Railroad Legislation and the Interstate Commerce Bill Debate
Congress faces a showdown over railroad rate policy with the Interstate Commerce Commission bill as the administration’s core proposal. Foraker and Elkins offer key alternatives while shippers protest rate control by Congress. Democrats rally to support the President, but party unity and a possible compromise loom as central issues.
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Congress
Panama Canal
House
Senate
Intestate Commerce Commission
Roosevelt
Santo Domingo
Interstate Commerce Commission
Cannon
Eal
Mary
Resplendent Diplomats at President Roosevelt Reception
The White House hosted a dazzling diplomatic corps event on January 4 with knights’ crosses, sashes, and jeweled insignia. Delegates from Russia, Italy, Portugal, Spain and beyond wore grand orders, while Bar on Rosen and others impressed with royal and papal decorations. The ornate displays highlighted centuries of chivalric tradition amid a sea of gold and enamel.
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Roosevelt
White House
Gregory the Great
Gregory XVI
Charles III
Spain
Alfonso XIII
Cipriano Castro
Venezuela
Simon Bolivar
Don Augusto Pulido
John G Walker
Panama Canal Commission
Honduras
Santa Rosa
Achmed Bey
Tunis
France
Europe
Asia
Africa
South America
Paris
Vienna
Berlin
Paris to Unveil Franklin Statue on Two Hundredth Birthday
The 200th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s birth on January 11 highlights French esteem for the philosopher and statesman. In Paris, Franklin’s memory as the first U.S. minister to France is revered, and the planned bronze statue exhibit was offered by John H. Harjes of Morgan Harjes & Co. in May.
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Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
United States
France
Paris
John H. Harjes
Morgan, Harjes & Co
Persian and European honors on display at Philadelphia scene
The exhibit features Persia's Order of the Sun and Lion worn by diplomats including M Witte and General Kuropatkin, Spain's Don Luis de Pastr, Weyler, and Portugal's Order of Christ worn by Viscount de Alte. A Philadelphia statue, replica of the post office piece, was cast and shipped to Paris for dedication, funded by Justus C Strawbridge at $10,000.
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M. Witte
Kuropatkin
Order of the Sun and Lion
Shah Feth-Ali
Persia
Weyler
Spain
Senor
Don Luis Pastor
Leon
Castile
al Merite Militar
Valerano Weyler
Cuba
Portugal
Philadelphia
Justus C. Strawbridge
Hen Rewards Beechers Great Sermon Tale
A humorous unrelated snippet tells of a congregational preacher praised by a hen. The hen laid an egg in the hat as a playful reward for the preacher Beecher. The tale blends religious figure with farm humor in a compact anecdote.
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Beecher
Australian Honey Output Reaches Fifteen Million Pounds
Australia produces about fifteen million pounds of honey each year, highlighting the scale of beekeeping nationwide and the impact on the agricultural sector.
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Australia
Sacajawea Statue Honored by Oregon Women
Mrs Eva Emery Dye of Oregon City led a Portland Woman's Club effort to fund and erect a Sacajawea statue. The copper for casting came from Mrs Henry Waldo Coe's husband fortune. Miss Alice Cooper of Denver designed the monument. Sacajawea guided Lewis and Clark with her infant on her back and aided in saving the expedition.
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Eva Emery Dye
Oregon City
Ore
Portland
Sacajawea
Columbia River
Charboneau
Dakotas
Mrs. Dye
Lewis and Clark
Alice Cooper
Denver
Dye
They Read the Senator's Lips At Capitol Lip Reading Class
Senator Knox hosts a kindergarten lip reading class in his Capitol committee room. Mary Garrett leads the Philadelphia Home for Training Deaf Children in Speech and seeks a $100,000 appropriation to create a national normal school for training lip reading teachers.
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Senator Knox
Pennsylvania
Capitol
Philadelphia
Mary Garrett
Garrett
National Normal School
Congress
Washington
Knox
Folklore Snippets and Black Humor From A Varied Ledger
A mixed cache of proverbs and jokes through history. A stern father quotes diligence before kings while a son prefers cards. Cleopatra teases fate with an adder. Dr. Oliver notes a carved cherry stone and pope and king likenesses. A Gascon officer mocks a prince’s boasting. A street scene ends with a risqué exchange over kindling. The closing line offers a wry proverb about grafts in trees.
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Oliver
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Foraker
The
Order of St. Stanislaus
Baron Rosen
St. Stanislaus
Poland
Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski
Alexander
Nicholas
Russia
Order of the Crown of
Italy
Victor Emmanuel
Mayor Des Planches
Order de la Conception
Villa- Vicosa
John VI
Pope Gregory XVI
Admiral Walker
Spain and
Sacajaweas
Maxwell
Homemaker Magazine
Homemaker
Jennie C. Benedict
Shakespeare
Maxwell’s
Gracy Bandly
Maxwell’s Homemaker Magazine
Fisher Building
Chicago
Waterman
Lexington
N.Y
Facts and Fan
Cleopatra
Darkey
Kirk
James S. Kirk & Company
Chicago, Ilh
U. S. School OF Music
Union Square
New York City
Webb Publishing
E.a
St. Paul Minna
Marlin FireArma Co
New Haven
Conn
Star
REE
Kampfe Brothers Manufacturers
Star Safety
Reade Street
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