Taxing Patent Medicines to Be Debated by Congress
Congress faces debates on campaign contributions and a proposed tax on patent medicines with alcohol. Senators and representatives may push or resist prohibitive measures while deficits prompt revenue ideas. Patent medicine sellers vow to oppose new taxes, arguing their products already bear tax.
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Congress
Treasury
Heart of Things Lies in Country Homes Not Cities
A historical essay argues national strength rests with farm lands and rural districts, not metropolitan power. It contrasts New York’s railroad linked wealth with country roots, noting cities depend on open country for labor, materials, and money while sustaining the nation’s heartbeat.
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James J. Hill
Great Northern Railroad
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Merchants Association of New York
Merchants Association
York
East Side
Belasco Leads Anti-Trust Theatre Coalition Across U S
David Belasco has formed a large anti trust alliance with Harrison Grey Fiske John C Fisher Frank L Perley and the Shubert Brothers to control about thirty theatres from Boston to St Louis and counter the theatre trust. He recently secured control of the Lafayette Theatre in Washington with a 99 year ground lease and plans to produce Andrea in the capital, despite DC fire safety rules and a costly conversion.
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David Belasco
Theatrical Trust
Minnie Maddern Fiske
Harrison Grey Fiske
The
Dramatic Mirror
Shubert Brothers
Kilaw and Erlanger
Theatre Trust
Belasco
John C. Fisher
Frank L. Perley
Lafayette
Washington
Seward
Lincoln
Blaine
National Capital
Adrea
Leslie Carter
Convention Hall
New York
Environment shapes character from muddy streets to noble memories
A reflective essay contrasts grim urban scenes with pastoral childhood recollections. It questions whether children raised amid cobbles, canals, and police pursuit can grow into ideal citizens, urging empathy and remembrance of their bonds.
Monument to Mary Washington Restored in Fredericksburg
The Mary Washington Monument stands on Fredericksburgs western edge near Marye s Heights recalling the Civil War memory. Mary Washington died August 25 1799 and Washington bid farewell there in April that year before his inauguration. The grave lay unprotected for a century and a half until 1889 when the Mary Washington Monument Association funded and built a monument on land housing the remains.
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Mary Washington
George Washington
Fredericksburg
Virginia
Marye
Betty Washington
Ami
New York
Silas E. Burroughs
Andrew Jackson
Burroughs
Mary Washington Monument Association
Washington
Prehistoric Stone Head Found in Moriches Field
An ethnologist says a crude stone head found in a Moriches Long Island field reflects prehistoric human depictions. The artifact, though clumsy, suggests a savage people with small brain development and large jaws, offering insight into primitive life and evolution.
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Moriches
Long Island
Fortunes in Church Steeples
Rev Dr Forbes secretary of the Board of Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church argues that money spent on church steeples could pay off national church debts. He calls steeples relics of barbarism though many defend them for grace and beauty imparted to towns amid utilitarian concerns.
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Dr. Forbes
Board of Extension
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Tea leaf cigarettes seize London society and medical concern
London reports a new vice the tea leaf cigarette habit led by women with social and medical worry. The habit supposedly gives pleasant sensations but causes dizziness weakness and a drifting dreamlike state described as akin to narcotics.
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London
Dreamland
Balzac Revealed as Deluded God by Esquirol
A story recounts French alienist Esquirol testing a student by noting two dining guests. The quiet well dressed man believes himself to be God the Father, while the other is the famed writer Honore de Balzac, whom the student misidentified as a lunatic.
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Esquirol
God
M. Honore de Balzac
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