New York Editors and the Press Power Debate
Henry Watterson critiques major newspapers and editors in New York toward a broader national influence. He argues editors like Laffan Miller Bennett Pulitzer Reid fail to shape political outcomes, lamenting their exile abroad and their inability to forecast conventions or elect leaders.
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Charles A. Dana
William M. Laffan
Figaro
Paris
the Sun
New York
Laffon
Hell-for- Sartin
Yuba Dam
Courier-Journal
Charles R. Miller
The
Times
Kennebec
Penobscot
Tombigbee
Caloosahatchie
Ohio
Mississippi
Bennett
Joseph Pulitzer
Whitelaw Reid
Buffalo
Jersey
Tammany Hall
Metropolis
Hearst-Parsons Dicker
Murphy-Connors
Dicker
Gibbs
Greeley
Henry Watterson
Lewisville
Street Cars For Shanghai Tram System Opens
Shanghai prepares a new electric tramway network with over twenty three miles of tracks in eleven sections. First class fare for one section is two and a half cents with cars divided into two compartments by fare. Notices in English French and Chinese warn passengers against smoking spitting or bringing dogs aboard. No advertisements are displayed on the cars.
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Shanghai
Zion’s Herald
Coffee Misuse Hurts Children Says Letter to Editor
A reader warns parents that caffeine in coffee harms children and shares personal experience of coffee dependence. The note describes nervousness, sleep troubles, and improved well being after switching to Postum. It cites the Postum Company in Battle Creek Michigan and mentions The Road to Wellville.
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Postum
Smokeless Griddle Brings Grill to Hooded Stove Design
A new patented smokeless griddle and broiler is described. It folds under the stove top to bring heating surface closer to the fire, venting smoke and odors up the chimney. A lid allows broiling with intense heat or raises for inspection.
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Philadelphia
Paint the Lowest Step for Safe Stairs
Advice urges painting the lowest cellar step white to brighten a dark stairway, reducing fall risk and removing uncertainty at the last step when going downstairs. It emphasizes a simple home safety measure.
Indian Bargain Hunters Move From Armijo’s Post to Supper Time
A Chilocco Indian School Journal report recounts Navajo and Hopi traders in Arizona who negotiate hard in exchanges. One Hopi buys an axe for $1.50, asks for the extra 25 cents after being told the price. A Navajo sells buckskin for two blankets and a saddle blanket, then reclaims it. A Navajo sells a silver bridled saddle for $23, then returns to cancel, getting the bridle back. The tales illustrate shrewd bargaining and mutual mediation by a missionary.
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Southwest
Arizona
Armijo
Orabi
Ariz
Ocean-Going Navahoe Barque Heads to England with Oil
The Navahoe, an ocean-going oil barge of Standard Oil, travels to England with 200 000 tons of oil on its first Westward voyage. At 450 feet long and 58 feet beam it sails under six masts with canvas to aid porting if needed while towed by the Iroquois.
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Navahoe
Standard Oil Company
England
Iroquois
Atlantic
New York Tribune
Thirsty man argues for plain drink at counter
A thirsty man orders a plain effervescing beverage, refusing flavoring while a Teuton behind the counter offers vanilla or raspberry as options. The exchange turns testy with emphasis on no flavoring.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Helpful Advice From Mrs Pinkham Letter
A printer’s advertisement urges women to write to Mrs. Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts for confidential medical guidance. It touts thirty years of correspondence with sick women and promises knowledge to aid cases.
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Success Claim
A testimonial from Mrs Norman R Barnett of Allen town Pa credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with curing her organic disorder and female weakness after years of illness and nerve problems. She says she avoided surgery and returned to good health following the remedy and doctor’s advice.
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Norman R. Barnett
Allentown
Lydia E. Pinkham
Facts for Sick Women by Lydia E Pinkham’s Compound
An advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a thirty year standard remedy for female ailments. It claims to help with displacements inflammation ulceration fibroid tumors irregularities periodic pains backache bearing-down feelings flatulence indigestion dizziness and nervous prostration.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Hare in the Moon Tale Inspires Spring Astronomy Book
A Buddhist legend explains why a hare is shown in the moon. In Garrett P. Berviss's Astronomy With the Naked Eye, Harpers notes the hare sacrifices itself to save a god, whose image remains in the Moon as a symbol of self sacrifice.
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New Spring
Garrett P. Berviss
Harpers
Sakkha
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NEW York Editors
Kentucky
Postum Co
Battle
H. S. Elliott
Leslie’s Weekly
Paxton Toilet CO
Boston
Mass
Paxtine
Mother Srey
Newark City
Mother Gray
A. Olmsted
le Roy
Washington'd. Oo
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