Taft Urges Impartial Tariff Board Reforms
President Taft telegraphed the Commerce Department urging a careful one schedule at a time revision and a nonpartisan inquiry. He asked for thorough work by the tariff board to reduce injustices and avoid wholesale tariff upheavals. He called on the nation to support an earnest effort and warned that mixed signals are not reassuring.
President Taft Faces Republican Tariff Rift In Party
The text asserts the president seeks harmony by courting conservatives and insurgents but warns that Aldrich loyalists and La Follette Bristow factions remain irreconcilable. It argues standpatters skew toward compromise while La Follette and Bristow speak for the people, signaling new leaders if factions bend.
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Free legal aid for the poor in Kansas City
Kansas City installs a bureau of free legal aid funded by the municipality. Based in the public welfare offices it partners with experienced attorneys offering consulting support to handle complex cases. Opponents include pawnbrokers and loan sharks. officials call it essential for preventing misery.
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The Country Merchant's Plea
A correspondent defends rural merchants against parcels post and big mail order houses. He argues direct to consumer sales hurt tens of thousands of local merchants and rural communities. He warns reduced transport rates and rural delivery to doorsteps threaten local prosperity and public improvements.
Milwauke e Free Press condemns mail order houses
A Milwaukee Free Press editorial denounces national mail order firms for profiting from communities they serve while contributing nothing to local support or development, urging readers to reconsider reliance on these distant merchants.
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Quips and Cranks and Wanton Wiles
A verse pair of quips about hobbling and marriage recited as a playful dialogue. The exchange features a courtship comic rhythm with the refrain of hobble and hop. It ends with a quip about bringing the minister to wed, underscoring lighthearted social banter.
Fooling Robbers Beset Citizen Seeks Magistrate Help
Felix Fox tells Magistrate Herbert of nightly robberies near West Thirty-ninth Street and Seventh Avenue. After complaints to police and officials, the magistrate suggests changing hours and habits, noting the 3:45 am attacks. Fox leaves.
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Herbert
Commissioner Baker
Mr. Herbert
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A Wise Lover on the Pier as Steamer Sails Away
A young man on a tar barrel waves a handkerchief while companions urge him to hurry. He hesitates, fearing to look back as the steamer departs. The reason he fears is explained by a field glass trained on the shore.
Hotel Guests Demand Better Scenery and Cuisine
A fragment shows a woman tourist complaining about lack of scenery amusements and cuisine at a hotel. The host interjects about a grand label for luggage as a humorous consolation.
Good Hunting at St Andrews with Aunt Mary Visit
At St Andrews, Scotland, home of golf, Aunt Mary visits a golfing family from London. The afternoon scene shifts from talk of golf to a moment when someone asks how she spent the morning, and she responds with she enjoyed herself immensely.
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Mary
London
Rexall Orderlies Promise Constipation Relief
An advertisement promotes Rexall Orderlies as a gentle safe remedy for constipation. It claims complete relief or the medicine free if not satisfied, and highlights use for children, elderly, and delicate persons with two sizes available. O T Erhart notes Rexall Remed ies are sold exclusively at The Rexall Store in the community.
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Rexell Orderlies
Rexall
O. T. Erhart
Cheap Home Remedy for Laxative Mentholaxene Cough Syrup
A historic home remedy instructions claim making a laxative cough syrup with essence mentholaxene, sugar, and boiling water in a pint bottle. The article promotes hourly teaspoon doses to cure coughing and warns ordinary syrups cause constipation and pneumonia.
Mysterious Round Objects Found on the Moor
The narrator describes seeing many people on the moor and collecting curious round items brought home to Aunt Mary who reveals a bag containing twenty four golf balls.
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Mary
Indulgent New England Merchant and His Goat
A respected New England merchant known as an indulgent father is recalled for disciplining a son who enters a drawing room with a pet goat. The stern rebuke directs the boy to keep the animal in the library, illustrating the father’s leniency paired with practical limits.
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New England
Sam
Lippincott’s
Census taker questions Oklahoma mother about children
A census taker in Oklahoma asks a mother how many children aged six to twenty one live in the household. She responds with a cautious count, stating two children over six and two under twenty one, reflecting the era’s attitudes toward census data.
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Oklahoma
Splendid Chance for California Turkeys in Baltimore
A Baltimore poultry dealer quotes the demanding life of turkey farming and recalls a California farm tale. A boy seeks a job, is told it’s a grand chance, and would have to mix feed by four each morning amid the tough work of turkey raising.
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Baltimore
California
Washington Star
Deceit and Marriage Dispatch in Dundee Adver tiser
In a dialogue cited by the Dundee Advertiser a man defends deceit in marriage while the woman argues that deceit harms trust. The exchange questions whether men should ever deceive their wives and playfully suggests it is a practical way to obtain a wife.
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Dundee Advertiser
Keefe Business College Notes Highlight Local Students
Eugene Wiltzins from Luemberg Europe studies accounting at Keefe along Fourth and Pearl. Alfred Schrede of Bozeman Montana attends Keefe for accounting. Alma Hanson returns to school after Thanksgiving visit. Helen White begins college after vacation. Pen Art Club plans biweekly meetings and Medals from The Penman’s Art Journal. College quartet rehearses. orchestra forms for events. Malinda Knapp joins Sparta Ironworks via Keefe. Lilly Whipple becomes bookkeeper and stenographer at La Crosse Knitting Works. William Schrieber becomes bookkeeper at La Crosse Gas & Electric.
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Pearl Streets
Alfred Schrede
Bozeman
Montana
Alma Hanson
Pen Art Club
Penman’s Art Journal
New York City
Malinda Knapp
Sparta Ironworks
Miss Lilly Whipple
la Crosse Knitting Works
Keefe College
Wm. Schrieber
la Crosse Gas & Electric Co
The Flight From Kasumiga-tani Cho
Haru slips from the family shrine and leaves her home in the Street of the Misty Valley to join Phillip. She abandons her Bible and mother’s cross, disguises herself, and steps into a night of uncertain fate with a plan to secure money and escape Japanese constraints.
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Haru
Kwenon
Kasumigatani Cho
Misty
Hirose Chusa
Delilah's Knees and Haru Return in Dim Room
In a softly lit chamber Phil, drenched in whisky and memory, longs for Haru. A knock brings the sparkling Haru in a gay kimono, her rouge and laughter brightening the tense mood as he hides from fear.
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Delilah
Phil
Haru
Personin
When a Woman Dreams Chapter XXXII
Patricia and Barbara travel by a red striped racer to a cedar gate near Tokyo as Empress scenery and visits to the bishop and Ts'kiji unfold. Patricia carries call tickets for Tucker and contemplates Austen Ware while Daunt remains a loyal friend. The scene hints at a growing mystery and romance.
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Victoria
Barbara
Haru
Tokyo
Tucker
Ts’kiji
Austen Ware
Roosevelt Looms in Wake of 1909 Election Says Indiana Governor
Gov. Thomas Marshall of Indiana declares Theodore Roosevelt eliminated as a serious national political factor after the recent election. He recalls predicting Roosevelt would return from Africa to boost a future bid, and says Roosevelt fulfilled that forecast.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Marshall
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Roosevelt
Taft
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Gin for the kidneys remedy from old formula
An old kidney and bladder remedy uses six ounces gin with half ounce extract Buchu and half ounce Murax compound. Dosing is one to two teaspoonfuls after meals and at bedtime to relieve backache and frequent or dark urine and prevent Bright’s disease or diabetes.
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Bright
Four boys killed by paper train in Racine accident
Eliot Johnson 16 and Julius and Ewald Carle ages 16 and 18 died after being struck on a Northwestern Railroad bridge by an early morning paper train. They were returning from a country trip on a borrowed handcar. a widowed mother depended on the brothers for support.
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Racine, Wis
Eliot Johnson
Julius and
Ewald Carleson
Northwestern
Austrian duel ends in fatal shooting in Dresden
The Austrian police are asked to arrest Herr Steinkagel, a wealthy Dresden businessman, who fatally shot Herr Meierhof in a pre arranged pistol duel after a quarrel over a business transaction.
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Herr - Meierhof
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