Oregonian Opinion On War And Politics
The Oregonian criticizes coverage of Bryan and Chamberlain and disputes pacifist and protectionist lines. It argues the United States should stay prepared militarily and avoid war with Mexico while condemning the paper’s defense of wool and sugar interests. The piece mocks the Oregonian as weak in argument and failing as a persuasive writer.
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Yosturday
Oregonian
Bryan
Chamberlain
Brean
United States
Mexico
The
Ile
Stearmny
Portland
Senator Chamberlain
Louisiana
Sea Gull Seeks Ocean Amid Inland Lures
Poem fragment by Stevenson contrasts a sea gull’s longing for the ocean with inland scenes. The gull finds rivers, trees, and quiet rushes, but the speaker urges return to the sea. The verse laments the bird’s wandering and appeals for the sailor to hurry home to the ocean.
Civic club to erect modern drinking fountains
The civic club will fund modern drinking fountains to replace the old town pumps. Fountains will offer sanitary, universally accessible drinking water for locals and travelers, benefiting strangers during crowded events like the Round-up when city accommodations are stretched.
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the Civic Club
Memphis Debates A Tax On Bachelors For Babies
The city contemplates a special tax on bachelors to fund baby care but critics call it unjust and punitive toward single men. They argue sympathy for married couples with children, and oppose taxing bachelors as a misapplied incentive.
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Memphis
Government to Build Armor Plant to Curb Exorbitant Prices
Secretary Daniels of the navy department advocates a government armor making plant as the surest remedy for high prices. He argues private firms, the three armor makers, collude to keep prices high while the nation pursues a larger navy. His plan envisions government production to save net millions annually and avoid interest costs.
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Daniels
Navy Department
United States
Roosevelt
Hotean
Bat
Bryan
Daniele
Vacation Resort Guest Declines Return Visit
A summer resort proprietor flatters a departing guest who praises the scenery meals and rooms but the guest refuses to return next summer. He explains that summer enjoyment hinges on complaining about winter discomforts suffered at home. The exchange ends with the guest asserting he would not return.
Seeress Narrative At Opera Describes Aigrette Conflict
In a comic vignette a man seated behind a lady with an 18 inch white aigrette keeps craning around to view the stage. He reveals he paid six dollars for his seat while she boasts she paid sixty dollars for the ornamental aigrette to be seen.
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Inez
Snig Fishing Tale Turns On Wink And Wonder
A boy quietly fishes with an improvised rod and hook. Asked what he’s doing he answers in a lifeless voice that he's fishing for snigs. When asked what snigs are he says he doesn’t know, confessing he has never caught one yet.
Pathetic Tale of a Tramp and Miss Wary
A tramp speaks of a failed marriage and a stint of trouble with his wife, claiming since the “unfortunate marriage” six months ago he has lived in hot water. Miss Wary responds with dry skepticism as the exchange unfolds in a Lippincott's Magazine vignette.
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Miss Wary
Lippincotts Magazine
Reckless remarks in a family finance tale
Fanks laments the difficulty of explaining finance to a woman while Henderson and Banks react. Banks angrily recalls a lost dime the baby swallowed and his wife hiring a doctor to retrieve the coin for five dollars. The scene highlights financial naivety and domestic misadventure.
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Fanks
Henderson
The Quality of Hardness in Faces
Paul Hellen the etcher in New York complains of a hard quality in many American faces. He notes even the fairest look have this hardness, likening them to a stubborn girl in a light verse. The remark appears in a Washington Star poem fragment.
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Paul Hellen
New York
Aultor
Vincent
Annabel
George
Washington
Geology and weather talk on earths distant ages
A noted piece from the Weather column muses on the earth’s immense age and cycles. It cites millennia of geologic time, the impact of radium on estimates, and the enduring, changing climate. The article reflects on life’s rise and fall amid cosmic scales and the eventual fate of the sun and earth.
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Indianapolis News
Charles Schubert
Yate Review
Three Lives Stretch Across Four Centuries
A New York World report notes Mrs. Martha Lawrence of Warren County Kentucky recently died at seventy eight. Her lineage traces to Michael Goodnight born 1694 in Germany who moved to Virginia then North Carolina. He died during an expedition near Harrodsburg Kentucky in 1775. His son Isaac Goodnight, born after the attack, became a famed Kentucky frontiersman who lived to ninety three, married five times and fathered twenty one children. One of Isaac’s descendants represented Kentucky’s Third District in Congress.
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Martha Lawrence
Warren County
Kentucky
Michael Goodnight
Gutnacht
Germany
Virginia
Hig
George Washington
Daniel Boone
Braddock
North Carolina
James Harrod
Harrodsburg
Mrs. Goodnight
Fourt
Goodnight
Isaac
Isaac Goodnight
Bunker Hill
Mary
Dutch William
England
Lauia XIV
France
Blenheim
New York
Woman who does her own housework solves servant girl problem
A society note reports that a woman who manages her own household resolves a domestic issue involving a servant girl. The brief item highlights a practical decision affecting domestic labor dynamics.
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Nelly Mast
Ieedsienan News
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Imperial Hotel
Oregon
Colenies Rarean
Security Building
Rest Vision
Dally
Delty
Mall
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Aix
Mali
Cutted Trem Association
Fielding
Sra
Stevenson
Want
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Redoan
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Pendleton
East Oregonian
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