Gunston Hall restoration echoes colonial era history
Gunston Hall Virginia, 15 miles from Washington, restored to its original beauty, with Tom Watson of Georgia reported as buyer. The estate, once home to George Mason, a Virginian patriot, sits near Mount Vernon and Belvoir, preserving Mason’s grave and the hall’s colonial features. The piece traces Mason, Washington, and Fairfax ties across generations and historic events.
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Virginia
George Mason
Tom Watson
Georgia
Thomas Jefferson
Gunston Gall
Washington
George Washington
James Madison
Patrick Henry
Mason
Gunston Hall
Potomac River
Mount Vernon
Belvoir
Fairfax
Jefferson
Edward Daniels
Daniels
Richmond Journal
House of Representatives
Grant
Joseph Specht
St. Louis
Warwaickshire
Church of the Holy Trinity
Stratford-on-Avon
Staffordshire
America
Gerard Fowke
Gunston
Giffords
Fowke
Boscobel
Charles II
Worcester
General Fairfax
Washingtons
Pairfax
Maryland
Mary Fowke
Republic
Anne Bilbeck
Mattawoman
the Fawkes
Dyson
Pohick Church
William Fairfax
Uncle Joe Cannon's Advice on Truth Telling
A Canton tale shows Uncle Joe urging full disclosure after a renter quarrels with a real estate agent who described a yard as a lawn. The kicker says the agent claimed there was a lawn, but the full truth remained elusive.
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Canton
Joe
Live Stock Matters at the Farmyard
A rustic vignette centers on a summer boarder and farmer as calves leap in a meadow. The boarder exclaims how pretty the calves are, but the farmer reveals they are not calves at all, declaring “Them's bullets.”
New Cabinet Office Sways War Department Burden
The article discusses a proposed new executive department to oversee island and colonial affairs after the Spanish American War. It notes the War Department's growth and seeks to shift insular duties away from war control, with discussion of Taft and Root over canal matters and ongoing cabinet maneuvers.
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Spain
War Department
Congress
United States
Cuba
Porto Rico
The
Phillippines
Iyll
State Department
Department of State
Bureau of Insular Affairs
Secretary of War
Guam
Tutuilla
Navy Department
Philippines
Taft
Mary Root
Big Ditch
Root
Owever
Panama Canal
Roosevelt in Dixie at Lee statue welcomes
President Roosevelt toured the South amid cheers likened to a Roman triumph. In Richmond at the Lee monument eighty five and gray veterans watched as his carriage approached and he urged them forward, a scene symbolizing Lost Cause memory in an era of national leadership.
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Roosevelt
South
Dixie
Rough Rider
Richmond
Trobert H. Lee
Lee Monument
United States
Lost Cause
Lincoln
Grant
Lee
Gilead
General Lee
The Strength of Japan and the Home Acres Advantage
A lengthy discussion argues Japan’s strength lies in its people and homes rather than ships or weapons. It emphasizes health, outdoor life, farming as Garden Farms, and citizen initiative as the true source of victory over Russia. It contrasts Japanese vigor with American poverty, urging U S citizens to value home life and nourishment.
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China
Germany
England
France
Italy
United States
Russia
Emile de Laveleye
Japan
Steve
Y Mirve
Empire
Manchuria
Kuropatkin
Rosestvevsky
Oyama
Togo
Ouma
Bugaadesadives
Expert Naval Testimony
Dick Thompson of Indiana once joined an informal inspection at a Navy Yard on a large warship. He toured the deck, praised the vessel’s cleanliness, and peered into the hold, then adjusted his glasses and looked down the hollow space.
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Dick Thompson
Indiana
Navy Yard
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Benjamin Harrison
William Grayson
John Marshall
Edmund Randolph
Richard Henry Lee
Mason of
John Washington
John
Lawrence
Virginia House of Burgeases
Citizens
Fairfax Court House
Willamsburg
Peytondolph
Richard Bland
Edmund Pendleton
Continental Congress
Mas
Tia
Gantt
Ieatriek Aa
Ist
Uncle Joe Cannon
Live Stock Matters
Department OF Insular Affairs
Panama
Philip
Pines
Hawaii
Pidelesanitia
Clarence R. Edwards
Ficar
Garden Farms
Nippon
Engiau
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