The Washington Pest Ad Rates and Addresses 1908
The Washington Pest notes subscription options including daily Sunday editions and monthly rates, with remittance instructions for payments by drafts checks money orders or registered letters. It lists The Washington Post Co Pennsylvania Avenue Washington and Chicago office addresses and names Paul Block manager.
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Postace
Washington Post Co
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Pennsylvania Avenue
Fourteenth Stry
New York
Flatiran
Paul
Chicago
Unity Building
Bunday
Let The Post Follow You To The Capital
Washington readers planning to move can keep informed by this paper as it mails promptly to any part of the country. Notify the carrier or send orders directly to The Post. Telephone Main 4205.
The Presidents Spelling Reform Debate
The piece argues that Theodore Roosevelt limited his reform to his own correspondence and messages not government policy. It defends his civil action during peace, notes public anger is unfounded, and asserts English will endure under American citizens.
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Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Nag
Congress
Supreme Court
Hiaghts
Hapd
The Great Riddle of Sulzer as New York Governor
The Sun and World clash over a lunar prophecy naming a Democrat as next New York governor and future president. A correspondent asserts William Sulzer is the dark horse, poised to rise from Albany to Washington, with broad political impact and international attention implied.
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New York
United States
Messrs
Jeromé
Hearst
Mr Hearst
Belleve
Jerome
Wiliam Sulzer
Congress
New Yorker
Sun
William Suber
Sulzer
Albany
Washington
Trav
Russia
William Sulzer
Sul
New York Sun
Political Viewpoints on Empire and Tariffs Across Nations
The piece surveys imperial policy and republican and democratic tariff debates, citing Sulzer and Bryan era politics. It notes Britain’s handling of colonies, Canadian self government, and South Africa’s conflicts, while weighing the feasibility of federal control over marriage and divorce amid constitutional limits and state divergences.
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South Africa
Great Britain
Burke
England
Edmund Burke
America
Patrick Henry
Yorktown
Haeland
Canada
New Zealand
Australia
Shakespeare
Milton
Uberty
Death recalls a Zulu tragedy in imperial France saga
The piece recounts how Prince Eugene Murat died in Germany in an auto accident and the controversy over identifying his corpse. It links this to the 1870s opening of the Prince Imperial of France, noting embalming practices, witnesses, and later talks of royal legends. It also covers Empress Eugenie's confidante Mme Conneau's death and Lord Stamford's return to Dunham Hall amid family history.
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Germany
Prince Imperial
France
Africa
Eugena Murat
Prince Louis Murat
Achille
Prince Joachim
Prines
England
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Evans
St Thomas Evans
Napoleon TV
British Medical Journal
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Ot Teath
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London
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Upper Wimpole Street
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Brussels
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Chiselhurst
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Farnborough
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Sieboleft
Charles Stewart Parnell
Rudolph of
Austria
Nate
Eugenia
Mme Connean
Eugenie
Mme Conneau
Napoleon III
Castle of
Ham
Louis Philippe DI
Mme Conneaus
Louis Napoleon
St Cyr
Samy
Woolwich
Tuileries
Empire
Bryan Supporter Denies Dictator Claim in Governor Run
A man willing to seek Tammany endorsement for governor denies plans to rule as a dictator. He says his aim is to name candidates, write platforms, and deliver speeches. Poultney Bigelow again touts Panama truths to big readers, while Ballroids offer reduced rates to Bryan reception attendees in New York.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Indiana
Tammany
Bryan
Poultney Bigelow
Panama
Bigelow
New York
Chean
Nation of Salt Eaters Analysis of U S Salt Use and Production
Washington correspondence outlines U S salt consumption at 26 972 700 barrels yearly with a barrel per three people. It notes home production, tariffs, state outputs, and uses in meat packing dairying and industry. Data cover 1880 1898 and price trends for dry salt versus brine.
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Washington Correspondence
Boston Transcript
United Stotax
United States
Michigan
New York
Wealth From Junk Theft Hits San Francisco Telegraph
A gang of five stole fifteen copper wire coils worth about 000 from the Fastal Telegraph Company’s former office around 12 o’clock Wednesday night. Police under Detective Sergt Gibson pursued but the thieves escaped with their loot before the patrol wagon arrived. Junk thefts have plagued telegraph, railroad, and telephone companies, with junk dealers aiding the market for copper. The burned district is looted. pieces of junk are melted and sold, while many arrests followed in the days after the fire.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Fastal Telegraph Company
Sergi Hd Gibson
United Railroads
Telephone Company
Lowell High School
Drane Oceans of Booze Revealed in Odd Tale of Osborn
Denver Republic recounts Dr. Osborn once named Drunkard Saved by Grace who allegedly drank 12 775 gallons of alcohol since age sixteen. The tale places him near Arlington park Kansas City Rev G Frederick Pink led a revival where Osborn, using crutches, was said to be dying. The piece notes a vast consumption amount and odd religious gathering with loud approvals.
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Osborn
Christian Assembly
Arlington Park
Fourth
Emerson Avenues
Kansas City
G. Frederick Pink
Assembly
Jesus
Pastures and Quips From a Fragmented Page
The page blends verse about dreaming of gold and green fields with shards of humor and short items. It mentions August pastures and goldenrod, then shifts to brief jokes about anatomy, a juicy melon, grain imports, a cow shooting neighbor, and reflections on marriage, blending poetry with miscellany.
A Good Excuse That Failed at the Princeton Absence Committee
A New York Press item recounts how Princeton undergraduates dreaded the absence committee which judged chapel and recitation absences. A Manhattan freshman recalls attempting to feign an analogous case to miss vacations, only to be caught by the stern panel, turning into a lesson in campus lore.
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New York Press
Princeton
Manhattan
Broadway
Roné
Tinstad
Tate
Fragmented nation in quick quotes and jokes across papers
A collage from several papers jokes about work, theater, finance, and politics. Snippets mention a Cleveland Leader quote on walking to work, a Philadelphia Public Ledger play review, Chicago Tribune humor, and the Kansas Kansan about Banker Dovenertys. Also notes a Chicago World Census quip and antique roadside anecdotes.
Raleigh Visitor From Texas Talks Bryan Rise In Democrats
Col R M Johnson editor of the Houston Post and Democratic national committeeman from Texas, visits Raleigh en route to New York for the national committee meeting and Bryan welcome. He predicts a Bryan nomination and a strong Democratic showing amid tariff and corporate influence debates. Also quotes remarks from Arthur V Snell of Oklahoma City and Senator C A Culberson on political fights, plus brief notes on other figures and light editorial asides.
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Houaton
Texas
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National Committee
New York
William Jennings Bryan
Bryan
Jerome
Hearst
Empire State
Hughes
Oklahoma
Arthur V Snell
Oklahoma City
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Snell
Washington
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Shoreham
Congressional Campaign Committee
Hia Parbelar Errand Zere
War Department
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Tex
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Roosevelt
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