The Texas Battleship Named for Its State
The United States gains a new battleship, Texas, the largest afloat with 573 feet length and 95 feet beam. Armed with ten 14 inch guns and many smaller weapons, it dwarfs earlier ships and could overwhelm rival fleets, while the old Texas once famed for misfortune is recalled in contrast to this formidable vessel.
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United States
Texas
Cuba
Oregon
Iowa
Indiana
Brooklyn
Santiago Harbor
Bsr
Philip
Hemisphere
Political Persiflage Over Recall and Gravity
The piece mocks President Butler of Columbia University for likening recall of judicial decisions to gravitation and arithmetic. It notes the era of political rhetoric will continue to employ such tricks, urges readers to seek logic, and questions how the recall relates to Newton and the multiplication table.
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Butler
Columbia University
Nintendo
Plutarch
Thucydites
Dr. Butler
Newton
Texas Battleship Texas Proves Its Worth in Battle
Thresa watches as the Texas closes in on the Oquendo and Viscaya and triumphs in single day action. The ship earns praise as a credit to the American navy and to the Lone Star state, promising the new Texas will measure up to the old in any fight.
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Thresa
Texas
Viscaya
State of
Wilbur Wright and Langley Pioneered Flight Value
The article notes Wilbur Wright as a key figure in applying practical aviation, acknowledging Langley’s near-solution with his motor. It contrasts Wrights success with earlier efforts and mentions Edison’s fame arising from applying discoveries rather than theories.
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Wilbur Wright
Wright Brothers
Langley
Wrights
Wright
Edison
Wilbur Wright and the Dawn of Flight
The article honors Wilbur Wright’s pivotal role in aviation history alongside his brother Orville. It notes the Deutsch prize and the era’s theories, praises their daring, and contrasts Wilbur’s serious, utilitarian approach with public acclaim for others. Wright’s enduring legacy as a monument to human daring is emphasized.
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Wilbur Wright
Orville
Dayton
Roosevelt risks clash at Chicago convention over temporary chair
The piece notes Franklin Roosevelt facing resistance from Taft forces over Elihu Root as temporary chairman at the Chicago convention. Roosevelt pushes for Missouri Governor Hadley but faces opposition and accuses Taft supporters of planning strong arm tactics. Roosevelt’s tactics risk stiffening opposition and complicating his path to the nomination.
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Roosevelt
Chicago
Elihu Root
Root
Taft
New York
Hadley
Missouri
Elizabeth
N. J
School Reforms urged to curb nervousness in public schools
A Boston Medical and Surgical Journal writer argues reforms are needed to reduce mental disorders in public schools. Proposals include ending competitive work and rewards, eliminating fixed age grades and standard reports, and promoting personal home contact over certificates.
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Indianapolis News
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
And With the Same Success
The Omaha Bee notes Nat Goodwin marries as often as Gene Debs runs for president, a quip on frequent marriages and political campaigns highlighting public figures' notoriety.
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Nat Goodwin
Gene Debs
Omaha Bee
Coffee Makes a Man Do Things
A Washington Post item speculates humorously that coffee may drive the colonel to excess. The quip notes the coffee effect as a tongue in cheek concern.
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Washington Post
The Light's Daily Story At Kairouna Ends in Harmony
A narrator recalls visiting an Arabian cafe and meets Chadli Djemmal who explains his four wives and the comic misadventures of sharing grapes. He tries fairness by dividing a grape among them, only to face jealousy and quarrels culminating in his beating and divorce. He ends the tale claiming happiness.
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Kairouna
Chadli Djemmal
Chadli
Aicha
Zorah
Emma
Fathma
Mussulman
Zarah
Fatima
Mahomet
Charlie
Jackal
Letters to the Light on San Antonio housing and growth
A reader questions whether San Antonio’s planned growth will exclude weekly wage earners. They urge affordable housing for working families as railroads and panama canal growth attract factories, warning against slums and prohibitive rents. INTERESTED invites remedies.
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Greater
San Antonio
Panama Canal
Real Estate Men of San Antonio Cite Questions
San Antonio real estate men may answer questions raised about local property market practices and trends. They discuss potential impacts on buyers, sellers, and lenders amid shifting interest rates and redevelopment plans.
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San Antonio
Pistol Champion Recalls Live Pigeon Shoot Tale in San Francisco
H A Harris recounts a San Francisco supper story about amateurs who ordered thirty pigeons for live target shooting. The dealer’s letter notes the birds returned safely with two strays, and prices jumped from 15 cents to one cent per pigeon for future shoots.
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H. A. Harris
San Francisco
Frisco
New York Tribune
Up to Date Verse of a Traveling Maid’s Named Stops
Harper's Weekly poet Ivy Kellerman Reed paints a wandering maid traveling by rail across many U.S. cities. The verse lists Mobile Bayonne Little Rock Ann Arbor Erie Buffalo Battle Creek South Bend Concord Eau Claire Augusta Me Macon Barre Hot Springs Marion Homestead Pa Mahaney Revere Wheeling Tacoma as places the maid visits or is urged toward, ending with a vow to marry and settle somewhere joyful.
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Providence
Tacoma
Ivy Kellerman Reed
Harper's Weekly
Goethe predicted US westward expansion and future canals
The June American Magazine reproduces Goethe's 1827 conversation in which he forecasts the United States expanding to the Pacific coast within thirty or forty years and building faster east west communications. He also expresses desire to see a Mexican gulf to Pacific passage, a Danube Rhine junction, and a canal through the Isthmus of Suez, hoping to live to witness these three works.
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Goethe
United States
Rocky Mountains
Pacific Ocean
China
East Indies
North America
Cape Horn
Mexican Gulf
Danube
Rhine
Germany
England
Suez
Dog rides streetcar against rules in downtown patrol
An unidentified mongrel aboard an N. and G. N. streetcar in the downtown area rode without a master. The conductor briefly ejected him at one stop, but the dog returned to the front and rode until reaching Pros pect Hill before trotting home.
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Traction Company
Prospect Hill
Remarkable excavating machine digs mile ditch daily
The largest digging machine, 100000 pounds in steel, digs a mile of ditch six feet deep and twelve feet wide each day for canals and irrigation on the Cudahy ranch in the Imperial Valley of Mexico. Propelled by two 30 horsepower engines, it replaces fifty scrapers and 100 mules, needing seven workers to match their output.
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Chicago Tribune
Cudahy Ranch
Imperial Valley
Mexico
Valley of the Nile
Rio Grande
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