Increasing Insanity and Social Decline Across Nations
The Casper Press cites Massachusetts officials blaming rising lunacy cases on modern living and self-indulgence, with overcrowded asylums and calls for faster hospital expansion. It notes New York trends, moral laxity, and lawlessness linked to mental decline amid rising national expenditures and lotteries in Cuba. Russian naval dismissals are reported as a purge following defeat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
State Board of Lunacy
Boston Herald
New York
Lunacy Commission
Atate
Unclear era travel tales and treaties blur into world affairs
The passage blends post Civil War rail expansion with a German East Africa automobile journey to broadcast far flung travel feats. It notes a 1907 start, a December arrival in Johannesburg, and a new U S treaty with Colombia and Panama defining debts boundaries and relations. It also mentions an American consul Cheney and wife killed, Italian funeral march in New York, and a Cleveland man arrested in Toronto for attacking his wife with a hatchet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
San Francisco
Cheney
Messina
Italy
Wyoming Stock Growers Hold Annual Meeting in Cheyenne
The Wyoming Stock Growers Association schedules its annual meeting in Cheyenne on April 6. Other notes report back pay for troops at Fort Russell, a new county attorney wage on gambling, a revived Civic Improvement plan in Cheyenne, a calf disease in Piney country, Carnegie’s library offer to Rawlins, Bucking horse stardom for Johnnie Bullen in London, and a cash for a Casper estate hospital site by the state board of charities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming Stock Growers’ Association
Cheyenne
Fort Russell
Cuba
Lander
Frank H. Barrow
Cheyenne Industrial Club
John T. Burns
New York
London
Bullen
State Board of Charities and Reforms
Kimball
Casper
Laramie
Keystone
Here
Laramie Plains
Union Pacific
Thermopolis
Burlington
Worland
Kirby
Cody
Meteerse
Basin
Met
John Miller
Chihuahua
Mexico
Jimmy
Denver Record-Stockman
W. H. Olin
Wyo
Denver, Laramie & Northwestern Railroad Company
Olin
Riverside
Jaramie
Lakeside
Sloan's
Wyoming
Old Senators Absent From New Congress Session
The Sixty-first congress convened with twelve present senators and 77 representatives from the last congress absent. Mentioned are long-serving figures like Teller, Platt, Foraker, Hemenway, and McCreary, with notes on prior terms and current roles.
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Ashington
Hopkins
Illinois
Hepburn
Laws
Congress
Sherman
New York
Cousins
Iowa
Delegate Smith
Arizona
Jenkins
Wisconsin
Cooper
Texas
Overstreet
Indiana
Williams
Mississippi
Achetan
Pennsylvania
Teller
Colorado
National Momentary Commission
Senator Platt
House
Senate
Senator Foraker
Hemenway
Charles W. Fairbanks
Committee On
Appropriations
McCreary
House of Representatives
Ankeny
Washington
Fulton
Oregon
Gary
South Carolina
Hansbrough
Nebraska
Kittredge
South Dakota
Lord
Kansas
Milton
Florida
Young Senators Rise In The New Congress 1900s Style
A sweep of new senators shows most are young in Senate terms with several rising stars. Kentucky’s William O Connell Bradley traces lineage to Daniel and partnered with early military and legal feats. Albert B Cummins and Theodore Burton also gained prominence as youths. Oregon’s George B Chamberlain climbed from 26 in the state legislature to the Senate, while Elihu Root remains the era’s elder statesman and Yakima Jones matched Chamberlain in youth. Only five are over 60, a rarity in the chamber.
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Senate
Kentucky
William O'Connell Bradley
Daniel
Bradley
Albert BH. Cummins
Theodore Burton
Charles P. Taft
George B. Chamberlain
Oregon
Elihu Root
Yakima" Jones
Washington State
Chamberlain
Blaine
Incident at Social Affair Sparks Cross Generational Clash
Washington society buzzes over a Bachelors German where Mrs. Longworth confronted Jerome Bonaparte III about halting a bridge game. Nick Longworth defends his wife while relics of Delaware history are placed in a museum by Richard D C Adams, including a silver tomahawk and war club from various conflicts.
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Washington
Longworth
Jerome Bonaparte
Westphalia
Napoleon
Nicholas Longworth
Jerome
Bonaparte
Mr. Bonaparte
Nick
Bachelors
Jerome Bonaparte III
William Henry Harrison
Richard DC. Adams
Umsonal
Adams
Bia Beira
Swannock
Delaware
Secondine
Fremont
Rocky Mountains
United States
Delaware Indians In 1892 To Mr. Adams
Fort Pitt
Fitzgerald settlement reshapes House rules in fierce session
The House approved the Fitzgerald resolution 211 to 172 ending a heated clash over rules. It introduces a calendar for unanimous consents, shifts power on motions to the minority, raises the bar to set aside the calendar, and aims to curb favoritism in the rules committee. Speaker Cannon accepts the changes as an improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Fitzgerald
New York
Joseph G. Cannon
Clark
Missouri
Dalzell
Dalsell
Committee On Rules
Cannon
Simple oil cures eczema after thirty years of suffering
A Wichita man testifies that eczema, which began in childhood and covered his body for years, gradually faded after using a simple oil treatment recommended by his doctor and drug company representatives. He notes near-total recovery with only minor skin issues remaining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toremnlan
M. T. Firmin
D. B. Pre 4Urniture Co
Wichita
Higginson
Higkinson Drug Co
B.D
Humorous Primer On Domestic Disputes And Eye Salve
A Cleveland Leader joke remarks on a husband denying fault after arguing with his wife. The ad promotes Dr Mitchells Eye Salve, described as a marvel of precision for eye troubles, advertised as pure and barmless at 25 cents with pharmacist inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mitchell
Criggist
Travel satire quotes spark controversy in London Opinion
London Opinion features a provocative exchange praising Africans as kind-hearted yet belittling via a savage stereotype. The snippet sparks debate over race, colonial attitudes, and media representation.
Weston Begins Long Walk from New York to San Francisco
Edward Payson Weston, a 71 year old veteran walker, started from the New York post office at 4 30 PM Monday on a 4500 mile trek to San Francisco. A crowd of several thousand cheered as a parade band led off with postmaster Morgan and the San Francisco postmaster greeted the walker in City Hall Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weston
New York
Edward Payson Weston
Walker
New York Post Office
San Prancisco
Morgan
City Hall Park
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Casper Press
America
Great Britain
St. Petersburg
Kuropatkin
Novoe Vremya
Colombia
Panama
Panana
Cleveland
Toronto
Azedental
Wyoming News
OLD Rules
Wintergreen
Veal
Dodds
Carters
Guar
Eadaghe
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