Mexico's Provisional Leader Hints at Portillo y Rojas Rise
The article argues Gen Huerta may yield the presidency to Jose Portillo y Rojas amid Mexico's civil conflict. It suggests US recognition could stabilize the country, enable fundraising abroad, and pressure rebels toward peace. Portillo y Rojas would suit US aims as provisional president, avoiding the Madero-Dias quarrel. The piece stresses US peacemaker role over personal preference.
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Huerta
Mexico
Jose Portillo Y Rojas
United States
Huertia
Portillo Y Rojas
Madero
Dias
Torre
Mexicy
Tariff Debate Questions Imports Falloff Claims
An editorial challenges statistics on imports after the tariff law, noting apparent declines exclude bonded imports dumped under the new rates. It argues American consumption of foreign goods rose about 10 percent, urging combined export and import figures for true policy effects.
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Bureau of Statistics
Department of Commerce
Bureau of Statistica
Envo vy Vopicka quoted remarks on his stay in balkans
The article reports on comments about Charles J Vopicka United States Minister to the Balkan states praised for his conduct while noting an alleged remark about a skirt costing $1 during a state visit and a remark about seeing a king. The piece frames the minister as honorable and valuable to the nation.
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Charles J Vopicka
Chicago
United States
Balkan States
Carmen Sylva
Roumania
Vopicka
Charley Vopicka Earns Royal Respect in Meetings
The article defends Charley Vopicka and colleagues Charley, Pete, and Ford as equal among royalty. It portrays him as generous, debonair, and unassuming, noting the $12 shirt symbolic of equality. It praises his approach to royal visitors and hopes for ongoing cordial relations.
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Charley
Peter
Ferdinand
Pete
Ford
Charles F. Murphy
Vopicka
Eleanora
Bulgaria
Charley Vopicka
Europe
Music for the Insane at Johns Hopkins Hospital
The Johns Hopkins psychiatric clinic used a string trio and planned music boxes and phonographs as part of a treatment for mental disorders. Doctors noted music’s hypnotic, tranquilizing effect that can interrupt persistent ideas, potentially aiding patients with mild insanity and hyperactive nerves.
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Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Bedlam
Tinkering the Basic Law in Sixty third Congress
A summary of numerous proposed constitutional amendments debated in the Sixty third Congress. It notes 40 plus resolutions in Senate and House, varying aims from expanding liberties to curbing federal and judicial power, with even proposals to repeal or alter Fifteenth and Fourteenth Amendments and to elect judges and executive officers by the people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
House
Judiciary
Congress
iSome
Crisis in Ulster Dominates British War Office News
London advices show unrest within the British army over Ulster life, with insubordination surfacing among troops in Ireland and England. Officials admit disaffection is spreading. some regimental officers have resigned, while authorities seek calm and avoid bloodshed amid home rule tensions.
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London
Ulster
Ireland
England
War Office
Edward Carson
Eoward Carson
Lady Bathurst supporters and portrait hunt in London society
The piece profiles Lady Bathurst of Bathurst, her active role in managing the London Times ad issue, and her social prominence. It notes her inheritance of the Glenesk papers, marriage to the Earl of Bathurst, and interest in restoring Bathurst family portraits scattered since 1811. It also recounts her St Helena ties, Longwood letters, and stance on Napoleon.
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Lady Bathurst
London ‘Times
Bathurst
Ite
Lord Glenesk
Earl of Bathurst
Napoleon
St Helena
Lord Bathurst
St. Heleng
Cronje
Longwood
St. Helena
Queen Victoria
Paris
Napoleon III
Palace of the Invalides
Eugenie
Brussels
Jesler
Hudson Lowe
London
Lady Glenesk
Lord
Piccadilly
Bachelors’ Club
Byron
Corinth
Lfe
Lady Byron
Bruton Street
Franks
Farmingham
Kent
Tasker
Miss Bathurst
Lancelot ‘Bathurst
Elizabeth
Judith Randolp
Stuart
Richmond
Gustavus Adolphus
Sweden
England
Baron Wrangel
Count Oxenstierna
Robert Cooke
Haighnam
Gloucestershire
Lord Berkeley
Stratton
Baron George Fleetwood
Colmar
Olen
Lord Palmerston
Lady Bathuret
London Morning Post
Times
Morning Post
Metropolitan Press
Wes
Tattersall
Christie
Crompton
Peter Borthwick
Proposals to amend Constitution spark multi way changes
Debates reveal calls to extend legislative terms four to six years and limit the President to four or six years. Some amendments aim to generalize woman suffrage, regulate marriage and divorce, curb polygamy, and shift constitutional amendment power to states. Critics warn of a scramble to alter the Constitution as easily as the sixteenth and seventeenth amendments were added.
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Supreme Court
United States
Congress
Sells Rare Chinese Art A Stitt Collection in London Auction
A March 21 London report notes Frank Partridge of St James has acquired a 40-piece private Chinese enamel collection led by Ming to Kien Lung pieces. Highlights include two six-foot incensed burners with green jade bases, kneeling Ming figures with beards, a Cloisonne vase with turquoise ground and archaic design, a dragon-handled goblet koros, a double gourd Cloisonne vase, and a Kien Lung altar set alongside bowls and boxes.
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A. Stitt
London
Bristol Museum
Frank Partridge
Eine ‘Street
St. James
China
King Tai
England’s missing baronet Sir Henry Burnaby reported
London March 21 England has lost a baronet Sir Henry Burnaby of Broughton Hall Oxfordshire. The registrar’s entry notes no information on his fate or whether he is alive. He is 85, former navy, last heard 1850s when he went to Spain and married. The roll notes titles claimed may be wrongful or doubtful, prompting the new compilation.
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Sir Henry Burnaby
London
England
Broughton Hall
Oxfordshire
Roll of Baronets
Sir Henry
Henry Burnaby
Spain
Tigistrar
New Zealand
California
Berlin Churchgoers Sparse in February Census
London reports a Berlin census of 78 Protestant parishes showing 2,000,000 Protestants with only 95,240 attending church on the last Sunday in February. Some clergymen doubted the figures, estimating about 7,000 more, but still far below full attendance as men were scarce and women and children dominated the congregations. Less than one-sixth of church seating was used in morning services.
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London
Berlin
Wven
Germans Give Up Beer in Drive for Olympic Glory
Berlin March 21 reports that German athletes training for the 1916 Olympic games have greatly reduced beer consumption. The shift comes as instructors push physical fitness and discipline, and thousands of young men in and out of the army are following orders to abstain from beer to boost athletic performance and aim to eclipse American prestige.
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Berlin
Germany
Fiddler seeks paid engagement with $1000 fiddle
Oklahoma expert Hoping to secure traveling post with reliable firm declares itself champion old time fiddler of the Northwest. He mentions a $1000 fiddle and prior work with motion pictures, seeking salary and expenses and opportunities near political event music in Oklahoma City area.
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma Oklahoman
Hoss
Ohila
Roy Stafford
Oklahoma City
Oka
Strand
Northwest
Queenie
Marriage Law Curiosities Across States
The New York Times notes state by state quirks in marriage law. West Virginia allows a man to wed his deceased wife's sister but forbids marrying her stepdaughter. Massachusetts permits a deceased wife's sister marriage but bans her grandmother. Maryland criminalizes intermarriage between whites and non whites, yet crossing into Pennsylvania to marry and returning appears lawful. Utah allows an epileptic woman to marry only after age 45.
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New York Times
West Virginia
Massachusetts
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Utah
The Silent Tie Between Wife and Worldly Wisely
Madison C. Peters argues that harmony in marriage rests on mutual understanding and restraint. He cautions against secrecy and nagging, noting women should share burdens and both partners sustain dignity, steadiness, and respect beyond beauty and wealth. He compares fretful behavior to a wasp, urging calm, equal partnership.
Writers Should Return to Folk for Real Life Atmosphere
A Chicago Tribune piece lauds a New York woman writer who moved back to her birthplace to live among her people rather than uplift them. It argues fiction often detaches from real life as editors print to please peers rather than the public, urging writers editors and publishers to reconnect with ordinary experiences and communities.
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The
Chicago Tribune
New York
A Brave Little Woman Clara Morris at 69 Tells Why She Continues Happy
Clara Morris the actress, bedbound with geratica, writes that she stays cheerful for three reasons: she can still read guitar notes and seed catalogs, her stroke-struck husband lies nearby improving, and her pneumonia-surviving mother is aged but well. Her view offers a lesson in resilience despite misfortune.
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Clara Morris
Boston Globe
Geratica
The Islamic Faith’s Global Rise in the British Empire
A historical notice highlights the growing Muslim population worldwide, noting 5,000,000 more Muslims than Christians in the British empire, and a rising share of the human population. It cites India with 60,000,000 Muslims, 9 percent growth over a decade, Java with 24,000,000 Muslims, and Persia as strongly Muslim, arguing Islam’s global expansion and biblical sites under Muslim rule.
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Chrisian Herain
British Empire
India
Java
Persia
There is a certain old German of Wilkey- Barre
A brief anecdote about an old German patriarch who prides himself on his self made path and lectures his grandson Wilhelm about education After the graduation of a nephew he asks what was taught in school His reply Greek Latin German and algebra The reaction ends with the quip algebra for potatoes now
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Wilkey- Barre
Wilhelm
Whitcomb Riley Debut Triumph in New York City
James Whitcomb Riley stunned a cold New York audience at the Academy of Music with his dialect poem When the Frost on the Punkin. Supported by Lowell and Howells, Riley earned high praise as Mrs Grover Cleveland urged a White House visit, boosting his national fame.
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New York
National
James Whitcomb Riley
Academy of Music
Riley
James Russell Lowell
William Dean Howells
White House
Bug Month in Kansas Teachers to teach pest destruction
The Kansas Industrialist reports a state wide "bug month" in March as teachers nationwide will instruct pupils in combating insect pests that damage crops. The agricultural college prompted superintendents to urge bug lessons, focusing on chinch bugs Hessian flies and grasshoppers to begin early education for statewide pest control.
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Kansas
Agricultural College
Sgricultural College
Kangas
Dove of Peace's Sad Plight in Leslie's Weekly
Minna Irving laments the dove of peace forced to flee war globally. The poem allegorically traces the dove losing feathers as nations seize territories from the Balkans to Mexico. It ends with the dove fleeing toward cannibals to roost until it regains feathers.
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Dove OF Peace
Minna Irving
Leslie’s
Noah
Japan
Russia
Balkans
Mexico
Medals For Accident Prevention In Electric Railways
The American Museum of Safety will award Anthony Brady memorial medals annually for outstanding accident prevention and industrial hygiene by U S electric street railways. Gold silver and bronze medals honor top work, enabling humble employees to compete with top railway officials. Past Barriman medals honored William Sproule and William Schwab. donor Nicholas Brads hopes the awards spur safety culture among all roads and protect workers and the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Museum of Safety
Philadelphia Inquirer
Anthony Brady
America
Barriman
Wiliam Sproule
Southern Pacific Campany
William Schwab
Sacramento
Nicholas Brads
Brano Was Vindicated in Streetcar Incident
A Scotch terrier led by a silver chain causes embarrassment on an eastbound streetcar. The dog sleeps under a seat as a passenger with a market basket occupies the next seat. The owner, lacking a dog permit, panics and tries to quiet the dog with a shrill command and a solo dance. A bystander jokes about returning the lobster. The dog Bruno is vindicated.
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Bruno
Not Thirsty From London Sheen Wer Mistress-Have you give the go 4 fish and fresh Water today
Fragmentary dialogue records a child named Mary and a mother discussing water for her fish. The note references prior water given and a request to provide fresh water today, with Mary replying about not drinking the water. The text is informal and incomplete.
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London
Sheen
Mary
Woolen Malls of Bradford Aim at U S Markets
H F Fourt of Leander Wyoming reports from Bradford England on vast mills ready to serve American demand. English prices may undercut US sales, aided by cheap labor, threatening local mills. Griffiths notes London unemployment near 15 thousand in a recent tally.
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Bradford
England
H. F. Fourt
Leander
Wyo
London
Paris
Raleigh
Fourt
United States
Bradford Mills
Griffiths
Chile to Profit by Panama Canal Opening
Prominent Valparaiso businessman F H Rodriguez Cerda says the Panama Canal will boost Chile US trade. He expects shorter sea routes to cut costs and increase imports of manufactured goods, praising American products over European ones as transportation expands. The article also notes general business optimism and debates over regulation and rail freight.
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Panama Canal
F H Rodriguez Cerda
Valparsison
Chile
United States
Cerda
Linea States
M Cerda
Raleigh
Amercan
South America
Panamay Canal
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