Armistice Declared Ends Political Letter Battles
Secrecy and Missed Publicity fade as President Roosevelt vows no more controversial letters with opponents including Taft Bryan and Hearst. The era of epistolary slugging ends, bringing peace and quiet to national debate while rivals weigh their next moves and old campaign tensions recede.
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Secreary
Loeb
Roosevelt
Taft
Bryan
Haskell
Hearst
Foraker
Mr. Bryan
Mr. Hearst
Jefferson
Jackson
Clay
Kern
White House
Andrew Jackson
Kentucky
Mr. Pattison
Mr. Cosgrove
Hague
500000 Railroad Workers May Strike in Britain
United Press reports a looming strike by about 500,000 railway workers in Britain after a referendum. Unions seek roughly a 26 percent wage rise and shorter hours, with double pay for overtime, risking widespread disruption across many lines.
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United Press
London
Mneland
Trans
United Kingdom
Brogans and Hats Describe Old Fashioned Footwear Styles
A reminiscence notes the brogan as tough durable footwear once common among workers. It describes leather, riveted uppers, and an insole like a horseradish grater after heavy use. The piece also mentions new hat styles with down curving lines, flattened crowns, and low profiles.
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A. N. Oldgtiet
Fiome
Open Shelf System in Public LI Vanishes from Open
A fragmentary poem and prose fragment lament a missing Open Shelf System in public life. The speaker lists vanished literary works from the open shelf and mocks the erasure of classics by unnamed forces. The piece hints at cultural loss and censorship with playful, obscured references.
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Sherlock Ana
Tom
O'En Ieee
Omar
Smithkin
Kasay
Obedience in Childhood a Shifting Moral Compass
The piece argues against rigid obedience teaching children to be quiet replicas. It emphasizes initiative and self reliance, noting excessive parental control harms growth. Examples portray conflicts between Scripture, guidance, and real child understanding, urging balanced, reasoned discipline.
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Miss Muffet
Dolia
Lord Fauntleroy
Hamlet on How to Eat Corn a Burlesque Field Guide
A comic pastiche adapts Hamlet to corn eating, advising nibbling with incisors and steady, moderate chomping. It warns against overdoing to avoid crude showiness and urges matching pace to the ear size while avoiding crass theatrics and risky grips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nature
Dollar Yard Table Linens Revolutionize Home Decor
A Victorian advertisement touts table linen at one dollar a yard, two yards wide with damask patterns and borders. It notes napkins priced at two and three dollars a dozen, with ready hemmed options and similar patterns by the yard.
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America
Special Sale and Showing of Toilet Soaps
A Special Sale and Showing of Toilet Soaps offers assorted cakes and boxes at 25 cents each. Antiseptic Soap, Juniata Soap varieties, French Style, Violet Glycerine, Scotch Soap, and Our Special well milled elderflower oatmeal glycerine soaps are advertised in 25 cent three cake boxes.
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Juniata
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Abel
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Enon
Hisgen
de Bruler
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Salome
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Jessi Duy Partloe
Jimmy
Reginald
Hamlet
Fred Schaefer
Luna Park Natatorium
Walt Water
Men's Shoe Store
First Av
Colman Building
Lona Park
Os Tetay
Union St
Seattle
Gus Brown
Yesler
Kashmir
Dr. Denton
J. A. Baillargeon & Co
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Harry Lauder
Victor Talking
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Tobermary
Killiecrankie
Sherman, Clay & Co
Pacific Coast Distributors
California
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San Francisco
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Bering Moving & Storage
Washington
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Timpahute
Kavanagh Co., Inc
Johnston Bldg
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Seattle-Tacoma
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U. Seeley, Jr
Everett and Edmonds
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