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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1906
Page
5
The item lists The Washington Post address in Washington and New York, with payment methods and office touches. It references dates, intervals, and managers, noting various publication and subscription terms and locations across cities.
The Post argues for merging the City’s business bodies into a single chamber of commerce to coordinate transport and commercial interests. It notes the Jobbers and Shippers Association, Board of Trade, and Business Mens League risk duplicating efforts and proposes central leadership, a unified building, and stronger collective action for Washington’s economy.
Western irrigation advocates mobilize for an Irrigation Congress in Boise to seek a $100 million appropriation from the National Treasury. They argue funds are needed to finish projects and reclaim desert lands, while skeptics warn of Congress resistance and fiscal risk.
A sprawling digest covers finance and reform, noting tainted money reportedly left to the Pope by Count Anthony Bertora tied to Monte Carlo gambling. It traces Bertora through Paris post office work, the Blancs of Monte Carlo, and claims about influence, scandal, and European politics. It weaves in spurious quotes, spelling reform theories, labor notes, and assorted quips from newspapers, with political commentary on Roosevelt, tariff, and public notices.
A fragmentary piece discusses gender roles and personal comfort after travel in a pondering tone. It contrasts a bachelor’s rest with a wife’s or husband’s anticipated homecoming and notes the social weight of work in shaping life.
A collage of scattered items from country life and small towns. Notable notes include lost colts, new panes in windows, long radish measurements, hog sales in Lebanon, and social visits. Local gossip and oblique events reflect rural life and community ties across several towns.
A 1905 pension column advises veterans and heirs on general law vs acts for pensions. It covers proving service origin of disability, reporting for medical boards, transferring agency moves, widow and accrued pensions, and differentiating dependent mother and father claims with examples and guidance from attorneys and pension officials.
Augustus Post of New York urges modern highways from Washington to Norfolk for the James Town Exposition, citing New York funds and local shares. Ellsworth J Owen of Chicago laments machine politics hurting statesmanship, warning against party bosses and noting Ohio party races with Taylor vs Taylor. The text ends with a wedding note hinting at a forthcoming marriage.
A spoofing item from the Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph extols Pittsburg as rich in presidential timber. It claims a president for any work may be obtained here through proper application and envisions the nation looking to Pittsburgh for a U S president in the future.
Secretary of State Root cabled that he will reach Panama six or seven days before his scheduled time because he intends to make only a formal condolence call in Chile. He plans extra time to study conditions on the isthmus and familiarize himself with the Panama Canal work.
San Francisco August 23 The Call to way prints a story that James J Hill plans to extend the Northern Pacific into California Twenty surveyors and a crew recently surveyed from Winnemucca Nevada toward Idaho meeting surveyors from Grantsdale at the mountain pass to the proposed extension
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