Nelson O Shaughnessy's Fine Record as U S Envoy to Mexico
Nelson O Shaughnessy served ten months as charge d affaires in Vera Cruz guiding U S diplomacy through three hostile Mexican regimes Diaz Madero and Huerta. He won trust of refugees and maintained steady relations with Huerta while advancing American interests and keeping negotiations from breaking into war. Fluent in four languages he blended courtesy with strategic calm earning wide commendation.
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Joseph Medill Patterson
The
Chicago Tribune
Vera Cruz
Nelson O'Shaughnessy
United States
Mexico
Porfirio Diaz
Madero
Huertistas
O'Shaughnessy
Mexico City
General Villa
O’shaughnessy
Henry Lane Wilson
Huerta
State Department
Cabinet
John Lind
Wilson
Diaz
Roosevelt
Taft
Union Station usher resigns after decade of tips totaling 10000
John M. Green head usher at St. Louis Union Station steps down after revealing he saved ten years of tips totaling $10,000. The resignation follows a lengthy tenure noted for his discretion and service at the station.
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St. Louis
John M. Green
St. Louis Union Station
Fly paper for orchards shows red spiders carried by wind
EB Munger of Yuca City California tested sticky fly paper to prove red spiders can travel long distances. A sheet 20 feet from an infested tree collected spiders within 24 hours, and similar results occurred at 12 feet and 650 feet from the tree. The tests indicate windborne spread of orchard pests beyond immediate reach.
Coveted beauties drew crowds across history in Europe
Histories of famed women from Maria Gunning to La Belle Paule recount how crowds gathered wherever they appeared. From London parks to Toulouse streets, admirers followed, with guards and official protection arranged to prevent crowd crushes and allow public viewing of extraordinary beauty.
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Horace Walpole
St. James Park
Countess of Castiglione
Napoleon III
Tuileries
London
Florentine
Fanny Murray
Tunbridge Wells
Pantiles
Boniface
Hebe
Mile Currier
Toulouse
la Belle Paule
Quantity of Water Needed for Daily Intake
The amount of liquid a person should drink daily varies with constitution activity food and weather. The average man needs about three and a half to four pints of fluid daily with a pint in solid foods, leaving two and a half to three pints to drink. Women need less and children more. a good rule is to let children drink as much as they want.
Pride and fear blur in confession to wife at door
A cited remark recalls a man claiming pride in not avoiding his wife at the door despite others carrying him inside after a drunken incident. He asserts no fear of meeting her anywhere, framing a boastful stance amid the scene.
Quote on man’s love of excitement from Stevenson
The excerpt cites Robert Louis Stevenson arguing that men prefer danger and novelty to regular meals, claiming happiness is less desired than excitement, enterprise, hope, and the aleatory.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Sabbath superintendent profiles Gideon’s watchful guards
A Sabbath school superintendent recalls how Gideon chose his men not for surrender but for vigilance. He notes those who kept one eye open and drank with the other, suggesting a wary, watchful discipline over bravado. The remark frames Gideon as valuing continuous awareness.
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Gideon
Traffic in Birds Consigned to New York Firm
Eight hundred thousand birds are imported annually through a New York firm led by Louis Ruhe and his German counterpart. Canaries from Hartz, waxbills, parrots, cockatoos, and many small species are shipped worldwide for parks and aviaries. Government inspectors grade birds, track shipments, and maintain records to prevent import of restricted species.
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New York
W. de W. Miller
United States Department of Agriculture
Port
Canaries
Hartz Mountains
Germany
Louis Ruhe
Mr. Ruhe
Russia
Australia
Long Island
Grand Street
United States
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Settling the Dirtiest American City Question
A new dispute over which city is the dirtiest in America seems near resolution. Airborne soot gauges, used in English towns for years, yield startling results with eastern London recording 650 tons per square mile and Glasgow 1330 tons. Coatbridge leads at 1939 tons per square mile annually.
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Chicago
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
London
Glasgow
Coatbridge
Let the Child Name Itself in Discretion
A London Chronicle correspondent argues that infants should be numbered and later choose their own names at years of discretion. The piece suggests this would ease parental burden and prevent lifelong reproach from children named ambitiously like Ebenezer or Madderina Robertina.
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The
London Chronicle
Ebenezer
Kitchener
Cronje
Madderina Robertina
London Buildings Suffer From Sulphurous Gas Emissions
English scientists report more than 500000 tons of sulphurous acid are discharged into London’s atmosphere annually. The main source is gas illumination combustion, causing damage to the city’s stone buildings and infrastructure.
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London
Reviving Gaelic Bilingual Education in Irish Schools
In almost two hundred Irish schools Gaelic language and literature receive instruction in both Irish and English as part of the revival program.
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Ireland
Description of Mental Characteristics
W Burr Allen argues duality underpins all manifestation from electric currents to sexes. He explains nerves as permanent, with brain and mind guiding cells. the mind is the supreme force to the body and to God’s mind through the ego. He cites As above, so below and man in God’s image.
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God
Doing Away With Corporal Punishment
This essay argues against physical punishment of children and endorses constructive discipline. It cites Froebel Pestalozzi and Kipling to emphasize prevention, proper guidance of natural powers, and the negative impact of parental cruelty on both child and parent.
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Frederick Froebel
Parker
Pestalozzi
O’grady
Rudyard Kipling
Military Discipline Brings Strength to Nation
James Regan argues for compulsory military training in American schools to build a capable citizen army. He warns immigration threatens national defense and urges stopping immigration to prevent a future influx of surplus population. He cites Japan and Russia in history to warn of despotism and foreign pressure.
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Japan
Russia
China
United States
Europe
Many Foxes Die While in Captivity
Nearly half of the foxes kept in Alaska last season died from unknown causes. Prices varied with some animals fetching up to 1500 to 2000 dollars, while a dealer reportedly valued stock at 65000 but sold for 35000 after losses. A black fox bought for 1600 died five days after confinement. A decline in fox numbers led to 150 red foxes being released to the wild in southern Yukon. Before sickness, about 200 young foxes were shipped from Whitehorse to ranches in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and near Boston.
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Alaska
Corral
Yukon
Whitehorse
New Brunswick
Prince Edward Island
Boston
Mass
Prominent Actresses Skip Vermiform Appendix Trend
Report notes leading actresses are not wearing vermiform appendixes this season, signaling a style shift in fashion coverage. Observers link the trend to evolving beauty standards and wardrobe practicality among film stars and stage performers.
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Vienna
Bucharest
Senate
Francisco Madero
Lloyd- George
Chapultepec
Pete As
Nelson O’shaughnessy
Uncle Sam
W. Burr Allen
B. J. Bernhard
James Regan
Robert W. Baldwin
Seattle, Wash
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