Temperament of naval officers explored in new plan
The Washington Post notes a proposal to study naval personnel temperament under a new plan by Surgeon General Stokes and Secretary Daniels. The article suggests investigators will face abundant material, with tests influenced by whether temperament is static or seen in action during events like duck-hunting or Santiago Bay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stokes
Tos
Daniels
Evans
Bob
Santiago Bay
The Milk in the Coconut. French moves in Mexican crisis.
A sharp op-ed arguing American interests outweigh France in Mexico, claiming France funds Huerta, blocks peace, and shifts gold to southern Europe and the Balkans. It links European panic to US stock declines and warns against French intervention, citing Monroe Doctrine and 1867 lessons. It closes with a quip on naval temperament.
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Mexico
France
Bell
Washington
Huerta
China
Turkey
Balkan States
Balkans
Paris
Bank of France
Lttle
Europe
Poincare
King George
London
Poinchre
New York
Jess
America
United States
Republic
Crédi
The Naval Temperament and a Call for Light
The piece mocks a public eagerness for investigation, likening it to a dangerous overcuriosity. It contrasts the push for “light” with moral blindness, noting an imminent inquiry that only gross ignorance could oppose. The tone is satirical and admonitory about scrutiny.
Bryan’s Reply to Japan in California Case
Secretary Bryan plans to shift negotiations with Japan from diplomacy to law. Tokyo may accept but delay final court ruling up to two years. State Department expects to narrow discussion, asserting U S court reach and California alien laws validity. Californians optimistic the legislature acted prudently within constitutional bounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan
Japan
Chinda
State Department
Tokyo
Effect of Tariff On Trade Sparks Storehouse Backlog
More than $100,000,000 worth of merchandise sits in Greater New York bonded warehouses while the current Payne tariff yields $85,000,000 in duties. Owners delay shipments awaiting the new Democratic bill’s fate. Mills move to Canada risk bankruptcy for the Woolen Company as foreign finishing cheaper than full domestic production. Retailers face choices. the public may see cheaper foreign goods while the Democratic party explains potential higher living costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Gov. Foss
Canada
Fanatic Woolen Company
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Democratic Party
Tariff Talk and Consumer Prices in Democratic Outlook
The piece argues tariff changes could lower prices for consumers but only if retailers pass on savings. It cites stockings from 12 cents to 10 cents at port and 25 cents retail, questioning if retailers will cut to 20 cents or keep 25 to boost profits. Political impact hinges on jobbers and retailers passing tariff benefits to shoppers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democratic Party
New York
Big Business At High Tide Defends Against Attacks
President Wheeler of the Chamber of Commerce argues big business faces years of misrepresentation on the rostrum and in media. He says a defensive stance is needed as industrials suffer from muckraking while Treasury shows corporate growth, rising taxes, and 310000 firms, proving momentum and permanence of American capital investment.
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Wheeler
Chamber of Commerce of
The
United States
Ing
Chamber of Commerce
United States Treasury
Treasury
Arbitration and the railroads and their employes
The piece argues for impartial arbitration that includes both railroad management grievances and employee complaints under the Newlands law. It warns against limiting arbitration to labor sides, notes risks to public support, and calls for fair treatment of both parties to ensure effective dispute resolution. It also references political figures and contemporary phrases with satirical tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newlands
Peeress of ancient lineage visits A S Lady de Ros travels to New York by Cunard liner
The 25th holder of the English barony of de Ros, born near 1840, arrives in New York with her husband Hon. Anthony Daw- son. She is heir to a storied English peerage dating to 1264 and may have the title pass to one of her three daughters in abeyance. The de Ros lineage traces back to Robert de Ros and the Magna Charta era.
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Lady de Ros
New York
Beaid
Cunard
Manuretania
England
Robert de Ros
John
Isabel
William
London
Anthony Dawnon
Mr. Dawson
Lady de Rox
Crown
George
Charlotte
Henry Fitzgerald
de Ros
Crecy
Garter
Catherine
Barchy
George ‘Villiers
Duke of Buckingham
James I
Queen Victoria
Satirist
Travelers’ Club
Pall Mell
Through Life as Girl Vaudeville Performer Revealed
May Belmont a vaudeville singer was found to be Harry Thompson a 3 year old girl living as a boy. Born in the West, Thompson debuted a decade ago and toured several states. Police matrons failed to detect the male identity amid long dark hair and a trick beard removed by acid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
May Belmont
Harry Thompson
Thompson
West
Hirst
Beggars Have Auto Beggars Du Luxe Visit Kansas Towns
A blind man and his wife, stranded in a broken-down car near Wamego Kansas, are helped by Holmes and Phillips from a local auto company. They spent two hours repairing the vehicle before sending it on. A resident calls them beggars du luxe, noting they travel in a motor car and “fiddle” while the woman sings, using towns in western Kansas as a business model.
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Kafsan City
Wamego
Kans
L. A. Phillips
Guy Holmes
Holmes
Phillips
Green Corn Champion Fat Policeman Wins 41 Ears
Fifty men from Madison Street station in the lower East Side gathered at Witsel's Grove Long Island for a corn eating contest. William Dolan, a 2 pounder, devoured 41 ears to win the title, with George Smith 37 ears, Walter Miller 28 ears, and Max Isaacson 2 ears in the tally. Referee Louis Herman ruled some contestants eliminated for incomplete eating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York American
Madison Street
Lower East Side
Witsel’s Grove
College Point
Long Island
William Dolan
George Smith
Walter Miller
Max Isaacson
Louis Herman
Hunt for Wild Man in New Jersey Woods
Atlantic City dispatch reports armed farmers hunting a alleged wild man or maniac in woods between Pleasantville and Bakersville after he allegedly tried to murder four people. He reportedly chased two Italians with a big knife and fled toward farmhouses. Price narrowly escaped an attack near Pleasantville as the search continued.
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Pleasantville
George Price
Price
Army Officers on Leaves and Duties Amid August August relocations
Army orders list leaves of absence for Efeut Omar Bundy and Paul Bond with one month spans, visits to Winchester cavalry camp in Virginia, and assignments across Fort Monroe Virginia Fort Omaha Nebraska Fort D A Russell Wyoming San Diego California and Honolulu Hawaii. It notes observers, duty reassignments for Coast Artillery, Engineers, Signal Corps, and Aviations training, plus movements to Tobyhanna Pennsylvania and Camp Perry Ohio, with officers from III to XXIII infantry and a medical reserve corps officer placed for duty.
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Efeut
Omar Bundy
Eleventh Infantry
Paul 8. Bond
Corps of Engineers
Joseph Garrard
Fifteenth Cavalry
Wincheater
Percy M. Kessler
Coast Artillery Corps
Fort Monroe
Samuel A. Bmoich
Missouri
Dames
Burns
Ordnance Department
Tobyhanna
Porter
Third Field Artillery
Signal Corps
Eastern Department
Fort Omahd
Nebr
Frederick F. Black
Fort Omaha
Fort McDowell
Cal
Honolulu
Hawaiiy
Hawaiian Départment
Frank K. Chafin
Third Cavalry
Fort D. A. Russell
Wyo
Paul H. Ellis
Medical Reserve ‘Corps
Horace F. Spurgin
Coast Artilery Corps
Twentythird Infantry
State University of Iowa
Iowa
City
Hoffman
Camp Perry
Ohio
San Diego
Signal Corps Aviation Rehool
Hollis Ler
Muller
Roy R. Lyon
Edgar B. Colladay
Leon BR. Cole
Naval Orders and Vessel Movements Summary
Naval orders list officers reassigned to navy yards and stations including Cassidy, Bruce, McCormick, Harris, Burdick, Barnes, Addison, Anyder, Parker and others to posts in Maine New Orleans New York Boston Fort Leavenworth Washington and more. Movements note arrivals of cyclope Beale Newport Michigan Tampico Chicago and others to Boston Newport San Diego and other ports with several ships sailing from Newport for Sewall Point Tampico for Galveston and more amid routine fleet logistics.
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Hunter
R. E. Cassidy
Navy
Portsmouth
N. H
H. Bruce
Naval
New Orleans
E B. McCormick
Maine
F. M. Harris
New Terrey
Evalyn H. & Burdick
Ragle
G. C. Barnes
Burrows
D M. Addison
Cyclope
Bewall Point
Beale
Newport
Michigan
Tampico
Chicago
Macdonough
Rogers
Boston
Prairie
Tompkineville
Saturn
Bremerton
Hercules
Washington
Mayflower
Vixen
Whipple
Hopkins
Paul Jones
Trixtun
San Diego
Villalobos
Chinkiang Salled
eCyclopa
Sewall Point
South Carolina
Galveston
Maryland
Centrofier Bay
Alaska
Castlc
New York Yard
Patapace
Heston
New Tendon
Jason
Norfolk
Hingham
Mass
Tingey
Wilmington
Charleston
Arkansas
Delaware
Jenkins, Fanning, and
Jarvis
North River
New York City
Newser
How to Sleep Cool by Sprinkling a Damp Sheet
A New York Sun doctor explains a method for sleep during heat using a damp sheet or blanket under a fan. The warm air speeds evaporation, cooling the sleeper and the room. The technique rivals cooling methods in efficiency and costs about the same as an electric light.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Temperament and Mind Shaped by Thyroid and Body
From the Pall Mall Gazette a discussion on how thyroid activity and bodily disease influence temperament. It notes phthisical optimism, fatal paralysia, and the idea that immaterial factors may shape character, with a nod to Jeanne d Arc and gender differences in joie de vivre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pall Mall Gazette
Arthur Keith
Jeanne dArc
Dalton
Prometheus
High kicker at 74 and Civil War veteran James L. Smith
Col James L Smith of Edwardsville Illinois, a 74 year old Civil War veteran, astonishes friends with high kicking and gymnastics. He once kicked 6 feet 8 inches and can kick the hat off a friend. He trained company men to kick guns and bayonets during the war and performs a leg letter W while seated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Louis
Dispatch
New York Press
James L. Smith
Edwardsville
Ageociates
Con Smith
Ed Wardsville
Better Meals for Farmers Organized in Geauga County
Ohio's new farm group formed by Geauga county housewives aims to raise living standards for farmers through better meals. Mrs J E Turner leads a countywide auxiliary with a prize for the best farm meal set to begin August 1. About 200 women expected to enter. meals must be served and largely farm-sourced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Ohio
Gehuga County
J. E. Turner
Geauga County
Woman's
Geauga County Farm Improvement Association
Weather conditions and regional forecast report
Weather bulletin from Washington July 17 details thunder showers across central and southern regions including Atlantic Gulf states and Dakotas with fair conditions elsewhere. Highs near 109 in some states, variable winds along coasts, local showers Friday into Saturday, and generally fair weather for much of the country. River bulletin notes Potomac clear and Shenandoah muddy at Harpers Ferry.
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Dept. of Agriculture
Washington
South Atlantic
East Gulf States
Onlo Valley
Izke
Mississippi Valley
Dakotas
Nebraska
Rocky Mountain
Atlantic
East Guilt
Lake Region
Plains
North Atlantic
Middle Atlantic
Florida
Lower Lakes
Upper Lakes
Washington Post
Harpers Ferry
W. Va
Potomac River
Shenandoah
Chats of Visitors to the Capital
In Washington on his way to New York lawyer A B Smith notes Nevada divorce law changes may shift popular centers from Reno to Boise. He argues divorces should allow separation and remarriage for unhappy marriages. Honolulu resident EH A Scott cites Hawaii passport changes aiding Japanese return to Hawaii. Winnipeg’s Donald Cameron discusses Canada United States cooperation on railroads and border development. A Willard observer defends Lamont’s Celt identity and shares anecdotes of his cabinet prospects and wealth.
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Nevada
A. B. Smith
Shoreham
Boise
Agai
United States
Hawaii
EH. A. Scott
Honolulu
Foreign Office
Hawai
Japan
Canada
Washington Post
Donald Cameron
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Willard
Sories
Democratic Party
Borden
Dominion
Boundary Line
Yukon District
Alaska
Ottawa
Lynn Canal
Haines Mission
Circle
Josiah Quincy
Daniel S. Lamont
Joseph P
Scotland
Ireland
Bobby Burne
Lamont
Peter A. Widener
William L. Elkins
Whitney
New York Traction
Cleveland
Philadelphianna
Traction Enterprise
Widener
Elkins
Envoy Expresses Gratitude in U S Visit
Dr Laura Multer Brazilian foreign minister bid farewell to Secretary Bryan and praised U S courtesies. President Wilson conveyed warm regards to Brasil’s President Marghel Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca. Bryan sent Dr Muller best wishes for voyage aboard the Minas Geraes.
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Laura Multer
Bryan
United States
Congress
Supreme Court
Brazil
Wilson
Marghel Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca
Brasil
Lauro Muller
Muller
Minas Gerees
Eafe
New Guns To Be Tested By Army Officers At Sandy Hook
Brig. Gen. Hunter Liggett and Col. Edwin St. John Greble will witness next week the testing of new artillery at Sandy Hook New Jersey. The weapons include a 38 inch howitzer firing a 3 pound projectile and a 4.7 inch gun firing a heavier round, both developed domestically. An ordnance officer notes American officers did not gain ideas from Balkan war observers, as Balkan and Turkish designs came mainly from French and German sources.
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Hunter Liggett
Army War College
Edwin St. John Greble
Staf
Army
Sandy Hook
WN. J
United States
Balkan States
Turkey
Host to British Officers at Army and Navy Club
Acting Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt hosted a luncheon at the Army and Navy Club for visiting British naval officers including Vice Admiral Hugh P. Williams Fleet Surgeon R. C. Munday and several Navy officials. The event showcased wartime allied engagement as a social gathering with high ranking attendees. Rival social sets referenced in Chicago Resort-Herald cartoon remark contrast those who had adenoid removals with those who underwent appendicitis surgery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Roosevelt
Army and Navy Club
Hugh P. Williams
R. C. Munday
BH. N. Mooney
Breckinridge
Bureau of Navigation
Victor Blue
Albert G
Winterhalter
Augustus F."hechteler
Board of Inspection and Survey of Shipe
Thomas Rodgers
Walter 8. Crome Jey
Lewis B. McBride
Chicago Resort-Herald
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