Legislature’s glacial heat taints questionable votes
In a hot session the Legislature hustled through a Fitchburg lease bill with a quorum rushed from a ball game and harbor junket. The Haverhill Gas Securities charter abrogation faced lax handling as delays push key work late. The piece condemns delay driven, demoralized lawmaking and urges a more respectable finale.
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Fitchburg
Senate
Haverhill Gas Securities Company
Gas and Electric Light Commission
State House
Massachusetts Delegation Heads to Democratic Nation Convention
The Massachusetts delegation sails to Kansas City for the Democratic national convention. The editorial urges unity and focus on Massachusetts' democracy, urging delegates to promote the Massachusetts idea and ensure a strong, representative stance in platform and campaign issues.
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Massachusetts
Kansas City
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Bay State
New England
Missionary or Merchant or Traveller Mentioned in Text
The fragment references a missionary or merchant or traveller who must be given something by him. The text is incomplete but indicates a dependent relation or obligation tied to a named actor within the source context.
Boston Gumbling Case and Sunday Tobacco Debate
A Boston case notes a probable gambling house at Merchants' Club on Boylston street, urges correct warrants and enforcement. It also comments on the Sunday tobacco bill, criticizing excluding news dealers and urging Senate reconsideration. The piece notes prominent locals at Harvard Yale rowing, Lodge family wedding plans, and community water and street concerns in Greater Boston ahead of July events.
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Jon
Rogarto
Merchants’ Club
Boylston Street
Boston
Senate
House
The Observant Citizen Gulles and Harbors News
The storm’s brief disturbance caused some wrecks but spared life. Huntington Goelet, injured at the Country Club, heads to Newport to recover with his mother. Dorchester sees rising horse thefts, and the Enterprise training ship sails to Southampton.
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Robert Goelet
Ogden Goelet
Newport
Goelet
Enterprise
Southampton
England
Green Hands
Neptune
A Strange Situation at Pekin Strands Diplomats
For weeks diplomats from great powers in Pekin are cut off from their governments, isolated in the Chinese capital without telegraphic contact. The piece argues the urgent duty of the U.S. government to bring ministers to communication and ensure protection for citizens, even threatening action if needed.
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Pekin
China
Washington
United States
Dena
Canal St
Summering with nature fuels the musical New England uplift
The essay urges city dwellers to deepen daily contact with nature beyond mere recreation. It praises the Symphony Orchestra as a regional force spreading musical culture beyond urban circles, aiding rural communities. It laments hollow modern stories, supports critical literacy, and urges careful use of vacation time for genuine benefit.
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Higginson
Symphony Orchestra
New England
Paderewski
Boston
Movement toward splendor for diplomats in foreign courts
The article recalls Sydney Smith’s eight year past remark on ostentatious dress for ministers and ambassadors. It notes a shift from plain garb to glittering array comparable to European powers. An awkward man in plain clothes once appeared among the Lion and the Lamb at St James's drawing room.
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Sydney Smith
St. James's
Graduation ideals at Commencement and home life
The piece reflects on diplomat portrayal and dignity at home, recalling Ben Perley Poore's Victorian costume of Governor Hancock. It argues against mocking graduates, urging persistent application of high ideals beyond Commencement and life's weekly practice to avert pessimistic forecasts.
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Stylus
Waifs o' Fun and Missed Punchlines From City Papers
A collage of humorous exchanges from Chicago records and Detroit Journal scenes features a bookstore misfit and a feed store pun, a boy and his father debating cleave, an elderly illiterate claim in a Detroit exchange, and a camel and monkey barroom tale in Philadelphia. Each vignette preserves period humor and local tone with named papers cited.
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Chicago
Little Willie
Chicago News
Bull
Detroit Journal
Philadelphia Press
Art building encounter leads to a fateful romance
Alice Merton meets Leonard Tremayne Exides, an artist posing as Mr. Leonard, at an exhibition. After a mistaken arm touch and a forced early goodbye, they renew contact, and his true identity is revealed. Alice’s father recalls his old friendship with Leonard’s father, sealing a promising match.
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George Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge
Bessie Davis
Washington
Judge Davis
Harvard
Gertrude
Alice Merton
L. T. Eddeston
Alice
Leonard
Legion
Papa
Mr. Leonard
Leonard Tremayne Exideston
Uty
Alice Dear
Leonard Tremayne Eddeston
Odd Bits of News and Market Snippets
Washerwomen in Vienna earn at most 40 cents a day. Germany exports hops valued at 5 million dollars annually. Germany rises as a money lender and money maker. Red bananas return to markets but few have reached the United States in five years. Librarians report about 70 percent of readers in public libraries read only novels.
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Vienna
Germany
United States
Through Editors' Spectacles on Spoilsmen
A collection of editorials criticizes spoilsmen in McKinley’s circle for harming the administration through their actions. The Indianapolis News laments political missteps, while the Lowell Citizen jokes about oleomargarine taxes and color. The Kennebec Journal notes sympathy for Kruger but cheers the end of Kruggerism in South Africa.
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McKinley
Indianapolis News
Lowell
Kruger
South Africa
Kennebec Journal
King of Sweden and Norway praised as linguist
The king addressed scholars at an oriental congress in Stockholm. He spoke fluently in English French German Italian Russian and Spanish, demonstrating equal mastery of the languages of the nations represented.
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Sweden
Norway
Oriental Congress
Stockholm
Mrs Whitney cuts cliffside studio for Newport
Mrs Harry Payne Whitney, formerly Gertrude Vanderbilt, plans a rock cut den or studio along the cliff walk for private use and tea this season. Her husband’s estate adjoins the cliff, and she aims to entertain friends there. Lady Sarah Wilson, famed for Mafeking, is noted for graceful dancing and riding skills.
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Harry Payne Whitney
Gertrude Vanderbilt
Newport
Sarah Wilson
Mafeking
Daily Table Hints Pin Lobster Je Tattuce and Desserts
A list of kitchen tips and recipes includes gelatine milk cream sugar lemon vanilla and a moulded dessert with half a box of gelatine and chilled setting. Also cucumber salad with onion and dressing. AM NILES EV 98 Pinckney street Boston.
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Niles
Pinckney Street
Boston
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Dorchester, Mass
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