Gossip of Washington on the Secret Service expansion
Washington column questions the growth of the federal secret service under President Roosevelt. It notes executive branch reliance to enforce laws, cites historic abuses of detailing agents beyond statutory authority, and explains agency expansion amid cabinet and bureau demands.
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Secret Service
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Wilkie
Time to Call a Halt on the Practice
A discussion on the sundry civil bill reveals a secret service detail assigned to monitor a naval officer. Congress has expanded the espionage system, with about 6,000 government detectives traveling nationwide among 80 million people. No evidence supports claims of agents fabricating damaging information on congressmen.
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Secret Service
Navy Department
Congress
Army of Government
Washington
Iiit
Post Office
The
Land Service
Gridiron Club Holds Annual Dinner With Elite Guests
The Grid Iron Club hosted its fall dinner in Washington with a distinguished guest list including the president and vice president, senators and representatives, an English lord, diplomats, and prominent newspaper men. A humorous skit followed a military mock pageant, with playful troops and mock casualties, concluding with color guards and acknowledgments.
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Shameful Treatment of Uncle Ike in Senate Move
Uncle Ike Stephenson, famed as a veteran Wisconsin senator and wealthy story teller, faced a rough start after being reassigned to a house office building space for a new power plant. His room vanished, furniture moved to the corridor, and he was sent to the extreme southeast corner known as Anacostia, with two other senators relocated there as well.
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NCLE
Ike Stephenson
Senate
Spooner
Wisconsin
B Street
Ike
Uncle Ike
House
Anacostia
Cumming
Town
du Pont
Delaware
Dressy Gage Model Forefront of Winter Hat Trends
A winter millinery piece, the new Dressy Gage model, features lavish velvets, furs, and ostrich plumes with gold and silver roses driving demand. Shops report gold and silver rose shortages as oversized winter blooms dominate the scene, while flower hat trimmings surge with the cold.
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Milner
Vogue in Season's Coats and Evening Dress Details
The description details a season’s coat with a narrow back shoulder line, double breasted fronts with brilliants set like platinum, broad blue satin reverses embroidered with silver bees, tight buttoned sleeves, and lace frills. It pairs with a gray filet tulle blouse over a high waist skirt, draped with silver gauze, and Mechii lace trim.
Hull Dog Collar Lets Bow Be Worn Back Or Side
The latest Paris collar design introduces the Hull Dog collar allowing the bow placement to be worn at the back or the side, offering a versatile option for pet fashion and function.
Revival of Gold Slippers Fashion Trend
The article describes revived gold satin and gilt gold slippers, worn without stockings to match outfits. It notes they pair with black or white gowns and pastel shades, with stockings matching the skirt. Bronze slippers return fashion, with bronze liquid to maintain them and bronze silk stockings sold in shops.
Waxing Furniture with Wax and Turpentine Pomade
A historical recipe describes making a furniture wax polish by melting two ounces each of white and yellow wax, adding four ounces of oat spirits of turpentine, and stirring until cool. The polish is rubbed on with a fine brush to open wood veins, enrich color, improve adhesion, and yield varnishlike luster without typical drawbacks. Renewal is by rubbing with fine cork.
Little Mary Diagnoses Dollies Sick in Early Morning
In a playful scene Mary reports two of her dolls are ill. Mother and grandmother debate causes. doctors are imagined as warnings of appendicitis or convulsions. Mary then describes Gwendolyn with “a pint o’spiders” and Marguerite “envulsions” as the dolls’ conditions.
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Mary
Grandma
Gwendolyn
Marguerite
Intolerable itching baby eczema cured by remedies
A mother recalls months of failed treatments for her six month old daughter’s facial eczema. Doctors offered ointments with no relief and swelling worsened. After using Cuthura Remedies, the red eruption faded to white and disappeared entirely.
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Mia
P. E. Gumbin
Sheldon
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Bolo Pro
Boston
Laundering Makes Fine Wash Goods Look Better
In a humorous quip, the piece notes that the appeal of fine wash goods lies in laundering. It extols home laundering with proper starch, stressing Defiance Starch for stiffening without thickening and improving the appearance of finished work.
Pillow in glass case labeled as Washington's original HQ
Visitors at the historical museum notice a small feather pillow in a glass case. The guide explains it is a very valuable item, identified by Lippincott as Washington's original headquarters.
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Historical Museum
Washington
Too Much for Mamma Eye Incident Sparks Childrens Dispute
A mother questions her son Tommie after he reports being struck by the boy next door. He denies retaliation and explains he did not strike first, prompting a tense domestic exchange about truth and blame.
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Tommie
Starch Advice and Social Excerpt From Etray Stories
A note extols ironing with Iron and Defiance Starch to launder shirts at home, claiming proper stiffness and less wear. An Expert yields a lighthearted exchange about marriage to Charley, praising him as one of the nicest fellows I was ever engaged to.
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Charley
Etray
Marriage Service Defined by Boston Cynic
A Boston woman of the era ridicules the term marriage service describing it as waiting on a husband in roles of cook laundress seamstress and maid of all work while emphasizing domestic duties alongside a Castoria advertisement note I examine every bottle for safety and signature proof of long use over thirty years
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Boston
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