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The Washington Post lists subscription terms and pricing details for both daily, Sunday editions and weekday options, with foreign and domestic payment methods noted. The piece also includes an editorial on pistol-toting, criminal justice, and a favorable assessment of the Jamestown Exposition's reorganization and prospects in promoting national education and Virginia enterprise.
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The Drago Doctrine at The Hague and U S Policy
The Hague conference lingers over the Drago doctrine as European powers mull concessions. Gen Porter notes no formal acceptance yet while the United States seeks a debt collection pact with limited force. Roosevelt's corollary and Santo Domingo treaty shape expectations for any debt enforcement at The Hague.
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Hague
United States
Horace Porter
Drago
Santo Domingo
Roosevelt
Senate
Hague Tribunal
Pistols Crime and the Fight Against Murder in Texas
The Texas Legislature taxed pistol sales by 50 percent to curb gun use. Proposals include making concealed carry and manufacturing pistols with short barrels felonies. The piece laments rising homicide rates and criticizes lenient justice, noting lynching as a corrosive remedy and courtroom travesties in crime trials.
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Texas
Spain
Psychology in Business and Public Affairs Review
A ponderous editorial reflects on psychology in business and government, debating pensions for aging workers, parcels post, and the influence of public mood on markets. It cites Wanamaker, Vanderlip, and Bryan, warning against rash reforms and urging cool, fact-based policy to restore confidence and growth.
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Vanderlip
Hughes
Japan
Salaries and Pensions Debate Reopens for Government Clerks
The piece argues for a general departmental pension fund funded by increased salaries, noting Congress historically raised members' pay but not departmental salaries. It suggests placing the rise into a trust for retired employees, with a fixed age limit, and references figures and anecdotes to illustrate broader concerns about thrift and public finance.
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Sixtieth Congress
Andrew Carnegie
Charles Reade
Tammany Opposes Bryan for President in New York
The New York Democratic leadership led by Tammany opposes Col Bryan's presidential bid, arguing a third Bryan nomination would repeat defeat. They prefer a younger, steadier candidate and note Hughes’s vetoes have shifted voter confidence toward the governor while Bryan faces stiff intra-party opposition. The piece also references Hearst’s 1900 governor bid and Roosevelt’s appeal to a younger electorate.
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Bryan
Holland
Philadelphia
Tammany
New York State
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Murphy
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Beez Strikes Four Rail Lines At York Yard
A swarm of bees clustered on a railroad switch handle in a major yard halting traffic on four railroads and a Standard Oil tank train today. About fifty workers tried to dislodge them before a boy’s father captured the bees in a wash boiler and restored flow of trains.
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Standard Oil Company
The Strenuous Varation and Presidential Boom Banter
A garbled column mocks Kaiser Wilhelm I and Senator Knox with breakfast whims and a playful portrait of the President in Oyster Bay. It riffs on tires, chores, and daily routines, contrasting idle boasting with a busy public persona.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Oyster Bay
Reflections of a Bachelor from the New York Press
A satirical column critiquing marriage expectations and male behavior with sharp, comic anecdotes. It lampoons a thin girl’s pride in ankles, a truthful husband, and a wife’s lecturing to her husband, while mocking social pretenses and imaginations.
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Igs
Piacek
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Count Blucher and His Family A Tangled European Line
A long survey traces Count Gebhard Blucher and kin across Prussia England and the United States. It details disinheritance by his father, two marriages including Ella Olsen Morice, military service, nursing work in New York hospitals, and later wealth from South Africa. It notes disputes with brothers, the Waterloo heirloom carriage, and ties to English and Danish nobility amid royal tensions.
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Stapleton Bretherton
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Lancashire
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Waterloo
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United States
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Mecklenburg
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Pomerania
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Homeopathic Hospital
Washington
Presbyterian Hospital
New York
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John A. Logan
Pullman Palace Car Company
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Designer of Skyscrapers: Willam Le Baron Jenney's Remarkable Life
From the Chicago Tribune, a profile of Willam Le Baron Jenney who invented the skeleton structure and shaped modern city building. The piece lauds his daring steel and stone innovations, his role in Chicago’s rise, Riverside town planning, and his wartime feat at Shiloh using furnace-fed steamers to cross troops, while noting his charitable, generous nature and modest wealth at death in Los Angeles.
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Willam le Baron Jenney
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Riverside
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Shiloh
Sherman
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London
Vienna
The Men With The Goods
The verse extols reliable workers who stand ready at the hour and deliver with steadiness. It contrasts bluffing fools with men faithful and true, willing to work, and able to lead to success with their aim and power.
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Baltimore Sun
Flushing
Round the World in Forty Days Landed in Dover
Lieut. Col Burnley Campbell reports completing a world circumnavigation in forty days and nineteen and a half hours, with a May 3 Liverpool start and June 13 Dover finish. He notes possible record speed and cites a long, detailed itinerary via Britain, Canada, Japan, Russia, and Europe, including a May 30 near-miss grounding in the Sea of Japan. Daniel Hanna divorces cost over $500,000 in alimony and legal fees, with payments to May Harrington and Daisy Gordon and ongoing support for their children.
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Ostend
Rock Island
Sea of Japan
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Grevaland
New York American
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May Harrington
Daisy Gordon
Hanna
Needle endangerment repeats for Mollie Dressler
Mollie Dressler aged 23 of 387 Third Avenue Bronx was admitted to Fordham Hospital after collapsing from swallowing needles. She previously had forty needles removed at Bellevue Hospital last September and this is her third such incident. She denies intent to self harm or seek publicity, refuses to explain motive.
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Mollie Dressler
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Bronx
Bellevue Hospital
Fordham Hospital
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Treasures at Sir John Soane's Museum London
The New Orleans Times-Democrat reports on Sir John Soane's Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields, highlighting the alabaster Seti I sarcophagus, Napoleon portraits, and a rich array of Turners, Canaletto, Hogarth, and antique furniture. The piece notes the museum's unique holdings, including Belzoni's tomb discoveries, and recalls the British Museum's missed chance to acquire the sarcophagus in 1820.
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Great Metropolis
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Chippendale
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Tippoo Sahib
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Azof
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Egypt
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Set I
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Army of Insects Invades Ship Gabriela on 62 Day Voyage
Sailors of the Italian bark Gabriela report a worst sea voyage ever as millions of insects overran the deck from Buenos Ayres cargo of animal bone. They bit crew, spoiled food, and caused a foul odor while lizards and snakes invaded berths. Captain Starace feared desertion as the pest overwhelmed the hold.
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Gabriela
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Starace
Capt Cary Ingram Crockett Praises Philippine Constabulary
Capt. Cary Ingram Crockett returns to Manila after nearly a year away, praising Philippine constabulary drill mastery and courage in battle. He notes their superior drill work but ranks American regulars ahead in shooting, recalls Mount Dajo and a Manila-area engagement, and observes Filipinos’ acceptance of American rule.
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