Economy and efficiency drive Taft inquiry on government
President Taft submits a special message on economy and efficiency in federal services. The commission on economy and efficiency reports reorganizing government to cut waste, consolidate services, extend merit standards, and adopt businesslike budgeting. It recommends abolishing the revenue cutter service, consolidating lighthouse and light-keeping, expanding the classified service, standardizing office methods, and funding a continuing study with a proposed $200,000 appropriation for next year.
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Law's Injustice Told in Fox Tarrier Case
A rural English farmer pleads to a license violation for a much older fox tarrier dog claiming it is only a puppy. The magistrate fines him, while the farmer’s friend notes a repeated tale of the same dog yearly, hinting at ongoing confusion and humor in police court proceedings.
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Recognition of Action in Church Play Scene
A fragmented verse depicts Sea Gtrouse and Little Nel debating a children's game in church. The child asks about the game I Spy while the mother and preacher respond with a prompt to participate. The scene hints at a playful moment during a church service.
Itching Boils to Healed Skin After Cuticura Seekers
A Kentucky resident recounts four years of eczema like sores that covered arms neck and body causing severe itching and pain. After trying three doctors with no relief, the patient used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent for four months and was fully cured. A year later no symptoms remain and samples are offered by Cuticura, Dept. L Boston.
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A Golf Story at the Gates of Paradise
A man seeking entry to paradise tells St. Peter he spent his later years playing golf. Peter questions his golf knowledge and the man’s conduct, tests his understanding of the game, and bars him from heaven for not being a true golfer who follows through after striking the ball.
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Treacherous Memory in the Parson Johnson Exchange
A humorous exchanges between Parson Johnson and Mrs Jackson about enmity and memory. The parson urges forgiveness while Mrs Jackson admits she forgets injuries but recalls them with a sharp memory.
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Meandering Mile Asks for Soap in Frightful Exchange
A fragmentary dialogue shows Meandering Mile asking a woman named Lady for soap. The response mishears as poop prompting a clarification that the speaker has a hiccup and a partner nearby. The scene hints at rural dialect and comic misunderstanding.
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Swallowing Glory: Baltimore Clergyman’s Daughter At Breakfast
A Baltimore clergyman’s young daughter startled her family at breakfast by declaring she had swallowed a guana? No, a aunheam? on her spoon, saying she was full of glory after the strange object allegedly attached to her spoon.
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Looking Upward. Aeroambulator and baby up for airing
A judge orders the aeroambulator to carry the baby aloft for an airing amid a peculiar courtroom exchange. The remark echoes the surreal mood as a domestic scene intersects with legal proceedings and unusual device imagery.
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Alone with Nature a Personal Impression Poem
A sallow young man with long hair and frayed trousers submits a poem to the Chicago Record-Herald. The editor, amused, offers a dime and suggests riding a trolley to find more time alone with nature and to report back on hazel blossoms by the stream.
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Two Kinds of Suffragettes in Satirical Quip
The Louisville Courier Journal notes a joke from a Woman's Way feature about gendered enthusiasm at political conventions. A husband boasts men cheered for an hour while wives kissed for sixty seven minutes, implying two suffragette types: happily married and unhappily unmarried.
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