Washington Post 1915 Subscription Terms and Taxes
The 1915 Washington Post outlines subscription options by carrier or mail with prices and delivery terms. It notes legal sovereignty and warns that population growth drives expanded government, pensions, and taxes, forecasting taxation as a major political issue ahead.
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Washington Post ‘Co
Washington, D. C
Pgat
Washington,d. C
Ae Forelan
Paul Block
Fifth Avenue
New York
Mallera
Chicago
Devonshire Street
Boston
Kresge
Detroit
Exposure of Party Machines at Syracuse
An account of the Syracuse trial exposes a Republican machine era where leaders ignored voter input in selecting policies and candidates. It argues the 1915 disruption was necessary, calling for four years of defeat to purify the party, and condemns machine methods seen by Col. Roosevelt and Col. Barnes.
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Syracuse
Tris
Republican Party
Althrough
United States
Col. Roosevelt
Col. Barnes
G. P
Spain Prepares for War Caution as Neutrality Shield
Spain quietly readies for possible war, signaling firmness to protect honor while denying any rush to aid victors. The Spanish consul in New York notes agents buying war material but asserts Spain will not go to war, though it stays prepared as Europe burns. Neutrals face a perilous mood, choosing deterrence through readiness to safeguard peace.
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Spain
Italy
New York
Europe
Increase in Taxation Across the United States in 1912
The total tax levy across states counties municipalities and school districts reached $1 339 841 900 in 1912 or 1391 per person. Tax burden rose faster than population in 1902 at 9.28 yet in 1880 it was 3. Most large cities remain heavily in debt and tax rates are rising.
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United States
Amazing German Activity Amid Global War Fronts
The report notes large German forces along a narrow front with possible wedges toward Calais or deterring Italy, while Austro German troops oppose Russians in the Carpathians. Russian advance halted, Hungary fortified, and Germans threaten Turkey as Dardanelles fighting continues. Gas bombs used in Flanders. Allies adapt. Sixty eight German ships seen near Helgoland, signaling fleet readiness in the North Sea. German vigor praised. calls for British resolve echoed.
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London
Veer Canal
Calais
Flanders
Italy
Carpathians
Hungary
Turkey
Dardanelles
Germaney
Scott
Helgoland
North Sea
Germany
Ean
Secretary Houston’s Westward Conservation Tour
Secretary Houston plans a national forest inspection tour to assess timber, forage, grazing, and water power development for the public under current methods. The trip aims to see how conservation laws are viewed in the West and to address Western dissatisfaction with federal restrictions on development. Colorado has passed a water power resolution asserting state rights and opposing federal tolls or compensation beyond fair value. Gregon has joined in protesting federal encroachment on internal resources.
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Houston
Department of Agriculture
West
United States
Colorado
Gregon
Conference on Western State Problems Urges Federal Aid
Government proposes a conference of Western State representatives to discuss interrelated issues facing Western and Southern States. Secretary Houston and department heads from Washington may attend. The aim is to foster better understanding and coordinated solutions to shared problems.
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Houston
Washington
Developing Water Power and Congress Action
Secretary Lane urges next Congress to push water power leasing to curb private monopolies. He warns Western consolidations could place half developed power under one control, risking national rights and public interests. Lane calls for legislation to balance conservation with development, restraining monopolies while enabling power plant construction.
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Lane
United States
Congress
Betting On The War Ends In A Wager On August Thirty First
A British gambling article reframes war end dates as insurance like hedges for business, Lloyds offering 17 to 1 odds on victory by August 31 with a 90 guineas stake. It compares risks to Roman bets and notes effects on trade, markets, and public sentiment across Europe and America.
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Aeport
Lloyds
Merry England
Arry
Arriet
Resim
Sestertis
Tommy
Atkins
Tea famine endangers Russians and tea supply crisis
The article notes a tea famine across Russia, threatening health as Russians swap tea for unboiled water. It details transport blockages, Suez and Dardanelles closures, and reliance on the Trans-Siberian line, with rail capacity strained by military needs. It also includes biographical sketches of Sir Owen Philipps and related Welsh nobility, plus Bucharest diplomacy.
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China
Russia
Suez Canal
Dardanelles
Odessa
Turkey
Moscow
Trans-Siberian Line
Vliadivostok
Telistabinsk
Twenty Brides Ly Tears From Italian Steamer Delays
Disappointed brides and grooms in Philadelphia and Glouces ter faced delays as the Italian steamer Ancona from Naples and Palermo docked shortly before 4 o'clock. Twenty brides wearing heirloom gowns and twenty grooms expected to marry at city hall, only to learn the license bureau would close before examinations, triggering tears and postponed weddings.
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Philadelphia
Pabife Todger
Italy
Gloucester
Ancona
Napieét
Palermo
Munitipal
Vine Street
Delaware River
Boon
Lcense
Moth balls a war luxury price of pungent marbles quadruple
The Philadelphia Record notes mothballs have become a luxury as war raises prices. Supply vanished since August due to halted naphthalene shipments from England, pushing cost from a quarter to over a dollar for the same quantity. Households, pawnbrokers, and storage firms face the shortage.
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Philadelphia Record
England
No Pledge Ends Bangor Couple's Wedding Plans
Wilkes-Barre area report says Caspar and Mise Engler planned to wed after securing a license at the Luzerne County courthouse. On the way to the parish house she demanded a lifelong abstinence pledge from alcohol. Caspar tore up the license in anger and friends say the wedding is permanently off.
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Wilkes-Barre
Phitea— Inquirer
Stemand Casper
Miners Mills
Mise
Inez Engler
Lugerne
Casper
Miss Engler
Lawyer Ignites Courtroom With Fiery Oration
In Brooklyn county court Tommaso Conti defended Paolo Miragiia accused of soliciting funds for a fraudulent mission. Conti delivered a dramatic, impassioned plea claiming innocence as spectators and attendants attempted to extinguish flames from a box of matches he carried, produced by the defendant.
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New York Dispatch
Philadelphia
Inecon
Tommaso O. Conti
Paolo Miragiia
Brooklyn
Heaven
Junge Hytan
Orleans lifted by Joan of Arc after siege in 1429
An article recalling the April 2 1425 anniversary of the Orleans siege and the pivotal 1429 relief by Joan of Arc. It details English defeat, the rise of Charles VII, the siege’s lifting, and the Maid’s dramatic entry and prayers that inspired French resistance.
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Joan of Arc
French Republic
Joan
Charles VII
the Victorioua
France
Poitiers
Henry VI
England
Troyes
Duke of Bedford
Charles
Orisans
Grleane
Remembering a Youthful Tooth Pull and Silent Woes
In a Houston Poni reminiscence J. M. Lewis recalls a wobbly tooth and the string pull ritual. The memory wanders through childhood nerves, a mother’s gentle care, and the relief when the tooth finally falls away. It reflects on troubles fading like a loose tooth pulled too soon.
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J. M. Lewis
Houston Poni
Weather Roundup and Tide Tablet From The Sun
A Washington region weather summary notes partly cloudy to fair conditions for DC Maryland and Virginia with chances of showers Thursday and Friday. It reports above seasonal temperatures nationwide, a central Ontario disturbance, and expected fair weather afterward. Also includes tide data, sunrise sunset, humidity, and river bulletins for nearby rivers.
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Weather Bureau
Washington
District of Columbia
Maryland
Virginia
North Atlantic
Middle Atlante
New England
Bcorthern Plains
Atlantic States
East Gulf States
Rreat Lakes
California
Neatern Plateau
Ontario
St. Lawrence Valley
Middle Atlantic
New Jersey
Rocky Mountain
Trade schools in Connecticut shape apprenticeships from 14
Hartford observer notes the decline of skilled trades apprenticeships and praises state trade schools in Putnam New Britain and Bridgeport aimed at preparing youths for future work. English worry over tariff shifts boost US textile exports and influence politics. Senator Clapp supports female suffrage as states move toward amendments. Yucatan refugees fear Carranza and hemp exports, with a Norwegian steamer carrying 494 refugees to Galveston.
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Herbert Danforth
Hartford
Connecticut
Putnam
New Brittain
Bridgeport
Moses E Clapp
Minnesota
New Jersey
Lake Po Kegama
Minn
Yucatan
Gentar Tanza
Merida
Progreaso
Blakeley
Carranza
Galveston
Sucatan
Progrease
Preached for Husband at Pittsfield Baptist Service
Mrs Harry C Leach wife of the Morningside Baptist pastor preached two sermons in Pittsfield filling in while her husband was called to Maine by his mother's illness. Tonight she spoke on The Heavenly Vision. The couple has been married about twelve years. this was her first substitute pulpit appearance.
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Leas
Owen F
Philippa
Liberal Party
Royel Mail
Union Castle
Glen
King Line
Edler
Britain
Philip Ap Meredith
Kylsant
Edward I
Frees Aps
Ireland
Thomas Philipps
William Pictor
Pictor Castle
Pembroke
Picter Castle
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Charles Philipps
Queen Victoria
Owen
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Lalisbury
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Edward VI
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House of Commons
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Philippaes
J. Geratenberg
Council of Foreign Bondholders
Pembrokeshire
Pittsfield
Mass
New York
Harry ¢. Leach
Morningside Baptist Church
Leach
Maine
Mammoth Rose Bloom Attracts California Grower
Herbie Baugh of this city displays a William Shean rose measuring six inches in diameter and nearly nineteen inches in circumference. He credits a fertilizer made from rotted potato parings for the giant bloom. The flower is perfectly formed and fragrant with a delicate pink hue.
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California
Ontario
Cal. Dispatch
Los Angeles Times
Herbie Baugh
William Shean
Boy Stuck in Freezer Trapped in Ice Cream Tub
Seven year old Rocco Masia crawled into a large ice cream freezer outside a Philadelphia area fruit store while playing hide and seek. He became wedged and could not free himself, his mother fainted, and Father rushed in to help. He was rescued as ice and brine filled the tub and remains expected to recover.
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Alloona
Deispatch
Philadelphia
Rocco Masia
Fly Killers Too Busy to Save The City
A St Louis Star report notes a swat the fly campaign by Consumers' League women aimed at reducing fly numbers and boosting food purity. Delegations visited Baden School to redeem swatted flies, but 24 006 files shown by students stunned inspectors. Health workers found breeding places nearby explaining the high count.
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St. Louie
Consumers’ League
Baden School
Halla Ferry Road
Newby Street
G. A. Jordan
Bridgeport Robbery Targets Playwright Willard Mack
Bridgeport attackers ambushed Willard Mack, the bridgeport playwright of Kick In, on Housatonic Avenue after midnight. He was struck, robbed of a gold watch and 175 dollars, then taken to Stratfield Hotel and Bridgeport Hospital with a brain concussion. Mack remarked the assault hurt pride more than the loss.
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Dispatch
New York Herald
Willard Mack
Mr. Mack
Los Angeles
Cal
New York City
Bridgeport
Housatonic Avenue
New Haven Rairoad Station
Lyric Theater
Mack
Stratfield Hotel
C. N. Haskell
Bridgeport Hospital
Queen's All in Flames at Gypsy Camp
Waterbury Dispatch reports a bonfire at the pay camp Simoneville honoring Try phena McNeill queen of her tribe who died in a local hospital. The burning includes her costly clothing and fur coat valued in the thousands, reflecting her seeress reputation and heavy client base.
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Waterbury
Coon
New Year& World
Simoneville
Tryphena McNeill
McNeill
King Samuel
Seeresas
3000 Miles Canoe Journey From New York to Wyoming
Barry Duncan of Flushing and Harry Forman of Manhattan plan a canoe trip from New York to Wyoming covering about 3000 miles. Starting next Saturday, they will use the Morris Canal and major rivers to reach the Missouri and North Platte. They expect roughly four months for the round trip with two portages only.
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New York
Wyoming
New York World
Barry Duncan
Flushing
Long Laland
Harry Forman
Manhattan
Morris Canal
Delaware River
Potomac River
Ohio
Mississippi
Missouri
That River
North Platte
Delaware Bay
Chesapeake Bay
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