Senator Fairbanks Interview Sparks Media Jest in Chicago
A Chicago interview with Senator Charles Warren Fairbanks provokes sharp sarcasm over his coal strike remarks. The piece mocks calls for harmonious negotiations and questions the senator’s meaning while noting reactions from President Roosevelt and the Baer family.
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Charles Warren Fairbanks
Chicago
Congress
Fairbanks
Hhe
Beveridge
Baer
Roosevelt
D. M. Parry
Manufacturers’ Committee
Coal licensing reshapes eastern coal market after war
Editorials note editor Hearst fitness for Congress in guarded terms. The Pennsylvania license law binds 26,000 miners in unions, forcing work to resume despite 125,000 helpers. Long coal trains from west of the Alleghenies head to eastern markets, signaling soft coal displacing hard coal in certain uses.
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New York
Hearst
Congress
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Pennsylvania
Detroit Free Press
Alleghenies
Living Poems and a Child's Joy in Autumn
A collage of two excerpts: Longfellow praises children as living poems and a Chicago Record-Herald piece recounts a mother asking her daughter the source of happiness. The girl replies joy comes from a lover's compliment about her worth in coal.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Public School Rolls and City Rivalry Jokes
A mix of humorous anecdotes from early American newspapers. A Brooklyn Eagle item recalls a teacher’s struggle to record a pupil's father’s name, a New York Times tale riffs on a baptismy remark, a Little Chronicle comic finds a silk request misheard, and a St Louis Chicago rivalry bit ends with a phone fare quip about city limits.
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Mr. Blank
John
Charles
Mary
Brooklyn Eagle
Chicago
St. Louis
Michael Kenna
Hinky Dink
Missouri City
4 CORNER FOR THE WOMEN Indianapolis Fashions
In Indianapolis fashion notes the season favors the long line silhouette with horizontal tucks and a close fitting back skirt. The article highlights varied sleeves and elabo rate fits with fullness below the elbow. It also describes a new coat fastening with rosettes and common linen initials sold ready to sew on for laundry marking.
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Indianapolis
Publishing Woes Highlight Cream Leaf Shortage For Tarkington Novel
The advance demand for Booth Tarkington’s The Two Wan Revels strains publishers. Cream leaf supply dried up after 25 000 copies, with 35 000 completed and high grade leaf gone. Gilding scarce. five gilding shops and two binderies work overtime, still 20 000 copies behind.
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Booth Tarkington
America
Germany
Revival foliage binds hats with graceful artful trim
A pretty revival of hat foliage creates effective trim suitable for broad brim hats. A wreath of poppy foliage with a few blossoms proves pretty, with soft foliage shades blending well. Leaves range in dull brown green and autumnal yellow red tones.
Changing Fashion: Coats Supplant Skirt and Jacket
The text notes a shift in street fashion where separate coats become the preferred outerwear. Skirt and coat outfits fall to second place as coats appear in varied lengths from short to three quarter and full. It mentions furs as a possible accessory for wealthier women during colder weather.
Cornmeal Pancake Recipe From Indianapolis Home
Describes a cornmeal pancake suited for breakfast in an Indianapolis home. Details a method to scald cornmeal with boiling water, add salt, sugar, egg, and flour with baking powder, then mix with milk to form a smooth batter for cooking.
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Indianapolis
Crusade Against Armed Desperadoes Spreads South
The Atlanta Constitution notes a broad, simultaneous push by those who favor law and order to curb the spread of concealed weapons. It condemns the prevalent practice of carrying deadly arms daily and ready to use at minor provocations.
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Hanna
Vincennes Sun
Richmond Palladium
George F. Baer
Baer
Lafayette Courier
McKinley
Michigan City Dispatch
South
Atlanta Constitution
Fifty men search Mattewan for assailant John Reed
In Mattewan Virginia a force of about fifty men with guns hunted for John Reed a black man accused of assaulting a young girl. In a separate fog bound incident the steamer Ingham near London sank after collision with the Kron Prinz Wilhelm, with two drownings. A Washington G A R parade saw a runaway horse and five NH soldiers injured though not seriously.
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Mattewan
John Reed
Ingham
London
Washington
New Hampshire
Cure Deafness with Constitutional Remedies
An advertisement claims deafness results from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube and offers Hall's Catarrh Cure as a complete remedy. It asserts nine in ten cases from catarrh and pledges $100 for any catarrh deafness case not cured, urging readers to send for a free circular.
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Hall
Circulara
Guaranteed liners promise results for phones and offices
Sun liners claim high performance and guaranteed results for telephone and office uses. The ad mentions Office 121-12 Ohio Street, urging readers to try the product for visible improvements.
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SUN
Office
Ohiost
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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