Taft and Roosevelt Seek Harmony Over New York Convention
President Taft confirms there was no split with Theodore Roosevelt as his letter to Mr Griscom shows he only advised leaders to confer with Roosevelt. The New York State Committee debated a temporary chairman, Sherman or Roosevelt, amid pressure to avoid factional fighting. Public interest centers on whether Roosevelt is named temporary chair and if Taft and Roosevelt remain in harmony ahead of the convention.
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Taft
Roosevelt
Mr. Griscom
Messrs
New York
Vic
Sherman
Col Roosevelt
Tom
Sito Acie
al Sherman
Senator Root Way
Looostvelt
Mee Taft
Mio Roosevelt
Mi Roosevelt
Sherman Cate
Sternman
Tonsesell
Longworth
Col
Mero Timscom
Col Roose- Vet
Ietter
Mc Sherman
New York State
Strang Magazine
Mr Pickwick
Alexandra
Mme
Adelina Patti
England
Animals That Reason And The Debate On Animal Intelligence
A discussion of Prof Richard L Garner claims chimpanzees possess language and reasoning after four years studying a pet chimp in the Congo. The piece weighs whether dogs cats and other animals show rudimentary language or only instinct, citing observed behaviors like door waiting, avoidance of disliked foods, and empathy toward human family dynamics.
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Richard L. Garner
Sin
Peteral Garnel
Garner
Japan Seizes Korea and Shapes Far East Policy
Commentary argues Korea’s annexation by Japan shifts world politics and secures strategic and mineral wealth. It notes Korea’s value as a gateway to northern China and the Far East, and questions how Japan will wield its new power. The piece also critiques anti suffrage tactics in the United States as unfair and unsuitable.
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Japan
Korea
Russia
Germany
France
Ching
Portsmouth
China
Easil
Forest Fires and Prevention Efforts Across Railroads and Farms
The Adirondacks fire disaster of 1903 led to stricter forest fire laws and reduced blazes. Railroads now enforce spark arresters and patrols, while farmers still burn fallow land out of season. Willful arson and carelessness remain causes, though insurance companies begin covering large timber tracts, encouraging precaution and enforcement.
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Great Forest
Adirondacks
Suffragists Resume Activity Following Revival Call
The Rev Dr Anna Shaw president of the National Woman's Suffrage Association urges a revival of suffrage work in the United States. She notes recent English movement tactics like heckling meetings and cites experiences from a New England pedestrian propaganda tour and the support of benefactor Mrs Belmont as context.
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Thia
Pacific
Anna Shaw
Naional Woman’s Suffrage Association
United States
New England
Shaw
England
Belmont
The Coach and the Mail in a Changing World
A reflection on rural mail delivery and its lasting value amid rail and auto travel. The piece highlights carriers as local links between remote regions, carrying goods, errands, and even passengers, while noting the rise of cars and planes. It weaves in political jests and light notes on contemporary events of 1912.
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Paris
London
Daily Mail
Washington
Tce
Edison announces complete success of the electric storage battery
The wizard of invention Thomas A. Edison proclaims the electric storage battery a major advance. He argues it will transform transportation, industry, and urban life by replacing animal power and coal moves with faster, cheaper, and safer energy, likening its impact to steam power and electric uses for mankind.
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Rome
Brutus
Christopher Columbus
Caesara
Dean Swift
Plato
Edison
Hat room tip trust runs New York hotels and restaurants
Frederick Lo Fang describes a covert wage system where a centralized tip trust collects all customer gratuities from hotel and restaurant coatroom staff. A captan oversees uniforms and tips, with exactions on workers who surrender every dime, claiming to enforce honesty and weekly turnover to the trust.
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Frederick Lo Fang
Harpera Weekly
New , York
Tle
Great White Way
Farea
Tipa
Trust
Boas
Wall of broken china fascinates Detroit neighbors
Mrs Denler wife of Capt John Denjler of Canfield Avenue police station builds a wall of broken china in her Detroit home at 300 Dragoon Avenue. The kaleidoscopic china wall covers a sun parlor warmed in winter, with framed scraps of porcelain glass and raised decorations. She cataloged pieces saved as treasures and invites visitors to view the display.
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Detroit Free Press
Denier
John Denjler
Canfield Avenue
Dragoon Avenue
Painter Rested A Year Then Returns To Yellow Front
Joseph Dixon watches painter Ball resume work on his store in Whippany after a year away to rest. Ball explains he left two years ago to see the country and will finish the job, transforming the red front to bright yellow to match the other three sides. Dixon awards $5 for completing the painting.
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New York
Joseph Dixon
Dixon
Hullo
Elijah
Ball
Uoon
Brains Not Needed in New York Money Joke
A New York anecdote relates a country farmer who, faced by a pistol in Central Park, refuses to surrender his money. He quips that New York may be without brains but surely not without money, highlighting the stark contrast between brains and cash.
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New York
Mgr. Lavelle
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Central Park
Post Philosophy Reflections On Society And Self
A collection of aphoristic thoughts on human nature. loneliness, companionship, and social behavior explored through concise maxims. The piece muses on manners, work ethic, restraint, generosity, and the limits of prudent distance in life and finance.
Landgrave Alexander of Hesse to visit America for months
Landgrave Alexander of Hesse, cousin to Queen Alexandra, plans a lengthy tour of the United States and Canada. He is blind, a noted composer, and heir to the nonreigning branch of Hesse. His brother vanished mysteriously at sea. a related count’s title and belted estates are debated amid Hamilton family peerage claims and Chilean banquet plans led by Lord Aldenham.
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Alexander of Hesse
America
United States
Canada
Queen Alexandra
House of Hesse
Grand Duchy
House of Hohenzollern
Frederick Charles
Margaret
Kaléer
Friedrichshohe
Homburg
Empress Frederick
College For the
Sydenham
London
Singapore
Java
Belhaven
Francis Hamilton
Ninety-fourth Regiment
Wishaw
Committee On Privileges
House of Lords
Beihaven
Hamilton
Lord Aldenham
Chile
England
Fraga
Anthony Gibbs & Co
House of Gibbs
Alban Gibbs
House of Commons
Russia
Japan
Anthony
Fluffy the time-telling cat dies at Cedar Grove print shop
The Cedar Grove printery mourns Fluffy Roughhouse, a cat famed for entering daily at 11 45 and signaling lunch. After a night’s mischief she toppled into ink and glue, ending up stuck in the doorway as the clock halted at 11 45.
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New Wordsworth
Cedar Grove
N. J
H.H. Jacobus
Fiulty
Fluffy
Walla
Fiancée Found Insane Nurse From Poughkeepsie Asylum
Edward Smith, once a Hudson River Hospital for the Insane attendant, reports his fiancée Mrs. Margaret Close, a former nurse there, disappeared from a Coney Island hotel room. She later resurfaced in Bellevue Hospital’s insane ward, described as frightened and briefly lucid about her nursing past and plans to move to New Orleans with Smith. Authorities note she and Smith had worked at the same asylum. her condition labeled as hysterical fits by hospital staff.
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Poughkeepsie Asylum
New York Sun
Edward Smith
Hudson River
Poughkeepsie
Coney Island
Margaret Close
Prospect Hotel
Surf Avenue
New Orleans
Smith
Lockport
Grand Central Station
Gregory
Hudson River Hospital For
Mrs. Close
New York Parks Critiqued Over Harassment In Riverside
Southern visitors at Columbia summer program recount repeated approaches and ogling by men in Riverside Park after sunset. They describe fear and lack of escorts, noting that local guidance warned girls would face insults in New York parks after dark.
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New York Times
Columbia
Riverside Park
New York
G shaping King George statue debate in Bowling Green
A spoof verse from John O'Keefe in the New York World lampoons plans to honor King George VI with a Bowling Green statue. It rails at loyalist zeal, mocks colonial figures, and satirizes anti monarchy sentiment amid the era’s colonial reverberations.
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John O'Keefe
New York
George HV
England
Bowling Green
Gawd Syve
Wandering Roads and Aging in Verse and Print
A collage of verse and prose traces wanderers in Munsey’s poetry fragment and a reflection on aging in Jane Austen’s era and Victorian society. The piece discusses memory, time, and shifting perceptions of age, citing Mr Pickwick and Queen Alexandra in a meditation on youth and vitality.
Pointed Paragraphs From Chicago News
A collection of terse observations on milkmen doctors and arguments. The piece contrasts foolish and wise advice and notes how a doctor relies on patient cooperation while urging mutual understanding in disagreement. It reflects old city newspaper commentary style.
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Chicago News
Franzie
Arrow Pierces Traveler in Dense Summer Indian Hostilities
In 1869 George Wainwright and Ben Spencer led freight wagons toward the Missouri River to supply Colorado. An unseen attacker shot Wainwright in the neck with an arrow, but he survived with minor injury after Spencer and guards freed him. The two outfits had camped in a protective circle with a cottonwood-clustered retreat.
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Los Angeles Times
George Wainwright
Ben Spencer
Missouri River
Colorado Points
Wainwright
Spencer
What Is an Equinox From the Strand Magazine
Parents and teachers field awkward questions about the equinox in a humorous aside. The piece features a father baffled by the term and a playful misdefinition comparing equine oxen to mythic beasts. It hints at schooling and curiosity in a light, ironic tone.
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Strand Magazine
Tommy
Thies
Nox
Reflections of a Bachelor in a Curious Column
A fragmentary column notes a woman's view on keeping youth and deceit. It hints at marriage dynamics and suspicion when a husband fails to react to the baby’s cries, suggesting a social satire of domestic life with clever dressing and repeated desires.
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New York
Mule Bath and Trick Pictures Prompt Busy Hotel Talks
At the Shoreham and Arlington hotels in Washington readers discuss mules in mines and a bathing tub for work animals. Topics include a Lincoln tale about a Mississippi steamer, and a Department of Agriculture trick film on plant growth. Lincoln's anecdote echoes in a steam whistle story as well.
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G. R. Spitznagle
Minneapolis
Arlington
Department of Agriculture
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