Silver Purchase Bill Introduced
The bill would authorize a silver purchase program to back more money with silver and form the base for future issues. President Roosevelt urged a monetary policy to increase silver stocks to one fourth of monetary value, with gold at three fourths, and the measure includes treasury powers to buy silver domestically and abroad.
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Washington
Senate
Treasury
Thomas
Oklahoma
Borah
Idaho
Roosevelt
Congress
United States
Pittman
Nevada
Secretary of the Treasury
Woodward Impeachment Voted by House Group
The House Judiciary Committee voted 15 to 5 by nonpartisan ballot to recommend removal of Federal Judge Charles E. Woodward of Chicago. Three members were absent. Eleven Democrats and four Republicans supported impeachment. four Republicans and one Democrat opposed. The charges center on nepotism alleged in the impeachment resolution drafted by a special judiciary subcommittee.
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Washington
Charles E. Woodward
Chicago
House Committee On Judiciary
Oakland Printer Confesses Poisoned Liquor Sendings
Arthur J. Cleu of Oakland has confessed to sending poisoned liquor by mail to seven members of a fraternal group amid a feud. Inspectors James Goodnight and L M Jewell report Cleu admitted the act after a quarrel with Joe Levy of the Native Sons of the Golden West.
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Ukiah
Calif
Arthur J. Cleu
Oakland
James Goodnight
L. M. Jewell
Cleo
Joe Levy
Fruitvale Warlor
The
Native Sons of the Golden West
Woman in Whitesburg walks 25 miles to surrender over deadly shooting
In Whitesburg Kentucky Lenora In fram Linefork walked 25 miles from her home to surrender to officers admitting she shot and killed her brother-in-law James Halcomb fifty. Halcomb had reportedly whipped his wife. She is jailed awaiting trial.
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Whitesburg
Lenora Infram
Linefork
James Halcomb
Halcomb
Roosevelt Family Portrait Begins in Oval Room
The Roosevelt family portrait starts in the Oval Room with President Theodore Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt posing. The rest of the family will be painted as they appear at the White House, by artist John C. Johansen.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Oval Room
White House
John C. Johansen
Dalles Area Sees Acute Labor Shortage Endangering Harvests
The Dalles and Hood River report an acute shortage of labor as pea and cherry harvests approach. Orchard and field work may stall due to scarce workers in a tight labor market.
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Dalles
Ore
Hood River
Family trio drowns in Five-Mile pond rowboat incident
Three children from the same family drowned at Five-Mile pond in Springfield while playing in a homemade rowboat. Authorities investigated the accident and offered condolences to the family.
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Springfield
Mass
Five-Mile Pond
Foundations of Nutrition for Today's Housewife
A critique of modern food needs emphasizes nutrition over mere appetite. It reviews Dr. Mary Swartz Rose’s Foundations of Nutrition, urges beginning with practical last chapters to learn the time concept, then applying the full diet method. The piece outlines daily calorie shares, protein, calcium, iron, and vitamin goals and offers a sample low cost menu for a household.
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Mary Swartz Rose
Teachers’ College
Columbia University
The Word Housewife Through Time
A look at the term housewife its origin from hus and wif and its shift from head of a household to a married woman who tends the home. Early forms include husewif dated 1225 and modern spelling from 1710 in the British Apollo. The piece notes language changes over time.
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Aucren Riwle
Husewif
Bell Syndicate
Wwnu
All the Signs of an Heiress Earrings Spark Attention
A couple notes a woman’s diamond earrings seen during a pass by, with the wife remarking the wife’s impression of the wearer as having heiress markings and the husband affirming.
Dog Tim Sings Five Notes in E Flat
Cincinnati woman Anna Alexander owns Tim a dog that can identify and imitate five musical notes within E flat. When she plays piano chords the dog barks tones that resemble the notes, a talent she began developing as a voice teacher.
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Cincinnati
Anna Alexander
Tim
Mayan Culture Still Exists in Guatemala
Smithsonian Institution reports living Mayan descendants in Guatemala's highlands. Modern Mayas retain language and religion, though artifacts show changes from ancient times. Goldwork and cotton weaving are noted, with vegetable-dyed yarns and old-style looms still in use.
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Washington
Guatemala
Smithsonian Institution
Ales Ardlieka
Bank Teller Targeted in Gypsy Girls Prank in Cleveland
In Cleveland Ohio Leo Bates a bank teller and Frank Ballow a guard were victims of a prank by two young women in bright gypsy garb at Bates window. The women asked to change an $80 bill and as Bates counted the change one grabbed a roll of $20s. Bates pulled away and the thieves fled leaving nine twenties missing.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Leo Bates
Frank Ballow
Bates
Ballow
Woman Regrows Hair Twice at 86 in Maryland
Mrs. Susan Bish of Union Mills Carroll County defies age by growing a second crop of black hair after losing her hair at 84. Westminster officer Arthur Bowers notes her hair began regrowing within six months and is now long enough to braid.
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Westminster
Susan Bish
Union Mills
Carroll County
Arthur Bowers
Bish
Guests Must Be Old Great Bend Party Sets Eighty Age Limit
The annual party hosted by M. L. Crow in Great Bend Kansas requires guests to be at least eighty years old. Attendance is not allowed for younger people, and the event began four years ago with seventeen attendees last year.
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Old Great Bend
Kan
M. L. Crow
Oldsters
Restoring a Clinical Thermometer Using Ink
A historical note explains that smearing a thermometer with indelible ink then wiping excess after drying can make the old markings readable again. The ink settles into the erased graduations to reveal measurements.
Lights of New York and Mid Town Reflections
A vivid forage through New York scenes from Madison Avenue to Grand Central. The narrator notes taxi cuttings in busy cross streets, Ritz lobby dignity, and a florist window recalling George B. Catlin. Street voices, a radio bus, opera impresario Alfredo Salmaggi, and a GM stockholder stat soared with city life and small urban ironies.
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Ritz
Madison Avenue
Ganna Walska
America
Fifth Avenue
Grand Central
Waldorf-Astoria
Hugh
Johnson
General Johnson
George B. Catlin
Clairmont Avenue
Neighbors Share Simple Kitchen Tips From The Era
A bulletin notes practical household advice including using HEN meat for sandwiches after chopping and seasoning, avoiding hot water on linoleum or wood floors to prevent grease setting, washing with soap powder and cold water, DIY cheese grater from a tin cover, and baking crust before custard filling to reduce sogginess.
Conscientious Man Prefers a Match Request
A light exchange highlights a character who constantly asks for a match rather than being lent one. The remark contrasts earnestness with insistence on asking directly.
Tube escalator speeds at Holborn station noted
An item reports that the escalators at Holborn station in London travel at a speed of 180 feet per hour. The note emphasizes modest motion along the platform passage.
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Holborn Tube
London
England
Swapping Wives Declined in County Dicker
Zed Peavy and Si Dismuke bargained at the corner over a proposed wife swap. They joked about values and boot, with Peavy offering a high stake and Dismuke refusing to part with his wife. The exchange ends with mutual disdain and no deal.
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Zed Peavy
SI Dismuke
Zed
Pathfinder Magazine
Measure of Wits Framed in Banter at Dinner
A witty exchange centers on weighing words and truth during a social dinner. The dialogue contrasts caution with bluntness as two speakers spar over honesty and restraint in speech.
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WNU
Farina
By Jean Newton
Prof. Osterberg
Ragnar Osterberg
Sweden
Osterberg
New York
American Institute of Architects
Stockholm
Lights of
Ve Stevenson
West Forty-third Street
Alfredo Salmaggi
General Motors Corporation
Paramount
Panhandlers
Los Angeles
Park Avenue
Stratford-on-Avon
William Shakespeare
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Marine Co
Opt.w
Wks
N.Y
Parker
Hiscox Chemical Works
Patchogue
S. Oe
Way
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