Roosevelt's Address Urges Employers Liability and ICC Power
President Roosevelt sent a message to Congress urging reenactment of employers' liability with scoped limits, stronger national regulation of interstate trade, and compensation for government workers injured on the job. He attacks wealth-backed corruption, calls for unified federal and state action, and defends the use of injunctions while praising judges.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Supreme Court
Santa Fe Railroad
Bureau of Corporations
Standard Oil Corporation
Santa Fe Railway Company
Railway Company
Heney
Santa Fe Aid
Department of Justice
Belasco Known as the Hardest Working Playwright
David Belasco stands out as the most diligent American playwright. He often rehearses a company for 12 to 16 hours, then, when the actors tire, he dismisses them and returns to perfecting lines and scenes in his play.
Scrappeighs Toast to White Goods and Starch
Confident remarks on married life aside the piece extols fine wash goods and home laundering. It notes starching as vital to beauty and recommends Defiance Starch for proper stiffness without thickening, promising improved appearance of laundered work.
Unappreciated Prowess and Cologne Riddle Verse
A college hammer thrower reports to his father promising to distinguish himself while the father rebukes public spectacle and fines for any broken windows. The second snippet features a Cologne bachelor maids tale about a man hidden beneath a bed and an intended theft claim.
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Pop
Widow orders exhumed corpse for photo at Woodlawn
A New York widow had her husband Henry Brown exhumed 20 days after burial at Woodlawn cemetery to obtain photographs. The request, approved by the Bronx health department, yielded three weeks’ old images taken by a photographer with an undertaker present. The rest of the text promotes Defiance Starch for laundry need.
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Woodlawn Cemetery
New York
Henry Brown
Twenty Ninth Street
Bronx Health Department
Henry
Health Department
Brown
Woodlawn
Baker City Incident Sparks Myths About Band Note
A famous tale from Baker City recalls Judge Sam White and Tom Faggart during a band performance when a five dollar hat was hurled through a skylight 75 feet high, a stunt linked to the tune Dixie reported by the Pendleton Hast Oregonian.
First Postoffice Scheme Inaugurated In 1464
The initial postumes scheme emerged as a private venture and was inaugurated around the year 1464. This early postal idea framed subsequent postal systems by private enterprise.
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Chief
Republic
Standard Oil
Rockefeller Syndicate
Chicago & Alton
San Francisco
Standard Oil Company
Mann
Abraham Lincoln
Chicago Directory
Great Central Market
United Gas & Electric Co
New Albany
Jeffersonville
Indiana
Chicago
Trowbridge & Niver CO
First National Bank
Central
Trowbbridge & Niver CO
Nam
WRU
Stata
North Texas
Texas Farm Land Company
Dearborn Street
Ilinois
Ds. Ler & CO
Como Lidg
Gunther's Confectionery
State Street
Colonial Trust & Savings Bank Wn.e
Adams and
LaSalle Streets
M. Bell & CO
Lasalle ST
Boston
Bisbee
Utah
Nevada
The
el Paso Electric Company
Stone & Webster
Ghicago, Ill
Hyde Park Hotel
Lake
Center
1.C.R.R
Hyde Park
Colorado
Geo
W. ‘Ford
Coyne Bros
Water St
Uve. Gross
ALN. Kellogg Newspaper CO
Adamenty
John
Scrappeigh
Cologne
Michigan
Joseph C. Ficklin & CO
Randolph Street
Tam
Novy Vtarns
America
Representa
the Cross Company
Reaper
Hubby
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