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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1906
Page
6
The document shows a June 22 1906 front page notice from the New York Times with publication details including the Times Square location and postal entry information. It lists standard masthead language and classification as second class mail matter.
Public notices show New York circulation details with outlets in Times Square Wall Street and Broad Street locations. Rates list daily postpaid, weekly and yearly options plus foreign postage surcharges for daily and Sunday editions. United States city and regional pricing include Jersey City Newark and Philadelphia listings.
The New York Times offers the Daily and Sunday Editions mailed to readers nationwide at TK per month. Orders may be sent through newsdealers or directly to the Publication Office.
A Bostwick-era editorial critiques William Jennings Bryan’s trust prophecy amid a surge of antitrust actions. It catalogs the Tobacco, Paper, Drug, Gunpowder, Fertilizer, Beef trusts and railroad cases, noting indictments, price fixing bans, rebates, and regulatory reforms that challenge corporate power and hint at broader political shifts. The piece ends by contrasting these actions with President Roosevelt’s ambitions, implying Bryan’s forecast is outdated.
The piece argues New York patrolmen enjoy exceptional perks and pay. It compares police wages to Army rations, noting starting pay around 800 dollars yearly rising to 1400 with 25 years, plus pension. It dismisses chatter of resignations under a two platoon system as misinformed.
Commentary laments Roosevelts hard line on trusts while predicting Bryan faces a hostile political climate in 1908. It notes Taft’s isolation among Republicans and warns of radical backlash against reform as policing and labor issues spark debate.
The House debate on prohibiting canteens in soldiers homes raises broad issues for the army canteen question. Witnesses favor restoration as best for temperance and health, while opponents call it meddling and rely on conjecture. A continued ban is warned as promoting intemperance, vice, and disease in the U S Army.
The article argues labor will enter politics as a normal development and urges a cautious, principle driven approach. It notes Hearst's Federation of Labor address and the United Mine Workers Journal push to align tickets with wage earners, while warning against broad coalition blindly pursuing reform. It contrasts labor and farmers with cautions on unity and policy aims.
The text argues for identifying and standing up a rising body of opinion that supports propaganda so that their influence can be measured rather than relying on noisy clamor to gain what their votes do not.
The piece argues against mandatory canning dates while noting Beveridge’s stance that buyers deserve to know what they buy. It discusses the packers’ position, potential safety irrelevance of dates, and British moves toward dating. It also critiques Christian Science criticisms via Dr. Derby’s Boston Transcript column and closes with talk of a pardon appeal for ex-senator Burton.
From The Philadelphia Public Ledger two men stand apart in memory one a perfect gentleman the other an egotist whose selves remain unforgettable in the city’s pages.
Letter from Boston dated June 20 1906 recounts a West man in City Hospital who rejects ether morphine and pain claiming pain is a delusion. After warnings and a sleepless night he finally requests morphine describing agony and declares no more Christian Science. Two other auto accident victims appeared at Horticultural Hall the next day.
Special to The New York Times reports a Senate scene over a Sundry Civil bill clause listing funeral escorts and grave diggers as hospital expenses. Spooner suggested adding burial of the dead, provoking laughs as Senators praised Gen Grosvenor and Senator Scott in stylish outfits, amid playful bywords.
A June 21 1906 letter from New York argues that observers excuse bachelor life in hall bedroom homes with low wages. The writer contrasts a wife devoted to husband and children with reading wives who enjoy novels and piano, noting class life and marriage expectations. The piece presents social critique of middle class stagnation.
The piece condemns municipal bridges gates and the practice of slamming heavy wooden gates to trap runaway horses. It suggests safer methods like suspended loosely woven wire mattresses to entangle hooves and argues current actions killed two horses today inhumanely. It calls for humane treatment and better solutions.
The fragment from a 19th century column in Warwick New York presents a declaration by ADAM that no man who desires marriage will secretly despise a woman, stressing womanhood’s equal importance to manhood in relationships.
Fragmentary notes recount a nursery rhyme styled tale with Peter and a wife’s fate. Mentions of several surnames including Neill Reynolds Roosevelt Raveridge and Sinclair appear as pursuing figures in the murky account. The piece reads like a courtly scare or moral vignette adapted into a newspaper snippet.
William Jennings Bryan, visiting Trondheim for royal ceremonies, clarifies he is not responsible for being called conservative but defends his anti monopoly stance. He states private monopolies must be exterminated and trusts should be destroyed, arguing radicalism now reads conservative. The Bryans plan a week in Norway then a trip to England, sailing from Gibraltar at the end of August.
H B Tasker London flour importer urged American millers to raise quality and speed up export delivery to protect U S sales in the United Kingdom. He blamed both millers and railways for delays harming competitiveness, noting Britain could consume more if exports met standards and arrived faster.
In London on June 21 the Postmaster General Buxton said universal penny postage could not be afforded now as it would cost $2,500,000. He noted negotiations with Canada to cut magazine postage to compete with the United States, which currently floods Canada with American literature.
New York actuaries appeal for clothing donations to aid San Francisco teachers burned out by the 1906 disaster. A committee will sort and forward men and women’s apparel to the needy, with checks sent to J. J. Sheppard, treasurer, High School of Commerce.
A June 21 1906 letter from New York protests months of street explosives before the Fourth of July. It notes a complaint to East 126th Street Station led only to a police talk and urges orders enforcement to halt the nuisance.
Albert E. Davis argues New York should advance beyond temporary expediency by replacing the steel skeleton desecrating Battery Park with a permanent subway and a beautiful parkway, avoiding an elevated loop marring the bridge approach.
In a June 20 1906 letter to The New York Times the writer criticizes the Simplified Spelling Board for repeatedly citing Shakespeare while suggesting the form Shakspere as more authoritative. The letter urges consistency in spelling the name.
TAXPAYER from New York attacks the Board of Aldermen for obstructing an increase in the police force and for earning higher salaries. He notes a former assistant board was abolished and urges ending the current body.
Cornell University President Jacob Gould Schurman urged graduates to restrain the pursuit of wealth and cultivate honesty and character. He warned the idle rich threaten democracy and urged self reform and hard work, noting a moral awakening as economic injustice grows. Commencement on campus awarded over 600 diplomas with prayers and remarks.
In Paris on June 21 Maitre Moras summarized a scientists committee report debunking Bertillon and handwriting experts as scientifically invalid. He argued the revision request rests on fresh facts including a mistaken initial D vs P, document alteration, and a missing artillery minute. An ex convict tried to disrupt the session by tossing a letter at the President and was removed.
A verse praising the Summer girl as the ideal of beauty and desirability. The speaker notes bees, birds, breezes, sunbeams, and the elements acknowledge her charm. She is described as flawless and free from duty, subject only to the law of beauty.
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