The President and Congress in a Washington Post editorial
The Washington Post critique discusses Senator Bailey and Roosevelt, arguing executive meddling with legislation. It traces historical examples from Jefferson to Roosevelt, noting constitutional limits and urging broader Christian charity and restraint in war policy, while praising the Gazette’s depiction of Washington’s political scene.
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Roosevelt
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Jie
Randolph
Roanoke
John Marshall
Marshall
Jackson
Bentom
Wright
Treasury
Robert J. Walker
Salmon Phasewin
Preme
Supreme Court
Grover Cleveland
Autheaty
United States Senate
Theodore Rouseelt
Senate
War and Christianity in modern society and peace aims
The piece questions whether war can coexist with Christian teaching and if peace societies, notably Quakers, justify their stance under modern state needs. It cites Roosevelt and Moravian examples, arguing that nonresistance may be ideal but imperfect in contemporary threats, while highlighting peace activism and its limits.
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Tecma
Christ
Society of Friends
United States
Savery
Mohonk Eonterones
Albert &. Smiley
Roosevelt
Pearn
Stretary Bonaparte
Senoor
Washington
The Jefferson Davis Portrait in Arkansas Politics
A Washington observer reviews the Arkansas Senatorial rise of Jefferson Davis, contrasting his democratic persona and magnetism with charges of demagoguery. The piece notes his prior posts as attorney general and three-term governor, and questions whether his methods reflect a common political craft or a uniquely potent machine behind his success.
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Arkansas
Emt Davis
Jeff Davis
Telow Sell
Octopus
Tie
Washington
Earl Grey Visits Washington Seen As Social Highlight
The governor general of the Dominion of Canada Earl Grey travels to Washington for a brief stay judged to be a social event with no political significance. The piece notes his esteemed status and contrasts his visit with past eminent European visitors, expressing desire for a longer visit and continued goodwill.
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Dominion of Canada
Prince.of
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Harriet Laney
Crown Prince
Belgium
Prince Henry
Prussia
Prince Loula
Battenberg
Queen Victoria
Blond
Prince of Wales
Marquis de Lafayette
Louis Philippe of
Orleans
Franca
United States
Louis Philppe
New Orleans
Mandeville Marigny
The Crowning of Norway's Rulers in June Coronation
The article outlines preparations for King Haakon and Queen Maud's coronation at Trondhjem in June, noting a simple, democratic pageantry. It highlights Queen Alexandra's influence on modest ceremonial conduct and Nansen's appointment as envoy, with Denmark's Christiansborg rebuilding plans and other European royal matters as context.
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Haakon
Queen Maud
Trondhjem
Christian
Howard VII
Trondhjemaa
Westminster
Queen Alexandra
Europe
Chris- Vania
Nansen
James
Oscar
Denmark
I the Christiansborg
Ristin
Reflections of a Bachelor From the New York Press
A jittery gossip column notes pressures on husbands to seek doctors or church, jokes about gratitude, bridal gifts, and social signals at parties. The piece mocks domestic expectations and wedding preparations with lively but casual tone.
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New York
Tate
Incomparable Candor From Taleda Mayor Whitlock
The Toledo mayor Brand Whitlock displays a blunt candor about oath and law reverence. He told Ohio legislators that formal oath taking is merely procedural and that he has no reverence for the law, a stance deemed inexpedient to praise by one post.
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Taleda
Golden Tula Jones
Whitlock
Ohio
Roberts
Toledo
Co operative Stores Growth in Great Britain
A condensed report from the Springfield Republican cites a Manchester correspondent noting rapid expansion of co operative wholesale and retail stores in Britain. Over two million members, many heads of families, show strong growth as wholesale firms provide key supply to local societies. Manchester and Scottish wholesale societies report profits of 28 and 77 percent respectively on large capital bases.
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New York Journal of Commerce
Manchester
England
Great Britain
Jetter
Springfeld Republican
Scottish Society
There’s No Mistake Prinon Name From Vintage Text
A fragmentary OCR passage quotes a moralizer and a demoralizer debating luck and choice. It hints that many are stranded yearly due to choosing the wrong path or “intere,” with a dated tone and unclear source context.
Pessimists and forgetters in Chicago News satire
The Chicago News hints at cynicism and social trends with clipped, awkward phrasing. It toys with themes of happiness, relationship irony, and media satire while referencing public figures and theatrical rhetoric in a murky, fragmented style.
Preservation of Niagara Falls Remonstrances Filed with President
Remonstrances against the International Waterways Commission plan to divert 65 000 cubic feet of water per second were presented to the President by J Horace McFarland William B Howland and Frederick B De Berard. They warned diversion would reduce 48 percent of water over the American Falls and harm the falls beauty. The group urges the Secretary of War to halt diversions and asks the State Department to seek similar action from Great Britain pending an international settlement. The President noted the commission's recommendations but promised to refer the matter to Secretary Taft and commission members.
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International Waterways Commission
Niagara Falls
J. Horace McFarland
William B. Howland
American Civic Association
Frederick B. de Berard
Merchants’ Association
New York
United States
Niagara’ River
Moody
GuHegs
Great Britain
Congress
Taft
Towns Back Joint Niagara Falls Power Plant
Ottawa reports a commission favors a municipal power development at Niagara Falls. The plan urges Toronto London Brantford Stratford Woodstock Ingersoll and Guelph to form a joint development authority. It states the province faces an industrial future tied to such a project.
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Ont
Niagara Falls
Toronto
London
Brantford
Stratford
Woodstock
Ingersoll
Guelph
Root Plans South American Tour This Summer
Secretary Root will travel to Chile and Peru via a Panama stop to learn local conditions. He aims to visit Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Santiago, and Lima briefly, with a September return, cruiser Charleston leaving New York or Newport News. Accompanied by Mrs and Miss Stoot, the private party avoids Taft party scale.
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Mre
Miss Stoot
Charleston
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Newport News
Rio
Buenos Ayres
Montevideo
Santiego de Chile
Lima
Taft Party
Magoon Sails For Isthmus On Colon Steamship
Charles E. Magoon, governor of the Canal Zone, sailed for Panama aboard the Colon. He announced relief from Washington hearings on the Panama Canal question and spoke of returning to improved conditions and colleagues ready for work. The ship carried 1000 tons of canal machinery, including one Goodwin car and two dump shovels.
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Washington Post
New York
Apri
Charles E. Magoon
Canal Zone
Panama
Colon
Canal Commission
Goodwin
Mrs Roosevelt Returns From Havana Voyage
The Mayflower carrying Mrs Roosevelt and her children sailed from Havana to Washington via Matanzas where they will stay a few hours. The Roosevelt children except Quentin visited Consul General Bremhart at the Pronton to watch jai alai. Mrs Roosevelt stayed aboard the Mayflower.
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Havana
Mayflower
Refuse Carnegie Offer in Guthrie Center Library Vote
Guthrie Center Iowa voters reject Carnegie's 40000 library gift in a special election held April 4 with both sexes voting. The campaign was intense as laborers opposed Carnegie over past labor disputes. The result shows a twenty vote margin against the proposed library funding.
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Iowa
Washington Post
Des Moines
Carnegie
Homestead
Miss Ethel Barrymore to Undergo Appendicitis Operation
Boston reports Miss Ethel Barrymore the actress fell ill in the city today and doctors diagnosed appendicitis. She will be operated on tomorrow after closing her Hollis Street Theater engagement in Alice, Sit By the Fire. Her company heads to New York afterward. Government receipts and expenditures figures referenced follow in the report.
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Wall Street
New York City
Nast
Roosevelt
Wilson
Boston
Ethel Barrymore
Miss Barrymore
Hollin Street
Alice
New York
Busch Admire President Aimed at Union Peace
Adolphus Busch of St. Louis sent a message through his daughter to the President expressing hopes he would stay in office. Her marriage to German lieutenant Edward Scharrer followed dramatic attempts to wed, including elopement and a family intervention in Belleville. The couple, united in Pasadena, may travel to Stuttgart as Scharrer forfeits his army commission.
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St. Louis
Ute
Leutenant
Edward Scharrer
Bartholat
Wilhelmina Busch
Germany
Belleville
All Stars
Lieut. Scharrer
Pasadena
Cal
Washington
Emperor Witham
Dry Dock Dewey Passes Malta in Convoy Toward Philippines
The US ship Dewey and its convoy reached Valetta Malta at noon with all aboard reported well. The Navy tug Potomac, part of the convoy, delivered provisions and rejoined the Dewey after a stop seventy five miles west of the island. A cable from Potomac's commander noted position at 36.45 N, 15.45 E and that Potomac had called at Port Said after a Meiro.
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Navy Department
Port Said
Ensign Cooke Transferred to Canacav Hospital
Navy dispatch reports Ensign Henry D. Cooke Jr the Washington boy shot in the Solo fight has been moved to Canacav hospital. Coxswain Gilmors also hospitalized with a shoulder wound. Both patients were said to be doing well.
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Navy Department
Admiral Train
Henry D. Cooke, Jr
Washington
Canacav
Gilmors
Major Peter Egan Retired From Active Service
Maj Peter R Egan surgeon declared incapacitated for active service by disability and yesterday placed on the retired list by the President. He entered as assistant surgeon in May 18 2, served as brigade surgeon of Volunteers in the Spanish War, reached major and surgeon in the regular establishment in February 190. Recently stationed at Fort Hayniton, MY.
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Peter R. Egan
Maj
Egan
Fort Hayniton
Brooklyn Starts East For Home Amid Marseille Exposs Consideration
The Brooklyn began an eastern voyage from Alexandria through the Mediterranean toward home. Interceptable by telegraph if ordered to proceed to Marseille for the Colonial Exposs ton at Marseilles on April 13, the matter remains under consideration by the French government and the Navy Department.
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Marseilles
Navy Department
State Department
Alexandria
Mediterranean
Marseiles
General Bell Leaves Fort Leavenworth En Route to Washington
Gen. J Franklin Bell departed Fort Leavenworth Kansas for Washington to assume chief of staff of the army. He will stop in St. Louis to visit Gen. Carter and visit his former Kentucky home on the way, as the fort’s population saw the general off with Mrs Sell accompanying him to the train.
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Kans
J. Franklin Bell
Washington
Army
Gen. Carter
St. Loui
Kentucky
Mrs. Sell
Army Orders and Leaves of Absence Notify Roster Changes
Army orders list leaves of absence for Mes Herbert Mc Lord and Capt Charles E Marrow. Promotions and reassignments include Brig Gen Charles F Powell reaching 62 and placed on retired list, Col John McGlehen to Coast Artillery, Capt Willoughby Walke to Fort Monroe for temporary duty, Capt Otho Bo Rosenbaum to remain as professor at West Texas Military Academy. Maj David Price reduced five files in rank and reprimanded for neglect of duty after missing duty at inspection in Syracuse.
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Charles E. Marrow
Charles F Powell
Hse Bane
John McGlehen
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Coast Artilery
Willoughby Walke
Fort Monzana
Corpt
Himsell
Otho Bo Rosenbaum
West Texas Millary Academy
San Antonio
Tex
New Yorks
David Price
Fort Preble
Rhode Island
Syracuse
Protected cruiser St Louis makes initial run in test trip
Chilaadpnie a small city report notes the protected cruiser St Louis built by Neafe and Levy Ship and Engine Building Company preparing for a trial trip. The contract requires a speed of twenty two knots and a government trial will follow later.
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Chilaadpnie
St. Louis
Neafe and Levy Ship and Engine Building Company
Naval Orders And Vessel Movements Reported
Orders issued to Capt JD Adams and Lieut R W McNeek for duty in Newport News and at Pensacola with various ships. Paymaster Clerk W Fitzimmons appointed from April 3 1906 aboard Adams. Movements show vessels including Eagle Lebanon Texpe Callao and others Between Norfolk Guantanamo and Pensacola with several ships en route to targets and harbors.
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L. Bringer
Works of Fore River Shipbuilding Company
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Caesar
Dewey
Ohio politics and travel notes mix in Raleigh chats
Journal notes from Washington visitors recount reflections on Ohio’s adjourned legislature, Ed Taylor’s congressional chances, Pattison’s prospects, and a brisk Nassau report. They describe Fuller’s Illinois trip, the first Pennsylvania primary talk, and a Galveston storm aftermath anecdote, with vivid scenes from Nassau to Arlington.
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J. E. Sater
Famper
Columbus
Ohio
Raleigh
Senate
Ed. Taylor
Congress
Ohie
Pattison
Harris
Root Wyman Discuss International Sanitation for Rio Talk
Secretary Root and Surgeon General Wyman conferred on public health at the approach to the Rio conference. The Pan American meet will likely adopt sanitation goals extending beyond quarantine, aiming for universal Western Hemisphere measures after encouraging Cuban and Panamanian results. Dr Wyman to draft a memorandum guiding American delegates.
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Rio
Root
Wyman
Maine
State Department
Cuba
Panama
Money for Jamestown appropriation and gifts to Adelbert College
Massachusetts Assembly committee recommends 375000 for Jamestown Exposition representation next year. Gifts to Adelbert College Western Reserve University total 5000 by Chamberlains of San Francisco, grandsons of longtime trustee Joseph Perkins. Also notes fourth class postmasters appointed and Chile nitrate output under control after negotiations.
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Mass
Massachusetts House
Joint Committee On
Ways and Meant
Adelbert College
Cleveland
Ohio
Western Reserve University
Joeep
J Perkins Chamberlain
Selah Chamber
Bien G. Chamberlain
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Joseph Perkins
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