Filibuster and Reform Talk in Early Congress
A June Washington dispatch details Senate tactics by Aldrich and Beveridge, the House filibuster impact with 250 roll calls since April, and the slow pace of bills. It notes reading clerks tiring, Beveridge’s push, and Roosevelt’s Rainey river dam veto reversal.
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Charles W. Arthur Washington
Aldrich
Congress
Beveridge
Repub Yeang
Kean
New Jersey
Hale
House
Senate
Wells
Military Affairs Committee
Scott
Roosevelt
Minnesota
Fires Play A Role In Wedding Customs Abroad
The article notes wedding traditions where fire symbolizes rites in Persia Nicaragua Japan. In Persia a service occurs before a fire, in Nicaragua a priest guides the couple to a firelit apartment and instructs the bride, in Japan the bride lights a torch and the groom uses it to ignite his wife’s playthings.
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Persia
Nicaragua
Japan
A Great Wrestler and the Czar’s Ungrateful Reward
A tale from St. Petersburg tells of Peter the Great inviting a wrestling match with a Dragoon. The soldier agreed to risk his life for pardon if he won, and he threw the czar but asked only to drink freely at crown inns for life. The outcome beyond that is not recorded.
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Peter the Great
St. Petersburg
Imperial Palace
Peter
Tisten
Dragoon
Atomic Worlds and the Tiny Inhabitants Within
A New York World essay ponders life inside an atom imagining atomites with suns and orbits. It suggests atomic beings live, love, fight, and govern as humans do, with wars and peace and theater amid cosmic scale. The piece notes how they would misjudge their own minuteness.
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Atomites
New York World
Clergyman hires fake butler who is really a wedding officiant
A theater manager recalls a blunder where a clergy man advertised for a butler and hired a clean shaven young man named Hilary Arbuthnot who reveals he is a lawyer and asks if the clergyman can officiate at his wedding next Thursday.
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Hilary Arbuthnot
Iconoclast on Birthplaces and Longfellow’s Portland View
A Bookman essay argues birthplace holds little meaning for greatness. The author derides pilgrimages to Shakespeare Burns and Longfellow sites, praising what a person does after birth and noting Longfellow’s Portland ties as the notable aspect.
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Longfellow
Shakespeare
Robert Burns
Sir Walter Scott
Abbotsford
Scott
Burns
Congress Street
Portland
The Kookaburra Laughs Its Way Across Australia
Sydney Times describes the kookaburra as Australia’s laughing bird, noting its startling cry and unpredictable laughter. Once called the settlers clock, it now amazes newcomers with its boisterous calls, even in moments of violent or dramatic events.
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Australia
Sydney
Sommers Expands LaPorte Theatres Chain
Mrs Leslie Carter starred at the New Jefferson Goshen Monday evening in Du Barry. The emotional actress delivered an acclaimed performance with an elegant company and costumes though long waits extended the show past midnight. Elkhart attendees generally pleased with the entertainment.
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Leslie Carter
Goshen
New Jefferson Theatre
du Barry
King’s Palace
Paris
Elkhart
Slow Mental Ripening and the Great Man at Sixty
The passage argues that many notable figures achieve lasting greatness only after long delays, often past sixty. It cites scholarly voices noting that clever, persistent effort in business, statesmanship, and literature can accompany a delayed recognition, with aging not hindering ambition.
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W. A. Newman Dorland
Silk worm cocoons and steaming to prevent moth damage
The New York American explains silk worm development from full growth to cocoon formation, noting a three to five day enclosure period and steaming to kill the insect before winding. The piece contrasts with a St. Louis Republic dialogue about a quarrelsome guest and family routine late at night.
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New York American
Ice Bubbles Explode in Don River Cold Night
A Siberian traveler describes Sa donsk nights where ice bubbles burst with cannon like reports. Water beneath six to nine inches of ice flows and pressure splits ice into circular mounds six to eight feet wide and four to five feet high, then refreezes. He notes scores of these ice hillocks along the river.
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Sadonsk
A Strange Test of Manhood by Rory More’s Horn
The Dunvegan castle legend on Skye recalls Macleod chieftains proving manhood by filling Rory More’s horn with claret and draining it without setting it down. The old custom crowned a laird as worthy successor to past lairds.
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Clan Macleod
Dunvegan Castle
Island of Skye
Rory More
Macleod
Dundee Advertiser
Bunyan’s Sharp Answer in Bedford Jail Quaker Visit
John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim’s Progress, spoke to a visiting Quaker in Bedford jail. The Quaker claimed the Lord sent him to seek Bunyan, but Bunyan countered that the Lord already knew he had been confined for years and would have sent the visitor directly.
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Bunyan
John Bunyan
Pilgrim's Progress
Bedford
Gas Bill Sparks Flat-Dwellers Outrage
An irate tenant storms into the gas office asking if the bill reflects last month’s gas usage. The clerk answers calmly that the bill shows the amount due for the period, not the exact amount burned.
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Chicago News
Pulling the Eagle's Tail and Landseer Dog Tax Tales
A reminiscence contrasts a Native tale of Yellow Eagle trapping an eagle for its tail plumes with a note on Landseer drawing dogs during a Scottish journey. It recounts dogs hanged or drowned for unpaid taxes, mistaken as excise duties by a wary bystander.
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Yellow Eagle
Landseer
Scotland
National crusade against dandruff germs waged by Prof Giroux
An American advertisement announces a campaign to eradicate dandruff germs led by French scientist Prof. Giroux. The Parisian Sage remedy is promoted as the sole cure, manufactured in Buffalo NY, with claims of guaranteed results and a 50 cent price per bottle.
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National Health Association
Department of Agriculture
California
Washington
Giroux
Prof
Paris
United States
France
Buffalo
N. Y
Giroux Mfg. Co
America
Houseworth Bros
Hyomei Promises Quick Relief for Catarrh and Bronchitis
Read thankful letters praising Hyomei for catarrh bronchitis hay fever asthma and cough relief. Consumers from Utica Ohio Pleasantville and beyond report instant or rapid improvement after using the pocket inhaler of a $1 outfit with extra bottles at 50 cents. Houseworth Bros offers money back if not effective.
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A. Drake
Utica
N. Y
Lodwick Edwards
Madison Avenue
Columbus
Ohio
Bertha Weekly
Pleasantville
Houseworth Bros
Old Holland Shoes and Love in a Teasing Exchange
A fragment from a London Tit-Bits style exchange features Pearl and Ruby joking about marriage plans in Holland and shoes weighing two to six pounds. It shifts to a quip from Old Bullion on money, with Young Bullion’s retort, followed by a Seneca quote on nobility and a local real estate ad from Elkhart County Abstract Co and a product ad for pasteurized butter.
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Pearl
Holland
Ruby
London
Elkhart County Abstract Co
Monger Bldg
Earl C. Rice
Secy
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Emerson
John F. Kiefer
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