Wit and whimsy on rising living costs and trains of thought
A collage of humorous observations on prices and daily life from Winter city humor columns. Jests touch on inflation, piano tuners, automobiles, food costs, and oddities from railways to aeroplanes, with light political digs and satire.
Vast Range of 1906 World News Noted In The West
Western news highlights include Barton Aylesworth lecturing on Colorado conditions since women won the ballot. Miss Tishima appointed post mistress in Fresno. Pacific telegraph proceeds to improve lines Denver to coast. Mexican rail project planned to open west coast ports. Tarahumara Indians facing food shortages. aviation updates from Hamilton and Wright injunctions. Alice Kate Goodman’s Laguna N M marriage endorsement of interracial marriage. heavy sentences in Sydney for miners. Guggenheimer backs New York newsboys dinner. new bread recipe for army camps. various public land and irrigation bills. wildlife grazing increases in national forests. Wyoming, New Mexico and Utah legislative moves. telephone company rule on height for operators.
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Barton
Aylesworth
Colorado Agricultural College
Colorado
Tishima
Fresno
Calif
Sam
Postal Telegraph Company
American Telephone &Telegraph Company
Denver
Pacific Coast
Mexico
Delaware
Connece Salin Cruz
Manzanillo
Paleo
M. Given
Charles Gulten
Garfield
Citizenn
Giben
Aspen
Sierra Madres
Chihuahua
Coahuila
Martinus Thompson
Canadian Asbestos Trust
Wyoming
Casper Mountain
North American
Wyoming Consolidated Companies
Thompson
Louis Maulhan
Oklahoma City
Wright Brothers
New York
Paulhan
New York City
el Paso
Charles K. Hamilton
Hamilton
Los Angeles
Laguna
N. M
Alice Kate Goodman
Chicago
Kenichi Inozawana
Platole
Vienna
Oscar Mayer
Hermann Widenofer
Mayer
Widenofer
Arthur Fraser Waller
London Times
London
W. Cameron Forbes
Philippines
Baguio
Royal Geographical Society of Italy
Robert BE. Peary
North Pole
Robert A. Bartlett
Roosevelt
Cook
Maurice F. Egan
Denmark
Washington
Egan
Pole
Arthur Funk
Presbyterian Church
Persia
Funk
Nlamadan
Teheran
I. Hopkinson Smith
Sydney
New South Wales
Cape Breton
United Mine Workers of America
Randolph HH. Guggenheimer
Greater New York
Guggenheimer
Jacob Wetmore
Adirondacks
Commissary Department
Senate
Guggenheim
Frusta
Mondell
Devil's Tower
Devil's Tower Park
Secretary of Agriculture
Montana
Utah
Nevada
Congress
Wind River
Dulegato Andrews
Gallup
New Mexico
Tucunicari
Roswell Artesia
Melrose
Warren
Labor Bureau
Secretary of the Interior
Rawlins
Wyo
House
Buffalo
Prices and social notes from early 1900s nationwide items
The $10 hog reached Buffalo and Columbus February 24 at that price per hundred. Philadelphia Street Car Company posts notices promising loyal workers injured in strikes care for life. U.S. consuls in Europe to deliver cost of living comparisons for 1900 vs 1910 to aid Senate price investigations. National Builders' Supply Association predicts record building activity in Chicago meeting. A Supreme Court aided agreement preserves for a bequest by Caroline Phelps Stokes for philanthropic purposes.
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Buffalo
N. C
Columbus
Philadelphia Street Car Company
Europe
State Department
Washington
Senate Committee
National Builders' Supply Association
Chicago
Beita
Supreme Court
Gerard
New York
Caroline Phelps Stokes
Election Delayed as Asquith Plans Lords Reform
The House of Commons postponed immediate action while Premier Asquith outlined a program to strip the Lords of financial authority and veto power. The plan, backed by Conservatives to avoid two elections, aims to democratize the Lords next year and would place government business before March 24.
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London
House of Commons
Asquith
House of Lords
Lords
Scuch
Lloyd George
Mr. Asquith
Roosevelt leads African expedition to Khartoum ending near March fifteenth
Colonel Roosevelt and his party sailed Monday for Khartoum to join an African scientific expedition under the Smithsonian Institution. The journey aims to arrive around March 15, signaling the practical close of the expedition led by the former president.
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Roosevelt
Gondorkoro
Col
Khartoum
Mithsonian Institution of
Weahington
Roos
Ba Wierd
Watch in Pocket Undid Defense in Prison Case
A religious worker visited a southern prison where a black inmate confessed to theft. The man claimed alibi with ten witnesses and a strong lawyer, yet the jurors found a weak spot: the watch they said he took remained found in his pocket. The tale ends with the inmate receiving ten years in prison.
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Nm Negro
The King of Spain’s Daily Appetite and Rations
In McClure's recollections, M. Puoll notes Alfonso XII as a royal gourmand who begins each day with rump steak and potatoes, sometimes eggs, fruit, and wine. He remarks that many sovereigns are gallant trenchermen, with kings fueling daily activities through hearty meals.
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Spain
Alfonso XII
M. Puoll
McClure
A Natural Question and Praise for Jeffries Style
In the Mauretania smoking room James J Corbett compliments Jim Jeffries meat style for being neat quick and to the point He recalls a girl remark about bringing an amen to a minister Then an ad promotes Pettit's Eye Galve for eye inflammation itching lids and vision issues
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James J. Corbett
Mauretania
Jim Jeffries
Pettit
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