Magnifying the Brownsville debate in the Senate
The Washington Post analyzes the Brownsville affair, noting friction between the Senate and the President and the potential for the Blackburn amendment to raise dilemmas for Republicans. It argues that loyalty to administration is nuanced and that some senators may vote against the amendment without opposing overall Roosevelt policy. The piece suggests the case tests party unity and public judgment, while warning against defining the administration by a single incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownsville
Senate
Siawnaville
Post
Palin
Blackburn
Congress
Roosevelt
REFONY IN ILLINOIS AND THE REFORM MOVEMENT
A long critique of reform efforts in Illinois, noting rapid changes since the movement began. It condemns secret political funding, calls for semi annual reporting to the State auditor, and compares Chicago’s municipal legislature to past corruption while urging transparent campaign finance and disclosure of campaign expenditures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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 clash over school policy debate
The Department of Justice seeks to nullify the states rights clause and argues federal force over California public schools for Japanese children. The piece critiques treaty authority and urges frankness with Japan while defending constitutional limits. It then shifts to a recall of Indiana’s 1816 legislature salaries, contrasting past modest wages with modern pay scales and noting reform efforts sparked by a Moody-led inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Department of Justice
United States
Department
Japan
Indiana
Corydon
Indianapolis News
Supreme Court
Senate
National House of Representatives
W. H. Moody
Massachusetts
House
Sufpreme
Representative Moody
Skinner Sees Greater Fame Via Africa Trade
The piece lauds Robert P. Skinner American consul general at Marseilles and his boasts of expanding American Ethiopian commerce. It notes his praise of Africa as a new grease source from the Karite tree and hints at future trade in edible greases, reflecting the era’s promotional tone and the consul’s self-aggrandizing stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Skinner
United States
Ethiopia
Robert P. Skinner
Marseilles
Addis Abeba
John the
Maraciiies
Africa
Soudan
The Skinner grease saga and other odds and ends
A collage of notes on Karite butter and Skinner’s beard of prophecy, plus quips about mosquitoes, Jamaica, Panama Canal, and political jests. It also riffs on railroads, newspapers, and a parade of social foibles, asserting a wry, satirical tone.
Doctor was a Presa Agent From the New York Sun
A book agent, noting a sick man with no regular physician, touts a corner doctor who cures colds and shifts patients to him. The agent admits he profits by finding strays in town to boost the doctor’s practice and collect half the fees, claiming nine tenths of the doctor’s business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presa
New York Sun
New York Girls Don't Blush, From the New York sun
A gray headed man notes that men now blush more than women in New York, urging novelists to adjust phrases like She blushed her girl and to describe reactions of the abashed male or use She blushed like a Ten to fit contemporary life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
New York Sun
New York
Anage
Lota
Cassie Chadwick's Numbers Revealed in Ohio Penitentiary
The Houston Foot reports Mrs Cassie Chadwick is numbered 36680 in the Ohio Penitentiary. The account promises to show her precise numeric designation and its significance within the prison system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Cassie Cwick
Ohio Penitentiary
Pointed Paragraphs From the Chicago News
A jumble of observations on social behavior and morality. The author notes that women often see the point of jokes, hints at judgment of appearances, and comments on human inhumanity. Several lines advocate preferring an apology over money and truth told to provoke trouble.
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Chicago
Naws
Ada Rani
Baby Czarovitch and His Uniforms At Two Years Old
The two year old Czarovitch of Russia has worn many honors yet only now received his first uniform. Finnish Regiment officers presented him a complete regimentals set with miniature buttons epaulettes and insignia. Leo Wolfing ex archduke seeks to reclaim Austrian Hungarian titles amid questions of Hungary law and succession. Philippe Crozier France ambassador to Vienna known for flawless etiquette and protocol expertise. Cardinal Manning once cared for Mrs Manning widow of his brother and anecdotes tell of him dismissing a drunken cook with resolve.
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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
Crozier
Phiippe Crozier
France
Vienna
Department of Foreign Affairs
Paris
Czar
Czarina
President Faure
President Loubet
St. Petersburg
Marquise de Montebello
Complegne
Constantinople
Marquise de Brontebello
Crygier
Copenhagen
Alexandra
England
William
Edward
Victoria
Alfonso
Spain
Cardinal Manning
Charles Manning
Zavere
Marquise DE Fontenoy
Well Meant From the Harvard Lamzoon
An odd, garbled excerpt shows a bemused exchange with a bearded man and a request for a strap and portend phrases, reflecting a fractured dialogue likely from an old newspaper page segment.
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Harvard Lamzoon
Smith
Indy
Gypsy Smith Draws Chicago To A Mass Conversions
Gypsy Smith closed a two week Chicago stay at the Auditorium with 2500 conversions reported by Rev. Fox of California Avenue Congregational Church. The event mixed recital and appeal to aid gypsy missionary work, with proceeds around $2000 to support English gypsy missions.
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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
Sure-thing Prophecy from the Cleveiamatress
The Cleveiamatress mocks foretelling with a comic prophecy about a husband failing to predict his wife’s fashion choice. A pin in prophesy suggests events arrive quickly, less than two months, as a joke on certainty and change.
Japan's Richest Man Furukawa at Columbia University
The New York Herald profile follows Toranosuke Furukawa a Columbia student heir to Japan's Furukawa Mining fortune. He will soon lead vast copper silver coal and coke operations after studying mining metallurgy in the United States and visiting Japan's mines and manpower. The article links him to the family dynasty founded by Tohibei Furukawa and notes the company capitalized at 2 500 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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 Reflections of a Bachelor
A collage of short items begins with a moral call against bullying and pride as readers consider the day they may be humbled by kindness. It shifts to a strange Los Angeles water and fish story from Hynes farms. London correspondence questions Baden Powell’s asserted Smith lineage and ends with New York gossip on bachelor reflections and social habits.
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The
Chicago Record-Herald
Los Angeles
New York
Hynes
Long Branch
Charles Luther
Maine
Selvert
Fredericks
Luther
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 Tercentenary Commission
McCabe
College of Heralds
Gen. Baden-Powell
Grand Army pension talk and Washington capital views
Gen. R. Burns Brown leads a Grand Army pension committee meeting at the Ebbitt House with members Weissert Pugh Nevins Ware Ketcham Galding Harper. Capt. Forney criticizes rental policy. Senator Piles praises Washington women. fog and capital needs are discussed by Londoner Playle and others.
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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 Says Architect Webb
Sir Aston Webb, former British Institute of Architects president, urged New York would endure earthquakes despite many skyscrapers. He spoke before sailing to Liverpool, praising iron frame design as better suited to withstand shocks and noting New York’s architectural future. The architect had attended Washington convention January 7 to 9 and received the American Institute of Architects president’s medal.
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New York Times
Jamaica
York
Aston Webb
British Institute of Architects
Liverpool
Aston
Convention of Architects
Washington
American Institute of Architects
New York
Sir Aston
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Kansas City
Panama Canal
Patma
Oakland
Cal
Shah of
Perala
Porto Rico
Cuba
Senator Gearin
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James J. Hii
Long Island
Senator Piles
Houston Post
Ins
Standard Oil Company
London Express
Carter Harrison
White House
Oliver Lodge
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Parker
Waldorf-Astoria
Henry C. Pitney
Pres
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Supreme Court of the United States
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Judicial Department
Tommy
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New’ York
Cassie Chadwick
Baby Czarovitch
British Isles
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Queen Victoria
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Bowling Green
Duke of Westminster
Earl of Caithness
Dakota
Mary, Duchess of Sutherland
Florida
Duke of Manchester
New Zealand
Earl of
Luton
Lord Dalamere
Uganda
Lord Rosebery
Melbourne
Earl of Ranfurly
Lord Howard de Wealden
East Africa
William Cecil Hias
Earl of Aberdeen
Lord Dundonald
Balfour
Canada
Lord Fitzwillism
Portugal
Frederick Cook
Carlos
Foranosuke Furukawa
Columbia
Great Mines
Hockefelter
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Harry H. Playle
Shoreham
District of Columbia
Stehman Formey
New Willard
Forney
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
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Chesapeake Bay
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Newark Board of Trade
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