The Making of Cartoons Born Not Made
A historical overview of cartooning from its nineteenth century roots through American pioneers like Thomas Nast and Bernard Gillam, noting the rise of political caricature in U S journalism. It highlights key figures, debates on artistic quality, and the evolution of the field amid major political events and newspapers. A closing joke interrupts with a civil humor quip about charades in a legal setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Arthur Bartlett Manfice
Prederick Z. Cooper
Thomas Nant
Tury
Tweed
New York
Nast
Thomas Nast
Bernard Girlaw
James G. Blaine
Ginnie
Blaine
Puck
Bim
Bernard Gillam Wis
Cleveland
Democratic Party
Dreyfus
Mip
Homer Davenport
New Maul
Yinbelle
The
Trusts
Mark Hanna
Fred‘a. Opper
New York American
Willie
Hanna
T. x
New York Jornal
All Man
Macau
Taft to Press Roosevelt Policies in New Congress
The Sixtieth congress convenes amid uncertain early plans after a national election sustains the governing party. President elect Taft will pursue his own legislative approach while Roosevelt policies shape the agenda. Key issues include labor concerns, Sherman law amendments for railroad pools under government supervision, and looming tariff revision debates. House leadership and committee influence, notably Payne and Clark, shape tariff inquiry and party strategy as Taft prepares to take office.
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Congress
ED Crumpacker
Taft Han
Roosevelt
Sixtieth Congress
White House
Washington
McKinley
Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
Harrison
Chester A. Arthur
Garford
Rutherford B. Slayes
House
Ways and Means
Sereno B. Payne
Payne
Tari
Champ Clark
Missouri
John Sharp Williams
Mississippi
Williams
Senate
Clark
Frank H. Hitchcock
Natonal Committee
Etiteboock
Taft
Bit
Anseston
Theodore B. Burton
Taft Era Speakership and Early House Leadership
The article discusses the looming battle over the next House speaker between Taft loyalists and the present speaker Cannon, noting figures like Burton and Crumpacker as influential, with Taft observing from the South and maintaining his riding horse. It highlights Rep Edgar Dean Crumpacker’s ties to Cannon, and J. Hampton Moore’s role in Atlantic Deep Waterways, plus remarks on Taft’s golf habit and his horse. It also reflects on the year 1800 as a cradle of notable births including Lincoln Poe Holmes Gladstone Darwin and Tennyson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Cannon
Iiineia
Taft
Burton
Washington
Edgar Dean Crumpacker
Indiana
Cannon
Serence
Payne
Baltimore
Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association
Representative Moory
Atlantic Deeper Waterways Associaton
Woodbury
N. J
Fifty-first Congress
Abraham Incoln
Edgar Allan Poe
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Wiliam Ewart Gladstone
Charles Darwin
Lord Houghton
Alfred Tennyson
Edward Fitzgerald
Professor Blackie
Mary Cowden Clarke
Felix Mendelssobb
Two Sons and a Wayward Soldier in a Poem
The speaker laments a split family fate as two sons, one at home and one serving across the sea, share one beloved childlike presence. The narrator pleads with his wife to pray for both, acknowledging they are one and the same in love and loss. Robert Buchanan credits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
United States
Robert Buchanan
Such Is Love and the Lightning Musings in Dialect
A New York World snippet presents a rustic sportslike line about a character named Jimmy and a stray comment on fate and a thrown ball. The brief exchange blends dialect and humor, reflecting colloquial newspaper chatter of the era.
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Jimmy
New York
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Boyle
House of Representatives
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Erim
Kenta Nerone
Such Is
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St. John’s
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Hill
Sorta Fuutox
N.G
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Levi Strauss & Co
the Brown Hotel
Nevya
A. C. Florio
Scheeline Banking & Trust Co
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Daniel Meyer
Henderson Banking Company
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