Borah Presses for Panama Canal Repeal Clash
Senator Borah pursues reconsideration of the Panama Canal act repeal provision allowing American vessels with foreign registry to pass toll free. He faces opposition from party leaders including Senator Lodge who backed the President. The piece notes Republicans previously supported Wilson’s treaty stance on canal provisions.
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Borah
Great Waterway
B&t
Senator Lodge
Republic Ders
Wilson
Staites
How Does He Know About Tobacco Policy
At a Tobacco Merchants' Association convention in Washington the president claimed tobacco and liquor would not be buried together and prohibition would not come. The piece questions his certainty by recalling past bans on alcohol and warns of possible future nicotine restrictions from anti-nicotinian activists pursuing similar constitutional limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Tobacco Merchants’ Association of the
United States
Wagner in English at the Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera announces two Wagner operas Lohengrin and Tristan and Isolde will be performed next season in English. The notice argues for performing in translation to foster American operatic art and criticizes anti German opera sentiment while noting the translation may reveal expressive potential beyond German.
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Metropolitan Opera Company of
New York
Shakspeare
Shelley
Debates Echo Webster Echoes in Horatio Bottomley Piece
The London journal John Bull mimics Daniel Webster when discussing the national debt. The writer tries to echo Webster’s oratory and severity in response to financial anxieties of the era, suggesting a strong, impassioned defense of national finances.
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Sam
Horatio Bottomley
London
John Bull
Daniel Webster
Webster
Dan
Bottomley urges Britain to pay US debt now
Enthusiastic talk cites Bottomley insisting Britain should settle its $5 billion debt with America. He calls on Lloyd George to confront America and end the debt, though observers note Britain cannot pay interest at present. The piece casts doubt on Bottomley’s plan amid tight money markets.
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Bottomley
Britain
Lloyd George
America
Mr. Bottomley
Railroads and Government Control After Private Operation
After less than three months of private railroad operation, critics claim failure but the author argues the issues are legal and logistical, not private management. Railroads needed Interstate Commerce Commission permission to reroute or divert cars, reflecting law and policy rather than performance. The piece notes labor and capital shortages and calls for longer trials before rejecting private operation and questions the new rates under the cost of service model.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
The
Commerce Commission
Marines and all service branches praised for loyalty and courage
The passage extols the sea police and marines for fame loyalty and manly courage and urges extending an educational system to all service members who have met demands, while not forgetting other branches that have served the flag.
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Troyal
Montana Leading in National School System Study
The Russell Sage Foundation reports Montana has the best overall U S school system while New England lags. It ranks Massachusetts ninth, Connecticut eleventh, Rhode Island twenty sixth, New Hampshire thirtieth, Vermont thirty second, and Maine thirty fifth. The analysis uses enrollment, training, progress, facilities, and teacher salaries to gauge efficiency. It suggests complacency in the East and questions how New England can regain leadership for youth education.
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Montana
United States
New England
Mississippi River
Russell Sage Foundation
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
New Hampshire
Vermont
Maine
Smith
Old Colony Club Opens London and Paris Clubhouses
The Old Colony Club of New York has acquired Morley’s in Trafalgar Square London and Hotel Du Rhin in Paris to serve as clubhouses for members abroad. Run on a cooperative basis, they may be cheaper than comparable hotels, demonstrating Yankee resolve in Europe.
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London
Paris
Old Colony Club of
New York
Chandler M.wood
Winchester
Metropolitan Trust Company of
Boston
Morley's
Trafalgar Square
England
Yankees
Portraits and Prospects of Notables in the Era
A collection of brief sketches outlines Guglielmo Marconi on vacation aboard the yacht Electra and his habit of explaining wireless work to laborers. Abbie Farwell Brown, a Boston writer, lives on West Cedar Street and avoids work after sundown. Zina Lambrino, now divorced by law, pursues a future with Crown Prince Carol’s return hoped for. John Van Albert of Amsterdam, 19, claims the world’s tallest man at 9 feet 5 inches, still growing and期待 his mother’s comfort.
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Guglielmo Marconi
Abbie Farwell Brown
West Cedar Street
Boston
Zina Lambrino
Carol of
John van Albert
Amsterdam
Holland
America
Lynn Leads Nation in Training Foreign Born Americans
Lynn ranks first among U S cities in educating foreign born residents toward Americ anism with residents from 30 nationalities. The program, praised by federal authorities, centralized in public schools with employer support, blending progressiveness and humanity to unite aliens as part of the community. The Lynn system is praised as a model for Gary Indiana.
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Lynn
United States
Gary
Indiana
Education of Marines at Quantico Institute Elevates Service
Our Marines, dubbed Devil Dogs by foes, will receive extensive educational opportunities at the United States Marine Corps Institute in Quantico Virginia. The program spans grammar and high schools, manual training, and a future collegiate course to turn soldiers into better prepared citizens. This recognition of Marine sacrifices abroad aims to prepare them for postwar civilian life.
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United States Marine Corps Institute
Quantico
Birthday Bio-Briefs John Stuart Bute A Royal Whist Player
John Stuart, Earl of Bute and English prime minister, born May 25 1713 in Scotland, spent much of his life in England as a quiet student. His whist skill earned favor with the Prince and Princess at court and helped him rise to power under George III. Widely hated, mobs threatened him and he eventually retired from public life.
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John Stuart Bute
John Stuart
Earl of Bute
Scotland
Ivedi
England
Prince of Wales
Bute
George III
Oldest Inhabitant Recalls Boston May Weather Records
A long time Boston observer cites official data for May records recalling the warmest dates 87 degrees in 1916 and 84 in 1875 and the coldest 43 degrees in 1877. He notes no rain on this date in the past decade except 1910 1911 1915 1917 and 1919.
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Boston
The Bandit and the Broncho Shoeshop Tale
A tall husky man wearing a broad hat enters a shoe store and tests pair after pair. The salesman learns the buyer pays 18 dollars for old shoes and asks to buy a horse, invoking Jesse James as a joke in a Western hustler tale.
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Jesse James
Rewriting cook books and bayside progress in Boston
A Massachusetts column surveys postwar shifts from cook book revisions due to prohibition to rising beef farming and labor issues. It notes flooded knowledge on taxation, city slicing on Boylston and Tremont, and plans for a Milford jewelry training school while recounting a Boston Common dog episode and lilac week.
Campaign lines collide in 1896 party fight with Bryan rise
The 1896 campaigns saw William Jennings Bryan surge from obscurity to fame with his free silver speech. Despite Bland leading early on ballots, Bryan gathered votes, and the Republican convention backed McKinley. The era's divisions reshaped party loyalties from East to West as voters prepared for a hard-fought election.
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William Jennings Bryan
Bryan
Wall Street
Richard P. Bland
Missouri
Bland
Teller
Colorado
United States
William McKinley
Ohio
Thomas B. Reed
Maine
Maine Statesman
McKinley
Reed
Matthew
Quay
Pennsylvania
Levi P. Morton
New York
William B. Allison
Iowa
Republic
Cans
Garret A. Hobart
New Jersey
Arthu Sewall
Mississippi River
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Nowaday
Edwin A. Grozier
Main
Associated Prers
Associated L’ress
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Avenue
Topera
France
Fourth Estate
Borah’s
Wagner
Newton Newkirk
Sphinx
Adams Square
Somerville Marsh
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Milford
Tam
Boston Committee
John A. Codman
Professor Johnson
Harvard
Boston Common
Public Works Department
Boylston
Tremont
Park and Recreation Department
Worcester
Nantasket
Reynolds
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greater
Massachusets
Summer St
Pace Institute
Tremont Temple
Edison Electric
Iluminating Company of
Tenney Service
Charles H. Tenney & Co., Engineers
Devonshire Street
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