President urges broad reform in campaign finance and justice
The President's message to Congress outlines sweeping reforms. Proposals include banning corporate campaign contributions, expanding government appeal rights in criminal cases, and limits on injunctions. It urges child and woman labor regulation, an national conciliation board, and new tax laws. It calls for meat label accuracy, rail rate accountability, and broader corporation regulation. It also touches on tariffs, citizenship for Porto Ricans, and naval needs.
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Congress
District of Columbia
Employers
National J Board of Conciliation
Interstate Commerce Commission
District
The Butcher Boy Remembers the House Through Notes
A New York Press tale follows a bright butcher’s boy who recalls neighbors by musical “codes.” Each floor corresponds to an instrument, guiding him to deliver orders without asking names. The basement mouth organ player and foghorn-voiced resident contribute to the witty misnaming system.
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Willie
New York Press
Government urges nationwide shooting galleries for defense
Article argues for better coast defenses and calls on the government to establish shooting galleries across the country to develop marksmanship among citizens who may be called to defend the nation.
Professor I presume on pyrites not gold
A man shows a yellow handkerchief bundle to a professor claiming it contains gold. The professor tests the material and calls it iron pyrites, noting it is useless. The man laments and reveals a widow in town has a hill full of such pyrites, and he married her.
George's Game and the Costs of Repair
In a witty exchange, Anastasia jokes about learning games from George after marriage while Innocentia mentions a fascination with solitaire. A Detroit Tribune line notes the contrast between repair costs and the expense of hauling a machine to a shop, framed as a quip about budgeting.
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Innocentia
George
Anastasia
Catholic Standard and Times
Detroit Tribune
Nature Designed Me as a Poet Visitor and Editor Exchange
A visitor says nature designed him as a poet and hands a manuscript. The editor asks what interfered with nature's plan, then returns the paper. Ridgway's Magazine.
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Nature
Ridgway
Public Sale of Farm Stock and Implements
J A Allen announces a public sale to quit farming with stock wagons and farm implements at his residence on the old plank road 34 miles southeast of Covington and 4 miles west of Veedersburg on Tuesday December 18 1906. Goods sold to the highest bidder under usual terms.
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Old Plank Road
Covington
Veedersburg
J. A. Allen
Reverse a chemical reaction to grow rubber industry profits
An optimistic note discusses reversing the heating of caoutchouc to produce isoprene as a path to cheaper India rubber. It notes a possible leap from lab scale to industrial production, the shift of rubber industry from Brazil to the United States, and the rapid expansion through plantations in Ceylon and the Malay states.
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Brazil
Germany
India
Para
Ceylon
Malay States
The Butcher of the Terror Estate Sale Inventory
The London Globe notes the first published inventory of Georges Danton’s household effects after his execution. It lists modest items at Sevres including livestock and a few furnishings, suggesting a simple, poor residence and limited wealth.
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Danton
Sevres
London Globe
Ameer of Afghanistan Weds in Youth and Keeps Four Wives
The ameer, who will witness a winter military demo with 25,000 troops during a India visit, married seven wives as a boy and now has four. The eldest wife, described as fierce, is said to discipline him and has killed three slaves and disfigures others. An observer notes the ameer is broad and clumsy in build.
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Ameer
Afghanistan
India
Balzac Complete Works First Collected Edition At Librarie Nouvelle
The Librarie Nouvelle of Paris formerly near Boulevard des Italiens and Rue de Grammont closed after a brilliant run begun in 1849. It hosted celebrated writers of the era who browsed Balzac’s complete works and carried on literary chats.
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Paris
Goue
Librarie Nouvelle
Parte
Boulevard Des Italiens
Rue de Grammont
Balzac
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Cuba
Secretary Room
the Butcher Boy
Caoutchouc
Phelp’s Book Store
Covington, MD
Fountain County
Buster Brown
China
M. Boord
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