Reading habits of American laborers and a ballot reform bill
A Columbia University study of 1000 workers finds most spend time reading ads and newspapers, showing strong social spirit. A proposed 1916 Nebraska bill by Rep Hutton would restore a party column ballot with columns for top vote getters and a petition column, shortening the ballot and separating Democratic and Populist votes.
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Colubia University
United
Hd Cer
Hutton
Lancaster County
Senate passes immigration bill amid veto talk and expo plans
The immigration bill cleared the Senate by 50 to 7 and moves to conference before a presidential signature. President Wilson is anticipated to veto if foreigners are barred for illiteracy. Also praised is precision in making snowflakes as a metaphor for steady work and care. The Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco plans to showcase major global commerce with over 200 million dollars in construction and 20 million attendees expected next year.
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House of Representatives
United States Senate
Wilson
San Francisco
Club Magazine Titles and Free Pattern Notes
A scan lists various magazine titles and issue numbers including Everyday Life Woman's World CLUB No. 14, People's Popular Monthly Farm Progress CLUB No. 15, Poultry Item Today's free pattern, Farm Life CLUB No. 22, Home Life CLUB No. 23 Vegetable Grower Today's free pattern, CLUB No. 24, Woman's Home Weekly, Rural Weekly St Paul CLUB No. 32, Gentlewoman CLUB No. 33, McCall's with free pattern, Household Guest.
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McCall's
Neo
Woman's World Peoples Popular Monthly
Gentlewoman Club
Hearth and Home Farm Life
Household Magazine Club
American Woman Farm Life Household Guest Club
Farm Life
Household’Magazine Club
Everyday Life
Gentlewoman
Club No. Fancywork Magazine
Woman's World
Farm and Fireside
Woman's World Home Life
Farm and Home Woman's World
Home Life
Prairie Farmer Household Magazine
People’s
Farm Progress Woman's World Club
Club No. 22 Farm, Stock and Home Woman’s World Home Life
Woman's World Farm Life
Woman's Home Weekly
Fancywork Magazine
Kanees City Weekly
Star Farm Life
Gentlewoman Woman's ‘World
St Paul
American Home Woman's World
Gol McCall
Short Lived Republic and Horses In Battle
The piece recounts the brief United States of Central America created by delegates from Nicaragua Honduras and El Salvador with a capital at Nicaragua. It also notes the rapid collapse of the republic and discusses horses returning to camp as a sign of defeat and the Geneva convention extension discussions for animals. A miscellaneous portion includes jokes about hens stopping laying and a stray brakes quip.
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Nicaragua
Salvador
Honduras
United States of Central America
United States of America
Western Hemisphere
Republic
Pearson's Weekly
Widow to Mary Fourth Marriage Knocks at Love
A town woman who has survived three husbands reveals plans to marry a fourth. A friend greets the news with congratulations while the intended bride laments that weddings are fine but she dreads the funerals.
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Ap Lown
Louis
Dispatch
Uplift Plan Falls Apart As Skeptics Rally
A Kansas City Journal cartoon quips that the uplift project backfired as the very people intended to be helped rushed to join the movement. The exchange underscores a collapse of goodwill and the contested outcome of social reform efforts.
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Kansas City Journal
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Waggoner Bros
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L. P. Raymond
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