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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1916
Page
5
The Washington Post lists subscription terms for carrier and mail delivery in Washington and Alexandria. Rates include daily with Sunday, daily without, and weekly options, varying by duration from one week to one year, with different inclusions for Sundays.
An advertisement urging Washingtonians leaving the city to keep receiving The Post by mail. It emphasizes updating addresses promptly, changing addresses often, and paying mail subscriptions in advance to ensure delivery nationwide. Includes contact details and subscription guidance.
The President leads a national call for calm among railroad managers and the four railway brotherhoods. He urges a conciliatory approach to avoid hardships while negotiations proceed in private to protect operations and public support. The nation backs the drive to prevent a strike and keep wheels turning.
The piece argues that dire trends loom from disrupted homes and youth crime, citing London and continental capitals reporting rising indictable offenses among youths. It questions the impact of reforms, home life breakdown, and international meddling on society, moral gravity, and future losses beyond war’s cost.
The active force of men aged 25 to 45 is urged to apply philosophy and sentiment in practice after the war. A future intellectual clash will pit psychology against history to analyze the war’s effects, a study deemed highly significant and potentially fascinating.
The Poat notes a nationwide building boom signaling prosperity, with July permits totaling 163 million dollars, up 73 percent from 1915. New York City accounts for over 50 million in July, inflated by pre law-limit rush. First seven months of 1916 show a near 50 percent rise over 1915, as farm loan banks planned to boost construction and sustain high trade wages.
The article details a broad Allied push aimed at Austria being pressured from east, south, and southwest by Russian, Anglo French and Italian forces. It notes Russian forces overwhelming Austrians, German fronts strained, and Italy and Balkan fronts weakened to meet eastern danger. It warns of potential Russian advance toward Vienna and the strategic position of Romania and Bulgaria in the conflict.
The piece argues Germany cannot ship entire west fronts to aid Austria and Turkey as the Austro German alliance strains. It notes Von Hindenburg faced by Russian pressure, Austrian unity, and the risk Austria may seek a separate peace if central powers collapse. Entente pressure grows as Austrian defenses retreat.
The article notes world rubber output before World War I reached 161000 tons with Brazil and the Dutch East Indies as major producers. It highlights U S imports, Britain's control of rubber, and Rockefeller interest in guayule in Mexico and Texas. A plan aims to plant 50000 acres, rising to 1,000,000, with three tons per acre every third year.
A survey of barbers who became powerful advisers and leaders, tracing Count Michael Kutuzoff and others like Lord Tenterden, Lord St Leonards, and Louis XI-era favorites. It notes barber origins shaping careers from Russia to England, with anecdotes of imperial access and court influence.
Senators denounced the administration shipping bill while a vote may be held once the general revenue bill arrives. Amendments include an inquiry into government appointments outside civil service and a $200 000 flood aid bill for West Virginia. A tariff on imported securities was proposed and a 6 10 p m adjournment noted as the session paused for today.
Kansas City Star recalls a Forty Years Ago column about an East Side Club dancing party at McDowell Hall opening the centennial social season. Fifteen gallant beaux and fifteen charming belles attended. none of the men married their partners that night, though one man wed a different partner later, J W Potter, a bank teller, later widow in Oklahoma.
Poem extols the thinker behind labor and machine work. It argues that while workers, foremen, and engines power production, the thinker guides progress. The back of every plow, motor, and boiler is the eye, mind, and plan of the thinker who makes the dream real.
The writer, in a reflective international voice, notes Japanese appear happy though few grasp love. He asserts Japanese life lacks a youth period, reaching manhood quickly from boyhood, with those early days described as frighteningly short.
Gen John Bankhead Magruder, born in Winchester Virginia on August 15 1910 and died in Houston Texas February 19 1871. The article recounts his role delaying Union forces at Yorktown during McClellans Peninsula Campaign and notes his prior Mexican War service and later service under Emperor Maximilian in Mexico.
Portrait of George Meredith balancing imagination with social talk as he bantered friends on a hillside at Box Hill. The essay notes his habit of imaginary dialogue and burlesque and how, even at his wildest, real intent softened the satire.
A playful Harper's Magazine vignette about a kindergarten class curious about unseen touches. A teacher asks children to guess what kissed the speaker on the cheek as they arrived by trolley, and the students answer with humor naming the conductor.
A humorous exchange from The Kansas City Journal and The Bystander reflects idle musings on farming and a parsonage major. The lines poke gentle wit about winking friends and a curious question on who held the Pass of Thermopylae.
Senator James E Martine of New Jersey dismisses resignation plans and contends he remains a strong candidate for renomination. He cites machine opposition but expresses confidence in victory and Clinton era political dynamics as he discusses Wilson administration support and Republican prospects.
A New York engineer extols the Potomac’s beauty from the Shoreham to Great Falls and praises its historic spots. He highlights Government Island in Aquin Creek as a sandstone source for the Treasury and United States Capitol structures and notes the island’s long abandonment despite remaining sandstone.
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