Washington Cranks and Reformers: A Century of Disordered Minds
Special correspondence from Washington notes a shift from the old era of cranks and deadbeats. The piece mentions Beau Hickman is dead and Dr. Mary Walker has retired, while figures like Colonel Maurice Pinchover faced perpetual claims against railroads and died after escalating violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Beau Hickman
Mary Walker
Maurice Pinchover
Congress
Pennsylvania Railroad
Tom Scott
Cranks in Washington and the Good Roads Crusade
A survey of postwar Washington cranks and reformers notes Coxey's Army echoes in the capital. Descriptions cover Redstone's Moderate Coxey program, strange outfits, and crowded hearings shaping reform debates amid influenza chatter and social anxieties.
Confederate Memorial Day and Women craft in wartime fashion
The piece describes Confederate Memorial Day in Cuangeston on April 26 and honours Southern women who endured poverty during the blockade. It details ingenious domestic skills from tea and candles to hats and gowns fashioned from scarce materials, highlighting how women preserved dignity, aided the wounded, and upheld memorial traditions amid hardship.
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Cuangeston
South
Jane
Dl Jemimas
Flora McFlimsy
Avera Southern
Con
Ciakade
Tafterward
F. G. Pe Fontaine
Timbuktu Occupied by French Forces Reappears in World View
Special Correspondence from Paris notes Timbuktu, long a symbol of Africa’s mystique, is spotlighted again as French troops seize the city. The report traces Timbuktu’s history, its diverse population, and a notable Jewish trader Mordekhai Abi-Servur who helped establish a Hebrew presence there. The piece also surveys Britain’s land market mood and dairy imports in a Liverpool letter to the editors.
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Laber Te Fori
Cranks
PSS
Washington
Martin Luther
Storch
Coxey
Paris
Timbuktu
Niger
Sahara
Sudan
Mordekhai Abi-Servur
Morocco
Timbakta
France
Turkey
Grecca
Asia Minor
Jerusalem
Aleppo
Syria
Egypt
Tunis
Algeria
Isaac
Aruan
Laing
Mordekhai
Basi
Aroon
Paradise
Ataid
Aramn
Morakhai
Hebrews 10
Tiarbukta
Pans Geographical Scciety Cnaries Sreak
Imber Court
Inigo Jones
Tor
Great Britain
Liverpool
Pressure Mounts to Halt Moslem Pilgrimages to Mecca
Paris reports French authorities push to stop annual Moslem pilgrimages to the prophet’s tomb in Mecca. It notes cholera infected pilgrims returning are burned in furnaces, not cast into the sea, as per local custom. A Canadian farmer argues tariffs shift tax burdens onto him when importing live stock for sale in America.
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North
Mecca
Paris
Une
Amerions Marion
Gowns and Hair Notes From A Spring Fashion Page
New York fashion notes describe rata hair styles making a comeback with single top buns and side puffs. Gowns feature maize crepon, magenta sarah and albatross cloth with lace and satin trims. Green bengaling and yellow tones dominate, with elegant capes and lace details. Harper cigarettes and San Francisco divorce statistics conclude a mixed fashion and social update.
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Thia
Shay
Ontve Harper
Luxurious Osages Enjoy High Incomes and Conveniences
Special correspondence from Abilene Kansas notes the Osage tribe as the richest in the world with government pensions, land rentals, and large estates. Leaders like Frank Denoya build lavish homes with modern utilities, employ Caucasian staff, and educate children, while the tribe contemplates selling reservation lands in severalty and maintaining strong political ties to the government.
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Abilene
Kan
Arkansas City
Sam
Michigan Avenue
New York Boulevard
Frank Denoya
Denoya
The
Indiana
A Disastrous Habit The Morphine Plague Expands
Brooklyn and New York report a rising morphine habit among factory girls traced to medical advice and shared syringes. Mrs. Vanderhoef notes green pallor and scarred arms as signs while officials fear spread beyond the two cities. A Berlin dentist dies of blood poisoning after a tooth extraction incident, with London Mews reporting the case.
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New York
Brooklyn
Woman's Christian Temperance Nmen
Louis Vanderhoef
Mra Vanderhoef
Berlin
London
Mews
A Woman's Nose and a Paris Framing Suit
Paris brokered gossip centers on a feud between a Baroness and a renowned painter over a portrait. Court action arises as a framemaker sues a society lady, to soon reveal her full name in the trial, following the noted Mackay Meissonier affair.
The Baroness and the Nose Portrait Nose Feud
A Paris Exchange cartoon lampoons a baroness who rejects a portrait because it shows her nose improperly. She declares the nose to be pointed and destroys the painting after refusing the work. The artist offers a catalog of alternative noses and a retouch option, while the frame maker files a legal action.
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Seine
Paris Exchange
Man From Trinidad Experiences Pain-Free Medical Tests
A 24 year old Trinidad native named Lartado living in Mobile endured wires passed through his neck mouth calf and arm with a galvanic battery applied yet he showed no pain or bleeding and recovered as if rubber is involved physicians from Mobile call the experiments a remarkable display of painless tolerance and no bleeding as the devices pierced him without distress per reports from the New Orleans Times Democrat.
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White House
Lawrence
Jackson
John Tyler
Metabher & Son
Samem
Tyler
White
Colonel Redstone
Congress
Deak
Vieltoria
Pages
Loafera
Redstone Coxey
Jase
Mobile
Lartado
Trinidad
New Orleans Times- Democrat
Embezzling Vatican Official Flees With 18000 Lire
A Vatican official embezzled 18000 lire and disappeared after the Vatican refused to recognize the Italian government. No notice to Italian authorities has been given yet, but papal nuncios abroad have been alerted in case the defaulter surfaces in foreign jurisdiction. The criminal can reportedly live in Rome undisturbed as long as he chooses.
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Vatican
Rome
Spoon Guessing Contest at Stillman Hotel
A guest pockets a solid silver hotel spoon, claiming a new fad called the spoon guessing contest. Guests guess engraved hotel names from spoons, with prizes for correct guesses and steps backward for wrong ones, while hotels fret over missing spoons.
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Cleveland World
Quicksand Traps Norristown Hotelier. Rescued by Friends
W A Finley a Norristown hotel proprietor sank into a six foot deep quicksand bed near Skippack creek while hunting snappers. Friends William Shine and John Goodwin pulled him free after ten minutes of strenuous effort as the water rose to his chin.
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W A. Finley
Norristown
Finley
William Shine
John Goodwin
Fairview
Skippack Creek
Shine
Goodwin
Anip
Philadelphia
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Dunlap
Georgetown
Heidelberg
Parker
Cleveland
Potomac
Bor
Victoria Woodhull
Senate
Theodore Tilton
Beanie
Cantagiounnesas of
Inluenca
St. Petersburg
Dr & Cleman
Rasaia
Kirghiz
Centipton Alan
Cgregen
England
San Francisco
Luxurious
Southern
Red Seal,” ‘Collier,” “Shipman,” “ Fahnestock
National Lead Co
Dati
UY Baste
Pikece
Chienge
Pennsylvania
Ayers
Continental
Buckeye Jr
Louis Hanssen
Davenport
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