PUBLIC INJURY FOR PRIVATE PROFIT
A Long Branch editorial condemns posters and cardboards tacked on telegraph poles and trees as a public nuisance. It criticizes lax ordinances, urges arrests for offenders, and calls on citizens to remove any such advertisements to protect the city’s appearance and commercial value.
Supreme Court Faces Dilemma in Tobacco Trust Case
The court grapples with punishing the guilty without harming the innocent, aiming to enforce prohibitions fully while protecting the public and private property interests tied to the trust. Commentators note risks to individuals and firms if convictions imply broad blame.
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Supreme Court of the United States
Tobacco Trust
Supreme Court Opinion Calls for Targeted Justice in Sherman Act
The text argues the President and Attorney General should act against the individual conspirator who actively breaks the Sherman law, rather than collapsing the system by punishing thousands. It contends justice requires singling out the guilty party for accountability.
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Supreme Court
Roeh
Edison diet beliefs promise long life and self restraint
A columnist argues life and health hinge on diet. Citing Edison as exemplar, the piece claims excessive eating fuels disease and social ills while self restraint and temperate eating offer the path to a better society, though centuries away.
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Harriman
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Suspicious Silence on Parcels Post Solution
The piece argues the parcels post could fund the post office without raising costs, noting rural free delivery drives expenses. It claims other nations use parcels post to boost revenue and criticizes express companies as a powerful trust influencing policy.
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Taft
Hitchcock
Post Office Department
Jersey Ratification Debate on Income Tax
The text argues there are pros and cons to the income tax but supports ratification. It asserts the Assembly fulfilled its duty in voting and Governor Wilson urged action, and that backing platform pledges is essential while going beyond them has no valid defense.
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Wilson
Highlands dinners mark Democratic enthusiasm in Monmouth
Hon. Frank Katzenbach shows strong Republican or Democratic support in Monmouth as annual Highlands dinners become an established event. The gatherings serve as a vivid outlet for party enthusiasm and engagement.
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Highlands
Germs of Evil Talk Sparks Antitoxin Idea
After discussions of spreading dangers and threats, experts call for a proactive antitoxin step to counter emerging dangers and protect public health.
Editorial Comment Too Much Generalization
The Trenton State Gazette quotes George Bernardshaw asserting America is a land of brainless bigots. It notes the irony that a brainless bigot cannot help his bias.
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Trenton State Gazette
Wickersham Policy Poses Taft Administration Challenge
The New Administration policy outlined by Mr. Wickersham is praised as popular and just. If the Attorney General suddenly becomes an earnest and impartial public prosecutor and starts jailing Sherman Act violators, it will raise the Taft Administration in public regard more than its prior achievements, according to the New York Press.
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Taft
N. Y
Locust visitation and urban contrasts in early 20th century papers
Reports warn of a rare 220 year locust swarm across twenty one states including New Jersey, with the Newark Star noting emergence from ground and brief impact on shade trees and gardens. The piece also contrasts New York as moral yet material hub and cites Roosevelt era political commentary from The World and Chicago News.
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New Jersey
Newark Star
Dix as Governor Faces Rooseveltism’s Shadow
The article assesses Governor Dix amid Rooseveltism and New Nationalism. It argues Roosevelt's rise helped Dix win, notes Dix’s blunders and inexperience, and compares his administration favorably to the typical New York governor over the past fifteen years, while criticizing timidity.
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Charles E. Hughes
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Platt
N. Y. World
Not a flower blooms in vain says Columbia Magazine
Not a flower blooms to die in shade or sky But is seen by a lone eye and will bloom again God’s thoughts endure as eternity Not a bird’s song lives without a glad heart Not a kindly deed or truthful creed passes unused The cankering years are nourished where falsehood dies Remaining music of the years and lasting truths are found in time.
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Columbia Magazine
Thoughts Worth Reading Common Sense and Noble Acquisitions
A compact reflection on practical judgment and virtue. Notable quotes emphasize seeing things as they are, acting rightly, and recognizing risks in noble pursuits.
Ironing Made Easy by Sun Gas Iron at Goldstein Building
John P. Lower, agent for the Sun Gas Iron in Room 6 of the new Goldstein Building on Broadway, proclaims the device as a heatless, comfortable ironing invention that thousands of housewives have approved for costing only one cent per hour to operate.
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Fifty Years Ago Today June 3 Highlights
Privateering schooner Savannah captured off Charleston harbor carried letters of marque signed by Jefferson Davis bearing date May 18. Stephen A. Douglas, Lincoln’s opponent and famed debater, died in Chicago.
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Entering Port Arthur A Frame Like Wonderland Harbor
A New Orleans Times Democrat description portrays Port Arthur as stepping through a frame into a harbor framed by cliffs. The narrative contrasts the old eastern town with Russian era structures and Japanese quarters to the west’s newer European inspired areas. The piece highlights a sheltered basin, shops, barracks, a hospital, a park, and a well run hotel reflecting a blend of Russian and Japanese influence.
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Alite
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Marine Junkmen Carrier Snails and Their Burdened Backs
A New York Press report describes the carrier snail as the sea junkman, collecting castoff shells, coral fragments, stones, and even glass on its back. The shell becomes heavily laden, hindering movement as predators fail to distinguish it from the sea floor, with some specimens carrying uniform pebbles or shells and a Japanese find roofed entirely with glass.
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New York Press
Curious Anticipations and Patent Oddities
A piece recounts odd preconceptions about patents, citing a congressman mistaking a rural lock for one in Thebes and an application for a flower basket matching Moses ark descriptions. The anecdotes illustrate early, humorous misreadings of invention novelty and prior art.
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Scientific American
Taming a Tiger
A trainer recalls kindness as the path to taming wild animals. He describes a Bengal tiger from Calcutta that attacked at first, but through daily gentle visits and slow meals, the tiger learned to accept contact and allow stroking at the cage.
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