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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1908
Page
20
The Washington Post details subscription terms including Carrier and Mail options and prices. It then discusses Congress proposals on Sherman and trust law and Interstate Commerce laws, noting the difficulty of balancing penalties with necessary business activity and corporate conduct.
Remnants of a grand era on Fifth Avenue as the old Fifth Avenue Hotel fades into history. The piece recalls a shift from public, boisterous political discourse to private, high-living luncheons and dinners in modern hotel culture. It compares old New York hospitality to Dickensian London taverns and notes the building’s last days.
The article argues that slavery's remnants persist as peonage in North Carolina turpentine districts and Eastern Florida, cites Justice Department findings confirming peonage, and urges Northern capital to abandon such practices while promoting free labor and regional industrial growth in the South.
The piece surveys partisan strategy and liberty debates as Democratic and Populist lines clash with Prohibition, temperance, and presidential gambits. It notes shifts in rhetoric, social policy, and recent political maneuvers, with references to Washington politics, national temperance pressure, and a Western woman’s pursuit of her husband.
George T. Trainor surveys New Zealand child welfare and education policies noting government control of care, schooling, and apprenticeships. He cites government funding for maintenance, free transport for students, and central schools. He highlights prohibitions on child labor for under fourteen and limits on women in health risky occupations.
Berlin brain expert Prof Manfred Fraenkel argues that teaching paralysis patients to use the left hand can equalize brain hemispheres, boost nerve stimulation, and may cure some cases. He cites a boy who learned speech after writing with an artificial left hand and notes many similar recoveries. He also notes global child mortality in Russia and ancient coinage dies from Egypt.
The New York Globe details beggar schemes in the city. One relies on a hospital prescription lie to obtain money for medicine. Another variant features a bread loaf beggar who munches to imply hunger and asks for a nickel for coffee to accompany the meager meal.
The Dowager Duchess of Uzes faces near million-dollar losses from the Gallet et Caro banking failure in Paris. Gallet is jailed, Caro fled, and heirs including the Duchess and her son Duc de Uzes confront strained finances and quarrels over wealth tied to Boulangist and royalist causes. The piece also surveys the Eglinton titled lineage and the famed medieval tournament organizer Lord Eglinton, noting vast estates and historic misfortunes within a broader portrait of British nobility.
From London Tit-Bits, the story recounts M de Girardin and a crack shot who argued over hitting a man at twenty five paces. The duel was set. shots were fired separately by lot. The marksman missed Girardin, who refused to shoot back, insisting a crack shot can miss at distance.
An old Virginia congressman recalls a clash with President Cleveland over luncheon invitation etiquette. The tale centers on a refused repeat invitation and the social etiquette surrounding hospitality in the White House.
The text discusses mistletoe across legends, noting its oak origin and Druiast role, then contrasts mistletoe from oak with other trees. It mentions Mr Barlesons mistletoe value, a Paris apothecary selling nervous cure remedies, and mistletoe’s perceived protection on railway journeys, alongside its cost.
A temperamental downtown bar clerk ignores a tall lean man’s lemonade request while handling other orders. The man protests, and the clerk snaps back that he is busy serving “real drinks.” The exchange underscores a tense moment in a crowded drink shop.
In Sacramento Bee correspondence a guest at a Roosevelt luncheon recounts an anecdote about the German emperor dismantling a graphophone and reassembling it from memory. Mrs Bigelow storyteller Poultney Bigelow drew a sharp reaction from Roosevelt. Local interest grew over a gold indicator device demonstrated by W C Cofford of Tehama County that sways toward gold deposits.
The Chicago Tribune profiles New Jersey Governor Raymond Fort on the eve of a busy legislative session. A longtime public servant with a strong legal background, Fort is described as approachable yet relentlessly occupied, pushing constructive policy and prison reform including indeterminate sentences and probation. His family legacy in politics is noted, along with contrasts to Governor Hughes.
In a sequence of sketches from New York papers a young man recalls an Easter service where a radiant girlfriend wore a crushed amber satin bonnet and yards of chiffon while he hid a ring in his pocket. Elsewhere, musings on cluttered basements, libraries, and social observation pieces accompany tales of engineers and reflections on men and manners from Chicago and New York presses.
Prominent editor Henry L. Stoddard notes New York Republicans split between anti and pro Roosevelt sentiment yet Roosevelt would likely win the state. Discussion also covers Michigan Senate prospects, possible candidates including Hughes and Taft, and Arizona delegation loyalties amid national contest.
Mrs G JI Grammer, a well known Alton society figure, exhibits a four week old Mexican leopard wildcat owned by her husband who is in Mexico. The kitten, reared from a rescued litter after its dam was killed, is trained to captivity and shown to guests with cautions about its future behavior.
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