Morgan's Universal Trust Seeks Global Control
A New Jersey incorporation filing reveals an omnibus trust with authority to manufacture iron steel coal timber and many products and to absorb land mines railways and water works abroad, while barred from owning a state railroad or canal. The plan values capitalization at 1.1 billion dollars with 7 percent preferred dividends and room to expand. The piece condemns it as a step toward socialism and warns it would leave the government untouched yet complicit.
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Universal Trust
New Jersey
Mr. Morgan
Great Trust
Corporation
United States
Observant Citizen Reflects On Street Crowds And Oratory
A reader laments rude crowd behavior and dirty hands in city streets while praising after dinner speakers such as Mayor Hart Lieutenant-Governor Bates General Guild and Judge Fox. The piece also notes a dispute over Post publications about a veteran government employee and a campus funding controversy at Stanford.
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Hart
Bates
Curtis Guild, Jr
Teddy Roosevelt
Bancroft
Sampson snobbery challenged over naval promotion
Admiral Sampson objects to promoting Gunner Morgan to ensign citing social rank, while Secretary Long defends the merit based amendment. The article denounces the snobbery and urges advancement by professional qualification, not social standing, in the navy.
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Admiral Sampson
Charles Morgan
Congress
Secretary Long
Sampson
Long
Massachusetts
Gunner Morgan
Morgan
Naval Rules Question on Presumption in Declaration
A reader asks if naval regulations contain rules applying to presumption when declaring something. The query implies a need for statutory guidance on presumptive declarations within maritime law.
Telephone reform hearing at State House informs on regulation
The State House hearing before the mercantile affairs committee at 10 this forenoon discusses regulating telephone companies as quasi public corporations. The article notes the prior acceptance of supervision by the company and its later lobbying to defeat the bill.
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State House
Committee On Mercantile Affairs
Reform Call at Hearing on Telephone Company Law
The public demands reform legislation after the parent corporation was removed proving the need for restraint. Business associations and thousands of telephone users petitioned for years for change and today’s hearing will again present the request.
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Massachusetts
The Chaperon and the Debutante in Moonlit Reminiscence
Ella Wheeler Wilcox in March Smart Set story recalls a debutante's secret memory of a romance in a dim room. A chaperon warns against companionship while a couple share a kiss and a future uncertain to elders.
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Alana
Jack
Maud
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Sea Ball Secrets Drive Wives Masked Night
In a domestic tale a quarrel over money and clothing leads a wife to plot a masquerade first to spite her husband. She remakes a ball gown from sea shells and a sea green dress, attends the ball, and unmasking exposes her husband’s flirtation, then leverages silence with a servant and social leverage.
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Eva
John Reynolds
Mr. Reynolds
Social whirl shines at Boston gatherings and engagements
The World of Society column notes Miss Gertrude Endicott's engagement to Eugene Endicott amid a busy social calendar. Governor Crane visits Boston and attends Miss Simplicity at Tremont Theatre while weddings and musical events unfold at Auburndale and Steinert Hall. Notables, hostesses, and travelers fill meals, teas, and lectures as the season continues.
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Gertrude M. Endicott
Dedham
iloosick-Whisick
Eugene Endicott
Endicott
Mt. Vernon Place
Chapman
Europe
Governor Crane
Somerset
Tremont Theatre
Barnet
Miss Simplicity
Mabel Frederica Ballard
Charles Edward Macallar
North American Insurance Company
Auburndale
Browning Society
Tucy G. Peabody
Newbury Street
Brunswick
George Edmund Dwight
Association Hall
Gertrude Miller
Alfred Devoto
Steinert Hall
Frank Sturgis
Benjamin Lang
Oliver Ames
J. Arthur Beebe
W. B. Rogers
Shuman
Robert S. Bradley
Robert M. Cushing
Alexander Cochrane
John L. Gardner
J. DeForest Danielson
Eben Dyer Jordan
Arthur Lincoln
Real Estate Exchange
Algonquin Club
Francis Peabody, Jr
Bird S. Coler
Bates
Henry Parkman
Curtis Guild, Jr
Nathan Matthews, Jr
Peabody
Paul Andrews
Philadelphia
George Huhn
Commonwealth Avenue
J. P. Sutherland
Fraulein Rosa Weidhorn
William Bunting
Bay State Road
Miami
Palm
Simpson
Somerville
James Kohler
New York
Miss Allen
William Burnet Wright
Rudolph Agassiz
Hamilton
George A. Plummer
Marlboro Street
Lakewood
Woodstock Inn
Woodstock
David Porter Leas
Pine Streets
Les Madelaine Stuart
Question to Editor on Smallpox Records and Vaccination Laws
Letter from Provincetown questions who edits Massachusetts State Board of Health documents and highlights errors in the 1894 and 1898 vaccination Acts cited in the Fall River smallpox report. The writer notes 37 Fall River cases with 25 unvaccinated and praises local doctors for not losing a single case.
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Massachusetts State Board of Health
State Board of Health
Fall River
Sydenham
Provincetown
Mass
Snowstorms This Winter Question to the Editor
To the Editor of the Post readers ask how many snowstorms struck this winter with a response of nineteen noted in the brief inquiry.
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Post
Miss Josephine W Chapman Designs New England Building
Boston’s renowned woman architect Miss Josephine W Chapman was named designer of the New England States building for the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo. At a Parker House meeting, New England commissioners formally accepted her plans, praised for historic colonial character and artistic merit.
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Josephine W. Chapman
Boston
New England States
New Peingland
Parker House
Chapman
Buffalo
New England Building at Pan-American Exposition
The article notes Miss Chapman’s appointment as supervising architect for the commission and highlights her standing in Boston. It lists Craigie Hall Dormitory in Cambridge and St. Mark's Church as examples of work, and names General George T. Cruft, Walter Gilman Page, Colonel Henry O. Carpenter, and Colonel H. G. Spooner as committee figures with Maine and Connecticut to name representatives later.
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Miss Chapman
Boston
Craigie Hall
Cambridge
St. Mark’s Church
George T. Cruft
Bethlehem
N.H
Walter Gilman Page
Henry O. Carpenter
Rutland
H. G. Spooner
Providence
R. I
Maine
Connecticut
Bits of News Roundup From The Era Of Steam and Sun
A mixed digest notes Caithness age terms, Japanese shipping losses in Nov–Dec, Sir Robert Ball on sun diameter loss every hundred years, a U S music school offer with friend referrals, British cavalry cadet shortages due to class privilege, New York Botanical Garden herbarium growth and acquisitions, Roman road construction details, and a morning alarm clock invention using a spring switch activated by the sleeper’s weight.
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Caithness
Scotland
Robert Ball
England
New York Botanical Garden
Short on memory and tact in a veranda meeting
A Detroit woman shares a humorous memory of greeting a man at her home with warm hospitality while she cannot recall his name. The tale ends with a funny punchline as the man reveals he is the sewing machine repairman. The clippings also note jokes about Pain and Hartley dentists and mock battlefield humor from Yonkers.
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Detroit
Boy’s quick wit at uncle’s dinner headline
A 12 year old diner boasts to his aunt that he eats well after claiming he has practiced eating all his life. The humorous exchange recalls Tid-Bits style in a brief family scene.
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Harrison Hume
Bob Ingersoll
Jabez Fox
S. H. Roblin
Sam Powers
Johnny
Say, Sappy and Bragg in a comic clash
In a Philadelphia Record item, Smith teases Saphead about a feud with Bragg. Saphead boisterously retorts that Bragg could not knock sense into him, hinting at a humorous dispute between the two figures.
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Smith
Sappy
Bragg
Saphead
Philadelphia Record
Relief Advice Quips From Mrs Blowse And Mrs Sezzit
A Baltimore American snippet shows Mrs Blowse seeking relief from stress and Mrs Sezzit suggesting she take off her switch as a quick aid. The light exchange captures a playful exchange reflecting daily life in the city.
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Mrs. Blowse
Mrs. Sezzit
Baltimore American
Luncheon Table Offerings Include Bouillon and Cakes
Daily Table hints at a luncheon menu with bouillon thin bread and butter sandwiches cold tongue potato croquettes stuffed dates cream cakes and chocolate or tea as beverage options.
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Bouillon
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