Washington Post Ad Rates and Forest Fire Crisis
The note lists subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions with annual and monthly rates. It also mentions forwarding payments in various methods. The main article discusses a spread of forest fires across the northwest, urging more troops from the War Department as drought fuels rapid flames and threatens national reserves and livelihoods.
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War Department
Northwest
Montana
Idaho
Washington
Oregon
Experiment in Art at Columbia reflects Royal College of Art works
Art students in a Columbia University summer course showcase a London collection from the Royal College of Art. Prof Arthur Dow frames the exhibit as bridging tradition and modern technique, balancing Ruskinian imagination with technical accuracy. Open-air painting prompts praise for color and caution against careless splashing. The piece urges keeping sketchbooks alongside painting.
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Columbia University
Arthur Dow
London
Royal College of Art
South Kensington
Dow
Milk Prices and Purity Spark City Protests
Boston and Philadelphia residents protested rising milk prices with consumer boycotts and pressure on dealers. Health officials warn strict sanitation enforcement could reduce supply, amid calls for an impartial investigation into milk safety from farm to table.
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Boston
Philadelphia
Neff
Rifk
Bureau of Municipal Research
Rail rate hearings hinge on cost of operation and public interest
The Interstate Commerce Commission weighs railroads' proposed rate increases to cover rising costs, with about 290 million dollars claimed for service. A public stay and political factors loom, while shippers oppose, and earnings trends complicate outcomes as hearings extend beyond early November.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Heathens at Home at Ula Orchard sermon plea
The Rev A B Simpson of New York urged congregants in Ula Orchard Me to fund and volunteer for foreign missions noting fewer Christians in the US than ten years ago and 200 million more heathens worldwide, asking why not stem the rising heathen tide at home.
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A. B. Simpson
New York
Ula Orchard
Wort
United States
Ching
Fiji Islands
Stage Jew on the Stage A Protest From a St Louis Rabbi
A St Louis rabbi denounces continuing stage caricature of the Jewish figure in theater. He argues prejudices tied to the stage Jew persistlessly and notes that Jewish influence dominates American productions. He compares other ethnic stage types and questions the movement’s chance of broader support, while noting audience resistance to change.
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St Louis
Venice
Belasco
Zanswill
Gyroscope at Sea Highlights Technology and Romance
A historical overview traces the gyroscope from a curiosity of science to a practical shipboard device for steadying vessels in rough seas. It notes a 19th century telescope stand and whimsical references to sea romance, poetry, and public figures, framing gyro use as a turning point against stormy seas.
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Marine Journal
Herbert
Capt. Marryat
Clark Russell
Still Singing at Seventy in Westminster Abbey Choir
Robert Hilton, famed London bass and vicar choral of Westminster Abbey, is 70. He has served at the abbey for four decades, participating in historic ceremonies and singing at the graveside of every eminent figure buried there since Sir John Herschel's funeral in 1871.
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London Evening Standard
Robert Hilton
Westminster Abbey
Preston
Salisbury Cathedral
Westminster
Wiliam Machin
The
Abbey
Hilton
John Herschel
United States Plans World Market Push for Industry
The United States government will inaugurate a global commercial campaign led by the State Department and the Department of Commerce and Labor. Secretary Knox will direct efforts to expand American trade abroad, with a new corps of six commercial experts and an international commerce office to gather data and promote U.S. goods worldwide. Estimated five‑year trade gains reach into the hundreds of millions, supported by Panama Canal improvements increasing sailings and cargo volumes.
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New York World
United States
State Department
Department of Commerce and Labor
Europe
State Knox
Taft
Department of State
Drcay
International Commerce
Commerce and Labor Departments
Washington
International Bureau of American Republica
Panama Canal
Thig
Rockefeller Rejects Airships Prefers Earth and Auto
The New York Tribune reports John D. Rockefeller declined aviation, citing safety concerns and a love of his automobile. He dismissed plans for a Forest Hill landing station and avoided further comment after a brief church interview. Also in brief, Magistrate Breen weighs a Bronx shoe shop dispute over marital control and fits.
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New York Tribune
John D. Rockefeller
Euclid Avenue Baptist Church
Frank Goodale
Rockefeller
Forest Hill
Earldom Passes To A Policeman In A Tangled Lineage
The ninth Earl of Egmont inherits after a brother’s death while once a Durban policeman, now a Natal civil service clerk, he is childless. The next heirs include Spencer Arthur Perceval, an octogenarian, and rumors claim Henry Godfrey Perceval and others may pursue the title. The piece traces borough English law, family dowers, and past fortunes, with notes on Cowdray Park’s sale to Lord Cowdray and historical Perceval lineage including Burleigh cipher dispatches and later peers.
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Lord Egmont
Durban
South Africa
Natal
Port Shepstone
Spencer Arthur Perceval
Arthur
Henry Godfrey Perceval
Ornslia
George C. Tanner
Nepreska
Carda
Egmont
New Zealand
Cowdray Park
Bir Weetman Pearson
Lord Cowdray
England
Louisa King
Sussex
Alfred Brisco
Sir Musgrave Brisco
Earldom of
Lilian King
Hylton Brisco
Sir Musg
Netherlands
Lord Burleigh
Richard Perceval
Perceval
Philip Perceval
James 1
Ireland
John Perceval
Charles II
George IV
Queer Victoria
Earldom of Egmont
Spencer Perceval
Premer
Home in an Ozark Cave A Cliff Dwelling With Modern Touches
In Prairie Grove Arkansas a cliff cave becomes a 20th century home for Elder H. Mobley and his family. A dry, ventilated chamber with a piano library stove and furniture sits beneath a wave marked sandstone ceiling. Water at the door, natural shelves for food, and white walls provide light and comfort free from insects and pests.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Prairie Grove
Ark
America
Hera Wider H. Mobley
Boys’ Corn Club
Arkampas
Paris divorce boom tests limits of marriage vows
A New York Times summary notes Bourget and Briand spar over marriage versus divorce. Paris seems to favour easy trial marriages, with renewal or revocation at the parties pleasure, while reformers see divorce as a symptom of marital ill conditions. Clergy debates diverge but reject trial marriages.
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New York
Paul Bourget
Paris
M. Aristide Briand
Bourget
Minister of Justice
France
Mariand
Uait
The Effects of Tobacco in Medical Journal Report
The article states tobacco does not cause definite nose, throat, or ear lesions. It notes possible indirect nerve effects and gastric or systemic disturbances from excess use. Carbon monoxide is a dangerous tobacco smoke constituent. nicotine’s tissue absorption is limited and inhalation level affects risk, with cigarette inhalation being more harmful only if the smoke is inhaled heavily.
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Medical and Surgical Journal
His One Fault From Punch Parrot Tale in a Bird Fanciers Shop
A Punch style scene unfolds in a bird fancier shop where a pious lady buys a parrot that is said to swear. The proprietor boasts the bird talks like a missionary and asks thirty five bob. The bird’s hidden blemish, a thumb trigger for the swear word, stirs curiosity and humor among the buyers.
Odd debut of ducklings in Jersey creek
Members of the Eurska Camping Club at Jersey City camp along Little Nescopeck Creek in Centerville found eleven ducklings thriving in a pond formed by a stream turn. The hatch resulted when Marion Youngscourt, former colony commissary, had placed a dozen duck eggs in a basket by the stream before leaving. The Centerville Power Company exhaust heated the water, hatching the eggs. one egg was a hen’s and its chick drowned.
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New York Press
Eurska Camping Club
Jersey City
Nescopeck Creek
Centerville
N. J
Marion Youngscourt
Youngscourt
Fragmented verses and light fiction from the Boston Transcript
A spoofed mix of devotional poetry on the unknown God and vast cosmic wonders, followed by brief notes about Anna Irving in New York Thea and a light domestic anecdote about Miss Mary Roberts playing a guitar when a venomous viper crawled from the instrument and was killed by a neighbor
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Dario Cobo
Boston Transcript
God
Anna Irving
New York
Pretty May
Somerset Times
Mary Roberts
Not Safe Reflections and a chicken house whitewashing tale
A fragment from a humor piece titled Reflections of a Bachelor parodies social discourse. It features a New York press quotation about a whitewashing contest and a debate over who is the town’s best whitewasher, ending with a quip about a chicken house. The text also includes satirical lines on self control and a man’s life after public office.
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Jacob
Alexel
New York
Pointed Paragraphs From Chicago News
A compact reflection on social mores with satirical quips about women and money. The piece notes women seek money while men with fads earn ridicule. Farmers race to harvest before rain while a spinster's choices spark unhappiness.
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Chicago News
Dimcult
Visitors discuss Barbara Fritchie lore and Baden-Powell
In a round of chats at the New Willard and Raleigh, visitors from Frederick Md Toronto and Pittsburg discuss Barbara Fritchie legends and Whittier’s poem, the Black Cat Salis cafe in Paris, Baden-Powell’s Boy Scout movement, and early monorail attempts in Pennsylvania.
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Fifth Avenas
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Chicago
Blomt Viltsin
Bown
Coney Island
Beverly
Oyster Bay
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Mayor Gaynor
Bryan
Chesapeake
Uncle Sam
Breen
Usania Court
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Boston Road
Bronx
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Mayence
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Napoleon
Brooklyn
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Ozark Cave
Earth
Henry R Evans
Frederick
Baltimore
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Mr Evans
Whittier
Barbas Fritchie
Stonewall Jackson
Thebes
Stonewall Jackson 5
Kercheval
St. Louis
Arlington
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Ruolph Sall
Salis
Jfine
Theia
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