General Assembly Weekly Legislative Summary
The week's session notes Senate actions on Bar ringer mileage books and Currie uniform feed law. Doughton diphtheria antitoxin bill passed. House debated child and women labor and Board of Education measures. education bill defeated 29 to 77. Senate approved a new Guilford Alamance district but later failed. Governor urged anti trust reform and chain claim payment. Local bills progress with several passings. Dare county contest sparked House debate.
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Tarham
Senate Committee of Railroads
Barringer
Senate
Currie
North Carolina
Curre
Guilford
Alamance
Elliott
Kitchin
State University
General Assembly
Emocrat
House
Board of Education
Britt
E Starbuck
Dockery
Eliott
Dare County
Williams
Stringfields
Morton
New Hanover
Johnson
Alexander
Myatt
Owners of the Soil and the National Character
The essay posits that soil owners feel a deep connection to the land and a sense of heredity. It links property to identity, family history, home, and moral character, claiming ownership fosters a virtuous, enduring national spirit through generations. Edward Everett.
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Edward Everetts
Bad Bargain in Tobermory Kirk Class
A Highlander student quips that Joseph's brothers sold him "over cheap" after a minister quizzes the class on the biblical tale. The exchange highlights quick wit during a church reading period.
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Tobermory
Joseph
Jacob
Record Cotton Ginned Totals Hit 12.814 Million Bales
Memphis reports the National Ginners' Association places cotton ginned to February 6 at 12,814,000 bales, up from 10,593,000 by February 8 last year. Ginning is complete in all but six Mississippi counties, five in Arkansas, six in Texas, and some in Oklahoma.
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Associated Press
Memphis
Tenn
National Ginners’ Association
Mississippi
Arkansas
Texas
Oklahoma
The Secret of Long Life and Electric Bitters Claim
A French scientist links blood health to longevity while Electric Bitters is praised as prolonging life and restoring vitality. A testimonial from W. M. Sherman of Cushing, Maine cites kidney trouble cured by the remedy. Available for 50 cents at E. T. Whitehead Company.
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W. M. Sherman
Cushing
Electric Bitters
E. T. Whitehead Company
Virginia Anti-Saloon League endorses local option in gubernatorial race
Virginia convention endorses Judge Mann's efforts and favors local option over state wide prohibition. Harvard President Eliot touring the South prompts educational discussion. Congressional bills seek higher site costs for Washington building. divorce law changes rejected. White House Conference on Dependent Children backs a Children's Bureau proposal. DeWitt's Little Early Risers advertised.
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Virginia Anti-Saloon League
Norfolk
Legislative Committee
Anti-Saloon League
Virginia
Judge Mann
League
Democratic Party
Republican Party
White House
Congress
Conference Aims to House Children Elsewhere than Asylums
The conference urged placing children in homes rather than asylums wherever possible and called for stronger protection against sickness and accident, reform of child labor, and guaranteed education for dependent children.
A Good Example Blessed Man Passes On
Poem honoring a man who dies with virtue and courage. It speaks of a modest earthly cache, tears at his grave, flowers blooming, and his gentle departure to heaven after a life of toil and steadfastness against deceit envy and hate.
Get to Work and Stand the Storm Anthem
A motivational verse urges action despite dull skies or blue atmosphere. It counsels to endure, work hard, and confront hardship rather than blame fate or landlords. The message frames success as possible through perseverance, not wealth or fame.
Author's evening ends with a chilly reception
In Philadelphia a wife organized an authors evening for fifty guests. The husband stayed home to help but fled to the hall as rooms grew warm. A servant snoozed on the settee and woke to a stern rebuke about listening at the keyhole.
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Philadelphia
Harper’s Magazine
Divorce suit opened over alleged cruelty in marriage
The husband seeks counsel Mr Briefleigh to file for divorce alleging cruelty. He says his wife is not living up to the salary he tries to present to friends, prompting the action per the Chicago Record-Herald.
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Briefleigh
Chicago Record-Herald
Clever Newsboy Turns Jest Into Honest Sales Pitch
A legal writer George Fox Tucker recalls a playful encounter with a newsboy at the Park Street subway entrance. The boy, selling newspapers, quips about hidden pictures and offers a confidential pitch. An advertisement warns against imitation Dewitt's Carbonized Witced Hazel Salve and credits E. T. Whitehead Company as seller.
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George Fox Tucker
Park Street
Exaggerated Begging Letter at Benevolent Society
A beggar’s letter claims a widow mother and needy family while the secretary notes the plea appears exaggerated. The statement highlights inflated hardships used to solicit aid from a benevolent society.
Humorous Quotations and Witty Snatches From 19th Century Papers
A collage of light jests and clipped conversations from various papers. A stammering speaker learns ten lessons to say Jol poppers and a man jokes about a carpet and floor. Other quips cover weather talk, trust saddles, and light dialogue about toads, boxes, and toads.
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Peter Pee
Revolts at Cold Steel and Oddities in Townsfolk
A garbled OCR item recounts a chaotic scene with Mrs. M. B. Fisher of Detroit and references to dubious patent medicines. The fragment hints at public unrest, a sensational anecdote about a baby and a nickel, and mentions Nyenescoi Constipation and Whitehead Co.
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M. B. Fisher
Detroit
Sittoring Frei
King
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