Mount Vernon Shrine Plan and Pantchenko Case
The Washington Post argues Mount Vernon should be a free national shrine with a government funded highway from Washington to Mount Vernon. It also profiles Dr Pantchenko, a Russian physician accused of murdering patients via inoculation, noting public disdain and the medical field’s countermeasures.
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Mount Vernon
Washington
Alexandria
Congress
National Capital
Virginia
New York Sun
Post
Continent
Arizona recall plan risks mob rule and judge pressure
The Arizona constitution would allow recalls of judges through petitions and elections, a move Taft likely to oppose as it could turn courts into mob law. The piece questions the balance between public will and judicial independence amid nationwide reform debates in London and beyond.
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Arizona
Congress
Taft
Reciprocity First and the Tariff Board Powers Debated
Edward B Clark notes in the Chicago Post that reciprocity may save tariff board legislation but questions its durability. The president favors reciprocity, while the new tariff board lacks real commission authority and power to compel testimony, unlike the Interstate Commerce Commission. Taft’s advisers weigh agricultural and manufacturing interests as politics influence looms.
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Edward B Clark
Chicago Post
Tariff Board
Tariff Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Teal Commission
Taft
Canada
Fame for cash and melodrama from a crippled writer
Aged blind writer Olive Harper, 64 East Morningside, hawks sensational manuscripts and stage plots to earn money for herself and her ailing husband. She claims to sell all rights to The Blameless Sinner, seeking a buyer to publish under the author name. The piece sketches the couple’s odd life and Harper's vaudeville and dramatic ambitions.
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New York Herald
Oliva Harper
East Morningside
Helen @Avery
Olive Harper
Solomon Islands
Napoleon Honaparte
T. E. d'Apery
New Haven
Roll of baronets revised shows missing titles and fraud cases
The royal warrant for a Home Department roll of baronets has led to many doubtful titles disappearing from Burke’s editions. Sir Grenville Louis Temple, long listed as twelfth baronet of Stowe, is among those affected. A swindler used the missing status to impersonate him, and an American woman was duped into marriage. The piece traces Temple lineages from colonial links in Boston to later descendants and notes multiple claimants to the Stowe title.
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Edward
Home Department
Sir” Grenville
United States
Canadian Mounted Police
semmi-Arctic
Prince Albert Land
Sir’ Grenville
Atlantic
Grenville
Lady Godiva
Earl Leofric
Godiva
Robert Temple
Temple
Leterstershire
Henry III
Peter Temple
Edward VI
Stowe
Buckinghamshire
Thomas Temple
James I
Fuller
England
Richard Temple
George Temple
Marquis of Buckingham
Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
John Temple
Boston
Mass
New York
Sir John Temple
Bart
James Bowdoin
Massachusetts
Elizabeth
Thomas L. Winthrop
John
Col
George Watson
City
Grenyne Louis Temple
Marquis of
Buckingham
Temple of Stowe
Peter
Thomas
Edmund
Purbeck
Eleanor
Stephen Harvey
Hardingstone
Stephen
William W. Runciman
Grenville Louis Temple
Lady Temple
Ungland
Mis
Runciman
Scotland Yard
Battle of
el Tet
Grenville Temple
Marquise DE Fontenoy
Brentwood Company
Missionary Slays Leopard in Rhodesia Hunt
Rev. Dr. G. A. Wilder of the American Board recounts a leopard attack near Silinda in Rhodesia. With two natives and dogs, the party hunted the beast after it felled him with four head wounds, and Wilder finally killed it with a hatchet after a sustained battle.
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Winsted
New York
G. A. Wilder
American Board
Rhodesia
Asylum Hill
Wilder
Kaziboni
Nyuswa
Kasilioni
Indian Princess Exiled for Sacred Temple Dance
Princess Sita Devi, an East Indian former temple dancer and daughter of a rajah, tells how she offended her caste and was rejected after performing sacred dances. Exiled after forsaking temple life, she fled Bengal to Calcutta, then to Europe, and finally to New York seeking refuge.
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New York
Sita Devi
West Forty-fourth Street
Bengal
Calcutta
India
America
Misfit Congressman Sees Committee Friction
Washington Dispatch reports Representative McDermott of Chicago a Democrat resists committee placements noting no local agriculture ties and no schooling. The piece highlights his view of the committee system and a stockyard district mandate.
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Washington Dispatch
Philadelphia Record
McDermott
Chicago
Stock Yard
Explosion Reveals Tightwad In Broadway Cafe
In a New York Telegraph piece Ernest Truex recalls a notorious tightwad at a Broadway cafe. The man, famed for never buying a drink, explains after a dynamite blast that a jar from the explosion led him to loosen his grip on a 15 cent lightball.
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New York Telegraph
Ernest Truex
Ernest
Parkville Police Dogs Fail To Separate Friends From Foes
In Parkville Brooklyn, police dogs cannot distinguish between a beau and a burglar or a reveler and a robber. The article recounts an incident where a dog, muzzled and controlled by Officer Edward L. Youngs, detained a couple on their steps after mistaking them for intruders. The sequence ends with the couple terrified and frozen on their porch while the dog and handler continue patrols.
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New York Times
Parkville
Brooklyn
Edward L. Youngs
Jim
No Chance For Trouble and a Courtroom Jest
The text blends a comic fiddle tale where Frack L. Stanton dispenses dance to banish trouble and a Brooklyn court scene where Charles Smith, a jovial negro, faces a minor charge. Smith replies he cannot say if he has prior crimes but adds that he has been married once, in a light courtroom moment.
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Frack L. Stanton
Atlanta Constitution
New York Times
Charles Smith
Fawcett
Brooklyn
Poetry by Wire and Echoes from the Press
A collage of bite sized lines from Chicago and Boston papers, musing on rumor appetite and public figures. It notes Rhode Island enthusiasm, a postmaster telegraph message, and a conspicuous tongue in cheek about reciprocity with a patriotic refrain about steadfast hearts.
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Chicago News
Boston
Rhode Island
Newport
Pleria
McCall
Gaion
Reflections of a Bachelor Justifiable Hate
A fragment from Chicago Record Herald and New York Press offers satirical lines on friendship, debt, happiness, and trust. It contrasts money borrowing from strangers, vanity, and the complicity of women in male confidence games, with remarks on politics and civic virtue.
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Chicago Record Herald
Engineers praise US Navy speed and reform drive
William D. Forbes and Charles E. Littlefield discuss naval speed gains since a disputed 19th century claim, noting improved engineering and Meyer’s businesslike methods. Virginia lawyers Marshall McCormick and John J. Lewis hail leaders in Senate and Columbus growth, with speculation on a new progressive party forming.
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House of Commons
England
EB. J. Reta
William D. Forbes
New London
Conn
Mediterranean
United States
Meyer
Annapolis
The Other Roosevelt in Albany Lobby Duel
In New York Evening Post Albany correspondence President Franklin D Roosevelt, an insurgent, is described meeting Dan Cohalan in the Ten Eyck lobby. William Barnes Jr, sidelined by quinsy, notes Roosevelt has “one of those” while Cohalan quips the heir is still young. The exchange hints at intra party tensions and political cross talk.
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Saturday Evening Post
New York City
New York
Stock Exchange
United States
Charles E. Littlefield
House
Maine
Congress
Mr. Littlefield
New Willard
Gov. Harmon
Woodrow Wilson
Gov. Dix
Champ Clark
Ife
Albany
New York Evening Post
William Barnes, Jr
Ten Eyck
Dan" Cohalan
Murphy
Franklin D Roosevelt
Barnes
Cohalan
Leacher
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