New Jersey Legislature Under Fire Over Reforms and Suffrage
Trenton editorializes on six weeks of legislative inaction under Democratic control. It criticizes weak leadership, probes the Seven Sisters laws enforcement, and notes delays in the woman suffrage amendment. It laments statewide issues including Sunday law debates, constitutional reform, and fiscal deficits as Democrats face mounting pressure before fall elections.
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Trenton
New Jersey
Woodrow Wilson
Senate
House
Judiciary Committee
Richards
Wilson
Seven Sisters
Wilson Underwood
Hudson County
Assembly
Hennessy
Dem
United States
James Smith, Jr
Edge
Jersey City
Democratic Party
Mulligan
Fielder
Joan Godfrey
Notable Sires and Sons Gather in Honor and Scandals
A string of brief biographical notes covers rewards and misfortunes. Admiral Peary is named a French Legion officer. Yves Delage becomes blind. Sir Aemilius Irving remains active at ninety despite age. Masaharu Anesan will lead Harvard’s Japanese language chair this September. W S Pigsett, longtime dahlia pioneer, remains eighty eight and heads the Brammonton growers. Raouf Bey, forty-something Turk, commands the Wamidieh and claims strong American ties. Texas researchers studied naval tactics in America.
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Robert E. Peary
Legion of Honor of France
Raymond Poinestre
Yves Delage
France
Aemilius Irving
Upper Canada Law Society
Masaharu Anesan
Warvard
Imperiail University
W. S. Pigsett
New Jersey
Association of Brammonton Dahlia Growers
Raouf Bey
Wamidieh
Texas
America
Legal Quips and Odd Laws Across States
Quotes from the Cleveland Leader and Cincinnati Times-Star reference curious laws and opinions. Notes Wisconsin gos sip ban and gossip inquiries, New Jersey hatpin law awards half fines to informant, and a St Louis judge on tipping a sleeping car porter.
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Wisconsin
Cleveland Leader
New Jersey
Cleveland
St. Louis
Cincinnati Times-Star
Brazil installs U S style telephone system in Bahia
A full American standard telephone network has been installed in Bahia Brazil. The system uses American equipment and provides city level service. The note states 70 000 U S localities can receive messages, more than post offices and railway stations, and nearly triple the number of telegraph offices.
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United States
Bahia
Brazil
Pinero Turns Fifty Eight as Brit Critic of Arts
The notice praises Sir Arthur Wing Pinero as England's greatest living dramatist at fifty eight. It mentions Carl Mussbeck of Munich proposing nitrogen gas enclosures to protect paintings from oxidation. It notes Miss Melva Beatrice Wilson, a leading American sculptor, entering a convent in Rome after a rapid rise in plastic arts.
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Arthur Wing Pinero
England
Carl Mussbeck
Munich
Melva Beatrice Wilson
America
Rome
Barrie Made Baronet and Other Society Notables
A round of brief society notes notes include J M Barrie being made a baronet, King Alfonso’s assassination fears affecting his health, a tying contest between DeWolf Hopper and Nat Goodwin, an Illinois court ruling a man can be beautiful, and Uncle Jon Cannon with Colonel Jim Ham Lewis in a blush inducing moment.
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J. M. Barrie
St. Louis Republic
Alfonso
Boston Advertiser
De-Wolf Hopper
Nat Goodwin
Chicago News
Illinois
Jon Cannon
Jim Ham Lewis
New York American
Votes for women spread through Illinois and England depicted
The New York World contrasts militant suffragists with law abiding Illinois women winning the vote. The Milwaukee Sentinel suggests English suffragists could learn from American sisters’ peaceful tactics.
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New York World
Milwaukee Sentinel
England
Lxchanere. Os
France Faces Shortages and Reforms as War Strains Grow
The report notes 40 000 acres of almond trees in France and widespread kerosene stove use due to scarcity and high costs of goats and wood. It cites Erince's 227 000 recruits in 1912 with 346 percent illiterates and 22.6 percent with minimal education. French doctors are testing injecting solutions of radium to treat deep seated diseases.
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France
Erince
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