Woodrow Wilson and Harmon Duel for 1912 Dem Nomination
The piece weighs the 1912 Democratic race with Woodrow Wilson and Gov Harmon as leading contenders. It notes Southern sentiment favoring Wilson aided by Mrs Wilson and Georgia ties, while Harmon is a near-Southerner by birth and residence. It discusses Mason and Dixon lines and the potential nomination split between the two rivals if the fall elections go their way.
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Woodrow Wilson
Gov. Harmon
New Jersey
Ohio
Gaynor
White House
Wilson
Harmen
Bailey
Hoke Smith
Sith
Abraham Lincoln
Kentucky
Dr Wilson
Gov Harmon
John Carlisle
Hhn
Witgon
Georgia
The Situation in Honduras Amid Loan Disputes and Faction Strife
Reports from Tegucigalpa describe Honduras as a hot bed of conspiracy and revolution tied to a government loan with London bankers. President Davila faces two fires as opponents block treaty ratification and foreign pressure mounts. Policarpio Bonilla leads protests while factions back Gen Manuel Bonita and threaten upheaval.
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Honduras
Davila
Policarpio Bonilla
Manuel Bonita
Joan
Republic
Foreign influence and debt fears shake government control
The article warns that foreign creators and the Interest on obli gations drain the treasury and that President Davis loses grasp of power to Zelaya. Zelaya’s malign influence in Central American affairs is seen as a factor for mischief following his disappearance from the scene.
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Davis
Zelaya
The Milk Question and Public Health Standards
The article argues for careful, science based oversight of milk supply to ensure purity and safety. It explains germ presence in milk samples, compares consumer fear with actual risk, and emphasizes hygiene, sanitation, and health department roles in preventive measures.
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Health Department
The Couch of Luxury and the Sleep of Kings
A reflective essay compares sleep quality of J Pierpont Morgan in a Cincinnati palace to an ordinary hall bedroom. It argues that true rest comes from beneath the roofline where rain and memories shape dream scenes with childhood visions, cobwebbed dormers, and faded tapestries. Morgan’s opulence is dismissed as irrelevant to genuine peace.
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Sancho Panza
Arizes
J. Pierpont Morgan
Cincinnati
Mr. Morgan
Leark
Robinson Crusoe
Man Fride
Mr Morgan
Edison Concedes Soul Eludes His Experiments at Menlo Park
A scientist contends after extensive trials that Edison cannot prove the soul exists. He argues humans are a temporary arrangement of atoms, life arising briefly before dissolution, and notes the failure is not alarming but perhaps a sign the soul may be beyond discovery.
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Edison
Menlo Park
Mr Edison
Science and Religion Clash in Aether and Faith Debate
A critic argues that Edison and Kelvin fail to grasp electricity’s true nature. Science describes processes but does not reach ultimate truths, while religion seeks the sources of being. The piece notes biblical mystery and warns against reducing soul experiences to measurable metrics. It questions whether science can know all.
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Spinoza
Edison
Lord Kelvin
Paul
Thomases
Bacon Redivivus and the Shakespeare Claim
The piece traces Baconians led by Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence in challenging the Stratfordian view of Shakespeare as author. It rebuts the Baconian case, cites Bacon as unreliable, notes the slowness of conspiratorial arguments, and concludes most still accept William Shakespeare of Stratford as the author. It also weaves in tangential lines about politics and commerce from unrelated items.
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Bacon
Eldwin Durning-Lawrence
1Dwin
Francis Bacon
Stratford
Shakespeare
Edwin Durning-Lawrence
Edwin
Wolfe Tone
Ireland
Agincourt
Tone
Paris
Livy
England
Stratford Church
William Shakespeare
Stratford-on-Avon
Goddaughter of Lincoln Meets Prince of Wales in London
An American girl, daughter of President Lincoln, travels to London and asks to meet the Prince of Wales. At a crowded Foreign Office party, Mme Waddington persuades the Prince to meet her protégé who, after a brief handshake, says she only wanted to see the prince and has no further wishes.
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Ancoln
Edward
Dime Weddington
Scribner's
Foreign Office
London
Lincoln
United States
Christian
Epesk
Hig Cane
Mme. Waddingston
Prince of Wales
Ciycle
Mr. Lincoln
Thirty Dollars a Day What Farmer Meals Cost at City Prices
A Metropolitan Megazine note breaks down meal costs at New York restaurants. It estimates straw berries, cream, eggs, half chicken and salads add up quickly, suggesting a large family could spend well over twenty dollars daily for a farmer’s meals at urban prices based on the prices faced by about 150,000 people.
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New York
Farmer
College professors in Congress from the New Jersey race
The New Jersey contest features Col William Libbey a Princeton professor and museum director nominated by the Democratic convention for Congress in the Fourth District alongside a gubernatorial candidate. The piece notes professors rare in Congress and cites historic examples from Harvard Columbian College and Marshall College amid observations on public officials’ backgrounds. It also includes a Lord Brassey anecdote about a footman umpire in a Surrey cricket setting.
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Congress
New York World
Princeton University
New Jersey
William Libbey
Dstrict
Museum of Geology and Archaeology
Princeton
Hegy
Neutonal Guard
Libbey
Harvard
Josiah Quincey
Edward Everett
Wiliam L .Wilson
Tariff Bill Fame
Columbian College
University of West Virginia
Champ Clark
Marshall College
West Virginia
Willam Everett
Adams Academs
Senate
House of Representatives
Lanyern
Memorial to Pilgrim Fathers Proposed in England
A Springfield Republican report notes a committee in England to erect a memorial at the Mayflower embarkation site. Prof Hearnshaw at University College Southampton has heard from Pilgrim descendants, with Winstow family backing a memorial panel. Americans consulted include Andrew Carnegie Seth Low and Gov Draper. a cross Atlantic Pilgrim Mater Day may be observed August 15 next year.
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Springfield Republican
England
America
Hearnshaw
University College
Southampton
Winstow
Andrew Carnegie
Seth Low
Gov. Draper
Pilgrim Mathery Day
Atlantic
Protestant rulers near ly all masons
A long feature notes that most Protestant rulers are Freemasons or allied to Masonic power. It cites King George as not a Mason though he supports a major English charity run by Masons, contrasts with Edward VII and other European royals, mentions U S presidents with Mason ties, and details Lord Gort and East Cowes Castle in the Isle of Wight along with Prendergast Vereker royal lineage and historical ties to Ireland and Cromwell.
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George
England
Edward VII
Stockholm
Sweden
Europe
United States
Freemasons
Audi
Duke of Cormaught
Han Heid
Kaiser
Prince Henry
Netherlands
Norway
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Greece
Wurttemberg
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Frederick Leopold
Prussia
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Theodore Roosevelt
John Quincy Adams
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Senate
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Cowes
Cot Starling Benson
Robert Smith Surtees
Spoitsman
Lord Gart
House of Prendergast
Gort
Prendergast
Vereker
Maurice Lord of
Pembrokeshire
Strongbow
Earl of Pembroke
Ireland
Wales
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Emerald Isle
Gerald of
Thomas Prendergast
John
Thomas Vereker
Charles Vereker
Humbert
Mayo
Castlebar
Coloony
Yorktows
Lord Cornwallis
Yorktown
Yorktown County
Overheard on the Trolley in Say Mayme dialogue
A fragment from Lippincott's Say Mayme features a rawboned youth asking the girl beside him about turtle soup. She replies No and adds with mock dignity that she has been where it was. The clipped excerpt hints at social banter aboard a trolley car.
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Lippincott
Mayme
Abe
Chicago woman's Berlin dinner party sparks diplomatic scandal
A Chicago heiress and her husband, mounting a scene at a dinner with Osman Nizam Pasha in Berlin society, spoke too candidly on European politics. Her remark that Constantinople would soon control Europe stunned guests, drawing dismay from Turkish hosts and Berlin social circles.
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Chicago
Kareer’s Court
America
Berlin
Osman Nizam Pasha
Osman Nizami Pasha
Constantinople
Europe
Pupil Fitness Decides School Entry in Future
Kansas City teachers hear Dr H E Pearse argue schools should emphasize physical welfare over pure academics. He warns unless pupils gain strength through athletics and practical hygiene, the nation may dwindle. He urges practical health lessons and immunity training, even tuberculosis germ study.
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Kansas City Star
Kansas City
Assembly Hall
Central Eagle School
H E Pearse
Jackson County Medical Association
Pearse
Mercantile Value of Crops and U.S. Foreign Trade
The article notes raw cotton copper and illuminating oil as the top three U.S. exports, about 40 percent of total. It argues corn transforms into manufactured foods and feed, supporting a large labor force and substantial export growth. It highlights corn products, cattle and hog production as manufacturing steps, and cites four large meat firms exporting about 125 million dollars.
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Cather
United States
Oslo
Costa
Harvard professor recalls subway workers and home life
Prof Hugh W Ransom of Harvard spoke at a Cambridge dinner recounting his subway work experience. He cited the happy home life of the workers, contrasting it with public perceptions of poverty, and told an anecdote about Jim Jackson seeking paw beet for a black eye as he heads home to his wife.
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Pt Loulé Globe Democrat
Hugh W Ransom
Harvard
Cambridge
Jim
Jackson's
Annexation talk and Azores sentiment in US press
A Boston press summary argues US recognition of a Portuguese republic may provoke Azorean secessionist tensions in New England. Azoreans favor pro American ties and possible annexation, citing strong sentiment in New Bedford and Providence and anecdotal clashes with officials, while editors reflect on liberty, governance, and global implications.
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Boston
United States
Switzerland
Spain
State Department
Lisbon
New England
New Bedford
Providence
Portugal
Washington
Azores
Islands
Reflections Of A Bachelor From The New York Press
Ideas are silly and ideals pathetic. It notes marriage as a wedding site and life after. It mocks luck in four leaf clovers and warns debt is longer to exit than enter. It suggests people find happiness in talking about maladies they think they have not.
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New York
Tennessee contest shadows New York and Yorktown events
A crowded dispatch reports Tennessee gubernatorial politics with fusionists backing Hooper and Democrats divided by Pattersonism. It also notes New York Republican tensions around Stimson, Roosevelt dynamics, and a Yorktown War celebration plan with federal and state participation.
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T C Johnson
Memphis
Ebbltt House
Congression
Patterson
Taylor
Moses
KB W Hooper
Haits
Tennessee
Bo A
Wii
Representative Sims
Sims
Austin
Hale
Roosevelt
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