My Lady Nicotine and nicotine’s long shadow on history
A wide essay on tobacco’s cultural impact traces My Lady Nicotine from early curiosities through medical debates and social attitudes. It surveys origins in the Americas and Europe, classic and modern figures who praised or opposed smoking, and statistics on production, tax, and consumption shaping 19th and early 20th century life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bulwer-Lytton
Kipling
Mark Twain
Lucy Page Gaston
Nicotine
America
George Arents, Jr
New York
Island
San Salvador
Gonzalo Hernandez de Oviedo
Historia General de Las Indias
Ile
Cuba
Tobago
Oviedo
Virginia
France
Europe
Sir Walter Raleigh
England
Paradoxical Profit From Swiss Exchange Case
In 1916 a Baden man jailed in Switzerland for smuggling was released on 6000 francs bail costing 9600 marks. After a long case he was fined 3000 francs and received 1700 francs as costs, which he swapped for 24000 marks, netting 16500 marks in profit. A Swiss brewery tale follows as another exchange absurdity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pge
Baden
Switzerland
London Morning Post Notes Beer Bottles Labeled with Kroner
A London Morning Post remark questions the practicality of labeling beer bottles with Austrian kroner notes as an economical idea. The brief hints at monetary labeling and potential cost considerations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Morning Post
Plutarch on Hatred and Its Spread Across Relations
A quotation notes that harboring hate toward enemies corrupts the mind and gradually spreads to friends and indifferent people. It warns that hate can become a habit that harms entire relationships and character.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plutarch
Three Orders of Beings by Ruskin
A compact contemplation on three classes of people: the sordid and selfish who feel nothing, the refined yet passive who see and feel without acting, and the highest who lose self in resolve and work. The passage laments vulgar selfishness and careless intellect obstructing noble work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruskin
Save the Redwoods Move Spurs National Park Idea
Washington notes report a House resolution seeking study of creating a Sequoia redwood national park in California. Debate touches jurisdiction between Interior and Agriculture over parks and forest reserves. The push for preservation grows with Sequoia National Park expanding to Roosevelt and the Save the Redwoods League forming nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Walsh
Speaker
Secretary of the Interior
Mr. Lea
California
Department of Agriculture
Lea
Massachusetts
New England
Sequoia National Park
Roosevelt
Redwoods National Park
Save the Redwoods League
Senators Human Beings After All Nicknames In The Senate
Washington reporters nicknamed U S senators as lively shorthand for public figures. Hitch cock becomes Hitchy Koo and Lodge yields Cabbage while others such as Polonius Sweetheart and The Boy Orator remain undisclosed. Various appellations reflect wit and character, with Owen as Oconostota and Nelson as King Canute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Washington
Quince
Josiah Quintus Bobb
Massylvania
Senate Press Gallery
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Lodge
Massachusetts
Hitchy-Koo
Cabot
Polonius
Old Veterans Prove Age Is No Barrier To Achievement
A letter from Civil War veteran John W. Riley cites aged figures and names such as Comrade W. E. Bayne, Uncle Joe Cannon, Titian, Michael Angelo, Joseph Jefferson, Whittier, Bryant, Humboldt, Galileo, Commodore Vanderbilt, and Henry Watterson to argue that the elderly remain capable. The Pleasant Hill post meeting of Dan W. Williams Post No. 369 in the Grand Army of the Republic shows 17 members averaging 81 years 9 months attendance 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aror Thomas
Colorado
John W. Riley
Dayton
W. E. Bayne
Grand Army of the Republic
Joe’ Cannon
Titian
Lepanto
Michael Angelo
Joseph Jefferson
Rip van Winkle
Whittier and
Bryant
Humboldt
Kosmos
Galileo
Commodore Vanderbilt
Henry Watterson
Pleasant Hill
Dan W. Willams
Grand Army
Dewey House on Rhode Island Avenue Becomes Store
The landmark at 1747 Rhode Island avenue once gifted to Admiral Dewey is sold from the Dewey family and converted into a store. Mrs. Francis Pitney of New Jersey holds the dismantling permit, with deed transfer from Mildred Dewey and George Dewey earlier this year. Admiral Dewey died January 16, 191% amid public tribute and a historic subscription drive.
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Rhode Island Avenue
Admiral George Dewey
Francis Pitney
New Jersey
John Ballantyne Pitney
Supreme Court
Mahlon H. Pitney
Pitney
John R
Mildred McLean Waren
Admiral Dewey
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Nicotinhe
Kentucky
Urban VIII
Innocent XI
Amuret IV
James I
Anti-Cigarette League of America
Lady Nicotine
Spenser
Byron
Lamb
Carolinas
Tennessee
Hans
the Lord
Our Shepherd
Ezek
Christ
God
Ly Lady Nicotine
Psal
Atfleld O7
Lac
Waltar
PLE
John Dickinson Sherman
Lidicy Pace
Gaston
BP. B. Fitzwater
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
U. S
Hog Eye
Owen
Oklahoma
Doc
Maryland
Atlas” Pomerene
Ohio
Atlee
Hiram Johnson
Marshall
Reed Smoot
Utah
Asie I. Gronna
North Dakota
Dewey
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