Panama Canal Inquiry and Roosevelt Plan Reconsideration
The piece discusses Taft's likely on-site study of Panama work, the advisory board's sea level canal recommendation, and Roosevelt's plan choices. It notes Gatun Dam issues, the cost and timeline of lock versus sea level, and Burr and Parsons' possible advisory roles for the President. It also surveys Gen Kuropatkin's alarming McClure's article on Far East tensions and potential Russia Japan China outcomes.
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Public Works Plan Emphasizes Completing Canal Project
The speaker argues it is better to continue the canal project than spend 250 million on a useless lock. He vows not to abandon the work and to complete it, stressing the need for full and trustworthy information and personal, early study of requirements and methods.
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Panama
Taft
From the cradle to the grave in tariff defense
The piece dismisses the steel industry's tariff plea as an infant’s request now framed as old age pensions. It likens steel magnates to bold profit seekers, noting vast wealth and power from consumer costs. It recalls Carnegie’s sharp critique and declares the industry’s protection request utterly audacious.
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Carnegie
Steel
England
Annals of Trade
Teller's Delusion Prompts Party Line and Discipline Call
The Times notes Senator Teller's letter to Moreton Frewen on silver, clarifying it was a personal ad venture not tied to the National Monetary Commission led by Senator Aldrich. It urges Aldrich to enforce discipline, warns against a divided commission, and recalls past currency debates and crises to discount Teller's stance.
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Teller
Moreton Frewen
National Monetary Commission
Senator Aldrich
Aldrich
New York
Tere
Sound money and labor resist cheap currency proposals
The article argues against silver based or cheap money schemes, calling them treason to public interests and warning of looming disaster. It stresses hard currency, gold standard, and wage protection while criticizing Tellerism and Bryanism as failed doctrines. It views currency reform as a crisis requiring knowledge and statesmanship to avoid disaster.
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Mr. Bryan
Senator Teller
The Liberal Situation in England and Possible Reforms
The article analyzes Britain's Liberal position ahead of dissolution, noting a government tactic to delay change by proposing a royal commission. It outlines potential reforms: Lords veto limits, broader suffrage including women, and Irish representation reapportionment, with women’s suffrage described as a contingent referendum plan.
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England
India
United Kingdom
Ireland
Liberal Party
House of Lords
Lords
Luorp-Gzoraeg
Art and the Aeroplane in Medal Design
The article argues the Wright aeroplane medals will be ugly yet symbolic, comparing airship aesthetics to automobiles. It praises the brothers Wright’s stern, purposeful features and foresees future artistic acceptance as aviation evolves.
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Wrrieut
Aero Club
Uncertainties of a Starving Couple in Los Angeles
A husband and wife in Los Angeles sacrifice income to study wealth creation and distribution, neglect their children, and cause one death. The piece argues public judgment will deem them mad and their economic doctrine flawed, reflecting shifting social norms and media critique.
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Los Angeles
Immigrants' Children Reflected In New York Life 1908
A New York Times letter from December 21 1908 argues immigration increases strain on housing employment and public order. It claims second generation steerage immigrants display discourteous behavior in Broadway cars and Fifth Avenue, labeling peasant manners as common in public places.
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America
New York
A Call to End Wolf Fights with Pepper Remedy
A letter to The New York Times argues against snuff experiments on wolves. The writer proposes Cayenne pepper dusted into the wolves eyes as a quicker cure for their fighting propensities, claiming immediate admonishment by the inflicted animal.
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New York Times
Station indicators spark aerial fears and a costly misadventure
Angered by the idea of numbered stations and mechanical indicators, Angus Sinclair recalls a railway scare from 1908. A Western railroad’s station indicator briefly swapped Liberty for Summit due to a cow on the track, ruining a wedding and prompting a $25,000 suit. The episode ends with the indicator’s disappearance and a reminder that new devices may fail.
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New York Times
Chicago
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Western Railroad
Bartlett
Liberty
Hurley
Myers
The President and the Schoolgirls Letter
A Buffalo reader questions Times reporting on an alleged incident involving a girl and her family. He asks for explanation of editorial stance on the matter and denies seeing such outrages reported in the press. The letter seeks clarification through the newspaper's columns.
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New York Times
Times
John Turner
Buffalo
Roosevelt clashes with schoolgirls ride incident reveal allies
The Times exposes a disputed report about President Roosevelt scolding riding girls and using force. It alleges a self cocking revolver shot a horse and that girls were sent to Fortress Monroe and Washington in irons. It claims a secret tribunal of Loeb Garfield and Pinchot will judge. Clarkson was ordered to Washington with an axe.
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Turner
Roosevelt
Fortress Monroe
Washington
Loeb
Garfield
Gifford Pinchot
White House
Clarkson
New York
James 8
the Times
Unitarian Influence on Religion and Politics Cited
Joel Benton defends Unitarian view in a letter to the editor, arguing against secularizing the Constitution. He notes McKinley’s dying words and hymn author Sarah Flower Adams as Unitarians, and cites President John Quincy Adams as not harming the nation. Benton, Poughkeepsie, Dec. 21, 1908.
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New York Times
Martin
Roosevelt
Taft
William McKinley
Sarah Flower Adams
John Quincy Adams
One of Nazareth
Joel Benton
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Butterick Dinner Denied as Labor Settlement
James Told, president, states that Butterick Publishing Company employees held a dinner on Saturday night not to celebrate a settlement with Typographical Union No. 6. He says the three year-old controversy remains unsettled and the meal was a gathering of non-union workers misreported by uninvolved parties.
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Butterick Company
New York Times
Butterick Publishing Company
Typographical Union No. 6
Helé
Big Six
James Told
New York
A Pipeful About Smoking On Subways In 1908
In a letter from New York dated December 22 1908 R A argues smoking on the Hudson River ferry and elevated trains forces others to seek comfort on the opposite side. He asserts a smoker should endure a ten minute ride or step aside for considerate riders.
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The
New York Times
Hudson River
New York
Noise complaints spark arrests on Claremont Avenue area
On quiet Claremont Avenue and nearby streets residents complain of noise and nuisance. Two arrests were reported as pedestrians and old-claims persist, with police noting ongoing disturbances and questions about enforcement.
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New York Times
Claremont Avenue
Oldcle
Kuropatkin Warns of Premature Peace After Portsmouth
Gen. Kuropatkin argues in McClure's January issue that the Portsmouth treaty ending the Russo Japanese War was a premature and dangerous peace. He maintains continued fighting could have secured Russian victory in Manchuria and warns of the yellow peril looming as Japan and China build forces.
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Portsmouth
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Far East
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Russia
China
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Siberia
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East
Higgins objects to report on Brooklyn Bank fees
Charles M. Higgins asks for prominent publication of his letter denying newspaper imputations that he attacked the court or suggested politics influenced the receivership. He says affidavit details legal limits on fees and seeks a review at final accounting.
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New York Times
Brooklyn Bank
Betts
Supreme Court
Charles M. Higgins
New York
Marie Spartaki and Marie Stillman Works at Oehme’s Galleries
A New York note praises Marie Stillman, née Spartaki, a Greek-born painter tied to the Rossetti circle, for color and poetic imagination. The modest Oehme’s Galleries show English manor garden scenes, Tuscan farms, Vaucluse water, and Kelmscott views reflecting Morris. A portrait study and a dreamy city scene also illustrate her refined portraits and landscapes.
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Scribner’s Monthly
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Century
London
Nor
Spartak
Oehme
Fifth Avenue
Marie Spartaki
Dante Rossetti
Wraddox Brown
Sir Edward Furne-Jones
Font’alerta
Vaucluse
Petrarch
Laura
Kelmscott
William Morris
Filorentine
New York
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Not Grafters Defend Buyers Against Denunciation
William Grieser of Dover New Jersey defends buyers amid Mr W W Hallock’s December 19 critique. He cites twenty years in sales across the United States with department hardware and furniture trades and asserts only four buyers he knew were dishonorable. He says three are now down and out, the fourth near the edge.
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New York Times
W. W. Hallock
United States
Joy and Good Will Elves on Earth
A verse praising mythical elves named Joy Tenderness and Good Will who work to ease distress with happiness and mirth. They are imagined in fairy form wearing furs and gauze as they spread kindness and cheer on earth.
Colorado Women Vote Aids Noted Pilgrim Mothers Dinner
The seventeenth annual New York Legislative League dinner at the Hotel Astor honored Pilgrim mothers with jokes about the Pilgrim fathers. Speakers including Mrs Lillie Devereux Blake and Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt discussed women’s voting rights, gender roles, and Colorado’s suffrage gains under frontiers life.
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New York Legislative League
Hotel Astor
Pilskim
Lillie Devereux Blake
Teague
Carrie Chapman Catt
International Suffrage Society
Colorado
Denver
Secretary of State
New York
Anna Shaw
Ling
Eure
Eva cDonaalesh
Loines
Priscilla D. MeZetadt
Berry Inquiry Begins Today in City Accounts
The Commissioners of Accounts start a public inquiry led by Park Commissioner Joseph I. Berry of the Bronx. The first hearing is set for 2:30 p.m. at 280 Broadway and will run daily. The probe is expected to address alleged misuse of city funds for private representation within the department.
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Department
Joseph I. Berry
The
Bronz
Broadway
Emere
Pelnee Ae
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Monar
Anniversary Mass for Father Woods at Holy Cross
The Very Rev John T Woods pastor of Holy Cross Church Flatbush celebrated yesterday the twenty fifth anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. The ceremony included a lemn hi at ccguogece and a sermon.
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John T. Woods
T the Holy Cross Church
Flatbush
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