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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1914
Page
11
Washington Post notice details mail and carrier delivery, subscription rates, and address change procedures. It includes instructions for forwarding, remittance in advance, and advertising contacts, with a date of August 19, 1914, and references to city and out-of-town mailing.
Peace advocates warn armament sharpens conflict while China and Japan loom as crucial tests. The piece argues disarmament failed to prevent upheaval, cites China’s vulnerability and Japan’s strength, and laments public apathy toward geopolitical strife and naval power in this crisis.
The piece urges Americans to observe strict neutrality and impartiality toward all wartime patrols. It warns against schemes to draw the United States into European conflicts, emphasizes not taking sides, and asserts the need to guard against conspiracies and covert actions that could threaten national peace and rights.
A Whitther London Almanac 1912 estimate discusses population scales and the European war impact. It warns against oversimplifying outcomes, notes Germany and France demographics, and argues war imposes crushing financial burdens while preserving large national populations.
The United States government rushes aid to stranded citizens in Europe with Army and Navy leadership, restoring confidence as 60,000 Americans seek safe return. The cruiser Tennessee distributes funds and arranges ships while officials stress protection under the American flag.
The piece recalls a tale of a reckless boast with thirty dollars attempting to outwhistle a steamboat, set against a era of early river gambling and shifting headlines, noting how major wars shape news and even redraw boundaries with calm monarchs.
A long opinion discusses price fixing and conspiracy laws under the Sherman Act, noting difficulty of proving conspiracy and the potential for prosecutions. It weighs neutrality, loans to belligerents, embargo ideas, and the impact of food prices on U S citizens amid European war, with editorial asides on international figures and policy.
The article recalls Lord Kitchener as a young officer who joined French forces in Brittany in 1870, was reprimanded by the Duke of Cambridge yet kept service, and later became secretary of war. It also covers Austrian rights to Nancy's Franciscans church, the Cordeliers at Nancy, and related extraterritorial privileges and a 18th to 19th century treaty context. An American ambassador safeguarded the church while monks were relocated, and notes on Hautecombe Abbey and Lamartine.
Senate actions included licensing cotton warehouses, purchasing 25 million ounces of silver, and faulting oil price fixing by Standard Oil through pine lines. Debates on antitrust and labor exemptions, calls for investigations, and a Red Cross flag authorization on a foreign relief ship are recorded. House notes cover opium regulation, water power on public domain, and naval routes to South America.
A shark sighting near Little Neck Bay drew over 100 bathers away as several large sea creatures entered the waters. A boy named Arthur King claimed the sharks were enormous, while others reported much smaller sizes. Local authorities planned watch efforts for the days ahead.
Diary entry dated December 14 1799 and describing General Washingtons final day recounts his illness and repeated bleedings by Rawlins Craik and others. The record notes efforts to summon Dr Dick and Dr Brown and records his death between 10 and 11 that evening without struggle or sigh.
Freda Dergendorf landed a lake trout weighing eighteen pounds after a one and a half hour struggle in Lake Shoshone near Yellowstone Park. A companion assisted in the boat. The fish, a lake trout about 2% years old, was caught with a rod and spinner about a mile from shore. Lake Shoshone had 30,000 lake trout planted on May 13, 1899, and is now believed to host over a million.
Paul Reichle a State College student living in York applied his own first aid after being bitten on the left hand by a venomous copperhead at McCally Ferry. He sat on a board to trap the snake, which crawled out and struck. He opened the wound, sucked out poison, and applied a tourniquet. The snake and another were killed. Reichle reached a physician and had the wound cauterized. the arm swelled but he is now out of danger.
A comic exchange shows a farmer’s harried explanation to border guards about beehives and honey with a punchline on being stung. A child denies Santa Claus and asserts only parents exist, while a Modern Child cites eugenics themes and questions Satan, reflecting era humor.
New York letters describe dozens of office girls eating their noonday lunches among the tombs of Trinity Churchyard near Robert Fulton and Alexander Hamilton. Skyscrapers loom above while Broadway traffic roars, yet inside the quiet yard peace prevails as more women join daily, turning a quiet niche into a noon gathering with numbers rising to about seventy five.
Emory J. Niday, Murcle post master, was attacked by a drove of hogs while resting in a hammock on his farm. The hogs charged him after acting oddly and even devoured his shoes and socks. He escaped by leaping from the hammock and sprinting to town barefoot, pursued by the animals.
Police found an electrical poker table in a gambling room at a Kansas City hotel raid on Seventh and Wyandotte streets. Officers say a concealed mechanism could substitute cards and secretly deal them to any player. Three suspects named J M Bales, G G Hulbert, and H Ho Case Jam allegedly ran the operation under a fake real estate office.
A speechless Christmas message from James J Montague laments that toys will not reach America as war consumes the world. He recalls sending 300 toys in happier years, warns children about rifles and battle, and prays for peace to restore Christmas joy. He appeals to children to believe in brighter days and to await peaceful times when reindeer return.
The term Chautauqua traces to Seneca ancestors camping by the lake after a hunt near a storm. A small child was swept away during the tumult and lost, with the lake thereafter called Utaud daukwa meaning the place the child was carried away, later Anglicized to Chautauqua.
The Rev C S Holden of Market Street Baptist Church said he wed within a year of his first wife's death, forced by women in the congregation who pressed him to marry. He described ministers as vulnerable to such pressure, noting several women whispered at him and even proposed. A June bug incident later figures in a Cleveland Plain Dealer item about a driver’s peril.
A Cambridge resident recalls two life defining moments from his youth and early adulthood. He describes a college baseball at bat ending in a game winning three base hit and a Sunday duck dinner with a girl and her parents that led to no further contact.
Charles Gapuro, his wife and three children aged six to twelve endured a four hour standoff with a monster black snake on a mountain path near town. Capuro poked the reptile, provoking it to strike. he knocked it away just as danger neared the cliff edge. The family escaped as the snake withdrew to brush.
A large alligator in the Smoky Hull River near Hagan Chain was shot and seriously wounded by R E Steinaa while other marksmen failed to wound it as bullets glanced off its thick hide. Steinaa used a high power rifle to strike the head, the reptile diving each time the net neared.
An unusual accident occurred when a man returning home after a night out fired at a white cow near a graveyard as it charged his horse. He reportedly believed a ghost haunted the area and his shots struck his leg, the horse, and the cow as bystanders watched in alarm.
Local weather and tide summary with temperatures and forecasts across regions, noting showers in eastern areas and a cooler spell midweek. References to Barisne Faise Department of Agriculture and various regional zones appear in garbled OCR.
Debates on international disarmament and a universal peace frame a London speech by J H Thomas and allies amid wartime discussions. references to railway safety, royal commissions, and wartime finances accompany broader calls for reduced armaments and renewed cooperation with America and Canada.
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