The President in Florida and Taft on Rates Policy
The Washington Post notes the Presidents Jacksonville speech and its grim note on the Panama Canal, while criticizing the hard line on Central and South American policy. Taft campaigns in Ohio to defend railway rate legislation against legal and political opposition.
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Ohio
Akron
Raleigh
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Bonaparte Echoes and Insurance Scandals Stir Public Debate
The article surveys political and insurance issues, contrasting attorneyly defense of a policy with a shocking Boston Herald claim about child life insurance and deaths in Southbridge. It cites Thackeray’s Henry Esmond and compares Bonaparte legends with Louis Bonaparte, pondering France’s need for a capable leader amid skepticism toward proclaimed emperors.
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Boston Advertiser
Southbridge Board of Health
New York
Bay State
Southbridge
Marner
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Marseilles
Gen. Bonaparte
Thackeray
Queen Ann
Marlborough
Godolphin
Bolingbroke
Addison
Swift
Henry Esmond
Bonaparte
James Stuart
Margaret Tudor
England
Old George
France
Louis Bonaparte
Lodi
Pyramids
Marengo
Austerlitz
Europe
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Making the World Better in a Moral Change
A critique of grand campaigns to reform society through leagues and slogans. It argues true progress comes from daily self improvement, kindness, duty, and unselfish acts, urging individuals to grow character one small step at a time and avoid hollow campaigns.
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Society For the Promotion
League For the Prevention of
League
Grand Dukes and their Fallen Grace in Russia
A lengthy historical rundown traces Russian grand dukes who defied the czar by marrying without approval. It recalls Alexis Alexandrovich eloping with Alexandra Jourowski, Nicholas Constantinovich’s scandal with Fanny Lear, and Nicholas of Leuchtenberg’s elopement. It recounts rewards, exile, and eventual pardons, including recent restoration of rank for some figures and ongoing seclusion for others in Crimea.
Grand Duke Cyril Marriage Sparks European Boycott
The case of Grand Duke Cyril is treated as serious, not a mere mesallianca. His marriage, deemed sacrilegious by the Russian Church, follows a divorce from the Grand Duchess of Hesse. He has lost naval and military dignities, annuities, and faces possible exclusion from succession, with European royal houses, including Britain, virtually boycotting the union.
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Manquise DE Fontenoy
Holland's Pen Picture of Candidate Ivins For Mayor
A 1906 Philadelphia Press feature portrays William M Ivins as a flamboyant New York mayoral candidate. The piece highlights his eccentric dress and vaudeville aura, notes his South American expertise, yacht club circles, and theatrical yet disciplined political approach. It ends by contrasting Ivins with Jerome and signaling the Republicans’ use of novelty to win support.
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Rees
Equatorial South America
Yacht Club
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South Africa
Rome
New York City
Holland
The New Civil Service Rule Modification
The Philadelphia Press reports President Roosevelt modifies the civil service rule to allow instant dismissal for misconduct seen in person or for inefficiency while keeping written reasons and civil service vacancy replacement. The measure aims to curb arbitrariness while maintaining accountability and reformist spirit in public service.
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Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Executive Department
Civil Service
Philippine Commission Seeks Insular Reorganization Savings
The Boston Herald reports the Philippine Commission is considering a departmental reorganization to save about one million eight hundred thousand dollars annually. Critics note heavy spending on harbor and road projects amid concerns over Filipino capacity to tax and fund future expenditures. Officials trained in US service risk freer spending than the Filipinos can sustain.
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Boston Herald
Philippine Commission
United States
The Rhodes Scholarships and the Oxford Plan
The Providence Journal notes that ten states and territories did not nominate scholars for Rhodes funds this year double last year’s shortfall raising doubts about the plan’s durability once novelty fades.
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Providence Journa
Cecil Rhodes
America
Oxford
English’ University
Calfortians worry as Hawaiian sugar estates face reorganization
In Washington at the New Willard and Raleigh hotels, visitors discuss Hawaii’s sugar plantations. Investors fear lease expirations, government ownership of lands, and possible subdivision into 25 to 30 acre farms to lure settlers and immigrants while maintaining efficient management.
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Agresidente
California
New England
Honolulu
United States
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William French
Municipal Technical School
Lancaster
England
Shoreham
Philadelphia
Montreal
Toronto
Great Britain
Money value on heroism at Carnegie awards
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission has rewarded ten heroes who earned the honor and needed the money. The awards have not yet entered the process as a commercialized hero business, and the fund’s stance suggests this remains focused on recognizing true acts of valor rather than profit.
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Kansas City Star
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Trumphant Refutatin In Byzantine Army Tale
In a fragmented Chicago fragment Yael pins a slain Canaanite to the ground with a nail through the temples. The narrative notes a paradox as a chortling aside claims women cannot drive well, revealing a contested moral tone.
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Yael
Pwa Definition From the Dallas News
A brief humorous quip defines an ultimatum as a condition set by a mother who warns stricter action if money is not given, implying consequences if not fulfilled. The joke centers on paternal and maternal bargaining dynamics within a family.
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Chicago News
Alfo Bery
Reflections of a Bachelor from the New York Press
Reflections of a Bachelor satirizes courtship norms with quips on how women view engagements and a bachelor’s view of propriety. The fragment notes that women prize engagements for daughters as status and duty, while commentary hints at social expectations and romance.
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