Various Controversies and Oddities Stir the Nation
The week features editor appointments, growing state ambitions, and a Kaiser nearing wisdom after a milestone. Amherst Nova Scotia gains heat from mine waste, while a Tennessee man seeks smoking bans and a fur seal taxonomies shift. Peanuts cost the nation 14 million, Oregon clinics dress codes, and a Wisconsin professor calls all children liars. A western university promises refined wit courses, New Jersey touts a unique record, a woman’s theft from a husband’s pocket shocks, and historic respect wanes. A burglar desecrates Washington’s monument. clothes of Andrew Jackson are stolen. Fires reduce injuries due to strong cooperation. 1200 theater evacuees in New York escape unharmed as the orchestra aids the exit.
Ancient instruments outlast modern pianos in relic finds
Pianos dating roughly two centuries meet their match in 4000-year-old bagpipes and banjo carved on Hittite sculptures found in Asia Minor. Napoleon warned that forty centuries look down on these instruments, and perhaps so do musicians.
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Asia Minor
Napoleon
An Englishman's Home Draws England’s Interest
The piece contrasts the drama's reception here with England’s reaction through the production of An Englishman's Home. The play critiques government defense with a wary view that if Japan attacked, militia would falter and regulars would be needed for rescue.
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England
Japan
Mary Anderson Reflects on Stage Life versus Real Life
On her New York arrival Mary Anderson compares stage romance to real life saying actors only play love on stage while in real life love is constant and she considers that life best. Her remark serves as a decisive explanation for her retirement from the stage.
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Mary Anderson
New York
Inventor Purifies Rock Salt Directly With Air Process
Popular Mechanics reports an English inventor has devised a practical method to purify rock salt directly. The process melts rock salt and passes compressed air through the molten mass, separating impurities and leaving white clean salt at a cost not commercially prohibitive.
Judge Allows Jurors To Return Home During Trial
In a high profile New York criminal case involving life or death for two men a judge permitted the jury to separate and go to their homes each night under guard. He argued jurors face no greater risk of improper influence than judges, suggesting this view could raise jury intelligence standards as the ablest men resist a duty that traps them for weeks.
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New York
Wireless Hero Binns Stays Humble About Fame
Binns, the renowned wireless operator, says hero status wears him out. He argues true heroes are those who stay busy with the work and have no time to reflect on their own heroism.
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Binns
Chicago broker quits to enjoy life after two million
A Chicago broker in his forties who has earned two million and married a pretty wife retires from business to enjoy life. The item prompts questions if this signals a broader shift away from the feverish American chase of wealth toward calmer living.
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Chicago
Inauguration of Taft and Sherman in Washington
Taft takes the oath on the east portico as president with Roosevelt present. Sherman is sworn in as vice president in the senate chamber. A vast parade follows from the capitol to the White House, featuring cadets, sailors, regulars, veterans, and civic groups. The day includes a luncheon and extensive ceremonial honors.
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Edward B. Clark
Washington
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Capitol
William Howard Taft
United States
James Schoolcraft Sherman
Senate
Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
Pennsylvania Avenue
Executive Mansion
Farlex
White House
Congressional Committee of Arrangements
Knox, Lodge
Bacon
Burke, Young and Gaines
Congress
Roosevelt
Jobe Taft
Mr. Taft
Mr. Roosevelt
Sherman
Mr. Fairbanks
Mr. Sherman
Edward Everett Hale
Fairbanks
Senate Chamber
House of Representatives
District of Columbia
Supreme Court
House
Military
Naval
Committee of
Melville W. Fuller
President Taft
Great Assembly
Black Horse Troop
Cleveland
Guard of Honor
J. Franklin Bell
United States Army
West Point
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Army
Navy
Cuba
Philippines
Atlantic
Hampton Roads
Sea Service
Connecticut
Illinois
Sperry
Korea
China
Great State
Lafayette Square
Gen. Bell
Pruning apples and prunes and laundered goods
A humorous exchange on pruning and science, then a note on home laundering and starch for fabric, praising Defiance starch. A stray joke follows about a woman chopping wood and a thin husband making a potato peeling quip.
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Ad
Vienna West Virginia resident credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing ten years of suffering. The testimonial claims relief from female ailments and urges other women to try the remedy. It notes the product is made from native roots and herbs and free of narcotics or harmful drugs.
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Vienna
W. Va
Lydia ‘E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Exrayr
Wheaton
Pinkham
Lyma
Mass
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Andrew Jackson
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