Great Congress of Peace Workers Held in Chicago
The sec ond National Peace Congress opened in Chicago with about 25 000 attendees from many nations. Notable figures included Paul S Reinsch and Jane Addams as speakers, while Taft and Secretary Bryan did not attend. Delegates urged arbitration and international law as paths to universal peace.
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Great Congress OF Peace Workers
Chicago
America
Taft
Pean
Congress
Schurman
Cornell University
Jenkins Lloyd Jones
Emil G. Hirsch
Robert Treat Paine
Boston
Dickinson
Hamilton Club
Charles S. Deneen
Fred A. Busse
A. Eugene Bartlett
Benjamin F. Trueblood
The
American Peace Society
Trueblood
Organized
Peace Party
International Peace Bureau
Berne
Switzerland
International Peace Congress
Carnegie Hall
New York
Mohonk Lake
London
Peace Society of
City of
Peace Society
Hague Court
International Court of Arbitration
Arbitration Court
the Hague
Root
Senate
W.P. Rogers
Cincinnati Law School
Hirsch
Paul S. Reinsch
University of Wisconsin
H. T. Kealing
Nashville, Tenn
David Starr Jordan
Leland Stanford, Jr
University
Music Hall
Jane Addams
Joseph B. Burtt
Graham Taylor
Chicago Commons
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Commerce
George R. Roberts
Commercial National Bank of Chicago
Women and Peace
Ellen M. Henrotin
Belton Gilreath
Birmingham
Ala
W. A. Mahoney
Columbus
James Arbuckle
Spain
Colombia
St. Louis
Marcus M. Marks
National Association of Clothiers
New York City
Philip N. Moore
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Lucia Ames Mead
Mead
Great Britain
Germany
United States
Washington
Jefferson
Franklin
Republic
International Tribunal
Movement For International Justice
Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff
Herman de Lagercrantz
Sweden
Wu Ting Fang
China
Alfred Mitchell Innes
Halvdan Kant
University of
Norway
Fortuna and Winds Verse by Thomas Carlyle
A fragmentary poem excerpt reflects on fate and toil with lines about luck, thrift, and inner resolve. Repeated phrases emphasize endurance and wandering, contrasting cheerful thrift with misfortune as the speaker contemplates change and personal journey.
Mary Morison by Robert Burns
Poem fragment in Scottish verse about longing for Mary Morison with devotion and unrequited love. The speaker recalls dances and social praise while confessing his suffering and hope for mercy from the beloved. The piece centers on love, loss, and emotional conflict.
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Mary
Mary Morison
Robert Burns
To-day and love endures not the world
A poem by John Bennett ponders fleeting time and eternal devotion. The speaker reinforces that only love lasts as the world fades into clay. The verse contrasts the sun’s sinking with a vow of lasting affection amid transience.
Evening on upland shores a night scene poem
From upland shores I see cows file by lowing toward home as fields glow pale under moonlit dandelions. A nighthawk patrols the western sky while woods grow dark. Cool night winds whisper, crickets gossip at my feet, frogs chant in chorus, and stars begin to shine as the night deepens.
Freedom for the Mind by William Lloyd Garrison
Poem extols the mind's liberty beyond physical confinement. It decries walls bolts and guards while praising mental swiftness and roaming imagination that travels from mount to mount, lands to skies, and finds joy in distant scenes and nature.
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Earth
Heaven
Vale
William Lloyd Garrison
When the Birds Go North Again Poem
A lyric by Ella Higginson reflects seasonal renewal and human hope. It contrasts winter sorrow with the return of spring, urging courage as memories ease. The poem celebrates birds migrating north and leaves turning crimson as signs of renewal.
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Ella Higginson
Real Musical Comedy Humor Or How To Write A Joke
The manager of a musical comedy company urges a young performer to craft fresh humor for songs. He explains jokes require careful development and fresh situations, teasing the idea of using tired gags. He offers fifteen dollars for a finished humorous piece usable in the show.
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Musical Comedy
Chicago
Shortsighted Lady from the Country Scams Umbrellas
A fragment describes a country woman accused of selling umbrellas to a friend, hinting at a short sighted or foolish act. The passage reads as a social quip without full context or names or dates.
Gabriel Delays the Final Blast for the Motion Picture Man
The world awaits the thumper blast at last as Gabriel stands irresolute. impatient murmurs rise asking for meaning. he replies he waits for the man with the motion picture machine.
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Gabriel
Mankind
Who Influenced Him
A juror explains his method by stating he is a plain, reasoning man who isn’t swayed by lawyers witnesses or judges. He says he judges the defendant solely on whether he believes the man in the dock is guilty if he has done nothing.
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Dundee Advertiser
Sunday School Skit Ends in a Nose Minute Punchline
Pupils joke about a teacher asking to turn the other cheek after a slap. Willie replies he has only one nose left, turning a religious lesson into a brief comic clash in a past newspaper column.
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Willie Wilson
Willie
San Francisco Deems Jury System Lacking in Wisdom
A San Francisco resident boasts that his city has stalled a graft jury by citing a scarcity of what he calls stupid and unintelligent men. He claims the community is among those without the required bias of jurors for the purpose.
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David L. Dodge
New York City
San Franciscan
Tonsorial Philosophy and Face Value Quote Exchange
A barber exchanges wry banter about confidence and character with a knightly figure of the shave in a dialogue about appearances. The scene centers on a barber chair and a witty pun on taking men at face value.
The Markets Financial Roundup Across Cities
New York May 5 money on call easy at 14. 42%4 percent. Sterling exchange $4 87 60 for demand. Grain and livestock prices include Minnesota flour patents 6.20 to 6.50 and wheat No 2 red 1.45. Cattle and hogs show steady to firm ranges across several cities with mixed quotations.
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New York
Prime Mercantile Paper
Sterling Exchange
Minnesota
Cleveland
York State
Chelsea Wethers
New Strength for Old Backs
Mrs Joannah Straw of Canton South Dakota credits Dean's Kidney Pills with a remarkable recovery from three years of rheumatic limb pain backache weakness headaches dizziness and kidney issues At 81 she now feels as well as a typical 50 year old woman, works well and sleeps well, with the product sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
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Joannah Straw
North Broadway
Canton
S. D
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Nobody Lives Here But Us Sign Soothes Nuisance
Warning to all concerned recounts the Langworth family in a corner house troubled by visitors asking about occupants. Their boy Harold posted a five word sign, declaring “Nobody lives here but us,” to stop interruptions and calm the street.
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Langworths
Biddles
Harold
Sermon Hums To Hymn Six Doubles Sing Three
The Rev Mr Spicer had enjoyed a telephone gift from a parishioner for three days and used it before church. He rose to announce the hymn and, with his usual bearing, urged the congregation to unite in hymn six doubles and sing three.
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Mr. Spicer
Deafness Cure Claim From Hall's Catarrh Cure
An advertisement asserts deafness results from inflamed Eustachian tubes and cannot be cured by local applications. It offers $100 for any deafness case caused by catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure, promoting circulars and Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Senator Sorghum Debates Tariffs With Comforter
In a heated exchange, a comforter defends tariff policy while Senator Sorghum argues a consumer should not bear the tax, noting the case where the burden is not on the buyer. The dialogue highlights fiscal principles and burden of taxation.
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Sorghum
Lane's Family Medicine promotes tonic laxative herb tea
A historical ad touts a bowel cleansing medicine described as a tonic laxative herb tea. It claims the Lane's Family Medicine tea will restore bowels to proper function unaided and improve health and strength, urging readers to buy a 25¢ package from druggists or dealers.
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Lane
Kiss Planned After Commanded Return
A quoted exchange from the Houston Post shows a young woman recounting a line about returning gifts with a kiss. The dialogue captures a social moment reflecting manners and romantic testing.
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Houston Post
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William J. Calhoun
William S. Hull
Swarthmore College
James Brown Scott
State Department
Charles Cheney Hyde
Mandelhall
University of Chicago
Louis P. Lochner
Madison
Wis
Richard Bartholdt
Missouri
Interparliamentary Union
Edwin D. Mead
Fortuna
Thomas Carlyle
Yestreen
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