Cold cash in campaigns and a traveling slanderer
The Washington Post reports on 1907 campaign finance issues criticizing failure to pass publicity laws and the influence of corporate money, plus a Milwaukee telegram about a traveling preacher denouncing Pittsburg society as Sodom and Gomorrah. It praises Pittsburg figures like Senator Knox and Phllander C Knox and argues against abusive language toward former President Cleveland. It also notes immigration act implications and Japanese competition in shipping.
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Philadelpha Reech
Congress
Roosevelt
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Corporation
United States
Philadelphia
Milwaukee
Sodom
Gomorrah
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Fittsburg
Pitsburg
New York
Chicago
Cleveland
Herrizon
McKinsey
McKinley
Giacuss
Straus
Department of Commerce and Labor
Bonaparte
South Carolina
South
Tilman
Bacon
Senate
George
Fragments on Number Tricks and Calculations
A fragmented excerpt discusses gymnastics of mathematics with numerals from row eight and a playful instruction to multiply a chosen digit by nine. The text includes scattered terms like Nicholas and a trailing sequence.
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Nicholas
Mathematical curiosity reveals 1089 trick explained
A fragment discusses a number trick where reversing a three figure number and performing subtraction yields a result with middle digit 3. Reversing and adding produce a consistent outcome 1089, with a caveat when the first two digits are equal. An example sequence illustrates the process and its repeat behavior.
Curious Nine Rule Puzzle And News Briefs From 19th Century
A fragment recalls a nine based number trick involving reversing digits, subtracting, multiplying, and repeatedly summing digits to reach a final figure tied to making nine. The piece then shifts to short local notices from Winsted and Sheffield, including a sleigh accident, a fire rescue, a dog saving a man, and a long awaited sibling reunion between Mrs. Mundry and Mrs. Van Horn after fifty two years.
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New York
Timon
Jessie Mundry
Robertaville
Clara van Horn
Williamstown
Mess
Mundry
Jessie
Clara
Cannan
Neitther
Albert Sage
Massachusetts
van Horn
Doe Man Seeks Name Change Amid Stigma and Jests
A man named Doe sought a legal name change saying the surname makes it hard to run a business and be taken seriously. He laments being treated as a joke and fears ending in the poorhouse unless he abandons the Doe name.
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Polles
Cuba
Mberty
Emiliis
Oregon
Alfonso
Doe
Davila
Y W Foley
Fragmented Chicago notes reveal streetwise wit and advice
A garbled Chicago fragment recalls city life quips on wealth, truth, and manners. A man misreads his luck, friends influence money, and polite discourse masks real troubles. The piece hints at social commentary through brief, imperfect lines.
Scions of Royalty Wise at Early Age in Bulgaria
Bulgaria's Parliament approved funds totaling 400000 for a new palace in Sophia for the crown prince as he nears majority. The piece discusses royal youth, past church schisms, and the authority to appoint or depose nobles, drawing comparisons with British royal ages and titles and noting Prince Edward and Osborne naval college plans.
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Bulgaria
Sophia
Ferdinand
Gatpoltes
Russia
Pope
Joseph
Aince I
King of
Pain
Isabella II
Alexander
Servig
Belgrade
Regenta
Alfonac
Alfonso
Borie
Prussia
Great Britain
Belgium
Scandinavia
Wdawerd
Wales
Royal Naval College
Osborne
Albert
Prince of Wales
London
Midland
York Cottage
Sandringham
Bucks
Berks
Herts
Ladies by the Load From the Ottaws in towin
A local firm in Stittville offered prizes for the largest loads of ladies brought to the store before Saturday night in February. George Bifll arrived with thirty-one ladies, Thomas Cathcart with forty-eight, and Otto Boyd drove a tandem sleigh loaded with seventy-one ladies to win the first prize amid cheers from hundreds of onlookers.
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Ottaws Winten
George Bifll
Thomas Cathcart
Otto Boyd
Huntley
Reflections of a Bachelor from the New York Press
A humorous column questions farming as a livelihood and satirizes social pretensions. It notes men choosing company carefully and jokes about how calling a woman a “young thing” at eighteen provokes anger in her as at twenty.
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New York
Haunted by an Apparition in Stephen Phillips's English Home
In 1903 poet and dramatist Stephen Phillips rented an Egham country house. His household heard noises and his daughter saw an uncanny little man. A door opened without sound, frightening the staff into leaving. Phillips, fearing haunting, stayed writing while tenants fled. The owner sues newspapers for publishing the tale.
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Stephen Phillips
London Cable
New York Times
Stephen Phillins
Egham
Thera
Yang
Mr. Phillips
Miss Phillips
Phillips
F ‘Ie
Talk Happiness Faith and Health in Hard Times Speech
A fragmentary speech exhorts to speak happiness faith and health to ease world weariness. It urges avoiding chronic gloom and promoting hopeful faith whether in God or humanity, and to refrain from spreading doom until belief returns.
Bull Fights End in Matador’s Death in Mexico City Arena
Antonio Montes, famed matador, died after a bull tossed him thrice near the ring wall. The bull’s attack followed Montes’s skillful kill of the bull, and the body was shipped to Spain for burial. A fire set by a guard’s carelessness cremated the corpse in the Spanish cemetery chapel. A crowd of Mexicans, from all classes, gathered to witness the event as debate grows over closing bull rings.
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Mexico
Antonio Montes
Spain
His Narrow Escape and a Whale of a Cocoa Joke
In Chicago, Mr. Ferguson recalls a kitchen mishap where his wife read headlines about the Thaw trial, leaving biscuits in the oven as a cow appeared on a forty acre lot the next day, provoking laughter from guests at a smoker in the library. Also recounted is Mrs. A L Cordon’s Florida misadventure with a shark, a chair incident, and a 26 pound green turtle caught by Captain Diesch in New York.
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Japeese Maritime
Oceante
San Francisco
Australia
Pacific Mail
Pacific Mall
Pacific
United States
James 3. Hill
Chicago
Ferguson
Ken York
St Augustine
Bia
A. L. Cordon
York
Miami Springs
William Diesch
New York
English Wedding Ring 21 Karat Standard for English Brides
A man purchasing a wedding ring reveals that English brides demand a 21 karat ring. The clerk notes the 18 karat ring is only acceptable in his country, while in England and France a groom offering anything less would be rejected at the altar.
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Alfred Austin
England
Longfellow
Hus
France
Fewer Britons Wed Report Says Marriage Rate Drops
London correspondence reports a long term decline in marriages births and deaths in England and Wales. Over 35 years the marriage rate fell 22 percent with rising age at marriage and literacy improvements noted in London. Births reached 929293 in 1905 while deaths 520081 mark the era as improved public health tempers mortality despite infant and disease figures.
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London
Chiorge News
England
Wales
ING
England and Wales
New South Wales
Royal Commission
Wiven
Europe
France
Great Britain
Remembering the Maine at Havana harbor ceremony
The ninth anniversary of the Maine explosion was marked in Havana with a ceremony by the American Club. Fresh flowers, a half mast flag, and films of the wreck drew American tourists and locals to Machina wharf to honor the fallen sailors.
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Havana Harbor
American Club
Machina Wharf
Kodackera
Bulldog Attacks Mirror Then Fights Shadow Image
Ernest Bennings of Rutherford New Jersey owns a bulldog with more bravado than sense. The dog attacked its reflection in a heavy glass mirror outside a home where a family had just moved. The mirror shattered, cutting the dog’s head. it persisted, chasing its shadow among furniture while bystanders watched. A girl with a bulldog then arrived and the animal bit the second dog before Bennings restrained it.
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Ernest Bennings
Rutherford
Bennings
Simple Life in Washington and Beveridge Verso
A Houston Post excerpt notes Senator Beveridge laments wealth in Washington while Secretary Cortelyou deflates such generalities. It observes Treasury secrets, lunch habits, and a $900 stenographer past and present. The poem urges cheerfulness to ease fatigue and aging.
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Washington
New York
Beveridge
Cortelyou
Secretary of the ‘Treasury
Wall Street
Secretary of the Treasury
Global notes on Russian Douma and Idaho topics
Reports from hotel lobby conversations cover the Russian Douma’s move toward amnesty and reform, Golovin’s reform push, and Left party influence, with predictions of government action. Idaho figures discuss population growth, resources, rail access, and westward expansion, alongside West Virginia coal depth and energy waste. A wireless music demonstration in New York concludes.
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Kelsog Durland
New York
Russia
Durland
New
Willard
Ioasa 5O
Mma
Feodor Golovin
Left
iLeft
Golovin
Svereame
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James J. Hill
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Philippi
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Bay
Normandie Hotel
Thirty-eighth Street
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Les Deforent
Thirty-ninth Street
Normandis
Mendelssohn
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