Children of Officials Rely on Sons as Secretaries
The piece notes that many public men employ their sons as private confidential secretaries, portraying them as real Washington rulers. It cites examples such as a son of Vice President Fairbanks assisting the Senate president, Jasper Wilson son of the Agriculture Secretary, and similar arrangements among senators and Congress members.
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Washington
United States
Uncle Sam
Fairbanks
United States Senate
Jasper Wilson
Secretary of Agriculture
Senator Foraker
Congress
Hst
White House
Roosevelt
Theodore, Jr
Harvard
Kermit
Alice
Ethel
Archibald
Quentin
Presidential Mansion
Root
Edith
Alice Roosevelt
Taft
Ethel Roosevelt
Philippines
Cortelyou
Garfield
Wilson
Flora
McWinley
Paris
Misses Shaw
Hugs and courtship rules from Washington society
Mrs S M Cory endorses Dr T S Hanrahan's courtship limits urging 10 pm hugs and no chaperons while praising young officials families in Washington. The piece notes Roosevelt taft roots children careers and a jesting warning on long engagements and love talk.
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S. M. Cory
Society For Political Study
T. S. Hanrahan
Sacred Tfeart Church
West Fitchburg
Mass
Cory
Mrs. Cory
Dr. Varrahan
Angel
Riis laments greed and praises generosity at workingmen’s club
Jacob Riis tells a workingmen's audience that a generous future for children matters, contrasting a millionaire banker who lives in a palace with a hard heart and a loyal bookkeeper who receives only a photograph as a 25th anniversary memento, revealing stark economic disparity.
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Jacob Riis
Spain's Alfonso to wed Princess Ena of England
The marriage plan links Alfonso VIII of Spain with Princess Ena of Duke of Edinburgh, daughter of Princess Henry and King Edward's sister. Ena, 18, is famed as the royal beauty, debutant at Buckingham Palace, an avid sailor and motorist, and likely to become Empress Eugenie's heiress as her brothers dote on her.
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Spain
Alfonso VIII
England
Alfonso
Ena of Duattenberg
Henry
Edward
Ena
Europe
Prince Alexander
Prince Louis of Battenberg
Buckingham Palace
Eugenie
Jena
Isle of Wight
Kensington Palace
Vivandiere
Miss Olga Nethersole Opposes Divorce in Home Lesson
English actress Miss Olga Nethersole champions marriage stability over divorce. In promoting her new play The Labyrinth she argues parental bonds must be preserved to safeguard children, endorsing separation instead of formal divorce to keep families intact. She cites reform for uniform US divorce laws and warns against legal disruption of homes.
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Olga Nethersole
Miss Nethersole
United States
England
America
France
Forestry A Necessity Urges Irrigation Legislation
The American Lumberman reprints George H Maxwell's speech to the American Forest Congress in Washington early January 1905. He argues for universal forestry and irrigation laws to rehabilitate forests, warns against private land drift, and urges public demand for national forest protection to sustain industrial needs and rainfall.
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American Lumberman
George H. Maxwell
National Irrigation Association
American Forest Congress
Washington, D. C
Congress
United States
Maxwell
Belives
Nature
National Forest Policy Urged By Maxwell Speech
George H. Maxwell of the National Irrigation Association frames forestry as a national issue on par with army and navy concerns. He recalls a Mississippi River flood near New Orleans, describing levee breaches, crop losses, and the perilous flood conditions witnessed while traveling west two years earlier.
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American Lumberman
American Forest Congress
Washington, D. C
George H. Maxwell
National Irrigation Association
Congress
Maxwell
Mississippi River
New Orleans
Defere Wei
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Carnezis
Cookes
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