Supreme Court limits Commission to past reasonableness in freight rulings
The Interstate Commerce Act limits the commission to determining what was reasonable and just in the past while it cannot force future rates. The commission cites Freight Bureau and Social Circle decisions to explain that carriers may set and change rates independently of the commission, leaving shippers with no enforced future rate reductions unless Congress acts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court of the United States
Freight Bureau
Commission
Congress
Morrison
Eureka Springs By. Co
Supreme Court
Social Circle
Jackson
Lght
St. Louis
Springfield
Seligman
Wareka Springs
Ark
The Bacchant Scene and the Censor’s Compulsion
A crowd debates removing a nude statue as a man demands its destruction. An old gentleman warns that zeal to purify the world reveals vice in the accuser, urging pity over outrage as the figure’s virtue stands unthreatened by the crowd.
Vacation schools in cities show new urban education model
The New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor expanded vacation schools in 1894 to serve children from tenements. Play plus learning using kindergarten methods drew about 11,000 weekly attendees across 11 schoolhouses, with costs dropping from 11.5 to under five cents per child per day. The group urges city adoption as standard educational policy, noting broader adoption elsewhere.
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New York Association For
New York
Woman urges gentle dress guidance for girls
A motherly writer argues against forcing childish fashion on girls. She says taste grows with care and pruning, not constant scraps of vanity, warning it may breed self-consciousness and dislike of dress. The note cites a St. Louis Globe-Democrat quotation and mentions twelve million silk hats produced yearly in the UK worth £5,000,000.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Hypnotism Star Mrs Armbruster Astonishes Philadelphia
In Philadelphia a society figure Mrs K D S Armbruster showcases remarkable hypnotism including telepathic image transmission. Witnesses Dr Max Bockrock Dr Dickinson Miller Dr William Wadsworth and Dr S Millington Miller observe a deep trance session guiding Mrs Joynes to relay a daisy to Edward Simmonds who identifies it as a white daisy with many petals and a yellow heart.
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Hiladelphia
Old City
William Penn
Marble
City Hall
Philadelphia
K. D
Armbruster
Max Bockrock
Jefferson Medical College
Dickinson Sergeant Miller
Bryn Mawr College
William §. Wadsworth
University of Pennsylvania
S. Millington Miller
Locust Cloud Leaves Historic Sailors Speechless
Two American captains recall March 2 sightings of locust clouds on the ocean. One captain reports a cloud the size of a man’s hand arriving at 1 p.m. and stripping the ship’s canvas. The other notes a 3:30 p.m. sighting with locusts wearing No 1 canvas trousers.
Mining Firm Offers Klondike Gold Placer Prospects
The Joséph Lede Got Mining and Development Company of New York advertises offices at 1106 Chamber of Commerce Building Chicago. It owns Klondike gold placer properties once developed by Mr. Joseph Ladue of Dawson. Prospective investors can obtain a prospectus by writing to the Chicago address. The firm also plans transportation and other industrial enterprises under its Canadian charter, promising large dividends and reliability.
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Joséph ‘Lede
Paris Hat Drives St Louis Servant to Ruin
A St Louis servant saved 35 75 after four months of work. She bought a Parisian hat for 35 50 from a shop window, the contrast sparking ridicule from other workers. She spent the remaining 25 cents on morphine.
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St. Louis
Loring Co.'s Big Medical Sanitarium Opens at Wabash
A Times Herald reporter visits Loring & Co. Medical Department at 53 62 Wabash Ave Chicago in the Fairbank building. The facility is described as the strongest and most reliable in the United States with luxurious, complete equipment and skilled physicians. Free consultation by mail and specialized evatom blanks offered for men women skin diseases catarrh and other ailments.
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Loring & Co
Chicago Times-Herald
Times-Herald
Henry Medical Dispensary
Wabash Avenue
Fairbank
United States
Mai
Evatom
Loring Co
Wabash Ave
Chicago
Ill
Reversible Mail Envelope for Merchandize Returns
An envelope designed with reversible flaps and a stiffening strip allows the inside to become the outside. The same envelope can be used to return merchandise in the same manner as it was forwarded, enabling a reusable mailing method.
Cascarets Candy Cathartic Advertisement Blitz
A jumble of medical ads tout Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a cure all for constipation headaches fevers and colds with pricing 60 to 85 cents. It also notes promotions by druggists and other remedies like Dr Kay's Renovator and Sledge Cigarettes while mentioning crime claims about Wildcat attacks in Monroe county Kentucky and a Maryville Missouri drummer True Worst.
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C. C
Wage Earners Offered 5 1-3 Percent Stock Plan
The Chicago Great Western Railway opens its 5 1-3 percent dividend stock to wage earners. Shares worth about 73 to 75 dollars can be bought via monthly payments of 10 dollars through local banks including First National Minneapolis Merchants National National German American and Union Bank of St Paul. Owners of five or more shares six months prior gain free round trip transportation to the Chicago annual meeting in September.
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Chicago
Western, Railway
New York
London Stock Exchange
First National
Minneapolis
National
National German-American
Union Bank of St. Paul
Oil supplies sustain Danish lighthouses in storm seas
In Denmark, lighthouses are fed with oil pumped on the waves during storms. Consequently two or three vessels circle each lighthouse in rough weather to ensure continued operation and safety.
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Denmark
Cascarets and No-To-Bac Advertisements Promote Health Claims
A collection of vintage ad lines claims Cascarets candy cathartic sells two to three million boxes yearly and No-To-Bac tobacco cure boosts vitality. It also notes a statistic on roughly 60,000 loose stamps found in UK letter bags annually and includes brief mentions of quotations from the Philadelphia North American.
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United States
United Kingdom
Whimsical ad snippets and travel quips from old papers
The text compiles scattered quotes and ad lines about hair in ice cream, a nerve restorer claim, a Philadelphia patent offer, Arctic travel pace, a lung cure, Canadian testimonial, and a Belgian teacher count tied to Christmas cards' fashion history, reflecting era advertising and trivia tones.
Classified Help Wanted Ad Requests Paper Mention
A brief Chicago newspaper line urges readers to reference the paper when answering advertisements and to mention the publication in inquiries. It appears as a small classified note guiding reader etiquette for ads.
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Inter-State Commerce Commission
Department of Schools and Education
Quaker City
Sore
Mrs. Armbruster
Tale of
Life In
Monroe County
Wc. C. C
True Worst
Maryville
Anon
West Virginia
Sterling Remedy Co
Dr. Kline
BR. H. King, Ltd
Arch St
Massachusetts
Kentucky
C.C
J. L. Northcott
Windsor
Ont
Canada
Kingdom of
Belgium
Epping Forest
Mra. Winslow
Epsom
Coe
Holland
Star Tobacco
Lydia I. Pinkham
W.N. Y. Chicago
Rudyard Kipling
For All
the Youth Companion
W. E. Glad
Thomas B. Reed
Justin McCarthy
George F. Hoar
Peary
Max O’rell
Frank R. Stockton
W. D. Howells
Lillian Nordica
Burton Harrison
Octave Thanet
Mary E. Wilkins
Margaret E. Sangster
Harriet P. Spofford
Sarah Sands
Columbus Avenue
Boston
Mass
Castoria
Pitcher
Samuel Pitcher
Hyannis
Cares
Whitleich
Mothers of America
Centaur Company
Chas. H. Fletcher
Creteut Ksitehhieg
Ompany
Mura
Ian
Interstate Commerce Commission
Edw
A, Noseley
W.hlsith & CO
Props
Buffalo
Piso's
Ptio
Columbia
Hartford Bicycles
Pope Mfg. CO
Hartford, Conn
E. M. Ross
S. Clark St
Cor
Monroe
J. By Merry
O’farrell
Rk Avenue
Chavett Laboratol W. Glat
Riou Day
Abe
Lettac
Adams St
Texas
Duunigreptes
Dalian
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