Will Cuba Prove Chance for Taft and Roosevelt
The piece compares Theodore Roosevelt's rise after the Cuba conflict with Taft's rise through Cuba and other roles. It discusses Taft's career path from Ohio bar to judge to solicitor general, governor of the Philippines, secretary of war, and his potential presidential prospects. It notes Roosevelt’s Cuban Republic impact and Taft's diplomatic, steady leadership as key to his future.
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Cuba
Taft
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Maine
Havana
Washington
Lincoln
New York City
Empire State
Ohio
White House
Gov. Foraker
Harrison
United States
Elihu Root
Philippines
Bill Taft
Root
Fairbanks
Beveridge
Cannon
Antilles
United States Supreme Court
Harvard
Yale
Jove
Cupid Taft
Thanksgiving Table Decor Draws on Greek Goddesses of Plenty
A holiday guide suggests decorating for Thanksgiving with grapes and wheat as a centerpiece. Artificial grape clusters and wheat strands drape chandeliers and table corners while small statuettes of Ceres Proserpina Diana and Fortuna hold four candles in purple and yellow.
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Diana
Ceres
Proserpina
Fortuna
Prosemina
Two Dollars and a Shirt at Peak’s Island
An artist named Hathaway on Peak’s Island Maine told a visitor that most travelers to the resort have two dollars and a shirt and do not change either while there. The remark sheds light on the transient crowd and the local art scene near the steamboat landing.
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Peak's Island
Hathaway
Merry Del Val a Linguist
Raphael Merry Del Val, secretary of state to the Vatican, was a distinguished theologian, student and linguist when that position was conferred upon him at the age of 38. He speaks and writes English, French, German and Italian, with Latin as a mother tongue. His father was a Spanish diplomat, making him master of that language as well.
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Raphael Merry del Val
Vatican
Statue of Angel of the Resurrection Falls at St John the Divine
The Angel of the Resurrection statue at the Our Lady chapel in St John the Divine Cathedral New York toppled from its niche and smashed on the ground fifty feet below triggering renewed global discussion of angelic gender.
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Angel of the Resurrection
Chapel of Our Lady
Cathedral of
St. John the Divine
New York
A Tragedy of the Exposure and a Break in an Engagement
A meat baron’s wife laments Gwendo lin’s broken heart over rejecting a duke’s marriage. The sensitive heroine refused the match, asking to let the option expire. A hob0o man dismisses advice as he claims no ambition to settle.
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Chesterfield
Gwendolin
Duke of
Rottingham
An Appreciation and Indiana Catastrophies
Jefferson Walburn, a young farmer, visited a Muncie physician for a side pain. Doctors found two fractured ribs likely from a severe coughing spell. Earlier, a young woman had two broken ribs after a long laughing fit at the same office.
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Indiana
Jefferson Walburn
Muncie
Walburn
Radical views at cafe circle turn to defense of O Hoolihan
McDonald, an iconoclast among friends, defends O Hoolihan in a brutal domestic incident. He argues the wife provoked the attack and portrays the man as a victim of circumstance, recalling payday and a night of drink as context for the crime. Perkins notes McDonald’s odd theories.
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McDonald
Perkins
O’hoolihan
Ron
Jerry’s
Mac
Zulu Tandem Bicycles Boost South African Pride
The bicycle becomes a popular transport in South Africa as hundreds of discarded wheels are shipped from America and England by robbers. Zulus welcome the wheels in their simple attire and show pride in their new possession.
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South Africa
America
England
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Bruin
F. D. Horner
Turkey
Minerva
Joseph B. Bowles
Lown
McKinley
Philippine Commission
Spain
Gen
Chaffee
the Philippines
Secre
Rough Rider
Helen Taft
Secretary of War
Merry del Val
Hilinories
M’donald
O’hoolihans
Healy
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