Panama Canal Talk and Senate Reform Debates
Washington reports on Panama Canal policy as Congress weighs regulation of canal work and officer pay. Democrats push broader access to information while Republicans seek changes in management and commissions. Senator Tawney, Brandegee anecdotes, and patronage issues color the session discussions. The piece notes salary scales, heirs' allowances for deceased officials, and proposed oversight of the Panama railroad relations.
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Washington
Congress
Athees
Panama
Senate
Porbovin
United States
Taft
Hotels Employees and Social Hierarchy Among Staff
An incomplete description notes wages for hotel workers and the divisions among maids in large hotels. It details parlor maids, chambermaids, bathroom workers and scrub women with pay ranges from about 12 to 20 dollars weekly, plus tips often boosting earnings. It also highlights social distinctions, terms like "soubrettes" and "show girls," and a New York hotel policy allowing staff access to the workers’ dining area.
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Wasex
New York
Human dissection through the ages and odd haddock lore
A compact history traces early dissection from Galen in Alexandria to Bologna’s revival under Madonna Manzolina, and Leonardo da Vinci’s anatomist fame. It notes 18th century mob violence against anatomists, grave robbing origins, and odd folk tales about haddocks bearing St Peter’s finger marks and a mythical Old Nick bridge tale.
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Alexandria
Galen
Rome
Bologna
Madonna Manzolina
Leonardo da Vinci
Vesslius
John Shippen
Philadelphia
New York
Oliver
Keene
New York World
Haddock
St. Peter's
Yorkshire
England
Filey
Ilis Satanic
Old Nick
Conceit and Its Limits in Self Guidance
A concise passage on conceit as a driver of rapid progress yet dangerous if uncontrolled. It notes youth confidence becomes old age assurance, and that self conceit can seem like a grant of unlimited help. Warns against cultivating conceit, likening it to a lusty plant that can overwhelm self respect.
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N. C. Fowler, Jr
Unmet you live peristaltic neurilemma diagnosis
A comical miscommunication with a young physician in a Chicago News sketch. The patient asks what peri staltic neurilemma means as the doctor reveals the diagnosis in pretentious medical jargon. The exchange satirizes medical pretension and patient confusion.
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M. D
Chicago News
The Alexandrite and a Quick Romantic Moment
The passage notes alexandrite changing color from green by day to ruby red under artificial light, describing its olive bronze hue and striking tone. A brief flirtation scene follows where a man asks a woman to marry him and she hesitates, then he departs.
Ministerial Federation of Stark County Adopts Constitution
The Stark County ministers adopt a federation constitution dated December 11, opening to all evangelical clergy in Stark County. It outlines aims like ministerial improvement, unity, evangelism, and mutual support, with officers elected annually and a January 8 meeting at the Canton Y M C A. Secretary C B Allen Jr signs the document.
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Constitution of
Stark County Ministerial Federation
Ministerial Federation
Stark County
Evangelical Protestant Churches of the World
Canton
John Hall
Trinity Lutheran Church
Federation
C. B. Allen, JR
The Base of Plies in London Lecture
Dr Il at Roy ] Victoria hall in London discussed why flies perish. He cited 3000 English species and noted methods including drowning in milk, white fungus, and predation by spiders, wasps, frogs, lizards, mice, and fish. A daddy longlegs was seen continuing to lay eyes despite half its body being eaten.
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Roy
Victoria Hall
London
England
Hill
Mr. Hill
Why Men Wear Mustaches In Gaulois Paris Survey
The Gaulois of Paris asked about 100 men why they wear mustaches. Responses cite trouble shaving, hiding teeth, appearance, health, cold avoidance, and pleasing oneself. Only two said to please wives, about sixty link to women’s dislike of clean shaven men.
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Paris
Deathbed jest by Vienna hospital governor
Dr. J. P. Frank, leading University hospital governor in Vienna, lay dying on April 21, 1821, surrounded by eight top physicians. He suddenly laughed and told a Wagram battlefield tale about a French grenadier needing eight bullets, then died laughing at the punchline.
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J. P. Frank
University Hospital
Vienna
Wagram
Fragmented animal burrow tale and local notices
A jumble of fragmented passages describes a badger or similar burrowing animal at night, then shifts to a fatal shooting of a union delegate in Chicago, a drowning incident near Pittsburgh suburb, two men killed at a railroad crossing in Spartansburg, and a San Francisco broker filing for $100,000. Names include Thomas Ke, Jam Quire, Misses May Friend and Cella Arnold, and Mitchell.
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Union Mee
Chicago
Thomas Ke
Painters Decorators Union
International Tion of Labor
Pittsburg
Jam Quire
New Kensing
New Kensington
Dee
Misses May Friend
Cella K
Young War Arnold
Skaling
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Bas Bren
Mitchell
Mitchel
Tm Owen
Jeli EM
Boia Aeil
Hines
Girville
Wits
Srandegee
Seesor Brandegee
Connecticut
Chad
Brandegee
Tawney
Onnissittee
Tascoer
Kean i
New Jersey
Stent
Kean
Jax
Arthur W. Dunn
Philippines
County Association
Plana
Conelouox
Webber
Cannon
Champ Clark
Clark
Commons
Routell
Ilinois
Villings
House
House of Commas
District of Columbia
Fred Landis
Indiana
Landis
Eleventh
George W. Steele
Uncle Joe
Capitol
Father Abraam
Joe
Canal Administration
Nicholas
Crossi Spartansburg
S. C
Brawley
Raiine
San Francisco
Goi
Diisenser
Kateliin
Kutehin
Watchin
Conrad
Mass Obraville
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