Will Calhoun Accepts Texas Annexation Offer
The scene at the White House cabinet room unfolds as President Tyler, John Calhoun, and British envoy Mr. Pakenham discuss Texas annexation. Calhoun agrees to accept the secretive post, signaling a push to annex Texas and set policy against British influence amid a tense diplomatic backdrop.
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Elizabeth
Mme
Mr. Calhoun
Fee
Baroness von Itz
Mr.Tyler
Tyler
Mr. Tyler
Pakenham
Baroness von Ritz
England
Princeton
Ayshur
Texas
Mr. Pakenham
Republic
Mexico
Oregon
Columbia
Rio Grate
Napoleon
Spain
Orez
Abard
Republic of Texas
Lord Aberdeen
John Calhoun
President
van Zandt
Rio Grande
Calhoun
Liszt Entwined with Powerful Women and Melodrama
The article recounts Liszt's magnetic appeal to literary ladies of his era and his pattern of allying with influential women such as the Comtesse d Agoult and Princess Caroline Sayn-Wittgenstein. It notes episode after episode of romantic entanglements, including a singer in male dress and a threat of murder, and cites a dying father's warning about women.
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Liszt
Comtessé d’Agoult
Daniel Stern
Princesa Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein
Doctor Knapp
Religion in Men's Hats
The speaker argues hats reveal religious beliefs more than women's attire. A straw hat suggests fanciful, light behavior while a silk hat enforces dignity and restraint. A man will not run in a silk hat, illustrating how hat ideology governs conduct and even daily actions like chasing a train.
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South Sea Islands
Alaska
Ingenious Parisian Smuggling Ring Exposed in London
A coffin claimed to hold a diphtheria victim was shipped from Paris to London. At Mile End Whitechapel the hearse delivered the coffin to a house tied to penal offenders. A vigilant officer uncovered tobacco and cigars hidden inside, arresting the mourners and confiscating the contraband.
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Gay
London
Mile End Road
Whitechapel
Japanese Influx to Seoul and Korea Grows
Seoul correspond ent reports daily arrivals of 100 to 900 Japanese in Seoul with about 100 staying, yielding a monthly rise of around 9,000. Japanese presence is expanding elsewhere in Korea as capital from Japan increases following annexation, though earlier growth was tentative.
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Korea
Seoul
Japan
Humorous remarks mark New York Woman Suffrage convention
Mrs. Pearce Bailey delivered a witty speech at the Woman Suffrage convention in New York. She joked that crown and queenship have no real reward for women and laughed at male chatter about women, recalling a racquet club anecdote about advice and speech.
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Pearce Bailey
New York
Mrs. Bailey
Altitude prize joke at aviation meet shocks spectator
A spectator asked a policeman about the aeroplane’s altitude. The officer retorted with a blunt joke confusing height with prize, highlighting a humorous miscommunication at the aviation meet.
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