Tuesday’s Election Signals Republican Collapse and Roosevelts Loss
The piece argues Tuesday’s results show national discontent with Taft and tariff policies, denounces Aldrich Cannon Ballinger and party oligarchy, notes Roosevelt's defeat in New York as proof insurgent aims failed when he compromised. It asserts the public now rules government, highlighting the broader anti tariff landslide and its impact beyond prices.
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Taft
Aldrich
Tawney
Cannon
New York State
Roosevelt
Col
Ballinger
Oyster Bay
Plutocrats Implicate in Los Angeles Explosion Case
After weeks of coastal suspense the Kate located at Acapulco Mexico and three suspects arrested. They were framed as anarchists who blew up the Los Angeles Times but turned out to be plutocrats including a fleeing LA bank cashier. unions suspect deeper ties to power interests.
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Pacific Ocean
Kate
Acapulco
Mex
Los Angeles Times
State Department
Washington
Los Angeles
Slavery and Decline by Herbert Knox Smith
Herbert Knox Smith argues that fifty major U S ports lack public waterfront control with railroads owning terminals. He cites only San Francisco and New Orleans as publicly controlled, while railroads dominate most ports. The New Orleans Picayune warns that cities under railroad grip of land and sea shipping fall into decline.
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Herbert Knox Smith
United States
San Francisco
Newew Orleans
Panama Canal
New Orleans Picayune
Fragmented Observations on Public Figures and Policy
A string of disjointed sentences mocks political figures and policy moves. It references Mexico, Dr Crippen, Champ Clark, a million dollar city hall, tariff revisions, Teddy Roosevelt, Auburn drys, Thanksgiving turkey protests, and recall petitions in a fragmented, satirical tone.
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Teddy
Intimate correspondence on Taft Panama trip and canal tolls
Washington November 2 1910 Dear Dad: Taft plans a Panama voyage to settle canal tolls and questions whether the trip costs count against his travel allowance. The letter notes critics, Norton briefings on economy, cabinet delays, and Hitchcock’s push to fund the post office with a parcels tax. Sincerely.
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Washington
D. C
Taft
Panama
Pape's Diapepsin Promises Fast Stomach Relief
An advertisement urges families to stock Pape's Diapepsin for indigestion. It claims relief in five minutes, prevents sour risings, belching, gas, and heartburn, and says a 60 cent case cures most chronic dyspepsia with no stomach odor leftovers.
Scarmody House Gas and Town Whimsy Distilled
A terse humorous fragment contrasts the gas powered Scarmody hotel with Hi Hempseed who never heard of gas and leaves town to die by gas. It then muses on famous names and a quirky Hat of essentials taxed, ending with a joke about a cow eating grass and a billed lawnmower.
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Scarmody
Hi Hempaeed
Life Story of Victor Berger First Socialist Congressman
Milwaukee in 1910 profile of Victor L Berger the first socialist congressman in America. From middle class Austrian roots to Milwaukee editor and organizer, his life spans poverty radicalism and political triumph with Debs, the Sozialdemokratie and the Milwaukee Wahrheit. Berger built a powerful socialist network and led a city sweep as alderman at large in 1910 while marrying Meta Schlichting and raising three children. He advocated public ownership rather than confiscation of trusts and valued a fine private library coveted by Wisconsin.
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Herger
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Socialist Labor Party
The
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Socialist Party
Milwaukee Wahrheit
Social Democratic Herald
Kerger
University of Wisconsin
Meta Schuichting
Mies Schlichting
Star Dust and Global Trade Inquiries
Star Dust notes Josh Wise on Fridemush wife needing shoes if Sam quits drinking. Reports US import value 148,379,907 and export 131,956,157 in August. Contemplates railway population effects on a village and a Amsterdam department store with London store misfit. Germany foodstuffs imports exceed 120,000,000. Nova Scotia moose licenses set at 30 with one moose limit. Sweden earned 192,000 from state telegraphs and telephones.
Raising Canaries for Market in Bradford England
Consul Augustus F. E. Ingram reports about Bradford weavers turning canary breeding into a profitable home industry. He cites about 1,000 breeders in the city, a worker profiting up to $400 per season, prize birds worth $75 or more, and 30 branches of the Yorkshire Union of Cage Bird Societies with 1,200 members.
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England
Augustus FE. Ingram
State Department
Washington
Yorkshire Union of Cage Bird Societies
Vatch. OSGAR UND ADOLF Comic Exchange
A fragmentary cartoon caption shows two characters named Ongar and Adolf in a quizzical dialogue about a box of corn salve and a pocket watch. The text imitates a parody dialect with simple questions and responses.
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Adolf
Ongar
No Merry Go Rounds For Chinese Children
An elderly Shanghai merry-go-round, installed about a decade ago, has been sold for forted sale after failing to pay. Consul General Amos P. Wilder notes Chinese children prefer not to ride. Circuses tour the Orient but abandon their merry-go-rounds in inland China.
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Amos P. Wilder
Orient
China
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