Edwards to Brigadier General Chief Insular Affairs
Col Edwards, long head of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, is slated for brigadier general as Congress considers elevating the bureau to cabinet level. He has served in the Philippines, aided Secretaries Root and Taft, and is known for energy and trusted guidance on insular matters. The piece also highlights swamp drainage plans led by Rep Steenerson to reclaim vast swamp lands across multiple states, funding recovery through low per acre costs.
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Philippines
Hawaii
Porto Rico
Col. Edwards
Lawton
Root
Taft
Gol. Edwards
Steenerson
Minnesota
United States
Kankakee River
Indiana
Illinois
Florida
Everglades
New Jersey
Virginia
Michigan
Iowa
Reform in the Consular Service and American Appointment Policy
A bill to reorganize the consular service, eliminate fees, and improve personnel is near passage. It would adopt civil service methods for future appointments, promote from lower grades, and push for Americans to fill vice and deputy roles across many consulates and agencies. A Barratt address cites that one third of consulates have non American vice or deputy consuls and nine of eleven commercial agencies have no resident Americans.
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Congress
Root
Civil Service Commission
Barratt
Irrigation Revival Among Desert Lands Attracts Attention
An article recalls renewed interest in irrigating western desert tracts, turning arid fields productive. It notes Indian delegates at a boarding house for Seneecas led by Chief Andrew John, detailing Seneca legends and intertribal storytelling during winters at a New York setting.
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B. F. Beveridge
Mr. Beveridge
Virginia
Andrew John
United States
John
New York
Piebald cannibal race in Mr Pratt’s New Guinea notes
The London Mirror excerpt recounts A. E. Pratt’s view of New Guinea as largely unexplored. It describes the hostile terrain, dependence on native guides for movement, and a piebald people with pinkish body patches. One man displayed unusually light coloring and hair like a European.
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A. E. Pratt
London Mirror
Papua
Mr. Pratt
Africa
New Guinea
Great Britain
Germany
Netherlands
Commercial travelers in Austria face tax rules and firm risks
The article notes that Austrian tax rules treat traveling salesmen as regular tradesmen even without fixed offices. It explains agents demand contributions and warehouse costs, favor well known firms, and warns American companies struggle to hire. It describes Austrian travelers as diligent, temperate, mostly third class railway riders, with drinkers losing respect.
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Austria
Vienna
Prague
Bohemia
Dunbar's Sunday School Crown Joke
An editor recalls Paul Lawrence Dunbar addressing a New York Sunday school. At the end he joked about a future gold crown, prompting a quip from a boy who says his father already wears one, on his roof. The tale highlights Dunbar’s warm humor.
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Paul Lawrence Dunbar
New York
Dunbar
What the Woman Thought in Society Circles
A brief salon scene notes whispers about a new social star. Two men question her sense of humor while a woman quips about her teeth, and the chat quietly fades.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Kidney Trouble Causes Back Aches and Pain Relief
Col R. H. Harrison of Lake Charles Louisiana credits Dean's Kidney Pills with curing his kidney and back pains after a horseback kick led to chronic rheumatism. He reports relief after using the product and recommends it, noting he has been well for two years. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Harrison
Common St
Lake Charles
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Husbands for Sale Dream Gaffe Echoes City Street
A New York wife awoke in tears from a dream in which a warehouse displayed a placard reading Husbands for Sale. She recounted prices from $1500 for beautiful husbands to ten cents per bunch, leaving her husband to wonder if any resembled him.
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New York City
Harper’s Magazine
Broadway
Running Sores on Limbs Prompt Household Treatment
Mrs Lizzie Vincent Thomas of Fairmount Walden's Ridge Tennessee relates that after a prominent physician failed to help a child with eczema she used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills. Within six weeks the running sores disappeared and have not recurred, saving travel and medical costs.
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Lizzie Vincent Thomas
Fairmount
Walden’s Ridge
Tenn
No quotes on death banter in Chicago Chronicle
A Chicago Chronicle opinion mocks euthanasia proponents and death abolitionists by proposing separating them into rival groups then pitting them in a football style brawl to settle their disputes.
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Chicago Chronicle
Knicker and Becker Debate Reformer Spellings
The New York Sun quotes Knicker as a reformer who backs simple spelling and phonetic reform. Becker asserts that a person who stays out of politics cannot condemn political corruption.
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Becker
N. Y. Sun
A Child Leaves Home for Pirates Then Returns
Jim, a ten year old with an adventurous streak, runs away to join buccaneers but is thwarted by rain and hunger. He returns home late to a muted, silent welcome from his family, while a cat offers quiet company. The anecdote contrasts with James Branch Cabell’s playful account of his writing oddities.
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Jim
James Branch Cabell
Mr. Cabell
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