Exposition Fight for 1915 City Site San Francisco Rises
The piece argues for a Panama Canal celebration via a 1915 world’s exposition, preferring San Francisco as site over New Orleans. It notes San Francisco’s rebuilding after 1908, state funding, and calls Congress to recognize the city as exposition site without federal cost. It also covers political snippings about Lodge Beveridge Lorimer and local reform.
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San Francisco
New Orleans
United States
Yellowstone
Colorado
Sacramento
Feather
Yosemite
Tahoe
Missions
San Diego
Progressive Politician Explains Stone Age Tool
In a museum scene a progressive politician explains a stone age implement to his young son. The boy asks what it is and the father remarks it would be what people today would use if certain conditions held.
Christmas Inn Tally Highlights Indiana Slum Crisis
A reflective Christmas plea from Albion Fellows Bacon urges Indiana readers to confront urban slums. It contrasts festive scenes with crowded dark rooms, unsafe housing, and tubercular risk, urging passage of housing and public health laws to give every baby a chance to live.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Terre Haute
Evansville
Happy Hollow
Richmond
Goosetown
Charity Organization Society
Commercial Club
Albion Fellows Bacon
A Way They Have
A reflective note from the Chicago Record-Herald on human behavior about seeking freebies and failing to value what costs nothing. The quote comments on common folly and appreciation.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Beard to Sheared: New York’s Governor-Elect Goes Clean
The Chicago Record-Herald notes a drastic political satire as New York shifts from a prominent beard trend to a clean face with the governor-elect appearing mustache-free, signaling a symbolic away-from tradition.
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New York
Chicago Record- Herald
Kipling Active in British Elections Cited
The Pittsburg Gai Times notes Rudyard Kipling engaging in British elections while Alfred Austin awaits results before presenting his homemade poems as a contribution.
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Rudyard Kipling
Alfred Austin
Pittsburg
Books printed in Leipsig, written in Indianapolis
A reader notes a contrast: Leipzig prints more books worldwide while Indianapolis yields more writings. This observation appears in the Pittsburg Gazette-Times.
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Leipsig
Indianapolis
Pittsburg
Noiseless Spoon Cited as Needed in Steak Line
The St. Louis Times laments that a noiseless spoon proves less useful than a contrivance to stop eager diners from claiming the prime steak portion. The quip frames a curb on crowding as a practical reform for dining rooms.
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St. Louis Times
Handy for One Reason Secretary of the Interior Mention
A brief note in the Opbto State Journal reflects on identifying the secretary of the interior without consulting the World Almanac. The item humorously comments on easy access to basic government facts.
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Secretary of the Interior
Almanac
Opbto State Journal
Our Real War Problem Critics blame unpreparedness on naval admin failure
The St Louis Post Dispatch argues the United States wastes funds on private mills and idle arsenals instead of building powder factories and ships. It says profits for Dupont and steel magnates finance inefficiency and urges a congressional inquiry to hold special privilege gentry to account.
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Dickinson
Hobson
Dupont Powder Trust
Steel Kings
Watervliet
New York
Boston
Fore River
Powder Trust
United States
Congress
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Value and Vigor of Ambition in Society
The essay argues ambition drives progress as workers and leaders advance civilization. It contrasts ambitious individuals with contented others, praising risk, effort, and self-advancement while acknowledging personal costs. It cites historical figures like Alexander, Caesar, Stephenson, and Shakespeare, and ends with a call to strive and endure failure rather than long quiet rest.
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Alexander
Caesar
Stephenson
Shakespeare
Lfe
Jerome KX
Jerome
Milwaukee plans vast riverbank suburbs for workers
The Milwaukee legislature grants the city rights to buy own and sell real estate on the outskirts. Platted for model swelling housing, with industrial and residential zones. Edison supports a new concrete method cutting house costs to about eight hundred dollars.
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Milwaukee
Carl D. Thompson
Thomas A. Edison
Invitation Accepted to Smythe Reception at Fort Sam Houston
A society woman invites Capt. Bunker to a reception on July 16 at Fort Sam Houston. The next day a reply arrives with a playful note that Capt. Bunker's company accepts the invitation with a light caveat that three men lack the proper measurements and one is in the guardhouse.
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Sam Houston
City Man and Farm Life Advice From W J Spilman
W J Spilman of the United States Department of Agriculture discusses the city man on the farm. He notes many fail due to lack of experience and resistance to advice, while some city men succeed through study and business training, but fruit farming often fails to outperform ordinary crops.
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W. J. Spilman
United States Department of Agriculture
Leslie
The Aldrich Scandal and Rubber Tariff Ties
The United States Rubber company and Intercontinental Rubber holdings show Nelson W. Aldrich and family as major stockholders and managers. Aldrich defends his role while critics accuse him of using tariff power for family profit, with little Senate push for probe.
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United States Rubber Company
Nelson W. Aldrich
United States
Rhode Island
Aldriches
Bristow
Aldrich
Intercontinental Rubber Company
Senate Finance Committee
the Trust
Croker
Senate
New York
Literary collection inspires a Boston Post vow
The Boston Post quotes a speaker listing many household items and personal effects to retrieve at home before composing an immortal poem. He vows to write if his pencils remain, aiming to surpass Swinburne in a poetic feat.
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Boston Post
Difficult Eating
A child questions how sardines in a can are opened as a parent explains that larger fish eat those that are opened. A brief family dialogue centers on curious Mabel aged five and a mother addressing the imaginative scenario.
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Mother
Mabel
Mamma
Three Men Die In Cincinnati Fire At Krippendorf Building
A spectacular blaze in Cincinnati killed three men and caused two million dollars in damage. Bodies were prepared for removal as flames forced firemen back and shattered distant windows. Sixty guests fled a Krippendorf O Neill building fire. authorities probe possible arson. Fireman Ed Kernan witnessed a collapse and was restrained during rescue efforts.
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Cincinnati
Krippendorf-O’neill Company
Ed Kernan
Finley P Gray Promotes Insurgent Reform in Interview
In a Pal ladium interview named as from a leading Republican, Finley P Gray denounces standpatism and urges tariff revision, executive rule changes, postal savings banks, public rail valuation, and public control of natural resources. He argues insurgents and Democrats must ally for progressive legislation and supports Pinchot against Ballinger.
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Congress
Watson
Giray
Barnard
Palladium
Gray
House
Senate
Ballinger
Pinechot
Lorimer Report Clears Lorimer of Bribery Allegations
Washington dispatch reports the Senate postponed final action after Beveridge challenged the Lorimer bribery charge findings. The Burrows committee concluded Lorimer’s seat validity was not proven by corrupt methods, with four members confessing bribes but insufficient influence to overturn the election.
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Washington
Beveridge
Senate
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Wiliam Lorimer
Indiana
Lorimer
Gallinger
United States Senate
Chicago Tribune
Legislative Voters’ Reasgue of
Chicago
Willian Lorimer
Burrows
Vay
Charles A. White
Michael Link
Beckemeyer
House
Ey. W. Holstraw
Frazier Idem
Tennessee
Frazier
Micho
Depew
Dillingham
Gamble
8. D
Heyburn
Idaho
Bulkley
Ore
Batley
Pex
Daynter
Johnston
Ala
Asletcher
Fla
Senatore Burrows
Senator Culberson
Culberson
New Hampshire
Army Gave Stove To Frozen Family
A family of six, found Monday nearly frozen, received a stove from the Salvation Army on Tuesday. Investigators and Wheeler Rescue Mission workers found them huddled around a small gasoline stove in a cold four room house. The father, a paperbanger fond of firewater, has wages directed to his needy family. Salvation Army lists them for a Christmas basket and arranged for the children to attend the Christmas dinner at the old Fletcher Bank Building.
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Salvation Army
Wheeler Rescue Mission
Stubbs
Rescue Mission
Fletcher Bank
Twelve Debaters Picked for Shortridge High Debate Teams
Twelve boys have been selected for tryouts for Shortridge high school debating teams to debate shortly after the Christmas vacation. The exact question has not yet been announced.
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Shortridge High School
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