Election officers face civil service exam requirements
The Civil Service Commission releases 86 questions for election officer exams. Candidates must show knowledge of election laws, with a pamphlet of correct answers prepared for Essex County Democrats. Critics warn against cramming but agree the test ensures qualification for public positions.
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Civil Service Commission
Millet
Nugent
Essex County Democratic
Trentor Times
Meir
Old Lesson Relearned on Direct Government Recall
A fragmented excerpt discusses direct democracy devices like recall and initiative, contrasting them with representative government. It cites a speech by Congressman Ne Call criticizing modern enthusiasm for direct controls and warning they may undermine established constitutional principles and tested political methods.
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NeCall
Recorder Rules On Cards In Resort Vandalism
Patrolman Vetter earns praise for detaining a defacer of Long Branch buildings with placards. Recorder Arr Swamith upholds a ruling that the offender must remove the cards, a Solomonesque decision seen as a warning to summer mischief makers and a curb on public nuisance.
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Vetter
Hinkgelt
Iet
Defacer
Arr Swamith
Shake-Up in Government Pay Exposed by House Probers
The House committee on expenditures reports excessive salaries and multiple offices for several officials including Washington and New York Canal Commission posts. Graft in the state department is also uncovered with an artist's portrait wage rising from a lower sum to 2650 dollars. Probing continues, with outcomes uncertain.
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Washington
House Committee
New York Canal Commission
State Department
House
John Hay
Greatest man of a nation carries penalties as well as joys
A fragment notes that being a nation's greatest man brings both penalties and pleasures, indicating the heavy responsibilities and rewards of leadership.
Editorial comment on rain prayers and parcel post
The Eastern Traffic Association announces a July 1 advance in minimum freight charges for parcels up to 100 pounds, rising from 25 to 35 cents. The move aims to push small parcel shipments toward express companies, inconveniencing shippers of low value items where quick transit is unnecessary.
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Eastern Traffic Association
Philadelphia
Judge fines and jails man for refusing to kiss widow
Wilkes-Barre magistrate Donohue upholds a ruling against a man who taunted a kissing attempt and refused to kiss the woman. He is held on bail to keep the peace and ordered to pay prosecution costs or serve ten days in jail. The judge politics humorously notes kissing as a civic duty and discusses social norms.
Wilson argues for representative government in states
The New York Tribune quotes Governor Woodrow Wilson in Kansas City asking why genuine representative government is lacking. He suggests that if legislatures truly represented the people the initiative and referendum would not be proposed. The piece frames the public’s responsibility for current democratic gaps.
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Woodrow Wilson
Kansas City
America
New York Tribune
Hejiite Withins Brief Item Note
Fragmentary OCR item reports a brief incident with unclear details and no identifiable names or dates. The readable portion mentions a casualty count and a vague event at an unspecified location. Further context is unavailable from the fragment.
Taft Rebukes Colonel For Racial Prejudice In Army
The piece notes President Taft’s reprimand of the Fifteenth Cavalry officer over reporting against a Jewish enlisted man. It defends equality, calls social prejudice unworthy of the office, and praises Taft’s candid stance against caste and hypocrisy. It also includes a civic plea to kill the house fly as a public health act.
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Taft
Fifteenth Cavalry
Tatt
Lincoln
Fly Hygiene Warns Against Typhoid Spread
A health notice explains how flies spread typhoid and other diseases by carrying germs from manure and sewage into homes. It urges tight screening of doors and windows, early home cleanup, proper garbage disposal, and regular kerosene or carbolic spray on cans and screens to keep flies away. A second poem reflects on rain and patience.
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Department of Health
Trenton
Roosevelt Denies Pledging to Taft in 1912
In Springfield on the way to White River Junction Roosevelt denied A report he would back Taft in 1912. He stated there is no truth to any such pledge and that he has neither stated nor discussed supporting a candidate. In White River Junction he headlined the Vermont Get Together banquet at Gates Opera House.
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Mass
Roosevelt
White River Junction
Taft
Vermont
Windsor County
Gates Opera House
New England
John A. Mead
Robert T. Bass
New Hampshire
F.F. Proctor
Samuel Pingree
Near Death After Eating Man Found Poisoned in Philadelphia
Robert A. Marion twenty three of Du Pont Circle Washington DC, son of the late Rear Admiral, was found unconscious in an apartment at 1714 Spring Garden Street Philadelphia. He was taken to Garrettson hospital in serious condition and doctors found signs of poisoning. He regained consciousness briefly before lapsing again.
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Marion
Georgetown University
Oklahoma
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Hie
No Bond For Wireless Men Kept In Jail
June 8 New York Christopher C Wilson and four associates were found guilty in the federal circuit court of using the mails to sell wireless stock. The higher court refused bail pending appeal, maintaining custody in the Tombs while a stay allows them to stay there instead of moving to federal prison in Atlanta.
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Tombs
New York
Christopher C. Wilson
United Wireless Telegraph Company
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United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Prisners
Atlanta
Nashville Seeks Taft Jr to Practice Law Here
Nashville industrial bureau telegraphed Robert A Taft son of the President to come to Nashville to take the state bar exam and establish practice. Taft was previously denied in Ohio for not registering when starting law study and must wait two years to retake the state exam. Buffalo baby dies from carpet tack lodged in larynx. Cholera history noted in India dating to mid sixteenth century.
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Tenn
Nashville Industrial Bureau
Robert A. Taft
Taft
Ohio
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N. Y
Nelson
Kell
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