Free, Anyhow on Budget Battles and National Insurance
A writer links efforts to elect anti Payne Aldrich congressmen with praise for the People's Budget and Lloyd George plans. Discussion covers unemployment and sickness insurance, old age pensions loosened pauper disqualification, and austerity measures alongside praise for independence from Britain. Taft, Hammond, and Guggenheim are cited in a tour remark.
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Payne-Aldrich
England
Lloyd- George
Germany
Lloyd-George
Aldrich
Trusts
Yale Grants First Honorary MA to Jane Addams
Yale University awarded an honorary Master of Arts to Jane Addams of Hull House, Chicago. The decision broke precedent by conferring the honor on a woman, highlighting Addams as a leading figure in social reform and settlement work.
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Yale University
Jane Addams
Hull House
Yale
Miss Addams
Chicago
Rotten water foulness near Green Lake fire house
A reader condemns the stench from green frog spawn near the Green Lake fire house. The sanitary inspector reported repeated issues to the board of health, urging action to clean up the front yard.
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Denmark
Green Lake
Board of Health
Cannon Patrollers Train Against Insurgents in Kansas
The article notes the stand patters trained on intrenchments in Kansas produce a noise like a popgun. Perjury is defined as intending to vote for Poindexter in the republican primaries per the Post Intelligencer.
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Kansas
Post Intelligencer
Poindexter
Timber Legislation Overflow Signals Below Standard
Legislative timber output is unusually large with much of it failing to meet standard requirements. Officials note volume exceeds typical measures and may complicate review. Analysts call for tighter screening and clearer criteria to ensure compliance and timely processing.
Community calls for action against typhoid risk
The Green Lake Gazette urges residents to curse the city fathers and board of health to abate a nuisance endangering public health and risking typhoid fever. The plea stresses city liability and collective responsibility for cleanup.
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Board of Health
Green Lake
Teddy takes the stump in political refrain
Bam's J. Lewis writes in the Denver Post about Teddy delivering speeches that energize reformers and common folks, promising reform, opposition from grafters, and a wave of change against trusts and corruption.
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Fur Willy
Teddy
Bam
J. Lewis
Denver Post
T. R. In Vaudeville at London Music Hall
A Cockney vaudeville act stars T. R. Roosevelt parodying Teddy with a foil and comic exchanges about running a business. Mrs. Jims previews a revolving hat as a gag, while Mrs. Time poses a reformer marriage joke.
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T. R
Teddy
Roosevelt
Mrs. Jims
King County Candidates Open Field for Prosecution Post
King County politics show efforts to recruit another candidate for the Republican nomination for prosecuting attorney. Several lawyers were approached, but none shown interest. Other notes cover direct primary reforms, cost-saving election logistics, and upcoming party events including a North Side Republican club meeting and a banquet for former Missouri Governor Folk.
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P. C. Leonard
King County Democratic Club
John W. Folk
Missouri
Folk
United Cigar Stores Company
Bailey Building
Seattle Commercial Club
King County
Democratic Club
Miscellaneous Quips and Facts From a Turbulent Era
A collage of quotes and notes covers diverse topics from politics to poetry. It cites strikes and social change in England, a steamship link to Lisbon, and sunlit trivia on schooling in Argentina and salt deposits in Michigan. The note blends humor, history, and observations on public figures.
Pointed Paragraphs on Optimism and Experience
A compact critique of optimism born from inexperience. The passage suggests the man who pays as he goes rarely exceeds limits and notes the worm turns too late for escape. It lampoons a person who embraces evil for happiness and hints at social folly and self-serving behavior.
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New York State
Old Columbia
Cheers Street
College Place
Harriman
Two-Minute Vaudeville by Fred Schaeffer
Comic exchange centers on courtship misadventures with Elberta the girl. A suitor boasts of loyalty and jokes about proposing to Elberta while the father answers with humor about his daughter. The rapid banter plays on wedding talk and social misreads.
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Fred Schaeffer
Elberta
Scott
Remarkable Gatlin Cure of Longtime Drunkard Osborn
David S. Osborn, aged about ninety two, credits the Gatlin Institute with curing his seventy two years of liquor drinking in three days. He recounts a life of opportunity lost to alcohol and advocates the treatment for others, noting the Tacoma Gatlin Institute and local contact details.
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Osborn
New York
Chicago
Des Moines
St. Kerry
Denver
David
David Osborn
Gatlin
Gatlin Institute
Dixon
David S. Osborn
Thn Institute
Queen Anne Ave
Wash
Queen Anne
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Brooklyn
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Newfoundland
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