Wall Street Dead or Alive in a Nation of Producers
The piece argues Wall Street is largely inert without country backing yet the country thrives on real production. It notes a dull market with few brokers selling not enough to cover rents, while overall business improves outside speculative finance. It contrasts Wall Street’s importance with actual national output and hints at possible recovery if real commerce returns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall Street
Anander
Canton
Rail Road Carelessness In Martins Creek Wreck
Inquiry into the Belvidere division roadbed near Martins Creek New Jersey finds dangerous track conditions during the Utica school teachers special. Officials consider criminal carelessness with speed over unsafe rails and signals, questioning railroad and state actions as to why such a dangerous section was run.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belvidere Division
Pennsylvania Railroad
Martins Creek
N. J
Utica
Washington
Itte
Euch
Dan
Rheumatism in the Tonsils and Other Oddities
A column of varied notes discusses railroad safety lapses and the need for vigilance after a fatal section accident. It then shifts to satire on servant maids and the allure of comforts in households. Doctors are lampooned for chasing universal ailments from appendices to rheumatism, traced to tonsils, with a playful warning. The piece moves to farm policy, reciprocity, and the Farmers' Union as it critiques protests and political maneuvers affecting wheat and cotton markets.
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Canada
Canadian
Chicago
Congress
Washington
Farmers’ Union
Free List
Controversy Over Dr Pease and Riley Poem Sparks Resignation
The International Art Society member Dr Charles G Pease resigns after objecting to James Whitcomb Riley's poem An Old Sweetheart of Mine referencing tobacco. The Jr International Art Society meeting featured a 3 year old reciting the line, prompting support for Pease and praise from readers. The piece also digresses into political and social asides about figures like Lincoln Grant and Willis Moore, concluding with a note on Foss's automobile crash.
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Charles G. Pease
International Art Society
Pease
James Whitcomb Riley
Dr. Pease
Riley
Guite
Indiana
Derby Man Returns to Derby After Legend of Alaska Ends
Thomas Mulcahy, long presumed dead after a Alaska snowslide, returns to Derby Connecticut. His brother Richard had erected a monument in his memory, and Mulcahy, arriving unseen, confronts the town’s belief he died. He greets old friends and confirms his identity, leading to a quiet reunion and a decision to leave the monument in place.
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Connecticut
Derby
Coun
New York Herald
Ansonia
Thomas Mulcahy
Alaska
Daniel Moffat
Frank Knight
Mulcahy
Moffat
Knight
Richard
Thomas
New Haven
Tom Mulcahy
Elephant Kills Rat. Zoo Feels Foolish Beliefs Shattered
At the Bronx Zoo, Gunda the Indian elephant guarding a duck eggs nest became excited as the eggs hatched. A rat tried to steal a duckling at 2 PM Sunday, and Gunda, in anger, crept up and killed the rat, much to keepers’ delight. The incident mocks the old belief that elephants fear mice.
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New York
Wario
Bronx
Gunda
Lincoln Memorial Site Debate Reflects Art Critics’ Favor
Controversy over Lincoln Memorial placement pits an axis aligned, Capitol-to-Washington plan along the Potomac against a site nearer the Capitol and railway station. Proponents cite collective artistic judgment and McKim Saint-Gaudens’ vision, while critics invoke practicality, with John Hay’s urging for the main axis memorial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burdham-McKim-Saint-Gaudens-Olmsated Commission
Capitol
Washington Monument
Potomac
Lincoln
John Hay
McKim
McKim and Saint-Gaudens
Dublin's new mayor on reduced salary
Dublin's lord mayor John J Farrell assumed office on St Patrick's Day and faced a mandated salary cut from 18 400 to 8 000 a year. The move, backed by unions Sinn Feinists and Hibbernians, aimed to curb public spending. Farrell will not occupy the mansion house this term due to funds for entertaining and upkeep.
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Dublin
John J. Farrell
St. Patrick’s Day
Bhut
Ireland
Redmond
House of Commons
W. Abraham
William O Brien
Cork
Anston House
Sinn
An Invitation From Life Bilter at Servants Agency
A humorous exchange shows a manager asking for a cock to go to the country and a group of girls offered a day in the country. An aside mentions Tommy asking his father about seasons, with the reply lacking a weather expert.
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Bilter
Servants’ Agency
Whiskers vs Bald Heads Daring Sea Rescue Debated
From Washington to Nashville and New York World reporting a lively panel debating whether whiskers or bald heads hinder men more. The piece cites Julius Caesar Hamlet Dryden Milton and Pope while noting the bald head as an infirmity and whiskers as a calamity in a stylistic historical gloss. A second item details William Browning 19 of Whitstable Kent saved at sea after falling overboard from the Atlantic Transport Minnewaska as passengers cheered his rescue by crew and lifeboat.
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Nashville Tennessean
Washington
Messrs
James and
Longworth
Kern
Cannon
James
Julius Caesar
Marc Antony
Caesar
Hamlet
Dryden
Milton
Pope
Prior
Hyme
New York World
Iner Minnewaska
Wiliam Jo Browning
Whitstable
Kent
Imer
J. G. Hutchison
Chadwick
Thomas F. Gates
Simmons
Browning
Hutchison
Troilers
The Song of Siva by Ameen Rihalf
A mystic poem from The Atlantic evokes night across mountains and sea as sirens sleep and rivers call. The speaker dreams of the wadi and river while East and West spirit birth unfolds in fiery Orient imagery.
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Ameen Rihalf
Atlantic
Wadi
Love Endures Across Nine Thousand Days
Gardner Weeks Wood in Harper's Weektr shares a lyrical verse about memory and lasting affection. A Brooklyn journalist quotes Alfred E. Smith recounting a tale at a railway station where a man explains severe hardship following family losses, an extinguished home, and a burned savings.
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Gardner Weeks Wood
Harper's
Ancor
Pointed Paragraphs in a Woman’s World
A collection of moralizing quips on marriage gender roles and social expectations. The pieces poke at witless men and overburdened women, suggesting wisdom comes from listening and partnership while lampooning lifelong single ambitions and overbearing tasks.
Reflections of a Bachelor in New York Press
A satirical sketch on male nerve and prudence, teasing habits in the kitchen and money matters. The piece lampoons a man who fears his wife discovering his sleep talking and jokes about generosity and loyalty in marriage with a wry, old fashioned newspaper voice.
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New York Press
Horses For Coronation Boosts Kentucky Breeder Prices
John C. Weaver of Forrest Farms near Lexington returns from London with 30 horses sold at high prices for coronation pageants. He notes big-boned 17-hand carriage horses are in demand, with bays and browns preferred and whites avoided. American horses gain entry due to depleted English supply as motor cars rise, and brokers report high rates, including buses hired for the parade.
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London
New York Times
John C. Weaver
Forrest Farms
Lexington
Lannon
England
Toney
Chats of Visitors to the Capital Reveal Guarded Grounds
A Washington note comments on heightened security around the White House with a Cincinnati and New York man’s encounter involving an automobile attachment and a leather box. The piece reflects stricter checks at the White House and remarks on the vigilance of guards and staff in handling unknown bundles near presidential offices. It also muses on the college waiter phenomenon at summer hotels, contrasting European and American waiters, and the social dynamics of educated service workers and their romances with hotel guests.
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White House
Emerson
Cincinnati
New York
Raleigh
War Department
Department
Washington
Andrew J. Vosburg
Centerville
Iowa
Dewey
Congress
Europe
Budapest College
Budapest
New Hampshire and Maine Histories Highlighted by Travelers
In Raleigh and Willard hotels, travelers recall New Hampshire figures like Daniel Webster and Eleazar Wheelock, praising Concord to White River bridges and Maine’s Aroostook War. They note Webster Ashburton treaty ties, border tensions, and low pensions for eight Maine survivors, now over ninety-nine.
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New Hampshire
Robert B. McCall
New York
Raleigh
Daniel Webster
Franklin
Webster
Massachusetts
Canaan
Frank Currier
Eleazar Wheelock
Eleazar
Annals of
Hannah Dustin
Pennacook
Concord
White River
Mark Twain
Riviera
Genoa
Mark
William M. Longley
Green County
Willard
Arcostook
Maine
Vinal
Connecticut
Canada
Max Dodge
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