Lovable New Queen Alexandra Abridged Portrait of Her Work and Charms
Queen Alexandra, wife of Edward VII, is praised for lifelong service to women and children in London slums and hospitals. The article recounts her Danish upbringing, marriage in 1862, and roles as patron of working girls homes, lace industries, and hospital funds. It highlights her motherly public image, charity work, and popularity with both aristocracy and working-class mothers in England.
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Queen Alexandra
Alexandra
London
Indies
Twenle
Alexanoura
Alexandra Guardie
Christian
Denmark
England
Montier
Prince of Wales
Cantil
Prince Albert
Denmaark
Windsor Castle
Prince Ami
Wales
Prince George, Duke of York
Wisconsin Senate Passes Multiple Education and Public Works Bills
Wisconsin legislators debated and passed several measures including funding for clergymen chaplains at $15 weekly, and rules on public notice publication. Bills to aid the North Point Industrial School, regulate legislative pay, expand fire and road regulations, and adjust homestead exemptions were discussed. A North Point school improvement grant and a push for broader internal improvements were highlighted amid committee work and procedural changes.
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Madison
Senate
McGillivray
Assembly
Seénat Reehr
O'Neil
Anson
Cirls
North Point
Whitehead
EB. Ray Sleveng
Gallaway
Holland
Judiciary
Committee On Judiciary
Collings
County seats and proposed bills shape northern support
Warner's Tony and Brice aim for the county seat as the north favors the new county while the south opposes. Proposals expand state board duties, regulate road engine bonds, sheriff mileage, and railroad commissioners. A temperate tobacco bill moves quickly with minimal debate. The public health committee backs an embargo on cigarettes and related materials.
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Warner’s
Tony
Deerstall
Brice
Hinds
Ort
State Board of Agriculture
Kern
Br. Norton
Smalley
Hail
Roe
Committee On Public Health
Senate
East Africa Trade Rivalry Between Germany and England
In East Africa Germany and England battle for commercial supremacy along the coast, amid railroad projects, land grabs, and growing colonial stakes. The East Africa Steamship Line dominates German effort, while Britain wrestles with the Transvaal issue. America expands through cotton cloth and hardware exports as adventurers arrive and trade dynamics shift along the Zanzibar corridor.
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Senay
England
East Africa
Rangoon
Humbursy
Liverpool
New York
Graiglund
William
Dar Es Salaam
Zanzibar
Germany
Pow ‘Yagun
America
Zangibar
Manchester
Zambesi
Zanzibar Free Port Rules Hurt Trade and Imports Rise
The article notes Zanzibar as a free port with five percent uniform duties on all imports except liquor arms communications tobacco and rice. It lists export duties on items including rubber ivory cloves hides pepper coconuts tea and coffee. Exports last year reached 7 567 055 dollars. American imports for one month exceeded the total from all Europe.
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Zanzibar
America
Women Prisoners Grow Flowers for Sale in Chicago
Chicago plans a floriculture program at the city jail to soften hardened inmates by cultivating roses for market. Superintendent Sloan built three greenhouses to train inmates including Maggie the Terror, whose kindness after a visitor’s rose sparked the idea. The project seeks social support and aims to yield improving results over laundry labor.
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Chicago
House of Correction
Metropolia
Sloan
Mr. Sloan
Maggie
Worl
Oldest Man in the Senate and Age Averages
The oldest U S senator is Edmund W Pettus of Alabama who will be 79 in July while colleague John T Morgan will be 72 in June The piece notes Pettus pride in party loyalty since 1924 and hints at Civil War service It also cites averages by party with Butler at 37 as the youngest and Republican 59 Democrat 56 populist 57
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Madison
Congress
McGilivary
United States
Gaveney
Weat Point Military Academy
Whitehead
Wisconsin Conference of the Methodist Church
Rerk County
Ortog
Conteia
Stevens
John HH. Hughes
Dodge
E Lolland
A. F. Smith
Wisconsin
Vicksburg
Messare
M Gillivray
Board of Commissioners
Bizceil
Mandisen
Senate
Sowe
Matton
Oneil
Mills, Riordan
Stebbins
Green
Anson
Ladies
University
Roerh
Delavan
Board of Control
Stace Board of Normal Regents
Malt
Chippewa County
Roe
Wll
United Tales
Katz
J Senate
Edmund W. Pettus
Alabama
John T. Morgan
Pettus
Democratic Party
Oun
Hla
California
Butler
Blance
Tury
Longevity Trends Among Mental Workers Reported
Professor Manterola contributes to a Mexican scientific society with a paper on longevity related to mental work. He classifies professions into three groups by impact on life expectancy. He finds mental workers have an average life over sixty eight years, while men of science lawyers and historians average higher than seventy.
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Manterola
General MacArthur reports transport Indans sails from Manila
Adjutant General Corbin received a cable from Gen MacArthur stating the transport Indans, believed to carry the Thirty Fifth Volunteer Infantry, has sailed from Manila for San Francisco.
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Corbin
MacArthur
Indans
Thirty-Eifth Volunteer Infantry
San Francisco
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