Wayward art trade and politics mix in Washington Post notes
A long Washington Post page items reflect on a looming trial of a New York picture dealer for forged paintings revealing a wider concern that fake American art fuels a local scene of deceit among dealers and artists. The column expands to discuss Tammany Hall, Congress spending, Fourth of July celebrations, and political currents shaping national issues.
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New York
New Disp
Ten
Amerikan Pictures
Semina
Moin
Teputeile Lealer
Ceed
Canhul
Tris
Corcoran
Tammany
Montattan
Excent Wallaress
Trinity Church
Park Row
Fourteenth Street
Ard
New Hall
Horatio Seymour
Chase
John Surman Hims
Shermer
Clinton
Burr
Livingston
Schuyler
Spencer
Washington
Democrats Fail to See Bryan Threat in Denver Nomination
An editorial argues Republicans would unify to win and crush any rival, while Democrats remain driven by sentiment and disaster memories tied to Bryan. It portrays Bryan as a controversial figure whose influence harms Democratic prospects and warns against his renomination.
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Washington
Bryan
Cdme
Tait Ware
Denver
Roosevelt
Taft
Republicana
Financiers Favor Taft In New York District Opinion
The Philadelphia Press reports financiers in New York City largely back Secretary Taft for President, seeing him as a strong advocate of vested rights and a safe friend to business. Boston Transcript notes veep renomination has precedents, while Railway Magazine describes Germany's new cab signal system to cut signal violations. Whittier column reports 518 childless homes among 4900 residents with 126 school-aged children not in school.
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Holland
Philadelphia
Jacob Schiff
Taft
New York City
Financial
Schiff
Ag Grand
Tts
Ers
Mr. Morgan
Secbitt
United States
Atlantic
Boston Transcript
Andrew Johnson
Hannibal Hamlin
Morton
Whitelaw Rein
Yarrison
Cleveland
Lape
Fairbanks
Chicago
Railway Magazine
Germany
Whittiae Cor
Los Angeles
Cel
Expréen
N. D. Elis
Whittier
Engagement of Betiea-Frederic and Thyra of Denmark
Announcement outlines the betrothal between Betiea-Frederic of Cammerg-Liops and Thyra of Denmark, daughter of the late Prince Frederick’s former wife. It notes English law’s restriction on marriages to a deceased wife’s sister, references Nachod Castle and Piccolomini archives, and discusses potential royal legitimacy issues and possible litigation stemming from the new statute.
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cammberg-Liops
Prine
Thyra
Denmark
Prince Frederick
Europe
Amadeus
Spain
Letitia
Bonaparte
France
Frederick of
Scha
Nachod
Wallenstein
Octavian Piccolomin
Picnolomm
Vandyck
Prccolomini
Italy
Germany
Schaumberg-Lippe
Napoleon
Prince Frederick of
Behaumberg-Lippe
Ratiberitz
Bohemia
Hatibaritz
Francia I
Austria
Alexander I
Russia
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Prussia
Ratihoritz
Frederick Iast
Jouts
Fredericis
Charlotte
Wurttemberg
Bathlde
Debrett
Burke
United Kingdom
De_brett
Slater
Marquise DE Fontenoy
Drentwood Company
Doubles of Taft and Bryan in Oregon Campaign
The Portland Oregonian notes a Salem Methodist minister who resembles Taft and Portland's Bishop Barkley of the United Brethren Church bears a striking likeness to Bryan. If both can be induced to campaign for their presidential candidates, the imagined scene would place them at the center of the state campaign.
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Portland Oregonian
Salem
Taft
Portland
Bishop Barkley
United Brethren Church
Bryan
Electric current used as anesthesia on dog in early study
An account notes a Flower Hospital demonstration where doctors King and Dieffenbach applied intermittent six-volt electrical current to a dog to produce somnolence without pain. The team claims no after effects and suggests potential for human surgical use if safety is confirmed, seeking a volunteer for further testing.
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Gecette
Flower Hospital
Dewiniam H. King
The
Homeopathic College
William H. Dieffenbach
King
Die
Dieffenbach
Children Led Simple Life In London Case
Edwin Collins, a former teacher and self described Socratic educator, argued his children were kept from school to pursue a nonconventional learning lifestyle. Hampstead residents complained of street disorder as Collins fought a policy favoring home schooling and free inquiry. His eldest son, initially reading late, later learned quickly and won an essay prize at sixteen.
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London
New York Herald
Rousseau
Edwin Collins
Polices Court
Read
Coline
Hampstead
Inquiriea
Collins
Socrates
Ashion
Mr. Collins
Tiny Chihuahua Dog Receives City Tag Despite Size
A six inch long Chihuahua named Tao Tiny was registered for a city license with a miniature tag weighing a dram and a half. City Clerk McCabe arranged a special tag after Friedman of Friedman & Co paid the license fee. The exchange included a jest about a ball and chain as the clerk pondered the odd request.
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Friedman
Frmal Smoke, Friedman & Co
Jonn BR. McCabe
Arab Marksmanship From the London Grove
A London Grove dispatch recalls Canrobert’s remark about Zaatcha when French troops faced Arabs in Morocco. The piece notes the old danger of targeted officers in full dress and medals. It laments that times have changed as Moroccan marksmen now exert greater accuracy against French forces.
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London
Morocco
Canrobert
Zaatcha
Cured Patient as Occupation Draws Paris Visitors
A good looking woman in Paris works as a cured patient to attract visitors in a doctor's waiting room. She recounts a history of neuritis rheumatism gout dysphasia appendicitis hallucination and other illnesses treated expensively by several physicians. One doctor cured her in three weeks. she now thanks him. The practice is described as wasteful.
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Jin Paris
Lhe
Secretary Taft Rescued From Deep Mud After Carriage Snafu
Secretary Taft and Arthur L. Vorys of Ohio faced a muddy street mishap near the War Department when a driver struggled to pull them from boggy ground. A watchman shouted warnings as Vorys sprang from the carriage and helped Taft, with McQuade guiding the horses.
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Arthur L Vorxs
Ohio
New Willard
Senator Warner
War Department
Pat McQuade
White House
Seventeenth Street
State, War, and Navy
McQuade
United States
Vorys
Taft
Secretary of War
Rand
The Ill Wind
A narrator recalls life in a crowded home with stairs and attic dreams of ghosts overhead. Family tensions rise as stock losses and poverty force changes, leaving the speaker no longer sleeping alone and yearning for better times.
Vanity and the London chef tale echo in period satire
The piece blends a joke about vanity and a Paris to St Germain railway anecdote from the London Globe, noting pommes soufflées inflated after a kitchen delay on a French line. It also references grim frontier lore about Lord Kitchener via the United Heroise Gazette and a Punjab dynamite incident with a terse telegram reply.
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London Globe
France
Paris
St. Germain
United Heroise Gazette
Kitchener
Punjab
Reflections of a Bachelor from the New York Press
A collage of witty observations on love money and social folly contrasts telegram brevity with married life and male vanity. Quotations joke about Freckles happiness and the perils of appearances while noting a bachelor’s bent and a widow’s heart. Reflections from multiple papers blend humor and social commentary.
Roosevelt in Germany Draws Berlin Interest
Berlin locals eagerly hear Americans discuss President Roosevelt as Louis Adlon of Berlin notes the president’s popularity. Adlon, proprietor of a vast new hotel near the emperor’s palace, describes German authorities blocking site access yet opens a venue where Ambassador Hill schedules receptions. He aims to invite Roosevelt to tour Europe. Residents in Louisville and Amsterdam weigh Taft and Wilson, US election dynamics, and Dutch trade slowdown.
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Roosevelt
Germany
Berlin
Louis Adlon
Willard
Adlon
Emperor’s Palace
William
Action
Hill
Charlemagne Tower
Hil
Farone
Washington
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