Who's George F. Baker A Look Inside a Wealthy Financier
The piece profiles George F. Baker an eighty four year old financier who began as a grocer's clerk at two dollars a week and became one of America's wealthiest men. It notes his reputation for a hard shell and soft heart and contrasts public interest in famous figures with Baker's private life and business success.
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George F. Baker
J. P. Morgan
Mr. Morgan
Babe Ruth
Jack Dempsey
Andrew Gump
Mary Garden
George
Ads Save Dimes in Stemwinding Times Readership
The speaker extols advertising as a money saver and cites finding grand bargains at a sale where a seller with gout cleared out stock. He urges reading ads over news, notingads offer prices as low as four dollars for items previously eight, highlighting the value of ads in daily life.
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Pete
Kelly
Cork
New York
Daily Grist
If We Only Understood We Should Love Each Other Better
Poem reflects on hidden motives behind actions and urges greater charity. It questions judgment of others and suggests understanding life’s trials would foster empathy, patience, and love rather than harsh blame. The speaker ponders whether knowing origins would change judgment.
Splashing Overboard and Baker’s Rise Through the Seas
A narrator laments venturesome financiers pressing risk on business, citing George F. Baker who began at $2 a week and rose to immense wealth at eighty four. The piece ponders mortality and a rebirth beyond earthly riches as life ends.
Quiet praise of Coolidge echoed in public duty
The passage praises a leader for quietly performing duties with sincerity and public-spirited conscience. It asserts the people support President Coolidge and seek to give him a fair chance, while noting opponents gain nothing by unfair behavior.
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President Coolidge
Description of President Coolidge Echoes Public Favor
Mr. Heart praises President Coolidge as a man who pursues his own way quietly, performs duties, and sincerely strives to satisfy public needs and his conscience, a description millions of fair minded Americans would share in wishing him success and just treatment.
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Mr. Heart
President Coolidge
Hearst backs Coolidge amid attacks on administration
Hearst, after an hour with President Coolidge at the White House, says attacks tied to Congress probes mainly target the prior administration. He argues Coolidge inherited the cabinet and that partisan telegram shaming strengthens the president while rebounding on opponents.
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W. R. Hearst
White House
Coolidge
Mr. Hearst
McLean
Portrait of President Coolidge as Honest and Humble Leader
The public views President Coolidge as honest and conscientious, an average American doing his best for the country. He is seen as unambitious, earning only a salary, and living modestly to set a good example for his children and family. The public cannot gauge his full powers, but trusts his integrity.
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President Coolidge
Lincoln
Washington
Health Judgment Industry: a mirror self-improvement note
A quoted weal of self discipline urges Health Judgment Industry as a rule for wealth and success. It instructs chalking three words on a bedroom mirror and contemplating them nightly and daily to improve health judgment and employment, and thus income.
Weather forecast for Illinois and Missouri
Illinois: fair tonight and Wednesday with unsettled north portion by Wednesday night and temperatures rising in the north and west tonight. Missouri: fair tonight and Wednesday with temperatures rising.
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Illinois
North
Missouri
Quote on public officials duty and conscience quoted
The Washington Times argues that officials true to public duty and conscience avoid scandal. The passage says a man acting with such guidance would not go far wrong and contrasts this ideal with recent public scandals.
Community Notes and Quips From The Local Page
Curiosities and light items crowd the column from wind and mud to bird house displays in McElhinney's window. A ward report highlights real teamwork with an amputating husband. Age limit raised to seventy and fashion fears give way to mustard plaster advice.
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McElhinney
Washington Today Senate House Meet Amid Committee Hearings
In Washington DC today the Senate and House meet as multiple committees resume hearings. The House jury committee advances the heer bill hearing while the committee on commerce revisits the truth in fabrics bill and the shipping board inquiry continues. The Senate agriculture panel proceeds with Muscle Shoals bids as a land fraud probe in Texas continues. Secretary Wallace and the California committee discuss foot and mouth disease developments.
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Senate
House
House Commerce Committee
Senate Agriculture Committee
Texas
Wallace
California
The man who can enter a bath without knocking the soap holder
A humorous page of household tallies and quips about domestic life with a doctor patient exchange and a string of gags. It features jokes about peacht stains a sanitary cup and a tale about soil in a garden from Louis Baird.
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Rastus
Doctoh
Psalm of Lives and Shifts of Fanciful Beasts
Poetic snippets compare animal lives to human aims, from elephants lugging trunks to mermaids saving dollars for shoes. Fireflies and bed bugs are used to spark humor about wealth and luck, ending with a quirky line about an aunt attempting to light a fire with a tin of oil.
Arresting Drama Sparks Fashion Charge In Nerve Racket
A bystander recalls a pedestrian collision as the victim insults the driver, describing a tweed three piece suit, canton crepe lining, a periwinkle hat with artificial cherries, and a cheeky married men slogan.
Epidemic of bobbed hair stalls under official tally
Authorities admit the bobbed hair epidemic remains unchecked this afternoon with several new cases yesterday deemed immune. A lone witness notes one woman affected by the outbreak amid ongoing public health concerns.
Editorial Snippets and Light Chat on Spring Chicks and Astronomy
A collage of short quips and remarks touches on capital and labor jokes, spring chick sales starting February 5, moonlight Easter beliefs, Good Friday potato planting, a gossip about a daughter's marriage, and a note that an editorial writer aims to please or annoy readers. The piece ends with farm talk about rain benefiting crops and a farmer’s quip.
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Harry Ward
Yano
Harry
Chain of rumor links across continents and eras
A narrator relays a tangled web of hearsay from many places including China Cuba Texas and Borneo. The verse traces a chain of vague connections claiming a dope source via a circus, a Klondike lead, a South American tip, and a society rake’s kin. The piece satirizes rumor propagation without asserting a single fact.
That Sympathy Concert and the Symphon y Blunder
The note jokes about a misread concert announcement calling it sympathy instead of symphony. Readers tease the newsroom while telephone bells echo the error, reflecting the rough life in the newspaper business.
Alaska's first aerial postman nicknamed the moose ptarmigan
Alaska's first aerial postman Bennie Elielson flies weekly 300 miles between Fairbanks and McGrath. Indians at McGrath nickname him the moose ptarmigan after his first February landing. They watched the plane approach with awe, skeptical of airman reports before his arrival.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Bennie Elielson
McGrath
Eielson
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