Washington Post Terms of Subscription 1919
The Washington Post subscription terms in advance with various plans for daily and Sunday delivery. Details include daily, Sunday, and Sunday only options, monthly and yearly rates, and allowances for foreign advertising. Remittance methods include drafts, checks, and money orders payable to The Washington Post Co. Edward B. McLean is editor president. Foreign representatives listed. Entry date Monday August 11 1919.
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Washington Post. CO
Washington, D. C
Edward B. McLean
Paul Block
Fifth Avenue
New York
Century Building
Chicago
Little Building
Benton
Kresge
Detroit
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Industrial democracy versus class autocracy in labor
A classical defense of industrial democracy argues against viewing the system as autocratic. It asserts labor and capital are interdependent, and that capital is labor in disguise. Proposes stock ownership for workers to align interests, rejects strikes and bolshevism as paths to democracy, urging patient, intelligent collaboration.
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Sahara
United States
Intertwining the Flags and the Cost of Living
The article notes President Wilson linking the high cost of living to ratification of the peace treaty during a national speaking tour. It argues some senators favor reducing prices without treaty approval while others insist on treaty-related leverage. It also references broader debates on inflation, productivity, and international policy amid wartime legacies.
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Wilson
Congress
Plumb plan eyed to curb rail pay and dividends
A lengthy analysis questions the nationalization scheme for railways under Sims Dill. It argues the dividend system may fail to restrain official and classified salaries, showing how fixed wage fractions prevent a simple double-rate payout and suggesting a need for a different method to avoid profit erosion. The piece concludes no easy solution exists and mocks current international asides.
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Plumb
Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
FOR RADIO MEN Demobilization creates shortage of wireless telegraphers
The Shipping Board announces a cull for merchant marine radio operators due to navy demobilization and withdrawal from ships. Qualified applicants can earn 106 to 125 dollars monthly plus expenses and should apply to the nearest sea service bureau or the board. War radio operators need only pass the Commerce Department exam for a commercial license.
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Shipping Board
Merchant Marine
Sea Service Bureau
Board
Thea Department of Commerce
Noted Belle-Croix Chapel to Be Transported to U S
Speculation swirls over the exiled Belle-Croix Chapel from Mont Auduan at Villensure-les-Avignon being dismantled, numbered, and packed for shipment to the United States for reerection. Locals decry the act as vandalism to sacred and historic art.
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Belle-Croix
Mont Auduan
Villensure-les-Avignon
United States
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France
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Monatery
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St. Andrew
Mount Andren
May Bring Soldiers Bodies Back From France Debate
A French assembly measure to forbid removing American soldiers’ remains from France faced delay amid War Department objections. If the bill fails, France may drop the objections. About 25 percent of families favored leaving the dead overseas. The U.S. has 7.6 million dollars to start repatriation once legal barriers fall. Unidentifiable remains may be honored in France or moved to a special U.S. cemetery for unknown soldiers. The War Department will ship bodies in hermetically sealed caskets to indicated addresses at no cost to next of kin.
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United States
France
War Department
State Department
Unearths Lost Continent Theory in Mexican Valley
Archaeologists led by Prof. William Niven report finding stone and terra cotta images in a lakebed near Mexico City. The artifacts include depictions of Egyptians Ethiopians and Mongolians alongside remains of an ancient people wiped out by a volcanic event. The find bolsters Atlantis linkage bridging Africa to Central America via a prehistoric migration.
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America
Europe
Farfamed
Mexico
Acientista
William Niven
Mexico City
Cortez
Herculaneum
Pompei
Bering Ridge
Bering Sea
Atlantia
Africa
Central America
Blind education pioneer Huntoon dies at 83 in Louisville
Benjamin Dussey Huntoon, longtime head of the Kentucky Institute for the Education of the Blind and leader of the American Printing House for the Blind, died at his Louisville home. He pioneered tactile printing for blind education and secured annual congressional funds of 10,000 dollars for distributing books and maps to schools for the blind nationwide. He was 83.
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Louisville
Benjamin Dussey Huntoon
Kentucky Institute For the Education of the Blind
American Printing House
Phonographs to Win Votes in Democratic Plan
The Democratic national committee outlines a program to mobilize millions of phonographs to educate the public on political lines and win voters for the Democratic cause in the next presidential campaign. Speeches by administration leaders will be recorded in five minute talks and distributed for use in gatherings and homes with new records released monthly.
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Democratic National Committee
Export freight doubled at North Atlantic ports in 1919
A traffic report by Director General of Railroads Hines shows exports of food and other commodities rose sharply, with 6,825 cars received in the year to date versus 1,607 in the same week of 1918. The week ended July 20 saw a 262 percent gain in export freight compared with the prior year.
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North Atlantic
Hines
Columbia to Introduce Contemp Civilization Course
Columbia University will establish a compulsory core course in contemporary civilization for all freshmen starting next September. The program will replace existing history and philosophy requirements and focus on current moral political industrial and educational problems to aid in social evolution.
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New York
Columbia University
Condensed Washington to Principal City Train Timetable
The Washington Post prints a condensed time table listing trains from Washington to major cities including Atlanta Baltimore Boston Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Detroit Indianapolis Jacksonville Louisville Memphis New Orleans New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh Richmond St Louis with multiple daily departures and rail company initials.
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Washington Post
Washington
Chicago
Railroad Administration
Atlanta
Boston
P. R. FR
Cincinnati
P. R. BR
Cleveland
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Jacksonville
Florida
Louisaville
Memphis
BS. R
New Orleans
G. R
Richmond
Rockefeller Optimistic on Postwar Cooperation
John D. Rockefeller in the August Lamp article for Standard Oil employees says cooperation is the keynote of rebuilding a war-torn world. He urges workers to pursue a straight course with diligence imagination and judgment to ensure success for this generation.
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New York
John D. Rockefeller
Lamp
Standard Oil Company
Standard Oil
HUN MARKS AT RECORD LOW IN SWITZERLAND
Berlin reports the German mark sinking to a record low in neutral markets, quoted at 83 centimes in Switzerland, below the 125 centime peace price. Experts credit Erzberger's finance plans and stamp tax on bank notes, while noting strikes and domestic issues also depress the currency.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Germany
Switzerland
Mathias Erzberger
Army demobilization advances as strength nears peace
The War Department reports 549,918 in the U S Army on August 5, 86 percent demobilized since armistice. Since signing, 3,165,642 have been discharged. Troops sailing from Europe total 1,418,784 with 123,385 in Europe and 945 en route. Enlistments since March 1 reach 96,126 as demobilization continues.
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War Department
Europe
Siberia
United States
Exhumation Bill Replaced by Substitute in Paris Chamber
Secretary Lansing told Representative Porter that a substitute bill replaces the exhumation ban for American soldiers buried in France. The substitute, sent from the American embassy in Paris, is en route to Washington and has not yet cleared committee.
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Chamber of Deputies
Paris
Goldisra
Eallorm
France
Lansing
Porter
Pennsylvania
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Washington
Guatemala to study peace treaty in special session
President Cabrera issued a decree ordering a special session of the Guatemalan congress for August 28 to investigate the peace treaty and for other matters, per a dispatch to the Associated Press yesterday.
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Cabrera
Bate Department
Riordan says McAdoo favored for Democratic nomination
In Washington and at the Raleigh Riordan, a New York representative, says McAdoo is the strongest face for the Democratic nomination and that Wilson will not take the post. He notes McAdoo’s Treasury leadership and railroad control as keeps for a future White House bid.
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Daniel J. Riordan
New York
William G. McAgieo
Wilson
White House
Riordan
Congress
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Morgans
Ryans
Aators
Goulda
Vanderbilts
Wall Street
Chinatown
Bohemia
Little Italy
Lower Bowery
Tenderloin
Bowling Green
Educating People on League Question Debated
Chicago attorney Brownlow A Hart urges widespread public education on the League of Nations citing misinformation and unclear public sentiment. He advocates polls, more writing, and a four minute men style educational campaign to inform voters in the District and across the nation about the proposal and its impact.
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Congressional Record
League of Nations
Brownlow
Hart
Chicago
Hirbitt
Tina
League of Patrons
Washington Post
District of Columbia
League
Week's Flying Beats Record Across 60 482 Miles
Aviators of the air service logged 60 482 miles in the week ending Saturday, the most on record. Excluding camp flights, forestry patrols in California and Oregon reported 36 fires and 79 incidents totaling 3 530 miles. Oregon saw 28 fires. the service has identified 91 fires in seven weeks. The forestry service said most fires were extinguished before gaining headway.
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Air Service
California
Oregon
Forestry Service
Supply Contract Awarded for 500000 Barrels of Oil
The Mexican Petroleum Corporation received a shipping board contract for 500000 barrels of fuel oil at $1.18 per barrel for delivery at St Thomas West Indies yesterday.
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Vxakl
Mexican Petroleum Coreporation
St. Thomas
W. 1
Yeaterday
Shipping Board
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