Sullivan Defends Canada Reciprocity in House Speech
Congressman John A. Sullivan argued for Canadian reciprocity, representing Massachusetts and New England. He urged free hides, coal, ore, lumber, and Canadian fish and farm products to lower prices, boost demand, raise wages, and improve living standards for workers.
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Washington
John A. Sullivan
Gardner
Sullivan
Massachusetts
New England
Republican Congress
Chicago Beef Trust
Canada
Mr. Sullivan
Congress
Bryan Defends 16 to 1 Platform at Lincoln Dinner
William Jennings Bryan urged Democrats to reaffirm the Kansas City platform at the upcoming convention. He insisted on free coinage of silver and gold at 16 to 1 and questioned abandoning bimetallism to appease past defeats. The piece notes mixed reactions and calls for weighing his views alongside others from Cleveland Olney and party leaders.
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Lincoln, Neb
William Jennings Bryan
Democratic Party
Kansas City
Bryan
Chicago
Prince Cupid
Committee On
Mason and Dixon
Cleveland
Olney
New York
Leap year dances and club notices in Arlington Boston
The Observant Citizen reports an Arlington ladies committee organizing a leap year dance with a social set including Judge John H. Hardy and Dr. Charles A. Dennett. Other items note post office delegates to a Worcester convention, Dorothea Dix Hall children attending a matinee, and local society and weather curiosities from Boston and nearby towns.
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Arlington
William A. Muller
H. A. Phinney
Frank H. Hubbard
Willard G. Rolfe
Charles A. Dennett
John H. Hardy
Charles W. Allen
Hurry to Amend Panama Treaty Provokes Wide Debate
An editorial criticizes rush to amend the Washington Panama treaty with a Panama junta. It argues delaying changes until isthmian consent is secured is prudent, warns the United States cannot dig the canal immediately, and questions the legitimacy of Panama’s provisional government and the haste in the process.
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State Department
Washington
Panama
United States
Republic of
Panama Canal Negotiation Advised With Cautious Pace
A statement notes no urgency in canal negotiations. It urges proceeding slowly, assuring that the canal will not escape or be lost amid the talks. The remark reflects a measured approach to a long standing international dispute and future access.
George Francis Train Recalled as a Nation Maker and Visionary
The article honors George Francis Train as a powerful commercial figure and pioneer of railroads and city building who helped popularize street railways abroad. It notes his mental decline and eccentric reputation, yet argues his lasting contributions to American development and maritime leadership.
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George Francis Train
Train
Nordau
Stealthy Steve Rescues Cabby From Brave Subway Run
In New York at Grand Central Station Stealthy Steve hurries to 7018 West 330th Street by hansom. A trolley car looms ahead and a Copple mag pulls the lines freeing horse and cab from disaster. The cabby thanks him, praising the rescue.
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Steve
New York Grand Central Station
Jehu
Thirty-ninth Street
Stealthy Steve Steals Ride And Calls On Wealthy Mister
A detective named Stealthy Steve boasts of lifting a horse and cab with one pull then pays a cab fare, enters a palatial residence by ringing a bell, and reads a door plate with the name Missekell as he proceeds with his nocturnal errand.
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Steve
Stealthy Steve and the grieving Mr Miskell encounter
The Six-Eyed Sleuth is led into a bright room where a 70 year old man named Ebehezer Miskell sits weeping. He acknowledges Steve and asks for his help as the detective listens to a strange, haunting tale in the mansion. The scene ends with a cliffhanger.
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Steve
Ebehezer Miskell
Moral From Small Details In Sphinx Says
A reader shares a whimsical moral about paying attention to small things after a cabman asks to remove hay from a horse’s back. The piece echoes a curio of daily life and ends with a brief feature titled A Coming Poet crediting Harold g. Dole from Jamaica Plain Boston.
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Commonwealth Enve
Buckminster
Orse
Fanklin Park
Harold G
DO Dole
Glen Road
Jamaica’ Plain
Boston
Sadie
First Ladies of Massachusetts Mrs Chandler Honours Somerville
Mrs Chandler known as the first lady of Somerville, former Miss Hat tie Stuart of East Princeton, married to Leonard B. Chandler, mayor of Somerville. She supports sick and needy and belongs to Hep torean Club, Daughters of Rebekah, Home Circle, and New England Order of Protection. She states she has no single pet charity but backs every good work for Somerville.
Beautiful gowns worn by prominent society women
Mrs Henry D Burnham of Beacon Street once Miss Heckscher of Philadelphia is praised as one of the best dressed younger matrons in society here. Her striking winter street suit features a long gathered skirt with black mohair bands, a black peau de cygne bodice, and an ermine trimmed short coat with a small black broadtail toque completing the ensemble.
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Henry D. Burnham
Beacon Street
Miss Heckscher
Philadelphia
Burnham
Weather Moderates Theme Poem on Frost and Bills
A poem laments cold city winds and ice floes as the public frets about weather changes while plumbers and mariners weigh costs and dangers. Joseph Bernard Lynch is named in the closing line.
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Joseph Bernard Lynch
Miss Helen Henschel Weds Wolfram Onslow Ford in London
Fashionables send congratulatory messages as Miss Helen Henschel marries Mr Wolfram Onslow Ford this afternoon at 2 at Essex Church Notting Hill London. A breakfast follows at the Royal Hotel. She is the daughter of composer pianist George Henschel and will wear her mother’s white satin wedding gown. The couple will reside in London after the ceremony.
Harvard Scholar Francke Honored by Kaiser
Professor Kuno Francke curator of the Harvard Germanic Museum has been honored by Emperor William with the Imperial Order of the Red Eagle. The award signals the Kaiser's special interest in promoting German art and literature in the United States.
The Weather Man and Smith Manufacturing Co
A reader recalls a satirical tale about a fictional plant named Smith Manufacturing Co that makes Smiths of many sorts. The foreman invites a tour revealing a flawed worker who predicts the weather wrongly, highlighting a government job as the cause of misalignment between forecast and reality. The piece ends by blaming the Schmidt manufacturing satire on Smith.
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Smithufacturing Co
Smith
Smith Manufacturing Co
Everett, Jan
Dorinda and I Play a Sinister Card Game Scene
A narrator intrudes on Dorinda and four lively youngsters as they improvise a secret card game. The room bustles with laughter and the narrator schemes to reveal his heart through a playful exchange of cards and promises of candy and romance. The scene blends humor and flirtation with a tentative confession.
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Dorinda
Mr. Cartwright
Clarence
John
Gladys
Doorinda
Notable figures in politics science and society
General Joe Wheeler denies another Congress bid in Alabama while Miss Elvira Mark of Decatur is named history professor at Oxford College Ohio. Archduchess Augusta of Austria shoots a bear on a hunting party. Brown University professor B F Clarke marks 40 years on the faculty since 1863. Mrs Hugh Fraser, sister of F Marion Crawford, works on Tokyo diplomacy history. Thomas W Hardwick described as the pigmy of the House. Colonel John Jacob Astor plans a world voyage aboard his yacht Nourmainhal. Italian journals note Ricciotto Garibaldi exploring Patagonia. Mabel G Fiske returns to Boston after two years in Italy awaiting lectures.
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Joe Wheeler
Congress
Alabama
Elvira Mark
Decatur
University of Illinois
Oxford College
Ohio
Augusta
Austria
B. F. Clarke
Brown University
Hugh Fraser
Japan
F. Marion Crawford
Tokio
Thomas W. Hardwick
Georgia
John Jacob Astor
New York
Nourminhal
Ricciotto Garibaldi
Patagonia
Mabel G. Fiske
Boston
Italy
Leap Year Birthday Reflected By Boston Post Boy
James Vail of 29 Tremont Street Boston born on February 29 recalls eight years of birthday work a life spent as a newspaper boy on Newspaper Row including selling the Post during the French War era saying he will celebrate the coming leap year by working again.
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James Vail
Tremont Street
Boston
Lesson Tommy Chatters Ma the Baboon Tail Wrench
Tommy Chatters-Ma the baboon wrenched my tail and the mother says you know what a monkey wrench is in this tale.
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Tommy
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Boston Post
Democratic Paper
MR. Bryan
American House
Worcester
Messrs. Robinson and Brennan
McGrath
City Delivery
Flynn
Messrs. Broland
Roxbury
Carmorton
O’donnell
Dorothea Dix Hall
Nella Whipple
Francis O'Neill
Exchange Club
St Patrick’s Church
James F. Regan
Paul Revere
Talbot Halls
Mechanics’ Building
Mayor Weed
Newton
Ionor
Commonwealth Docks
South
Philippines
Laura Joyce Bell
Tremont
Harvard
Cambridge
Evangeline
Ned Rice
Nantucket
Ernest de Long
Everett
Ernest
Newton Newkirk
LR Sa 2
Mr. Miskell
Misekell
Harold
Dole
Comer's Llege
Washington St
First Ladies OF
Bay State
Conly
L. B. Chandler
Chandler
Somerville
Jack Frost
Ship of State
Ney
Helen Henschel
London
the Post
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Ieee
Sunday Post
The
Muriel McIntosh
Myrtle Street
Boston, Mass
Pennsylvania
Florida
M. 8. Quay
Crawford
Humanity
Mr. Hare
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