Manila Bay Quarantine Result Of Aims And A Place
A curious tale from Manila Bay recounts how a young American girl caused a ship to be held ten days due to Chinese exclusion laws and suspected amah disease. She secured a Chinese nurse, faced quarantine, and finally landed the ship’s passengers ashore after the amah traveled to Mrs Taft. Also notes Panama death rates in 1882 and 1905, plus a string of light, humorous clippings from various papers.
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Manila
Philippines
Hong Kong
Washington
Manila Bay
Columbia
Taft
Islands
Indifference of Americans to Duties as Citizens
Opinion argues that public sentiment enforces laws not institutions alone and warns the greatest danger is citizens neglecting duties at local, state, and national levels. It stresses state sovereignty, limits of federal power, and the risk of a vast bureaucratic government if Americans do not participate in governance.
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United States
Atlantic
Golden Gate
Congress
The Playwright As Pioneer Of Expression
Charles Klein argues that the playwright voices what is in the world, with drama built on human conflict. He ranks The Lion and the Mouse above The Music Master for capturing the era’s tension between commerce and spirituality, and notes the commercial man shaping future leisure class.
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Glen Rock Woolen Mills
Somerville, N. J
Glen Rock
Smith Street
Panama
America
Ma Twaddles
Cleveland
Jones
George
Houston Post
Georgia
Leader
Gunner
Chicago Daily News
Josh Billings
Washington Star
Houston
Electric Department, Public Service
Joseph G. Cannon
National House of Representatives
Charles Klein
the Lion and the
Broad ST
W. Park ST
Newark
NEW
Lee
The
David Straus Co
West Park St
John Mullins
SOM
Jekel
Uate
Market St
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