Navy of the United States Grows into a Global Power
As the Fifty-sixth Congress ends, the American navy completes its eighteenth year of rebuilding. From modest beginnings in 1883 with a dispatch boat and three small destroyers, the fleet expands into seven first class battleships, armored cruisers, torpedo craft, and submarines, with a rise in personnel to 25,000 and a planned Naval Academy building. Yet gaps remain with no new ships funded in the latest session, clouding the outlook despite a strengthened fleet.
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Dolphin
Chicago
Boston
Atlanta
United States
America
Cushing
Hun
Oregon
Columbia
Ericson
Aho
Havana
Indiana
Santiago
Brooklyn
Cleveland
England
Providence
Navy
Naval Academy
Congress
Ita Lant Seagion
Morgan Rules the Waves and a New Anglo American Fleet
The purchase by Pierpont Morgan interests to control Leyland line shipping could crown American capta in the seas dominance. Combined fleets may total 190 vessels and 702,741 tons, surpassing all others, with Morgan-linked orders likely built in the United States. Also argues prison education could curb crime and aid rehabilitation.
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Pierpont Morgan
Leyland
Leyland Line
Wilson
Leylands
Atlantic Transport
United States
Mediterranean
Porwent
Montreal
Tms
Ir Morgan
Lloyd
British India Steam Navigation Company
John Bull
Wilhoutising
Britannia
Mind cure tale shows fixed idea on arm extension
A 1-year-old recovering from rheumatism becomes convinced his elbow cannot straighten. An auntie’s charm story triggers a staged intervention. the arm snaps straight during a staged “cure.” The physician notes the case as a mind illness cured by imagination, with the old woman gaining credit.
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al- Moat
Darky
Utica Globe
Value of the Foot Bath for Beauty and Health
The article extols nightly foot baths as essential for facial clarity and overall health. It advises temperatures of 106 to 110 degrees, adding washing soda for odors, briskly rubbing to draw blood, cooling before removal, and thorough drying. Frequent warm baths prevent callouses and aid beauty and complexion.
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the Ledger Monthly
Identification tags for soldiers proposed by Chaplain Pierce
Chaplain Pierce urges the secretary of war to issue aluminum identity tags showing name, tank, and regiment for officers and enlisted men. Regulations would require constant warnings about the neck to aid identification of dead and wounded, especially in the Philippines where mutliations by guerillas and tropical decay hinder recognition. Japan uses name tags in schools for identification and lost children. A Rio census estimates 660,000 residents, 60,132 dwellings, about ten people per dwelling, with overcrowded tenements housing many in wretched conditions.
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Pierce
Army
Secretary of War
Philippines
Japan
Re de Janeiro
Proposals and a French Duel to the American Way
A London Tit-Bits fragment shows Mamie resisting a proposal while the old fashioned custom prevails. An Indianapolis Sun item parodies the American way with a French duel tale where no duel occurs and a luncheon ends with Wall Street tales and a budding magician.
Wordplay Across Names and Nonsense Phrases
A patchwork of silly verses and dialogue from a quirky column. It riffs on names such as Susan, Robert Rowley, Oliver Oglethorp, Sammy Shoesmith, and Boxton Herald, then shifts to humorous anecdotes about detentions and a Scribbler discussing character ideas.
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Pongue
Susan
Robert Rowley
Oliver Oglethorp
Sammy Shoesmith
Boxton Herald
Youthful waiter tells Wall Street tale in comic blur
A young waiter, recently discharged, boasts of a Wall Street job and a talent for storytelling though he forgets details. He recalls a funny Wall Street story but only the punchline remains, as the junior partner reacts with good humor to the tale.
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Wall Street
New York
Fillegende Blaetter
Gar
Fragmented Tidbits from a 19th Century Humor Page
A collage of gaffes and quips from an old humor column includes misquoted poets and serial jokes about domestic life. Snippets feature a boastful lover, a sharp lawyer exchange, a child’s whipping tale, and a motherly retort, all in a light weekly miscellany tone.
Classified Ad Jumble in New York Herald Adverts
London News reports a chaotic ad column in the New York Herald with scattered notes seeking an assistant companion, German bag scholar, typewriter, seamstress, and packer. The piece notes the ad space costs drive shifts of notices into other departments.
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New York Herald
London News
Extinct Species Feature Provokes Silence in Hastings
In Hastings a dramatic inquiry asks if anyone can name a perfect man or woman. A patient woman near the back rises and replies that a perfect woman once existed but is dead now, describing her as her husband's frat wife.
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Hastings
Fragmented humor items and quotes from Philadelphia Press
A jumble of light quips and exchanges from Philadelphia Press humor columns. Includes lines about money, beer, sermons, and a Scandinavian styled exchange, culminating in a light note about moving after a Christmas gift.
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Morgan
Hamberg- American Line
Mr. Morgan
Atlantic
Mann
Nervana
Joan Hatta
London
Mamie
John
Indianapolis
Bia Spa
Count de Bouzleane
Count Fnally
Land of the Free
Jane
Scribbler
Sappy
Heine
Shakespeare
Heliere
Charlie
Bob
Harry
Fourthley
Philadelphia
Quaberville
Josh
Mann Hatton
Brooke Lynn
Sitle
Philadelphia Press
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