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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1908
Page
32
A brief notice invites Washingtonians leaving the city to have The Post follow them so they stay informed about affairs at the Capital. Addresses may be changed as desired and the paper will be sent promptly to any part of the country. Notify an agent or send order directly to The Post. Telephone Main 4205.
The piece discusses increasing freight rates as a legal dispute between Georgia shippers and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, involving Judge Speer and the interstate commerce commission. It also surveys wireless telegraphy advances, noting tests spanning thousands of miles between Suva, Washington, and the Pacific, plus Admiralty and British fleet experiments and the limits of reliability and interference in long distance wireless communication.
The piece discusses Chester L Long's defeat in the Kansas Republican primary and the role of political machines in American politics. It argues machines are inevitable in a party system, cites Lincoln and Hanna as examples, and contrasts machine influence with public leadership and reform efforts.
The loss of Zeppelin’s airship marks a warning against giant craft. Critics note such vessels cannot safely ride storms or be moored. advocates point to Baldwin’s dirigible and Farman’s plane as signs of rapid aero development. The era of serial navigation begins amid high optimism.
The article argues against erecting a Poe monument in Richmond citing his ingratitude and profligacy, notes Allan's pettiness in spoiling Poe, but credits Poe as a supreme poetic genius and founder of a short story school, worthy of memory despite weaknesses.
The excerpt argues that while memory fades, the enduring, intangible genius of a person merits lasting recognition. It suggests monuments honor not just law but notable individuals, noting in Richmond that many favored sons deserve to be elevated in public memory.
A Kansas era dispatch notes Thomas Watson barred from running in Nebraska as Democrat and Populist electors align to back Bryant. The piece mocks labor, Bryan devotion, and cross party scheming, citing figures like Gompers, Mack, Sullivan, and Sullivan’s tactics. It also parodies editorials on political manipulation and public theft of electors.
A jumble of 19th century notices covers a joke about Japan’s royal chickens famed for long blue tails, an Ohio man’s whisky, and a claim Japan will stop breeding them. It also reports a Queen City Ink plant fire in Philadelphia where ink and water mishaps caused $300 damage and firemen’s blackened suits.
A nine million foot timber tract on a 99 180 acre quarter section in western Clallam County is disclosed by a county cruise filed by J D Lacey Company of Chicago and New Orleans. Reported figures show 8 641 000 feet fir 392 000 feet spruce and 181 000 feet hemlock in the tract. The entire quarter section totals 22 217 000 feet merchantable timber across fir spruce and hemlock.
News from Springs Virginia to New York reports Senator Allison of Iowa has died, stirring grief and political worry. Allison had narrowly defeated Cummins. the death reshapes the contest with Cummins poised to appoint a temporary senator and push for legislative backing to clinch the seat. Taft aides react as Iowa politics threaten to influence the national ticket ahead of November.
A witness told a royal commission on pearling that eight years ago he laid 100000 shells near Friday Taland. The Japanese stole the shells, and the district court judge ruled that pearl shell oysters being wild animals meant no penalty for stealing them.
Reports detail Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch amid rumors of royal disgrace over a gambling incident. General Gall is accused of cheating at the English Club, provoking a chain of court challenges, arrests, duels, and a czarist intervention amid parliamentary criticism of the duke’s leadership and calls to reshuffle military oversight.
A New York World report notes seven Americans hold $1,000,000 plus life insurance, with Rodman Wanamaker carrying $4,000,000. James B. Colgate tops New York residents at $1.5 million. Philadelphia leads in per capita coverage, while New York, Chicago, and other cities show varied counts and dollar totals in millionaires insured.
From the New York American Maj Charlies O Birmingham of Galveston Texas recounts a tale of John W Gates as a dead game sport. In a Texas town he faced poker players who raised forty thousand dollars. Gates matched with a check for forty thousand dollars, then paused to consider the group.
Marie A Gross, student at Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis, lost a diamond ring while swimming with friends near Hanly cottage on the Wabash River. A string attached to the ring vanished. later a fisherman pulled up a sucker containing the ring, ending the mystery of the missing jewel.
A Philadelphia Record item reports a humorous suggestion to scatter grain and release hens to slow racing drivers as a makeshift traffic trap. The piece also notes local curios from Perry county including a cast iron green frog used to prop a door, which vanished, and a 7 foot black snake found by James Bistiine with two grown rabbits and the frog door atop its remains after a post mortem.
Harlem Hospital surgeons repaired a severe forearm fracture in Charisy Nelson a 15 year old by inserting a steel nail to fuse overlapping bones after standard methods failed. Ether anesthesia, a 20 inch incision, and careful nail insertion restored strength enabling him to play ball soon after.
Chairman Sehwamm of the Democratic central committee announces the formation of the only Chinese Bryan-Kern club in the city. About 50 charter members are naturalized citizens, and one member quips that anti Asiatic plans in the Democratic platform matter little as he is an American.
Vignettes critique social quirks in Chicago society with pithy lines about manners, flirtation, wealth, and reputation. The piece lampoons gender dynamics, respectability, and public perception through short, pointed observations.
A man brags about the meals he gets at home to everyone but his wife. A girl can marry a man because he's a good dancer and then blame him for it. An enjoyable thing about summer vacations is you don't have to take them very often. Either a man wants to kiss a girl again at her will, or she is willing or he doesn't want to. The way a man acts over the baby's first tooth you'd think he'd never had one in his own head.
Delegates and observers from Georgia and West Virginia discussed presidential preferences and state debt issues at the Shoreham and Raleigh. Georgia backs Bryan with Roosevelt's panic cited. Illinois politics and Taft are also noted. A Marylandish stance praises nonpartisan debt oversight for West Virginia, urging a public, informed commission to manage the debt before the next legislature votes.
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