courtly Wit
A collage of playful quotes from old papers features lively banter about olives, the pursuit of good and beautiful, and a quip on running affairs in Kentucky without a press censor. Notable voices include Blanche, Lillian, George, and Colonel Stilwell.
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Lillian
Blanche
Indianapolis Journal
Colonel Stilwell
Kentucky
Washington Star
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