Money and Politics in Campaign Financing Debate
Congress faces a clash over banning corporate political contributions and taxing patent medicines to fill a deficit. Lawmakers debate revenue options as patent medicine firms vow to resist new taxes claiming their alcohol already bears taxes. The deficit, about five million dollars monthly, could push further revenue measures and prompt votes on corporate campaign payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Treasury
Internal. Revenue
New York the parasite and the heart of national life
An editorial contrasts New York City with rural America, arguing cities depend on open country for labor, resources, and money. It portrays the city as a stage for commerce while noting the country sustains Wall Street, industry, and urban demand through agriculture, production, and out-of-town buyers.
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J. T1i
Great Northern Railroad
New York
Wien
Chicayzo
St. Louis
John H. Girdner
New York City
Alen
Wen
Wall Street
United States
Western Hemisphere
Merchants Association of New York
Aerchants Association
Madison Square
Stock Exchange
Belasco’s Theatre War: Trust Foes Rally Against Indomitable Producer
David Belasco leads an anti trust coalition against the theatrical combine led by the Shubert brothers and Erlanger. He battles to secure Washington control with a near 25 000 fire proof conversion at Convention Hall and seeks early production of Adren.
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David Telasco
Theatrical Trust
Minnie Maddern Fiske
Harrison Grey Fiske
The
Dramatic Mirror
Shubert Brothers
Kim and
Erlanger
Theatre Trust
Belhseo
Varrison Grey Fiske
John C. Fisher
Frank L. Per
Wis
Lafayette
Washington
Seward
Linevin
Lincoln
Blerne
David Brelasea
National Capital
Tle
Lessie Carters
New York
Belasco
District of Columbia
Trust
Convention Hall
Theatrical Combine
Environment Shapes a Child Amid Urban Dread and Grief
A narrator recalls seeing boys study a theatre poster showing graphic violence while younger kids splash in dirty canal water and eat cigar stubs. The piece laments urban childhoods trapped by poverty and cites memories of pastoral landscapes as guardian to the human spirit.
Prehistoric Stone Head Exhibited From Moriches Field
An crude stone head found in a Moriches field on Long Island is on exhibit. Ethnologists call it a near natural representation of a savage prehistoric people with small brain development and jutting jaws, illustrating primitive man’s condition.
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Moriches
Long Island
Fortunes in Church Steeples Debate Overspending
Rev. Dr. Forbes of the Methodist Episcopal Church urges that money spent on church steeples could be used to pay national church debts. He argues steeples are wasteful relics, while others defend their grace and beauty enriching towns and inspiring people.
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Seweeiomn
L Ikely
Centre
Las Averto
TIN Steel Gertsim
Dr. Forbes
Board of Extension
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Worse Than Tobacco Cigarettes In London Vices Rise
London faces a new vice described as the ten leaf cigarette habit where women lead in adoption. Reported effects include dizziness and fevered cravings for imagined objects, with sufferers described as exhausted, stupefied, and entering a dreamlike state similar to narcotics.
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London
Wullstiot
Mary Washington Monument History in Fredericksburg
The Mary Washington Monument stands on Fredericksburg’s western edge near Marye’s Heights. It honors George Washington’s mother who died August 25 1789 and whose grave long lay unprotected until 1830 when Silas E Burroughs offered a monument plan that failed. In 1889 women formed a society and funded the marble marker on land housing her remains.
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Mary Washington
George Washington
Fredericksburg
Virginia
Marye
Betty Washington
New York
Silas E. Burroughs
Andrew Jackson
Burroughs
Mary Washington Monument Association
Washington
Dining with Balzac Reveals Subtle Madness Test
A French clinician Esquirol posed a student with two dinner guests to test sanity. The quiet, well dressed man appeared sane yet believed himself a god, while the other, noisy and conceited, was Balzac. Esquirol declared Balzac sane while the apparent lunatic was in fact the celebrated writer.
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Esquirol
Onj
God
M. Hono de Balzac
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Chand
Plavemeyer
Enlia Haa Dal
W. EL Chandler
A. T. Stewart
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Trpoage
Yervk
Mati
Tha Ciey
Mediius
David and Goliah
Combine
Blancth Bates
H. S. Bigelow
Mary
Balzac
Ernest
Haskell
Eugene P. Lyle, Jr
John Dinwiddie Driscoll
Maximilian
Mexico
Jacqueline
St. Louis Republic
N. Y. Times Saturday Review
N. Y. Globe
Doubleday, Page & CO
East 16Th St
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