Beginnings of Congress Open With Cannon Applause
The Sixty-first Congress opens in Washington with Vice President Sherman and Speaker Cannon presiding. The bill flood shows Taft policies as lawmakers outline pension, interstate commerce, and other reforms. The Senate and House form committees to inform the president and begin winter business.
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Washington
Sherman
Senate
Joseph G. Cannon
House
Congress
United States
Capitol
Cannon
Bers
Army
Navy
Henry N. Couden
House of Representatives
Taft
Serena EB. Payne
Champ Clark
Edward Everett Hale
Representatives
In the Promised Land from the Atlanta Constitution
A reflective snippet suggests that future generations may forget this world while cherishing pleasant paths friendly faces and dreams carried to heaven from the era of the prom ised land.
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the Promised Land
Promised Land
Old World
Atlanta Constitution
Cats Taught Tricks If Brought In As Kittens
In Moore Street New York an old house window displays a quirky sign promising cats can be taught tricks if they are brought in while kittens. The odd wording has drawn attention from passersby.
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New York
Moore Street
Clergyman Baptizes Infant as Father Quips Spelling
A prominent clergyman baptizes an infant while the father Mr McCabe, present, asks how to spell the name with a large or small C. The pastor notes the reply, Middlin’ large, if you please, father.
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McCabe
Despondency and Expensive Melancholia Treatment
Mrs Highmore discusses her husband’s despondency being treated as melancholia by a specialist, noting the treatment is quite costly. The exchange highlights financial strain from medical care in a domestic setting.
A Question to Be Considered on Plagiarism
A dialogue quoted in which Senator Sorghum concedes the tension between originality and being interesting. He notes the dilemma of choosing between surviving as engaging or original. The exchange highlights concerns about creative integrity in scholarship or public discourse.
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Senator Sorghum
Goshen, Ind
the National Dairy Machine CO
Chicago
Moral Bread of Mankind
Addison declares affability mildness and tenderness as the bread of mankind and staff of life. He links a virtue in speech to daily conduct and the restoration of virtuous meaning.
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Addison
Farmer Finds Gold Coins Buried Near Champlain
Farmer Westberg of Champlain New York plowed up gold coins valued at about fifty thousand dollars. Authorities believe the treasure was buried by thieves from a British army camped near Champlain during the New York campaign.
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Farmer's Lucky Fund
Farmer Westberg
Champlain
N. Y
New York State
Roving Jokes Spark Laughs in Elementary Class
A classroom quip has students riffing on arithmetic ages. The exchange begins with a teacher posing a birth year puzzle 1875 and a pupil replying with a humorous gendered miscalculation. The moment captures light schoolroom humor from a Hed Hen feature.
Correctness Required for New Appointment Figures
The speaker requests careful accuracy in figures for a new appointment starting Monday, noting the principal’s firm insists on correctness. The message implies a need to adjust details to meet strict accuracy standards.
Freed at Last From the Tortures of Kidney Disease
Mrs. Rachel Ivie of Henrietta Texas credits Dean's Kidney Pills with restoring her health after fifteen years of kidney problems She could not leave the house for two years and suffered back pain yet she now works like other women at nearly eighty years old The ad notes the product costs 50 cents a box and is sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
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Rachel Ivie
Henrietta
Texas
Dean
Dean’s
Foster- Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
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Sixty-First
Edward B. Clark
P.lewis
Kansas City Directory
Grand Ave
Arthur C. Brown
Kansas City
Deere Implements and Velie
John Deere Plow CO
Pierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo
N.Y
Spostn
Spohn Medical
Goshen
Indiy Us
S. Re
Nickel
Japan
Standard Oil Compan (Incorporated
L-Douglas
W. L. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
W L. Douglas
W.L. Douglas
Putnam
Momaroe Drug CO
Quincy, Miinola
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