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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1912
Page
10
Treasury chief Veagh touts a downward tariff shift with free trade as the destination while Congress weighs methods to adjust the schedule. He warns political contention remains and urges a disciplined approach to data and timing, stressing broad national benefit.
A report describes a plan to hatch grasshopper eggs to produce cheap feed for poultry. The idea involves farmers using warmth to hatch eggs and raise young grasshoppers to feed chickens, with shovelfuls of material and soil working to incubate the brood. The article notes early success as newly hatched grasshoppers swarm and feed on available fodder.
Mutiny aboard the Portas starship Fiuelva ends as Captain Vib orders a show of force with firearms to quiet mutineers who refused to go ashore though the ship waited at sea. Civil War era sailor John Y W Hall dies at Danvers Hospital at age 11 after serving in Northern balloon squad. obituary notes he earned more than 100...
A discussion on storytelling for children emphasizes avoiding overt didacticism, valuing imagination and character focus over moralizing. It describes an adaptable tale about animals, then shifts to a practical guide for making a flower barrel, and ends with advice on proper bed sheet orientation and the tucked sheet invention.
Special to The Washington Post from Orange New Jersey April 11. Mr and Mrs William R Brown of Beack street Orange were forced to jump from a touring car when it caught fire west of Orange Mountain Tuesday night. The car burned. Mrs Brown was hysterical and unable to walk. Miles from home with no conveyance, Brown carried his wife on his back for six miles along a road to Reach street arriving about midnight.
Allentown Pennsylvania April 11 Mrs Hannah Culp freed when grand jury declined to indict on charges of trying to kill her husband by poisoning his pie with glass. She offered to eat the pie to prove its innocence but the pie vanished, with no dead rodents found on the premises.
Harry T Wheatley a mailing clerk in the city post office was arrested on charges of abstracting 8 from a decoy letter. He waived preliminary investigation and was arraigned with bond set at 2000. The case stems from decoy mail sent from Richmond and intercepted in Alexandria with marked bills seized at arrest. Other local court actions and a delayed fountain dedication are noted.
Government for the people not the politicians seems near as Massachusetts considers a state program to supply homes for mechan ics and laborers. The proposal aims to reduce crowded tenements by buying land, building and selling or leasing homes while citing European and colonial examples and arguing it will ease slum conditions, cut hospital and poorhouse demands, and lighten taxes in the long run.
Four cannon balls central to a planned Mount Vernon Chapter D A R memorial fountain. J C Caldwell Co of Philadelphia designed the fountain and drill work on a 150 year old cannon. A bronze inscription notes erecting in 1912 to memory of colonial and revolutionary events in Alexandria. Also a 12 year old found a cartridge in Del Ray. bullet removed with no serious injury. Stone Land Company gains Virginia charter to conduct real estate business with minimum capital set. Miss Annie Fleming and Nicholas Lawler wed at St Marys Church Alexandria. Orlando H Kirk awards contract for a concrete block residence at North Braddock Alexandria County.
In Muscatine Iowa on April 11 Engineer John Addams of Ottumwa and his fireman John Moriarit perished after their locomotive sank in Cone a Lake. Addams was buried under the engine in twenty eight feet of water while Moriarit suffered fatal injuries. A Chicago Milwau-
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