Critique of Hitchcock Postal Reforms and Rail Subsidies
The article argues that Frank Hitchcock's management of the post office shifted costs from railroads to postal workers and clerks. It cites a drop in penalties for late mail from 1908 to 1910 and predicts forthcoming clerk dismissals, claiming about 600,000 dollars are reallocated from employee pay to railroad subsidies. It warns mail workers face increased burden with no extra pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Hitchcock
Business Administration
Post Office Department
Hitchcock
Language as A Flexible Tool in Sport and Speech
A playful critique compares golf jargon with scientific prose and political rhetoric. The author argues that language adapts to social strata and contexts, noting how terms like schlaffling of tees or foozling of putts reflect usage and audience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loeb
Teddy
Champ Clark
Taft
Argentina’s Ambition and American Farm Future
The article discusses Argentina’s new president aiming to push the US from global grain and meat markets. It argues that America should emphasize small farms, diversified crops, and broader independent prosperity rather than competing on export scale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Argentina
United States
South America
Spelling Bees and Scandals Roil Early 20th Century News
A collage of brief items covers rains hindering California open air baths, indictments of Ohio voters, sugar trust taxes, and a Supreme Court ruling on bank deposits. It notes Charles F. Johnson replacing Eugene Hale in the Senate, gossip on Mary Garden and Regina Badet in Paris, Chicago hotels and check room prices, Standard Oil defense, postal banks support, Chicago packers Morris & Co. profits, physician warnings of new diseases, Wellesley spelling trends, and Cleveland ministers banishing Brandt Whitlock for strong socialism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sugar Trust
Supreme Court
New England
Charles F. Johnson
Eugene Hale
Senate
Marne
Chicago
Standard Oil
Brother Rockefeller
Tomorrow Comes Woman of Heart and Brain
An interview adapts Ellen Terry’s view of the “new woman” in the stage. She argues women will soon gain both heart and brain, becoming a complete and abundant force, not merely a militant suffragist or passive muse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Star
Ibsen
Ellen Terry
Sir Galahad
Watts
Sir Henry Irving
Shakespeare
Beatrice
Beatrice of
The Wife and a Dream Temple of Love
A fragmentary verse and prose collage centers on love and domestic duty. The Wife builds a temple of devotion that becomes a cradle, elevating common life duties over grand idolatry. Interspersed quips touch on politics, fashion, poetry, and humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Kester
Seattle and Tacoma Lighting Costs Compared in 1909 10
Frederick W. Kelly cites a year long record comparing power bills for a small Tacoma house and Seattle’s city lighting. Tacoma is cheaper by about 7.45 dollars yearly, with Tacoma rates 23.9 percent lower than Seattle, suggesting long running inefficiencies in Seattle’s lighting department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Star
Seattle
Tacoma
Cedar River
Arms
Frederick W. Kelly
Also Mentioned on This Page
California
Ohio
Wisconsin Railroad
Pune
Governor Carroll
Iowa
Regina Badet
Paria
Mary Garden
Morris & CO
Wellesley
Massachusetts College
Cleveland
Brandt Whitlock
Helen Terry
Harry Burton
Milady
MR. Blinks
Art Museum
Mra
Miunderby
Emile Alldring
Bobby
Smith
Jones
K. W
Juno Ceeseeweereebanes
Orm
Patat
Gee
Ry Yom Meee
Pam
Seattle Star
Pakin Ies
C. Aodvertigement Department
Washington
Stuart E. Brewer
Eureka Glove and Suspender Co
Heck
Horse
First Avenue
Cedar St
Main
Onaola
Haight Barber Supply House
G. W. Haight
Wherewater and Hetailer
Wash
Made
America
First Ave
Colman Black
Pantorium Dye Works
Denny Way
Westlake
Karpinski & Wuelberke
Madison Bidg
Madison St
Alice Hainwen
Jacob Kaufmann CO
FIRST
King Stena
Mandy Lee
Rex Jaime
Sulpher Roiucien
Bohemian Liquor House
Alice M. Aiken
Arnold
Arcades
Otty
Mr. Jewell
G. D. Calhon
Buster
Home Furniture CO
Ind
Pike ST
Buffalo Woolen Mills
Sunset
Westlake Ave
Cor, Witth
Gem
Westerman & Sherman
U. S
Pine St
Waak-Baker Piano CO
Planoe
Second Ave
Maker’s
T. E. Page
Mgr
DR. Chase
Lumber Exchange
2Nd
Seneca
Puget Sound
Vienna
Ladies’ Tailors
Paris
Room
Madison
Cor
Third Ave
Eversole Optical Co
Empire
Second
Nellie Kloss
14Th Ave
Capitol Hill
Cedar
A. B
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!