Labor laws on children and women face high court scrutiny
A New York court tests the constitutionality of child labor and women work limits, arguing whether the law applies to factories but not to department stores. Public sentiment supports restrictions, while higher courts may reshape state authority. Also notes Towne Bryan talk and local trial remarks on courtroom ethics.
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Supreme Courts
United States
Reporter Bravery on Oregon Rescue Sparks Iconic Feat
A New York Times reporter Thomas H Fielders leaped from a steamer at odds of drowning to reach survivors from the Oregon disaster. He swam to a tug, was hauled aboard, and the ship’s captain refused entry to the tug while quarantine loomed. The Times later ran a graphic account of the ship’s loss and heroic escapes.
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Oregon
Fieldora
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Tencetock
Times
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Ming
Rhye
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Success Magazine
The Forest and the Mockery of Taxation
Fragments from a poem-like lament discuss ruin and social anger over taxation. It mentions unpaid exactions, personal tax demonstrations, and public discontent. A reference to George Ronsett, Syrian leper in a Baltimore-Brooklyn suburb box car, frames the piece as a critique of burdensome policy and despair.
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Santtien
Rim
Wei
George Ronsett
Ballinore
Brooklyn
Times
Towne and Roosevelt raise questions on power and policy
The article discusses Theodore Roosevelt and anti corporate ideas, comparing them with Bryan, and notes uncertainty about which stance is safer. It comments on Russia as an absolute monarchy, automobile accidents in Indianapolis, Lipton’s yacht plans, Pittsburgh wealth tactics, and Justice Brewer commenting on Taft and Roosevelt’s presidential prospects.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodora Roosevelt
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Roosevelt
Iowa Idea on Likely Nominee Backing and Party Split
The article hints that Lea Ne M Shaw may not be the favorite for the presidential nomination. Blythe and his reservation could be opened to settlement, while standpatism is described as only bluff. Paul Diapatch.
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Iowa
Lews
Lea
M. Shaw
Blythe
Paul Diapatch
Field's Mistake and Field Death Highlight Faith Payment
A physician who treated Btarshatt Field Inix during a seven day period charged 40 000 for services. Mr Field also died. The Minnespolis Journal notes it would have been money in Mr Field's pocket if he had been a Christian Scientist.
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Mr. Field
Minnespatis Journal
Twine trade, price cuts spark Indiana debate in politics
William Wells of Chicago cites影twine price competition with prison-made Michigan City binder twine as farmers seek lowest costs. Deniers warn state price cuts harm private industry and wages while campaigns heat up for state office, with a hard contest anticipated as candidates scramble in a late September climate.
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Engish
Michigan City
Thme
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Aeaven
Notable Americans and British figures in a sweeping reminiscence
The article trails prominent names from U S political life such as John G Carlisle while recalling Winston Churchill Lord Randolph Churchill and Cyrus W Field among others. It also sketches figures like Professor Milne Sitting Bull and Sir Charles Tennant highlighting varied careers from law and finance to exploration and science with remarks on their backgrounds and ages.
Pointed Query on Governor Hanly’s Taxpayer Cost
The Pix County Democrat charges Indians taxpayers pay Gov A a salary and house rent of 9600 yearly. It notes the governor is absent from his duties, travels to Italy delivering a lecture on Patriotism of Peace, and is paid for the talk at varying rates. The piece questions why the public does not share in his lecture proceeds as it does in public funds.
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Marion County
SSS
Addison
Harris
Larga
Tne
Italy
Frank Hanly
Hanly
Talsta
Pixe County Democrat
Nature's Notes on Bats Birds and Odd Beliefs
A digest of curious anecdotes and natural history lore. The text quotes a biologist on bats surviving binding, Levy cited for eye removal and flight through a sewer, plus notes on bird courtship displays from a Globe Democrat article. It also includes reflections on spiders and human romance, with oyster aging and a note on Stoessel’s luck and Gen. Broensel.
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Levy
St. Louis
Globe
Democrat
Woman systematizes travel talk in breezy column dialogue
A Chicago News fragment shows a lively exchange about socialism and Sunday papers. The speaking woman, an expert traveler who spent three months abroad, defends reading habits while critiquing class shifts and fashionable culture.
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Parse
James
Puck
Poust Prandial And Oddities In 10 Percent Tips
A fragment from the Denver Republican jokily notes a 10 percent tip at a hotel. It asks what nation that invented a 10 percent cheese might expect, then cites a Paris observer unable to do something about hot air. A Wisconsin line from the Milwaukee Sentinel adds a wry aside about balloons and travel.
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Keepsra Hava
Nation
Denver
Republican
Paris
Wisconsin
Milwaukee Sentinel
Washington fragments reveal alcohol denaturization debate
Disjointed excerpts show a debate on denaturized alcohol for fuel not drinkable, with Senator Daniel of Virginia questioning viability. Other notes mention Elvin Root’s past golf, the Nassau Club founder, and odd Senate House language, plus stray social commentary and a Chicago Tribune aside.
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