Reunited Republicans Seek Bold Chicago Convention
The Republican party plans a vigorous Chicago meeting before the Democrats gather in St Louis to define their attack on Wilson. Delegates will heal past splits, select a champion, and present a strong, aggressive platform to defeat Wilson and regain momentum. The coming battle hinges on decisive leadership and energetic strategy.
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Chicago
St Louis
Woodrow Wilson
United States
Chisago
Mr. Wilson
Congress
Republican Party
Wilson
Income Tax Figures Show Millionaires Still Multiply
The Internal Revenue Bureau reports last year’s income tax rolls list 357 515 taxed individuals in the United States. Among them 282 906 are married, 61 29 single men, 22 980 single women, and 3 985 married women filing separately. It notes more people earn over 500 000 yearly than 400 000 to 500 000, with 174 having incomes above 500 000 and 69 in the 400 000 to 500 000 bracket. Estimates suggest 9 694 millionaires exist, many self made, while 127 448 earn between 5 000 and 10 000 and 2 754 between 3 000 and 4 000.
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Internal Revenue Bureau
United States
Morgan
Rockefeller
Carnegie
Mars
Land of Opportunity
Opportunity and freedom in new laws for all citizens
The text argues for equal opportunity in lawmaking, noting that preserving freedom benefits the poor as much as the rich. It emphasizes that new legislation should maintain liberty, initiative, and untaxed access to opportunity for everyone.
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United States
Opposed to Direct Taxation Dominate Democratic Debate
The piece argues the public rejects direct war taxes and accuses Democratic leaders like Keating and Callaway of betraying pledges. It cites district risks, regional views, and suggests reviving revenue via tariffs or bonds while lampooning health cure quackery as digressive satire.
Curing insomnia with bed races and after dinner walks
The piece discusses various supposed cures for insomnia and colds, noting doctors doubt the cures and describe two novel methods. One is the Missouri method of racing around the bed to drive Morpheus away, the other starts at the last meal with table pacing and sparring repartee. It likens the ideas to walking on an empty stomach for indigestion.
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Helen
Paira
Missouri
Morpheus
Navy defense and pan American unity urged by Tillman
Senator Tillman argues for a robust navy as the first duty of national defense and a hemisphere wide preparedness. He and Roosevelt press a strong program to deter European powers, defend Haiti and other republics, and keep unity among American nations against overseas threats. The piece links naval strength to liberty and the Monroe doctrine evolving into pan American solidarity.
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Senator Tillman
Senate
Hemisphere
United States
Great Britain
Tillman
Col
Roosevelt
Barrett
Alstar
Haiti
Santo Domingo
Venezuela
Florida
California
New World
Earth
Lady Edmonstone Made Lady in Waiting at British Court
Lady Edmonstone received a court appointment as lady in waiting to Princess Christian, aided by favored status with Queen Alexandra and family ties to Mme de Falbe. The article recalls Archibald Holmanstone and Glamis Castle mysteries, then shifts to the marriage recall of Miss Dorothy Falk to Lieut Woolf J Barnato and the Barnato family fortune and rise from modest roots.
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Edmonstone
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Alie
Howard VI
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Hdmonstoke
Alexandra
Mme. de Falbe
Charslotta Knollys
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George Forber
Newa
H. Dudley Ward
Queen Alexandra
George Keppel
Holmanstone
America
Sir Archibald
Lady Helmonatone
Atlantic
Newport
New York
Dunreath Castle
Stirling
Tweed
Glamis Castle
Earl of Strathmore
Wes
Glamiz Castle
London
Dorothy Madaline Falk
Herbert Falk
White Plains
Woolf J Barnato
Royal Field Artillery
France
Harney Barnato
Cape Town
England
Barnato Barney
South Africa
Whitechapel
Marquise DE Fontenoy
The
Brentwood Company
War Blessing to Junkman Harvests Scrap Trade
Marysville Dispatch reports junk dealer W A Lewis in Marysville profits from European war demand. For eight years he hoarded scrap iron in Yuba and Sutter counties, piling 1,200 tons at Eighth and Barraets. A San Francisco firm will take the cargo, requiring 25 cars, shipping at two cars weekly, with completion expected in spring.
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Marysville
Bee
Sherman
W. A Lewis
Lewis
Yuba
Sutter
Eighth
Barraets
Europe
Command & Price
San Francisco
European Way
Hasy Street
Five Luber Brothers Killed in War Report
Hans Luber of Cedar Rapids learns five of his eight brothers were killed in battle and another is a prisoner in a camp near St Michel France. The eight Luber brothers joined the colors when the war began.
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Man In Laws
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
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Hans Luber
St. Michel
France
Luber
Colora
Germany
Congress Condensed Senate and House Highlights
Senate not in session as committees advance Philippines self government measure and armor plant hearings. Majority Leader Kitchin seeks extension of emergency war tax. Mann shifts Republican and Progressive members to standing committees. Byrnes investigates lobbying against the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Marshall impeachment article referred to judiciary. Fess reintroduces national university bill. President's revenue message sent to Ways and Means. Adjourned at 1:40 until noon today.
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Mann
Merin
Daniele
Europe
Clark
Florida
Commission of Plaga Awards
Byrnes
South Carolina
Congressional Union
Pags
North Carolina
House
Buchanan
Tjiball
H. Snowden Marshall
United States
New York
Judiciary
Fess
Ohio
National University
Washington
Ways and Means
Waits 20 Years for 20 Cents in Bank Claim
Gottlieb King filed a 20 cent claim in Circuit Judge Kinney's court against the Mullanphy Bank now in receivership. United States Senator W J Stone, receiver for the bank, attended to hear claims with final settlement pending. Claimants appeared: Mrs Christina Meyer claiming 3.02 and Mrs Mary Schwartz claiming 62.08.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Mullanphy Bank
Kinney
Gottlieb King
United States
W J. Stone
Eling
Christina Meyer
Mary Schwartz
Grafting Hickory and Pecan At Shreveport Club
Nuts from this year’s crop at the Shreveport Golf and Country Club show grafting hickory trees with pecans is practicable. H Bolinger, former club president, led the grafting effort and cites nut quality as proof of success. Bolinger has about 1,000 grafted trees at Ethia Lea plantation, with some yielding up to 100 pounds per tree.
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Shreveport
New Orleans
Shreveport Golf and Country Club
H. Bolinger
Bolinger
Ethia Lea Plantation
Not With Vain Tears Poem by Rupert Brooke
A compact poem fragment from Rupert Brooke in the Living Age urges seeking silent air byways after death rather than earthbound mourning. It envisions two lovers meeting in a shadowed, windless alley to share understanding beyond bodily perception.
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Rupert Brooke
Earth
Children Cry For Parents Who Die By Poison in Aldine Square
A seven year old girl, Dorothy Clifford, pleads for Mamma and Papa as her parents John Henry Clifford and Marie Clifford die from poison within hours. Chicago and Philadelphia papers note mystery about Mr Clifford’s work in the country. A dealer tries to push a fraudulent art sale while an officer intervenes. Many neighbors consider adoption for the child.
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Mamma
Chicago Dispatch
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Dorothy Clifford
John Henry Clifford
Aldine Square
Clifford
Marie Glenn
Dayton
Chicago
Essong in Memory from the Lampoon
A fragmented verse piece from the Lampoon featuring snippets of Irish wit and banter. Jaffrey remarks on a man’s gold tooth memory and Agnes jokes about carrying it in his head. Murphy responds with pride about receiving only the black from Maloney.
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the Lampoon
Jaffrey
Agnes
Goat Chews Pants To Ignite House Fire In Reading Pa
A goat on Angelo Con Bigntine’s premises chewed a pair of trousers hanging in a rear building and set fire to a three story frame dwelling after the owner left a box of matches in a pocket. Firemen faced trouble extinguishing the blaze.
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Dweing
Reading
Angelo Con- Bigntine
Federals at Fredericksburg Defeated 53 Years Earlier
In December 1862 the Army of the Potomac under Burnside crossed the Rappahannock at Fredericksburg but failed to break Lee’s entrenched lines. Meade and Hancock led later efforts toward Marye's Heights, suffering heavy casualties. By night of December 15 the Federal army retreated gaining a humiliating defeat. Confederate losses were far lighter.
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Fredericksburg
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Hamilton
Meade
Maude
Richmond
P Hill
Hill
Gibbon
French
Couch
Hancock
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Ines
Hooker
Humphreys
Sykes
Burnaide
Mountain Lion Kills Cattle. Reward Reaches 570 Dollars
Trinity County stockmen offer 570 dollars reward for the head of an old mountain lion that has killed and bled cattle and hogs over two weeks, spanning from Long Ridge to Lewiston. Two hunters and twelve dogs pursue. the creature reportedly drinks blood rather than flesh.
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Sacramento Bee
Trinity County
Long Ridge
Haga
Buckeye Mountain
Trinity Sounty
State Fish and Game Commission
Dry cleaner misorders chemical and loses big profit
Parsons Dispatch reports Anton Gamer, a dry cleaner in Saint Paul, ordered 100 gallons of carbon tetrachloride by mistake rather than 10. He paid 129 dollars per gallon and the supplier refused a return on the extra 90 gallons. War price increases later boosted profit to over 2500 dollars for the 90 gallons kept.
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Parsons
Kaus
Paul
Anton Gamer
Gamer
Views of World Travelers Meet in Capital Hotel Lobbies
In Washington at the New Willard Hotel key Republicans including Harry M Daugherty of Ohio and West Virginia leaders discussed 1916 campaigns. Daugherty urged support for Burton for president, while West Virginia figures backed Governor Hatfield and a harmony slate for the Republican ticket. Pennsylvania Governor Brumbaugh and others weighed party fundamentals, tariff issues, and the likelihood of Roosevelt’s return debates amid ongoing cross‑state political maneuvering.
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Harry M Daugherty
Columbus
Ohie
United States
Pomerene
Burton
Daugherty
Ohio
New Willard
Buckeye
Virginia
Republican Party
West Virginia
Washington
Hatfield
Denham
Clarksburg
West
Ira Robinson
Gov Hatflerd
People of
Tor
Republican National Committee
Virgil Highland
Hig Place
Sherman C Derham
Republians
Ang
Martin G Brumbaugh
Pennsylvania
Republian
Col Hoosevelt
Col Roosevelt
Venussvania
Roosevelt
Mniuiltona
Crows Loot $1 From Camp Beak as Foreman Fires
Chico Dispatch Sacramento Bee reports that a crow gang notorious for kleptomania stalked a construction camp near Shippee. Foreman John Schoniow fired on a flock, killing one crow which yielded a single dollar in its beak, suggesting selective theft before its demise.
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Chico Dispatch
Sacramento Bee
Ita
Chico Construction Compay
Shippee
John Schoniow
Schoniow
Berkeley Prize Essay Names Witful Student At UC
Sachary Bee Edward Marshall Maslin of the University of California is announced as the wittiest student and winner of the Irving prize for wit and humor. His essay On the Futility of Twitching Up One's Trousers to Prevent Bagging at the Knees is honored along with futurist verses labeled songs on serious subjects in a cubist style. Maslin is a junior from Watsonville and the report notes his Gargoyle She-One robin reference.
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Berkeley Dispatch Sachary Bee
Edward Marshall Maslin
University of California
Irving
Massing @ junior
Watsonville
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