Review of a Week's Events in Home and Foreign News
A wide digest notes congressional tax proposals for a permanent investment fund to develop waterways, Roosevelt's annual message and political positioning, and numerous international and domestic incidents. Highlights include royal succession after Oscar II's death, fires, murders, embezzlement cases, mine disasters, and aviation and rail news from the era.
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United Sates
House
Acheson
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
Congress
Aldrich
Crane
Senate
Opportune Wont Stop Keeps Moving Toward the Top
A Detroit Free Press line urges relentless effort to climb despite obstacles. A humorous contrast to Paris fashion warns of thinness as relief for suffering. Short quips from Life and Chicago Record Herald close with a wry joke about fading hair and loss.
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Paris
Puck
Chicago Record- Herald
Quotable Exchanges From Life and Light Humor
A collage of clipped gags and quips from Chicago News and Life magazine jokes. Lines feature a typist’s remark about a cold typewriter, a housekeeper and Jane on finger-bowls, a bank run joke, a disillusioned couple in bridgedom, and a palmist predicting money with a straight flush.
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Jane
Cleveland
Razor Health Care Harsh Department Store Sting
A comic skit shows Mrs Whitegoods collapsing with a broken arm after bargain day rush. A floorwalker directs her to hospital on the thirty second floor and prompts her to step into the razor in a sharp satirical jab.
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Library
Mas
Tron Bed
Oscar II
Sweden
Stockholm
Gustave V
Boston
Mary Joubert
Charles Joubert
Emilie Joubert
William Stewart
East Iola
Kan
W. H. Creviston
Dornay
Edward W. T. Stewart
Robert B. Riell
Joseph H. Outhwaite
Ohio
Columbus
Grant
Taft
Cuxhaven
New York
Boulogne
Plymouth
J. Dalzell Brown
San Francisco
California Safe Deposit & Trust Company
W. J. Bartnett
Banking Company
Folkestone
Lilian Wulff
Chicago
Parmalee Prentice
John D. Rockefeller
Elihu Root, Jr
Alicia Stryker
Stryker
Hamilton College
Clinton
Marcellus Hopkins
Sounh Side
Louisa M. Taft
Secretary of War
Milbury
Mass
Helena
Mont
Hayashi
Tokio
United States
Canada
Theodore P. Shonts
Toledo, St. Louis & Western Railroad Company
Chicago & Alton
Jeffrey
Hrbeck
University of Nebraska
B. W. Harney
Butte
Gov
Sparks
Goldfield
Mine Owners' Association
Bryce
England
America
George F. Porter
Minneapolis
Stella M. Blethen
Joseph
Floyd Randall
Ernest Doutelle
Flint
Mich
Flint River
Consolidation Coal Company
Baltimore
Monongah
Carling
St. Paul
David Bradley & Co
Council Bluffs
Richardson
Mason and Hare
Chihuahua
James Bartlett Hammond
Hammond Typewriter Company
George A. Pettibone
Frank Steunenberg
Boise
Idaho
Mary Stet
Altoona
William L. Geary
Army General Hospital
Presidio, San Francisco
Louisiana
Secretary of the Treasury
Southwest Bridge Company
Joplin
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Pittsburg
State Bank
Admire
Bank of Stotesbury
Stotesbury
National Bank of Commerce of
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D. H. Perry
Salt Lake City
Utah
Los Angeles
Cal
Oklahoma Senate
Pskov
Russia
St. Marys
Maryland, Delaware & Virginia Railroad Company
Hallowing Point
Patuxent River
Maryland
Topeka
H. H. Tucker, Jr
Uncle Sam Oil Company
Tucker
Rice Hall
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Gottlieb Voegels
la Salle
Tartar
Mlle
Arzheffskala
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Japan
Antonio Thompson
Sion
Marie
St. Louis
Philander ©. Knox
Washington
Detroit Free Press
Trust
Chicago News
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