Hiram Johnson and California Progressives Stand For Popular Rights
The piece lauds Hiram Johnson as a pure reformer risking everything for the people of California. It criticizes Taft loyalists and allied papers while praising Johnson for calling a special legislative session to let Californians choose their president candidate. It portrays Johnson as loyal to the progressives and dedicated to restoring political power to the people, denouncing Taft as a nostrum.
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Johnson
California
San Diego Union
San Francisco Call
Los Angeles Times
Taft
Hiram Johnson
Lapin
M. Howard Taft
Observations on Seattle costs and city wealth critique
The note claims King County spent under 5000 to catch those responsible for Seattle's shame and argues no social program is worth neglecting welfare. It contends millionaires have not built a great city and that more wealth concentrates poverty rather than prosperity.
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King County
Seattle
Confused Impressions in a Hunting Trip Sketch
A humorous dialogue features Mr. De Gunner mistaking a deer for a party member and asking it for a cigar. Other bits pun on wealth and theater, with lines about Smith and Bubbubs reflecting social contrasts.
Clergyman Hears Poor Quarter Reform Tale
A New York clergyman interested in charity listens as a woman boasts of her husband Mike's new job. She explains he is "boring wormholes in antique furniture" in a humorous misstatement, revealing a misheard or mistaken occupation. The exchange appears in the New York Herald.
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New York
Mike
New York Herald
Newsy and the Foolish Question
A street scene unfolds with a boy selling papers and a sharp old lady challenging him. The boy boasts that he owns a steam yacht and an automobile while selling items for charity, exposing bravado and humor.
One Way Willie on Stopping the Divorce Evil
Humorous quip from Puck on social attitudes toward divorce. Gillie argues it can be halted by making it fashionable, while the interlocutor reflects on a failing automobile as a metaphor for disappointment. The exchange showcases early 20th century humor about marriage and public opinion.
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Willie
Gillie
Puck
Stage Onstage Lines Echo Society Drama Snag
A staging note circulates among theater folks with witty exchanges about casting a modest part and a butler’s role. The scene hints at romance and social intrigue as a country resort affair unfolds with letters surfacing after a return home.
Woman of the Field and the Game of Life
A humorous Harper's Weekly exchange portrays a baseball player asking a girl to sign for life, joking that his offer depends on her batting average and capacity for home runs. The playful dialogue reflects social views of sport and romance in a late 19th century tone.
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Harper’s Weekly
Fair Elections Advocate Notes Personal Bias
A quoted exchange from a Baltimore American snippet references fair elections and a personal preference for blonde effects, illustrating editorial tone and cultural commentary.
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Baltimore
Quips and Quips Across Papers In One Read
A collage of jokes and spoof headlines from Detroit Free Press St Louis Post-Dispatch and others features a field quail hunter farmer humor about entertainers old maids and a barber tale. The snippets showcase light gossip and satire in vintage newspaper style.
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Farmer
Quail Hunter
Scott
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Lotion to Improve Complexions Promoted in Ad
A vintage ad touts spurmax lotion as a beauty aid for clear skin. It instructs dissolving 4 ounces spurmax in half a pint hot water and 2 teaspoon glycerine, noting witch hazel speeds drying. The lotion supposedly reduces pimples and oiliness, leaving a soft velvety complexion that remains invisible and non rub-off.
The World’s Best Limerick Revived Features Cheery Verses
A fragmented clipping presents a mix of limericks and quips about poultry farming, Home life, and social satire. It references JOSH WISE SEZ on chicken farming by mail, a soprano Anna, a tenor, and remarks on crime, politics, and the high cost of living. The tone is satirical and lighthearted.
Seattle businesswoman starts movement to make schoolhouses polling places
Miss Stovel, a Seattle advertising worker and leader in the Woman's Commercial Club, urges using schoolhouses as regular polling places in Washington. She argues schools are practical, accessible centers that would reduce poll locations and remind the public of suffrage rights, drawing on her rural teaching and farming background in Idaho.
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Seattle
Business Woman
Washington
Woman's Commercial Club
Mies Jean Brovel
Elvic Center
Miss Stovel
Idaho
New Plymouth Colony
Boise
Miss Browel
Chicago
Sacramento
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Beeleyeport
Hiome
Anna
Congress
O'Gorman
Mise Stove
Jean Stovel
The
Wonder Millinery
Second Avenue
Paris
Quaker Drug Co
Sre
Faber
Eeeee
Ovegeveus
Krause
Escar
John Orderlys
Waterbury's
Foley
Kilmer
Gilhooley
Waterbury
Quaker Drug Company
First Avenue
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Pike Street
Westlake Boulevard
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