The Decline of Citizenship in an Age of Mammon
The oration denounces political corruption and the rise of urban bosses in American life. It frames government by the people as a moral mission challenged by class rule, money power, and city machines. It calls for civic renewal, ethical leadership, and a return to republican virtue through public action.
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Ethan T. Colton
Wakova University
London Evening News
Greater
New York
Faneuil Hall
Monticello
George III
Judea
National League of Lords
Besser
Sugar Trust
Iow
Congress
Thomas Platt
Arthur Gorman
Hamilton
Franklin
New School
Tammany Hall
Albany
Buffalo
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Illinois
Chicago
Leta
Stock Exchange
Gould
Seth Laws
Choates
Parkhursts
Civic Federation
Henry George
Mont Saint Jean
Mammon Marshal
Doctor Rescues Beef Ride From Snowdrift Frontier Tale
A Pittsburg physician, newly married and cash‑strapped, travels through deep snow to visit a patient in Indiana county. A farmer offers a quarter of beef on credit, and the doctor retrieves it home on his horse Molly. The beef slides into a snow drift, but after effort he salvages it, arriving home at midnight with a tale of providence and perseverance.
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Pittsburg
Indiana County
Molly
Domestic Economy Puzzle On Ice Ticket Spending
A housewife keeps exact monthly accounts and apportions a $10 ice ticket across days and months. She calculates daily ice usage and costs, facing confusion when trying to fit an answer into her ledgers, as her husband asks for a simple result.
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Capitol Hill
Washington Post
The Pony in Franz Josef Land
An Arctic journey recounts a pony’s escape and illness after eating dried vegetables. With limited horse food, the narrator and Armitage improvise remedies using pills and pedophyllia from a frozen supply, mixing them with fat to revive the ailing pony.
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Franz-Josef Land
Armitage
Geographical Journal
Jains Run Large Animal Hospital in Bombay
The Jains maintain a major hospital for sick and aged animals at Bombay with sheds for cows and oxen near the gate and enclosures for horses, dogs, cats, monkeys, sheep, goats, birds, fowls and reptiles. They are prominent transmigrationists and note there was no women’s hospital in India until Bareilly received one from the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society.
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Bombay
India
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society
Bareilly
Pride of Ancestry Sparks Boardroom Rivalry
In a jab by a Detroit Journal note, the Smytheses boast royal lineage claiming descent from kings. The retort elevates their status by 87 centuries versus 86 for the other side, sparking a lighthearted clash over ancestry.
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Smytheses
Detroit Journal
Greatest Performers in the Known World with Wallace Shows
The text advertises the Great Wallace Shows featuring top performers this season with daily expenses listed as four thousand dollars.
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Wallace
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Mitchell
Uring Circus Millionaire Menagerie Museum Aquarium
Ano
Royal Roman Hippodrome
Americas
Eaver
the Angelos
Stirks
Dellameads
Mlle
Norada French
Mysterious Globe
Leon
Singing Mule
Trilby
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