Express carriers threaten parcels post fate in congress
The Philadelphia North American editorial urges readers to oppose express company power and defend parcels post. It cites high mail rates and international agreements, warns of House hearings, and argues a 1 cent letter rate would finance beltway moves to kill parcels post while urging voters to break party lines.
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North American Tt
Worth Reading
Express
Congress
Committee On Post Offices
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C
Express Companies
Postal Department
Jey
Good Thing-Push It Along Mass Massachusett Savings Scheme
Massachusetts is promoting a savings bank Insurance Scheme two years old. Four thousand two hundred workers have insured for a total of 1.75 million dollars as the plan grows. Boston stenographers, five thousand strong, seek sick and death benefits with state actuary and medical officer support. Banks run the scheme at cost, with no solicitors and an organizer moving between employers. Ordinary insurance costs 40 cents per dollar. this plan uses 16.3 cents, reflecting social aims and broad adoption.
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Massacusetts
Boston
Gene Green
Green
the Orpheum
Zenobia
Chicago
Oscar Hammerstein
Gene
Niice
Death Valley
Moss
Oscar
Hammerstein's
New York
Orpheum
Secret of $1,600 from portrait of Day sparks inquiry
Ex Secretary of State Root tells a congressional committee that John Hay alone knew where the $1,600 went for the portrait of Secretary of State Day now Supreme Court Justice Day. Hay is dead, and the ex official hints Day may be questioned to reveal the truth.
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Secretary of State Day
Supreme Court Justice
Random Facts From History And Folklore
A collage of historical notes and curiosities covering colonial debts and settlement, exclusive hotels for Black people, delicate glass fibers, Peter Minuit and Manhattan, the wolf fish odor, Los Angeles political jokes, Taft weight, Puritans banishment, La Rue fortunes, aviation feats, Bradford’s Almanac suppression, US erosion and canal race.
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Peter Minuit
Manhattan Island
New York
Angeles
Vacation Money At The Seashore And At Home
A playful exchange highlights vacation spending as Judge Lindsey recalls a Albany suffrage address. A satire on graft accusations follows, with references to a tramp in Denver and workers offered in town. A joke about wedding bills ends the snippet.
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Ben DB. Lindsey
Albany
Denver
New York Tribune
Bringing the Offer Up to Date
A brief exchange features a commitment line and a casual response in a conversational moment. The dialogue hints at devotion and confirms the other party’s acknowledgment.
Almost a Country Trip and Other Short Funny Snippets
A collage of light humorous lines from newspapers including a couplet about a country trip replaced by a backyard breakfast of hard belted eggs and canned goods, social climbing remarks, a Venice Bridge of Sighs query, stock trading wire phrasing, table manners jokes, a phonograph romance, jury questions, and a laundry wagon service expansion to South Seattle, South Park and Georgetown.
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Washington Star
A Well Bred DQG and Diverse Snippets
A collage of quirky notes from a newspaper page recounts a naval coal record, migration rounds to the Northwest, and oddities from New York police to Canadian births. The item also jokes about June brides, schoolyard umpires, and Roosevelt reciprocity, with references to Erin Sinclair and other improvised vignettes.
Hatpin Mishap and War Talk Gallery
A crowded car scene ends with a jostling hatpin mishap as a maid reassures a man that two eyes are now the fashion. Dialogue on hatpins for women and men’s war urges follows, punctuated by a boy’s comic note about his grandmother’s death and a harp joke.
Books Bring Quiet Comfort Amid Wet Weather
A reader anecdote notes that books offer solace even when the world is damp and rivers run high. The passage hints at seasonal wetness affecting daily life and leisure activities.
Dance Pawns and a Nuclear Tale
A young man returns from the West unable to find work and reveals pawn tickets still attached to his coat and trousers. His mother, helping him unpack, asks what kind of dance earned the tickets, prompting the man’s sheepish confession about a coat check incident reported in the Saturday Post.
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John
Saturday Post
Beared by the Bleat of a Few Sheep
The speaker notes that wool is used by nearly everyone yet raised by only a small group of 92 million, criticizing Democrats for not repealing the wool tax to spare the many from the burden carried by a few sheep growers. Bryan is quoted on the issue.
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Bryan
Killing Them Off in Class Display
A teacher tries to impress students with population figures and makes a crude joke about China. A boy nearby imitates breathing hard and blurts that he is killing Chinamen, adding he does not like them. This crude remark appears in National Monthly.
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Sdina
Shi
China
National Monthly
Swissco Hair Remedy Promises Quick Results
Advertises Swissco for falling hair and scalp issues with claims of gray hair thinning and eye and beard problems. Offers 25 cent trial bottle prepaid by mail to Swissco Hall Remedy Co. Cincinnati Ohio with a request for name and address plus 5 cents for packaging.
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Swissco Hall Remedy Co
Cincinnati
Ohio
Foreign capital eyes Mount Baker mining near Seattle
Engineers representing British Columbia and Los Angeles investors plan a June 15 inspection tour of Mount Baker Gold Copper and Tin Mining Company properties ten miles east of Glacier near the Canadian border. They seek a block of 30 000 shares at up to 2 dollars, signaling renewed Northwest mining interest. Samples of ore are available at 210 The Waldorf in Seattle.
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British Columbia
Los Angeles
Seattle
Mount Baker Gold, Copper and Tin Mining Company
International Boundary
Glacier
Bellingham Bay
George l. Thompson
Mount Baker
Prentice
Kf, I Prentice
Occidental Investment and Development Company
Vancouver
Mount Baker Company
Washington
Mount Baker Quadrangle
United States Geological Survey
Interior Department
United States
Waldorf
Seventh Ave
Pike St
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