Penrose exposed as corrupt fraternity across state politics
A fervent indictment profiles Penrose and allies as a twenty year machine of corruption in Pennsylvania. It accuses them of serving big business, liquor influenc e and monopolies, while sidelining the people with bribes, salary grabs, and electoral manipulation.
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Rs of
Penrose, Barnes and Company
Congress
Penrose
Pennsylvania
United States Congress
Senate
Standard Oil Company
Bill Lorimer
United States Senate
Chicago
Barnes and Lorimer
Archbald
Smoot
Tammany Hall
State Capitol
Republican Party
Political slate listing local and state office candidates
United States Senator Gifford Pinchot from Pike County appears with Governor William Draper Lewis of Philadelphia and Lieutenant Governor Percy S. Smith of Allegheny County. Also named are Fred E. Lewis secretary of Internal Affairs from Lehigh County Willis J. Hulings representing Oil City Venango County Joseph H. Defrees Warren John G. Smith Warren George B. Munn Warren and others as state and local election participants.
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Gifford Pinchot
Pike County
Fred E. Lewis
Lehigh County
Bright Prospects Ahead for Railways and Farm Trade
The Washington Post reports optimistic forecasts from railway managers west of the Mississippi. They predict higher tonnage of farm produces will require more cars, motive power, workers, steel rails, and supporting materials, benefiting farmers and the broader economy.
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Mississippi River
Canada Line
Gulf
Mexican
United States
Washington Post
Editors and the Unwritten Rule of News
A Western exchange notes editors know many truths they refrain from printing. They can guess who indulges in vice and who cheats, yet publish only news safe for home reading. This policy, though debated, keeps editors long lived and content in their work.
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Law
Humanity
Everyday Whoppers and Quick Quips from Columbia State
A readers’ column quotes a series of brief items and remarks from the Columbia State, including lines about marriage, theatre seating, manners, sobriety, circuses, a political candidacy, newspaper trust, smoking prohibition, and a roadside speed limit. The snippets capture local wit and everyday sayings.
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Columbia State
Roosevelt travels with full manuscript for Brazilian Wilderness serial
Colonel Roosevelt carried the complete copy reprint and unpublished chapters of Through the Brazilian Wilderness on his Europe trip. He revised the work from start to finish focusing on the Unknown River. Scribner's will publish the volume in fall after the magazine serial ends in Scribner's Magazine. He appeared before the Royal Geographical Society in London, silencing critics and prompting an apology from a harsh reviewer.
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Roosevelt
Europe
Scribner's
Scribner’s Magazine
Royal Geographical Society
London
Warren Mail Readers Sign Up for Local News
Residents are urged to subscribe to the Warren Mail as the county’s leading newspaper, promising comprehensive local coverage and updates on community events, government, and social happenings.
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Warren Mail
County
Fiery furnace trio kept their calm in heat
A Chicago Tribune verse recalls Shadrach Meshach and Abednego facing the fiery furnace with no complaint. They endured the extreme heat without fuss, fear, or visible distress, showing serenity amid danger.
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Shadrach
Fiery Furnace Fame
Chicago Tribune
Pay Up or Suffer, The Newspaper Man’s Dilemma
The writer compares a farmer selling 1 000 bushels of wheat to debtors paying slowly. Each delayed payment erodes the farmer’s cash flow and threatens his business, just as a newspaper man faces similar financial strain when readers delay or avoid paying. Prompt payment would enable smooth operation.
June in Washington Star: June’s paradox and tension
A poem notes June’s beauty and blossoms while warning that the month brings grave temptations and hostile acts. It contrasts lyrical praise with threats of embargoes, lethal cargoes, and barricades, reflecting political strain in the capital.
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Washington Star
Reform talk on eight hour day at international chambers
A writer questions where people were at 24 o clock and considers reform proposals to the International Chamber of Commerce. The piece argues eight hour work days could end by noon if the reform were adopted.
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International Chambers of Commerce
Paris
Washington Star
William F. Gude
Chamber of Commerce
Gude
Mr. Gude
Alfred Georg
Switzerland
William Willitt
London
Maud
Statewide petty items and oddities report
A long list of short notices from across Pennsylvania includes rats killing 32 prize chickens in Bath, a Hazleton man fined $30 for assault, Alderman Bressler of Lancaster gravely ill, St Johns church in Shenandoah granting Rev John Schneider a year abroad study leave, and other local incidents. Also features a humorous Paris docks clock reform discussion, horticulture tips for pruning roses, labor clock debates, and various small town mishaps and accidents with ages and places named.
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Stanley Kevinsky
Hazleton
Alderman Bressler
Lancaster
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Shenandoah
John Schneider
John Boney
Bangor
American Bangor Slate Company
Tamaqua
Panther Creek Valley
Woman urged to run for Congress from Colorado
Reports say suffragists press Mrs. J. J. Brown to enter the Colorado congressional race. She plans to return to Denver in September, aligning with primaries, as supporters push the movement to crown her “the lady from Colorado.”
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Colorado
Congress
Newport
I. I
J. J. Brown
Surgeon Corrects Clubfoot in Five Year Old At Washington Hospital
Five year old William Aver ill of near Oxford North Carolina underwent a major operation by Dr. A R Shands at a Washington Emergency hospital. Doctors cut ligaments separated tendons and realigned bones in both feet to correct clubbed feet. After extensive plaster casts and antiseptic care the child awoke cheerful and began a rapid recovery with improved mobility.
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William Averill
Oxford
N. C
Washington
A. R. Shands
Representative William G Sharp of Ohio Named Ambassador to France
Representative William G Sharp, ranking Democratic member of the Ohio delegation, is a wealthy Elyria manufacturer and lawyer aged fifty five. He and his twin brother George, known as Big Gib and Little Gib, attended Elyria public schools. He will succeed Myron Herrick as ambassador to France after supporting Judson Harmon earlier and then backing President Wilson.
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William G. Sharp
Ohio
Wilson
France
Elyria
George
Sharp
Lorain
Myron T. Herrick
Cleveland
Judson Harmon
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