A Vexed Question on Southern Representation in Congress
The Washington Post discusses the ongoing debate over Southern representation in Congress, arguing a plank for its reduction would challenge the Fifteenth Amendment and expose clashes between Reconstruction policy and party interests while assessing implications for national conventions and African American enfranchisement.
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Congress
Pant Cal
Chicago
Republican Party
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South
Anita
Thidgo
Adjusting S&L ARIFS and political clatter across era
Fragmented OCR article surveys financial issues and social debates spanning S&L rate adjustments, philanthropy, labor, and 1908 presidential talk. It references commission schemes, railroad roles, Bryan versus Roosevelt style rhetoric, public policy, and public notices with scattered opinions from various figures and newspapers.
Let The Post Follow You To The Capital
The Post will print notices to readers who move or travel, promising prompt delivery nationwide. Readers can notify an agent or mail to The Post Telegraph Office at 4205 to keep informed about affairs at the Capital.
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Washington Lang
Cty
Fortune In Peach Alley Heiress For President Inspires Roosevelts Praise
Harmen Sheffer a poverty stricken tobacco worker in Peach alley takes his eight year old daughter Rosie to Memphis to claim a fortune estimated at 50000 with guidance from President Roosevelt who advised letting the child go until he can provide. A Memphis relative arranged the transfer and a detective notified the father of the relative's death. He will seek work in Memphis and ensures the heiress inherits the money. Peach alley hails Roosevelt and Taft as a political divide looms.
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Pitt
New York Herald
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Happy
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Taft
Sheffler
Margaret Schaeffer
Tennessee
President Roosevelt
Sheffier
Chief McGough
SheMer
Where the Husbands Shop and Two Souls in Women
Mrs McNaughton from Asia Minor describes a society where husbands control all purchases including clothing. The piece contrasts European Smyrna with Turkish quarters and notes early marriage limits education, while a Clark University president cites women having two souls. A South Bend Watch Co representative laments magnetism in skyscraper constructions affecting timekeeping.
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Asia Minor
New York
Seare
Stoo
Bark
Chicago to dump confiscated guns in Lake Michigan
City officials and police plan to dispose of contraband dangerous weapons by sinking them in Lake Michigan following a New York led example. Municipal judges have approved handing over the seized arms to the cry custodian for disposal, aiming to curb gun violence and illicit sales.
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Lake Michigan
Windy City
Son of Garibaldi jailed for insults to carabinieri
Ricciotti Garibaldi, criticised for actions since his father’s death, was sentenced by the Court of Tempio to three months imprisonment and a fine for gross insults and threats to a carabinieri officer and his men. He plans to serve his term as a political martyr to aid lawsuits against the royal household. The piece details Garibaldi lineage, pensions for the Thousand of Marsala, and a long history of Garibaldi era claims and Italian royal property.
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National Treasury
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Canada Mont
Gaeta
Furniture &c
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Victor Emmanuel
House of
Patriots
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Europe
America
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Baby Heavon
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Dijon
Foreign Legion
New York
Woodbury
Ricciotts
Ciotti Marquise DE Fontenoy
Brentwood Company
Noiseless gun tested by Hiram Maxim in-room demonstration
From the New York World comes word that inventor Hiram Percy Maxim demonstrated his noiseless gun, resembling a 32 caliber Winchester, in a room with skeptical onlookers. A soft bullet penetrated a city directory, proving the claimed quiet explosion by progressively releasing powder gas through a muffler-like mechanism.
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New York World
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Mr Maxim
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Sandy Hook
Springfield
Pardon for Eggleston sparks debate on insanity and crime
Washington dispatch reports President Roosevelt approved a conditional pardon for James D Eggleston, son of a prominent railroad figure, who had been imprisoned for counterfeiting. Eggleston, deemed morally irregular from a skull injury in childhood, will enter a private sanitarium for treatment after release. His case draws worldwide attention from psychiatrists and criminologists.
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Roosevelt
James D Eggleston
James Eggleston
Pacific Expressmpany
Jon Young Eggleston
St Elizabeth 5 Hospital
Washington
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Xgleston
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Watery Wordplay Signals A City Sign Hoax Or Honest Joke
A traveling salesman recalls hearing about funny advertisements and a sign in a nearby town promising a restaurant opening on June 3. He wonders if such signs are fake or genuine, noting the bucolic humor of the display and the location in this city.
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Philanerphia
Joun Dok to Open a Restaurant Here Line 30
In a garbled note the text mentions Joun Dok planning a local restaurant with lines about opening by line thirty and a warning not to eat until it does. The fragment also cites Dr Luigi Sambon regarding life expectancy differences among peoples and regions, noting Spaniards and Englishmen and centenarian counts.
Gate Receipts At Race Tracks Profits Only Reported
A New York American table on 5 percent tax receipts from track profits lists figures for Yonkers, Belmont Park, Aqueduct, Saratoga, and other tracks. It covers track values, money involved, salaries, maintenance costs, and estimated purses, with notes on betting profits and transportation costs.
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Racim
Frotts Sheenahead Bay
Fa OD Gravasenil
Sis
Brighton Beach
Kelmont Park
Bae
Aqueduct Gua
Jamie
New York
NY Os Racing Commission
OTHFA
Saratoga
Bankers push for credit currency and Taft support
In Charleston and Greensboro hotels, Representative Charles N Fowler of New Jersey, chair of banking and currency, argues the United States needs a credit currency and opposes an emergency currency. He cites banker conventions backing a party platform for a credit currency and Taft as a strong presidential candidate. Architectural and economic notes follow from Greensboro and New Willard discussions, with local sentiment favoring continued prosperity and manufacturing growth.
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Fowler
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House
Aldrich Vreeland
Charleston
W Va
West Virginia Bankers Association
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Judes
New York
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Sherman
W OP
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Roosevelt
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Neck of the Woods
Reflections of a Bachelor from the New York Pastimes
Essay humorously notes how love excuses a man for being fooled by a woman who uses fashion to control him. It jokes that married life requires pretending happiness for many people and mocks the social value placed on women’s social calls and tones of voice.
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Commissioner Ledpps
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