Why Not Vote Why Not Vote on Canadian Reciprocity
Washington Post editorial argues for voting on the Canadian reciprocity agreement and warns against an extra session. It notes Senate efficiency in recent days, the importance of tariff decisions, and the push to reduce living costs through reciprocity while urging record votes on the measure.
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Senate
Hale
Committee On Appropriations
Interstate Commeree Commission
Supreme Court
Ol and Tobacco Trust
Congress
Tadoff Board
Passing of Congressmen and the lame duck era
The article reflects on the final days of the current Congress, noting the impending departure of seasoned members and the rise of new figures. It ponders how the departing legislators will face retirement, seek roles on commissions, or return renewed to public service, highlighting the enduring operation of Congress despite changes.
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Seine
New Crop Year Opens Amid Grain Price Fallout
The report notes a wheat price drop to 28 cents per bushel and pork at 10 dollars per barrel as oversupply weighs on markets. It cites heavy grain shipments to Europe but weak demand, with projections that if world crops are average prices may fall further, despite officials predicting no return to past high levels.
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Congress
Wilson
Chicago
United States
Look to America Apponyi Seeks Peace Model
Count Apponyi returns to Austria to urge looking to America as a model for peace while warning that Austria wants sixte en new dreadnoughts and Russia moves to build twelve. He notes secret enemies in Europe and a growing democracy trend as 21 republics emerge, with Manila muckraking over the Philippine commission scandal fading under scrutiny.
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America
Apponyi
Count Apponyi
Austria
Austia
Count Apponyt
Een
William
Europe
Mediterranean
North Sea
Italy
Trieste
Tyralean Alps
Duma
Baltic
Black Seas
Russia
Germany
Carewell
Ink Use Predicted Back to King Ahab in Ancient Samaria
A Harvard professor reports evidence that ink usage began in King Ahab’s era nearly 900 years before Christ. Lamp black formed the base, inscribed on earthen potsherds, with many documents being tax receipts and other state statements. The find suggests early Israelites used ink before papyrus, prompting further inquiry into ancient writing and royal provocation of muckraking.
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Harvard
Ancient
Samaria
Ahab
Christ
Jezebel
Israel
Tyre
Naboth
Nationalism and the judge as man in Theodora Roosevelt’s Outlook
The essay argues for discrimination in judging public officials including Supreme Court justices. It contrasts Taney and Marshall, notes that judgment should consider the person filling the office, not the office alone, and asserts a government of law remains a government of men whose interpretation shapes the law.
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Taney
Marshall
Lachanan
Lincoln
Gohoola
Andrew Johnson
Grant
Washington
Seme
Hairpin wager marks wild stroll to Knickerbocker
Walter Scotty of Death Valley wins a $1,500 bet by finding a hairpin on every block from the Waldorf to the Knickerbocker in New York. Weldy Young pays out $4,600 after collecting hairpins from the curb, while Scotty pockets the stake and a trove of pins.
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New York American
Walter Scott
Scotty
Death Valley
New York City
Waldorf- Astoria
Tex Rickard
iWeldy
Thirty-fourth Street
Sixth Avenue
Weldy
Weldy” Young
Why the Turkey Is Bald
Nan Bauntcke recounts a Cherokee tale from In the Red Men about a winter crisis. Birds seek fire, the sparrow ignites a spark, and the turkey sacrifices his feathers fanning the coal to save the flame. Balding head and blisters become a memorial, explaining why turkeys lack head plumage.
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Nan Bauntcke
Red Men
Geo
Dog Ends Its Life By Jumping Into Sea At Pier
Venice dispatch reports a neglected mongrel dog held two days at police headquarters leaped from Wandward avenue pier to end its life. It was the third suicide attempt, a case of death by own action. Adelaide Ryan, the mistress matress, is described as insane after refusing to eat while in custody.
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Venice
Cal
New York
Wandward Avenue
Adelaide Ryan
Romantic Lives of the Della Grazias
Old Archduke and Archduchess Rainer of Austria have an adopted daughter who, after their deaths, will inherit wealth and palaces. She became Duchess della Grazia through her husband’s accession. The piece traces the lineage from the duchy’s Spanish royal origins to the Italian roots, marriages, secret unions, and reconciliation events leading to the present family ties and holdings in Vienna, Brunnsee, and Venice.
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Austria
Vienna
Della Grazia
Charles II
Spain
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Lucca
Desire
Adinalfo
de Berry
Hector Della Grazia
Count Lucchess-Pall
Kingdom of Naples
Hague
Duchess de Berry
Charles I
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Paris
Charles
Henry V
Duchess de Herry
Brittany
Louis Philippe
Deutz
England
Goldsmid
Chateau
de Blaye
Iduth
Rome
Hector Luchas Paul
Duke Della Grazia
Father Rogaven
Cardinal de Rohan
Vatican
Comtesse de Boigne
Chateau de Blaya
Charles X
Henry
Comte de Chambord
Chateau de Blaye
Naples
Venice
Prince of Campofranco
Adiiolfo de la Grazia
Rainer of
Maria van Waldeck
Archduke Henry
Leopoldine Hoffman
Lfe
Switzerland
Elizabeth
Archduke
Hotel Sacher
Marie
Archduke Rainer
Countess Waldeck
Enrico Lucches-Paili
Duke de la Grazia
Bozen
Brunnase
Styria
Marquie. DE
Rooster Chantecler Drunk in Long Island Dramatics
Sayville reports a prize rooster named Chantecler became highly intoxicated from fermented cherries. The owner, Mrs Acton W Smith, plucked many feathers, left the bird nearly featherless and disheveled. The rooster’s drunken behavior included stumbling to its perch and crowing at odd hours. Neighbors note the chaos as the cockerel now rules the yard and a former rival henchman chases it away. Mrs Smith laments pulling feathers and misjudging the bird’s condition.
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Sayville
L. 1
New York Press
Acton W. Smith
Long Island
Chantecler
Smiths
Mighty explosion tears Roseville Mountain in New Jersey
The Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad blew apart Roseville Mountain in Morris County with over 16 tons of explosives to clear a 23 million dollar cut off to Buffalo. Engineers report no tremors and limited scatter, as a 200 foot high detonation left a ragged crater and removed the historic Roseville schoolhouse.
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New York Herald
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Roseville Mountain
Morris County
New Jersey
Hopatcong
N. J
Portland
Buffalo
a#iens
Hagt
Norge
Contractora
Judson Railroad
Judson
Red Cross
Agz
Roseville Achoolhouse
Miliiong
Lackawanna
Husband Invades Meeting at Equal Franchise Society
At a New York Herald reported rally of the Equal Franchise Society in Maxine Eliott’s Theater, a man disrupted Dr. Anna Howard Shaw’s speech claiming he sought his wife. He joked about her pursuit of votes, then left with the wife after a struggle in the foyer.
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Anna Howard Shaw
Equal Franchise Society
Maxine Eliott
Gibraltar
Court Denies Return Of White Child To Black Foster Mammy
In a New York children's court an 8 year old white girl named Margaret Clemens, raised by Jennie Collings a black mammy, is kept from her. Justice Wyatt rules the child cannot be returned to Collings despite her emotional pleas and the caretaker’s testimony of care. The girl was removed from 226 West Thirtieth Street after Agent Butts from the children's society intervened.
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Margaret
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The Grangerville Gazette Remembered in Verse and Gossip
A humorous monologue rails at modern papers while praising Grangerville Gazette. The speaker recalls courtship and wedding verses from the Gazette, mentions family with seven children, and muses on death and a funeral notice read in the paper. Includes stray quotes from the Boston Transcript and New York Telegram.
Pointed Paragraphs from the Chicago News
A series of satirical lines on social behavior and human nature from a Chicago News column. It weighs trust, reciprocity, pride, money, and appearances with wry observations. It notes neighbors judgment, the value of listening, and the ease with which fools part with money.
Reflections of a Bachelor from the New York Press
Remorse wipes out no wrongs and money only promises happiness It notes how people pursue self will and secrecy can fail when a man gives a woman diamonds while engaged yet avoids obligations after marriage The piece hints that private secrets travel public streets showing the fragility of social appearances
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New York
Interview with Capital’s Visitors in Raleigh and Tripoli
Nathan P Bryan, likely successor to Senator Taliaferro of Florida, speaks as a steadfast Democrat in Raleigh. American consul John Q Wood discusses Tripoli’s cholera outbreak, demographics, and memories of Roosevelt in Venice, noting the diplomat’s celebrity status.
Former Gov Benton McMillin Sees Congress Close in Washington
Former Tennessee Governor Benton McMillin, long a U S House member and Ways and Means veteran, arrived in Washington to witness the closing of the Sixty-first Congress. He recalled four tariff acts under his tenure and named contemporaries Blaine, Garfield, and Stephens, praising Stephens and Hill while noting Swedish visitors at the Shoreham studying U S power plants and emigration trends. The piece also notes McMillin narrowly failed to win a Senate seat by two votes and remarks on the late Gov. Johnson of Minnesota as a national loss.
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Taliaferro
Florida
Raleigh
Bryan
William J. Bryan
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Canada
Democratic Party
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Harmon
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Woodrow Wilson
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Benton McMillin
Tennessee
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Washington
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McMillin
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Ways and Means
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Willard
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Dingley
Congress
James G. Blaine
James A. Garfield
Alexander H. Stephens
Alexander Stephens
Henry Clay
National Hotel
Georgia
Stephens
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Mahone
Cicero
Cataline
Hill
Fourteenth Street
Ninth
Shoreham
Tortsen F. Son Holmgren
Royal Trollhattan Power System
Oft
Trollattan
Sweden
Knut W. Bildt
Kiruna
United States
Bildt
Hig
Gov Johnson
Minnesota
Bibles for Traveling Sinners
A landmark order from the Gideons and the Christian Commercial Travelers Association calls for 100000 Bibles to be placed in hotel rooms nationwide. Eastern cities will gain access as the West already has, with 25000 copies to go to San Francisco by June for the International Sunday School Association convention.
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The
Gideons
Christian Commercial Travelers' Association of America
Middle West
New York
San Francisco
International Sunday School Association
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