Women in Suffrage Campaign Trolley Route Upper New York Counties
The suffragists launch a trolley road campaign across upper New York counties led by Mrs Harriet Stanton Blateh with speakers and canvassers including Mrs de Ri vera Mrs Johnston Wood Miss Josephine Casey of Chicago Miss Maud Malone Miss Cook winner of the Woodford prize at Cornell Mine Adelaide H Bird and Miss Helen K Hoy. The tour runs along the trolley line parallel with the New York Central railroad through the Mohawk and Hudson valleys.
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New York State
Harriet Stanton Blateh
de Rivera
Johnston Wood
Josephine Casey
Chicago
Maud Malone
New York
Miss Cook
Cornell University
Adelaide H. Bird
Helen K. Hoy
New York Charter Commission
New York Central
Mohawk
Hudson
Nevada State Police Bill Creates Creation of Force
Referendum proceeds on the 1908 Nevada State Police Act to create a state police force of a superintendent, inspector, sergeants, and 250 reserve officers. The act outlines duties, authority to arrest and quell riots, martial law conditions, salaries, terms of service, and provisions for equipment, offices, and transportation.
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Senate
Assam
Doenact
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Bo Mice
Nevada State
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Nevada Star Police
Army of the United States
Nevada State Police
Congress
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State Board of Capitol Commissioners
Superintendent of Police
Adjutant-General
State
Eixany Inere
Bec
Pollen
Secretary of State
Acta l
W. G. Douglass
Acta
No Place for a Straw Hat and Nevada State Police Act
A fragment from a Nevada piece describes a straw hat anecdote with a famous golfer Tom Morris and a youth dispute over baseball positions. It recounts Tom’s humor about Sundays on golf and a lesson about proper headgear for a swing, followed by a child’s letter reflecting schoolyard social pressures and arranging a new club due to a bully.
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Tom Morris
Tom
Unies
Archie
Harold
Virgil
Sir Richard Arkwright
Franklin
Oliver Cromwell
Aesop
Dickens
Ben Jonson
Last Words of John Quincy Adame
The dramatic death of John Quincy Adama on the floor of the house of congress inspired writers to craft quotable lines. Dr W A Newell of New Jersey, later governor, first tended the stricken man as he sank. He recalled Adams saying this is the end quick, Ite brandy, a version at odds with popular histories.
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John Quincy Adame
John Quincy Adama
House of Congress
W. A. Newell
Congress
New Jersey
Newell
A Life
Adams
Frisky Moor Ride Turns Tension Into Rivalry
In a dark, cold moor journey Laney and William enjoy a flirtatious escape with a hired spirited horse. A muff, a numb wait, and bold touches lead to doubt as the young woman hints at discomfort while William and Sandy become sworn enemies.
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Laney
William
Fardey
Reims
Sandy
Losts with Famous Names in Ocean Steamship Lines
The passage notes steamers of the American line and Atlantic Transport named after Americans. It mentions the Pennsylvania and Amerika with president names, Kalner decks named for U.S. figures, and later vessels President Grant and President Lincoln. The Scandinavian American line also names ships after prominent figures and places such as California.
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United States
Pennsylvania
New York
Hamburg
Roosevelt
Cleveland
Washington
Auguste Yvictoria
Ine
President Grant
President Lincoln
California
Vocation and the private road to one's calling
A quotation attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson on vocation explains that every man has a single open direction. He imagines a man as a ship in a river facing obstructions on all sides except one, where the water is unblocked and leads to an expansive, infinite sea.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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