Crazy Clip Bag of Oddities and Tariff Talk
A garbled column of anecdotes and commentary ranges from antics of college boys and sea captains to jokes about taxes and wool duties. It includes a long legislative passage from Taft on the tariff board, schedule K, and arguments over wool tariffs, costs of production, and protective policy.
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Tariff Board
Ita
Ite
Uplett
Tariw
Petey
Ringel Yaein
Shearn
William H. Taft
White House
Tariff Board Urges Downgrade Of Woolen Duties
President Taft endorses a tariff board findings urging reductions in prohibitory woolen and worsted duties. The report notes domestic costs higher than abroad, recommends a graduated ad valorem scale and warns high rates block foreign competition, risking monopoly and higher prices.
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Washington
Taft
Congress
Tariff Board
Senate
House of Representaves
State Department
Permanent Tariff Board
Aurateana
Napoleon’s World Bible List Omits Key Works
A historical note recalls Napoleon attempting to list world literature worth preserving. He started with a thousand volumes, then expanded to three thousand, yet omitted the Bible in the first list and later forgot Virgil, Shakespeare, and even Moliere in the revised version.
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Napoleon
Lord Roseber
Edmund Gosse
Mollere
Nothing the Matter Canvassée Single and Married Exchange
A brief dialogue unfolds with a man at the door asking if the woman is single. She replies yes, then clarifies her name is Single and she is married, ending with a polite farewell. The exchange hinges on a pun about marital status and name.
National Grange elects Oliver Wilson master at Columbus
Oliver Wilson of Magnolia is chosen as the new master of the National Grange at Columbus Ohio. A 40 year Grange member and Illinois leader, he is a farmer born in Ohio but raised in Illinois. The Grange, founded 1867, serves as a cooperative, library, insurance entity and social club promoting agricultural interests nationally.
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National Grange
Columbus
Ohio
Oliver Wilson
Magnolia
Millinois
The
Grange
Illinois
United States
Washington, D. C
Washington
Persian Treasurer General Shuster Leads Persia Crisis
The article chronicles William Morgan Shuster a 34 year old Washington born lawyer turned Persian empire treasurer general. It notes his rapid rise from stenographer to senior colonial posts in Cuba Philippines and the Cuban evacuation and his courageous handling of a crisis as Persia’s treasurer general amid European diplomacy.
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William Morgan Shuster
Persian Empire
Europe
Washington, D. C
Columbia
Shuster
War Department
Washington
Cuba
Philippines
Persia
America
College President Retires After Long tenure at Amherst
President George Harris of the University of Amherst has submitted his resignation to the Board of Trustees. In office since 1899 he led fundraising for junior and senior faculty salaries, including a $400,000 endowment. At sixty eight, he seeks retirement before commencement, ending a decades long presidency noted for progress and prosperity.
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George Harris
University of Amherst
Harris
Great English preacher Vaughan tales near breadline fame
Rev Bernard Vaughan the modern Savonards earns fame in London for fiery sermons against sins of idle wealthy. Though lacking formal title, he wields church influence, frequents European courts, and visits London society, drawing Americans to study his impassioned appeals. He speaks across elite circles in royal Buckingham Palace and the Lyceum.
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Bernard Vaughan
London
Muarope
Buckingham Palace
Lyhdon Sluts
Father Ee
Reagan
Briton presses for shirt return at short laundromat deadline
An irate British customer demanded his laundered shirt back by two o'clock after insisting it be ready by five. The clerk argued the time was tight, leading to the bell boy captain being asked to intervene and a suggestion to buy a third shirt.
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New York
Cure Report for Itchy Scalp By Cuticura Remedies
Historic ad-style testimonial from Floyd St Brooklyn dated February 7 1911. Claims Cuticura Soap and Ointment cured a severe scalp eczema and hair loss after three years of suffering and multiple doctors. Note provides free sample offer and department mailing address in Boston.
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Hlaaten Ogm
Brooklyn
N. Y
Boston
Old Fashioned Cholera Remedies From a Moon Believer
A quirky 19th century quick guide praises traditional cures for cholera. It lists pocket agates and a hyacinth necklace as potent, even bone of a deceased child, and claims cholera stems from the moon. It advises laurel decoctions during Mars or Mercury rising, mocking the moon’s influence.
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Mars
Mercury
Fire prevention tip from a bygone era warns of improvised remedies
The passage suggests that the Chicago Fire might have been contained with a single pail of water but water was unavailable. It promotes keeping a bottle of Hamlin's Wizard Oil to prevent the pains of inflammation and implies a home remedy mindset from historical writing.
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Chicago
India’s Garricon and the War’s Shadow
Fragmented clipping references India with 319000 men guarding 1773000 square miles. Mentions Dr. Pierze and a teething syrup, Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, with stray phrases about hero and villain. Reading is inconsistent and unclear.
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India
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