Magnifying the Brownsville affair in the Senate
The Washington Post analyzes the Brownsville debate and its political implications for Republicans and the Roosevelt administration. It argues Senate independence, possible support for or opposition to the Blackburn amendment, and the affair as a test of party loyalty without derailing the president or the broader policy agenda.
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Brownsville
Senate
Siawnaville
Post
Palin
Blackburn
Congress
Roosevelt
REFONY IN ILLINOIS AND THE REFORM MOVEMENT
This aged text discusses reform in Illinois as a fast moving movement influencing many associations and state actions. It notes legislative pushes for central welfare, semiannual reporting by political groups to the State auditor, and calls for transparency in campaign funding and expenditures. The piece contrasts Chicago’s municipal legislature with past corruption fears and urges public disclosure of campaign sources and amounts.
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Illinois
Vite
Tly Sental Welfare By Purification of Poltis ‘Ies Spruimen
Legislative Voters
Leisneti
Munterial Voters’ League
Referendum League
Card of Wind
Chicago
Chilcago
California and the Japanese in the schools debate
The Department of Justice seeks to nullify the tenth amendment to force California to educate all children in public schools. It argues a treaty with Japan justifies federal action, while critics urge truth about the Constitution and warn against coercion. The piece also recalls Indiana’s early 1816 salary scales for governor, judges, legislators, and state officials, contrasting with current pay levels and the push for reform.
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California
Department of Justice
United States
Department
Japan
New York Herald
Waldorf-Astoria
New Jersey
Henry C. Pitney
Parker
Congress
Pres
Circuit Court of Appeals
Supreme Court of the United States
Executive
Legislative
Judicial Department
Skinner's Bid for Fame at Marseilles and Addis Ababa
The piece extols Hon. Robert P. Skinner American consul general at Marseilles for promoting Ethiopian commerce. It mocks vanity while noting his boast of future gains from African grease and karite tree products. It highlights a peanut crop aside and hints at new supply sources on Africa's west coast.
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Skinner
United States
Ethiopia
Robert P. Skinner
Marseilles
Addis Abeba
John the
Maraciiies
Africa
The Grease Trade Anticipates African Railroads
A column praises Robert P. Skinner and his claim that karite grease will power future industry as railroads reach the Sudan. The piece envisions vast supplies of karite soap and candles, noting its value, production methods, and broad global demand amid improving transport. It contrasts optimistic notes with other light items and social quips.
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Skinner
Soudan
Robert P. Skinner
Book agent exploits sick to boost doctor’s practice
A New York Sun item recounts a book agent who labels a local physician a presa agent and fabricates a plan to profit from patients. The agent finds four men with colds, directs them to the doctor, and takes half of the doctor’s fees, claiming the doctor’s practice grew from his targeted referrals.
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Presa
New York Sun
New York Girls Don’t Blush Says Gray Historian
A gray-headed man remarks that in modern New York most blushing is done by men not women. He urges novelists to drop phrases like He blushed her girl and to note that women rarely flush in today’s city life while men blush frequently, advising precise, gender-aware descriptions.
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The
New York Sun
New York
Anage
Lota
Europe
Cassie Chadwick's Numbers Revealed in Ohio Penitentiary
The Houston Foot reports Mrs Cassie Chadwick is inmate No 36680 at the Ohio Penitentiary. The article promises precise enumeration and cites the prison system as the source for the numbers.
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Houston
Cassie Cwick
Ohio Penitentiary
Pointed Paragraphs From the Chicago News
A garbled clipping presents aphoristic lines on gender and behavior. It includes comments about a man making a big mistake and adults recognizing irony in jokes. It hints that appearances do not reflect virtue and that favors carry hidden costs, with a nod to truth-telling as provocation.
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Chicago
Naws
Ada Rani
Iveryme
Baby Czarovitch Receives First Uniform in Finland Regiment
The two year old Czarovitch of Russia has held numerous titles and honors, and recently received his first full regimentals set cut to his size with miniature buttons and epaulettes. The scene contrasted with the solemn audience of officers presenting the gift. Separately, ex Archduke Wolfing seeks to resume rank and inheritance in Austria Hungary, risking a clash with Archduke Francis Ferdinand and the imperial line.
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Czarovitch
Russia
Finland
Guards
Corps of
Tashkent
Hetmman
the Guards
Leopold
Wolfling
Wilhelmine Adamovic
Archduke
Austria
Hungary
Tuscany
House of Hapsburg
Austro-Hungary
Lkely
Imperial House of
Archduke J
Leopold Wofling
Archduke Francis Terdinand
Trieste
Bombay
Indian
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Francis Ferdinand
America
Well Meant From the Harvard Lamon Smith
A fragmentary item features a garbled interaction with an Indy figure offering a strange prop and a beguiling request. The readable bits suggest a social or satirical note rather than a clear event or outcome.
Gypsy Smith Draws Chicago to See A Nation on Stage
Gypsy Smith wowed Chicago audiences at the Auditorium ending a two week stay with 2500 conversions reported by Rev. In Fox and a strong appeal for funds to aid Romany evangelism. He defended his people against libel, celebrated their virtues, and urged education and Bible access while noting his teetotaler rise and calls to close Chicago saloons.
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The
Chicago Chronicle
Gypsy Smith
Chicago
America
In. Fox
California Avenue
Evangeliot
Federation of Free Churches of England
Great Britain
Theodore Watts Duntan
England
Jess
Ben
Twich
No man can see into the future prophecy comic
In a brief Cleveland era quip a speaker mocks foresight predicting a wife will reveal the coat she bought last week is already out of date within two months. The exchange notes skepticism toward predictions and impending fashion obsolescence.
Japan's richest man at Columbia in training for future rule
Toranosuke Furukawa, a wealthy Japanese student at Columbia University, is poised to become sole possessor and head of Japan's Furukawa Mining Company. The firm, founded by his father Tohibei Furukawa, controls a third of Japan's copper and substantial silver, coal, and coke output. He studies mining and metallurgy in the U.S. to apply modern methods back home.
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The
New York Herald
Columbia University
Toranosuke Furukawa
Rockefeller
Japan
New York
Furukawa
Tchibei
House of
Kippon
Nikke
Furukawa Mining Company
Tohibei Furukawa
Iis
Young Furukawa
United States
You Big Strong Man and the Weak Who Fear You
A collage of excerpts from the Chicago Record-Herald notes blunt calls for empathy toward the vulnerable, then shifts to a Los Angeles dispatch on underground water yielding fish, and ends with a London cable about Baden-Powell and Captain John Smith lineage claims, plus satirical reflections from the New York Press on bachelors and social conventions.
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The
Chicago Record-Herald
Los Angeles
New York
Hynes
Long Branch
Charles Luther
Maine
Selvert
Fredericks
Luther
Hyness
London
William Gordon McCabe
Richmond
Waden-Powell
John Smith
South Africa
Mafeking
Baden-Powell
Marger
Virginia
Capt. Smith
Smith
America
Benjamin
New Jersey
Joseph
England
Admiral W. H. Smyth
Smyth
Heralds’ College
Joan Smith
Jamestown
College of Heralds
Grand Army officers meet in Washington on pension bill
Gen. R. Burns Brown leads a pension committee gathering at the Ebbitt House with A. G. Weissert Milwaukee Judge Pugh Columbus and other officials. Brown says the McCumber bill is fair and urges care for aging veterans.
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R. Burns Brown
Grand Army of the Repulse
Ebbitt House
Gen. Brown
Pension Committee of the Grand Army
A. G. Weissert
Milwaukee
David F. Pugh
Columbus
Henry Nevins
Red Bank
N. J
Eugene F. Ware
Topeka
Kans
Wiliam A. Ketcham
Indianapolis
J. H. Galding
Wilmington
H Harper
Ottumwa
Iowa
Grand Army
Congress
Army
Navy
Ger ‘Brown
Ixty
Cungresa
McCumber
House
Skyscrapers Quake proof, New York Architect Says
Sir Aston Webb, former president of the British Institute of Architects, told reporters he believes New York would endure a major quake better than any city. He arrived after attending a Washington architecture convention and praised New York’s iron skeleton as protective against shocks.
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New York Times
Jamaica
New York
Aston Webb
British Institute of Architects
Liverpool
Aston
Convention of Architects
Washington
American Institute of Architects
Sir Aston
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