Do Riches Corrupt Senator Declares Temptation in City Life
Senator Chauncey M. Depew argues wealth insulates sons from dissipation, while modest means send city-bound youth toward temptation. He cites boarding-house discomfort, saloon lure, and church indifference as key factors, praising family influence and college culture for keeping the rich safe, and condemning modern luxury and divorce as signs of moral decline.
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Chauncey M. Depew
Igeue
Newell Dwight Hillis
Plymouth Church
Brooklyn
Conference of Orthodox Friends
Senator Depew
Union of Swallows Declares Waremme Women Take A Vow
In Waremme Belgium young women form the Union of Swallows pledging to remain spinsters rather than marry men who drink strong liquor. They vow not to marry any man who drinks even a little, aiming to ward off undesirable suitors while remaining willing to marry if a temperate partner appears.
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Hillis
Oliver Cromwell
Mr. Hillis
Boston
Waremme
Belgium
Swallows
River Trading Boats on Ohio River Thrive as Floating Stores
Queer-looking flatboats vary in size and carry large freight loads, with one named The American Trader drawing farmer attention. These inland traders act as mobile stores, offering groceries and provisions and accepting butter eggs iron wool and bones in exchange. They prefer smaller streams like the Wabash and White rivers, avoiding rougher navigation for larger steamers.
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Ohio River
Strea
Wabash
White
FORAKER: Ohio Leader J I Foraker’s Rise From War to Senate
Joseph Benson Foraker born July 5 1846 on a Highland County farm rose to national prominence as a self made man. He joined the Civil War at 15 in the Eighty ninth Ohio Infantry and earned a brevet captaincy. A Cornell graduate he practiced law in Cincinnati and served as judge before entering Ohio governorship races and finally becoming a United States senator in 1897.
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Ohio
J. I. Foraker
Joseph Benson Foraker
Rainsboro
Highland County
Eighty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Foraker
Cornell
Cincinnati
United States
Shaped His Destiny Knute Nelson Story in Cosmopolitan Sketch
A Cosmopolitan sketch on Knute Nelson profiles the Minnesota senator as a self-made leader. It highlights early ambition, Mary Dillon as mentor, immigrant roots, Civil War service, legal career, and steady rise through political offices. The piece notes Nelson’s humble beginnings, perseverance, and the influence of education on his path to prominence. It also reports a curious Iowa anecdote about corncob sidewalks as walked by travelers.
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Knute Nelson
Minnesota
Antoinette van Hoesen
Norway
Chicago
Wisconsin
Mary Dillon
Miss Dillon
Belfast
Ireland
Misa Dillon
Knute
United States
Dillon
Nelson
Daniel
Babylon
Senator Nelson
de Maupassant
Iowa
Waspeater Bird Preys on Insects Amid Balkan Hills
A Balkan region bird called the waspeater preys on honey bees and other insects, pursued with swift agility. It is captured by children using a pin and thread to dangle it, then retrieved as the bird rips the prey from the line. The piece ends with a note on English instruction in a Swedish school.
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Balkan Mountains
Bird of Prey
Lady Henry Somerset Resigns From Temperance Leadership
Lady Henry Somerset, longtime president of the National British Women's Temperance Association and head of the World’s Women’s Christian Temperance Union, resigns for health reasons. She plans rest and notes her philanthropy, leadership of Duxhurst colony, editorial work, and extensive charitable impact in the United Kingdom and beyond.
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Henry Somerset
National
British Women's Temperance Association
Women's Christian ‘Temperance Union
Henry
Lady Henry Somerset
Chicago
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Frances E. Willard
Earl Somers
Duke of Beaufort
Henry Somers Somerset
Duke of
St. Albans
Somerset
Great British Association Hs
United Kingdom
Misa Willard
International Union
Women’s Signal
Duxhurst
Worcestershire
Hertfordshire
Surrey
London
World's Woman's Christies ‘Temperance Union
Holls Named Umpire for Venezuela Germany Claims Settlement
President Roosevelt offered Frederick W. Holls of New York the umpire post in settling Germany and Italy against Venezuela. The plan splits duties between German and Venezuelan representatives with the U S president appointing the umpire. Holls declined. Gen Henry M Duffield of Detroit was chosen. Also notes limits on Americans entering the Transvaal and Orange River colony with permit and funds affidavit.
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Roosevelt
Frederick W. Holls
New York
Germany
Italy
Venezuela
Bowen
United States
Great Britain
Hague Court
Holls
Henry Martin Duffield
Detroit
Mich
Transvaal
Orange River Colony
Composite picture of twenty Americans shapes era leaders
A Kansas City Star feature assembles a composite portrait of twenty prominent Americans. It names figures from business, politics, law, religion, and the arts, noting Roosevelt as the youngest and Frye as the oldest, with an average age around fifty eight. It also reports on facial hair styles and baldness among the group. A separate New York court scene records Justice Mayer giving a moral lesson to a boy who threw stones, ultimately discharging him after a pledge to stop.
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Kansas City Star
Earth
United States
Peru
Niagara
East River
Supreme Court of the United States
House
Senate
Washington
Protestant Episcopal Church
America
W. P. Frye
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
D. B. Henderson
Justice Fuller
Archbishop Farley
Admiral Dewey
John JD. Rockefeller
J. J. Hill
Thomas A. Editon
John §. Sargent
Charles McBurney
Grover Cleveland
New York City
Mayer
Yale's Hale Statue Captures Patriot On Way To Scaffold
The Nathan Hale statue by William Ordway Partridge rises ten stories above the Unlied Charities building in New York. Begun in 1807, the heroic bronze depicts Hale in forward motion, embodying the patriot’s ascent to higher purposes. crafted from a Yale alumnus’s portraital study, it cost about $20,000.
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Charities
Oxys
New York ‘Press
William Ordway Partridge
Nathan Hale
Yale
Phillips Brooks
Thas
Herolsm
Hale
FIGHTING FOR HONESTY AND POST OFFICE INQUIRY LEADERSHIP
Robert J. Wynne, fist assistant postmaster general and key figure in the postal fraud inquiry, is a veteran journalist and former private secretary to the secretary of the treasury. Born in New York, he is 50 and rose from journalism to government service after returning to the field in 1892.
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Robert J. Wynne
Post Office Department
Senate
Wynne
Washington
Charles Foster
the Treasury
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Dr. Hillis
Newell D. Hillis
Rooklyn
Aste-Batlem
Ayala
Joseph B. Foraker
Rocresvelt
Homer
Tle
Great Northern System
Veragua
Partridge
College
Hamburg
Japan
Robert Wynne
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