Preservation Gone Mad and the Poe Shrine Debate
The piece critiques excessive preservation zeal arguing Americans overglorify monuments like Edgar Allan Poe’s Fordham home. It cautions against memorials for transient ties and questions spending on such shrines while highlighting Hodgenville Lincoln and Jefferson home efforts as contrasts.
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Downing
East
New York
Martin W. Littleton
United States
Thomas Jefferson
Hodgenville
Kentucky
Abraham Lincoln
Edgar Allen Poe
Fordham
New York City
Poe
Defiant protege Verify blamed for biased U.S. stance in Mexican upheaval
The state department under Secretary Philander C. m is accused of favoritism toward Madero during the Diaz-Madero conflict. Critics allege the United States did not remain neutral and aided Madero’s rebellion, with mentions of rifles and mail trains bound for Mexico.
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State Department
Honapie
Philander C. m
Pennsylvania
Mexico
May
Madero
Diaz
San Antonio
United States
Orozco
Reyes
Gomez
Gun Toting Nation Mirrors Shifting Laws and Attitudes
The piece argues U S policy toward Mexican revolts shows double standards and questions the sincerity of neutrality enforcement. It links arms crossings to Madero and Orozco, notes defiance by Madero, and condemns widespread gun carrying in urban America as a growing habit reflected in society and crime.
Gun-Toting Women in New York Crime Networks
A historical piece notes a rise in female gun carriers behind male offenders in New York. It discusses how wives and accomplices hide weapons to avoid detection, the impact of the Sullivan law on weapon distribution, and the shift toward women aiding gunmen in illicit activities.
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New York
Gotham
Cain
Herman Rosenthal
Knight of the Underworld
Sing Sing
For Love of Country as Morgan Critique Exposes Wealth Power
A critical meditation on J Pierpont Morgan, accusing him of failed ideals despite vast wealth. The piece links his Roosevelt fund support to a national interest creed, arguing his testimony exposes a flawed credit gold monopoly and a system still echoing ancient wealth lords.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Pierpont Morgan
Roosevelt Campaign Fund
Morgan
Norse Christmas Bird Feast and Let George Do It
The article recalls a Norse Yule custom in Christiania where each Christmas tree includes a barley sheaf hung for birds, a sign of care for animals. It notes the phrase Let George do it arose from King Louis XIV’s prime minister Georges and its transit to a common proverb.
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Nisse
Christiania
Yuletide
Norway
George
Oliver H. Richardson
Department of History
University of Washington
Louis XIV
France
M. Georges
Amboise
Boston
Brassoniph
Mrs. MacKenzie and the Master of His Finances
In a Kensington drawing room Elise MacKenzie fends off her husband Arthur’s rebukes as she flaunts fashionable vanity. He balks at her spending, tears a cherished hat, then writes a check to enforce restraint, declaring envy of Ruth Miller and asserting his authority.
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Arthur MacKenzie
London
Paris
Kensington
Mrs. MacKenzie
Ruth Miller
Elise
Ruth
Tony
Treegret
Arthur
Miller
Plaza Theater Weeklong Yuletide Review Highlights Dancers
The Plaza theater presents a six act Yuletide bill with music dance and singing. The Connolly sisters Nanette and Jeanette Lawrence Kirby and Conley perform as Four Dancing Bugs. Sylvan and ONeill offer a silent pantomime At the Seashore with a semi acrobatic burlesque theme. Reidy and Currier deliver harp backed vocal numbers. Bugs Lawrence Dyer and Dyer and Charles McCoy add songs and stunts with slack wire.
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Plaza Theater
Connolly Sisters
Plaza
Nanette
Jeannette Lawrence
Messrs
Kirby and
Conley
Terpsichore
Flea
Sylvan
O'Neill
Reidy
Currier
Bugs” Lawrence
Dyer
Charles McCoy
Poorhouse and presidents jibe in sharp cartoon aside
The passage recalls a wry jab about ex-presidents willing to work for a living. A cheeky line from an Atlanta Constitution cartoon contrasts wealth with labor, followed by a fragment of dialogue and a narrator overhearing a dramatic muttered exclamation about kissing someone, ending with a furtive retreat.
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Carnegie
Atlanta Constitution
Treaty and Canal Relation to Panama Tolls
The article traces the Hay Pauncefote treaty to the Panama canal toll controversy. It reviews the 1826 Panama congress, 1835 negotiations, 1846 Colombian neutrality, the Clayton Bulwer treaty of 1850, and the 1901 Hay Pauncefote accord. It argues the treaty requires canal operation on equal terms for all nations and notes U S coal toll discrimination against foreign vessels, stirring British objections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis News
Panama Canal
United States
Panama
Senate
Central America
Colombia
Great Britain
England
Mosquito
Mosquito Coast
John Hay
Lord Pauncefote
Hay-Pauncefote
Congress
Gum on the Move Aboard Car Sparks Mild Circus
An observant selfless young man gives up his seat to a mother and son on a crowded streetcar. The boy earns gum from the stranger, provoking the mother to scold the boy and glare at the donor, who leaves the car at the front platform.
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Son
British Self-Perception Bias in Algeria Travel Notes
English author Charles Thomas Stanford in About Algeria challenges the notion that Britons are the only successful colonists. He highlights a motor route around Algiers revealing local commerce and professions including undertakers gardeners tobacconists and farmers.
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Charles Thomas Stanford
Algeria
Algiers
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