Bearded restriction for Afghan soldiers and opium edict
Afghan soldiers are barred from wearing beards. A Bank of England board of twenty four directors is elected by stockholders with each director required to hold £2000 in stock. China must cease opium cultivation by 1017, with a ten percent annual reduction and banishment for 1917 users. Italian Ventura freed by King Victor Emmanuel III after a near execution due to a machinery malfunction. A Chinese passenger in Singapore is found with a skull and bones in a pillow, claimed to be his brother for burial in China.
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Bank of England
China
Ventura
Victor Emmanuel III
Singapore
Sumatra
Theatrical Deals and Cast Movements Across Cities
William A. Brady leases the Au auditorium in Chicago for ten years at 100000 a year. Donald McLaren's The Redskin opens in Glasgow as The Last of His Race. Adelaide Keim to lead a supplementary New York season at the Metropolitan with a stock company. Amy Summers returns to Brewster's Millions cast replacing Edna Bruna. The Chorus Lady marks its two thousandth performance with silver almond compotes distributed to celebrate Rose Stahl's appearance.
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William A. Brady
Au Editorium
Chicago
Donald McLaren
Glasgow
Adelaide Keim
New York
Metropolis Theater
Amy Summers
Miss Boynton
Rose Stahl
Royal Titles Spark Inferred Monarchies Across Realms
The excerpt surveys rulers and pretensions from Spain to Monaco to Turkey. It notes the king of Spain claiming Jerusalem Navarre and Gibraltar while Monaco's princess frowns on gaming houses and contrasts czarist despotism with the sultan's absolute rule under Koran constraints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spain
Jerusalem
Navarre
Gibraltar
Monaco
Turkey
Queen Alexandra Lacks a Circle of Friends
The article notes Queen Alexandra has many acquaintances but no close friends. It mentions Miss Knnelly as “the queen's only friend in England” and contrasts royal routines with the German emperor's motto of early rising. It concludes with strict curfews at the royal Schloss and consequences for late return.
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Queen Alexandra
Miss Knnellys
England
Royal Schloss
Father
Railways' vast steel use and safety moves across lines
The Canadian Pacific system covers 7 434 miles. Railways consume over 2 000 000 tons of steel yearly, about half the world’s supply. The Philadelphia and Reading Railway orders speed reductions on curves for safety. The Russian cabinet rejects a plan to tunnel under Bering Strait to link Transsiberian with the Canadian Pacific. About forty New Haven retirees receive pensions of 6 to 7 dollars weekly.
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Canadian Pacific Railway
Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company
Bering Strait
Transsiberian
Canadian Pacific Railroad
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Pat's Retort and a Sunlit Windlass Tale
A bishop in a mining region meets an Irishman turning a windlass to haul ore. The hatless sun burns the worker’s head as the bishop warns about brain injury. The Irishman replies with a sharp quip and resumes turning the handle.
How Did You Die
An extoled verse on resilience contrasts facing trouble with a cheerful face. A poem from Edmund Vance Cooke and a brief anecdote about contentment on deathbeds and a preacher handling mishaps appear alongside moral reflections from Everyday life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmund Vance Cooke
Fat Friend and the Prince of Wales in a Park Encounter
In a historic aside Brummel and the Prince of Wales drifted apart after a park meeting where the prince feigned indifference to Brummel’s companion. Brummel queried the man beside him asking who his fat friend was, underscoring a sharp social exchange of the era.
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Beau Brummel
Prince of Wales
Brummel
Lord John Russell and the Reform Bill of 1832
Sidney Smith recalls Lord John Russell as a small man whose size was symbolic of the anxieties around the Reform Bill of 1832. The anecdote recounts his memory for faces, a Scotch encounter with Lord D, and a quip about political support in the House of Commons.
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John Russell
Sidney Smith
John
Devonshire
Lord John
Lord D
Earl of S
House of Commons
Governor Hoch Vetoes Law Citing Setter Up Comment
The Kansas legislature had enacted a statute already. Governor Hoch vetoed it and critiqued the bill’s introduction for using the phrase set em up. An opposition member viewed this remark as a dangerous statement amid the debate.
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Kansas
Hoch
Governor’s playful veto term sparks partisan revival in Kansas
Governor Beauchamp Hoch replies to Senate resolution explaining the phrase "get em up" used in his veto message. He wryly notes the term revived the moribund Kansas Democracy, predicting the party would answer with renewed life if Gabriel blew his trumpet or the words "set em up" were whispered.
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Senate
Atchison County
Kansas Democracy
Gabriel
Atchison
BE. W. Hoch
Child’s Compassion Moves Bishop at Door
A New York preacher Consolation’s daughter greets a visiting bishop. She tells him the father is away and offers mercy to the “dying sinner” as the mother will pray. A humorous aside notes a child recalling the undertaker who “undertook” her grandmother.
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Rev. B
New York
Lippincott’s
Jennie
The Dirty Bootblack Gains a Sixpence Lesson
A learned professor initially asks the boy to wash his face before paying a sixpence. The bootblack complies, returns for payment, but refuses the money, suggesting the professor keep it and get a hair cut instead. The exchange ends with a comical note on pride and generosity.
Boy hides as father confronts mischief
A naughty boy is scolded and ordered to take a whipping. He hides under a bed as the disappointed father returns home. The mother explains the event and the boy greets his father playfully from beneath the bed.
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Pop
Minister and Farmer's Wife Egg Joke
A famed doctor of divinity travels through a rural country and stays at a farmhouse. At breakfast the hostess asks how he likes his eggs and he answers medium well. She sings Nearer My God to Thee while boiling, and he wonders why the fourth verse. She explains she sang three verses to boil them hard, since he liked them medium.
As One Boy to Another
A classroom exchange shows James recalling a teacher’s maxim that a soft answer turns away wrath. When pressed for his response to Edward calling him a liar James admits he struck with a rotten tomato.
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James
Edward
Death Has No Superlative
A lawyer learns his client, a blunt German farmer, has remarried just three weeks after burying his wife. The farmer insists his new wife is “dead as she ever will be,” delivering a grim pun on marriage and death.
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Alexander Benton
Fort Edward
N. Y
Stewart's
Local notices and credits from Wellman Advance items
Local notices report residents traveling for visits and work, plus short notices of church events and business trips. Several names appear including G K McFarland, A J Gardner, Lawrence Wilson, Mrs Phillips, Miss Anna LeGill, and Dr Kings New Discovery praised for curing coughs. Excursions offered to Minneapolis and St Paul.
Students Hanna Bicher and Alex Lytle Return to Milwaukee Chicago Classes
Miss Hanna Bicher and Alex Lytle resumed school work in Milwaukee and Chicago after spending Saturday and Sunday away. The report notes their return to classes following non-specified activities.
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Hanna Bicher
Alex Lytle
Milwaukee
Chicago
Journal Prints Statements with Neatness and Dispatch
The Journal presents statements in a tidy, efficient manner. Neatness and promptness characterize the dispatch of information, reflecting editorial care and timely communication.
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Oxford
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the Royal Box
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Dougherty Bros
Pat
South Carolina
C. S. Lemmon
J. Cocklin
Keota
Frey
G. K. McFarland
Havre
A. J. Gardner
Lawrence Wilson
Iowa City
J. H. Lathrop
Albany, l
Phillips
Anna LeGill
Harper
James Brookhart
Geo. H. Paul
Robert Gormley
Crawfordsville
City
Olive Huston
Wyman
Elias Handy
Burlington
I. B. Schreckengast
F. M. Clossen
Tom Allen
Oklahoma
Rock Island Construction Co
John Miller
Des Moines
Geo. A. Paul Land Company
Fred Neiswanger
Cambridge
Neb
Burrel Foster
Wellman
Nelson Beenblossom
Minneapolis
ST. Paul
Iowa
Kay Breake His
Cook & Sherman
G. W. England
Washington
Bert
Joel England
J. A. Harwood
South Side
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