Front Porch Campaign Favored By Senator Harding
A Washington dispatch says Senator Harding favors a front porch campaign like McKinley’s. The plan drew praise for its efficiency and appeal, noting Canton’s tribute crowds and Harding’s Marion home suited for such style. The piece also jokes about Harding’s log cabin birth tale and his rise from a small-town newspaper owner.
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Elihu Root
Senator Harding
Europe
William McKinley
Washington
Harding
President McKinley
McKinley
Canton
United States
Ohio
Marion
World Unrest at Nineteen Months After Armistice
The article surveys postwar tensions across Europe and Asia. It notes competing claims and unsettled borders among Poland, Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Czecho Slovakia, and Italy, with Britain, France, and Japan handling imperial problems in Africa and the East. It warns that peace remains fragile as regional powers press aims and the white man's burden persists.
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Europe
Near East
Far East
Turkey
Greece
Italy
Adriatic
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
India
Japan
Siberia
Great Britain
France
Egypt
Africa
England
Asia
Party Platforms and Pledges Scrutinized in Presidential Debate
A columnist questions the value of party platforms pledging to cut living costs and other reforms while noting past congressional inaction. The piece contrasts Republican and Democratic promises, critiques voter skepticism, and predicts candidate responses by Herding Bryan and House.
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Republican Congress
San Francisco
Judge Geiger Urges Modest Dress for Women in Court
Warns Springfield Common Pleas Judge Geiger insists women must wear more clothes in court despite hot weather. He links peekaboo waists and translucent skirts to rising divorces and urges court dress rules, saying modesty should guide public attire. He suggests other courts may follow suit and broadens the issue beyond divorce seekers. The piece also notes a jab at the republican platform about real work.
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Common Pleas
Frank W. Geiger
Springfield
Speeking
Geiger
Pay Raise For Postal Workers Won't Revive Service
Congress authorized a modest raise of 150 to 250 dollars for postal employees, but observers argue it won’t restore the postal service. A Chicago commission cites 2600 dollars yearly for a family of five. most workers earn much less. The increase may keep some long-time staff, but many will leave when the postal year starts July 1, and reform requires broader changes and better hiring.
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Congress
Chicago
Ohio
Sumner
Gazette
Quotations on Life and Folly in a Lively Set of Sayings
A series of wry maxims on ground floor ambitions, dogs, secrets, stubbornness, fashion, faith, appetite, and friendship. The snippets critique male folly and social norms with humor and caution.
Poignant vignette of a sick child and devoted sibling
A short verse about Buddy's illness and the speaker, a loving sibling, nursing alongside their mother. The child shows distress, while the narrator feels equally unwell emotionally and fears for Buddy's fever, with the mother reassuring that Buddy will improve. The piece closes with other brief quotes and editorials.
Crowd psychology and mob rule at national conventions
A Washington writer argues that crowd psychology dominates party conventions through three forces: delegates and spectators, leading coordinators, and public backers. He explains how leaders manipulate emotion, citing Bryan, Blaine, and Roosevelt as examples, and notes the shift from orderly prewar gatherings to modern noisy spectacles.
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Washington, D. C
Gustave le Bon
Babe Ruth
Dark Horse
William Jennings Bryan
Tammany Hall
Bryan
Blaine
Carson Lake
James G. Blaine
Roosevelt
Capitol
Lincoln
Grant
Chicago
When You Want to Whip a Child Think Before You Speak
An essay on child discipline urges fewer don'ts and threats. It cites a mother who threatened her son to stay in his room and later admitted she could not explain the rule. The piece argues children resist weak enforcement and that calm, thoughtful limits yield better behavior.
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Buddy
Edgar A. Guest
Roderick
Kwiz Answers and Trivia From Yesterday
A collection of quiz responses covers bantam fowl Sand definitions yacht ensign and nationalities, quilting origins, Lipton Shamrock IV, Hymen marriage, Caproni air craft, chocolate layer cake preference, Lake Superior, tennis origins, frost lassitude Ohio meaning pigeons baize pudding Venus diving, charity proverb, physical culture origins, and ferns Thompson Feature Service.
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France
Thomas Lipton
Hymen
Caproni
Lake Superior
Ohio
Thompson Feature
Witty Aphorisms From a Chicago Column
A collection of humorous maxims on love work and social tendency. The sayings touch on folly wisdom and human behavior with a satirical tone.
Profiteering in Shoes and Arctic Attire
The report notes average earnings of fifty tanning firms were twice as high in 1917 compared to 1914. It also describes reindeer skin clothing that resists extreme cold, suggesting a robe of the same material enables enduring an Arctic winter night.
Ten Foot Lens and Sunlit Shaft Highlight Research
A Vancouver telescope lens will be ten feet in diameter the largest ever ground. A Sombrerete mining shaft lies near the tropic of Cancer with noon sun on June 21 lighting the well to about 1100 feet depth.
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Vancouver
B. C
Sombrerete
Mexico
An Hour to Spare in a Family Evening
A narrator recalls a tense journey with her father to a train station and a dinner with Mrs. Underwood. Emotions rise as the father admits pride in what she has done, while the narrator wrestles with a deep, shared conviction about honoring both parents amid a revelation to them.
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Lillian Unti
Ness
Brea
Losaly
Father
Long Island
Pennsylvania Station
Lillian Lound
Ting
Betty
Lillian
Anniversaries and Birthdays Highlight Historic Dates
A clumsy list of anniversaries marks events from 1775 to 1918 and notable birthdays. Figures include Richard Barham Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte Knute Nelson and Mary Anderson with brief birthplaces and ages. several items note officials, locations, and national figures.
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Bunker Hill
New Zealand
Richard H. Barham
London
Society For the
Westster Abbey
William King
Bath
Scarboro
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte
Jerome Bonaparte
Eibeth Patterson
Baltimore
Land
Mary Anderson
Ameri
Antonio F. de Navarro
Knute Nelson
Republicans
Minnesota
United States
Crerar Becomes Leader in Canadian National Progressive Move
Hon Thomas A Crerar marks his forty fifth year as a key figure in Canadian politics. Once agriculture minister, he left the cabinet in 1919 and now leads the National Progressive party as its recognized head amid the movement's growth across the Dominion.
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William Jennings Bryan
Berry
Thomas A. Crerar
Naneddian Agrarian Movement
Mel Ontario
Edward J. Berwind
New York
Philadelphia
Tod Philip B. Douglas
News
Town
Tommy Burns
Hanover
Canada
Sion Heavy
Aeraman
Dominion
Mr. Crerar
Worth
Ont
Une
Wene
Ottawa
Eft
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Just Folks
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Atchison Globe
Los Angeles Times
Detroit Free Press
Denver
Yonkers Statesman
Colorado
Jehu
Publishers’ Auxiliary
Walkers Hess
Lngile
Mulholland
Houston Post
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Gilman Star
Arthur Gilbert
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