Ex Presidents and the Burden of Retirement in America
The piece argues the United States should provide dignified support for former presidents, noting the enduring public expectations and pressures they face after leaving office. It compares American practice with France and monarchies, cites Jefferson, Monroe, Adams, and Jackson to illustrate financial distress, and urges a fair, universal provision.
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Great Britain
Germany
Austria
Italy
Russia
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson
Congress
James Monroe
Monroe
John Quincy Adams
Jackson
Washington
White House
Tennessee
Franklin Pierce
Untitled note on maintenance and fairness by concerned author
Here that is have provided for my self and tibae dependent upon me a comfortable maintenance within limits of prudence and economy and that those to whom I owe the highest earthly duty will not want when I am gone. These conditions permit me to treat with freedom on a topic not personal and about future conditions not tied to the ex President of today, driven by a desire that fairness and justice of Americanism shall not fail or be obscured.
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United States
Daily Mail
Washington
Mount Vernon
Alighting From Street Cars More Dangerous Than Boarding
Analysis of street car injuries shows alighting twice as dangerous as boarding with 600 incidents per 1000. In 1907 ocean steamship passenger totals rose by 972,040 compared with the prior year. Customs records note women receive more leniency than men in smuggling cases.
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Custom House
Hat Rule Sparks Worker Complaints in Southern Pacific Yards
In Geary Oklahoma laborers at the Southern Pacific yards were forbidden to wear stiff hats or boiled shirts. They complained the dress code lorded over workers. Howling Wolf of the Cheyenne asked for a copy of the State Constitution to read to people and teach them to become good useful citizens.
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Southern Pacific
Geary
Oklahoma
Kansas Farmers Ship Flour to Europe Directly
Kansas farmers organized to ship thirty five carloads of Kansas flour directly to Europe, avoiding brokers. The shipment is valued at 150000 dollars.
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Kansas
Europe
Danvers Farm Inherited By Long-Standing Goodale Family
Oscar Goodale owns a Danvers Massachusetts farm with unsettled deed. The property was settled by the Goodale family in colonial times and has descended as a possession through generations.
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Oscar Goodale
Danvers
Masé
the Goodales
Indictment for Horse Stealing in Staunton Va
Edgar Boyd was indicted at Staun ton Virginia for horse stealing. The case describes an agreement to swap horses with a 75 cent difference. He rode away on the chosen horse but dropped 75 cents and was pursued and captured returning from Lexington.
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Edgar Boyd
Staunton
Lexington
Bank of England Notes Returned Recycled by Fire
The Bank of England detaches cashier signatures from notes returned to the bank. A daily signature detachment can weigh twenty pounds. Notes are kept five years then burned in a furnace lit each morning at seven. About 420000 notes are burned weekly.
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Bank of England
Lime production and value in the United States, 1906
The United States produced 3 197 764 short tons of lime in 1906 valued at 12 480 653 dollars, up 213 654 tons and 1 130 425 dollars from 1905. The 1906 average price per ton was 3.90 dollars, up 23 cents from 1905.
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United States
Silk Hats For African Candies Trade Noted
A Leslie's Weekly item notes that worn silk hats are shipped from England to Africa where dealers sell them to black wearers. The fashionably styled headgear reaches Bond Street style at a fraction of London prices.
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England
Africa
Leslie’s Weekly
Motor Buses Said to Cause New Disease
City police officers report a new illness blamed on motor bus fumes. Traffic directors at Ludgate Circus Holborn Circus Banks endure headaches and sore throats after long shifts in heavy bus traffic. Authorities weigh action as concerns rise over long street duty.
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the. Bank
Ludgate Circus
Holborn-circus
St. James's
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the Union
Madison
Hearly
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Andrew Jackson
Parton
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Republic of France
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