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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1907
Page
13
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A long excerpt discusses the Jamestown Exposition as a historic regional display with naval pageantry and calls for a permanent Washington exhibit. It also critiques British female behavior, notes Donis Kearney’s legacy, analyzes foreign immigration and labor, education funding, and the Rhode Island Senate vacancy with commentary on political ethics and public sentiment.
Dr Ray Galbett a Brooklyn veterinarian diagnosed with glanders, a usually fatal horse disease. Bellevue doctors must seek a cure as authorities refuse treatment to prevent spread. Galbett, 25, studied glanders to find a cure but remains gravely ill at a designated hospital tent near East Twenty sixth Street.
The New York Sun reports Wirth avenue silverware shops try to avoid duplicate presents for a bride. A matron frets about a silver teakettle while a clerk traces what gifts have already been sent, returning with a list showing no such item purchased for the bride.
From Lippincott's Magazine an essay argues fear of the dead stems from the unknown, noting scientific study has reduced belief in traditional specters while acknowledging other phantoms with stronger evidence. A Baltimore Sun excerpt reflects nostalgia on lovers and the Long Ago. Plus a dispatch from Middletown about Raphael Dimayuga Dimayuga, a Filipino Belonging to a prominent family, studying Bilo Railroad operations to aid Philippines rail construction, including ties to Aguinaldo and prior revolt events.
A Detroit Free Press item notes the first van of furniture arriving at a new home and a neighbor speculating about the occupants wealth and social status. The piece contrasts with a New York Sun report on the Waldorf Astoria flag room, where Manager Boldt has amassed a global flag collection valued at 10 000 dollars for decorative use and quick hospitality display.
Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg Gotha, grandson of the old king and focus of court rumors, visits Jamestown for tercentennial festivities but does not represent King Leopold. Born in Vienna, an Austrian Hussar officer, he is unmarried and Catholic, raised amid Coburg family intrigue and dynastic law.
The text offers satirical lines on wealth, marriage, politics, and manners. It jokes that costly experience, candy as leverage with women, hair combs, life’s one death, property taxes, and stubbornness about doors frame a witty social critique. It parodies gender norms and social behavior.
The New York Evening Post reports the Bureau of Labor findings that wholesale prices for 258 commodities rose to the highest level in the seventeen-year span, up 5.6 percent from 1905 and 24 percent above the 1898-1908 average. Food, metals, lumber, and clothing led gains while drugs and chemicals declined.
From the Chicago Record Herald a plea to unite across races and regions to nominate Bryan while urging Teddy to mount the platform. The verse imagines Teddy and Georgia's Tom Watson sharing the stage to forge a broader Unity ticket for enduring glory.
At Hal Wells tavern in Vermont, New England Fat Men's club notes Bryan now weighs 24 3 4 pounds more than his 165-pound 1898 fighting weight. They say prosperity has filled him out and he is suited for peace congresses, not war, with Bryan possibly leading as a prominent Fat Man figure.
Samuel Garrett of Thirty-fourth and Ainsley streets unearthed 610 in gold and bank notes while digging a post hole at the boundary between his property and the late Timothy Beckley’s estate. A broken drain pipe yielded a tomato can containing the cash in various denominations in the sight of neighbor Mrs. Kramer.
A satirical piece critiques social roles and reputations. It suggests women seek churchgoing as status, questions moral impressions, and notes men show fidelity with gifts. The fragment hints at social expectations, marital trust, and urban proprieties in a terse, ironic tone.
The Chicago Tribune argues coal dust and smoke from city streets ruin lungs across all classes. Dr. F R Zeit of Northwestern notes chronic irritation from fine particles undermining health and aiding disease. he compares Chicago unfavorably with London and continental cities where smoke control is enforced.
A quirky New York Mell verse lampoons telephone woes and central office crushes, then shifts to a Boston Herald note about self winding telephone clocks advertised for home use. It recounts how clocks synchronize city time via central office signals and run on dry batteries, with a cost comparable to yearly clock cleaning. It concludes with Gen Benjamin Butler praising a hat gift in a July 1879 handwritten letter.
A troubled arrest in West Side Court ended with Thomas Dawson paying a $1 fine after revealing a pocketful of nickels dimes and pennies to cover his debt He claimed he had won the money in a craps game while in the station and promised to settle the amount. The officer noted the exchange and allowed his release.
Dr. Ernest Black, WA central health chief, argues the empire will dissolve as colonies gain autonomy through strong schooling and public sanitation. Capt. Marix notes navy auxiliary ships and readiness. Dr. Stilling condemns exclusive German social clubs, contrasts media freedom in America and Germany. Rhode Island Senator Wetmore humor noted amid travel reflections.
Lawrence Gazette reports a legendary absence of trees in Kansas was debunked when loggers near Lawrence felled a giant cottonwood six miles northwest. The trunk measured 6 feet 4 inches across and yielded about 300 feet of lumber. a nine foot log broke the wagon it was loaded on. The tree stood by the Kaw River and supplied massive timber from limbs up to three and a half feet in diameter.
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