Gunston Hall Restored and Its Ties to Founding Patriots
Historic Gunston Hall near Mount Vernon has been restored to its original beauty. Georgia author Tom Watson is reported to have purchased the Virginia estate, once home to George Mason, a key figure in early American governance and the non–importation movement. The article recounts Mason’s opposition to slavery, his role in Virginia politics, and ties to Washington, Madison, and Henry, plus the hall’s architectural details and lineage from the English Gunston estate.
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Tom Watson
Georgia
Thomas Jefferson
Gunston Hall
Virginia
Washington
George Mason
George Washington
James Madison
Patrick Henry
Mason
Congress
James Monroe
Benjamin Harrison
William Grayson
John Marshall
Edmund Randolph
Richard Henry Lee
Mount Vernon
Belvoir
Fairfax
Jefferson
Edward Daniels
Daniels
Richmond Journal
House of Representatives
Grant
Joseph Specht
St. Louis
Gunston
Virginia House of Burgesses
Citizens
Fairfax Court House
Williamsburg
Peyton Randolph
Richard Bland
Edmund Pendleton
Continental Congress
Warwaickshire
Church of the Holy Trinity
Stratford-on-Avon
Staffordshire
America
Gerard Fowke
Giffords
Fowke
Boscobel
Charles II
Worcester
Fiirfix
Washingtons
Sairfax
Anne Bilbeck
Mattawoman
Maryland
the Fawkes
Pohick Church
Willilam Fairfax
New Cabinet Office Teased To Handle Island Affairs
The article reports talk of creating a new executive department to manage island possessions like Cuba Porto Rico the Philippines and the canal zone. It notes the War Department controls Insular affairs and contemplates shifting duties to State or another entity while Taft Root and cabinet tensions influence the plan.
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Spain
War Department
Congress
United States
Cuba
Porto Rico
The
Phillippines
Eivil
Department of State
Bureau of Insular Affairs
Secretary of War
State Department
Guam
Tutullla
Navy Department
Phiippines
Canal Zone
Taft
Root
Isthmus
Big Ditch
Tafts
Panama Canal
Staf
Lurve
Roosevelt in Dixie as Return of Roman Triumph
President Roosevelt’s South tour drew unbroken ovation as crowds welcomed him in Richmond. At the Lee statue circle, seventy five gray clad veterans on crutches and canes gathered near the monument when the President called them closer, the scene echoing Lost Cause imagery.
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Roosevelt
South
Dixie
Rough Rider
Richmond
Robert E. Lee
Lee Monument
United States
Lost Cause
Lincoln
Grant
Lee
Gilead
Strength of Japan rooted in its people and home gardens
A essay decries reliance on war equipment, arguing Japan’s power stems from its citizens. It highlights outdoor living, grain-based diet, health, and widespread home ownership as sources of physical and mental vigor. It contrasts Japan’s rural strength with American urban deterioration and urges renewed citizenship.
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China
Germany
England
France
Italy
United States
Russia
Emile de Laveleye
Japan
Home Acres
Kuropatkin
Rojestvensky
Russian
Uncle Joe Cannons Adage On Truth And Half Truth
Speaker Cannon known as Uncle Joe tells a tale about full disclosure. A man rents a house and complains that the agent did not reveal the nearby lack of a lawn mower. The story mocks the need to tell the entire truth rather than a partial version.
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Speaker Cannon
Uncle Joe
Live Stock Matters
A humorous scene unfolds as a summer boarder mistakes grazing cows for beauty, only to be corrected by an old farmer who reveals the cattle are actually bullets. The exchange highlights rural lore and playful misperception in a meadow setting.
No pie or pudding but a kiss on the weary brow
A brief fragment presents a parent child exchange with a fond gift and a farewell kiss pressed on the blacksmith's weary brow, a small intimate moment captured in plain speech.
Expert Naval Testimony Reveals Secretary’s Hollow Vessel Thought
Indiana figure Dick Thompson, appointed Navy Secretary, visited a large warship at the Navy Yard. He viewed the deck and hold, complimented its cleanliness, then, after peering into the hold, exclaimed that the vessel seemed hollow. The anecdote underscores his inexperience with ships.
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Dick Thompson
Indiana
Navy Yard
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Gunstoff Hall
Potomac River
Mason of
John Washington
John
Lawrence
Gundox
George
Department OF Insular Affairs
Panama
COL
Clarence R. Edwards
Bureau of Inenlar
Afairs
Pos- Billy New Cabinet
Oficer
Garden Farms
Foundation
Nippon’s Power
Chicago
Ife
Empire
Manchuria
RosJestvensky
Togo
Robert Hunter
General Lee
Spa
Uncle Joe Cannon
Live Stock Matters
Ceale Hewes & Potter
Boston
Mass
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