Conservation push eyed by Great Northern leader
James J. Hill, president of Great Northern Railroad, champions the Washington governors conference and a nature based recovery. He urges yearly meetings, less Wall Street focus, more farming and forest preservation to benefit national prosperity and future generations.
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Great Northern Railroad Company
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Washington
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Mr. Hill
New York
New York American
America
Wall Street
Jesson
Organization of Governors
Hill
Houston Club Adopts Abandoned Baby as Mascot
A nineteen month old boy named Edmund Winters was abandoned on a Texas league train. Houston baseball players adopted him as mascot and formed a fund surpassing $2,000. The mother, under eighteen, faced hardship after desertion by her husband. Memorial Day tribute follows with urged reverence for fallen soldiers.
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W. E. Hester
Edmund Winters
Dallas
Fort Worth
Hillsboro
Novel use of weeds to shield passengers from dust on railroad lines
General Superintendent Buckley of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Co plans to let weeds grow along tracks to cut $40,000 yearly weed cutting costs and reduce dust. Grass will be sown to form a dense root mass at track ends to trap dust, with weeds allowed to cover soil between rails where feasible.
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Buckley
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company
Wallawalla
The
Spokane Review
Employment Day Proposed by National Prosperity group
The executive committee of the National Prosperity association, after talks with leading manufacturers and jobbers, designates June 1 as Employment Day. St. Louis dispatch reports hopes that 4,000 to 5,000 unemployed will be rehired that day. Railroads and other firms are urged to follow, restoring workers to their shops and factories.
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National Prosperity Association
St. Louis Dispatch
Chicago Metropolis Claim Sparks Metropolitan Club Debate
Dr Emil G Hirsch of Chicago argues that Chicago is the metropolis of the country in a Metropolitan club address. He contends New York is not the metropolis, saying a New Yorker is insular and believes all beyond the Hudson ends at the river.
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Chicago
Emil G. Hirsch
Metropolitan Club
New York
New Yorker
Arcriver
Hudson
Texas flowers for Germany shipment orders received
Orders have been received at Galveston Texas from Berlin for 2,000,000 tuberoses from the Texas coast to Germany. An additional order calls for 500,000 Cape jasmines, which German importers say are very popular in Germany. Cape jasmines will go to Berlin while tuberoses head to nearby provinces for cultivation.
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Texas
Germany
Galveston
Tex
Berlin
London cyclist breaks world road record for 1000 miles
T A Fisher of London recently set a world road record by riding 1000 miles in 81 hours 1 minute, beating the previous mark by twelve hours. The achievement highlights endurance and speed in long distance cycling on public roads.
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T. A. Fisher
London
England
Antiquity of the Oath in Human History
The oath is as old as recorded history with appeals to forces greater than man. Early forms invoked nature, fire, flood, beasts, and pestilence, while the raised hand and the phrase So help me God originate in Jewish Christian tradition, though ancient nations swore by their gods.
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God
Johnson's Open Reports Led to Lilliputian Senate Legacy
Boston Globe recounts Dr. Johnson rewriting British debates by creating a fictitious Senate of Lilliput to reveal the press's access limits. He reported Westminster debates anonymously, shaping public perception while shielding identities, inspiring generations of readers with vivid paraphrase and clever aliases.
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House of Commons
Branklin
Provincial Assembly
Pennsylvania
Continental Congress
Lilliput
England
Westminster
Senate of
Johnson
Pitt
Exeter Street
Boston Globe
It Was All Over and A Wrong Side of the Fence
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Tam
B.G. Stewart
Cedar View
Miss
Br. King
O. M. Olsen
Jeannettal
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