Kansas City Wins Republicans Convention Bid
Kansas City will host the Republican National Convention next summer after a spirited bid. The city, born from frontier boosters, grew with railroads and river trade, now housing about 500000. The 1900 Democratic convention test and a rebuilt hall show the town’s readiness for the national stage. Approximately 18000 seats fill the hall with 2200 for delegates and 800 for guests, while 600 seats go to press.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Central Business District
Missouri River
Kansas River
Leavenworth
St. Joe
Republican National Committee
James A. Reed
William Jennings Bryan
Western Union bans cablese language in London to New York messages
Western Union cuts press cable rates from five to seven cents a word and announces that the contracted language used to awe money in cables will be banned. The term cablese refers to a set of words familiar to both sending and receiving newspaper offices.
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London
New York
Western Union
Sendice
Western Union faces press parties over coded word use
The text notes Western Union plans to charge per word for phrases and hints at decoding rules. It mentions coined terms like Smorning and orating and suggests press associations may cooperate, viewing the complaint as justified.
Editors praise restraint over dangerous aviation chase
Three New York editors refused to join Mrs Grayson on a Newfoundland bound plane trip, saving lives after the craft disappeared. The World Times and Daily News were named in the report as the involved papers. A separate French court ruling holds cooks liable for spoiled food, as attorney Alexander Zeaves won damages after a hare pie fire ruined a party.
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Enterprise
New York
The
New York World
New York Times
Daily News
Alexander Zeaves
Counsel to Girls in Herrick’s Plostons Lamp of Heaven
A compact poetic fragment attributed to Robert Herrick urges girls to seize youth and marry before it fades. It contrasts youth and age, praising the prime of life and warning that time will keep advancing while one delays. Delivered in an admonitory, period voice reflective of 17th century verse.
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Settin
Robert Herrick
Retrospective Highlights From Warren County Pages
A 1924 1925 1926 1927 retrospective recalls Cravath Wells at First Presbyterian church and Brotherhood Lyceum, Warren Lions Club, census enumerators named for agricultural counts, Good Roads boosters meeting Governor Finchet plans Route 89, church pulpit exchanges, county officials at inaugurations, and Wyandotte prize entries by Samuel Ostergard with Pittsburgh press photos.
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Cravath Wells
First Presbyterian Church
Auuiber
Brotherhood Lyceum
Warren County
Department of Agriculture
Good Roads
Finchet
Harrisburg
Just Folks by Edgar A Guest
A poem in which the speaker prefers staying at home with loved ones over travel and distant lands. He imagines Rome Paris Japan and Oxford town but concludes true joy comes from being with his two children and cannot bear leaving them behind.
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Rome
Paris
Oxford Town
Dicky Meets a Queer Lake Dweller in a Fantasy Tale
Dicky lassoes a curious water man from the lake net. An elflike Mexican axolotl speaks of eggs hung to hatch, explains his wife lays no eggs, and shows off pearllike pods. Dicky and Squeedee pledge to visit after the hatchlings emerge. Copyright 1928 Newspaper Feature Service.
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Dicky
Axolotl
Pee
Mexico
Ike
Squeedee
Newspaper Feature Service, Inc
Paris to Biarritz by luxury French trains
Fred C. Kelly recalls first class French travel noting lavish interiors but modest vestibule gaps between cars. A 25 hour stopover at Biarritz proves dull, with gaudy resorts and bored crowds. He tries horse racing, reflecting on why some bet while others watch, citing Wu Ting Fang.
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Biarritz
Bisrutz
Ufe
Wu Ting Fang
Enigmatic New Mexico Senator Tests Washington Watch
Washington observers scrutinize Senator Cutting, a new appointee from New Mexico with an unclear political alignment. Reporters note his mysterious past, lack of a firm party label, and the risk of further shifting affiliations as he casts votes and draws scrutiny from both parties in a tense Senate balance.
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Washington
Bronson
New Mexico
The
Ate
Andreas Jones
Ea Dillon
Cutting
Santa Fe
New Mexican
Dillon
Capitol
Norris
Jones
Are You Going to Die From Heart Disease
Diet and health piece notes mortality trends showing heart disease as the leading cause of death in the United States with deaths rising. It warns of the accelerating impact and urges attention to risk factors and prevention.
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Iater
United States
Henry Albert
Journal of the
American Medical Association
Albert
Eugene Lyman Fisk
Griffo
Fisk
Dublin
New York Housing Plan Opens Poor Families to Playful Modern Living
A new type tenement on Goerick Street by the Frederick L. Lav enburg Foundation aims to raise the city birth rate and provide adequate housing for poor families. It offers limited rents by family size and income, with mid apartments featuring brass plumbing, built in stoves, and parquet floors. The building includes a kindergarten, garden, and roof playground to keep children off the streets, drawing a steady stream of applicants and promising a break for New York's impoverished residents.
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WEW- York
Lower East Side
Frederick L. Lavenberg Foundation
Tha Foundation
Goerick Street
Lavenburg
Lauenburg
New York
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Addison White
Joseph A. Goldstein
Hartish
John S. Fisher
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Arthur James
Wyandottes
Pittsburgh
Samuel P. Ostergard
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Just Folks
Edgar A. Guest
Japan
Blanche Bilver
Kellygrams
Fred C. Kelly
Pyrenees
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France
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