Reckless Waste of Red Tape in Forest Reserve Plan
The piece laments a quarrelsome clash over the Weekes law and a Geological Survey backed scheme to select navigable streams and purchase forest lands. It accuses Secretaries Wilson and Fisher of usurping authority, sidelining Congress, and traces the red tape from survey criteria to erosion and runoff analyses in a far northern territory. The author admonishes lawmakers to reclaim control from the survey and emphasizes the potential for obstruction and mischief in the process.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Mountain
Appatacutan
Congress
National Forest Reservation Commission
Geological Survey
Forest Service
Commission
Wilreon
Fisher
Forest Commission
Wiy
Departments of Agriculture and Interior
Gcological Survey
New England
Wilson
Secretary of Agriculture
Tha
Canada
Caergia
Gallinger
Smith
Senate
Hawley
Leo
Resignation of Katrada and Estrada's Nicaragua legacy
The text notes Katrada's resignation and claims General Estrada delivered Nicaragua from dictatorship, earning loyalty of officers and victory amid hardship. It cites unclear state advice and a shift leading to revolt and waning support as he steps down, with references to upheaval and political doubt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Estrada
Nicaragua
State Department
Brough
Eetrada
Shad
Dhagh
Dowbniess
Strife in Central America and Poe Biographies
Discussion of Zelaya's influence in Nicaragua and Estrada's challenges in Central America dominates. Also covered are New Yorks income tax debate and its impact on city bonds, plus a portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, his habits, fame, and critical reception contrasting him with Byron.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central America
Estrada
Zelaya
Nicaragua
Lestrames
Mexico City
Granada
Leon
A Scientific Warship Tests Management In Arkansas
A New York Shipbuilding Company yard tale explains how scientific management, led by Frederick W. Taylor, could transform labor on the battleship Arkansas from deck swabbing to efficient work. The article muses on potential savings, possible changes to uniforms and routines, and the broader impact if the method proves effective. Various political and social asides follow, reflecting era concerns and satire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
New York Shipbuilding Company
Camden
N. J
Frederick W. Taylor
School of “Scientific Management
National Rifles of DC First to Muster for Lincoln Call
DC National Rifles argued they were the first volunteer unit mustered in under Lincoln's call, April 10 1861, despite later statements. Narrative covers muster issues, order to march to War Department, and early recruitment. includes a personal anecdote about a divided family in Maryland showing Civil War loyalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Rifles
New York Dan
Joseph Culbertson Clayton
Brooklyn
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
District of Columbia
Cameron
Pottsville
National Rifles of
Lincoln
War Department
Washington
Charles. P. Stone
District
of Columbia
John R. Smead
United States Artillery
United States
United States Service
Port Tobacco
Potomac
Virginius
Jon
Virginia
Boyhood pacts head to Congress as Spring comes
From the New York Evening Post Follows William G. Brown Jr of West Virginia and Jonathan P. Dolliver of Iowa, cousins who pledged to meet in Congress while students at West Virginia University. It notes Dolliver’s and Brown’s later careers, and similar pledges by William Alden Smith and Charles A. Towne. Also describes Washington Spring inauguration of bay trees at the White House, purchased in 1900 under Roosevelt, their frost tolerance, and the bay rum scent when crushed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Senate
Assembly
Pennsylvania
Connecticut
Delaware
Senator Root
Gov. Hughes
New York City
Savings Banks Association
Prendergast
Congress
A. B. Hepburn
Joseph H. Choate
Massachusetts
Andrew D. White
New York Evening Post
William G. Brown, Jr
West Virginia
Jonathan P. Dolliver
Iowa
Representative Brown
Dolliver
University of West Virginia
Brown
Dolls’wear
House of Representatives
William Alden Smith
Michigan
Charles A. Towne
Minnesota
Smith
Towne
Cushman K. Davis
Russell A. Alger
Brooklyn Hague
Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Hoboken
Metapan Battles Waterspouts Off Virginia Coast
Officers of the steamship Metapan report a race with waterspouts off the Virginia coast two days after leaving New York. On April 22 the spouts appeared several hundred yards windward, with about a dozen spouts averaging 200 feet high. Captain Tredaman pushed the ship through the disturbance, leaving the waves behind in about fifteen minutes as Cape Hatteras neared on the return voyage. Whales were sighted about a quarter mile to starboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Colin
Kingston
Virginia
Spencer
Tredaman
Cape Hatteras Oon
Hesses Sovereign Inventor of an Aeroplane Dream
A German Grand Duke of Hesse invents an aeroplane and his aviator brother in law Prince Henry of Prussia flies it at Darmstadt. The piece also covers the Duke's artistic capital and patronage, his divorce, and European highborn connections including the Russian and Austrian ties of the Grafton/Southampton lines. It notes Irish praise for Lord Southampton and traces a Brady fund opening for Austrian military entry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Kaiser
Prince Henry
Prussia
Ferdinand
Bulgaria
Albert
Belgium
Duke
Hesse
Darmstadt
Grand Duke of
Hegne
Nicholas
Cyril
Russia
Lord Southampton
Tenth Hussars
Satan
England
Lfe
Charles
Ducal House of
Grafton
Henry the
Charles II
Barbara Villiers
Southampton
Rothschild
Hannah Meyer
Baron Rothschild
Whittlebury
North Hants
Richard Loder
Yorkshire
Isilcote
Shipston On Stour
Kenilworth
Walter’ Nugent
Laval Nugent
Ballynacarrow
Ireland
Oliver Nugent
House of Jovda
Hungary
Garter
Austria
Brady
County Cavan
Dublin
Imperial Military Academy
Vienna
Wogan Browne
Washington needs a public service commission in the District
The Washington Times argues Congress should create a permanent public service commission with real investigative and regulatory powers to oversee Washington area utilities. It contends current committees lack coherence and that corporations oppose such a body to dodge regulation, urging leaders to act now for public trust and efficient control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Washington Times
Washington
America
Congress of the
United States
City of
Chesapeake ‘Telephone, Company
Georgetown
New York
New Jersey
Wisconsin
Maryland
Congress
Public Service Corporation
Public Service Commission
Committee of Investigation
Gay wicked Paris
Henry Watterson writes from Paris describing the city as cosmopolitan yet provincial. He portrays the boulevards as a reflection of life and the boulevardier as both dandy and pessimist, noting constant music, exotic crowds, and the ever changing procession of sightseers amid vivid street scenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Watterson
Louisville Courier-Journal
Paris
France
England
Germany
Rue Richelle
Boulevard Dds Italiens
Grand Opera House
Madeline
Champs Elysees
Ouvrier
Cocotte
Husher
Harlequin
Scotch Logic from Punch in Scots dialogue
Donald and Wallie converse as Donald bids farewell to his cousin at the train. Wallie pleads for a few shillings for a drink to ensure his mother's welfare. Wallie says all his spare money is gone to his ailing mother, contradicting Donald’s belief that Wallie never gives to her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald
Wallie
Frohman Calls for More Writers for the Theater
Daniel Frohman told the American Booksellers Association dinner at the Hotel Astor that the theater needs more writers with new ideas. He praised Laura Jean Libbey for enriching American fiction and noted B Phillips Oppenheim lauding American magazines, especially advertising prose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Tribune
Daniel Frohman
American Booksellers’ Association
Hotel Astor Jook
Mr. Frohman
Laura Jean Libbey
Miss Libbey
Eas
Frohman
B. Phillips Oppenheim
Oppenheim
Taft
Roosevelt
Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Ebullient Micawber Echoes in Classic Tales and Fairy Rings
Selections from the Pall Mall Gazette and New York Sun weave Dickensian Micawber reminiscence with a fairy ring wedding tale and a grim Rahway cat attack report. The fragmentary note mentions Pickwick, Royalties of a sibylline lineage, and a fairy ceremony while detailing a baby bitten by a home cat. a physician treated the infant’s wounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellen Angus French
New York Sun
Pickwick
Micawber
Pall Mell Gazette
New York Herald
Willgm Wort
Rahway
N. J
Jones Paulinger
Pointed Paragraphs From the Chicago News
A collection of aphorisms and social observations on egotism self reliance and manners. The piece jabs at modern habits from personal finance flirtations to marriage dynamics and grooming with a satirical tone. It notes that many claim wealth but lack sense and that women’s tastes and men’s self perception shape social behavior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Chicago News
Reflections of a Bachelor Remains Far from Polished
A fragmented musing voice questions conscience and gender roles. It jokes about a man’s liver, poetry, and the irritations of dealing with relatives and a wife. The tone veers from social critique to domestic caricature, with careless syntax and stray phrases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Press
Yun Wall iv
Oshkosh name tied to Menominee history and leaders
In Raleigh last night Richard A Webster of Wisconsin traced Oshkosh to a Menominee chief of that era and noted the tribe’s land wealth and timber reserves. Thomas A Paulson of Toledo joked about Polish names, citing a man naturalized as Purcell then seeking his original surname Pur slewski, illustrating name pronunciation woes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oshkosh
Richard A. Webster
Wisconsin
Raleigh
Our
Reginald Oshkosh
Napoleon
Wisconsin Territory
Thomas A. Paulson
Toledo
Dewey
Purcell
Purslewski
Kansas U K and white weathering cyclones comments
Kansas U K and Comanche County resident John Pletcher Cox answer a question about Kansas in New Witlars last night. He cites William Allen White and notes Kansas prosperity with cyclones bringing modern goods such as pianos automobiles and Brussels carpets, contrasting past rag carpets and hootjacks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
John Pletcher Cox
Comanche County
New Witlara
William Allen White
Eskridge
MacGregors in America and lands to drain in politics
Philadelphia resident Clinton Burns MacDougall notes there has never been a member of Congress named MacGregor in the United States while recounting clan history. Other speakers discuss swamp land redemption costs and the dangers of lynch political law as rumors replace evidence in politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Clinton Burns MacDougall
Philadelphia
Congress
MacGregor
Scotland
Atlantic
Murray
MacGregora
MacGregors
England
Clinton B. Tilinghast
Iowa
Arlington
Panama Canal
Nicholas Murray Butler
Leste
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Katrada
Man
Poet
Edgar Allan Poe
Poe
Cho
Griswold
Por
I Poe
Byron
Dutton
Boston
Bill Stone
Board of Governors
Diaz
Portugal
Congressional Record
Birmingham <Age Herald
Giff Pinchott
Jimmy Garfields
Mexico
Baltimore
Denver
Chapultepec
Uncle Joe
Shakespeare Byron Lampton
New York Times
Jim Mann
Father Neptune
Congressional Library
Fannie J. Lemont
Col
William L. Tidball
Fifty-ninth
New York Volunteers
McClellan
Antietam
Gay
Earth
Roland
Bayardé
London
Mirage
Inizhoven
Green Kildare
Changeling
Falrien
Clare
Oon
U. K
Thastic
MacGregore
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