Our Duty In China and Abolish Free Seed Perquisite
The Washington Post comments on the China missionary peril and US policy while criticizing the wasteful practice of free seed distribution to lawmakers. It denounces meddling in China, urges retreat, and notes Congressゼs move to cut 240 000 dollars for seed subsidies as official graft. It also mocks Willemstad Venezuela coverage and official responses to casts of international events.
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Wadsworth
House Committee On Agriculture
Root
Michigan
Congo
India
America
North America
Judea
Congo Free State
Ceres
Pomona
Cortez
United States
Valley of the
Yazoo Delta
Tibet
Congress
Isle of Pines
Abhorrent cash appeal practice in New Mexico
An 1870s critique notes that New Mexico permits a convicted murderer to delay execution by paying for a trial transcript and appeal, creating a system where wealth buys life and possible escape. The piece condemns this as an abhorrent, selective extension of life dependent on money, with broader questions about territorial and federal responsibility.
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Santa Fe
New Mexico
Illinois
Supreme Court of
Territory
John Carte
Disputcn
New
United States
No Politics in Rate Bill Sparks GOP Criticism
The St Louis Globe-Democrat accuses Republicans of masking politics in the rate bill debate while detailing intra party rivalries. It argues Aldrich and Tillman maneuvers show leadership clashes, condemning attempts to politicize Hepburn legislation as a partisan trick.
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St Louis
Globe-Democrat
Senate
Democrats
Interstate Commerce Committee
Thiman
Aldrich
Rhode Island
Cannon
Dolhiver
Towa
Har
House of Representatives
Tillman
Globe-Democrats
Madcap Princess at Seventy Years
Princess Pauline Metternich, famed Viennese salon leader, marks seventy with a jubilee for charity. her fifty charitable festival has raised over 5 million dollars, fueling Vienna’s social elite. Her wit, influence, and elegance define European high society after decades in Paris and Vienna.
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Pauline Metternich
Paris
Grande Monde
Vienna
Orleans
Pauline
John Jays
Gen von Schweidnitz
Princesa Metternich
Boucheran
Alsace
Lorraine
Revolutionizing the Iron Trade Telegram From Sault Ste Marie
A February 26 telegram to Hon Frank Oliver from Sault Ste Marie Ontario reports electric smelting of iron ore as a proven, commercially viable method. It claims potential to revolutionize iron smelting districts, reduce lake ore shipments, and shift coke and transportation dynamics. If true, coke could be replaced by coal and peat, with electric energy plants near water power. Further details are awaited by scientists, miners, rail men, and manufacturers.
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Sault Ste Marie
Ontario
Frank Oliver
Ottawa
Morse
Electric car crosses continent to test new propulsion
The Strang electric car Ogerita arrived at Jersey City on a Philadelphia run to prove a self propelled rail car may replace the conventional power system. Strang and railroad officials plan a cross country route from Weehawken to San Francisco via Buffalo Chicago St Louis El Paso and the Southern Pacific. Engineers praised the invention as a major advance in electric railway propulsion.
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New York Times
Pennsylvania Station
Jersey City
Ogeritz
Strang
Philadelphia
Strang Electric Railway Car Company
J P Yerge
Pennsylvania System
B T Murphy
J W Rogers
Motive Power
Altogna
Lovell
Amboy
San Francisco
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Wilmington
Atlantic City
Pennsylvania
Chicago
j@bea
Buffalo
West Shore
Lake Shore
St Louis
Chicago and Alton
Rock Island
el Paso
Southern Pacific
Pennsylvania and
West Shore Lines
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All Sorts in Kentucky and a Raleigh Bar Tale
A Baltimore News piece recalls J A Hardesty in Raleigh and a Newport Kentucky memory of Ludenstruth who ran a riverfront bar. He hid a funnel with poured bottles and sold cheap mixed drinks to “Black people” and rowdy patrons. An ax handle under the bar was used to eject troublemakers when they finished their drinks.
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Baltimore News
J A Hardesty
Raleigh
Newport
Ludenstruth
Weill
Unlucky cuckoo clock sparks sudden violence tale
A breakfast conversation in Chicago News prompts dark humor as a cuckoo clock triggers a murder scene when a husband replies that the clock is very unlucky. The anecdote blends superstition with crime as a revolver is fired during a phone call.
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Chicago News
Archibald
Roast Catalo Delights Canadian Camp Banquet Guests
The New York American Roast catalog reports the Canadian Camp banquet at the Hotel Astor featuring a rare crossbreed catalo meat. Col Jones described its semiwild shot on December 12, with guests savoring a roast beef like flavor, amid a formal feast with mink puree and black sea bass escalopes as courses.
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New York
Hotel Astor
Colaa J
Buffalo) Jones
Flathead
Montana
Col Jones
Catalo
Arctic
Peary
Borneo
Prince Henry of
Prosia
Dillon Wallace
Rowley D Ivana
Alberta
F BR Latchford
Toronto
Lenox Curus
Charles Hallock
L. T Brown
Dr Rheaume
Fish and Game
Province of
Ontario
A Woman's Age and Women's Rights in Court
Minnie Gaillard, Sartartia schoolteacher, resisted revealing her age in Recorder Goft's court. She faced possible jail if she disclosed it, but her stand affirmed the right of women to keep personal ages private. The piece likens the moment to a broader fight for female autonomy and Colorado voting rights.
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Newport
Minnie Gaillard
Sartartia
Recorder Goft
Attornes
Annals of Freedom
Colorado
Lcense
Almami de Gotha
Burkes Peerage
Girl in Gray Weds Diplomat in London Portrait Fame
Miss Neely Lenrietta Alexander wed Hon. Henry Spring Rice, brother of the former secretary of the British Embassy in Washington. The couple joins a noted lineage with Whistler’s growing fame. The Alexander portrait titled Portrait of Cicely Henrietta Wise Alexander was shown at the New Gallery, drawing praise as an American Velazquez. Critics differ on its merit comparing to Whistler’s mother portrait.
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London
Walster
Neely Lenrietta Alevandend
Spring Rice
Washington
British Munster
Teheran
Alexander
New Gallery
Cicely Henrietti
Grean
Whistler
Alexander Pict
Whistlers
Louxembourg
Paris
Fragments of Verse and Jests From Three Papers
A collage of humorous verse and quips from the New York Times Chicago News and New York Press. It parodies romantic cant and social foibles with light satire on love money age and marriage referencing a dueling threat a jail term and a banker’s boast.
Russians and Americans in Evening at the Willard
Mr Lewis Nixon, shipbuilder, recently returned from Russia, spoke at the New Willard about Russia’s post peace era and its potential as a great power. He contrasted old world efficiency with American systems and lamented underfunded diplomatic staffs while praising Russia’s resilience and future prospects.
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Lewis Nixon
Russia
Nixon
United States
Japan
Aimty
Home and the Wife Russell Sage
A compact piece extols domestic happiness noting true happiness rests in the home where a wife’s tender care fosters a man’s best ideas, presenting home life as the finest environment for growth and virtue.
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Russell Sage
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