Protecting criminals in public service is wrong says senator
The speaker argues the secret service aided indictments of Oregon senators and a congressman for land frauds. He urges full power to prosecute across branches and questions prohibiting secret service investigations into members of Congress, saying better to pursue criminals than shield them.
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Secret Service
Oregon
Public Service
Legislative
Secret
Congress
Executive
Postal savings banks and parcel post expansion
The speech urges postal savings banks to mobilize savings, notes vast untapped funds in the states, and calls for experiments in local parcel post on rural routes. It argues for stronger national education funding, census reforms under civil service, and improved public health organization to preserve national health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aly
United States
Postal Savings Banks
Comptroller
Ypostal
Parcel Post
Senate
Congress
Addressing Public Health and Federal Bureaucracy Reform
A long, dated political speech urges consolidating health and printing bureaus under cabinet departments, expanding war department control of soldiers homes, and admitting New Mexico and Arizona as two states. It condemns food adulteration and child labor, calls for interstate fisheries reform, and warns of the ineffectiveness of fragmented governance on issues like tuberculosis and fisheries management.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Government Printing Office
Department of Commerce and Labor
Joint Committee On Printing
Congress
War Department
New Mexico
Arizona
Great Lakes
Wake Erie
Puget Sound
United States
Columbia River
Oregon
Washington
Southern neighbors and U S interests in the Americas
A broad address discusses sustained U S focus on Latin American progress, growing trade ties, and the need for ocean mail lines to South America and beyond. It urges Hawaii improvements, Pearl Harbor fortifications, and adapted labor laws, with emphasis on self governance for the Philippines and Cuba. It also notes Japan’s 1917 exposition postponement and praise for the battle fleet’s world voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
United States
International Bureau of the American Republics
Two
Americas
South America
Asia
Philippines
Australasia
Panama Canal
Hawaii
Pearl Harbor
Japan
America
Pacific
Australia
New Zealand
Ehips
Military Reform Speech on Army Promotion and Defense
Theodore Roosevelt calls for merit based promotion in the army, retiring obstructions to age limits, and stronger selection boards. He urges cavalry modernization, expanded machine gun development, a general service corps, and better training for national guard officers, with emphasis on rifle practice and naval reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Congress
Secretary of War
National Guard
Regular Army
United States
England
Federal oversight urged for interstate fisheries control
The speaker argues the Mississippi, Ohio, and Potomac fisheries are failing and require federal jurisdiction under interstate commerce. The U S Bureau of Fisheries should lead scientific study and enforcement, extending federal fish traffic laws, creating hatcheries, and placing the Alaskan fur seal service under the bureau, reflecting a consistent foreign policy of doing right among nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Ohio
Potomac
United States
United Staes Bureau of Fisheries
Congress
Alaskan Fur Seal Service
Bureau of Fisheries
Imperfect Immunity Clash In Washington Duel
Washington policeman confronts a nine year old claiming diplomatic immunity after he breaks branches from a bush in Dupont Circle. The officer insists on lawfulness and takes the boy to his father to verify immunity while bystanders hear the escalating exchange. The tale ends with the boy protesting and the officer awaiting response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Chicago Tribune
Dupont Circle
Legation
Foxy Chinese Diplomacy from a Contemptuous Lens
A fragmentary OCR passage complains of Chinese diplomacy and uses pejorative terms toward foreigners. It references the emperor declaring war and the notion of labeling enemies as “foreign devils,” indicating hostile rhetoric and foreigner bias in the era.
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China
It Was a Dream. A Young Chaplain Dreams of Attentive Students
A University of Pennsylvania chaplain, frustrated by brief chapel exercises and students reading during services, recounts a morning when he dreamed he spoke to a fully attentive audience. He realized the scene was a dream as every eye was fixed and no books were opened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Divine
University of Pennsylvania
A Chinese Story of a Consternated Liar and Marvels
A noted liar boasted of three fantastical home marvels a bullock that runs 600 miles daily a crowing fowl and a book reading dog His wife devises quick responses sending the visitor away with feigned feats The tale ends with the wife revealing the dog’s schooling in the city and their poverty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peklo
Left Him in Doubt Over a Cynic Art Critic Janitor
In New York a young artist, friendly with the janitor of his studio building, wonders if the man is a cynic or an art critic. During repairs, the janitor named Mike scrutinized a portrait and bluntly critiqued the cracking paint, challenging the likeness with minimal expression.
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New York
Mike
Training Canaries in German Breeding Establishments
In Germany canary breeding establishments only value male birds since females do not sing. Training uses an automatic whistle in a room to prompt singing. Breeders select the most apt pupils for further instruction in a second room, creating the best singers who command high prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Lived Up to His Belief in Passive Altruism
A brief exchange from the Boston Transcript where a hobo clarifies his stance, denying socialism or anarchism and claiming to be a passive altruist focused on being helped and helping others within practical limits.
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Hobo
Boston Transcript
Cautious Best Man Says Wedding License Delayed
A Chicago Tribune quip notes a cautious best man asking about obtaining the marriage license while the prospective groom delays, fearing the bride may back out, reflecting wedding tensions.
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Chicago Tribune
The Modern Husband and Mrs Knicker We Are to Have a
A Harper's Weekly quip mentions plans for a thousand foot skyscraper and jokes about Henry being detained at the office five hundred feet later as a light social cartoon.
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Knicker
Becker
Henry
Harper's Weekly
Fragmentary quotation from a Boston Traveler page
A garbled OCR passage presents fragmented quotes and phrases including lines about smoking, vice, and a casual tone. It reads like scattered dialogue or caricature captions with references to The Boston Traveler and Benjamin Franklin. The text is largely incomprehensible.
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the People's Savings
National Bureau of Education
Pgo
Bureau of Education
Alaska
National Educational Office
San Francisco
Latin America
Isthmus
Goethils
Ocean Mail Lines
Philippine Assembly
Philippine
Porto Rico
Cuba
Navy
General Board
North Dakota
Delaware
Florida
Utah
Pss
Hgher
Pacfic
Atlantic
Annapolis
Board of Visitors
Theodore Roosevelt
White House
France
Italy
Foreign Affairs
The
Boston Traveler
Benjamin Franklin
Bobby
Permet
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