The Future and Power of the United States Reviewed
A review in the Journal de Saint Petersbourg, via Annales Politiques et Litteraires, praises Hanotaux's chapter on The Future and the Power of the United States. It argues the United States combines vast resources and organization, foresees strategic global influence, and urges France to embrace travel and expansion, including colonies, to compete.
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Journal de St. Petersbourg
Foreign Affairs
Annales Politiques Et Litteraires
Academie Francaise
M. Hanotaux
Academy
United States
France
Cato
Italy
Europe
Arctic
Niagara Falls
Old World
Mediterranean
Liverpool
Marseilles
Panama Canal
Asia
Republic
American Republic
Merely Used Horse Sense
Sam Jones loses a two year old colt and villagers search without success. Jim, thought to be foolish, offers to try and soon returns with the horse tied by a rope around its neck. He explains he followed the question where would a horse go and found the colt.
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Sam Jones
Colt
Sam
Jim
Jones
Hatter’s Quick Wit On Hair Dye Mocks Taxed Economy
Governor Chatterton says economy is always admirable. A Cheyenne hatter recalls a visitor who asked the price to dye a gray hat to match his hair. He offers a counter joke about dying hair for a quarter, illustrating thrift humor.
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Chatterton
Wyoming
Motive for Exposé Promoter Joins Deal After Publication Pledge
A promoter agrees to join a business syndicate on one condition. He will write the magazine expose of their dealings with the public after the others publish their articles on How to Succeed. The papers are signed following a time-division plan.
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Chicago Tribune
Penalties of Exclusiveness on Dinner Bill Dialogue
A humorous exchange unfolds over dinner as Cholly asks a question about papers while Freddy admits he never reads them. Freddy borrows money from Cholly to settle the bill after requesting an extra fine potato house steak for two.
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Cholly
Freddy
Waitah
Chicago Tribune
Tobacco pace slows as Raleigh hurries on
A humorous New York Sun snippet depicts Sir Walter Raleigh racing to introduce tobacco. Onlookers question his hurry while Edward Atkinson delays learning until age seventy, and Raleigh philosophically smokes another short, perfect cigarette.
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Sir Walter Raleigh
Edward Atkinson
Walter
New York Sun
At His Own Game
The Detroit Free Press quotes a cautious remark about a man engaged to a daughter and a plan to test his legitimacy with a check. The dialogue hints at suspicion toward a foreign fiancé and a potentially fake noble title.
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Detroit Free Press
Japan Open to Talks but Demands Full War Reimbursement
The article says Japan will discuss peace with Russia at any time but insists Russia must pay all wartime losses. Japan seeks indemnity, Manchuria, Sakhalin, and the Russian Far East as terms if the war continues, while still showing confidence in victory. News from Port Arthur and An Shan suggests a nearing fortress capture.
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United States
Ngf
Europe
France
Germany
England
America
Ment
Russia
St. Petersburg
Japan
Manchuria
Vladivostok
Sakhalin
Asia
An Shan
Port Arthur
Tokio Ge
Russian Cruiser Novik Sunk After Isle of Sakhalin Action
Japanese forces engaged Russian cruiser Novik on a Saturday fight against protected cruisers Chitose and Tsushima. Novik ran ashore at Korsakovsk harbor on Sakhalin in a sinking condition after the battle, with Japanese reporting no casualties.
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Novik
Korsakovsk
Sakhalien
Dynamite Explosion Kills Two at Nevada Depot
Two people are dead and three injured after fifteen cases of dynamite on the Missouri Pacific depot platform in Minden, Nevada, Missouri, were ignited by a passing freight engine. The depot was demolished in the blast.
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Nevada
Minden
Missouri Pacific
Grave find near Portage uncovers explorer Pierre Pauquette remains
Workmen uncover bones while excavating a Baptist parsonage site in Portage Wisconsin a discovery tied to the famed explorer and trader Pierre Pauquette. Historians had long sought his burial location and the Missouri born trader is linked to regional history with roots back to 1796.
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Portage
Wis
New Baptist Church
Pierre Pauquette
Pauquette
Missouri
Peoria Men Bow Legged Recruits Rejected
Serge H. W. Jones of the U S Army recruiting station says sixty Peoria youths were refused due to hollow chests and bow legs Nine were accepted and have gone to the barracks in Peoria Illinois special report from Peoria Illinois
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Peoria, Ill
Serge. H. W. Jones
United States Army
Peoria
Japanese Workers Refuse to Work at Beleo Mines
In Guadalajara Mexico a group of Japanese laborers recently imported for the Roths child copper mines at Beleo refused to work and will be sent back to Japan. The workers are farmers by trade and unaccustomed to underground labor.
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Guadalajara
Mexico
Rothschild
Beleo
Japan
Successor to Schwab Named for U S Steel Board
It is reported that the successor to Charles M Schwab on the board of the subsidiary companies of United States Steel Corporation will be Thomas Morrison who succeeded Schwab on the corporation’s board.
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New York
Charles M Schwab
United States Steel Corporation
Thomas Morrison
Mr. Schwab
Deaf Jute in Mayoralty Race
St Paul special reports William H Cowles deaf and umb candidate for the Republican nomination for mayor of Minneapolis. He owns substantial property, adding interest to the race.
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St. Pauli
William H. Cowles
Minneapolis
Algiers Chief Executes Marriage Negotiation Attack
A Moorish commander Bu Hamara sent eighty three horsemen to Chief Amada of the Reni Buzzagora tribe to ask for his daughter’s hand in marriage. The chief treacherously murdered them all, ending the negotiation.
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Algiers
Bu Hamara
Amada
Reni Buzzagora
Wheat yields reported in Samara Russia record crop
The government of Samara reports a phenomenal wheat crop totaling 110,000,008 bushels from 1,560,000 acres marking a standout agricultural harvest in the region.
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Saratoff
Russia
Samara
A Cheerful Genius With A Fresh Fool Idea
A stout man at a downtown cafe muses on the squeaks and fads of the silly season. He recalls past fool ideas like kissing bugs and airships, notes the lack of new tunes or phrases, and wonders what new “fool idea” might brighten the season. He jokes about Dowie Carrie Nation and Carnegie funding a incubator for ideas as a speculative remedy.
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Dowie
New York
Carrie Nation
Carnegie
Roscoe Conkling's Big Fee Told by Attorney
Roscoe Conkling vents after Charles O'Conor notes a Gibbons arson case and a $3,000 fee. O'Conor, speaking candidly, says Conkling did much work and the client might have faced conviction for less money.
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Roscoe Conkling
Conkling
Gibbons
Superior Court
Supreme Court
O’onnor
A Mild Suggestion
A child asks his father to marry someone else and to choose his grandma for kindness, describing a tender family moment quoted from the Chicago Record Herald.
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Papa
Arthur
Grandma
Chicago Record Herald
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Schwab
Charles O'Conor
Charles O’conor
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Ht. Barnes
A. C. Gunter
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