Emergency Moneyed Emergency Note Fallout of 1908
In this clipped Washington Post page from May 9 1908 a long column reflects on emergency currency measures amid fears of a financial panic. It discusses proposed government authority to issue emergency paper currency, its aims to stabilize commerce rail traffic and markets, and the wider implications for banks and trust.
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House
Camereli
Ron
Nereharis
Hanes
Dyer Renis
Wallyards
Merigares
Omer Boy
Tata
Dbusinése
Pneumonia Theory From Dr Fish Shocks Chicago
New York amercan Dr Manning Fish of Chicago proposes a nose bone theory for pneumonia and claims a cure within twenty four hours. Reading before the Chicago Medical Society, he draws praise from leading doctors including Murphy Evans and Billings, highlighting Chicago’s medical progress and Pasteur Institute support.
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New York
Manning Fish
Chicago
Fish
Chicard Medical Society
Agateners
John B Murphy
William A Exans
Frank Johnson
Frank Billings
Murphy
Senn
Evans
Clei
Tor Kurper
University of Chicago
Dr Fish
Wild Man Charms Village In New York World Report
The village of Mianus is startled by a wild man living in a cave on the Wavemiyrs estate who hunts game with a mystic method and kills with his hands. James Ingraham, a prominent resident, first sighted him. the figure is described as barefoot with a two foot beard. A 14 year old hunter encountered the man crouching and whistling, then the man fled after a brief interaction with the boy and seized a rabbit.
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Chon
United States
Abdalam Duneoln
Willam Fi Seward
Republic
Toombs
Kentucky
Republian
William Bradley
Stradford
Pym
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Bradley Doves
Nimaric
Ald
Queen Anne
Warden
Drance
Mason and Dixons
Pahner and Buckner Bridge
New York
Loulgiile
Roosevelt
Louisville
Taft
Towa Jury
Reonmich Coun
New York World
Mianve
James Ingraham
Mianus
Ingraham
James Smith
Death and Dizzy Tales From Around the World
Royal riches stash in banks abroad inspire chatter about sovereign funds. A famous piano mover, Alex the Great, dies in Bellevue after an epileptic fit, leaving grief in the field he once dominated. A Plymouth Rock rooster in Ashley Falls chews tobacco after a neighbor spills a pouch, while homespun Indiana poets get a new supply of plotlines from Mrs Guinness for Booster School mysteries.
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New York Tribune
Alexander Melville
Alex the Great
Bellevue Hospital
Melville
Dan
Alex’ Melville
Alex
Plano
Taft
Indiana
J Johnston as 4 Leader and Johnsons Minnesota Appeal
The article profiles John A Johnson as a rising political leader in Minnesota, praised for his reformist yet steady stance. It contrasts his radical and conservative traits, notes his strong stance against lawlessness, and suggests he could galvanize Democratic chances in the Northwest.
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Philadelphia
Minnesota
John A Jonnson
Northwest
Johnson
Western Federation of Miners
Mienorce
Thia Commonwealth
Abe
Tippecanoe
Tyler
Andy Johnson
Tailors Bench
Garfield
White House
U S Grant
Memoirs of the Duchess de Dino in La Revue de Paris
The Duchess Dorothea of Courland becomes Duchesse de Dino through Talleyrand connections. Memoirs reveal court intrigue, lineage from Courland and Sagan, and ties to Catherine the Great, with notes on Goethe’s humble ancestry and a digression about Baroness Schiller.
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Duchesse de Dino
la Revue de Paris
Comtesse de A
Talleyrand
Comtesse de Bolene
Due de Dino
Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord
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Elizabeth Curtis
Mra Trederick
William Livingston
New York
Henri Rochefort
Duchesse de D No
Dorothea of
Anne
Courland
Goethe
Baroness Schiller
Frederick von Schiller
Germany
Weimar
Marquise DE Fontendy
The
Firentwrood Company
New York Warehouse Clerk Discharged Over Lost Parcel
A Greenwich Street warehouse partner was discharged for drunkenness and losing a valuable parcel. The man vowed to abstain, but his reinstatement attempts failed. He searched for the parcel, recalling only after a drunken spell where he had left it and then recovered it.
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New York
Greenwich Street
Criminology Views on Crime and Depravity
The Ballimors American discusses whether criminal acts stem from inherent mental moral defects or whether crime is a disease. It references Mrs Guinness the Laporte killer and notes that criminologists like Lombroso McDonald offer limited insight while crime remains a social issue rather than a medical pathology.
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Ballimors
Guinness
Laporte
Ind
Lombroso
Italy
McDonald
America
Two Kinds of Democracy in Minnesota and Massachusetts
A New York World analysis contrasts Minnesota Democrats who rallied behind Johnson with Massachusetts Democrats split between Bryan instruction, noting Roosevelt wins and Johnson’s straight ticket victory in Minnesota, while Massachusetts drifts to a third-party-like status amid Bryan reform efforts. It cites Douglas’s Massachusetts outcome and Johnson’s Minnesota plurality. In later items, a Missouri tornado tale and a Kansas City wake scare conclude this page.
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Massachusetts
New York World
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Juanson
Bryan
Johson
Roosevelt
Parker
Wiliam L Douglas
John A Johnson
Johnson
Congress
Bryans
Independence League
Boston
Massachusetts Democracy
William J Bryan
Doctors Marvel at Patient with Wooden Leg
Doctors at Polyclinic Hospital in Philadelphia marvel at Michael Tighe of Hazleton after he arrived with a broken arm and a wooden leg. He said his other leg hurt him, three weeks of pain, and X rays showed a fracture above the ankle while he walked into the hospital.
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Philadelphia
Medical art in China and voices on Maytime travel
A Chicago correspondent surveys traditional Chinese medicine as a mix of superstition and quackery, noting ancient ignorance of physiology and reliance on dubious ingredients. The piece contrasts Western and Chinese medical beliefs, then shifts to light verse about Maytime trolley travel and street scenes in New York and Chicago with reflections on risk and fortune.
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Nowa
China
le Comte
American Pharmacopoeia
Talks Gitaese Under Spells In Chicago Girl
A ten year old Chicago girl Irene Piper suddenly speaks Chinese for weeks under a mysterious influence. Her father Rev Witham H Piper says the phenomenon appears at home or at friends, with the child delivering religious exhortations in flawless Chinese to strangers. The spell-like ability cannot be forced and comes and goes, drawing attention from neighbors and local pastors.
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Uianascn
Irene Piper
Witham H Piper
Nn Independent Religious Organization
Dr Piper
Intervain
Nothing Like Statistics from a Kansas City Journal
A humorous squib by Homer Hoch compares national livestock slaughter to grand feats in a playful mathematical vein. He imagines all cattle to market as one cow grazing near the equator while hogs would dig the Panama Canal in a little over two tones of squealing.
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Kansas City
Equator
North Pole
Homer Hoch
Panama Canal
Pointed Paragraphs From A Day In Print
A collection of satirical quips from the Chicago News and New York Press offers sharp, humorous lines on marriage effort luck and social foibles. The snippets lampoon habits, fortune telling faith, and the idea of merit versus method in achievement.
New York State Society Meet Brings Political Mock Banquet
Judge C F Moore recalls an annual New York gathering where a mock banquet led by Andrew Carnegie lampooned presidential hopefuls including Taft Roosevelt and Bryan. The event featured audience roasts and quick witted jabs, reflecting lively city life and political theater in Raleigh.
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C. F. Moore
Virginia
New York
Raleigh
Hiinala State Society of
Andrew Carnegie
John A. Johnson
Minnesota
Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
Gray
Joe Cannon
William J Bryan
la Follette
Fairbanks
Culberson
Benbow City Emerges as Wettest Town in America
Benbow City, eight miles south of Alton, grows around Standard Gas Company's new refinery. The village becomes a corporation with eighteen registered veterans and twenty-three saloons. Population 300, one saloon per thirteen residents. Twenty-three saloons and seven brewery agencies pay licenses totaling $60 a year. Annual nest egg starts at $15,000. eighteen voters meet next Monday to decide on spending the funds.
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New York World
Standard Gas Company
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Liitile
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