The Truth About the Mexican War by Justin H. Smith
Memorial column praises Professor Justin H. Smith who died recently for clarifying U.S. war aims in 1846 1847. It contrasts patriotic myths with Smiths balanced analysis showing Polk sought war for Texas and Mexico miscalculated. The piece ends with a satirical prognosis on “smelling contests” and civic virtue.
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Justin H. Smith
Mexico
Texas
Smith
United States
Polk
Washington
Santa Anna
Belgium
Open Mind on Consultation Pact Deepens US Policy Split
The White House denounces a consultation pact as a snare while the American delegation in London keeps an open mind if France's security demands are met by Britain. The piece argues the disagreement is a strategic ruse, urges immediate non military consultation treaty, and calls for withdrawing pressure for a separate European security pact.
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Hoover
London
White House
Stimson
France
Britain
Senate
Noth
America
United States
Washington
Noses and the rise of liquor scent detection at speed
The piece argues noses fail in crowds and aboard fast boats yet experts like liquor sniffers grow keen enough to detect alcohol on a forty knot speed boat. It humorously notes occasional mistakes and the coroner’s possible workload, while acknowledging the President’s stance on work.
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United States
Mutinies Reported at Missouri State Penitentiary
New prison mutinies are reported from the Missouri state penitentiary at Jefferson City and militia units have been mobilized. The outbreak reflects overcrowding and alleged poor feeding and overwork, highlighting broader prison conditions and calls for relief from both federal and state authorities.
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Missouri State Penitentiary
Jefferson City
Tariff Backfire Triggers French Protests and Debates
French lace workers stage demonstrations against a 300 percent duty rise in the Grundy tariff bill while the French Chamber of Deputies weighs retaliatory higher duties on American automobiles. American manufacturers counter growing anti embargo sentiment as foreign nations oppose U S policy yet seek access to surplus goods.
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France
Senate
French Chamber of Deputies
Founders Day speaker at Virginia on Jefferson birthday sparks debate
Simeon D. Fess of Ohio selected as principal speaker for Founders' Day at the University of Virginia under the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association. The piece critiques Fess as a conservative senator and contrasts him with Jefferson. It also jokes about a parrot bite damages case and notes a Georgia horse death with a camel. The senate raises straw hat duties.
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Thomas Jefferson
Simeon D. Fess
Ohio
University of Virginia
Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association
Senate
Senator Fess
Alexander Hamilton
Free school books in state plan sparks post debate
The American Legion post at Misha waka backs a resolution urging the state to furnish free school books as in other states. Some say the state should print and own the volumes to avoid ongoing book-pillage and changes.
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American Legion
Mishawaka
Nature's resilience and the rise of small enterprise
A column urges optimism after a tough winter, comparing nature’s buds to steady effort. It argues that prosperity rests with individuals, highlighting six million farmers and two million professionals, plus 400000 stock companies, and notes rising savings deposits and building permits as signs of renewal.
Rights and residence for voting in the District of Columbia
The text explains that DC born residents cannot vote in DC if they reside permanently elsewhere, and can vote in their state of legal domicile if they meet its suffrage requirements. It also asks about a boxing bout in Newark on January 7, 1925, noting Bobby Barrett KOed Jack Rappaport in the semi final. It clarifies that a Christian name is the first name, and asks whether Fred Stone has appeared in talking pictures, suggesting he has not appeared in a feature film.
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Missouri
John Smith
John Smiths
Henry Ford
Wilbur Wright
District of Columbia
Mickey Walker
Mike McTigue
Newark
N. J
Bobby Barrett
Philadelphia
Jack Rappaport
Inheritance of Baldness Across Families
Dr Morris Fishbein summarizes studies showing baldness as a dominant trait in men and recessive in women. He notes racial variation, early onset in some lineages, and related hereditary hair traits including whorls, superfluous hair in women, finger hair, and hairlessness in dogs.
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Osborne
Transvall
Danforth
Mexico
The Farmer and the 4 a.m. Alarm in Rural Life
Heywood Brown muses on farm life and the early rising routine. He jokes about farmers waking at 4 a.m. to milk and plant, ponders cows and bovine psychology, contrasts rural hours with city life, and argues miseries of early start can be avoided by aligning schedules with natural rhythms.
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Pring
Senator Capper
New York
New Yorker
America
Chicago
Big Bill Thompson
Flagg
the Times
Unemployment remedy call favoring local workers
A Constant Reader argues for prioritizing Indianapolis residents in jobs and for sending nonresidents who work in the city back to farms or small towns. The letter cites high city taxes and landlord taxes as a burden and suggests a poll of employers to confirm local employment bias.
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Times
Indinapolis
Indianapolis
Look for the good in others and you will find it
Daily Lenten devotion urges seeing virtue in all, citing Philippians 4 8 and Matthew 16 13 20. It shares a Cheyenne tale of Wichie and advises using one big eye for excellence and one small eye for defects, ending with a prayer for sincere sympathy.
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Jesus
W. E. Channing
Daily Thought Proverbs Lesson Echoes in Verse
A compact pair of aphorisms contrasts a scriptural warning about tomorrow with a Carlyle quip on noise and emptiness. The snippets resemble a reflective, period tone aimed at pondering fate and substance.
Northwest Passage mystery ends with Franklin’s doomed voyage
The article recounts Sir John Franklin’s 1845 Arctic expedition aboard Erebus and Terror to find the Northwest Passage. It details their wintering efforts, deaths, and the discovery of a cairn at Point Victory with records, noting Franklin died June 11, 1847, and the 105 stranded men perished.
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Sir John Franklin
Atlantic
Pacific
Franklin
Spilsby Lincolnshire
England
Navy
Trafalgar
Buchan
Arctic
Erebus
Terror
Baffin's Bay
Beechy Island
Wellington Channel
King William's Land
Graham Gore
Gore
Point Victory
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