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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1916
Page
5
The notice lists delivery options for Washington and Alexandria including daily and Sunday editions, with monthly weekly and yearly rates, all payable in advance. It describes mail payments via drafts and postoffice orders and names foreign advertising reps and regional offices.
Wednesday August 30 1916 notice urges Washingtonians to keep the Post with them while traveling. It explains address changes are accepted to ensure delivery anywhere in the country and notes band orders to POST and phone contact. Subscriptions payable in advance to the Washington Post Company.
President Wilson proposes sweeping legislation to curb rail wage disputes and end nationwide strikes. The plan calls for eight hour work rules, compulsory arbitration, and federal power to seize railroads during national peril. Congress is urged to enact these measures promptly to protect public safety and prevent industrial war.
Citizens in Oyster Bay Long Island met to protest the strict quarantine measures for infantile paralysis. Town board members withdrew from the meeting and residents prepared a blistering set of demands.
A debate surrounds strict quarantine rules used to remove children to isolation hospitals for suspected infantile paralysis. Residents and doctors cite misjudgments, yet support measures to prevent disease spread, highlighting a tension between individual rights and public welfare in a growing U S community.
A review of industrial peace under the Erdman and Newlands acts notes 48 Erdman cases settled by mediation or arbitration since 1909, including seven concerted railroad moves. Since 1913, 60 Newlands cases have been addressed, with 49 settled by mediation and eight by arbitration. The piece argues arbitration improves disputes over force and questions only the arbiters' fairness.
The article notes a drop in infantile paralysis cases in hard-hit regions and observes sporadic occurrences elsewhere as part of an apparent pattern. It credits physicians and prevention methods, hints at cooler weather aiding the end, and discusses civilization’s response to disease in relation to sun-driven vigor and natural cycles.
The passage reflects on experimentation and search for cures, noting progress in remedial treatment and preventive measures. It argues that nature, as a dependable segregator, determines the environment best suited to its creatures and ultimately drives back evils at their appointed time.
The article examines how World War I deepened linguistic fault lines in Canada. It describes Ontario pressuring French Canadians for English education while allowing mother tongue instruction, and Quebec pushing for language equality. It notes shifts in Quebec politics, with Liberals funding French language support and Conservatives opposing it, highlighting a national split along language lines intensified by the war.
Roumanias entry into the European war drives Chicago and New York wheat prices down sharply, with a fall around 11 18 cents. Analysts expect excess Romanian wheat, about 400 to 500 million bushels, could reach Western Europe via Balkans routes if Bulgaria is defeated, but prices may rebound once the scare subsides and supply flows resume.
Czar Nicholas moves M Khvostoff from justice to interior to curb pro German rumors at court. Khvostoff, a denouncer of Teuton influence, backs civic rights for Jews with real estate equality but fears land loss to a landless peasantry if Jewish gains collide with peasant thrift and German economic strength. The piece also notes Gen Sir Reginald Pote Carew’s retirement and a digressive history of the Carew family and Haccombe estate.
From the London Times the Froebel Summer School at Wertfield College Hampstead draws seventy students for a three week session. Demanding Eurhythmics lessons under a gong, many are temporary residents with rooms while six attend war work. A lecture hall features a homemaking instructor advising on scrub techniques and wood practices for affordable furniture and veneering.
Congress continued the revenue bill debate as committee amendments on the Wing schedule were adopted. A joint session was set for 2:30 to hear President Wilson on the railroad crisis. Read praised Wilson's administration. A migratory bird treaty with Great Britain was ratified and Porto Rico property settlement extension approved. Tampa harbor improvement estimated at 1.425 million dollars. Senate moved to relieve tobacco salesmen from being classed as peddlers. Most Senate amendments to the administration shipping bill were accepted before adjournment at 5:25 p.m.
Gen. C. D. R. Stowits, national quartermaster general of the G A R, warned at the Hotel Muehlebach that Union veterans are dying at a rapid rate. Deaths were 38,269 in 1914 and 23,251 in 1915, with about 150,000 Union veterans still living. He stressed thinning ranks and urged veterans, especially the least able, to attend encampments, and recalled drummer boy origins and enlistment ages.
The Rockefeller Institute has cornered the available supply of monkeys for research, with 500 in reserve, delaying other institutions. A shipment of 160 South American simians will arrive for Mount Sinai and Willard Parker hospitals, as directors seek animals for infantile paralysis research.
In autumn 1813 Tecumseh and the prophet stirred the Creeks to war against whites. At Fort Mims in Alabama 550 defenders faced about 1,000 Creek warriors led by Weatherford. After three hours the fort burned, 400 whites died or were slain, including women and children, with hundreds of Creek dead or wounded.
From Mary Caroline Crawford's The Romance of the American Theater a note on the 1718 first known representation of the acted drama in North America. Gov Pottswood hosts a birthday entertainment at his home in Williamsburg, eight burgesses refuse to attend the play or visit. Judge Daly links it to early Williamsburg theater noted as the colony’s first institution of the kind.
A fragment from the Chicago News explains that domestic sheep descended from high mountain habitats where wool evolved to cope with cold. It notes sheep moved uphill when chased by dogs, and contrasts with wild ancestors, while referencing a pasted Lovilaire Courier-Journal excerpt about love and suffrage with a joking line about a girl eager to pass questions.
A visiting world traveler at the Ebbitt cites dangers of foreign incursions after the European conflict and advocates action on the Mexican border and Philippine independence. He praises American influence in the islands and warns of potential attacks, while also noting Florida’s growth, tourism prospects, and a trivia bit about the Suwanee River and the song Old Folks at Home.
George L. Merton of Atlanta, southern manager for a major lubricating oil firm, warns that any railroad disruption would hit oil producers and refiners hardest. He notes European war barely affects oil, but price declines reflect pipeline receipts not actual supply, as producers cannot always deliver what their receipts promise.
Hulda's mistress boasts of her resourcefulness, praising her as the best nursemaid in the world. A motor trip through the park ends with news the baby swallowed a button, a moment of shared anxiety and quick, practical action to resolve the incident.
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