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...true that a senator leads a precarious existence, but who will gain-say that he can at times indulge his sense of humor at the public expense? For nearly a month now the Senate has wrangled over the Alabama Muscle Shoals disposal without any apparent results. Mr. Ford's offer for the contract was alternately condemned and praised for a fortnight. Then Mr. Engstrum made the fight three-cornered by throwing his hat into the ring. Now the question has been further complicated by a doubt as to just what the government owns or has under lease there and also...
Other exhibitions are the last volume of Nicholay and Hay's Life of Lincoln in the manuscript of John Hay, a volume of poems belonging to Lincoln, and playbills and programs of Ford's Theatre on the night of Lincoln's death...
...emotion, collectively and individually. Examples of this are on every hand. Perhaps the greatest need is in financial matters, for the aggregate ignorance of the 110 millions in this country, as far as affairs economic are concerned, is nothing short of appalling. When a man like Henry Ford advocates the substitution of some sort of land standard of values for the gold standard, in addition to the many proposed changes chronically being aired, there is good reason to consider the question. When a man with an audience as large and as unanalytical as Arthur Brisbane's advocates paying...
...Ford died tragically, and the public expressed its satisfaction wildly, James's brother Frank succeeded to his laurels. The Governor of Missouri opened the doors of the prison where he was serving a life sentence most deservedly, and the Missouri House of Representatives elected him to be a doorkeeper as its share of official tribute to the heroism of life on the highway. Both were made the central figures of dime novels, eagerly devoured by hundreds of thousands of boyish minds which thereupon became fired to commit murder and robbery and be handed down to posterity as the rivals...
...Colt 91, J. A. Nickerson 2d 80, E. C. Lincoln 78, R. S. Whitney Jr. 78, Burke Boyce 76, H. C. Janin 71, Huntington Brown 65, G. L. Paine Jr. 64, D. McK. Key 54, L. B. LaFarge 49, R. T. Butterfield 34, Alexander Tison Jr. 32, M. T. Ford 25; votes cast out 49; total...