Wilson's first tariff message calls for broad reform
President Woodrow Wilson delivered a brief message to the Sixty-third Congress urging a thorough and moderate revision of the tariff. He emphasized removing special privileges and exemptions, aligning duties with current economic facts, and delaying other reforms like banking and currency until the tariff is addressed. He asked for clear, fact based action to foster competitive, free enterprise.
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Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Congress
House
Ways and Means
Senate
House of Representatives
White House
Mrs Philip Lydig Out Of Social Whirl After Illness Sale Of Treasures
New York society beauty Mrs Philip Lydig lies in a Rochester sanitarium recovering from an operation deemed life saving. Her social circle mourns the strain and her home is stripped for public auction of paintings tapestries rugs bronzes and other art. Chances of return to society are uncertain.
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Philip Lydig
New York
Phillip Lydig
Rochester
Minn
West
Italian Marriage Brokers Prosper in Old Practices
Italian marriage brokers keep bustling with matching schemes across ranks of life. They maintain pocketbooks of marriageable maidens and travel to arrange unions. When successful they earn a commission and often receive a voluntary extra from their patron.
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Talian
Italy
Plowing by Night Adopted in New South Wales
New South Wales has adopted the California idea of plowing at night. Two powerful acetylene headlights are attached to the traction engine that pulls the plow, and the ground is well and brilliantly lit so the operator can work over the field as well as by daylight.
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New South Wales
California
Gil Writes Own Wedding Vows In Modernist St Paul Ceremony
Flora Dart of St Paul, a poetess and advocate for women's rights, plans a modern wedding to artist Nathaniel Pousette. Dart drafted their vows removing obey from the service, with mutual esteem and ring exchange at the center. Rev Charles W Barnes will officiate April 16 at the Dart home, after a reception. Pousette, a noted prize-winning artist, studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
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St. Paul
Wman
Flora Dart
Nathaniel P. Pousette
Tony Pousette
Miss Dart
Mr. Poussette
Charles W. Barnes
Social Service Church
A. Ju. Dart
Worth Snelling Avenue
Humboldt High School
Record Enrollment Surges in West Waterloo Schools
Enrollment in Waterloo west side schools this spring rose to new highs as families moving into the city rushed to place their children in school. Superintendent A T Hukill cites the influx of newcomers and desire for a smooth fall term as the motive, with many pupils entering kindergarten early.
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West Side
West High School
Supt
A. T. Hukill
Waterloo
Penny lunches to school pupils and malnutrition
Philadelphia April 7 Dr Ernest Hoag told St Paul College Woman's club that many mentally deficient children in all grades suffer from physical causes. Eye strain hearing loss adenoids bad teeth and malnutrition were cited. He urged teacher training to identify and address deficiencies and noted poor compliance with dental hygiene among pupils.
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Philadelphia
Ernest Hoag
St. Paul College Woman's Club
Universelub
Hoag
Wong
Mr. Hoag
Pioneer urges better schools with fresh air and meals
A speaker urged reforms for backward students focusing on outdoor play areas and better equipped playgrounds. He argued penny lunches aid child nourishment and attacked breakfast omissions or coffee overuse as causes of listless, unfocused children. The Courier ads save time and money.
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Courier
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ST. Waterloo
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J. H. Welch
Bell Plaine
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Morris Motor Car Co
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