Crane case sparks protest letters from Chicago bankers
The note protests Mr Crane's sudden dismissal as unfair and calls for a thorough investigation. It cites New York financiers and Wall Street as sources of discredit, while defending Crane's integrity and urging action to clarify State Department ties to finance interests.
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Crane
Carsiee
Washington
Alexandria
Chi- Daily
Cage
Charles R
New York World
Chicago
New York
State Department
Small Farms and Intensive Cultivation Near Washington
The article compares Eastern limits to Western farming gains, urging Washington and Baltimore areas as centers for intensive farming. It cites irrigation, suburban expansion, and a 16A acre Pennsylvania farm example where a retired minister grew wealthier through agriculture, arguing urban dwellers can gain fresh supplies and steady incomes.
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James Jill
Wilson
Alent
Canada
Washington
Halsoyat
Baltimore
Indiana Inno
Iowa
Dale
von Aitlers
Wasatoxton
Keenig & Good
Department of Agriculture
Jarre City
Pennsylvania
Agriultaure
Bench Show for Husbands: Chicago Debate on a New Fashion
An satirical Chicago item argues for a bench show for husbands as a social experiment. It envisions husbands judged for docility, training, and usefulness, predicting blue ribbons for good behavior, punctual pay envelopes, and family care, with a tongue in cheek call for progress in domestic life.
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Chicago
Darain
Noma
World disarmament proposal urges a unity of armed powers
A historic lament on rising armaments cites Britain and Germany and their navies, warns of empire aims and Monroe Doctrine pressures, and proposes a world congress to cap vessels and soldiers by population and wealth, reallocating strength to boost global wealth and peace.
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England
Germany
Great Britain
High Seas
Cithernero
Munroe
Blamarck
Bund
Europe
France
Naty
McKinney
United States
Canadian
Maniin
Rats in Hair and street traffic reform noted in era satire
A satirical column rails at a Chicago firm order banning rats in women’s hair and mocks medical fears. It surveys early 20th century street traffic reforms in New York, praising W P Enos reforms, police patrols, and a 1743-strong traffic squad, while weaving in politics and foreign notes about war offices and crews aboard ships.
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Urest
New York
W P Eno
Fifth Avenue
Mino
Eno
Bugher
Bedlam ballot shows oversized New York ticket confusion
A New York election article notes nineteen columns on the official ballot with seventeen mayoral nominees and many blank spaces. It cites Judge Gay por Bannard Hearstone and discusses Independents and party tickets like the Independence League and Subway League, urging ballot reforms due to crowding and duplication.
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Ame
Omer
New York
Judge Gay
Por
Bannard
Rand
Hearstone
Independence League
Meyor
Highth Municipal
Socialist Labor Party
Taxpayers’ League
Public Ownership Parties
Hookworm Discoverer Receives Commendation Despite Exclusion
New York officials praised Maj Bally K Ashford for discovering hookworm anemia in Porto Rico after a 1893 hurricane, noting his work on the disease’s cure and lamenting his omission from the fight commission. Generals Edwards Torney and McIntyre led the commendation, stressing Ashford’s pivotal role.
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New York
Jonn D Rockefeller
Bally K Ashford
Clarence R. Edwards
Bureau of Insular Affairs
George W Torney
War Department
Frank McIntyre
Maj Ashford
Ashford
Porto Rica
Porto Rico
Ponce
de Ashford
Dino
Distorting the Earth's Shape and Canada Indians notes
During the last Congress of the International Geodetic Association in London Prof Hecker described earth tide experiments in an 82 foot underground room near Potsdam. The pendulum data suggest the sun and moon affect the Earth twice daily, with the body deforming as a whole. In Canada the Indian population stands at 2049 with births and deaths totaling a net increase of 179 in the year. Agricultural crops valued at 1,477,000 and cattle raised at 2,000 were recorded, with 678 people employed, though output per person remained modest.
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Tram
Harper's Weekly
International Geodetic Association
Institution of Civil Engineers
London
Prof Hecker
Potsdam
Heckers
Hecker
Earth
Canada
Arbareas
Todians
War on the High Step Stirred by DAR Rally in New York
Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution at the annual New York convention denounce the high step as popular with tyrants and claim redress will come only when women build the arts and conduct the reticonde. A schoolteacher recalls a student question about wind ending with a humorous misanswer from Robert.
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Har Tocd Dispatch
New York
Daughters of the American Revolution
Europe
Greece
Laboucheres traced from Holland to English politics
Fragment from a 19th century note traces the Labouchere family from Hugue not nobility to English prominence through marriages with Baring and De Labouchere, detailing Pierre Caesar de Labouchere, Napoleonic negotiations, and Henry Labouchere of London Truth, plus a digression on Servian royal family laws and succession.
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Blaine Whitney Hor
John Jacob’ How
New York
Europe
Brandiot
Cowpens
Henry Iabouchere
Lonain Truth
Holland
Frapeet Holtend
Bath
Nanted
Pierre Caeser de Labouchere
House of Hope
Amsterdam
London
Pierre
Francis Baring
Lord Taunton
John
Henry Labouchers
Napoleon
Fouche
England
Pierre de Labouchere
Thiers
Pater
Naelt
Peter
Belgrade
Russia
Austia
Prussia
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Spain
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Servia
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Arsene
Paul Arsene
Paul
Alexander
George
Ahsene
I. Arsene
Helgrade
Alexis Karageorg~ Itch
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Georgevitch
Paris
Alexis Karageorgevitch
Sejne
House of Karageorgeich
Alexia Kara
Eeorgeviteh
Black George
Seria
Peter Fa
Yamlv
Privoe Marquise DE Fontenot
Bremtwoos Company
Prevention of Floods in Missouri Farmers Hit Hard by Flood Losses
The Missouri farmers suffer about 44 million dollars in seven years due to spring floods. State and federal engineers say a small portion of this could fund levees and river channel work from Kansas City to the river mouth. Farmers in river counties are planning meetings to discuss measures, following proven Mississippi River bottom protection by levee builders who funded projects through self-taxed communal efforts.
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Missouri
Banean City- Journal
Fie
Oisouri
Siimust
Isbor Bureau
United States Engineers
Misapuri
Kansas City
Missisapni
Sixth Sense Student in Chicago Medical School Stuns Faculty
J W Bolotin, a blind Russian student at the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery, claims a sixth sense lets him read minds to acquire knowledge for medicine. He says his ability is not supernatural, just a heightened focus, and he seeks to support himself through study and practice.
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Chicago
Ngach
J W Boelotin
Chicago College of Medicine
Bolotin
Wolk
Tlind
Nis
Hiw
Dr Wolk
The Chicken Census and Census Errors
The Sochensee Democrat notes surprising inconsistencies in chicken counts between 18M and 1900 US censuses. Experts blame census carelessness and unreliable poultry nets, while chicken owners claim higher numbers, suggesting persistent miscounting across decades.
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Sochensee
Census Bureau
The Ultimate Consumer And A Dream Of Ballots
An ill formed verse satire contrasts the ultimate consumer with political satire from Denver tows where women voters decide fate. A performer’s plan to win an election by printed ballots themed with fashions backfires as the scheme collapses and tears ensue.
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Denver Tows
Cooperation in England From Zion Herald
The cooperation movement in England, rising from Rochdale, expands in scope. In 189 and 1906 cooperative societies grew from 35 to 117, with business rising from 782,285 to 9,515,009 and profits from 3,000 to 86,84. Housing coops also grow, aiding workers. three tenants societies built homes with 4302 in 1906, rising to 199,999 later. Medical progress in China lags, with native practice clinging to old beliefs and doctors overestimated, as lessons from Le Comte’s seventeenth century memoirs suggest.
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Zion
England
Rochdale
Tve
Copartnerston
China
Heratd
Mucha
Chia
le Comte
Iman
Smething
Pointed Paragraphs Reflections of a Bachelor
The piece cites Di Young, state vital statistics registrar, noting 857 marriages ended in divorce in Maine last year, up 100 from the year prior. It wryly links divorce to intoxication and desertion, and comments on societal views of marriage, temperance, and the quest for happiness amid upheaval.
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Arcus
di Young
Register of Vital Statistics
Maine
Pontus New York
Ubsl
Japan and Crete Topics Dominant in Congressional and European Views
Tokyos Ishikawa discusses Japan's political scene, Ito and Okumi influence, and the privy council role. Ralph Cameron urges statehood for Arizona, while Crete's fate hinges on union with Greece amid Turkish rule. Maryland ballot reform and anti cigarette laws show domestic political and social shifts.
Railroad tramplers face harsher crackdowns on trespassers
The Pennsylvania Railroad launches a renewed campaign against track trespassers amid rising fatalities and injuries across the nation's railways. A circular cites 47,418 deaths in ten years and calls magistrates to enforce laws, with farmers in Blair County protesting actions against vagrants near lines.
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Gasetts
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennzylvania
Interstate Commerce Commission
la Day
Bellwood
Altoona
Blair County
Pamons
Elmira
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