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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1909
Page
12
The Washington Post reports on child welfare and juvenile justice, noting the shift from criminalizing youths to humane, educational approaches. It highlights juvenile courts, schools, manual training, physical hygiene, and hospital care improving outcomes for children.
The article discusses the enduring idea of the old stocking fund as a mighty, reliable resource for economic stability in crises. It recalls how such funds backed by coins and bills, hidden in chests or shoes, buoyed markets during past hardships and funded recoveries. It also contrasts this with contemporary views on banking and speculative dangers, noting figures like Sir Oliver Lodge and Sir William Crookes who comment on spiritual and scientific matters amidst economic chatter.
A dense column surveys Tammany Hall politics in New York and state affairs in Massachusetts, alongside sensational notes on spiritualism, Mrs Annie Besant, astral projection, and marriage oddities. It weaves political critique with oddities from Harlem to Logansport, mixing rumor, satire, and social chatter.
A Boston cook tells her mistress she might leave any time because she is engaged to marry. The mistress learned the bride would not marry while the man drinks or stays sober, revealing trouble behind the plans.
A New York report argues most alien paupers in almshouses are foreign born and older, raising calls to tighten admissions. An official notes a child’s burden differs from an adult’s, since a child may become a productive citizen while adults rely on private protection.
The New York World lauds Winnipeg as Canada’s gateway, with rapid growth and bold projects. It highlights the Grand Trunk Pacific line to Edmonton and Prince Rupert, the traffic audit moving to Winnipeg, and the city’s aim to rival Chicago in plans and science led by Canadian ambition. The British Association meeting on June 23 marks Canada’s three-year nationhood and Winnipeg’s westward outlook into Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Hereford mourns the death of Caroline Lady Saye and Sele who resided there since her 1857 marriage to the sixteenth Lord Saye and Bele. She was the third daughter of the first Lord Leigh, sister to the Hereford dean, and sister of the late Lord Leigh. Her husband christened the lady who later became his wife.
A detailed account follows of Prince Gunther von Schonburg and his travel in New York with Baroh Hochwachter, discussing inheritance, potential oil holdings near Beiru, connections to Roumania, and his aim to study Standard Oil methods for future alliances or competition. Also covered are Lord Worsley Yarborough and family history, Brocklesby Park estates, and the signaling customs of British peeresses signing as their titles.
A Taft letter to The Washington Post champions a Washington to Richmond highway as part of a broader push for state and interstate road networks. He calls the project an object lesson in road construction and warns against viewing roads solely as benefits to automobile owners.
Eye opening success in Greater New York and New Jersey shows areas once plagued by mosquitoes now having few or no pests. Marine Hospital surgeons and Skeeler veterans urge federal and state cooperation, possibly using eminent domain to reach un-drained areas.
A Philadelphia bookseller recalls Rebecca Gratz of Philadelphia and her connection to Sir Walter Scott's Rebecca. The memory spans decades as locals remember Gratz's unpretentious work and the poem inspiration noted by Irving, with a nod to how few readers today recall the link.
London Standard reports Bosanquet leading the Caersus Mont excavation in Montgomeryshire. The western part of the Roman camp reveals a complete hot air system under floor rooms, supported by stone pillars, with flues preserved well. Outside the clay rampart, trenches surround the site and the granary spans its full length, built robustly with stone slabs.
Fragmentary reflections on relationships and jealousy describe the average man’s blindness to love. A bachelor contemplates learning from a wife about jealousy and the folly of marrying for flawed reasons rather than not marrying at all.
The interview recalls Col George R Sparks of Delaware noting the wheat crop shortage and Patten’s corner pricing, while Gov Patterson and Col Roosevelt debate highway improvements and national infrastructure, with Georgia’s fruit trade and mining growth urged as future drivers for regional progress.
A letter dated June 27 from Harry V Radford, secretary of the Arctic Club of America, describes early summer travel in northern British America. He reports mosquitoes, plans to descend the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean, meet Hikimon, study wood bison country, and return by summer’s end to prepare for exploration of the barren lands, noting rough conditions and a crash in a swamp during the Edmonton to North Water stretch.
A fragmented verse blends peasant calls for harvest hands with dreamlike longing for a sky houseboat. It laments hard labor yet idealizes peaceful idleness, recalling naval tales and a curiously jagged sequence of stray lines about fruit and diets.
The reader asks what the phrase Sabbath day for travel means and laments the ambiguity. The note mentions being urged by a father to interpret the term as a rule for travel, with a tangential remark about golf.
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