February 2012
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Where in blazes is Roosevelt's hat?
“My hat’s in the ring. The fight is on, and I’m stripped to the buff!” — Colonel Roosevelt yesterday in Cleveland.
In the Wild West, when a man decided he was willing to fight all comers, he would throw his hat in the prize ring, just as a knight used to throw down his gauntlet during the high age of medieval chivalry. The Colonel, who has bequeathed such darling...
Wife, mother of seven gets a day off, judge rules
Hereafter Junius Senatore will have to stay home Sundays and mind his seven children while Mrs. Senatore goes out for recreation. Magistrate Dobbs in New Jersey avenue Police Court, East New York, to-day decreed it, thus:
Any woman with seven children has a right to demand that her husband stay home one day a week to take his share of the care of the family.
Yesterday Senatore appeared...
LITTLE LAWRENCE GIRL LOST -- One of Mill Strikers'...
“Carmelia Russo, 11 years old, one of the group of strikers’ children who were brought here from Lawrence, Mass., on February 10, was found at 8 o’clock last night crying in front of a bakery at 4387 Third avenue. The girl told the police she was brought here with two brothers, Anthony, 9, and Joseph, 10, and had been staying with a family in East 183d street. The only name she could...
"INDUSTRIAL PEACE FIRST" -- Gov. Wilson Says It...
Philadelphia, Feb. 18 — Governor Wilson of New Jersey, who was the principal speaker at a peace meeting held here to-night under the auspices of the Universal Peace Union, declared in his address that “industrial peace must precede the peace of nations.”
“You cannot have international amity until we have gained industrial equity,” he said.
After declaring sympathy...
European-style Diplomacy at the Bronx Zoo
“THERE WAS A GREAT TURMOIL IN THE MONKEY HOUSE in the New York Zoological Park yesterday morning, when the nine “highbrow” apes got into a fight while going through a rehearsal of the kindergarten act, which is soon to be one of the attractions for visitors to the park. Raymond L. Ditmars, the curator, and several keepers got mixed up in the mêlée, trying to separate the angry...
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Is Woodrow Wilson really "as bad a straddler as...
Governor Wilson just can’t make up his mind.
At least, that’s what he has told Miss Edith Whitmore in a letter she just got today. She wrote him on January 31 to ask his position on woman suffrage:
My Dear Mr. Wilson,
You may remember at the Staten Island fair you were decorated with a Woman Suffrage Party sash, which we hoped expressed your sentiments, or at least expresses...
War Department To Make Practice Shooting [A...
Our railroads, factories, skyscrapers and ocean liners prove that Americans are brilliant.
This? Not so much.
Some people think we’ve been at peace for so long that our soldiers don’t know what a real war is like. Thankfully it’s the War Department to the rescue. They plan to make shooting practice “almost realistic,” last night’s Washington Times says (7 Feb...
