Swanson and Swanson form political update in Capital era
The Washington Post describes Claude J. Swanson and related political shifts as he moves from Congress to Virginia governor and into national service. It notes his advocacy for rural mail delivery, public school reforms, health board creation, and state aid for roads amid a transition period with Guy Mann filling a vacancy after Senator Daniel’s death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude A. Swanson
Tower
Congress
Lerman
Virginia
Claude J. Swanson
United States
Huanson
Guy Mann
Daniel
No Valid Objection to Lee Statue in Statuary Hall
The Attorney General and President approve Virginia’s Lee statue in Statuary Hall as a symbol of forgiveness and loyalty after the Civil War. The ruling states the Confederate uniform testifies to national magnanimity and that the statute should be accepted, though dissent may persist and other states may hesitate to act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Wickersham
Virginia
Robert E. Lee
Statuary Hall
Lee
Washington
Flirting analyzed by a university professor in New England
Dr. G. Stanley Hal of Mark University reports a scientific look at flirting among maidens and men. He classifies love into six types, notes dangers in flirty pursuits, and links coy behavior to sports like golf and tennis, using a light, psychological lens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark University
Massachusetta
G. Stanley Hal
West
New England
Cupid
Ani
Domestics and Womanhood in Nineteenth Century Thought
A fragment discusses marriage and love as central to happiness and argues that women should engage in domestic science. It claims men of science praise the American wife as a key thoughtful subject and urges aristocracy of womanhood. The piece notes that the term Lady derives from loaf-giver in old English.
Crippen and Miss Le Neve in Custody Under Fair Rights
Inspector Dew of Scotland Yard ensured Crippen and Miss Le Neve were read their rights in Quebec before arrest. He stated no forceful interrogation would occur and emphasized the prisoners’ right to avoid coercion, noting that conviction would rely on circumstantial evidence given body mutilation and arsenic use. England aims to preserve justice and the spirit of laws across borders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crippen
Dew
Scotland Yard
Montrose
Dr Crippen
Miss Leneve
Quebécic
England
Quebec
America
King Alfonso's Problem and Spain's Political Struggle
Analysis of clerical press rhetoric in Madrid over church state tensions in Spain. Premier Canalejas holds strong Cortes and Senate majorities while Vatican opposition and Catholic voters influence the outcome. Army loyalty and public sentiment shape the fate of the separation move, with long political struggle likely but insurrection improbable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfonso
Madrid
Vatican
Canalejas
Vatican la Due
Senate
Spain
Bon Jaime
Navy survey report prompts calls for overhaul
The piece argues government skeptics doubt the present survey, urging a competent impartial review to fix abuses and improve the coast and geodetic survey. It notes dissatisfaction with civilian management, relaxed discipline, and rising merchant marine concerns, urging early congressional action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy
Naval Service
Navy Department
Mercantile Marine
Bureau
Famies, &c
Tittmann
Congress
Old Inns and the march of progress in cities
The article argues that modern cities replace historic inns with high rise structures and elevators, noting Washington and major U S cities as examples. While Dickensian affection for old hostels persists, real estate gains and urban development drive change, as seen with Fifth Avenue and Astor House cited as soon to be replaced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
England
Chaucer
Dickens
Pickwick
Boots
Fifth Avenue
Lower Broadway
Perpetual Motion Clock Claims Astonish England
From Burton on Trent, England, Mr. P. Bentley declares a perpetual motion clock for stationery use has been solved. The electric mechanism draws power from the earth, runs without a wound spring, and has reportedly operated for months without stopping, with a claim it could run six years barring wear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Burton-on-Trent
England
P. Bentley
Liverspool
Bentley
Too Many Parasols for Him from the Popular Sage
Representative Gilbert M. Hitchcock recounted a comical bill for 128 parasols sent to his Connecticut apartment. He discovered the charge was made out to Frank St. Hitchcock, the Postmaster General, a single man, explained as a mistaken bill opened at a formal collation where parasols were intended as favors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagen
Gilbert M. Hitchcock
Connecticut
Washington
Thias
Frank St. Hitchcock
It Made a Difference. From Success.
William B. Ridgely, former comptroller of the currency, praised a speculator by likening him to a horse trader's son. The boy, told to ride, asked his father if he was buying or selling as he mounted and demonstrated the horse's paces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William B. Ridgely
Philosophical musings on proportions and duties
A fragmented reflection on mergers, dividends, and timing. The text notes how a fat merger may not yield juicy returns, homecomings provoke mixed reactions, and alarm clocks awaken readiness. It cautions about responsibility in judgment and the fragility of well built roads and plans.
Don Jaime Denies Engagement to Miss Morgan Rumor
An official denial from Don Jaime of Fromstort Austria rejects reports of engagement to Miss Morgan daughter of J Pierfont Morgan. He states they met once and he is not betrothed. The note notes dynastic duties require a marriage to a European princess to preserve his claim to the throne of Spain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dog Jalmey
Europe
Spain
Insect Courtship and Emotions, Harvard Expert Says
Harvard's Prof Wheeler reports insects show jealousy hate and love and act with courage at key moments. He details scorpions spiders crickets and grasshoppers using elaborate courtship dances duels and displays to win mates, noting similarities to human romance and mating rituals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
William Mr. Wheeler
Bussey Institute
Harvard University
Prof. Wheeler
Raf
Wheeler
Mona
Painter Ghobie Cultivates Market Garden Near Metropolitan Opera
Andrew Ghobie, a master painter once on Staten Island, runs a market garden 200 feet from Broadway under the Metropolitan Opera House. He rents from J. B. Wendell, on a 100 by 200 foot plot between Broadway and Seventh Avenue, beside Dodd's Express stables. He grows potatoes, lettuce, beets, cabbages, beans, carrots, geraniums, Miles, chrysanthemums, and hides the fence with scarlet runners. A St. Bernard named Rover and an old watchman guard the garden at night. Ghobie tends the plots in mornings, evenings, and Sundays, hoping for a good return if neighbors stay away from his crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metropolitan Opera House
New York ‘Times
Andrew Ghobie
Staten Island
Broadway
J. B. Wendell
Seventh Avenue
Thirty-eighth
Thirty-ninth
Dodd's Express Company
St. Bernard
Slid Down Pike's Peak on a Shoe
Colorado tourists C I Holden and Harry L Hartshorne claim a 9 mile descent down Pike's Peak by old shoe and rock fitted to Cog road rails. Holden from Shamrock Texas Hartshorne from Walter Oklahoma. They rode to prove the feat in about twenty minutes amid noted danger.
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Denver Rocky Mountain News
Pike's Peak
C. I. Holden
Harry L. Hartshorne
Manitou
Holden
Shamrock
Tex
Hartahorne
Walter
Oklo
Harry Robinson
Ataxicabibus joke in State Department scene
Assistant Secretary Adee rides home by bicycle and jokes with a well known official on the steps. The official explains a stiff foot and waits for a taxicab. Adee quips that the official suffers from locomotor ataxicabibus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adee
Department of State
Mr. Adee
Cherry inside soft boiled egg astonishes reader
In Grand Junction a veteran, Vosburg, split a soft boiled egg to discover a perfectly formed cherry inside. His wife explained that cherries were fed the previous day, a curious cause for the odd find reported this morning.
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Grand Junction
Mapzten
Venver
Vosburg
Vorburg
Florida sink closes rail line after subterranean lake forms
A new sink near Alachua Lake rapidly grew Wednesday night, swallowing earth and creating a boiling pool that halted Atlantic Coast Line trains after the Leesburg Jacksonvill e passenger reached town. Conductor Frederick and Section Foreman Thigpen reported a widening crater, with the rim cracking outward and water boiling like hot iron. The hole measured about 125 by 100 feet, and a tall tree vanished into the opening as work began to assess depth and shore up the line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottomisas” Bele
Florida
Proberty
Gategrille
Alachua Lake
Leesburg
Jacksonvills
Frederick
Thigpen
Biplanes and Love in Moonlight Verses
A quirky verse asks a would be flyer Minnie Mooney to take to the skies with Jimmie Cooney for a biplane night. The poem shifts to Cora Be W Greenleaf’s river romance, imagining a white canoe and calm, loving glances as a stray sunbeam shines on her hair.
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Minnie Mooney
Looney
Mrs. Cooney
Calffs Tribute to Twain in Pennsylvania Calf
The Philadelphia North American reports a calf born near Alburtis, Pennsylvania, bearing a white image on its side resembling Mark Twain. Owner W F Walker says the spotted calf is the most distinctive in his herd and not for sale. The calf was born April 21, 1910, close to Twain's death, and Walker asserts the likeness is unmistakable.
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Calthorpe Pearage
Somerset Gough Calthorpe
Lord Calthorpe
House of Lords
Calthorpe
Ms Summong
Somerset Frederick Gough Calthorpe
Royal Fuallier Regiment
Ogden Hoffman Burrows
Newport
Gough Calthorpe
Cardinal Newman
Birmingham
Edgbaston
Henry Calthorpe
Calthorpes
Norfolkshire
James Calthorpe
Cromwell
Marquise DE Fontenoy
Brentwood Company
Philadelphia
Mark Twain
Alburtis
America
W. F. Walker
Walker
Ita
Open season for oysters ends in Chicago Daily News
Quirky clipped prose notes in the Chicago Daily News reflect social humor and misstatements. The fragmentary lines joke about gender roles and common sense, mentioning wives, lawyers, doctors, and suspender pins in a satirical tone.
Reflections of a Bachelor from the New York Press
A light hearted column notes a woman’s smiles mask sting and jokes that even a fool tours other fools. It quips that self respect can offend others and warns marriage may not refine a wooden temper, claiming even a skilled swimmer needs the right man to teach her to float.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
German labor exchanges and Esperanto talk dominate visits
Visitors in the capital discuss Germany's labor exchanges and their role in reducing strikes. F W Tan zer notes German workers save widely and avoid begging. El wood Ryerson predicts Esperanto will become the international business and diplomacy language.
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Elwood Ryerson
Chicago
Arlington
Ryerson
Europe
United States
Washington
Germany
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Kansas
President Ripley
Wilson
John PD Rockefeller
Jeff
Bryan
Texas
al Spalding
Gil Pinchot
Jimmy Garfield
Don Jaime
Post Philosophy
Don Fame
Frederick W. Menzies
Life Guarda
London
Minn Hetty Davenport
John Davenport
Gouverneur Morris
Menzies
Nell Menaies
Neil Menzies
Foss
Perthshire
Michael Nairn
Kircaidy
Lord Rosslyn
Dysart House
Parthshire
Rannoch Lodge
T. W. Foley
Sudan
Gampaigna
Mensies
Hiver Tay
Countess of
Blair
Nell
Scots Guards
Lord
Stair
Neil
Sir Robert
Gon
Gantleman
Bownd
Mengles
Robert Menzies
Cr. McDonald
The
Chicago Tribune
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Strong
Jim Cooney
Bean
Jimmie
Calffs
Twain
Chicago Daily News
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Stettin
National
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Shoreham
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