Tariff Fight Sparks Broad Political Battle over Cotton Goods
The article argues that tariff increases favored by Aldrich Lodge and allies would raise duties on cotton goods, boosting mill profits and dividends while harming consumers. It notes 1907 dividends at several Massachusetts mills and warns of a historic political clash as voters learn the truth behind tariff shifts and industry benefits. It also touches on local topics from Dayton celebrations to railroad crime and brewing politics.
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Republican Party
Lodge
Aldrisch
Dolliver
Aldrich
Crane
Acush‘net
New Bedford
Mass
City Manufacturing Co
Dartmouth Manufacturing Co
Massachusetts
Fall River
Newspaper Snippets Across Papers On Politics And Society
A collage of clipped quotes from multiple newspapers lampoons politics and social topics. Notes reference Roosevelt Africa Taft umpire Wellman and various misprints, with streams of satirical commentary on republicans democrats and public discourse.
Mrs Rodgers Testifies About Son After Rat Poison Incident
Mrs Lucy Rodgers of Fiesavo Hue testifies her son Frank Rodgers formerly of this city claimed to have killed his friend Daniel W. Wil ham at Lina on a Saturday. She said he had taken rat poison in a personal crisis two years ago and described his mental state as troubled. Rodgers himself testified later that day claiming his demeanor was altered after drinking and a strange behavior at the time of the murder.
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Lucy Mu
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Lina
Frank Rodgers
Daniel W. Wilham
Helle Porter
Jett
Maloney
Russell
New Orleans
Armenians Still Facing Dangers Amid Turbulent Adana Aftermath
Dispatches from Beirut and Constantinople describe ongoing peril for Armenians in Adana and wider region. Reports cite famine relief efforts, government failures, and massacres, with thousands displaced and international aid forming to address hunger, disease, and refugee needs.
Poor Billiards Story From The Country Tavern
A fragment recounts an amateur billiardist and companion seeking shelter from a storm in a tavern. They find a patched table, crooked cues, and three white balls indistinguishable at first, until the landlord suggests they can be told apart by shape. The anecdote ends with a note about language roots.
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Globe-Democrat
June 7 in American History Through Time
Key dates include 1765 first American congress called by Massachusetts assembly, 1776 Richard Henry Lee offers resolutions for independence, 1880 John Brougham a long favored Irish actor and author dies, 1803 Edwin Booth the tragedian dies. Astronomical notes list Moon and Sun times with events.
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Massachusetts
Richard Henry Lee
Continental Congress
Colonies
John Brougham
Edwin Booth
Genius Rewarded By A Schoolmaster's Moral Lesson
A London Globe item recounts a schoolmaster who, despite not being famed for looks, caught a pupil drawing caricatures. The master seized the drawing and asked in a thunderous tone if it was meant for him. The boy, trembling, pleaded innocence. The master destroyed the caricature and closed the matter quietly.
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Tlondon Globe
Thought It Was a Proposal Keene Cab Stand Near London
A London Spare Moments item describes a humorous scene where a lady distributes tracts near a cab stand. A bystander, Indy or Indy-like, reads a tract titled Abide with me and leaves hastily, while a bystander jokes about manners. The cabby enjoys the amusement.
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Keene
London
Calby
Anya
Indy
Cabby
Heard In the Barber Shop In Town
A barber boasts the lowest charges while a client examines a lacerated chin in the shop. The exchange hints at a casual, social moment captured in a newspaper’s human interest style.
Puzzlers for Teachers Prepared by State School Commission
A fragment from a training question set for teachers and public schools. Questions test geography, climate, minerals, trade winds, empire geography, canal locations, and international trade items. Includes items on the German Empire, Nile and Ganges regions, and sources of various goods.
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Labrador
Ptites
United States
German Empire
Erie Canal
Kiel Canal
Manchester Ship Canal
Welland Cann
Nile
Ganges
Inez
London
St. Petersburg
Genoa
Theory and Practice in Teachers Institute Questions
A list of discussion prompts on education theory from a teachers' institute including benefits of attendance, development order in children, classroom activities, stress on model solutions, differences in graded versus ungraded schools, laws of attention, old versus new education, familiarity with state laws, and grounds for certificate revocation.
Arithmetic word problems from a 19th century exercise set
A set of arithmetic problems covers profit calculation on soap sales, geometry utility for teachers, volume of a water tank in gallons, railroad stock value for desired income, teaching primary objects, trapezoid farm dimensions, work rate with extra workers, and a girl’s investment growth to age 21. Several questions include age, rates, measurements, and reciprocal concepts with brief notes on invention and writing quality.
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Annalysia
Orthography tasks and text corrections exercise
The prompt presents spelling challenges and requests antonyms for listed words, plus notes on letter doubling and forming derivatives. It includes examples like victuals assence syenight and phrases about petty transcription errors and word formation. The text appears as a practice worksheet or exercise within a 19th or early 20th century educational context.
Fragmentary OCR: scattered odd terms and misspellings
The text presents a jumble of misread words including names and adjectives such as Rees Lewemeat Inttivn florid and several near legal or political terms. It shows no coherent narrative or clearly identifiable event or person.
United States History Concepts and Civil Government Review
Examines the territorial grants to the London Company and Plymouth Company, compares early Siam settlers with modern immigrants, asks about the Ohio Company and its impact in colonial conflicts, contrasts British and American colonial political theories, inquires about systems in political life, and lists notable Civil War figures, Hawaiian annexation, Ohio state offices, cabinet members, and congressional adjournment limits.
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London Company
Plymouth Company
Lounle
Siam
Ohio Company
Bernetween
Great Bertain
Ohio
Uriate Aeta Congress
Prominent Topics in Early American Literature Study
The passage prompts exploration of early American writing origins from the Puritan era to the Revolutionary period, notes on the “tenth muse” and female poets, contrasts between Irving and modern tales, and the place of poetry, history, and biography in literature. It also lists figures like Milton, Carlyle, and Darwin for comparative study and asks for classroom strategies to foster a love of literature in young students.
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New England
Aner Amer
Snow
Irving
Rte
John Milton
Thomas Carlyle
Hve
de Malparsant
Horace Mann
Hana Christing Andersen
Ane Hume
Kate Douglas
Charles Darwin
Wat Whitman
Lady Iry Wortley Montagu
Samual
Grammar exercises on syntax and grammar rules
The text presents a grammar exercise set with many errors and questions about sentence parts, clauses, modifiers, infinitives, verb forms, adjectives and adverbs, prepositions, participles, and physiological terms. It requests analysis of subjects predicates, relative clauses, modifiers, verb forms, comparisons, and parts of speech.
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