Wilson Looks for Action on Prohibition and Debates
Washington dispatch notes Wilson seeks to speed Congress after tariff and currency bills, criticizing prolonged speeches. It covers repeated House and Senate debate on canal tolls, pro prohibition tactics via Hobson amendment, and light exchanges between Mann and Fitzgerald. It notes senators McCumber and Martine quips about steer raising.
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Arthur W. Dunn
Washington
Wilson
Congress
House
Senate
Martine
New Jersey
Jersey
McCumber
Two Dollar Bill Ends Wedding Deal
A minister couples a bride and groom who then dispute the payment. The groom offers two dollars now or six months hence to settle the fee. The minister wisely takes the immediate payment and completes the ceremony. The text also notes odd regional mentions of a plant used medicinally.
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Indianapolis News
Ras tus possum joke at Georgian pos sum dinner
A guest jokes about possum and head pain at a famous Georgian pos sum dinner. The waiter Rastus replies with a witty retort that the possum always melts for a hollah, reflecting period slang and humor from National Monthly.
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Rastus
National Monthly
April Fools Prank At Shrewsbury School
Dr Kennedy, former head master of Shrewsbury, catches an April Fools prank by a schoolboy who moved the clock and rang the chapel bell early. The boy faced punishment but was spared as the master dismissed him with a single inane remark.
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Kennedy
Shrewsbury School
London
The Coldest Hour and Wit Across Papers
The excerpt spans a weather remark on the coldest hour tied to dew and hoar frost with London Mail influence. It then shifts to brief humorous exchanges in fictional vignettes from The Garden and Baltimore American, noting reactions to gossip and romance.
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London Mail
Baltimore American
Crocker Land Expedition Faces 1900 Mile Arctic Trek
MacMillan leads the Crocker Land expedition with 21 men and 160 dogs facing 30 to 70 below zero. They plan a 1000 mile crossing to Crocker Land with two-year provisions and Eskimo support at Etah and Ellesmere Land.
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Crocker
American Museum of Natural History
Osborn
Edmund Otis Hovey
Roud Rasmussen
Copenhagen
Osborn Donald B. MacMillan
Civilization
Crocker Land
Dr. Hovey
Polar Sea
Cape Thomas Hubbard
MaacMillan
Elmer Ekblaw
Fitzhugh Green
Etah
MacMillan
Admiral Weary
President Osborn
North Greenland
Jong Arctic
Cure Rose
Arctic
Anoritok
Here
Smith Sound
Ellesmere Land
Buchanan Bay
Peary
Pee-ah-wah-to
Sipsoo
Eisayoo
Ootat
North Pele
Apellah
I-took-ah-shoe
Dr. Cook
Red Hat for 14 New Cardinals
Rome May 28 Fourteen new cardinals received the red hat at a Vatican consistory led by Pope Pius X. The ceremony honored recently named prelates and Archbishop Hornig of Veszprina, Hungary. Amid thousands of pilgrims, diplomats and clerics attended as each new cardinal kneeled and received the red hat and a jeweled ring. Later emissaries delivered hats to the cardinal’s hotel possessions marking their permanent regalia.
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Henry Wood
Rome
Sacred College
Monsignor Hornig
Veszprima
Hungary
Vatican
Farley
Falconio
O'Connell
Cardinal Gibbons
Baltimore
Knights of
Maltia
Pope Pius
Papal
Pius
Lupe Pinos
Leo X11
Atlantic Highlands Presbyterian Church Sainted Entertainment
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Atlantic Highlands Presbyterian Church staged a Tuesday night program that mixed readings by Eva Phipps of New York, a 22 person chorus, mixed quartets, vocal solos by Murray Foster and Georges King, a violin solo by Stanley Sculthorp, eleven tableaux and a one act play The Artiste's Dream. Mrs John Flitcroft earned praise for directing the entire program.
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Ladies’ Aid Society
Atlantic Highlands Presbyterian Church
Eva Phipps
New York
Murray Foster
Georges King
Stanley Sculthorp
John
Flitcroft
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Lew Fields
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Peg O' My Heart
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