Matting Rush Tests Japan Trade Rift In United States
A Washington correspondent notes Japan’s matting rushes dominate U S imports valued at about five million dollars yearly. U S agriculture officials now back domestic production after securing plants in Japan and elsewhere, with Maine inventors and New England manufacturers aiding the effort. Resulting mats could boost U S industry, while a Los Angeles project outlines a Cobblestone adorned home planned for W C Snyder on Breed Street with a nine thousand dollar price tag.
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Pacife
Japan
Washington
New York Globe
United States
New England
Bureau of Plant Industry
Department of Agriculture
Maine
China
The Best Crop
The poem extols children as the best crop, praising Roosevelt’s Lansing remarks and celebrating a family with Eyes Ablaze, Wagging Tongue, Myppytos, Dyes Ablaze, and Tippytoe. It frames children as joy and blessing, the true harvest of life.
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Roosevelt
Lansing
Mich
Plan to Strengthen Race by Removing Weak Babies Proposed
Boston doctor Dr Andrew Christian argues mothers should quietly end life of deformed or mentally weak infants. He envisions a state board of overseers to assess marriages, citing physiology and sociology, and urges doctors to screen potential couples.
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Boston
Andrew Christian
New York
Luther Burbank
Weston to Repeat Feat Walk from Portland to Chicago
Edward Payson Weston, famed pedestrian, plans a 1256 mile trek from Portland Maine to Chicago in 26 days with a nonSunday schedule. He aims to beat his 42 year old record of walking 1256 miles in thirty days, traveling with a newspaper party by automobile through ten states and 300 cities.
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Portland
Chicago
Weston
Rush for Montana homestead land attracts thousands
A Chicago dispatch reports more than 10 000 people seek 683 farms in the Huntley irrigation project near Billings Montana open for application June 18 to 26. Government irrigation costs exceed 2 million dollars, land priced at 84 per acre with 4 to Indians and five year payment terms. Railroad special rates lure homeseekers from Chicago Kansas City and beyond for the same window.
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Chicago
New York Post
Burlington
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Huntley
Bilings
Mont
Kansas City
Mrs Peary Buys Basket Island in Portland Harbor
The Kennebec Journal reports Mrs. Peary wife of Commander Robert B. Peary has purchased Basket Island in Portland harbor for 4000 dollars. The four acre island lies south of Cousins Island between it and Bushy Clap board island near Underwood Springs park. A small house stands on the island, once occupied. The future use is unknown, but the purchase ends its likely use as a basket picnic resort.
Revolving Flower Beds Foresee Newport Sunken Garden
A New York Press correspondent reports a landscape gardener plans six revolving flower beds in a sunken garden at Newport. Each bed will be about ten feet square and powered by electric motors turning once per minute to create a dynamic display.
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Newport
New York Press
Oklahoma storm devastates county with tornado damage
Severe weather swept Oklahoma bringing heavy rain and flooding across the territory. Day county reported two tornadoes causing destruction southeast of Grand, demolishing homes of I D Wells Ben Payne Jon Ashworth Sduvel Wright and James McQuigg. Maguires reportedly escaped injury as a cyclone lifted John Ashworth’s cart. he later found debris about a quarter mile away.
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Oklahomna
Grand
I. D. Wells
Ben Payne
Jon Ashworth
Sduvel Wright
James McQuigg
Maguires
Jnjuy
John Aahtworth
Bop
Purges
Too Talkative Presidents at Boston University Address
Bishop Goodsell criticizes Roosevelt Eliot Hadley Wilson and Day for frequent public utterances during Boston University commencement. He contrasts old scholars with modern leaders, accusing Harvard’s Ditot, Princeton’s Wilson, Yale’s Hadley, and Syracuse’s Day of overspeaking and political meddling. He laments loss of old joyful restraint in scholarly discourse.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Great Wool Clip of Nevada Ranges
The Nevada wool clip this season is the greatest the state has ever known. A Baxcrumenta Bee correspondent notes over 600000 pounds clipped and shipped with a strong price. One sheep man estimates more than 13000000 pounds could be shipped from Nevada this year.
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Nevada
Av Teno
Baxcrumenta Bee
Japanese Scheme for Japanese Colony in Alberta
The China Telegraph reports a plan to establish a Tepanese agricultural colony in central Alberta. Wealthy Japanese farmers would be invited to relocate and focus on wheat cultivation, sugar beets, and other crops suited to the climate.
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Alberta
China Telegraph
Protected Ball Catcher Bresnahan Guards Improve Safety
The Giants catcher Roger Bresnahan championed shin guards after suffering leg bruises from fast pitches. He credits them with protecting his legs and improving comfort, predicting they will become standard gear for all catchers under tougher rules and faster pitching.
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Roger Bresustan
Joe
Washington Post
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Bresnahan
McGraw
Roger “Bresnahan
Giants
Ames
Prayer of Tots to Get Papa Back
Four year old Agnes Hildebrand and her sister Heith urged prayer to recover their father Otto Hildebrand, taken for desertion six years ago. The Philadelphia children prayed for President Roosevelt to solve their problem, as family hardship and parental absence were noted in the New York World dispatch.
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Edith
Agnes Hildebrand
Philadelphia
Heith
New York
Hilde
Roosevalt
Impudence Versus Heroism in a Bakersville Fishing Tale
In Cor Bakersville a vacationing college student provokes a local girl during a fishing outing. After a tense first meeting and a dramatic pond plunge, he saves her from the dam flood and earns a place in her family’s story. Aunt Mary calls it impudence. romance blooms as questions of propriety arise.
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Bakersville
Bessie Foster
Joe
Mary Warner
Aunt Mary
Mary
Bessie
Nean
Maury
Joseph Warner
Tam
Uncle Joe
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Joseph
White
Bessie’ Foster
Aunt Mary’s
Observanq
Social norms ban mourning words in old China
A fragment notes strict Chinese custom where men mourn their father for three years and mother for a hundred days while showing no grief for wives. Men avoid speaking of women and greet visitors by a heralded approach to avoid embarrassing interactions with the opposite sex.
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China
Colling
Where Fielding is Buried in Lisbon’s Old Tomb
An 18th century grave of Henry Fielding, founder of the English novel, lies among cypress trees in Lisbon. A tomb was erected later to honor him, with memorials shaped through the 19th century by the British consul and subsequent repairs. The Latin inscription remains legible on the front with a later restoration effort reflecting the era’s reverence for Fielding.
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