Congressmen Listen to Suggestions
ASHINGTON. The Congressional Record prints daily petitions and memorials from every section, showing public sentiment. Senators and representatives review these suggestions each morning, with 10,000 names on senate petitions and 1,000 to 15,000 on house petitions in early congress weeks. Most petitions are not part of organized lobbying efforts.
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Ashington
Congress
Congressional Record
Legislative Body
Senate
House
Senator Shelton Probes New York Revenue By Providence Trips
The Senate finance committee clerk A B Shelton repeatedly traveled Providence Rhode Island for investigations into New York customs revenues. Trips spanned 1906 into 1907 with multiple routes and costs totaling varying sums and no final report. The pattern raises questions about delays and method of inquiry authorized in 1905.
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United States Senate
New York
Senate Finance Committee
A. B. Shelton
Providence
R. I
Aldrich
Rhode Island
Shelton
R. L
Senate
New York Customes
Mr. Shelton
R. 1
New York City
Washington
Gotham
Uncle Sam
Mr. Aldrich
A.L
Homespun Brigade Formed by Aiken in House
Representative Wyatt Aiken of South Carolina leads a homespun brigade in Congress after an old woman in his district sewed jeans from homespun cloth. Aiken, known for veteran support, uses the outfits to gain recognition and post offices, inviting others as more cloth arrives.
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Wyatt Aiken
South Carolinna
Aiken
Abbeville
Joe” Cannon
North Carolina
Mr. Aiken
South Carolina
Axele Joe
Uncle Joe
Washington
Ryan
New York
Lee
Georgia
Griggs
White House Aids Grow Weary Of Social Duties
A confessional view notes that White House aides to the president endure long hours and social duties beyond their military roles. Officers such as Young Grant and Young Lee served in engineering or cavalry tasks at times, while social receptions require leading crowds and marching ahead of the president, a glamour that fades as weariness sets in.
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Washington
White House
Philippines
Young Grant
Sir. Roosevelt
Washington Barracks
Young Lee
Fort Myer
Roosevelt
The Time Test and Abe's Marriage Lesson
A 1903 testimonial praises Dean's Kidney Pills from Mrs. James A. Long of Staunton Virginia with later notes in 1907 about lasting relief. The second excerpt from Lippincott's Magazine follows Abe a light mulatto who jokes with a minister about marrying for $5, highlighting racial perceptions in marriage costs.
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Dean
James A. Long
Augusta St
Staunton
Foester-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N.Y
Woman Recovers From Eczema After Cuticura Remedies
Mrs David Brown of Locke Arkansas describes years of eczema on her ankles with intense itching and sleepless nights. After three uses of Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills she slept better and her ankle sores healed quickly. She reports no relapse a year after treatment.
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David Brown
Locke, Ark
Fragmented Advert Sections Reflect Aged Remedies And Wit
A garbled collage of era advertisements and quips promotes patent medicines from Chensy’s Emporium and Gleo’s notes. It bundles oath notarizations, cures for catarrh and constipation, and teas, with quotes on life and humor. It evokes late nineteenth century business pitches and social musings.
Care of the Kitchen Walls and Pantry Maintenance
A compact guide on kitchen upkeep stressing clean walls as essential to safe cooking. It urges regular washing with light tint, avoiding mixed hot and cold coatings, and warns against glue or sour milk in wall mixtures. Advice covers spring and fall coatings and annual pantry brushing, plus sealing insect and rodent entry points with wall coating.
Blues At The Barbershop Tale From Indianapolis News
Louis Jones of the Grand Opera house and his brother, a colored man, share a gloomy mood in a barber shop. They discuss weather and times as silence settles. The colored man quotes a philosopher: If you ain’t got nothin, now’s yo’ time.
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Louis Jones
Grand Opera House
Indianapolis
Methodist Episcopal Property Value and Debt in Guam Note
The Methodist Episcopal church property in this country is valued at about 187 million dollars with an outstanding indebtedness of 12.127 million. A other items mention a quippy verse about a Guam youth and a promotional line for bronquial troches and a watch fob offer from W. Hide & Fur Co. in Minneapolis.
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Methodist Episcopal
Methodist Episcopal Church
W. Hide & Fur CO
Afwneapolis
Boots on the native boy and a curious verdict
An army officer in a South African native district gifts a pair of heavy nailed boots to a Kafir boy. The boy loves them but cannot walk in them, saying they slow him. He keeps the boots for wear in, while remaining barefoot at camp.
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South Africa
Bs Praster
Khafir
London
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