Peers Protest Against Taxation In British Budget Debate
From the New York World the piece notes Lloyd George faces attack from dukes over land taxes. It highlights large estates, deer parks, and charity funding fears among peers and Lords as the budget sparks calls for radical change to protect common people. It cites nobles like the Dukes of Northumberland Marlborough Bedford and others with vast landholdings and London estates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World
Lloyd-George
Jack Cade
Duke of Northumberland
Edward Grex
Duke of Marlborough
Duke of Bedford
Lord London
M Etry
Buccleuch
Sutherland
Richmond
Fife and Athol
Devonshire
Portland
Argell
Northampton
Hamilton
Norfolk
Bedford
Westminster
London
Scotland
House of Lords
Affectionate Servants and Name Tells in Service
An Englishwoman recalls a humorous experience with a Hawaiian servant who insists on using first names. The maid would call her husband John and she Mary, prompting the woman to tell her husband to answer only to Mary. A new cook overhears and the servant still uses the term dearie for the mistress.
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Sandwich Islands
John
Mary
Ellow
A Difficult Situation From Judge
A year after a Boston cook told her mistress she planned to marry, the mistress regretted losing a good worker. The woman, Nora, refuses marriage while her fiancé Mike drinks, saying she will not marry him drunk or sober. The judge notes the fragile arrangement and the couple’s ongoing conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Nora
Mike
Taking Time Out
A Philadelphia Record item notes roofer Roebottom on Mickle Street lunch break when a nail in his foot causes pain. A carpenter suggests pulling it out, Roebottom balks at delaying dinner hour. A figurative moment follows on urgency and risk.
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Philadelphia ‘Record
Roebottom
Mickle Street
Maebottom
Lovers at the River Endure Trials and Reunion
In a French river setting Hal and Lal clash over marriage and career choices while Harry travels to Europe to redeem himself. Laura Cathcart and Harry Sergeant later reunite as Drs Cathcart and Sergeant at the Morefield Settlement, revealing enduring love and a fresh life together.
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Lal
Harry
Dr. Cathcart
Laura
Morefield
Whiskers Ended the Baseball Whisker Era
The article recounts the rise and fall of facial hair in baseball, citing Jim O Rourke’s miscue at the Polo Grounds as the pivotal moment. It notes Tim Keefe, John Clarkson, and other players and the shift from whiskers to baby faces, with various styles described and players named.
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Jim O'Rourke
Giants
Chicago White Stockings
Sir James O'Rourke
Jim
Tim Keefe
John Clarkson
Chicagos
Anson
Bugs
Anse
Tim
O'Rourke
aé_e
O’rourke
Duke Farrell
John Titus
The
Philes
Kansas Kids to Learn Gentility in State Schools
Topeka Kansas announces a winter program mandating ethics education in all public schools. The state board of education orders daily instruction to curb rough habits, teach right and wrong, and refine conduct for both boys and girls with practical social habits and speech.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
State Board of Education
Board of Education
Attractions of the North Pole No Pole to Attract
A satirical list of what will not be present at the North Pole includes no pennants no trains no political platforms no betting on races no drunks no Turkish baths no chop-suey joints no social clubs no union station no police no Salome dance no fire department no baseball fans no baby dolls no bargain sales no undesirable citizens no strikers no Thaw case no magazine poetry no bookworms no boll-weevils no near beer no night riders no grafters no hole in the treasury no automobile scorching no street car hogs no Merry Widow hats no Standard Oil wells no world leading newspaper no nature fakers no Carnegie libraries no coal-smoke nuisance no chewing gum peroxides no heat complaints no steel or sugar trust no juicy divorce scandals no weather reports no Queenie with hair in a braid no Ultimate Consumer or Innocent Bystander no pianolas or megaphones no color line or race war no Shakespeare Baconian controversy no liquor problem no jag no political parsons no candidates for office no insurance solicitors no messenger boys no cook ladies no breakfast food no mosquitoes no fleas no hazing no pellaogar or arteriosclerosis no market reports no tanglefoot soirees no dives no gambling hells no fear of invasion no muck-rakers no mollycoddles no police pulls no hell no pole
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Carnegie Libraries
Steel
Sugar Trust
Queenie
English art of frivolity stirs New York society women
Mrs. Harold E. Gorst from London criticizes New York culture talks as pretentious and urges embracing trivial conversation and harmless rotting. She contrasts American manners with English ease, praising social trivelling as an art and a relief from constant culture discourse.
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New York
Gorst
The
New York Herald
Harold E. Gorst
London
Did Not Wear Them Tale Sparks Gentle Prose Muse
A classroom joke about a Roman swimmer prompts commentary on literacy in Europe. Jimmy wonders why the hero didn’t swim four times to reach the clothes’ side, as a teacher reads a story. The piece then cites literacy rates: England about one in a hundred illiterate, France two in a hundred, plus a German figure for school children.
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Lal
Hal
Jimmy
Tiber
James
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Harry Sergeant
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Vienna
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Bright
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Peary
Robert A. Bartlett
Sam Crane
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Cincinnati Reds
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Dick McBride
Athletics
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Dave Birdsall
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