Gossip of the Capital Chair Who Can Size Up “Little Jokers”
Washington dispatch notes Joseph G Cannon will appoint a post offices and post roads chair who can spot graft and grafter. Aspirants abound as reformers warn of department influence on legislation. Cannon jokes about taking the job himself while critics cite post office scandal fallout and calls for tighter scrutiny.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
House of Representatives
Post Office Department
Joseph G. Cannon
Post Office
Hoar
Congress
Payne
Patent Office
Uncle Joe
Pete
Jim
Mr. Cannnon
Joe” Cannon
Danville
Cannon
Yale’s brightest student and a veteran political overview
Frederick Pierce, once a poor farm lad, rose to Yale with self support and prizes, earning respect as the university’s brightest. The piece touches on Octobers in Congress, Bowen’s Venezuela diplomacy, and Roosevelt’s Civil Service Commission plans, recalling Bowen’s blunt diplomacy and potential ambassadorial paths, plus party balance in the commission and a past football star considered for service.
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Frederick Pierce
Yale University
Yale
A. W. Cooley
Westchester
N. Y
United States Civil Service Commission
Henry F. Green
Duluth
John R. Proctor
Kentucky
Roosevelt
Greene
James R. Garfield
J. Adam Bere
Civil Service Commission
Pudge’ Heffelfinger
Heffelfinger
Minnesota
Washington
J. EB. M
The Tired Flock
A nocturnal roadside procession of sheep moves slowly under trees as dawn nears. Two silent herders flank the flock along the street while bleats rise into the night air, the sheep headed to their fate, described with pastoral imagery and quiet awe.
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Ohio
Wordworth
Elizabeth Nunemacher
Booker T. Washington invited to South Africa by British South African Company
Philadelphia Ledger reports the British South African Company invited Booker T. Washington to visit South Africa to study racial conditions and report plans for native uplift. Washington declined, choosing to continue his work in the United States. His Tuskegee Institute creed emphasizes education, industry, and uplift through practical arts to empower the Negro race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Ledger
Booker T. Washington
South Africa
Africa
South African Company
Virginia
Washington
Emerson
In Travail of Soul Hoosiers Got Religion at Camp Meetings
The article traces the rise of camp meetings from their wartime origins to revival methods, noting the Quaker beginnings in Indiana, early evangelists, and the shift from altar-only services to singing, night meetings, and organized tents. It recounts Henry Clay's dramatic Cambridge revival tale and the Cambridge minister from New York, plus the Farley Camp in Indiana and the Union tent in Louisville.
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Union Gospel
Milton H. Lyon
Farley Camp
Farley
Indianapolis
T. A. Goodwin
Quaker Church
John Henry Douglass
Robert
Amos Kinworthy
David Apdegraph
James Jones
Friends
Jane Jones
Walnut Ridge
Henry County
Indiana
Levi White
Trinity Congregational Church
Cambridge
White
Cam
Mr. White
New York
Henry Clay
Kentucky
Clay
H. B. Bascum
Methodist Church
Bascum
Mr. Bascum
John the Baptist
Dr. Boole
J.S. Inskip
J. A. McDonald
Philadelphia
E. Hammond
Washington, D. C
New Theory of Prairie Floods
A Chicago Inter Ocean correspondent from Iowa proposes a theory on Western floods. He argues the prairie once absorbed rains like a sponge, with natural drainage from sod land and sags. Now sod is turned to fields, marshes ditched, furrows and straight roads accelerate drainage, altering flood patterns.
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Prairie States
Pittsburg
Iowa
Chicago Inter Ocean
Prarie States
Tragedy of a Little Shop on West Sixty sixth Street
Miss Catharine Ryan, a shopkeeper in a small boulevard corner store, ends her life after subway excavations isolate the shop and ruin finances. Her sister remains, the shop closes, and neighbors start a subscription to keep the business alive.
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New York Evening Sun
Subway
Catharine Ryan
West Sixty-sixth Street
Misses Ryan
Upper Boulevard
Marie Antoinette
Franklin-square Library
Ryan
Bme
New York
Pyans
Catherine Ryan
Miss van
Albert Keene
Miss Ryan
Leaf Cutting Bees and Their Cell Construction
June St Nicholas explains that leaf cutting bees resemble honey and bumble bees. They derive their name from observed leaf pieces cut for cells. Circular leaf pieces seal cell ends while oblong pieces form the sides.
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St. Nicholas
Dave Tha
Historic Old Washington Houses Told In Tales Of Power And Crime
Special to the Indianapolis Journal describes Washington landmarks linked to Lincoln’s era. Surratt House Octagon House and Sickles mansion are cited for tragedies and intrigues, with notes on Dolly Madison, Key, Stanton, and other figures. The essay traces Foggy Bottom’s rise and mentions Lincoln relics museum sites.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Surratt
Abraham Lincoln
Sickles
Capitol Hill
White House
Potomac
Pennsylvania Avenue
President Madison
Dolly Madison
Key
Phil Barton Key
Lafayette Square
Daniel Sickles
Bickles
Edward M. Stanton
Lincoln
Stanton
Webster
Don Cameron
United States
Pennsylvania
Mark Hanna
Henry C. Payne
Francis Scott Key
Surratt House
Wilkes Booth
Paine
Association
Roosevelt
March of Progress
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EB. H. Driggs
Driggs
Loud
California
Mr. Loud
Henry A. Machen
August William Machen
Association of Civil-Service Reformers
Pere
Jed
Illinois Statesman
Herbert W. Bowen
Venezuela
Bowen
Baron Speck von Sternberg
Michael Herbert
Germany
Great Britain
Mexico
Powell Clayton
Kansas
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