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Alexandria
Washington Port Cou
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Postofics
Washington, D. C
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Fouth Avenues
New York
Breger Bulldis
Chicago
Tremont Building
Boston
Field Day for Railroads and Interstate Jurisdiction
The Supreme Court narrows state control over railroads, easing federal oversight under Hepburn and Carmack. Cities gain license taxing power on express firms. Carmack amendments and rate rulings reduce state leverage, shifting emphasis to Interstate Commerce Commission. Shippers and carriers benefit from protections against underreported values in interstate shipments.
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United States Supreme Court
Interstate Commerce Commission
Granger
Supreme Court
Supreme Court of Kansas
New York Restaurateurs Organize Cooperative Store Idea
Opinion critiques the rise of cooperative buying schemes from farms to cities, noting tobacco growers and housekeepers forming unions. It explains a proposed Society of Restaurateurs to cut costs by 50 percent, arguing midmen inflate prices and linking cooperative living to cheaper goods and rooms.
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South
New York
Society of Restaurateurs
Shipping inquiry hints at American vs European lines
Testimony in a House inquiry into a planned shipping combine suggests risks of monopolies affecting trade between the United States and South America. Officials warn against discrimination that could push shipping to European lines and press for timely action to protect American commerce and canal access.
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House
United States
South America
South Atlantic
Pacific
North
Pan-American
The Health Crusade Prompts Health Inspections Aboard Transport
Surgeon General Rupert Blue orders commissioned medical officers traveling on trains and ships in interstate traffic to observe sanitary conditions and report findings. The move aims to educate the public and influence carriers, supplementing existing laws banning common drinking cups and roller towels. Indiscriminate gatherings threaten health. individual effort remains crucial for disease prevention.
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Rupert Blue
Public Health Service
Surgeon General
Treasury Department
The Broadway Models and the Typical American Girl
The piece traces shifts in how the typical American girl is pictured from hoopskirts to tennis players to golf enthusiasts and now to an intellectual ideal. It argues that psychology explains these trend-driven images created by Broadway’s models who influence fashion and behavior.
Broadway Models Club And Bull Moose Plan Spark Debate
The piece praises the Broadway Models Athletic Club and its aim to elevate youth through literature and intellectual standards while criticizing a Bristow backed bull moose plan for a powerful interstate commission. It warns the proposed agency could override due process, seize control of businesses, and bypass courts, with critiques of taxation, political rhetoric, and social mores of the era.
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Bristow
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
Department of Justice
Supreme Court
Commission
Bureau of Corporations
Mr. Bristow
United States
Gen Michel Named Military Governor of Paris in France
Gen Victoir Constant Michel, longtime army officer and former vice president of the superior council of war, has been appointed military governor of Paris. The post, the third most powerful in the republic, commands Paris and its fortresses, schools, arsenals, and troops from Rouen to Orleans. His loyalty and duty are pledged to safeguard the republic from insurrection and royalist coups. Michel, 63 with 46 years of service, is praised by Berlin for his troop movements and calm judgment. He is a St Cyr graduate who earned the Legion of Honor and served as chef de cabinet to several ministers of war.
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Superior Council of War
Paris
Council
France
Michel
Rouen
Mans
Orleans
Paria
Berlin War Department
Cst
Amm
Berlin
Military College of
Billot
Mercier
Burlinden
Stam College
Niben
Sauveter
Fiorentin
Order of the Legion of Honor
Brugere
de Lad~mirault
National Botanic Garden Site Debate Mirrors World Gardens
Mrs J B Henderson of Washington argues for Rock Creek park as the ideal site for a National Botanic Garden. She cites Kew Gardens and other European and New York collections to illustrate scale, glass structures, and the breadth of horticultural study, urging Congress to choose a large, accessible area with natural beauty.
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National Botanic Garden
Con Brees
Washington
National Botanical Gardens
Srefer
Rock Crek Park
England
Kew
London
Ruttenzorg
Java
Kew Gardens
Bois de Boulogne
Jadin Des Plantes
Natural History Gallerien
LL New York
Bronk Park
Grand Central Station
Bronx
Congress
Fairmount Park
Philadelphia
Munich
Copenhagen
Berlin
Herrenhausen
Frankfort
Charlottenburg
Chateworth
Rock Creek
J. B. Henderson
Army Orders: Officers Granted Leaves and Board Appointments
Army orders list leaves of absence for Maj John P Fin lly, Capt Theodore B Tay lor, First Aleut Charles Abel, First Lieut George L Morri son. extended service for others. A board of officers, chaired by Lieut Col Thomas W Griffith, is to examine volunteer commission applicants at Jefferson Barracks. Minor coast artillery assignments and medical board details follow with transfers to Schofield and Honolulu routes.
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John P Finlly
Infantry
Theodore B. Taylor
Fifth Cavalry
Charles Abel
Twenty-sixth Infantry
George L. Morrison
Thomas W. Griffith
Francis H. Lomax
Comet Artillery Corps
Harry G. Humphreys
Medical Corps
Renry
Pillsbury
John R Starkey
Secong Feld Artillery
Jefferson Barracks
Edward L. Munson
Henry P. Birmingham
Army Medics Museum
Washington, D.C
Coast Artillery Corps
William F. Hash
Artillery District
New London
Hugh J B. McEugin
Artillery
Ferdinand Schmitter
Jam
P. Robinson
Henry J. Hatch
Cadat Artillery Corps
Fleat
Joseph L. Siner
Fort Ethan Allen
San Francisco
Cal
Horo
Hawaii Territory
Schofield Bar Jacks
Leo C. Mudd
Fort Leavenworth
Kent
Honolulu
Nawaii Territory
Fort Shafter
Naval Orders Note Transfers and Retirements
Eusign F J Lowry detached Cleveland to Alet Ensign J C Van De Carr to New Jersey. Carpenter R A White placed on the retired list of officers of the navy. Marine corps orders Captain C J Guggenheim placed on the retired list and ordered to his home. Pa flat Went AB Drum detached marine Corps advanced base. School Philadelphia First bigot BE Rowell detached recruiting office Los Angeles to recruiting office.
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F. J. Lowry
Cleveland
Alet
J. C. van DE Carr
New Jersey
Carp
R. A. White
Lste
Neve
Marine Corps
Capt
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Guggenheim
Pa Fitet
AB. Drum
Marine Saar
Phila First Bigot
BE. Rowell
Los Angeles
Senate Swears Col R M Johnston to Fill Bailey Seat
Senate actions include sworn in Houston's Col R M Johnston to fill the unexpired Bailey term. Appropriations committee hearings continue on a Court of Commerce funding, omnibus claims bill resume without action, and a Swedson road bill seeks 25 million for six states. House actions cover Indian appropriation, money trust probes, currency revision hearings, steamship trust inquiry, and tariff Schedule A revisions with adjournment planned.
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R. M. Johnston
Houston
Tex
Bailey
Appropriations Ecommittes
Court of
Com Terce
Swedson
Archbald
House
Money Trust
Steamship Trust
Merchant Marine and Fsheries
Ways and Means
District In Congress Sees Red Light District Action
A subcommittee ordered a favorable report on the Kenyon bill to wipe out the red light district. Senator Curtis offered an amendment to the District appropriation bill to provide 5,000 dollars for the National Library for the Blind. The Johnson committee continued its local insurance inquiry as Health Officer Woodward sought 2,000 dollars to aid plague fight. Burleson subcommittee heard requests for increases from municipal heads. Representative Smith introduced a bill to extend W Street Northwest from Georgia Avenue to Florida Avenue.
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Kenyon
Curtis
National Library For the
House
Johnson
Woodward
Burleson
Smith
Michigan
Georgia Avenue
Florida Avenue
Increase of the Races Says Census Director
Census Director Dana Durand reports Whites lead growth in the United States between 1900 and 1910 with about a 22 percent rise, while the negro population shows no gain. He notes Indians up 12 percent, Chinese numbers down, and Japanese nearly tripled, with shifts in foreign-born groups and origins.
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United States
Dana
Durand
Anthropological Society
New National Museum
Mr. Durand
South
North
Europe
Joll
Stotesbury Testifies in Hammerstein Suit Over Opera Funds
New York January 7 Edward T Stotesbury testified in a trial against Oscar Hammerstein over 39900 advanced in 1910 to support a Philadelphia opera season. He was questioned about a curtain speech praising his generosity and dismissed remarks calling stockholders antideluvian lemons as unworthy of response.
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New York
Oscar Hammerstein
Philadelphia
Edward T. Stotenbury
Hammerstein
Sun and Tide Table and Weather Forecast Summary
The page presents a tide table with high tides at 0.8 and 9 G0, and low tides at 200 and 31. It then provides a detailed weather bulletin from the Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau, Washington, noting a fall in pressure over the northern country, widespread snow and rain east of the Rockies, and flood warnings along the Cumberland River. It describes warmer temps in the middle and east, colder in the west, and forecasts for snow and rain east of the Mississippi, plus wind and storm warnings along coasts and in the Northwest. Temperatures and humidity readings are listed for various times, with wind directions and forecasted conditions.
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Cumberland River
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Atlantic Ocean
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New England
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Pacific States
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Middle Plateau
Dakotas
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East Gulf Plates
Eastport
Block Island
North Pacific
New York
Florida
Louisiana
Middle Atlantic
New Jersey
South Atlantic Coast
East Gulf Coast
West Gulf Coast
Lake Michigan
European
Grand Banks
Temperatures In Other Cities And Fragments From A Page
Temperatures Tuesday across cities including Atlantic City Denver Des Moines Jacksonville and Memphis appear in a scrambled para graph with scattered lines on heat and weather. The clumsy montage mentions several places and stray phrases about daily life and social notions.
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Prana
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Bismarck
N. Dak Eth
Borton
Maes
Spavenport
Iowa
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Moines
Galveston
Tex
Chicago News
Los Angeles
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Merquette
Mich
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Tenn
Norm Platte
Oman
Nebr
Pitsburg
van Brabelec
Springfield
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Vickaburg
Miex
Roving comments on politics and empire in a Washington visit
In hotel lobbies old Quaker couples and politicians discuss the post election mood. Leslie M Shaw laments weak Republican leadership while Louis Lombard predicts Turkey ends in Europe and Roumania’s queen Carmen Sylva impresses. Father Malone, George Curry and Representative views on the Philippines and future GOP prospects color a tense, insider Washington snapshot.
Echoes Against Algebra in Early 20th Century Debate
A New York American column recounts a mother's plea about algebra harming her daughter. Edgar Larkin argues to abandon algebra for girls, urging separate schooling and private tutoring, claiming coeducation damages minds and that household math suffices. He condemns algebra as useless and dangerous to female intellect.
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Edgar Lucien Larkin
New York American
Lfe
German Antarctic Explorer Reaches Buenos Aires After 15 Months
Lieut. Wilhelm Filchner returns to Buenos Aires from the expedition after fifteen months in the southern seas. He reports discovering new land named Prince Regent Luitpold land and an ice barrier named Kaiser Wilhelm II. His mission aimed to learn the land’s character, not reach the pole.
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Berlin
Wilhelm Filchner
Buenos Aires
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Filchner
Luitpoldland
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Fichner
South Pole
Antarctic
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