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Rail rate fight stirs Senate action and Post coverage
The Post outlines Senate Interstate Commerce Committee moves against the Flehburn-Dolliver bill as the sole rail rate measure left, noting informal conferences and eliminations led to favoring the Holyer-Hepburn bill. The paper promises continued front page coverage with objective, fresh news.
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Germany Bluff Not Worth The Risk In Trade War
The author argues the United States can endure without German trade while Germany relies on the U S for essential food and materials. He cites 1904 export figures showing most U S goods to Germany were necessities, with far less in manufactured items, and contends the mutual dependence is asymmetrical. The piece asserts nations pursue self interest and deny sentiment in tariffs or diplomacy.
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Congress
Ty Glafer
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Pixon
Be to Transport the Pyramid of Cheops in Brooklyn Carriage
A whimsical note wonders about moving the Pyramid of Cheops in a Brooklyn baby carriage. The author muses that Germany could attempt the feat again, alluding to entertainment value and novelty.
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Remark on Longworth Honeymoon Choice and Havana Welcome
The writer lauds Nicholas Longworth for his honeymoon style and extols a Cuban sojourn in Havana. They praise Cuba as a winter refuge with polite, carefree society, scenic drives along Vedado and Marianao, and warm hospitality. The piece celebrates climate, scenery, and graciousness as ideal for travel-minded couples.
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New York
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Marianao
Publicity and integrity in political campaign funds
An editorial discusses revelations about life insurance investigations and embezzlement in campaign financing. It questions how to expose auxiliary committees like the Protective Tariff League and their influence, noting both parties rely on publicity yet fear scrutiny. It argues public virtue over victory and questions publicity's cure.
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What Shall the Issue Be What is the Democratic plan
The article critiques the Democratic Party for lacking a campaign issue and lists potential focuses such as municipal ownership, state ownership, national ownership, and tariff revision. It argues railroad rate questions are pressed by Roosevelt, suggests the Democrats should seize tariff reform as a unifying issue, and notes public demand for change.
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Democratic Party
Farea
Tom Johnson
Hearst
Bryan
Debs
Robert M. T. Hunter
Samuel J. Tilden
Grover Cleveland
Mark Hannatt
Roosevelt
Treaty questions and usury concerns in political notes
A dense column covers Isle of Pines treaty questions urging Cuban self-government provisions and removal of a disputed consideration. It criticizes Dixon usury bills, argues for wage and debt protections for District clerks, and notes political remarks about Bryan, tariff, and various officials.
Washington Gossip in Senate and Public Life
The piece ribaldly surveys Senate maneuvers and public figures during a tense session. It ridicules Boss politics after Pennsylvania elections, hints at pork barrel stunts by Carter, comments on Hulls Rules Committee, and mocks the Heyburn pure-food bill amid chatter about salaries and trust in government.
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WHY mKINLEY WAS A MASON
The article recalls a Savoy dinner for the Scottish Rite in New York marking the 99th Supreme Council anniversary. Gen Horatio C King recounts McKinley joining the Masons after aiding Confederate wounded in the Shenandoah Valley and a doctor’s remark about Masons prompting his lodge induction at Winchester and Canton.
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Savoy
Supreme Council of the United States
Horatio C. King
McKinley
Shenandoah Valley
MacKintley
Winchester
Sheridan
Fide
Monterey Battle Memorial Poem Fragment
A condensed excerpt recalls the Monterey fighting with lines about gallant spirits, a stubborn column under iron sleet, and the firing on the town. It contrasts heroic sacrifice with the memory of the dead and the banners still waving in triumph amid the guns. The piece is followed by a brief, lighthearted quip about life and romance from the New York Press.
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FIGHTING COUNT HALF AMERICAN and European aristocracy linked
A long profile traces Count Guy de la Rochefoucauld’s French conviction for church riot activity and his claimed American blood. It surveys the de la Rochefoucauld lineage, marriages into Montgomery and Perron families, connections to Italian and Austrian nobility, and notes on Italian premier Baron Sonnino. Also touched are Lord Belper’s ironmonger ancestry and the Spin ning Jenny anecdote linking Strutt and Arkwright.
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Paris
Euphasine Montgomery
New Orleans
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New York
Crescent City
de la Rodisfoucauld
London
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Hague
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Anne Perron
India
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France
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Roux
Gaston de la Roucheffoucauld
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Horace Rumbold
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Baron Delmar
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Louis Kil
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Rocheguyon
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The Man on the Steps
A light domestic scene unfolds on a Chicago front steps as a woman delays a matinee by searching for a pin a shoe button and gloves while a patient George waits upstairs finally urging her to hurry before the evening show.
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Boudoir
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Pointed Paragraphs From the Chicago News
A collection of aphoristic lines on wealth marriage prudence and human folly. The passages critique self deception and social pretensions while wryly noting the dangers of sounding noble yet acting childish. The tone reflects urban columnist observations on character and judgment.
United States Senate praised in New York Sun editorial
The New York Sun lauds the Senate as conservative and capable, defending its rules and suggesting blame lies with citizens’ political participation. It cites historic figures like Webster and Clay and argues for public effort to uphold the nation’s free institutions against radical critics.
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Forty story New York skyscraper taller than Washington Monument
The New York World reports a proposed Singer Building expansion on Lower Broadway with a forty story tower rising to 592 feet. The design by Ernest Plage includes a central bay window, brick and limestone facades, four elevators, and a 150000 square foot floor area.
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Washington Monument
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Liberty Street
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Trailroad
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Cedar Street
Tiana
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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
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Old Church
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Pulitzer
Mrs Longworth’s Silver Hat a Marvel of Craft
From the New York American, Mrs Longworth commissions a one of a kind silver hat with a giant ostrich plume of silver. The 40 inch plume curls around a mostly silver hat weighing about half a pound. The total cost is $200 including the plume.
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America
Like Spartan Boy's Nerve. From the Philadelphia Leager.
August Hillard, sixteen, of 180 Diamond street, astonished staff at Pennsylvania Hospital after walking in with abdomen muscles nearly bare. He was caught between cogwheels in George W. Gibbons printing shop at 147 North Tenth street where he works as a press feeder. Charles Murphy saved him. Despite pain he refused ambulance. Surgeons say he will recover.
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Diamond Street
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Charles Murphy
Kings in America from the Philadelphia Bulletin
The royal families of Sweden Spain and Italy own late New York parcels. Kaiser William owns several New York lands and invests in Western property. The King of England inherited Nassau street real estate in New York. King Edward owns thousands of acres in the West.
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Philadelphia Bulletin
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Foundations Are Early Laid Lora Chesterfield
A compact note on foundational learning urging early solid grounding. It stresses that knowledge not firmly built before age eighteen cannot be mastered later in life. The piece presents a moral about lifelong mastery tied to decisive early effort.
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Lora Chesterfield
Final Vote on Tariff Bill in Reichstag
Berlin Feb 28 The Reichstag passed the final reading of the tariff extension bill by a large majority. No ballot vote was needed. Debates referenced treaties of 1828 and future U S Prussia relations as the United States grows stronger. Opposing factions were extreme agrarians and some National liberals.
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Poor work under Carter jetties nearly vanished
In Savannah on February 28 the federal court trial of Greene and Gaynor heard Canadian Pacific railway engineer James Ff Bacon testify that Cumberland Sound jetty work by the defendants had largely disappeared. Bacon described the cost of government beds and jetties, noting four thousand four hundred forty four dollars for mattresses and two thousand seven hundred eighteen dollars for solid stone jetties.
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Garner
Loyal letter from recovered money sender praises government
A man who recovered money lost in the mails thanks the government in a letter addressed to 40 My Dear Government. He recalls forefathers in the Revolution and expresses deep loyalty and gratitude for the post office’s role in returning funds.
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Plan Annual Meeting for Treasury Branch of Civil Service
Meeting of executive and auditing committees planned for the Treasury Branch of Civil Service Retirement Association. Annual meeting at Carroll Institute Hall on March 14 to elect officers and standing committees. Report to national president noted two retirement bills prepared by the Treasury branch to present to Congress.
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Canal expenses fall as isthmus material moved rises
A Canal Commission report from Enginger Stevens shows January 1905 in the Culebra division had 120,90 total yardage moved at 72 cents per cubic yard, a cost decrease from December when 7,630 yards moved cost 02 cents. Yardage moved nearly doubles versus January.
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Board Ends Labors of Steam Vessel Inspectors
The supervising inspectors of steam vessels closed their month long session. Secretary Metcalf urged strict duty, noting vast improvements in steamboat equipment and congratulating the board on progress. The department said the forthcoming report will include recommendations for better steamboat navigation.
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Wheat for starving Japanese
The Post-Intelligencer launches a wheat relief drive for famine victims in northern Japan. It pledges ten tons of wheat and calls for in kind subscriptions. A Great Northern liner Dakota is set to sail March 12, with Washington farmers urged to donate from last year’s harvest of 30,000,400 bushels. Funds and subscriptions flow from New York and Boston reports on Red Cross gifts and Knights of Pythias anniversary activities in Dayton and state events.
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Million dollar Granite Contract in Chicago Court Case
The Woodbury Granite Company of Hardwick VI announced it has been awarded the contract to furnish granite for the new Yook County court house in Chicago. The contract involves an expenditure of $1,000,000.
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Judge Wickersham’s Alaska Jurisdiction and Early Governance
Judge James Wickersham, presiding over Alaska’s Third District, arrived in Eagle City with limited resources and built civil government from scratch. He organized precincts, probate judges, and town incorporation, traveled on foot with a dog team to hold courts, and later served in Nome to straighten out regional governance and expand judicial reach.
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Gambling on golf risks spoiling the sport says Mrs Perry
From the New York Tribune Mrs HA Perry of Brae Burn Golf Club in Wee Newton Mash criticizes the booming golf gambling as dangerous to the game. She notes high stakes among both men and women, braggadocio, and club reputations suffering, urging clubs to ban betting and discipline violators.
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