Editing the Consular Reports for Publication Standards
In the bureau of trade relations consular reports are carefully revised to remove material unsuitable for government interests. Objectionable content including adverse foreign criticisms or sensitive references is omitted before transmission to the commerce and labor department. The aim is to avoid reflecting on foreign administrations or offending foreign sensibilities with any implied criticisms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Trade Relations
Department of State
Department of Commerce and Labor
John Hall Osborne
Atlantic Monthly
State Department
Buenos Aires Seen as The Paris of South America
The writer compares Buenos Aires to Europe calling it the Paris of South America. He describes arriving at dawn, strolling the harborfront on Avenida Mayo and noting European atmosphere in smell, trees, architecture, and daily life, with a French woman calling it Little Paris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
South America
Buenos Ayres
Argentina
Albert Hale
Avenida Mayo
Europe
Physical Condition of the Poor and Public School Reform
In North American Review Stickney Grant argues for public school physical education modeled on military fitness. He urges a national system with gymnasiums, baths, open sports, compulsory summer camps, and a free noon meal for needy schoolchildren to improve health and prevent disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Great Britain
Germany
Stickney Grant
North American Review
United States Army
Roosevelt’s Hidden Irish Sagas Essay Mystery
The article notes puzzled readers over how Roosevelt found time to write about The Ancient Irish Sagas while claiming he would not author magazine pieces during his term. It suggests the piece may have been written at Harvard and later lost in magazine office shuffle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Harvard
Counci Bluffs
Denmark
Ft. Madison
C. N. Manchester
Baptist Church
C. A. Brown
Percy
Iowa
Colfax
Preston Brown
M. M. Beasher
Newton
Cherokee
Guy Gillette
E. S. Hepner
Sinclair Packing Company
J. A. Parker
Seventh _ street
Des Moines
People’s Furniture
Walnut Street
Parker
Lane & Gillespie
Court Avenue
Miller
Willell
Vince
Bell
Bellizzi
Ida Grove
Otto Brockman
Mary Oechle
Herbert Easton
Ida Miller
Portis Miller
Waterloo Broom Company
R. A. Carson
Iowa Farmers Institute
Cedar Rapids
Fred McCulloch
T. H. Carothers
C. J. Winter
County Institute
Holden
Ida County
Whitecaps
Andrew Miller
Wheatland
Cherokee claimants allege graft in land settlement fees
In a charge the Cherokee Indians assert graft in lawyer fees tied to their land claims settlement. They argue the backwoodsmen, though viewed as small players, are involved, challenging the settlement process.
Unclear Text on Oil Company Guilty Verdict
The fragment suggests a discussion of Standard Oil facing guilt and a payment around 60 000 dollars, with uncertainty over consequences if the amount or percentage differs and references to liquidation and friction in the oil market.
Waterloo street death and Iowa news roundup
Miss Sarah Perkins dies of heart failure on Waterloo streets. Iowa stories include Martin Wade named Iowa member of the Democratic National Committee, the return of Jackson Evans after fifteen years, a fatal switch engine accident in Waterloo, a boy killed by a train, and a girl burned in Bloomfield. Other items cover Orphans’ home funds, a teeter totter accident, a Poland China sale, and local civic notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Perkins
Waterloo
Fred Elgin
Butte
Mont
Centerville
Denver
J. T. Sullivan
Thomas Taggart
Democratic National Committee
Martin J. Wade
Iowa City
Iowa
Jackson A. Evans
West Liberty
J. W. Leeper
Metz
Leeper
Council Bluffs
Charles Carter
Perry
Patrick Grace
Des Moines
Chicago Great Western Railroad Company
Moerke
Burlington
State Board of Health
Keosauqua
van Buren County
R. A. Burnett
Creston
J. C. Dowden
Guy Holtopeter
Illinois Central
Presbyterian Hospital
Jane Holtopeter
Una Goode
L. W. Goode
Bloomneia
Rachel Goode
Grand Lodge
Orphans’ Home
Mason City
Lodge
Lottie Alvina Davis
Dwight Davis
Grinnell
Davis
Poland
Tama County
A. B. Fox
Traer
Victor B. Dolliver
United States
J. P. Delliver
Fort Dodge
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Weeps as Judge Expands Evidence
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw testified in the Harry K. Thaw murder trial, breaks down and weeps as District Attorney Jerome seeks to admit evidence to discredit her story. Jerome shows that in 1902 someone paid Thaw’s wife 25 dollars a week and that she wrote to White from Boulogne after Thaw’s proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Jerome
White
Thaw
Harry K
Boulogne
Harry K. Thaw
William Thaw
Evelyn Thaw
London
Mixed early 1900s news items spark a wave of events
The report surveys thefts and investigations, railroad deals and corporate figures, political contests, deadly wrecks and fires. Notable items include a Chicago treasury theft reference, Harriman before the ICC, Bailey and Texas politics, train wrecks, fires, deaths, and diplomatic visits.
Congressional clashes and policy tweaks in the House
A heated House floor clash over the post office appropriation bill nearly led to a personal confrontation between lawmakers from Arkansas and New York. The House limited interior department agents and restricted their salaries. Senate leaders submitted a minority railroad rate report. An amendment barred bars in old soldiers homes and ship subsidy politics gained momentum with a rule favoring the Littauer substitute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James R. McClure
Pennsylvania Railroad
Philadelphia
J. Oscar Richardson
Rosedale
Kan
Richardson
Lyric Theater
Altoona
Elma Dare
George Rhodins
Indianapolis
Louisville
Cambridge Springs
Cape Elaphantist
Crete
Jabez Bunting
Magoon
Tom J. Johnson
Cleveland
Sig
Frederico Mariani
Victor B. Dolliver
Senaator Dolliver
Iowa
Fort Dodge
Warren
London
Gen. Booth
Salvation Army
New York
Odessa
Alice Nielsen
Chicago
John G. Carlisle
Secretary of the Treasury
Gertrude T. Logan
Virginia
Hanley
Indiana
William A. Spores
William Fawbush
William H. Masham
Chicago Fire Department
Sarah Walters
Florence
Albert Miller
Dunne
Matteuc
Vesuvius
William Foster
Lincoln
New York City
Sumter
Quebec Daily Telegram
Cora Stebbins Courter
Sheridan
Mich
Hamburg-American Steam Packet Company
George
James 8
Kirk Company
Hartland
Wis
Jutland
Robert Finch
Ravenna
Corwin D. Bachtel
Canton (O.) State
University of Nebraska
W. BF. Walker
New Britain
Macon
Arkansas
Fitzgerald
House
Senate
Interior Department
Elkins
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the Journal Printing Co
Pubes
Fairfield
Iowa News
Dodge's Point Resort Company
Clear Lake
Oshkosh Boat Company
E. H. Harriman
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago & Alton
Texas Senate
Bailey
E. B. Lovell
Columbia University
New York Central
Harlem
Missouri House
Kansas
Charles P. Zimmerman
Empire Theater
W. R. Cook
Brownwood
Tex
Verner Cook
Frederick T. Gates
John D. Rockefeller
Indiana House
William C. McMillan
James McMillan
Detroit
Pute Zabrowski
Park Ridge
Berlin
Harwich
England
Hook of Holland
Prince Consort
Netherlands
Nada
Jersey
Hickory Inn
Hickory
N. C
Col. J. E. Ewing
the Financier
New York Life Insurance
St. Louis
Gilbert Ashley
Edward Murphy
Frank J. Hearne
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
Belle Jones
W. C. Moore
Lexington
Baron Springer
Sweden
Delaware
Wilmington
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Boston
Ambassador Bryce
Root
Acker Process Company
Niagara Falls
N. Y
H. S. Fairchild
San Marcos de Colon
Antonio Villareal
el Paso
Georgia Southern & Florida
Jacksonville
Fla
Guy Taunce
Waterbury
Vesuvius Observatory
Bittner
Sandusky
Archibald Clavering Gunther
Pittsburg
Supreme Court of the United States
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad
Railroad Commission of Texas
John W. Lormor
Pennsylvania
Johnstown
Washington
Foreign Landa
Taft
Utah
Clinton Leigh
Honduras
Nicaragua
Bonilla
Buffalo Park
Patrick C. Sheehan
Conneautville
Alexander Green
Piqua
Winnipeg
Philadelphia Express
Zelaya
Longworth
Ethel Roosevelt
Kingston
Jamaica
George Dallas Musgrove
Krimble County
Kentucky
House of Commons
Groton
Mass
Theodore
Kermit
Congressional News
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