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Swanson Seeks Senate Seat After Virginia Service
Senator Claude A Swanson gains Senate qualification from twelve years in lower Congress and one term as Virginia governor His record includes rural mail delivery advocacy and state service reorganization He aided school improvements health board road funding and highway policy filling the vacancy caused by Senator Danteal death.
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No Valid Objection to Lee Statue in Statuary Hall
An article discusses Attorney General and President Taft approving the Lee statue in Statuary Hall. It argues Lee embodies the Confederate cause and portrays forgiveness of the lost war. It notes ongoing dissent will linger and urges cautious action by other states considering similar memorials.
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Virginia
Analysis of Flirting by Clark University President
An essay in a scholarly tone examines flirting as a serious study. Dr G Bentley Hall of Clark University in Massachusetts analyzes how teen girls flirt and notes that older maidens in New England still engage in this art. He argues flirtation can influence romantic outcomes and highlights golf, tennis, and canoeing as contexts for flirtation. Cupid and love are discussed in a laboratory style, with love categorized into six classes and a caution that trusting the wrong person leads to disappointment.
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New England
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Domestic Science and Crippen Rights in International Law
The piece argues domestically about marriage and female roles, praises matrimony and domestic science for girls, and contrasts it with Crippen case policing. It reports Inspector Dew of Scotland Yard arresting Crippen and Miss Leneve, noting how English procedure protects prisoners rights and warns American officials to follow formal legal safeguards.
King Alfonso's Problem and Spain's political clash
The Madrid clerical press inflames a growing split between government and Vatican. Canalejas holds a firm majority in both houses, while the Vatican refuses to retreat. The piece weighs public support, possible insurrections, and the likelihood of a prolonged political struggle with army backing the government. Don Jaime referenced in passing.
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Old Inns Give Way to Modern City Life
The piece contrasts political unrest in Madrid with a broader meditation on progress and modernization in cities. It reflects on church and government tensions, then shifts to a discourse on replacing traditional English inn and American hotels with modern structures, noting Washington Boston New York Philadelphia Chicago and the fate of iconic landmarks like the Fifth Avenue and Astor House as real estate advances.
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Demand for Coast and Geodetic Survey Probe May Spur Senate Action
The New York Sun urges Senate commerce committees to investigate the coast and geodetic survey amid long standing complaints about its civilian management. It cites chart accuracy concerns, civilian overstaffing, and alleged misuse of the steamship Bache, urging prompt congressional review and reform.
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Perpetual motion clock claim from English electrician
From Bur ton on Trent England Mr P Bentley an electrician of note says he has solved perpetual motion for stationary clocks The clock runs on electricity drawn from the earth without a battery and has not wound for ten years yet fourteen years of running is claimed The device drives a pendulum without springs and remains constant though not disclosed How the mechanism works remains undisclosed awaiting patent recognition The inventor believes the clock will run for years if its internal gears do not wear down and argues it keeps accurate time
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Too Many Parasols for Him in Washington Scandal
Representative Gilbert M. Hitchcock discovers a mistaken bill for parasols addressed to Frank H. Hitchcock the Postmaster General. The mix up reveals parasol purchases intended as favors for a host cabinet event. Other notes mock posturing and contain shortwise observations on public life.
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Selected a Bride Ben Jarms Denies Engagement to Morgan
A royal denial from Ben Jarms, legitimist claimant to the Spanish throne, states he has only met Miss Anne Morgan once and is not engaged. The piece traces dynastic aims and a separate note on the Menzies clan chieftainship, Scottish lineage, and titles amid a sweep of aristocratic names and inheritances.
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Austria
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Europe
Insects Show Love Jealousy and Courtship Rituals
Cambridge dispatch reports Harvard professor William M. Wheeler stating insects have emotional life. Grasshoppers crickets scorpions butterflies and others exhibit love jealousy and courage. Males perform dances and gaze to woo females while females feign coyness and mates are claimed after displays.
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Painter Ghobie runs market garden by Metropolitan Opera House
Andrew Ghobie, a master painter formerly on Staten Island, has established a 100 by 100 foot market garden just off Broadway near the Metropolitan Opera House. He rents from J. B. Wendell, plants potatoes, lettuce, beets, cabbages, beans, and carrots, grows geraniums and chrysanthemums, and shields greens with a guard dog and night watchman.
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Riding Pike's Peak on an Old Shoe Takes Forty Minutes
Tourists I Holden and Harry L Hartshorne claim a Pike's Peak descent in twenty minutes using a shoe and rock as a toboggan. They displayed the improvised vehicle and noted the Cog road covers about nine miles from Manitou. A Summit House keeper allegedly makes the trip in eleven minutes but the stunt is described as dangerous amid past fatal bottle-aided slips.
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Ataxia Prompted Taxi Joke In State Dept Scene
An odd anecdote from the Popular Magesipe recounts Assistant Secretary Bigte Ades soee leaving the State Department on a bicycle when a limp foot and a wait for a taxi sparked a joke about ataxicab. A separate note describes J Vosbyra finding a perfect cherry inside a soft boiled egg, explained by his wife as from canned cherries fed to the fowl.
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Bottomless Sinkhole Spurs Train Service Halt in Florida
A new sinkhole near Alachua Lake in Florida rapidly expanded on Wednesday night swallowing ground and forming a 125 by 100 foot crater with a 20 yard widening inland. Trains on the Atlantic Coast Line were halted after the Leesburg Jacksonville train reached town Thursday morning. Conductor Frederick and Section Foreman Thigpen reported the discovery and ongoing collapse as earth and water eruptions continued.
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Airship Dreams and Moonlit Love Ballad Chorus
A playful verse series blends Minnie Mooney and Jimmie Cooney dreaming of biplane romance. Chorus urges air travel and love in a buoyant, lyrical tone. The Chicago Journal excerpt also includes a separate canoe love scene with tranquil imagery and a question of love.
Calf Born With Twain Image Draws Attention Near Alburtis
The calf born April 21 1910 bears a white marked portrait resembling Mark Twain on its side. Its owner W F Walker along Route 1 says the calf is not for sale and attracts many visitors to his farm as speculation swirls about the miracle likeness in the wake of Twain’s death.
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Reflections of a Bachelor in a New York Feature
A fragment discusses a woman’s smile and temper, noting marriage rarely improves temper, and a bachelor’s view on relationships. The text includes scattered phrases about respect, mischief, and learning to float, suggesting satirical mood and social commentary.
CAPITAL'S VISITORS ON GERMANY LABOR AND LANGUAGE PLANS
F W Tan zer of Stettin discusses German labor organization and savings, noting extensive state and private exchange systems that place 2,000,000 people annually in positions and reduce strikes. He cites medical advances, including a new thermometer, and predicts Esperanto as the future international language for business and diplomacy, with growing European interest and eventual global spread.
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