President's Message to Congress Outlines Labor, Tax, and Foreign Policy
The president's December note to Congress emphasizes expanding federal role amid prosperity, urging restraint on ordinary spending while promoting permanent improvements. It covers labor rights, unions, and government employment, railway safety, anti rebates, corporate regulation, currency reform, immigration, naturalization, and the Philippines. It calls for arbitration efforts, navy strength, and urging policy toward Iran Asia, the Western Hemisphere, and Alaska.
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D. C
Congress
Lfe
District of Columbia
Territories
Orient
McKinley
Asia
China
Custerig
A Pictorial Drama of Tweed Captured in Vigo
The piece recalls Nast cartoons identifying Boss Tweed in Spain at Vigo where he was arrested for abducting two American children. It notes the wall carvings and a tale of Tweed’s capture tied to Nast drawings, describing the dramatic public misdirection and subsequent return of Tweed’s cartoons to traffic in Pearson's magazine.
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Aorta
Philippines
Creal
Chad
Spain
Audrey
Pweed
Theer
Sidiemy
Wlde Sweet
Vigo
The
Stripes and Club
Alserine
Caward
Wrainklin
Auperien
Nast
Get. T
Albert Bigelow Valne
Pearson's
In Horace Browne Will the Gold Medals for Cambridge
The 17th century will of Sir William Browne requests that Cambridge University receive gold medals for Greek and Latin odes. It specifies a private funeral without pomp or public attendance and warns against spectators or entertainers at the burial.
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Horace
Wiliam Browne
Cambridge University
Brame
Desire to live frames frail human hope in a parish tale
An elderly patient prefers to endure life over death amid priestly rites and a calm query about departure. The Kansas City Independent notes the sentiment with a sober, common humanity about mortality and willingness to linger.
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Trishiman
Father Weld
Tam
Kansas City
Technically Stated Music Teacher Note in Baltimore American
A fragment from the Baltimore American discusses a music teacher remark about a daughter's singing voice. It notes the voice is of fine quality and capable of lofty notes but lacks control, with unclear phrasing and direction.
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Baltimore American
Unclear Note on Qualification for Position
A garbled message questions the writer's qualifications for a role and dismisses the addressee as ignorant about the business. The text imitates a hostile exchange, referencing a typewriter and implying a comparison to Chicago slang.
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Ross- Tm
Chicago
Jones Growls at the World Again in Atlanta Constitution
A quip from the Atlanta Constitution notes Jones is thriving yet surprised by unruly public reaction to his luck. The tongue in cheek line highlights a sharper edge to his fortune.
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Jones
Atlanta Constitution
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