Paris Exposition Plans Highlight American Pavilion Advancements
The American commissioner confirms approval of pavilion plans by the State Department. Woodward describes a grand white faced building with a 180 foot dome on the Seine, aimed to rival Chicago's World’s Fair. America will showcase machinery, electricity, automobiles, and art, with strong state exhibits including California horticulture and New York progress.
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Paris
Peck
Woodward
Speciature Department
Chiago
Seine
Alma Bridge
Ita
France
America
John B. Cualdwell
New York
California
Young Democracy Address Echoes Populist Wealth Reform
Fifty years ago the Young Democracy issued a public address urging Christian social reform. It denounces wealth inequality, calls for wealth creators to share prosperity, housing for all, and a duty to reform crime through prevention rather than punishment, and it champions union and universal rights to life and sustenance.
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Young Democracy
Croker, Harrison
Philadelphia
Press highlights on trusts and wealth in early quotes
A compilation of quoted opinions from various papers criticizes governance in the Philippines and rails against wealth concentration. It notes Alaska ore wealth, laments idle workers, and laments marriages and social strain while praising trusts as future reform.
Paris fair AmericAn pavilion space and exhibits outlined
Reports on space allotted to Amer flow by Paris managers and remarks by Commissioner Peck. Plans include a 75 by 10 foot American pavilion with four stories and annexes showing agriculture, corn, kitchen and cooking work, western log cabin, merchant marine, chemistry industry, and a great American printing press. Construction uses pale white stone carved from Catacombs-adjacent quarry.
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Amerlon
Peck
Ocean
France
Ilinois
Ita
Parla
J.america
People question who rules as war and reform swirl
A fragmented dialogue questions whether the people truly rule, debating 1898 era policies and actions around the Philippine war, monetary policy, and Cuban affairs and whether leaders like McKinley and Alger reflect popular will or elite control.
Can Live Without Air Snails Endure Winter Sealing
The snail, though an air breathing creature with lungs heart and circulation, can flye for an indefinite period without inhaling air. In winter it retreats into its shell and seals the mouth hermetically, impervious to air and water. Spallausant kept a snail sealed in airless air for four years four months and it resumed functions within less than an hour at 90 demens. The men who make the world are the men who are not on the make.
Public Franchises and Democracy in Toledo Speech
Mayor Jones denounces private ownership of public franchises as a crime against democracy and a privilege that enriches a few. He contends trusts and undue profits burden the poor, calls for democratic government and unlimited right to work, and urges a meeting at city hall to confront unemployment.
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Toledo
Ohio
Eyse
Nar Alates
What kind of man are you vote for folly and debt
A fragment from Centralia Illinois X Rays questions a reader about political choices and values. It contrasts demands for pay and liberty with calls for debt, inflation, housing, and constitutional ideals, paired with a critique of women’s faults and virtues attributed to a race.
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Ill
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