Knoxs Little Joke Amendment Sparks Debate on Rebates
The article denounces a Knox clause amendment to the Elking bill as a Republican tactic to shield shipper and carrier rebates. It notes President and Attorney General influence, warns of hidden tariff holes, and questions doubling the President’s salary as excessive, urging lawmakers to consider broader consequences.
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Kis Rovtaodt
Pula
House Committee On Commerce
Knox
Mr. Knox
Ainners
Naval Brahminiam and Navy Officer Promotions Debate
The piece criticizes Mr. Foss and a naval appropriation plan that allows only twelve annual promotions to commissioned rank while the navy faces severe officer shortages. It argues for broader promotions, condemns social caste talk within the navy, and defends entry from enlisted men or civilians as equal to Annapolis tradition.
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Foss
Bureau
Navy
Civilife
Army
Annapolis
Tariff Hole Remains as House Battles Trust Bills
Congress debates three anti trust and reform measures aimed at trust prosecutions publicity for trust affairs and freight rebate penalties with a focus on strengthening interstate commerce rules. The discussion hints at tariff issues tied to monopoly and echoes a familiar old dispute about protecting or restricting trusts.
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Congress
United States
Hself
Executive Department
Havemeyer
Hanna's Ridiculous Slave Pension Bill Sparks Critique
The piece condemns Senator Hanna for introducing a slave pension bill calling it mischievous and unlikely to pass. It argues the measure would mislead southern Black citizens into false hopes of government pensions and could entice them to spend savings to support it.
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Hanna
South
Inadequate Finances in Anti-Trust Provisions Debate
Congress debated the inadequacy of fines in anti-trust laws. The House Will was seen as too weak against violators and penalties too moderate. Advocates argued that reform must abolish the laws enabling trusts rather than rely on fines alone.
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Congress
Inex
Makeshift Measure Aims to Extend Treasury Powers
Senator Aldrich introduces a bill to empower the secretary of the treasury to deposit public funds in national banks on approved securities like municipal and railroad bonds. It sets a minimum interest of one and a half percent and allows the secretary to fix the rate, reflecting Republican policy preferences.
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Aldrich
Republican Party
Secretary of the Treasury
Echoing Hanna Allegation in House Debate
In the house debate on the anti-trust bill Jenkins of Wisconsin revived the cry there are no trusts. The claim echoes M. A. Hanna and reflects on the evolving view that trusts exist and require legislative action, even as current measures move through the Wikins bill or the Nelson amendment.
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Hanna
Jenkins
Wisconsin
M. A. Hanna
Provident
Wikins
Roosevelt and the Trusts Policy Shift
The piece notes President Roosevelt's opposition to removing tariff protection from trusts to shield small industries. It explains a Democratic proposal would place public necessity determinations and action discretion in the President, reducing risk to innocent interests and avoiding harm to male industries.
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Roosevelt
Coal Operators Leader Says Pay Hike Falls on Consumers
Mr. Bogle head of the Indiana coal operators declares any increase in miner wages must come from consumers. The public always pays the freight regardless of the dispute, he asserts.
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Bogle
Indiana Coal Operators
Trusts Plan to Control New Commerce Department
A critical view argues that trusts will seize the secretary’s position to dominate the newly formed department of commerce. If the plan succeeds within two years, the department would become as harmless as a state railroad commission.
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Department of Commerce
Tte
Lows Railroad Commission
Model School House Planned for Roxbury Mass
A new grammar school building in Roxbury Massachusetts is described as an absolutely model design by Ita Reniguez. The 38,216 square foot three story fireproof brick structure features nineteen classrooms plus eight more rooms on the second floor and four on the third, with ball room, assembly hall, kitchens, and manual training spaces. The plan includes ample playgrounds on the rear, diversified rooms on the first floor, limestone ashlar walls, steel floors with terra cotta arches, and brick partition walls with terra cotta finishes.
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Roxbury
Mass
Ita Reniguez
Beste Walla
Relic of John Brown rope owned by Chicago man
Henry Washington of 591 West Lake Street possessed a 118 inch piece of the rope used to hang John Brown at Harper's Ferry. He verified its authenticity through family ties and historical notes, saying the relic passed through generations to him after his father’s master first secured a fragment. The item was shown at the Middle States and Mississippi Valley Negro Exposition at the First Regiment Armory.
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Chicago
First Regiment
Henry Washington
Weat Lake Street
John Brown
Harper's Ferry
Washington
Hin
Harriet Duckett
Edward Stonebreaker
Pleasant Valley
Join Brown
Brown
Herald
Clover Is His Mascot Eyes FourLeaf Luck
A young man, confident in his talent, travels for inspiration then sends four leaf clovers with his manuscripts. He believes luck from the talisman affects acceptance, yet editors often return the work. He wonders why failures aren’t blamed on his writing.
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Plano
Quail Misadventure in New York Patently Humble Delmonico
In Georgia's wiregrass region quail, called patridges by locals, abound. A South Georgia man, after selling turpentine land, travels to New York for a showy indulgence at Delmonico's. He orders quail on toast, tastes it with distaste, and realizes his homeland birds are not treated as delicacies abroad.
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Wire
Georgia
South Georgia
New York
Metropolis
Delmonico's
Flo
Delmonico
Glynn J County Patridges
Burt
Medicine Too Good For Horse Doctor Prescribed Whisky And Quinine
A Chicago heiress Miss Genevieve Winterbotham had a valuable horse treated with whisky and quinine after a change of climate left the animal weak. Two Brys Mawr stablemen fell ill and later confessed the demijohn was empty, claiming the medicine was used by allowing access to the owner. The owner then arranged another supply to be administered by a stable hand.
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Genevieve Winterbotham
Chicago
Brys Mawr
Migs Winterbotham
Bryan Mawr College
Tse
Philadelphia
The Ten Minute Sermon and the Pup Question
The Rev Harry P Jewey of Brooklyn recalls a story of a Presbyterian minister who spoke only ten minutes. He joked that a dog at home had eaten the unspoken part of the sermon and the minister must stop. A woman at the door asks if the dog has pups to gift to the minister.
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Harry P. Jewey
Brooklyn
Brethren
Humorous Dinner Party Quips Between Hewitt Smyth Evarts
A long anecdote recounts a dinner where Recorder Smyth teases Senator Evarts by reading a fictitious sentence from his speech. Abram Hewitt responds with a grave remark about a sentence purported to swat through a prisoner’s life as the Times notes. The scene shifts to supper with a witty exchange over food and character, ending with a playful exchange over ham.
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Senator Evarta
Smyth
Abram S. Hewitt
Iate
Evarts
Hewitt
Mr. Hewitt
New York Times
Ingenious Device for Soothing Frettful Infants
A Swiss mechanic has invented an automatic baby's nurse to lull crying infants. The cradle apparatus activates a phonograph to prompt soothing sounds while a clockwork mechanism rocks the cradle. when the baby stops crying the wires release and the rocking ceases.
All Fond of Gambling On Ocean Liner
A Philadelphia passenger recounts gambling onboard a transatlantic liner. Crowds gathered in the smoking room, betting pennies as games continued despite clergy’s warnings. By the fourth day the bank war kept shifting, and by the fifth day the game continued to the point where the captain halted proceedings with total gains and losses under five dollars.
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Europe
Atukes
Reed's One Busy Day and Reed's Democratic Nature
In reminiscences of Thomas B Reed the Rev Dr Francis Clark depicts Reed as democratic in habits despite power. A parish clerk recalls asking for time and Reed replies I never remember being busy in my life but once and then I didn't have much to do. He chats with old days with cordiality as if with the White House mistress.
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Thomas B. Reed
The
Independent
Francis Clark
Christian Endeavor Society
Reed
America
Citien
Tore
Mr. Reed
White House
Cured of Games of Chance by Judge Loring Story
In college Judge William Caleb Loring of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court refused a pile of money won in a casual game of vinyl bun. His friend Edward B. Callender recalls Loring hesitating, then returning the bills and declaring he could not take money from games of chance. He later avoided all such games.
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William Caleb Loring
Massachusetts Supreme Bench
Edward B. Callender
Dorcheater
Loring
How It Strikes an Operator At Ohio Capitol
A coal operator at the capitol explains why coal is high as dealers crowd his office. A $1.05 per ton price at the mine is undercut by bids of 4.50 and 5.00 per ton. Overbidding raises costs while the consumer is treated as a rapid supply source, per the New York Tribune.
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Capitol
Mike
Ohio
New York Tribune
Indian Summer Legend of the Great White One
The Algonquins speak of power and splendor as a Great White One, the God of the tide, visits in summer. Arrows open at dawn and dusk, the axial fires rise, and the mountaintops glow as the day ends. A reflective meditation on seasonal harmony and myth.
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Btn
Impossible to ogres on a name for the new baby
A quoted exchange from the Atlanta Constitution shows a lawyer asking on what grounds a divorce is demanded and a reply claiming it is impossible to ogres on a name for the new baby, reflecting humorous wordplay found in the periodical.
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Atlanta
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