Porfirio Diaz Career Exceeds Eight Decades In Mexico
A profile traces Porfirio Diaz from a Oaxaca law professor to a revolutionary leader, his rise to power, and his long presidency. It notes his resistance to the French invasion in 1863, multiple insurrections, and seven unanimous presidential elections, painting a romantic, influential public figure with vast personal clout.
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Porfirio Diaz
Diaz
Mexico
Diaz Grez
Oaxaca
President Diaz
Muyor
Santa Anna
Don Juan Alvarez
Ta Ul Tsing
London
When Spring Arrives The Street Band Plays For All
In a playful Monologue from Catholic Standard and Times, T A Daly muses on lingering winter and the crowd's cry for spring. The speaker notes cold winds and coal as winter keeps its hold while promising a street performance of Lucia as the season turns.
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Lucia
T. A. Daly
Catholic Standard and Times
An Easy Going Fellow
A fragment from Success Magazine offers wry maxims on parlor truths and public taste. It notes a parrot’s color proves little about experience, mocks yellow journalism, imagines Niagara reversed, observes parental pride, and jokes that money talks only when scarce.
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Niagara
Success Magazine
Take Your Choice in Street Encounters
A Portland youth dodges a passenger on the street in a humorous standoff about whether to waltz or a two step. The exchange reveals the quirky, overlapping banter of lovers and strangers in a lighthearted vignette.
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Portland
Rustic Sarcasm Sparks Cabin Conversation
The Washington Star quotes a rustic exchange where a woman in front of a cabin asks about her husband catching chills or fever. The respondant says no noting he would not have much drive and instead merely sat and let them overtake him.
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Washington Star
Exposition For Motors Planned At Trondhjem Next Summer
Norwegian motor exposition planned at Trondhjem Montana. Cattlemen Miles City Mont April 21. Montana Stock Growers Association convened with large turnout. Session focused on relations between cattle shippers and railroads as railroad leaders addressed the convention. Association stands as a leading state body with millions invested in cattle. Senate House conferees near agreement on increased army pay before adjournment.
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Trondhjem
Miles City
Mont
Montana Cattlemen
Montana Stock Growers' Association
Montana Association
Senate
House
Congress
The Mullet Myth and Biloxi Bacon Lore
A lighthearted Biloxi coastal piece from the New Orleans Picayune extols the mullet's central role in Gulf coast life. It chronicles cultural devotion, jokes about fish name changes for visitors, and a Civil War-era note on Biloxians surviving on mullet, with a claim that skilled netters can feed a regiment in an hour.
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Gulf Coast
Gulf
Biloxi
Butler
Ship Island
New Orleans
Picalune
A Difference in Construction and Womens Knees
A 19th century critique argues anatomical differences define gender roles. It claims the feminine knee and delicate foot hinder long standing and certain tasks, noting brain substance and pelvis shape as factors. The piece concludes equality hinges on more than brains, even questioning women serving as soldiers.
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van der Walker
Republican State Convention opens amid Taft fight in Concord
In Concord New Hampshire the Republican State convention began at 11 AM with preliminary business then adjourned to this afternoon. Early signs pointed to a heated clash between Taft supporters and delegates favoring an uninstructed delegation to Chicago.
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Concord
N. H
New Hampshire
Chicago
Fertilizer and Straw Market Notes From West Main Street
Advertises Double Eagle Phosphate by N. C. Musgrove on West Main Street for grass or grain growth. Mentions straw, hats priced higher this year due to a straw famine and references to “Naturally, Knose iterry Widow” as part of the fragmented text.
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Double Eagle
N. C. Musgrove
West Main Street
Ashgrove Stallion Race Record and Breeding Profile
A detailed notice for Ashgrove a highly bred stallion bred by Eugene Bowerman of Lexington Kentucky. The entry lists Ashgrove at 1.9 hands high and about 1050 pounds with a 2:30 race record and strong lineage including Ashland Wilkes and Miss Gay. It notes service fee of 20 dollars to insure foal and that the stallion will stand at Boyd street stable in 1908 with further particulars available by address.
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United States
Ashgrove
Eugene Bowerman
Lexington
Ashland Wilkes
Record
Sallie Toler
Pinchem Wilkes
Ash Rose
Miss Gay
Thodore Shelton
Mayme McHenry
Gentl Breeze
Boyd Street
Life Span Chart From Paris Journal Of Health
HIRAM GAINES owner. A Paris health journal outlines life as a sequence of diseases by age. Infantile complaints teething croup and cholera attacks follow through childhood, with measles and mumps later, then typhoid insomnia and death at seventy five.
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French Journal of Health
Paris
Great Forest Reserve of Nevada total acres and withdrawals
The Reno correspondence reports Nevada National Forest reserves reach 8,528,479 acres with state water area about 71,000,000 acres overall. Las Vegas National Forest known as Sheep Mountains spans 195,840 acres as the eighth formed in the state. Interior withdrawal of 616,451 acres in White Pine and Nye counties adds to the reserve, totaling over 9,000,000 acres to be withdrawn soon.
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Nevada
Las Vegas National Forest
Sheep Mountains
Secretary of the Interior
White Pine
Nye
Reno
San Francisco Chronicle
Florida Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star Session
Daytona Florida April 21. One of the largest attended annual sessions of the Florida Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star opened today. A reception for visitors will be held at the Hotel Despland this evening. Read the Daily Sentinel.
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Order of Eastern Star
Daytona
Fla
Florida
Order of the Eastern Star
Hotel Despland
The Pedigree of a Rail and Cork Limbs Examined
A Pennsylvanian railroad study tests steel rail specifications over six months with 10000 tons of experimental orders. The aim is to standardize cross section carbon silicon manganese content and phosphorus limits to reduce brittleness while saving costs and protecting passengers. The piece notes evolving rail designs from iron to steel, focusing on base shank shape and bearing surface to conserve metal. It then explores the credibility of prosthetic devices, arguing that makers wearing cork limbs understand user needs and the advantage of firsthand experience in fitting limbs.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
England
Early rising not without danger says French scientist
Dr Savary and Dr Forbes Ross attack the old proverb that early rising brings health wealth and wisdom. They warn early risers risk insomnia and mental inefficiency. Forced rising is harmful. those who wake naturally may do more work, while the early bird is not always the best worker. Sweet Melody Flour.
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Savary
Academy
Forbes Ross
San Jacinto Day Observed Across Texas
Austin notes San Jacinto Day with widespread observances as a legal holiday. banks and public offices closed. The article recalls General Sam Houston’s 1836 victory over a larger Mexican force at the San Jacinto River, the battle’s heroism, and Santa Anna’s capture. Texas members of Congress and the Texas Society of Washington plan an evening celebration in Washington.
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Tex
Texas
Sam Houston
San Jacinto River
Texas Republic
Alamo
Santa Ana
Houston
Washington
Congress
Texas Society of Washington
San Jacinto
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