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Hughes Endorses Constitutional Suffrage Amendment
The article notes Hughes taking a lead by backing a national constitutional suffrage amendment, arguing it could swing key states and alter electoral outcomes. It contrasts Hughes with Wilson, highlights potential voter impact from about 4.09 million voting women, and discusses the suffrage movement's organization and potential influence in presidential politics.
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The Unpardonable Sin and Border Line Retribution
Survivors of the Carrizal massacre vow to kill an American deserter who joined Mexican forces and trained the machine gun on former comrades. The vow reflects postwar bitterness and a universal human impulse for vengeance, with the attackers promising to execute him on sight whenever fate grants opportunity.
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Border Line
Carrizal
Traitors and Patriots Across History and War’s Moral Code
The article reflects on views of treachery and loyalty in war, contrasting Benedict Arnold and Judas with the enduring respect between former foes. It argues that despite lasting hostilities, mutual respect arises after conflict, and reconciliation follows once the outcome is settled, rooted in core human traits.
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Benedict Arnold
Judas
Senate Defends Half and Half Finance For District
The Senate backs the half and half funding rule for District expenditures after a debate on District government. It stands against a Works Amendment and warns the House to yield or renew last year’s appropriations. Senator Works favors inquiry and possible federal control but the Senate resists radical changes for now.
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Hopeful Banking Changes
The Senate has adopted amendments to the Federal reserve act to broaden bank operations. They allow real estate loans within 100 miles of district lines, permit larger investments in foreign banking stocks, and cap new domestic branch numbers for banks with $1 million capital.
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Federal Reserve Board
Bankers Demand Immediate Adoption of Credit Boundary Amendments
The amendments extend credit facilities and reflect changes bankers deem necessary. Backed by Treasury officials and Federal Reserve members, they should be written into law without delay to broaden national credit boundaries and fund liquidity.
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Treasury
Federal Reserve Board
Unusual Accidents and the Call for Caution
The piece argues that many disasters arise from neglect and lack of foresight. It cites Black Tom Island and Ellis Island bombings, notes arrests of corporate officials, and urges proactive safety measures by transportation firms and mills to prevent future harm. It emphasizes foresight over hindsight and the need for early precautions.
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Tom Ieland
Interstate Commerce Commission
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Relief for Flood Victims in Several States
The Senate quickly passed Senator Overman’s relief resolution allocating 540000 for immediate aid to flood sufferers in North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Alabama Florida and Mississippi The plan directs the War Department to provide seeds for quick growing crops offer employment and distribute supplies from quartermaster and medical depots to alleviate widespread disaster while calls for swift House action and rapid relief.
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Sir David Harrel to Head Irish Viceroy Commission
Irish born Sir David Harrel, from Mount Pleasant County Down, is named as a principal lord justice to fulfill viceroy duties. His long service includes police reform, Dublin governance, and Irish administration work, with later roles on Ireland’s privy council and royal commissions.
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The Usual Way
A Detroit Free Press excerpt reflects on how a listener offers help only after asking about assets. The verse satirically notes slipping from sympathy to assessing financial worth, ending with the question of what assets the troubled person holds.
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Congress Condensed Adopts Relief Funds and Nominates U S Attorney
Congress adopted resolutions providing 540000 dollars for Southern flood relief. James Carr of Wilmington N C was nominated as United States attorney for the eastern district of North Carolina. Senator Taggart proposed a volunteer motor car reserve under War Department direction. Army appropriation bill conferees disagreed on several provisions but expected agreement soon. Recessed at 4 36 pm until 10 am.
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Taggart
War Department
House in recess meets today at noon and hearings resume
The House, not in session, is meeting today at noon. Naval conferees resume hearings on the proposed increase in navy personnel. Foreign affairs committees closed hearings on the Niagara Falls water diversion.
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Niagara Falla
A Sikh Boy Who Won Fame From the London Globe
The life of Sirdar Bahadur Ram Singh a Sikh boy born in humble circumstances who rose to honor through merit. He impressed Lockwood Kipling and became head of Mayo School of Art Lahore. In 1891 designed Durbar Hall Osborne and Queen Victoria admired his work. In 1892 he returned to Punjab with a silver cup and a royal letter.
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Sirdar Bahadur Ram Singh
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Lockwood Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
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Mayo School of Art
Lahore
England
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World's Largest Telescope Mirror Ready for Mount Wilson
The Los Angeles Times reports the Carneg ian Observatory on Mount Wilson completed the world s largest reflecting telescope mirror after three years of work. The 100 inch diameter disk weighs 45 tons and promises to reveal 100,000,000 previously unknown stars. Cast by Saint Gobain of Paris, it rests on a concrete base as access roads and transport tubes are prepared for assembly.
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Los Angeles Times
Carnegis Observatory
St. Gobain Plate Glass Company
Paris
The Weed and the Youth in the Garden Trench
From the New Fork Sun poem narrates a weed’s view of growth and struggle. A youth in a garden and in the trenches confronts mortality as the sun air and rain nourish it yet the sickle looms. The speaker longs for freedom while facing fate.
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Coffee for Overheated Work Horses on Farms
A Breefera Gazette excerpt advises farm teams to prevent heat injuries by proper feeding watering and stabling. It notes signs of distress in hot weather and recommends cooling with water ice and aromatic spirits of ammonia or warm coffee as a stimulant, per the Boston Work Horses Relief Association.
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Boston Work Horses Relief Association
Webster Eulogized Adams and Jefferson in Boston August 2 1828
Two memorial exercises in Beaton and Faneuil Hall honored John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Daniel Webster delivered a lengthy eulogy, with Charles Lowell prayer, while John Quincy Adams and others attended and the crowd packed the streets. Webster allegedly wrote Adams speech and quoted the famed sink or swim line, ending with independence forever.
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Thomas Jefferson
Daniel Webster
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Fillmore
John Adame
Reading the Bible as Poetic Beauty and Spiritual Guide
Richard Le Gallienne recalls how reading the Bible as literature reveals its poetic power. He mentions Job, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Isaiah, David, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, and the Psalms. He notes a renewed respect for the Bible as a profound soul book and asks if Bernard Shaw may have written anything to match the Twenty‑third Psalm.
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Force of Habit Recalled in Frontline Tale
A music hall comedian enlists, joins the army and charges enemy trenches. In a desperate moment he recognizes a dimly remembered face in field gray and blurts out the greeting “Hullo Karl” with the old habit intact. The brief anecdote contrasts war’s brutality with a comic greeting from memory.
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God's Economies. A faith in divine timing and mortality.
A concise meditation from Orra Herris in the New York Independent on trusting God’s economies. The speaker declares unwavering faith in providence, noting prayers for weather are unnecessary and mortality will occur as fate dictates, urging acceptance of life and death.
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Orra Herris
New York Independent
Pa, what is the great white way
Pa explains the guiding principle of the era in a concise, folksy stance. The exchange frames a moral emphasis on doing right as a veteran, trusted parent shares wisdom with his son in a Pittsburgh Post context.
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Pittsburgh Post
Views of Capital Visitors on Interesting Current Events
John H Clarke of Cleveland sworn in as associate justice of the Supreme Court by Chief Justice White. Clarke, a noted Ohio lawyer and former circuit judge, favors residence in Washington but loves Nantucket in summer. Carrie Chapman Catt advocates universal suffrage and expects a federal amendment by 1922 with party support in 1920 and state ratifications to follow. Letters mix Nantucket and Mantucket confusion reflect travel lore.
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American Womans’ Suffrage Association
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Paper makers accused of collusion over paper prices
The Birmingham News owner Frank P Glare told the Federal Trade Commission there is collusion among print paper manufacturers. He said profits from selling newspapers do not cover paper costs and prices have jumped 35 percent despite little rise in production costs. He warned publishers may have to raise paper or ad rates, risking circulation.Meanwhile, H A Browne of Topeka reported university geologists aiding Kansas oil surveys. More than 20 students map formations, with 6.6 million acres opened and active wells rising to over 7,000, yielding 10 barrels on average and some gushers observed.
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Birmingham News
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
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Glass
Federal Trade Commission
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