Carrier Pigeons Key to Naval Dispatches Across Seas
The article notes France Italy and Britain use carrier pigeons for military messages and cites experiments from the Monongahela voyage to Paris newspaper tests. It discusses pigeons aiding Cuba communications, Key West cables, and potential wartime roles for American and allied navies.
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France
Italy
Key West
Marion
Naval War College
Candia
Venice
St. Mark's
Paris
Loulon
Corsica
Mediterranean
Algiers
Marseilles
England
United States Navy
Spain
Walter Wellman
Boycott and Black List Compared by Kansas City Times
The Kansas City Times argues the boycott is a legitimate corrective measure unlike the black list which enforces punishment. It condemns entangled editorials claiming boycott and blacklisting are identical and urges recognizing labor demands as generally fair and subject to arbitration. It equates blacklisting to a universal door shut and the boycott to a negotiated remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKinley
United States
Chicago
Cain
Chicago Journal
Kansas City Times
Crewees
Kinney
Dodd
Prosperity for trusts and monopolies in the tariff era
A Chicago Dispatch summary notes the Dingley tariff fueling trust growth with large capitalized combines in nails machinery enamelware beer cotton hose tinware rubber goods and more. It asserts prices will rise and questions Congress delays on curb measures while public officials seek higher pay amid wage-cut pressures in New Hampshire mills.
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Republican Party
McKinley
Machinery
Cotton Hose Trust
Biscuit Trust
Rubber Goods Trust
Standard Oil
Congress
Chicago Dispatch
New Hampshire
Manchester
United Solidly Through Shared Leaders and Ratios
The text reflects on unity under shared leadership and gold standard ideals. It contrasts current questions about ratios with earlier Revolutionary forefathers' cohesion, pondering what the nation would be without their solidarity.
Debates and a rescue ending in tragedy in London
Cyril Graves, a rising political figure, faces personal ruin as his ex wife confronts him in his chambers. After a heated argument, she attempts to return to his life, while Graves contemplates marriage, wealth, and power. On the embankment a police officer warns him away, leading to Graves diving to save his estranged wife, only to drown himself in a dramatic twist of fate.
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Cyril Graves
Graves
Bertha
Cyril
London
House of Commons
Tie
Bee
Toad Cays
The Cleveland Lawyer and the Narrow Escape Tale
A Cleveland lawyer loves to tease his wife with tall stories of danger. He claims a near miss with a moving motor car, then jokes that fate may catch up with him while the wife and readers laugh at his flippant bravado.
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Cleveland
Jove
George
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Massorah and the Authorized Hebrew Bible
The oldest Hebrew manuscript dates to the tenth century in St Petersburg. Over 2,000 copies show few variations due to strict scribal rules. Vowel signs were introduced to fix pronunciation, transforming the Hebrew text and standardizing the Bible under the Tiberias rabbis.
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St. Petersburg
College of Rabbis of
Tiberias
Euphrates
Women Talkers and Men in Conversation
The piece argues women excel at sustaining talk, turning ordinary subjects into social nourishment. It notes men loosened by passion speak more freely, but women often charm with continuous chatter about nothing, leaving listeners pleasantly refreshed though with few takeaways.
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Ech
New York
Ltage
Theatrical Manager Quips Over Pay and Sidelong Silhouettes
A garbled historical fragment shows a theatrical manager and a newly engaged performer debating payment terms. The dialogue hints at backstage tensions and performative humor amid uncertain schedules.
The Aristocracy of Wealth Debated in Detroit Journal
A Detroit Journal piece notes Mamima and the De Smiths claim wealth superiority while criticizing tax assessments. The suburb residence is valued at 485 times real value versus 228 times for the De Smiths.
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Mamima
de Smiths
Detroit Journal
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Lieutenant Knight
Navy
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Naval Academy
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Normandy
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Isle
the Funny Man
Magnolia
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Earth
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Gates
Cilper’ & Fates
Law
Munn & Co
Scientific American
F St
Washington, D. C
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Wrest
Department of the Interior
Ottawa
Canada
Im. V. McInnes
Merrill Block
Detroit, Mich
D. Cavem
J. Crieves
Reed City, Mich
South Bend Remedy Co
South Bend, Indiana
P. K’s
E. B. Miller
Penang
Dr Price
Clara
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