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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1910
Page
22
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The passage argues that codifying state laws exposes conflict between acts and tests the legislative process. Courts settle disputes when reforms clash with constitutional principles, while reform advocates fear courts nullifying aims. The piece critiques reliance on judicial action over careful, feasible legislation.
A city report praises Washington cleaning efforts and urges citizen cooperation to maintain sanitary streets. Superintendent Vines emphasizes that cleanliness reduces disease, noting the impact of private efforts and the need for widespread participation to sustain progress.
The article argues that the disintegrated region along the Russia frontier is coalescing into a structured monarchy under King Nicholas in Cetinje, creating defined boundaries and promoting nationalism in Bulgaria, Roumania, Serbia, and Montenegro while masking the era’s political volatility and identity concerns.
A reflective piece traces shifts in European power under the German Kaiser and compares Prussia’s rise to U S weaknesses, while noting how public opinion and clerical careers, stage life, and social excess shape modern manners. It contrasts imperial restraint with American political dynamism and criticizes extravagance around automobiles and society.
A brief essay notes that a short country rest does not instantly heal a tired worker. Vacation relief lingers, while the longing for more leisure tempts excess. Sundays and breaks tempt business folk to reflect on work’s rhythms and the emptiness of idle weekends. The text ends amid a stray image of a girl’s note.
A concise outline of the British Royal Mint’s operations for 1909, noting its steady profitability, wide coin circulation to Britain, Ireland, colonies, and foreign dominions, and the modest public curiosity reflected by 8712 visitors. It highlights fluctuating profits, extensive mint network in India Canada and Australia, and the officers behind the record.
A New York Press report says U S public health surgeons have grown lepra bacilli outside the human body at Molokai. After months of toil they achieved pure culture in lab tubes, a breakthrough seen as key to vaccines or serums for leprosy and a possible early detection test like tuberculin.
A New York World article recounts a seven year quarrel free marriage of Mr and Mrs Levi Sherwood praising noninterference as the key. The piece argues such harmony reduces domestic conflict and public discontent, citing husband and wife sharing duties without a dictator.
Baroness Berhardstein, now married to Capt Archibald Weigal of the Northamptons, faces English law protection via a trust set by her late father Sir John Blundell Maple. The elder blocked her German husband’s access to funds with a £15 million trust and £5,000 annual annuity on 240 UK residence days. The couple’s disputes and divorce proceedings highlight expatriate ties, finance, and aristocratic maneuvering amid royal and diplomatic circles.
A Success Magazine piece describes ten days of ripening wheat in western Canada's prairie provinces. Farmers monitor sun, wind, and frost risk as green turns to yellow and golden brown. The period holds the danger of killing frost, making the harvest a constant gamble and a defining aspect of life for elevators, merchants, farmers, and bankers across the region.
A jokey burglar terrorized Bronx and Harlem homes, but justice vows to make an example of the wit with a crime. The piece mocks humorous crime and laments society’s endless jests before shifting to a lighter anecdote about Dr. Harvey Wiley’s absent minded lunch lapse at the National Press Club.
Maurice Maeterlinck discusses insect marriage customs noting female strength and cruelty. Many unions end with the husband’s violent death or being eaten, with mantises especially famed for cannibalistic births of multiple mates as their toilsome courtship ends in a fatal feast.
A lively anecdote centers on Whiting Allen of New York asserting he was born in 1835. He recalls meeting Frank G. Carpenter in 1873 on a Columbus to Cleveland train, where the freckled youth later became a noted traveler and writer. The tale blends satire, politics, and a wartime echo of age versus appearance.
A political figure named Tint faced an imminent downfall as women voters reacted strongly against his plainspoken remarks labeling women as fickle and vain. The piece hints at a dire defeat looming, with dames allied against him and fate closing in.
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