Count Okuma Seen as Japan's Grand Old Man in Study
The piece surveys Count Shigenobu Okuma, Japan's grand old man, his peaceful stated aims, and his stance amid rising anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States and political shifts within Japan. It compares his influence to Jefferson and notes his wealth, education ventures, and simple lifestyle at his Waseda home.
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Count Okuma
America
Japan
Henry W. Denison
Ofe
Tokyo
Matsumoto
Jndder
England
Kuroki
United States
Pacific
San Francisco
Shigenobu Okuma
Progressive Party
Russia
Henry George, Jr
Democrats of America
Thomas Jefferson
Waseda
Jefferson
Monticello
Rand
George
Mitsui
Iwasaki
Vanderbilts
Astors
Okuma
Wonderful gas engine weighs only fifty four pounds
A. Roy Knabenshue announces a two cycle gasoline engine weighing 54 pounds generating 12 to 16 horsepower, designed for his airship. It starts with a half turn, runs at 100 RPM, is valveless, and uses a six winding spark coil. The design includes a novel oil lubricator and unique carburettor throttle.
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A. Roy Knabenshue
Toledo (O
New York Herald
Knabenshue
Kuabenshue T
WALL STREET CANNIBALS, EXPLORER SAYS
Explorer Gail told a Detroit audience that Wall Street cannibalism eclipses historical Fiji cannibalism. He compared New York financiers to brutal rulers, claiming modern commerce degrades all it touches as it swallows legislatures and men's souls in bright light.
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Explorer Gail
Fiji
William Edgar Gail
Detroit
Wall Street
New York
New Guinea
Stegomyia Calopus Name Change Reported
The Washington Herald notes a rechristening of the yellow fever mosquito from Stegomyia fasciata to Stegomyia calopus at a formal ceremony at a gray limestone Washington mansion. Surgeon General Wynan, a prominent public health official, is cited, while the mosquito’s function remains unchanged despite the new name.
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Washington
Wynan
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Washington Herald
Wyman
Warire
Monkey fashion and exotic birds spark etiquette chatter
A New York dispatch notes women ditching dogs and teddy bears for monkeys perched on shoulders. Monkeys now symbolize social polish as owners impress with knowledge of their pets. Vermont sportsmen push importing foreign game birds like the daley partridge, capercalzie, blackcock and ring necked pheasants to stock coverts.
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Milady
New York
Pittsburg Dispatch
Fifth Avenue
Broadway
Vermont
Norway
Scotland
Clarence Darrow as Idealist Lawyer for Haywood Case
Long profile of Clarence Darrow as chief counsel for W. D. Haywood in the Frank Steunenberg murder case. Describes Darrow as an idealist and vegetarian with deep legal skill, contrasted with practical peers, his early life, Altgeld connection, notable cases, and writings on resisting evil.
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W. D. Haywood
Steunenberg
Idaho
Robertus Love
Clarence
Darrow
Boise
Ida
Frank Steunenberg
Chicago
John P. Altgeld
Altgeld
Mr. Darrow
Northwestern Railway
Clarence Darrow
Kinsman
Farmington
Middle West
Montauk
Eugene V. Debs
American Railway Union
Scranton
Philadelphia
Major Powell-Cotton Survives Lion Attack in Congo Honeymoon
Major Powell-Cotton and his wife returned from equatorial Africa where they gathered natural history specimens including six new species. On the Sassa river he was mauled by a lion, receiving seventeen wounds, but survived after being aided by a Waganda headsman and an Askari and reaching a Belgian camp.
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Major Powell-Cotton
London Times
Waganda
Powell- Cotton
London
Powell-Cottons
Powell-Cotton
Central Africa
Nile
Lado
Zambezi
Lake Albert Edward
Ituri
Mombasa
England
Nairobi
Kongo Forest
Powel-Cotton
Sassa River
Askari
No Excuse For It Dialogue Snapshot
A witty exchange between a wife and husband humorously notes baldheaded tramps as never being married, implying a social stereotype. The brief dialogue uses sharp irony to critique assumptions about behavior and status.
Young men in business and growing up
A hustler notes the value of young men in business while Mr Rocks humorously agrees. Cholly boasts of new facial hair and Patty jokes about growing up. A brief aside explains termites or white ants steal and store grain, with a nest reportedly taking up to five bushels.
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Mr. Rocks
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Stegomyia
Clarence S. Darrow
Light
Roosevelt
Gas Trust
Dunne
Tlinois
Lincoln
Darrew
Irrow
Antracite
Stree
Haywood
Orchard
Count Tolstoi
Tolstoi
Leo Tolstoi
Ernest Crosby
Billy
1907
Africa
Cholly
Patty
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