Problems in a late novel theories of the kidnapped millionaires
Judge Baldwin surveys Adams's book The Kidnaped Millionaires calling it largely a discussion on currency banking and trusts. He notes Morgan Rockefellers and others discuss demonetization of gold rail rebates taxation and proposed government banking and nationalization of industries as remedies for monopoly with cautions on due process and practical feasibility.
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Edward Bellamy
Hfe
New York City
Gulf of Mexico
Palmer J. Morton
J. Pierpont Morgan
Andreas Carmody
Andrew Carnegie
Hiram Haven
William F. Havemeyer
Magrate
Simon Pence
Russell Sage
R. J. Kent
James R. Keene
Rockwell Rockefeller
Sidney Hammond
George Gunton
Morten
J. Pierpont Mortan
Mr. Morgan
United States
England
Bank of England
France
Germany
Russia
Hammond
Rockwell
Morton
Indiana
Commodore Vanderbilt
Billy
Postal Savings and Deposit Banks
Morgans
Rockefellers
Vanderbilts
Frederick A. Adams
Interstate Railroad Commission
Armour
Swift
Rockefeller
Standard Ol
Interstate Railroad ‘Commission
Congress
Chicago
New York
Out of the Ordinary Facts From a Curious Era
A digest of miscellaneous claims including population doubling times, gutta percha demand, sago palm yields, Zulu dress signals, German Chicago presence, Lawton Oklahoma demographics, Kitchener’s Boer War canteen savings, Agriculture Department budgets, heavy gray buzzards, ancient petroleum in Zante, last auk egg in Iceland, Dawson City church salary, Kansas teachers’ ages, Welsh coal disputes, Denmark engagement rings, electricity heating, Abyssinian exports, Fisk Jubilee Singers survivor Ella Sheppard Moore, New York street population, Krupp paper field pieces, Viking tomb finds, and other antiquarian curiosities.
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Chicago
Lawton
O. T
Lord Kitchener
England
South Africa
Agricultural Department
Treasury
Zante
Ionian Islands
Herodotus
British Museum
Iceland
Dawson City
First Methodist Church
James Livingstone
Windsor
Ontario
State of
Kansas
Logan
Rock
Shawnee
South Wales
Miners’ Union
France
Denmark
Abyssinia
Ella Sheppard Moore
Jubilee Singers
Fisk University
Nashville
Europe
America
Queen Victoria
New York
Amsterdam
West End Avenue
Krupp
Goldberg
Norway
Railroad to put wires underground between New York and Philadelphia
Hartford Courant reports the Pennsylvania Railroad will bury its telegraph wires along the New York to Philadelphia line. The move follows weeks of outages after recent storms that crippled the existing system.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Philadelphia
Dreamland Romance in a Pear Tree Tale
A playful, lyrical reminiscence recalls a fantasy romance under a pear tree with imagined voyages and estates in Dreamland, the couple’s vows cut into a tree, and a final note of disbelief as the tale fades. The fragment names Josephine Dodge and McClure's Magazine as context.
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Darling
Josephine Dodge Dasha
Ia McClure
Lent Season Ignored as Prince Henry Visitation Shifts Focus
A cautious read of the era shows Lent’s decline in public religious observance across multiple cities. Prince Henry’s visit draws social attention, easing attendance at weekday services and lowering church influence. The piece notes broader religious trends, Filipino church press growth, and upcoming Winona Bible conference speakers while surveying Catholic Dominican movements and a Cuban Protestant conference. The report closes with a local interjection about a Burns anecdote.
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Indianapolis Journal
New York
Prince Henry
America
Metropolitan Opera House
Philadelphia
Manila
United States
Philippines
Advocate
Northfield
Winona
Moody Center
New England
Middle West
Winona Bible Conference
Indiana Center
Andrew Murray
Johnston Ross
London
F. B. Meyer
Christ Congregational Church
St. Petersburg
George Jackson
Glasgow
James Mursell
Birmingham
John McNeill
Edinburgh
J. Wilbur Chapman
Florida
Cornelius Woelfkin
Brooklyn
Bishop Vincent
Zurich
Pneumonia Threatens Aged Amid March Changes
New York Herald notes pneumonia in the aged often proves fatal this season. It recalls Mr. Frederick D. Tappen dying after a brief attack and Mr. Marquand buried from the same illness. March’s climate shifts threaten the fragile and even robust, detailing lung involvement, crisis phases, and the role of septicaemia in death.
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New York Herald
Frederick D. Tappen
Marquand
Tappen
Literary Conductor’s Drawbacks in a Burns Joke
A trolley conductor bursts into a joke about Robert Burns as he riffs on a streetcar crowd. He teases riders with a rattling tale set in a tavern, noting a blind horse and hay, while the crowd shifts aside for a passing lady in the street.
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Smith Street
Robert Burns
Easy Street
Burns
Atlanta Constitution
Turner's Alley
White's Famous Editorial on Kansas Decline and Money Power
Emporia Gazette notes Kansas gained fewer than 2,000 people in a year while 225,000 families and about 10,006 babies were offset by out-migration. The piece attacks population loss, capital flight, and political figures, contrasting Kansas with neighboring states and railing against reformers, with Bryan's Chicago quote cited. It lampoons Kansas leadership, calls for money power, and asserts Kansas is all right despite decline.
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United States
John B. Clark
J. W. Jenks
Logansport
D. P. Baldwin
Emporia Gazette
Kansas Department of Agriculture
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Colorado
Kansas City
Omaha
Lincoln
St. Louis
Denver
Colorado Springs
Sedalia
Dakotas
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Des Moines
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Timbuctoo
Statehouse
Jay
Washington
John Sherman
Wall Street
Lombard Street
Bryan
Chicago
Cickens
Lease
Take my advice on solitaire habit to engaged friend
A married man warns a friend who is engaged to avoid the solitaire habit, saying it is fatal to domestic happiness. The remark notes the danger in seemingly innocent actions and emphasizes practical advice about relationships.
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Philadelphia Record
Diplomacy and the Great Seal of the United States
Rene Bache explains the State Department's ceremonial letters and the use of the great seal. Since its origin the department requires blue-white paper and elegant script, with communications to foreign powers in multiple languages. Treaties bear the great seal, and seals are safeguarded from imitation.
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Rene Bache
Department of State
Hay
Foret
Ussia
Italy
Holland
Belgium
Germany
Spain
Mr. McKinley
United States
Lincoln anecdote recalled by Jay Cooke in era feature
Alfred Mathews recounts an anecdote about Lincoln told by Jay Cooke. Bates’s hair remained dark while his beard grew white, provoking Lincoln to quip that Bates uses his chin more than his head. The scene features Lincoln, Chase, Bates, and McClellan during a Washington outing to view the Pennsylvania Reserves.
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Alfred Mathews
Jay Cooke
Northern Pacific Railway
Mr. Cooke
Lincoln
Bates
Washington
Tenallytown
Chase
Mr. Bates
McClellan
Pennsylvania
Mr. Hates
Life Reflections on Sun, Spring, and Hope
A poetic meditation on the smallness of life and the weight of dreams. The speaker questions whether seeking light, love, thought, home, and steadfast friends requires denying present peace and reassigning contentment to distant futures. The verse hints at inner conflict between aspiration and current repose.
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Judge Baldwin
Mr. Adams
George M. Pullman
Atlantic
Canadian
Mr. Morton
New Zealand
Morgan
Freenos Co Ee
Hartford Courant
Dreamland
Catholic University
Bunker Hill Road
Brookland
District of Columbia
Kentucky
Ohio
Somerset
Cienfuegos
Cuba
Xux
Episcopal House of Bishops
Christ Church
Cincinnati
Salina
Honolulu
Porto Rico
Mexico
San Francisco
White
Harmon & Hall Wivnen
the Journal
Handbook of
Indianapolis
the Journal Newspaper Co
Indianapolis, Ind
Ting
PSL
E.wash
Stevenson Bld
Martin Wade
S. Meridian
Dianapolis
Matthew Armolé
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