Ante Election Promises and Mayor Gaynor’s Dilemma
The piece debates if a pre election pledge to serve a full term remains binding when a candidate seeks higher office. It weighs Mayor Gaynor’s vow to not resign against calls he run for governor, noting party dynamics and ethical questions about keeping promises.
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Publc
New York
Gaynor
United States
Jayner
Willam FR. Hearst
Gerard
Tammany
New York State
The Science of Prevention and Public Health Progress
The article extols prevention as a modern triumph over disease and credits hygiene, disinfectants, and public health measures with reshaping medical practice. It notes a shift from reliance on drugs to preventive science, quarantine laws, hospitals, and sanitation, and praises the reduced fear of outbreaks like cholera and smallpox.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leas
Jess
London
Care of Public Documents and the Need to Preserve Archives
The author argues for safeguarding national records after careless copying damaged the Declaration of Independence. Emphasizing gaps from the Capitol fire of 1814 and fires in public buildings, they urge Congress to fund a secure hall of records to preserve official documents for future historians and citizen loyalty.
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John Hancock
State Department
United States
Macaulay
Lbrarian of Congress
Capitol
Congress
The Isle of Pines Case and American Rights Abroad
The United States will protect its citizens abroad with justice and equity, urging responsible behavior by all citizens overseas. It notes treaty protections and consular aid, while critiquing regulatory overreach and cost of living concerns, and ends with a satirical jab at bureaucratic excess and absurd calculations.
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Isle of Pines
United States
The Microbe Limit and Venice in Modernist Eyes
A jumble of opinions on an Illinois ice cream bacteria limit and satire on Venice’s fate under radical reformers. The piece pokes fun at inspectors and microbes, contrasts water safety beliefs, and muses on preserving Venice for tourism amid industrial modernism. It weaves in political jabs at Taft Roosevelt and other current figures with whimsical asides.
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State Food Commission
Ulinois
Food Commission
Moving picture prank ends in baboon riot on trolley
Passengers on a Smith street trolley bound for Coney Island fled in terror when a moving picture man attempted to film thrills. A concealed baboon leapt onto a passenger, prompting blows with whips and a frenzied scramble to escape. The crowd’s fury cooled as the operator vanished in a waiting automobile. The second item rails at barber pole mutilation in New York, arguing for taller poles and restoring trade symbols.
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New York
Smith Street
Coney Island
Church Avenues
Moving Picture Company
Church Avenue
Coney
New York World
Fifth Avenue
East Side
Broadway
Athens
Hermes
Post Philosophy on Politics and a Kern of Arizona Talk
The piece vents on high living costs tariffs and a climate of suspicion about politics. It riffs on war politics and moneyed classes, hints at forest fires as staged, and ends with a forecast about Arizona politics and Frank Hitchcock seeking election as senator from a new state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona
Frank Hitchcock
France Upholds Nobility Titles in Republic Legal View
The keeper of the great seal answered in the chamber that authentic noble titles descended in the male line are recognized and registered by the justice department upon due proof. Unauthorized titles used in public documents incur felony penalties, and only titles predated the 1793 revolution or conferred by Napoleon and select papal or foreign issuances have legal value.
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France
Charles Leboucq
Seine
Department of Justice
Louis Philippe
Napoleon
Republic
Pilla IX
Vatican
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Chamber of Deputies
Lebouecq
Old Maids Charm Free Rein Says Youth Is Achievable
From the Kansas City Star an advice column urges single women to resist milestones toward old maidhood. Penelope, labeled by peers as prim, is advised to pursue youth through learning, dancing, swimming, and social engagement, arguing that age does not define vitality.
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The
Kansas City Star
Panelope
Greg
Penelope
Hfe
Penélope
Pénelope
Laterife
Newsbreaker in Tyrol Village Lightning Tragedy Tale
A Westminster Gazette excerpt recounts how bad news spreads in Tyrolean village life. A peasant tells a tavern boy that his family perished when lightning struck a wet fir tree, recalling a famed knightly ballad of delivering death news.
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Westminster Gazette
Ifs
Peter Roseggeer
Mast
Mat
Floating the Oyster Edict Changes Purée Center Food Rules
An article notes that oysters will be served fresh next month rather than fattened by floating. Proponents argue fattening harms propagation and quality, while some epicures claim subtle taste differences matter little. The writer asserts pure food inspectors protect against unwholesome or fraudulent foods.
Portugal Parties Keep Pickings In The Family
The Philadelphia Press analysis notes Portugal’s dual party system mirrors a two-machine setup. It describes rural peasants, landowners, and urban professionals aligning with conservative and liberal factions, who share graft and manage state spoils. It recounts 1907 to 1908 upheavals and predicts reforms likely to stall amid counter revolutions and ongoing looting.
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Philadelphia
Portugal
Amall
Pennsylvania
Franco
Manuel
Spain
How to Read Hard to Read Signatures in Letters
A column advises methods to decipher unreadable signatures from letters. It suggests using full printed names if legible, tracing signature hints in letterhead, checking stenographers’ addenda like BPG, and as a last resort pasting the signature on the envelope while addressing the recipient as My Dear Sir.
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The
Columbus Dispatch
Aven
Man Swims 500 Yards With Broken Leg at Rockaway
James Mack, a Brooklyn salesman of 549 Gates Avenue, swam 500 yards at Rockaway Beach yesterday despite a broken leg. He fell from a gangplank boarding the steamboat Cimbria at Steeplechase Pier. the plank broke his leg and he was carried out by the tide.
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New York Press
James Mack
Gates Avenue
Brooklyn
Rockaway Beach
Mack
Objectionable Picture Cards Traffic Targeted by Inspectors
Philadelphia postal inspectors crackdown on abroad sent objectionable picture postcards. They are mailed in plain envelopes and often opened in the recipient’s presence to curb the trade. Chief Inspector Cortelyou notes manufacturers avoid action. city officials have not moved against them. Mail with unsigned sender names is discarded to the dead letter office in Washington.
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Philadelphia Telegraph
Rnds
Phiadelphiais
Cortelyou
Washington
Can This Be Summer In A Love Lament
A Philadelphia Ledger poem by Eltye Kaufman laments summer’s heat and lost love, recalling a ghostly moonlit lane and a silent pool as longing grows. Carlyle Smith recalls a past heartbreak in the New York Sun, where a jilted suitor learns his former love has become his mother in law in a wry twist of fate.
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Lago
Falstaff
Pan
Bacilli
Hima
Herbert Dering
New York
England
Mexico
Washington
Henry Dering
Scots Guards
Henry
Edward
Edward Dering
Viscountess Forth
Bernard
Beers
Whitehead
Thackeray
Derings
William the Conqueror
Marquise DE Fontenot
Conyrlacht
Brentwood Company
Eltye Kaufman
The
Philadelphia Ledger
Carlyle Smith
New York Sun
Rose
Alaskan Mosquitoes and Witty Barbs Across Papers
A Kansas City Journal item relays Sergeant A C Gardner recounting Alaska’s mosquitoes near Nome while serving with the Twenty second Infantry. The piece parallels jokes from Cleveland and New York papers, then riffs on marriage, aging, and weighty quips about life.
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Kansas City Journal
A. C Gardner
Company C
Twenty-second Infantry
Union
Gardner
Milwaukee
Wis
Fort Gibson
Alaska
Nome
Yukon
Signal Corps
Wisconsin
New Jersey
Mississippi River
Philippines
Views of Visitors in Washington on Progress and Peru
A. P. Davis of Philadelphia recalls a minstrel joke about a family under a bridge and notes a canal quay railway in Bremen. George A Hackiel of Toronto discusses Lake Erie gas finds and pipelines to Toronto. Davidson H Beale of Detroit admires a House of Providence cradle swing setup for babies. 4. NW Mytton of Mexco City predicts Mexico City will become very beautiful, with a grand national theater costing about 6 million dollars and designed to withstand earthquakes.
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A. P. Davis
Philadelphia
Afington
Bremen
Ett
Lake Erie
George A Hackeil
Toronto
the National
Erie
Selkirk
Ontario
Mathead
St Catherines
Hamilton
Detroit
Davidson H Beale
Shoreham
Tree
House of Providence
Mexco City
NW Mytton
Raleigh
Myttom
United States
Mexico City
National Theater
Venetia's Public Try Ends With Cautionary Note
A Buffalo Expres s piece portrays a Southern woman’s luncheon where crabs are served. A note pinned to a crab warns not to eat it, highlighting a cautionary tale about food safety and poison risk during the tasting.
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Buffalo Express
Buffalo
Venetti
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Turner
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Joe Sibley
T. R
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Korea
Jim Sherman
Uncle Jos
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Minnesota
Post Philosophy
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Sunny Jim
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Wheel OF Fate
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Fia
St. Joseph's Hospital
Berlowe
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