Washington Post Subscription Rates and Office Details 1908
Public notice details Washington Post subscription options in 1908 including daily Sunday and mail delivery terms with rates, postage, and payment instructions. Mentions management offices and postal handling at Washington D C with address notes and August 4 1908 date.
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Mall
Washington Post CO
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Ciaceamnanager Eee Norark Offce
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Paul Bloch
Abbage Offen
Hartford Building
Paul Block
Let The Post Follow You Washingtonians
Readers planning a move from the city are urged to have The Post accompany them to stay informed about affairs at the Capital. Any address changes may be updated as needed and the paper will be delivered promptly to any part of the country. Notify an agent or send an order directly to The Post. Telephone Main 4208.
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Pennsylvania
Tropics
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Equator
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United States
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Texas
Philadelphia
Washington
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Cuba and the Flag in a Pacific-Size Dream of Destiny
The piece argues the U S flag over Cuba is a strategic gain with Monroe doctrine roots and future expansionist hints. It contends a stable Cuba would attract capital, notes potential energy shifts from solar engines, and forecasts vast global climate and power reshaping implications over the coming centuries.
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United States Army
Virgina
Painprine
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Manta
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Pacific
Claese
Great Britain
Japan
Gulf Coast
France
Germany
Paraima Canal
Ald Am Hasana
George Canning
John Quincy Adams
Butter, tariffs and a bumpy ride for voters
A column discusses butter prices, oleomargarine tax and dairy subsidies shaping costs at home and abroad. It notes a 6 cent duty and a 2 cent bounty, plus political shifts as Independence Party candidates rise, while figures like Taft and Bryan spark debate. It also covers a hospital recovery tale of William Wild after a gunshot, regaining hearing and facing assault charges.
Rich and Poor in Politics and Kentucky Night Riders
A political essay argues that most successful Americans began in poverty, urging unity of capital and labor. It discusses Kentucky’s Night Riders era, predicting society beaux may form a potent cavalry, and notes New York streetcar reform signs spur debate on public honesty and fare payments.
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Claon
Clodine
America
United States
Mr Bryan
Taft
Illinois Woman Best Speller in World Match
In the world spelling contest at Winans Lake assembly program Mrs. Douglas Gilbert of Pana Ill won first prize of 320 with a bold display defeating the announcer. A B Curry of Memphis Tenn and Helen Sigrvoss of Muncie Ind took second and third as several contestants faltered on hard words like antaguism cacutchouc rhinoceros innuendo and erysipelas. Five contestants failed on plebet.
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Ind
Dispatch
Chicago
Plebet
Western railroads prepare for heavy fall traffic
Omaha dispatch to the New York Herald reports Western railroads west of the Missouri river ready for a fall rush. General managers from Union Pacific Burlington and Northwestern say equipment is in first class order, with crop fortunes signaling busy freight and passenger business ahead.
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New York Herald
Western
Missouri River
Union Pacific
Burlington
Northwestern
George W. Holdrege
Burlington Linea
Missour River
Nebraska
Walter
Northwestern Lines
Missouri
Hero driver drowns after saving son in North River
James Farrell, praised by the S P C A for kindness to animals, drowned off West Fifty second street while saving his 19 year old son Arthur. The pair swam but Farrell weakened, released his hold, and both were lost. bystanders Robert Graham Thomas Fay and Daniel Johnson pulled the son free but could not save Farrell. Farrell, 45, had never used a whip on a horse.
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Robert Graham
Thomas Fay
Daniel Johnson
Warrell
Graham
James
Roosevelt Hospital
Anderson
Indianapolla
Charles A F Fisher
Earl
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Young Fleher
Earl Fisher
Fisher Lad
The Pup's Picnic
A Boston bulldog owned by George H Clapp pursued a woodchuck into its den and became trapped overnight. The exhausted dog remained clamped to the prey until morning, then revived after a feast of unguarded ice cream and toppled into a lemonade bucket.
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Warcenter Telegram
Boston
George H Clapp
Target Practice Under Sea Report Dispatch
The second submarine flotilla led by Lieut Charles E Courtney including the Octopus Tarantula Viper and Cuttlefish smashes target records from 2 to 60 feet in Gardiners Bay using periacopes and Whitehead torpedoes at 1000 to 3500 yards. Full speed drills are planned under Commander Marsh with night and day attacks.
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New York
Marsh
Bankrupt Lord Dormer barred from seat by peers history
Lord Dormer, adjudged bankrupt, cannot occupy his seat in the House until discharge. The Dormer family, long tied to Bucking hamshire and Catholic aristocracy, includes the nephew of the twelfth lord and connects to Tichborne interest. Mentions Sir James Dormer’s Nile campaigns and a famed glass eye used in colonial diplomacy.
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Jorda
Egypt
Cairo
England
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Madras Presidency
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Heypr
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Nile
Tag
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House of Lords
Roger Tichborne
Dormer
Charles Dormer
Royal Navy
Spencer Clifford
Lord Dormier
Earl of Abingdon
Leone Dermer
Hay on Church Floor at St Swithin’s Festival
A curious custom observed atora Nester Church dedicated to St Swithin on festival Sunday. The church is strewn with hay to prevent squeaking of new boots worn by parishioners. In past years some locals did not provide bread money. the field tenant supplies the hay each year.
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London
Ora Nester
New York
Microbes and Fire Causes In Ancient Writings
The New York Tribune discusses microbes as causes of fires in crops and fuels, noting spontaneous combustion in hay hops and cotton, and in coal and lampblack. It suggests germicides and antiseptics as possible preventive measures, while acknowledging microbes also do much good.
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New York Tribune
Cancer serum discovery sparks world expectations
A New York physician, Dr Cleveland W Schuft of St Louis city hospital, reports two advanced cancer patients discharged as cured after serum treatment. The account notes cancer’s history, the hunt for a cure, and the potential humanity impact if true. Also included are unrelated items about a circus act misperception and local onion industry notes in Texas.
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New York American
St Louis
New York
Cleveland HW. Schuft
City Hospital
Sheep as Beasts of Burden in Northern India
In the northern Indian hills sheep are used as pack animals on treacherous mountain paths. Each sheep bears 36 to 20 pounds while traveling from village to village, being shorn for wool in every town, then loaded with grain for exchange on the way home.
Now I hold that society errs in not giving a man a chance to redeem
From the Baltimore American a tale of Capt. Nan B Ferry who hires a brilliant bookkeeper named Brown later revealed as Robinson. He confesses a youthful theft, yet proves trustworthy, staying ten years in Mexico and managing up to $600,000 with salaries rising to $10,000 annually, never misappropriating funds.
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Nan B. Ferry
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The Chauffeur’s Complaint From a New York Times poem
A chauffeur laments endless work hours and neglect as a once-proud red touring car wears down. He fears a future strike that could leave the machine and workers broken and the nation chasing perpetual motion through motorized excess.
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New York Times
Choice of Occupations and Odd Tales From Far East
A poem rejects many trades preferring a simple life with three meals a day. Also notes on broken jaws on holidays from New York Medical Journal and a ship Indramayo tale of a tailless monkey avenging a ship’s cat after losing its tail on a furnace door.
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New York American
Indramayo
Far East
Reflections of a Bachelor in The New York Press
A humorous column notes a woman’s vanity in pursuing a good figure and mocks those lacking. It describes a wife cooking meat to let a husband grumble without notice, and suggests seasickness on yachting delights some women. It quips on flying machines sparking dust-throwing envy among nonowners.
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New York Press
Pointed Paragraphs on Nefighbors and Sin
A collection of sharp, wry sentences examining social behavior and gender roles. Observations poke at pretension and conversational excess, noting how money and manners shape perceptions. The voice mocks long-winded talkers and the casual ethics guiding everyday choices.
Views of Visitors in Washington
In Washington visitors including Democratic nominee B Hiner of West Virginia and engineer Francia B Smith discuss politics and the coming elections. Hiner predicts a Democratic State ticket gain despite some Republican defection over a Jim Crow plank. Smith notes the shift to stone construction and flags a possible navy yard move from Mare Island. Also, market views from John Clayton and LC Stillwell touch on money, cattle, and Taft’s prospects.
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George 8. Sturgiss
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