Congress Debates Polygamy and Tobacco Trust Probes
Long roundup of federal actions and political moves includes resolutions by Representative Stanley on tobacco trust and forms of restraint of trade. Senator Platt targets polygamy, while Lincoln era medal proposals surface for surviving volunteers. Court disputes, rail and salt trusts, and other national affairs fill the page with named figures and institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley
Kentucky
Department of Commerce and Labor
Tobacco Trust
American
Continental
Imperial Tobacco Cos
Platt
United States
Lincoln
Senate
Washington
House
Hepburn
Senator Bailey
Interstate Commerce Commission
Trouble in Zion City as Dowie faction clash erupts
At Zion City Sunday crowds of Dowie and Voliva supporters clashed during meetings. John Alexander Dowie accused the overseers of theft and debt avoidance while a guard struggled to restore order. Dowie cited a letter about a healed wife and compared it to a rebel overseer's wife who died, provoking further uproar until the meeting ended in chaos.
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Chicago
John Alexander Dowie
Zion City
Dowie
Voliva
Zion
Gladstone Dowie
Deacon Arrington
Tabernacle
San Francisco wages set for unskilled labor at two fifty
A reconstruction committee in San Francisco adopts a resolution setting wages for public and private unskilled labor at 2.50 for nine hours. Governor Pardee resists haste on special session calls as the committee drafts bills for his recommendation.
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Reconstruction Committee
San Francisco
California
Pardee
Schmitz
Winter Palace
Nicholas
Douma
St. Petersburg
M. Gorky
Gorky
America
Russia
Sam Sime
Lamar Hendricks
Jackson
Miss
Hana
New York
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Holmes
Death of Carl Schurz Darkens New York
Carl Schurz died at 4 30 after his condition worsened Sunday night. Earlier in the day doctors had reported a temporary improvement but a new pulmonary oedema attack left him unconscious and in a most serious state. His family was at his bedside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Carl Schurz
Schurz
Mrs. Jefferson Davis Improves in New York
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, once reported gravely ill in New York, has shown improvement. Jefferson Hays Davis announced the crisis has passed, the physicians see no current danger, and the family will stay with her for two weeks. she turned 80 the previous Monday.
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New York
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Hays Davis
Funerals Held as New York Drivers Reach Wage Victory
More than 200 funerals took place in Greater New York as 1 500 union funeral drivers returned to work after an all night conference. The settlement with the Funeral Coach Owners association gave drivers shorter hours a $2 weekly raise and union recognition.
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New York
Greater
Funeral Coach Owners’ Association
Taft to be guest of honor at manufacturers meeting
Secretary of War Taft will be the guest of honor at the annual convention dinner of the National Association of Manufacturers in New York. Sessions run from May 15 to 17. New York hosts the fiftieth anniversary of the Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in British India celebrated at Carnegie Hall under Women’s Foreign Missionary Society auspices.
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Washington
Taft
National Association of Manufacturers
New York
Foreign Missionary Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church
British India
Carnegie Hall
Women's Foreign Missionary Society
Funeral in Tunis Draws Vast Multinational Gathering
The funeral of Bill Mohammed El Hadji Bey of Tunis was held before a huge crowd of natives and Europeans, with French military and civil authorities in attendance.
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Tunis
Bill Mohammed el Hadji Bey
The Lawn by L. C. Corbett Advice from Farm Bulletin No. 248
The Lawn stresses lawn beauty and usefulness as part of home surroundings. Corbett explains ideal soil as clayey loam, recommends well rotted stable manure for fertility, and suggests a light manure mulch in winter to protect turf and ease spring cleanup. Prairie Farmer summary adapts Arlington station guidance for suburban and rural audiences.
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Department of Agriculture
Farmers’ Bulletin
L. C. Corbett
Arlington Experiment Station
Corbett
literary figures and literary history notes
Percival Gibbon began life as a cabin boy and may become a member of Parliament. Andrew Lang asked Israek Zangwill to participate in a charity author reading and received the laconic reply If Lang will I Langwill. London funded a first edition of Defoe's The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe 1719 edition and its Farther Adventures. Thomas Hardy, as a boy, learned Latin at twelve and French at fifteen from a governess after his mother gave him Dryden. Bliss Perry is named to Harvard’s English professorship long vacant since 1866, once held by Ticknor Longfellow and Lowell. Lafcadio Hearn lives in New Orleans writing amid a crowded creole home with many pets and plants.
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Percival Gibbon
M. P
Andrew Lang
Israek Zangwill
Lang
Langwill
London
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Thomas Hardy
Dryden
Bliss Perry
The
Atlantic Monthly
Harvard College
George Ticknor
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
James Russell Lowell
Lafcadio Hearn
New Orleans
Depths of Wordsworth's Eyes Linked to Walking Pains
The piece cites De Quincey on how stomach state changes eye depth and sweetness. It notes Wordsworth's eyes grow solemn and spiritual after a long walk, with a light described as coming from depth below all depth, a light beyond ordinary sight.
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Emergon
de Quincey
Wordsworth
The Old Morning Glory
The old fashioned morning glory remains a popular quick growing vine valued for foliage and flowers in white blue and red. Florists have improved it recently but it remains easy to cultivate and enhances summer and autumn displays at home.
Baked Rhubarb And Its Spring Digestion Use
Rhubarb is recommended for early spring indigestion. Bake rather than stew for tenderness. Peel and cut the stalks, dust with sugar, and cook in a cool oven without water. When cold, serve in patty shells tartlets or a lined bowl with macaroons.
Cleaning Bottles With Salt and Vinegar
A practical tip advises cleaning bedroom water bottles and wine decanters with a dense spoonful of rough salt moistened with vinegar and shaken well to remove stains. This method emphasizes salt abrasion and vinegar acidity for stain removal.
Protect the Trees: Veneer Shields Against Pests
The text urges protecting trees in summer and winter. It notes tree veneer as the protective work and guard against pests including borers mice and rabbits. The wording emphasizes veneer as a defense measure across seasons.
Floating Facts from a bygone era
Facts compiled include Bank of England note production costs, Church of England income, inhabited islands in the Indian Ocean, Japanese migration to Hawaii, Mount Blanc watch timing, light travel, Nile rainfall, parliamentary attendance, piano wood aging, British treasure losses en route to India, and drowning as a leading accidental killer.
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Bank of England
Church of England
Indian Ocean
Hawaiian Islands
Pacific
Mount Blanc
Nile
England
India
Stray Statistics Across Life and World Figures
A collection of miscellaneous facts cites life sickness at about ten days per year, a diamond wedding rarity at over 11,000 couples, population by race in British Africa, and density figures for continents. It notes hens lay 300 to 500 eggs, France aging 60 plus residents at 123 per 1000, long underwater cable totals and laying costs, plus global population density comparisons in Europe Asia Africa and Australasia.
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Africa
Europe
Asia
Australasia
France
England
Germany
Preparing to Get Even in Lippincott’s Magazine
A character declares, I wish to adopt a girl, not a child but a girl with energy and perseverance and piano experience. He jokes about adopting two musical prodigies to get even with the people in the next flat, asserting the plan despite the odd motive.
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Lippincott’s Magazine
His Own Business Anecdote Told by John Graham Brooks
A neighborhood lad answers a quiz about his father with concise wit. When asked what his father knows, the boy replies that he knows his own business and nothing else, a sharp deflection reflecting practical wisdom.
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John Graham Brooks
Transformations in Coffee Abstinence and Postum Use
An advertisement compares quitting coffee to stopping alcohol or tobacco, claiming Postum Food Coffee offers better flavor when well boiled with cream. It asserts a ten to fourteen day body transformation as caffeine’s nerve irritation ends and nourishes with a “squid” beverage, urging readers to try Postum.
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Circuit Court
District Attorney’s Office
Mutual Life Insurance Co
Criminal Courts
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Francis T
William M
Robert 8
G. B. Ingraham
International Salt Co
Salt Trust
Oliver C. Talbot
Bridge Trust
Franklin County
Niles
Alexis Pavelich Ignatieff
Kieff
Standard Oil Co
Kansas City
Edwin S. Greenfield
Harrison Snyder & Son
Philadelphia
Greenfield
Lake Erie
Algeria
Iron Queen
Cuyahoga River
Martin Eben
George Walton
Moody
Circuit Court of the United
Harvard
East River
Brooklyn Bridge
Cleveland
Kate
Mariana
Duke
Vesuvius
Pompeii
Ottajano
Somma
Charities and Corrections
Minneapolis
Electric Properties Co
John F. Wallace
Panama Canal
Edward J. Edwards
Max Friedman
Eatate
Joseph M. Dixon
H. P. Ashe
Stephen Carr
Pittsburg
Gosta Soe
Holy Cross Cemetery
Maiden
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Roosevelt
John Mitchell
Anthracite Miners’ Union
Church Association For the Advancement of the Interests of Labor
Women’s Relief Corps
Abbie Adams
New York City
St. Paul
Paper Trust
General Paper Co
Maj
Frank Huntoon
Court of Chancery
New Jersey
Pitney
James B. Duke
Willie Hoppe
Louis Cure
Hoppe
Jake Schaefer
William H. Lewis
Monon Railroad
Big Pine Lumber Co
Colfax
House of Lords
Order of B'nai B’rith
Terre Haute
Ind
John Hay
Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Edwin
Holmes, Jr
Agricultural Department
Fairbanks
M. E. Church South
Birmingham
Ala
Francis Burton Harrison
Long Island
Federal
Enterprise National Bank
Allegheny
Brio Railroad
Teouinad
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