Filipinos in U S Education and Senate Committees Noted
Washington Letter reports 183 native Filipinos studied in the United States under the Philippine government with 12 in Washington, praising their academic and military work and noting a lone fellowship. It also comments on Senate committees, New England reps guiding sessions, Chippeway delegation appeals, and venerable lawmakers Sperry and Whyte.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwards
Insular Bureau
War Department
United States
District of Columbia
Senator Gallinger and the thrifty Irishman in New York
A humorous New York Times anecdote recalls Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire delighting in doctors’ tales. An Irishman avoids an expensive visit, learns a high first visit fee, then boldly greets the eminent specialist. The piece also notes Senator Lodge in a Capitol elevator and a Chicago Press club dinner quip about aging.
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Gallinger
New Hampshire
Senate
New York
New England
Michael
Docther
New York Times
Global facts and incidents from a late 19th century paper
A mosaic of notes cites sugar output in Europe at 6.288 million tons in 1907, a U.S. entrepreneur making cement tombs, Japan fortunes, bank robbery takes 7 000 pennies, Spain bans Sunday wine sales, tobacco exhibits in London, a deadly accident in Natalie Pennsylvania, Salvation Army emigration plans, and long histories of places, people, and events across Europe and America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Raymore
Spain
London
Harvard
John Blue
Natalie
General Booth
Salvation Army
Atlantic
Seven Stars
Village Green
General Cornwallis
George. Murphy
Jefferson City
David Riggins
Monongah
W. Va
George
Hallie Erminie Rives Wheeler
Orient
Taft
Japan
John Koppenberger
Allentown
Central Park
New York
James Coyle
Kawasaki Dockyard
Siemens-Martin
Leipsic
Moerding
Vienna
Mexico
United States
Alden Kindred Association of America
John and
Priscilla Alden
Duxbury
Russia
Sakhalin
Vladivostok
Baluchistan
Quetta
Kelat
England
An Overvaunted Virtue
8.T. Kimball the life saving service head remarked a job applicant’s steadiness may be excessive. He recalled Mrs. Madden who said Herbert Risbing is steady nearly to death if pushed further. The anecdote questions the value of steady virtue in selecting workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sperry
Hampton Roads
Lincoln
New Haven
Cleveland
Harrison
Senator Lodge
Senate
Capitol
Crane
Boston
Herald
Martin W. Littleton
Texas
New York
Tennessee
Andrew Carnegie
Oliver
Congress
Department
Thomas A. Scott
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Carnégie
Washington
T. Kimball
The
Life Saving Service
Humor Snippets Highlight Quips From Billy Mason And More
Ex Senator Billy Mason recalls a daring day coach intrusion with a thief’s cry of stop thief and a hunter’s dive under a seat. The column also shares jokes about schemes for meals and clothing, a witty exchange about schooling, balloon mischief, and a grim medicine gag ending in a death.
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Billy Mason
Chicago
Evanston
Lippincott
Grandchildren Claim Grandma Wouldnt Be Grand Without Them
A humorous Harpers Weekly quip shows a grandmother reproving noisy grandchildren who retort that she owes her title to them. The exchange highlights playful impatience and mutual affection in a family scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper’s Weekly
Dangerous Doctrine in a Pulpit Becomes a Rural Stunt
Deacon Longface calls a new preacher dangerous for heresy yet his wife defends him. The man is accused after claiming no harm in attending church on Sunday in an automobile. The dialogue captures small town moral tensions.
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Longface
Hennery
Deacon Longface
Puck
Voice praised by professor stirs doubts in students
Tess notes a professor told Jess a student’s voice was very good, but Jess warns appearances can be deceptive and that the voice may be better than it seems. The exchange underscores skepticism about talent assessments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tess
Jess
Philadelphia Press
A Wonderful Discovery by Professor Bigbrane Mars claim
A Washington Star excerpt features Professor Bigbrane asserting Mars hosts inhabitants of superior intellect. Miss Cayenne questions his certainty and mocks the notion of any intelligence surpassing his own.
Retaliation tale echoes in Chicago rent dispute
The Chicago News recounts a sharp exchange among neighbors where Green boasts of marrying the widow who owns the rental house, and Brown questions the plan while Black notes a rent increase that followed. The dialog frames a petty feud with implied consequences in a shared residence.
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Green
Black
Brown
Chicago News
Why bouillon cups have two handles
A humorous quip from Harper's Weekly depicts a little girl asking why bouillon cups have two handles and a sharp reply from her brother blames left handedness for the design.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper’s Weekly
Not Quite Right on the Gossip Tent
A brief Baltimore American item quotes Robbie and Tommy misnaming a gospel tent as an eircus tent. They debate the tent’s purpose with humorous mispronunciations reflecting local speech.
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Robbie
Tommy
Baltimore American
Traveling aboard a ship prompts rail and strap talk
The Yonkers Statesman notes shipboard life with jokes about travelers gripping rails and straps. Egbert observes some passengers must lean over rails while others avoid straps, illustrating sea voyage habits.
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Egbert
Yonkers Statesman
The Man Who Stands for His Land as Lord of All
A fragmentary reflection on ownership and dominion over land by a man who tills it, viewing the earth as a divine created sphere. It contemplates the timeless bond between past, present, and future generations through a single proprietor’s sense of rightful stewardship and power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soi
Tae
Edward Everett
Training Dogs At Club Meeting Locks In Art Of Practice
A canine expert described training as an art and noted even seemingly easy tasks are complex. He illustrated the point with a photographer’s patience and a dog’s delayed response, emphasizing calm instruction and precise timing.
Woman Restored to Health After Seven Years with Pinkham Remedy
Mrs. Sallie French of Pancannla Indian Territory writes she suffered female troubles for seven years and was run-down and nervous. Doctors offered no relief, but after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she became strong and well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Sallie French
Pancannla
Ind
Ter
Mrs. Pinkham
Facts for Sick Women on Lydia E Pinkham’s Remedy
The advertisement promotes Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as the standard women’s remedy for displacements inflammation ulcers fibroids and related ailments. It promises confidential treatment and free advice from Mrs Pinkham through letters from Lynn Mass urging readers to write for help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E Pinkham
Printing quality as business value
The text argues thoughts and words plus ideas must be executed correctly. Good printing at a reasonable price yields profit, while poor printing is costly. It equates quality printing with a well-run business and contrasts it with ugly stores, shabby wagons, and untidy clerks.
Individuality in Expression Shapes Life and Language
A reflection on how language translates thoughts into words and why personal expression varies among individuals. Differences in the power to express thoughts distinguish people despite similar ideas.
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Frank Currier
White Earth Reservation
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Meshake-ge-shig
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Zhaday
Omuck-ah-geenee
Edward Tanner
John Carl
House
Nehemiah Day Sperry
Connecticut
William Pinckney Whyte
Maryland
Senator Whyte
Baltimore
Carl Schofield
Mike
Chicago Press Club
Edward
Paygon Weston
Ben Davies
St. Joseph
Humor OF the Hour
Wayfarer
Success Magazine
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
Otel
Rienge
Pysie
Ftunn & Cos
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