Prodigal Son and Spain Urged in The Washington Post
The piece discusses a young prodigal who misuses his estate and urges Spain to claim its share of South American resources. It notes government responses, security market activity, and calls for nations with shared language and lineage to pursue mutual gains. The notice lists subscription options and post office details for The Washington Post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spain
Alexandria
Rial
Romentic
M.erlean
A Century of War News and Public Letters Reflected
A sprawling 1909 dispatch blends commentary on European and American affairs with notes on political figures. It cites Senator Gallinger defending his Fairbanks vote, praises Frank Vanderlip and the National City Bank, and muses on social status and American mobility through lineage and public service.
Railroads See Brighter Outlook After Turbulent Year
Chicago dispatch notes railroad officials expect prosperity to return after a year marked by anti railroad legislation and revenue losses. Wabash president F A Delano cites a 12 percent drop in earnings and tonnage. Illinois Central’s J T Harahan predicts gradual, steady improvement with the new fiscal year opening July 1.
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Chicago
New York
F. A. Delano
Wabash Road
Sai
Nts
J T Harahan
Ilinois Central Railroad
Fleet to Sicily Would Help Earthquake Victims
A call urges the United States to send the battleship fleet to assist Sicily and Calabria after the earthquake. Authors argue 15,099 disciplined sailors and medical corps could aid relief, law and order, and show global unity beyond politics, noting the fleet’s Red Sea voyage and timing for Messina.
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United States
Sicily
Calabra
Italy
Red Sea
Messina
San Francisco
Pacific
California
Na‘ion
Boston Work Horse Parade and Related Civic Efforts
A snapshot of Boston’s work horse parade begun in 19% with yearly growth, plus the Boston Work Horse Parade Association projects including stable competitions lectures for drivers and a charity agent. It notes cross city adoptions, funding needs, and calls for broader support amid governance and public interest.
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Boston
New York
Philadelphia
New Orleans
Columbus
Los Angeles
Toronto
Boston Wark Horse Parade Association
Taft Teas
Indiana
York
Washington Life Insurance Mystery Disappears to Pittsburgh
The Washington Life Insurance Company vanished from 141 Broadway late Wednesday night, with books assets and policies moved to Jersey City and onward to Pittsburgh. Headquarters transfer valued capital stock increase to 1,000,003 and all real estate in New York redirected to the Pittsburgh company.
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New York
Washington Life Insurance Company
Thomas F Ryan
Pittsburg Life and Trust Company
Broadway
Pitteburg
Pittaburg Company
Dita Kelgey
Kelsey
Pitts~ Iburg
Washington Life
Plittsburg Company
Bowdoin's Century-Old Dormitory Named in Centenary Feature
Bowdoin Maine Hall, the campus oldest dormitory, marks its centennial with a look at its history from 1808 and the early campus. The piece lists notable Bowdoin alumni who stayed there including Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Frye, and Joshua Chamberlain, among others, noting their room numbers as preserved in the hall of fame.
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Kenpeber
Bowdoin Calle
Maine Hall van ¢Ommeten
Massachusett
Jai
Haviney
Mame Hall
Bowdoin
Willam
Fessenden
Franklin Pieree
Nathaniel Hawthorne
John A Andrew
Massachusetts
Fordyce Barker
Brian Kellogg
Wiliam P Frye
O'er O Howard
Joviua L Chamberlain
Pius X and the Nine Year Cycles of His Life
The text outlines a pattern of nine year periods marking Pius X life events. From 1855 to 1867 he served as a country curate at Tombolo. From 1867 to 1876 he was a parish priest in Salzano. From 1875 to 1884 he held a canonry at the Cathedral of Treviso. From 1884 to 1898 he was bishop of Mantua. In 1899 he entered Venice as patriarch and led nine more years until July 26 when he departed for the conclave ending his life.
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Rome
Pius X
Tombolu
Isoi
Salzano
Tie Yico
Mantou
Venice
Hallan
SS Mark's
Emperor Doubts Archduke Death in Missing Prince Case
Emperor Francis Joseph clings to the hope that Archduke John may still be alive, despite his long disappearance near Cape Horn. Swiss court proceedings reveal Leopold Wolfing’s assets and a vast fortune tied to John’s supposed fate, with delays until 1907 for possible distribution.
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John
Cape Horn
Francis Joseph
Hapsburg
Lonssing Kineman
John Thi
Wolfing
Cay
Archduke John
Arhhduke
Austria
Traveis
Joseph
Naw
Marie Antoinete
Tuscany
Orth
Gmunden
Almanach de Gotiia
South America
London
Margarete le
House of
Austra
Hapburg
Almanach de
Births Outpace Deaths In Greater New York In 1908
Health Commissioner Darlington notes New York City's health was strong in 1908 with 74 071 deaths at 16 09 per 1 000, the lowest rate in city history, and 126 863 births at 22 68 per 1 000, the highest ten year share. Marriages totaled 47 400, down 3 598 from last year, due to license laws and depression.
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New York
Greater
Darlington
Darrington
Cupid
Catamount Attacks Bakersville Farmer in Spring Trap Capture
Edward Gillette, a Bakersville farmer, fought a 30 pound wildcat after discovering it trapped near his home. He dragged the animal toward his barn with a trap chain, but the cat consumed him with a second attack until Gillette struck it dead with an ax. The beast weighed about 30 pounds.
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Edward Gillette
Bakersville
Morson
Poles Defy German Meeting Law With Silent Gatherings
In Ruhrort Westphalia three Polish residents held a silent political meeting to evade a new law barring Polish language at public meetings. A lecture text would be distributed as a pamphlet, then read in silence. The district court acquitted, upheld on appeal by Cologne, validating these so called dumb meetings as a precedent.
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Jetlin
London Express
Germany
Ruhrort
Westphalia
St Il
Dietelet
Higher Court of
Cologne
Gerany
McAuliffe Wins Fees Over Used Image in Ads
Jack McAuliffe, once a top lightweight, sued cigar makers for using his name and likeness without pay. Lawyers secured a settlement, with McAuliffe noting the small face value of a five cent cigar and an implied odds bonus. The case also involved Joe Sullivan and the pairing of Dempsey and McAuliffe on three champion jacks cigars.
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New York
Jack McAuliffe
McAuliffe
Nicke Pier
Jonn Sullivan
Aera
Jack Dempsey
Jacks
Clgats
Judge Resolves Craps Debate As Magistrate Seeks Definition
In a Thursday session Magistrate Barlow showed versatility in ruling on a craps case. Ernest Hiller cafe owner on East Nimth Street faced charges for allowing patrons at his bar. A patrolman testified about cries of craps phrases, while an SPCA officer presented a burlap bag with three live chickens found on Daniel Raffeto. The magistrate deemed the scene cruel and set a trial fine of one hundred dollars, adjourned for expert definition.
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New York
Barlow
Ernest Hiller
East Nimth Street
Broadway
Patrealman Carmick
SPCA
Daniel Raffeto
West Forty-sixth Street
Sixteenth Street
Tenth Avenue
Pointed Paragraphs Dont Complain Better a Dog's Bark
A fragmentary Chicago Vews item discusses gender habits and marriages in punchy aphorisms. It notes husbands as silent partners and wives with buttoned waists as a social joke, then pivots to a widow with fortune and divorced women, all in a brisk, satirical tone. The piece skims attitudes toward wives, widows, and divorce with clipped, polemical lines.
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Chicago
Talks on West Virginia politics and Panama Volcanic risks
The interview covers factional splits in the West Virginia Republican Party and prospects for future nominations and an upcoming U.S. Senate race. It also discusses Panama's Volcan state and theories about its impact on local natives, plus remarks on railroads and a warning about government breeding farms for cavalry horses.
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Italy
Panama
B. Velean
Republ
Browning
Louis
Canali Font
Panama Canal
Mr Browning
Chiriqui
Pacifie
Atlantic
Bocas de Toto
Roosevelt In Ohio Urged Caucus Foraker Fight
Columbus dispatch reports claims President Roosevelt would back a caucus to block Foraker in Ohio Senate race. Taft ally C P Taft is portrayed as seeking to split Republican ranks, with Burton and Foraker alleged to maneuver for political gain and risk Democratic gains if Foraker wins.
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C. P. Taft
Stnaté
Columbus
Ohio
New Yoramax
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Charles P. Taft
Cincinnati Times
Washington Dispatch
White House
C. P
Senator Foraker
Foraker
Foraker the Fox
Burton
Republican Party
Dick Speaxing
United States Senate
William Howard Taft
Mr .Taft
Taft
D.caster
Staft
Worldly Wise Ballad and Rural Flight From the Press
Ballad of the Worldly Wise mocks deceit and fame while praising fortune’s risks and public praise. Ragk to Nature ridicules urban life as Albert Stocker the hermit dies at 6 ft 5 in, famed for eccentric, tax resisting ways on Fig Neck Road. his lone cabin filled with curios.
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The
New York Herald
Albert Cornelius Stocker
Fly Neck Conn
Flg Neck Road
Far West
Stockers
Reflections of a Bachelor in a New York Preset
A fragmentary reflection discusses making sensible choices with a man named Joe and the social quirks of flirtation. It notes waste in spending for heirs, mistrust among women who pretend not to know each other, and a man who curses a downtown setting as at home with the furnace brag.
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Senator Gallinger
Post
William Chander
New Hampshire
Senato Gallinger
Fairbanks
Chicago
Chandler
Collers Weekly
Taft
Guallinger
Raft
Ew Hampshire
New Vampshire
Gallinger
Senate
Hess
Dairbanks
Dutt
Ganinge
Coutty
Smith
America
South
Fred
New York
EH Harriman
New York Central Railroad
Boardman
Iig Force
Joe
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Washington Post CO
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Hartford
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Antwerp
Hamburg
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Alfonso Hag
Realm ix
Barcelona
Frank A van Derby
Young Amen
Charaiter
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Qon
Ita
Birauss
Vanderlip
United Stang
Yeung
Railrcoad
Iom
Wiley
Pittsburg
Petersburg
Bristol
Ablngdon
Mr Taft
Wiliam Howard Taft
Taft Familiy
Castro
Venezuelan
Jimmy
Charybdis
Cub
Snake Eltators
Committee
Congress
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Colleges of Heraldry
de Smith
Normandy
England
William the Conqueror
Presa
Kentucky
Knox
Great Britain
Perry
Lake Erie
Bowdoin’s
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Leopold
Capeft Valahon
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Brustela
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Hls
Vaughan
Ina Vigin
Angelico da Wiesole
Crown
George II
Princess Charlotte of Wales
Leopold of
Saxe-Coburg
Belgium
Brussels
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Rubens
St Benewick
Fottla
King of
Abbey of Affirghan
Leopold Ufacanized II
Paris
Tence
Christ
Meath
Sin
Joseph Bonaparte
Algo
Theresa
Vandyck
Nortewit
Duquesne
Brugsel
Hobbema
Franz Hal
van Goets
Rembrandts
Colection
Thames Layw- Irence
Winterholster
Caralus Duran
Ary Scheffer
Deacraix
Turner
Alfred Stevens
Meissonier
Tricate
Oberdank
Kingdom of
Marquise DE FonTexar
Brentwood Company
Catamount
Farmer
Anima
West Virginia
G. W Costin
Curtin
W. Va
Raleigh
Demerath
Swisher
Bseherr
Tormiel
Eley Glasacock
Scott
Lfubbard
KR T Marn
Soot
Curtin Beli
Virginia
Daniel Y Weson
Portland
Willard
Washington
Oncomme
Helalg
Paul
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Russia
Austro-Hungary
Cul
James D Bruce
Dennison Tex
Riggs House
Texas
Leset
Chicago News
Hall
Ha Loulaville Courier Journal
Eccentus
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