Pork Barrel Politics Highlighted in Federal Spending Debate
The piece argues that pork barrel spending distorts representation as lawmakers trade for local gains. It cites Biloxi, San Antonio, Statesville, Aberdeen, and Pierre federal buildings and broader rivers and harbors costs, noting Red River and Hennepin Canal projects inflate federal outlays with marginal traffic returns.
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House Committee On Appropriations
Congress
Biloxi
Miss
San Antonio
Statesville
N. C
Aberdeen
Uncle Sam
Pierre
S. D
Federal
United States Treasury
Red River
Hennepin Canal
United States
Gulf
Dallas 511 Miles From River Sparks Public Spoliation Critique
A critical examination argues that river navigation plans for Dallas lack economic value, criticizing pork barrel spending on waterway and federal building appropriations. The piece calls Congress to curb public spoliation and wasteful projects versus genuine development and growth.
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Dallas
Congress
Matrimonial College in Texas Sparks Debate on Education
The Denton Matrimonial College offers a department focused on the “art of marriage” for girls aged 16 to 18, teaching housekeeping and husband selection. The piece argues education should improve living, warns against quack practices in optics, and notes national interest in similar institutions.
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Modern School of Eugenists
Texas
Denton
Denton County
Kansas
Reno
The Optometry Bill Faces Medical Group Opposition
The article notes slight opposition from medical professionals to an optometry bill, arguing it could let opticians call themselves doctors. It argues the bill clarifies it does not authorize medical practice and stresses growing specialization in medicine as general practice declines.
Exporting Gold Bricks and Shoes as a Trade Argument
A shoe manufacturer testifies to Congress on protection and export. He argues that American shoes are superior and that export success rests on salesmanship rather than cheap leather, warning against unscrupulous exporters who harm national reputation.
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Congressional Committee On Ways and Means
Paris
London
Berlin
Vienna
New York
Globe
Latin America
Far East
The Railroad Home Site Selection in Pa Line
A Philadelphia meeting advances the Pennsylvania Railroad retiree home project. A committee will pick a 100 acre site between Harrisburg and Philadelphia along the main line and report in three months. One thousand dollars is ready, with strong subscriptions expected to fund the plan. towns along the line vie to host the home.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Harrisburg
Home Association
Peroxide of Hydrogen Urged For Safer Use And Labeling
The New York Pharmaceutical Era notes peroxide of hydrogen is widely used as a gargle toilet antiseptic and in surgery but is unstable and varies in quality. It urges close supervision and that labels show intended use and manufacture date as it deteriorates. The Indianapolis News adds that ace tanilide preservative is common and dangerous.
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New York
Indianapolis News
Big Date Crop Poised to Boost Southwestern Agriculture
Dr. B B Galloway, head of the Bureau of Plant Industry, testified to the House Committee on Expenditures that a date growing industry could generate about 60 million dollars a year. He noted dates, figs, and olives may become valuable additions to U S crops through Agricultural Department experiments.
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United States
Agricultural Department
House Committee On Expenditures
BB. T. Galloway
Bureau of Plant Industry
Four Thousand Women Ministers Lead U S Suffrage Ranks
The United States counts more than four thousand women ministers. Many state suffrage groups are led by women ministers whose mission work has brought them into the suffrage movement alongside settlement workers.
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United States
New York Post
Anti Parliamentarism and Heroeism in Socialist Thought
Gustave Herve discusses Socialist aims to nationalize production and federate nations into a World United States of Labor. He warns that reliance on force and anti parliamentary sentiment can fuel violence and anarchist sympathy, urging caution toward anti parliamentary critique while recalling his own twenty six months in custody.
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International Socialist Party
United States
International Federation of Labor
Socialist Party
Co-Operative Commonwealth
General Confederation of Labor
France
Gustave Herve
Trans Atlantic Flight Predictions and Mystery Airship Rumors
The article weighs future airship crossings and notes Grahame White’s 1915 crossing plans using four 250 horsepower engines. It recalls a mysterious October 14 night airship over English towns, with possible German origins. It also cites Senator Root’s Chicago convention stance as reported by the Kansas City Star.
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Popular Mechanics
Atlantic Ocean
Grahame-White
San Francisco
London
New York
Panama
Grahame- White
England
Military Department
France
Hamburg
Gotha
Sheerness
Berlin
Chicago
Root
Kansas City Star
Black fox fur values rising claims from Aransas Pass
Aransas Pass Realty Co alerts readers to high black fox pelts prices citing Canadian ranches and an English syndicate purchase. The letter disputes a San Antonio Light figure and notes UK connections, with prices up to 10 000 per pair for breeding stock and Alaska labeled second in fur quality.
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Aransas Pass
Tex
San Antonio
Prince Edward Island
Canada
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Alaska
Ancient Karmathian Writing Acquired by British Museum
The British Museum has acquired a unique Arabic manuscript titled Fada'ih al-batiniyah by Muhammed ibn Muhammad al Ghazzali. It presents early, systematic doctrines of Ismaillis and other esoteric sects and refutations. Ghazzali, born 1059, taught in Bagdad 1091 4 years. died 1111 in Tus.
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British Museum
Muhammed Ibn Muhammad al- Ghazzali
Ghazzali
Tus
Khorasan
Iman al- Harama
Nishapur
Nizamiya College
Bagdad
Suyuti
Mohamet
Al-Ghazzali
Dundee Advertiser
Observant Citizen Relates Piecing On Head Wound
A man arrives at the office with a inch long cut on his forehead and skin on a knuckle and hand. He recounts waking after hearing a chicken squawk and hitting his head on a bathroom door, while colleagues tease with familiar quips. The tale ends with his insistence that the story was true.
Electricity as Medicine by High Frequency Currents
The article reviews Prof. Bergonie’s high frequency current experiments in France showing electricity can supplement body heat and reduce food needs. A case study of a 5'10" man who weighed 110 pounds improved to 140 after 40 minute electric baths, gaining stamina and strength, suggesting future surprising results from the method.
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France
Prof
Bergonie
Delaware governor names son as secretary of state
The Pittsburg Dispatch reports the new Delaware governor, distrustful of politicians, appoints his son secretary of state in what is described as the smallest thing ever from the state.
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Delaware
Pittsburg
Reclamation Service Expands Desert Homes and Waterways
Frederick H. Newell of the United States Reclamation Service outlines the program to settle 1 million American families on habitable desert lands. Over ten years the agency built 7300 miles of canals, tunnels, roads, telephones and levees, irrigated 1,159,234 acres, with crops valued at about 20 million dollars in 1912 and land values rising by more than 105.8 million. The note highlights record dams on Shoshone, Boise, and Rio Grande projects and notes global interest in public works like the Gunnison tunnel and Roosevelt dam.
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Frederick H. Newell
United States Reclamation Service
Reclamation Service
New York
San Francisco
Wyoming
Boise River
Idaho
Rio Grande
New Mexico
Connecticut
Colorado
Gunnison
Pathfinder
Owl Creek
South Dakota
Laguna Dam
Arizona-California
Wyoming-Nebraska
Strawberry
Wasatch Mountains
Utah
Roosevelt Dam
Arizona
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Rane
General Medical School
Opthalmology
Heroeism
Trans-Atlantic Flight
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George
Will
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