Editorial on Tucson license reform and national trust issues
A Tucson editorial urges prompt action by the license committee on a high license ordinance and calls for mayoral scheduling of a special council meeting. It critiques Republican trust policy, warns against deception before elections, and notes figures like Platt Roosevelt Morgan and Baldwin addressing national matters.
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Tucson
Messrs. Reid, Buehman and Barkley
Schumacher
Buehman
Republican humbug on beef trust prosecutions
Opinion seethes at Roosevelt era DOJ actions against the beef trust. The piece accuses Republicans of political manipulation, notes high meat prices persist, and claims stock raisers oppose federal measures while trusts push to tighten market control and manipulate livestock reports. It links trust power to party success over eight years.
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Republican Party
Chicago Packers
Department of Justice
Beef Trust
German philanthropist offers prizes for marrying the ugliest women
A German philanthropist starts a charity offering yearly prizes to men who marry Haschmann’s ugliest women and to those who wed women over 40 who were jilted. The top prize pays $80 to the husband of the ugliest girl, with no stated rewards for middle-aged women. The piece muses on motives and the possibility of a romance behind the scheme.
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Haschmann
Graphophone Proposed as Campaign Orator in Missouri
A Holt County Missouri Republican editorial advocates using the graphophone as a political party orator in the fall campaign. The device would reduce speech costs and prevent indiscreet remarks by recording and replaying a great spellbinder's speech.
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Holt County
Missouri
Graphophone speech plans mock politics and beef trust talk
A humorous notice imagines delivering a graphophone speech from headquarters with no expenses or protests. It questions audience interest and belief in the talking device while noting a beef trust injunction tweaks and attorney general Knox's involvement.
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Express
Beef ‘Trust
Knox
The Gostly Pension Roll
Congress fights death with pension expansion as veteran rolls rise. Experts predict declines but lawmakers added 10 000 names last session and 40 000 deaths may occur next year. Roosevelt invited to umpire rough riders tournament in Colorado. Congress expected to keep pensions full.
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Congress
Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Colorado
Watterson names Parker as presidential candidate
Henry Watterson designates Judge Alton H. Parker of New York for the presidency. The remark implies the party will follow its own will despite Watterson’s choice or opposition, noting some parties are stubborn and headstrong at times.
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Henry Watterson
Alton H. Parker
New York
Watterson
Endowment Critics Question Library Gifts Amid Cost of Living Talks
A hustling worker questions the value of charity endowments for libraries when the cost of living rises beyond 1885 levels. The piece argues education access is more important than lavish grants by wealthy magnates.
Quay Vanishes Off Atlantic City in Calm Seas
A fisherman named Matt Quay was swept out to sea Sunday near Atlantic City in a small boat. The narrative notes the sea calmed instantly after the incident, framing the event as a cautionary Sabbath tale rather than a tragic accident.
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Matt Quay
Atlantic City
Aeolus
Beliefs About the Rainbow Across Cultures and Myths
The text surveys diverse beliefs about the rainbow as a water conduit. It notes Russia, Den country, and Moscow call it a bent water pipe or cloud siphon, while Slavonic languages use similar terms. Malayans link it to a double headed watersnake with love, and Russian regions claim wells are drained or controlled by angels to manage rain.
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Russia
Den
Moscow
Hay
Charkov
Saratov
Max O Reill advises on wife, wealth, and age in love
The excerpt presents Max O Reill’s humorous guidance on marriage and romance. It suggests a man should marry a partner younger and less wealthy, be taller, and maintain authority while playing multiple roles from friend to protector.
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Max O'Rell
Weather Tales and Portsmouth Harbor Echoes
A London weather vignette sets the Strand as rain pours and mud swamps. A Parsee passenger and conductor exchange a joke about sun worship. The piece shifts to Portsmouth Harbor tracing its historic role from Roman times to Henry I and Richard the Lionheart, noting a long naval presence and early ship departures.
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London
The
Manchester Guardian
Strand Omnibus
Victoria
Portsmouth
England
Portchester
Portus Magnus
Henry I
Richard Coeur de Lion
London Globe
West Scotland town council buys a piano for town hall
The western Scotland town council, lacking musical expertise, hires three members to inspect the new town hall piano. A joiner notes the instrument looks plumb but admits not being a judge of music. A joke about beards and judgments closes the report.
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Scotland
Teacher asks for definition of impression
A teacher asks students to define an impression. A small boy answers that an impression is a dent in a soft spot, illustrating the concept in simple terms.
Painfully Honest Dueling Dialog on Love and Consent
A terse exchange contrasts a puritan stance with a flirtatious response about refusing a man after separation from his fiancée. The dialogue uses the rack as a symbol of torture and compares it to a music rack, implying modern misuse of a past instrument.
A London Actor Repeats Entire Daily Advertiser
William Lyon, a London actor from the late 18th century, boasted he could recite every word of a Daily Advertiser at morning rehearsal. He proved them wrong by flawlessly repeating the entire paper from start to finish despite the varied content.
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William Lyon
London
Lyon
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Tucson Citizen
Citizen Printing and Publishing Co
Associated Press
Arizona
Oyster Bay
Platt
Baldwin
North Pole
Norway
International Oil Trust
Morgan
Pierpont Morgan
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Mississippi
Gostly
Philadelphia Record
AU Revoir
Washington Star
Granny
Papa
Hostetter
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