Quincy Street Car Service in Decline Sparks Public Outcry
A reader chronicles dire Quincy street car conditions with cars on the same lines back to back, long waits near an hour, dilapidated equipment, flat wheels, and indifferent maintenance. Criticizes McKinley property investments, calls for action by the state utilities board, warns of public backlash if service does not improve.
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Quincy
McKinley
Tilinais
Public Utilities Commission
State Utilities Board
No Parade of Death for Roosevelt Funeral
The public expected a grand lying in state and cathedral memorials for Colonel Roosevelt, but his body was borne from a small village church to a quiet knoll near the Roosevelt estate. The piece contrasts patrician tastes with Roosevelt’s simple interment and evokes English poets who chose humble burial grounds near the places they loved.
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Ily
Roosevelt
Honor
Gray
England
Westminster Abby
Ruskin
Meredith
Wordsworth
Westminster
The Right to Make Our Own Mistakes in Democracy
A passionate defense of individual freedom and self government argues that people must be allowed to err to learn. It condemns paternalism and autocracy, praising democracy as self expression and urging nations to govern themselves without external coddling.
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God
Tooley Street
Gilbert and Sullivan Republica
Kaiserium
Germany
Russia
Europe
Why cities cannot force snow free sidewalks
James E. McNutt, Alderman, explains that Illinois law from 1875 and a case Asahel Gridley v. City of Bloomington holds sidewalks are highways not under city duty to clear. An ordinance demanding owners remove snow within six hours is unenforceable. cities must rely on civic duty, or the city must do the work themselves, given the vast cost of clearing HS miles of Quincy streets.
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The
Whig Co
Associated Press
Franklin P. Alcorn
Marbridge
New York
Peoples Gas
Chicago
Quincy
Postoffice
Audit Bureau OF Circulations
Ghee
Illinois
Missouri
Iowa
Supreme Court of the
State of Ilinois
Asahel Gridley
Bloomington
Illinois Reports
Tie
Black Pussy’s Return Home From The Snow
In a tense chase, Bowser the hound confronts Black Pussy who darts from Old Orchard to the Brown house after Prickly Porky’s rattling spears sent her fleeing. Bowser recalls past pain and flees toward Old Man Coyote, while Black Pussy races through the Gun Orchard to safety and back inside.
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Black Pussy
Bowser
Chert
Prickly Porky
Porky
Pork7
Les
Farmer Brown
Old Man Coyote
Mrs. Brown
Black Puss
Mrs Brown
Social Features Of Meeting Abandoned In Chicago
In Chicago on January 9 the Republican national committee will abandon all social features of its meeting out of respect for Colonel Roosevelt, while business sessions proceed as planned. National Republican chairman Wilfrid Hays announced upon arrival. Republican women will have headquarters in Chicago and share central offices with the national committee, per executive secretary Mrs Mabel Reineke. The women's executive committee will meet with Hays before Friday’s national committee session.
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Chicago
Republican National Committee
Roosevelt
Hays
National Republican
Mabel Reineke
Women's Committee
National Committee
St Jacobs Liniment Promises Quick Neuralgia Relief
An old advert claims St Jacobs Liniment instantly banishes neuralgia and all pain by topical use. It touts a small trial bottle from a druggist, claims nerves are soothed and congestion relieved, with no burning or skin discoloration and a half century of use.
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St. Jacobs
Changed Cat Search For Children Carried Into Exile
Reports from Constantinople say the Greek and Armenian patriarchates formed a committee to locate tens of thousands of children seized by Turkish authorities during the war. The aim is to recover children including youths taken to be converted to Islam or placed in harems of officials and officers.
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Saloneng
Constantinople
Youngiris
Recognition urged for Omsk as all Russian government
Washington dispatches report a memorandum to allied representatives urging recognition of the Omsk provisional government as Russia’s all RNA government with rights at the peace conference. The cable from Paris says Prince Looff, first premier after czar overthrow, leads the delegation for preliminary peace work, with former provisional officials and ambassadors composing the group.
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Washington
Omsk
Paris
Prince Looff
Russia
Morrison to regain millionaire status in federal ruling
Edward W Morrison, once dubbed the moneyless millionaire, will be made a millionaire again as Judge Anderson in federal court set aside Morrison’s transfer of about 33 dollars to Attorney James R Ward. Witnesses described Morrison as increasingly profligate, with a 1916 claim of 180000 against him prompting the transfer to Ward to cover creditors. Morrison was declared bankrupt a year ago.
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Chicago
Edward W. Morrisan
Anderson
Morrison
James R. Ward
Ward
Republican treasurer injured in mine inspection
Duquoin Illinois January 9 George R. Sheldon of New York treasurer of the Republican national committee was seriously injured in a mine accident during an inspection with New York Detroit and St Louis officials of the North American company.
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Duquoin
George R. Sheldon
New York
Republican National Committee
Detroit
St. Louis
North American Company
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James E. McNutt
Pilar Daha
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