Political Gossip From Washington Warns of Roads and Parties
The piece notes FTC relatives on payroll and backs Hughes Fairbanks ticket. It describes New Jersey highway gains from federal 912000 and Egan Good Roads Bill, citing Republican reformers and former Progressives returning to the GOP. It emphasizes national road funding and military mobility benefits under Wilson era policy.
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New Jersey
Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson
George E. Blakeslee
Standing by the President in Illinois Journal
The Illinois State Journal praises the public for steadfastly backing the leader during the past three years while urging voters to choose a more inspiring candidate to support for four more years, noting Wilson’s vacillation but broad loyalty.
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Ilinois
Wilson
Dumped Goods
The piece warns that Congress rejects a dyestuff import duty to protect U S industries, while a major American plant shuts munition operations. It argues peace markets dim as war orders fade, fearing wage losses and export declines unless near-term policy changes occur.
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Chesapeake Bay
United States Congress
War Order
Washington
Tragic Irony in Booth and Irving Story
Edwin Booth revealed a poignant moment with Irving involving a letter from Mrs. Irving about attending a box. Booth read the note aloud, and Irving chose not to read it himself, exposing a quiet tragedy in the gifted actor Irving. The piece notes a boarding house anecdote tied to Henry Irving and a Harper's Magazine memory.
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Irving
Edwin Booth
Booth
San Francisco
Henry Irving
Prince Joachim Composer’s War March Fame Among Allies and Army
Prince Joachim of Germany, youngest son of the emperor, gains army popularity through six marches written since 1914 including The Men In Field Gray and 1914 He marries Princess Marie Auguste of Anhalt at Castle Bellevue with few guests The couple likely to settle at Cassel after the war Joachim serves in a hussar regiment and while recovering from wounds in 1914 he wrote letters home and soldiers received hospital remembrance notes
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Berlin
Joachim
Germany
Liege
Marie Auguste of Anhalt
Cassel
Wilhelmshohe
Hesse
Napoleon III
Sedan
Peer
Hospital of Remembrance
Stranger enriches a struggling French couple through art
A wandering figure painter stops at a western France home gives aid to a debt-ridden couple and their landlord. He funds the immediate mortgage, secures a future opportunity, and persuades the husband to study under him. The resulting Paris studio painting bears his indirect signature Meissonier.
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France
Paris
Meissonier
Pupl
Science in the Home: Practical and Ideal Use
The piece argues the home needs both practical science and ideal aims. It says homes suffer from guesswork and overwork, with men causing guesswork and women overworking. It asserts a little science in advance would prevent most trouble.
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Earth
Heaven
Lost Identity Found After San Francisco Earthquake
Samuel Samuels, a 60 year old man, says he regained memory in Milwaukee after ten years of amnesia from injuries in the San Francisco quake. He awoke in Milwaukee and asked a policeman if he was in San Francisco, claiming he once owned a clothing store there and had money. He wanders and recalls little of his life.
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San Francisco
Milwaukee
Wis
Samuel Samuels
Samuels
van Buren and
Brady Streets
Take Big Chances Without Remedy On Trains
Traveling without Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is risky as bowel attacks can be sudden and severe. The preparation is obtainable everywhere and travelers should carry it.
Fossil Elephant Jaw Shown In Baker Exhibition
Local scientists declare the jaw bone found near the Virtue mine in Baker is from a prehistoric tertrabelodon early elephant and place it on public display.
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Baker
Virtue Mine
Indispensable Advice and a Wedding Planned
A dialogue about advising a daughter on studying music abroad versus finishing locally. The aunt questions the plan while a betrothal is announced with marriage set for next month, signaling a decisive life step.
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Cranbury Press
Cranbury, Nd
Geo. W. Burroughs & Son
Now Press Jersey
Federal Trade Commission
Hughes
Fairbanks
Roosevelt
Col
The
New York Sun
Vercelli
Lake
Como
Pittsburgh Press
Prince
Kaiser
American Press Association
Prince Joachim
Trenton, N. J
Horace Mann
Mgi
Joseph
Frelinghuysen
United States
C. S . Atkinson
Somerville
N. J
Farmers’ Co-operative Association of
Mercer County
Wm. M. Mount, Pres
Sam’ T. Atchley
Pres
Broad St. Bank Bldg
Ovine
F.C. Leaming
Cor. State and Warren St's
Trenton
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