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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1915
Page
11
Washington Post notice lists subscription terms for Washington and Alexandria and references a discussion at the Chamber of Commerce. It notes carrier delivery, mail options, and rates. The piece also covers a Wilson speech warning that a formed group could become exclusive and block new members, revealing concern over pooling agreements among manufacturers.
The latest Sir John French report on British operations and losses at Neuve Chapelle confirms heavy casualties and argues that modern defense powers high losses for attackers. He notes that defense prolongs battles and that violence will rise as nations press to dislodge entrenched foes in Belgium France and Poland.
The trade commission plans constructive aid to large business and will study amending the Sherman law to allow pooling agreements for export trade. Foreign practice and German strategy illustrate how small manufacturers could outpace giants by joining forces and sharing costs.
European leaders claim peace, but history shows treaties fail when interests diverge. The author argues U S military readiness is the true safeguard, noting Britain and Serbia show why unpreparedness invites aggression and why a strong navy and army deter future wars.
Early yesterday a gang of twenty masked men halted a New York Central freight in Niagara county and fled with ten auto truck loads of silks valued at $50,000. The piece contrasts Western banditry with Eastern business circles, noting the organized group acted in perfect coordination and that the era’s wild border bravado has shifted inland to New York valleys. It frames Frank James as a last link to a fading era of frontier menace.
The piece contrasts efficiency and economy in an elaborate silk theft plot on New York highways. It notes cooperative methods may outperform solitary effort, hints at a dramatic but crude appeal, and suggests a coldly clever crew may exploit sleuths' methods to pull off a bold get-away.
Department heads report a wave of prosperity across the nation as confidence returns. Federal reserve board and Commerce Department data show business activity rising, emergency currency fading, and stock markets buoyant. Henry Clay Frick declares he is never more bullish as leaders expect prosperity to dominate the 1916 political agenda with a clear field for the party in power.
A Pan American financial conference aims to boost US Latin American trade through practical financing solutions and direct banker contact. While war’s end improves conditions, European rehabs face funding gaps, and the talk centers on financing claims, exchange rates, and credit to unlock commerce across the Americas.
The Belgian crown prince, Duke of Brabant, age 13, after enlisting as a private with a knapsack, joins his battalion in the trenches for a day of duty, marking a baptism of fire on the very date of his enlistment. The piece notes royal youths often enter service in peace while the Belgian heir begins his career amid active combat.
In Philadelphia at Cathedral Cemetery on Forty-eighth Street and Lancaster Avenue two five year old boys John Fingler and John Casey were pinned beneath a heavy grave marker while digging for a buried treasure stories. Special Officer Logue and two passersby freed them and doctors at West Philadelphia Homeopathic Hospital treated bruises and lacera tions. The marker toppled as the boys dug beneath a cross grave marker drawn by tales of a man buried with money.
Elkton authorities trailed Misa Bennett and Samuel Stormfelts Jr as they fled from Cecil County to Harrisburg and then Baltimore to wed. The bride, 15, was said to be 18 on the marriage certificate. The father, a Pennsylvania Railroad engineer, vows action for perjury.
In Philadelphia a 13 year old Vincenza Di Bella admitted stealing coal to warm his mother and infant sisters after county aid society reimbursements were cut. Judge Gorman and ADA Fox provided cash gifts to the destitute woman as the case drew sympathy in juvenile court.
New York World reports a 36 year old stenographer Miss Martha Kelly leaped from a fourth floor ledge on 2392 West 128th Street after warning children playing ring around the rosse. She struck the sidewalk and suffered a fractured skull and internal injuries. doctors fear death.
The article quotes Count de Las Cases recalling Napoleon at St Helena and his imagined alternate path if Moscow had fallen. It discusses Europe potentially becoming all Cossack or all republican, the perilous continent, and Napoleon’s reflections on battles, frost, and the dream of a unified world order with Paris as capital.
Danbury Dispatch to New York World reports Danbury residents led by H. F. McCollum, a premier hunter from Redding, with about a hundred armed locals pursuing a large black bear through town forests. The bear eludes range as businesses suspend. watchers see it periodically, suspected to raid chicken coops. The bear reportedly outsmarts the armed populace.
Matthew Rooney, seventy, of 237 East Twenty sixth street, was killed by a northbound trolley on Third avenue near Thirtieth street after being dragged ten feet. He had just paid his life insurance premium hours before, identified by a passbook. Rooney lived with Mrs. Mary Clark who said he urged the payment that afternoon.
Jersey officials consider traffic rules for baby carriages to keep to the right and parallel to buildings when halted. Capt William Do Dehart, head of the police commission, says mothers crowd Broad Street with perambulators, hindering navigation for passing carts. If the board of works approves, police will enforce an ordinance guiding carriages to stay close to buildings on principal thoroughfares.
Frank O Mallen a 26 year old hospital patient from Lebanon Hospital escaped sunbathing on an upper porch and appeared at Miner's Theater Brook Avenue in a bath robe and pajamas announcing he would perform. Detectives located him and returned him to the hospital.
From Philadelphia North American: two babies drink kerosene and turpentine, two others burned. Three-year-old Sarah Fox and four-year-old Martin Maschbaum severely burned after kettle of boiling soup and clothing catch fire. Benjamin Gener and 13‑month‑old William Cassidy also in serious condition in Germantown and Roosevelt Hospitals.
Summary of a weather and tide table with sunrise and high tide times, and a detailed forecast for the District of Columbia Maryland and Virginia. Includes temperature highs and lows, wind conditions, and a general outlook for the next 44 hours with unsettled patterns along the northern border and Rocky Mountain region. Also includes a local weather report with hourly temperatures and humidity, a humorous exchange from The Regular Way, and a birth notice for a baby boy born to Mr and Mrs Joseph Cross on East Brooklyn.
A long column recaps varied topics from frontier figures to aviation and California wine. It touches on Henry Starr’s capture and pardon, Cherokee Bill, Lincoln Beachey’s death theories, and aviator Charles Niles on monoplane vs biplane expertise. It also reports grape industry data in California and impressions from John P. Saffer on the San Francisco exposition and Western outlook.
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