Washington Brief: Few Bills Pass Congress Faces Election Pressures
Washington dispatch reports veterans and friends pressing Congress for extensive postwar legislation amid tight finances. Republicans face blame for inaction while Democrats avoid responsibility by claiming lack of power. Speakers note large bills and a looming adjournment target as party goals shift toward the June deadline and Chicago convention. Cotton remains the nation’s top export driver in January trade figures.
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Charles W. Arthur
Washington
Union
Congress
House of Representatives
Military Affairs Committee
B Ull
The Air King and The Witching Hour in London and Berlin
Harry B Smith writes The Air King while The Witching Hour is set for London production and Arizon for Berlin. Touls Mann shows a serious yet humorous note in his new play. William Faversham plans The World and His Wife. Girls of Gothenburg to be sent from England. An agents association forms to control 500 plays. Tim Murphy enjoys progress in Frederick Paulding's Two Men and a Girl.
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Harry B. Smith
London
Berlin
Touls Mann
William Faversham
Charles I’. Nirdlinger
the Ghrls
Gothenburg
Tim Murphy
Frederick Paulding
Nothing In It Dialogue About Gift
A brief exchange features a person asking for something for their head and another replying they would not take it as a gift. The fragment hints at a humorous or skeptical mood without providing context or attribution.
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House
Senate
United States
Ollie James
Kentucky
Record prices at Dudley R. Child collection sale
Rare coins fetched high prices as the Dudley R. Child estate sale in New York showcased three John Higley pennies from 1737 bringing 340 dollars each. A Massachusetts pine tree coin dated 1652 sold for 87.50 dollars with pieces at 21 dollars each.
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New York
Dudley R. Child
Boston
John Higley
Granby
Conn
Massachusetts
Gray Puss Finds Playmate in Forest Raccoon
A lonely Gray Puss at a lumber camp yearns for companionship. A hungry raccoon arrives, eyes meat, and after a cautious start becomes a playful, trusted friend for the cat, with scraps and friendship sealing their bond.
Stork Bee Fish and Horse Help Boy After Fall
A boy injures a leg in a garden by a lake and asks a stork bee and fish for advice. The stork suggests standing on the other leg. The bee proposes flying if possible, the fish suggests jumping into the lake to swim, and the horse offers to carry him on its back as a final solution.
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Mr. Bee
the Bee
Mr. Fish
Mr. Horse
Lost Cat Seeks Owner Amid Quiet Neighborhood
A kind cat abandoned by its owner wanders a neighborhood seeking a familiar home. Neighbors report a calm demeanor and a preference for sunny windowsills while volunteers coordinate reunions and shelter intake.
Courage Essential to Lace
A concise opinion extols courage as essential to success in work and life. It argues a boy must possess courage in mental, spiritual, and physical forms and that courage that persists after defeats is the best kind.
Poppies In the Wheat Vintage Play Scene
A children's game described as Poppies In the Wheat where a circle of poppies plays while wheat stalks chime the wind and count to twelve or fifteen. Poppies must run and pass between wheat figures before being caught. the game ends as players dwindle to two or three.
Submarine Mice Signal Surface Return for Air Replenish
Sailors aboard subs use a simple safety method: they take along two mice when going to sea. If one mouse shows distress, it signals imminent need to surface and replenish air supply.
Little Tommy's Politeness Polite boy or harmful tale
A Chicago Record-Herald verse recounts Little Tommy who pretends politeness yet harms family members. He says excuses after hurting his sister and even after causing a fatal accident with a cannon cracker. The poem contrasts etiquette with violent consequences.
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Tommy
Grace
I Want to Go Home and Need My Mamma
A short verse expresses a child’s longing to return home and comfort from a mother. It hints at a dog’s loneliness and a need for companionship and care. The tone is intimate and wistful.
Kaiser Will Take a Rest at Corfu Villa
Emperor William plans to leave Berlin on March 21 for a long rest at a new Corfu villa. A semiofficial note says he travels alone so no Turkish embassy meets him, easing tensions in the Near East. He sails from Geona aboard the Hohenzollern with escorts Scharnhorst and Sleipner.
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Berlin
William
Corfu
England
Constantinople
Turkey
Near East
Emperor William
Hohenzollern
Geona
Ionian Waters
Scharmhorst
Sleipner
Gladstone and Roosevelt Admired as Great Leaders
In Kansas City on February 27 Rev Frank Gunsaulus, president of Armour Institute and Central church Chicago, praised Gladstone and Roosevelt calling them side by side in history and praising Roosevelts qualities seen during troubled times. He compared civil war leadership to Lincoln and current needs to a man with similar traits.
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Kansas City
Gladstone
Roosevelt
Frank Gunsaulus
Armour “Institute of ‘Technology
Central Church
Chicago
Knife and Forle Club
Gunsaulnus
Lamented His Bachelorhood Ends Iron Mountain Aide Death
Martin A. Hansen, lifelong bachelor and former head of the engineering department at the Iron Mountain railroad, died in St. Louis after years at St. Vincent's asylum. He had never married, lamenting the neglect of marriage in his earlier life.
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St. Louis
Martin A. Hansen
St. Vincent's Asylum
Iron Mountain Railroad
Missing Man's Property Seized in Tecumseh Case
Tecumseh Michigan February 27 L Youngs who held a $700 mortgage has attached the book and stationery stock of F A Wilcox of Blisfield who disappeared February 14 Grinnell Bros of Adrian filed a second attachment and several creditors hold claims from 500 to 6000 dollars
Change in College Officials at Millikin University
Dr. W Darby of Evansville Ind resigns as president of the board of trustees of James Millikin university. He is succeeded by Dr W H Penhallegan of Decatur. E S Walker treasurer also resigns and is succeeded by Dr J C Fisher of Decatur.
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Decatur
Dr. W. Darby
Evansville
Ind
James Millikin University
W. H Penhallegan
E. Walker
J. C. Fisher
Wealthy Philadelphia heiress wed in New York cathedral
Mrs Anne Weightman Walker of Philadelphia married Frederick Courtland Penfield at St Patrick's Cathedral New York. After the ceremony the couple sailed for Europe aboard the Carmania.
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New York
Anne Weightman Walker
Philadelphia
United States
Frederick Courtland Penfield
St. Patrick’s
Penfield
Europe
Founder of Industries Dead in Kokomo and Elwood
Monroe Steberling founder of the local straw board works and the plate glass works in Kokomo and Elwood, a prominent Indiana gas belt figure, died at his Oak Park home near Chicago at age seventy.
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Kokomo
Ind
Monroe Steberling
Straw Board Works
Plate Glass Works
Elwood
Oak Park
Chicago
Burial of Father Heinrich in Denver with Catholic rites
Father Heinrich, slain by the assassin Alle, received full Thoman Catholic church ceremonial burial in Denver. The funeral reflected solemn rites and the community mourned the cleric who died amid the intrigue surrounding the case.
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Heinrich
Alle
Denver
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Advertises Cure
A Norristown Georgia woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing severe female troubles after fearing surgery. The letter promotes the product as a standard remedy for displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities backache nervous prostration and invites readers to write for advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Mass.
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Lena V. Henry
Norristown
Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
High School Basketball Semifinal Hope for Washington
If Washington defeats Ottumwa, it will play in the finals for the Iowa High School basketball championship. 936 Mrs JG Maxwell arrived from Crawfordsville to visit at the home of her sister Mrs Milan Shields. Dr Boice was a professional visitor at Grace Hill yesterday.
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A. Boice
Grace Hill
Washington
Ottumwa
Iowa
J.G. Maxwell
Crawfordsville
Will
Milan Shields
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