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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1913
Page
6
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Officials defend US stance on pressuring Huerta while noting that foreign nations offered help, yet the note's framing suggested intervention. Critics point out that the initiative came from Washington not a mere act of friendship, warning it could erode the Monroe Doctrine. The Post viewed Lind’s mission as a gateway to foreign involvement in the Americas.
A Chicago inventor is praised for a soup spoon muffler as an epoch making idea. The piece muses on how germs of ideas grow into progress and imagines varied muffler applications from tariff talks to Thaw episode revisions and teething period devices.
A fragment urges mufflers for various groups including militants, eugenists, politicians, and 1 Won't Workers, claiming mufflers are good and will lead to the millennium. It suggests widespread need for mufflers to achieve a peaceful future.
The piece surveys Senator Hitchcock and Lodge criticizing trust regulation. It argues strengthened laws may backfire by spurring monopolies and warns against a punitive income tax. It cautions that progressive tariff funding masks flawed cause and effect reasoning.
The piece argues Canada’s legal system shows stronger respect for law and swifter justice, notes the federal code with provincial enforcement, and cites Ottawa authority in railroads trusts and labor law while comparing outcomes in the Thaw case. It highlights dual-government clashes and potential insights from Thaw’s extended trials and sanity actions.
The text argues that a Canadian immigration dispute over Thaw could test the speed and fairness of Canada’s legal system. It urges Premier Borden to cut red tape and for judges to confine proceedings to essentials, noting the case as a measure of Canada’s reputation for prompt enforcement of law.
A sprawling New York mayoralty campaign links to governorship and Senate contests with President Wilson likely to stay on the sidelines. Roosevelt backs fusion opponents to Gaynor, while Mitchel may be urged to accept fusion, raising questions about Sulzer and McCall. The piece threads national implications through local figures like Purroy Mitchel, Bill Sulzer, and others, amid a flurry of comments on war, suffrage, and diplomacy.
Lord Hambleden, heir to W. H. Smith & Son, wields power to bar books and periodicals from UK and Ireland newsstands, a monopoly enabling him to suppress objectionable material. He sits in Parliament, owns Gresmanda on the Thames, and shares in vast family wealth from publishing.
From a 1830 Christian Science Monitor note the United States may have held about 7 to 10 million bootjacks by 1880. The piece traces their rise with Western expansion, then decline as boots shortened and the bootjack fell out of favor, leaving few examples in museums or antique shops.
New York American quotes conservation commissioner E Rittenhouse who asks why a nation so prosperous still has 17,000,000 unmarried men and women. He cites 5,000,000 single men fit for marriage yet lacking courage to wed. He argues civilization should encourage fit but unmarried individuals to form more and better families rather than merely larger ones.
Bretton Woods dispatch reports the United States Hay Fever Association held its fortieth annual convention at Bethlehem Methodist Church. Rev. Guy Roberts presided as president with officers elected including William M. Pat Kernon and Percy F. Jerome of New York and T. K. Tuthill, A. J. Dexter, plus H. D. Rogers successor W. H. Warner. Del. Muckle, Philadelphia, claims to be the oldest hay fever sufferer at 88, noting 75 years with the disease and relief in Bethlehem.
A teacher praises Morris as one of her brightest pupils while he writes and avoids play. He refuses to show his work until she reads the message asking to be excused from school to help at home. In another moment, a humorous exchange unfolds as a fall is blamed on French high heels in a request to the papers.
The piece portrays harvest labor as autumn frost tightens the air and young huskers toil at dawn, coats shed, mittens on, as rhythmic arm movements drive the harvest. It extols machine progress while pondering whether iron hands will fully replace human labor in corn fields and the economics of harvest.
In Huntington a dispute over a Polish housemaid sparked a street scuffle as Harris Goldstein and Louis Gottlieb confronted Samuel Swett, a Manhattan broker. Swett’s mother and Gottlieb’s wife joined the fray. warrants followed with Swett held at $200 for examination before Justice Lowndes.
Thomas Sullivan, a night hotel clerk, clashed with neighbor August Meyer over a phonograph playing New York press operas. Sullivan was charged with assault in West Side court after a heated hall confrontation and was released after magistrate Herbert lectured both men.
Sylvester Hulse, 83, of Setauket Long Island, is seriously ill after swallowing his false teeth six weeks ago. Doctors believe the teeth slipped into his stomach during sleep and are causing persistent pain. He contemplates an operation to remove the teeth if possible.
A rural town teacher assigns a compound proportion homework about workers and ten hours. The next day a boy explains his silence with a note from his father protesting the task as a slur on the eight hour system. The father allows eight hours but objects to more.
The piece cites Robert Louis Stevenson praising North American place names as musical, listing Delaware Ohio Indiana Florida Dakota Iowa Wyoming Minnesota and the Carolinas as a joyous chorus. It reflects on a Homeric potential for Western poetry enriched by these toponyms.
The New York Times reports the estate of Mrs Harriet Stanwood Blaine widow of James G Blaine has a total appraised value of 137658 as of July 15 1903. A 10000 legacy to grandson Emmons Blaine is singled out as partly from his father and mother’s consent with other heirs receiving residuary shares.
Desert imagery paints the desert as a sacred theater from sunset brilliance to twilight calm and final starlight. The poems evoke God’s goodness, peace, and love across barren wastes, rugged horizons, and a sleeping world under indigo skies.
Ethel M. Hewitt's verse in Harper's Magazine laments distant lives and recalls a shared past. The speaker compares memory to an earth that holds seeds, tides, and drifting seaweed, expressing a quiet ache and tears for lost closeness.
Boston Herald notes August crickets as natural thermometers their vibrations rise with heat. The article details their chorus in Maine and near Boston, compares them to katydids and moths, and explains how their sound marks temperature changes as nights warm or cool.
A hot afternoon scene in a New York shop shows a tense exchange between an irate customer and a tired clerk over change. The customer rants about waiting and the clerk asks for her change. The upset shopper mutters about Lincoln and a mob reaction.
A fragment shows a motherly figure scolding a tramp about spending money on liquor. The dialogue implies care mixed with caution as the tramp vows to use funds wisely, but dismisses the idea of a con.
Interview with Ormsby McHarg of New York notes a January Chicago dinner to heal rifts between factions. About 500 guests expected. leaders to avoid candidacy, aiming to renew the 1916 alliance against Democrats. McHarg and others foresee a Republican revival in coming elections.
Mr F. Pierce of New York recalls Michael Maybrick known as Stephen Collins the popular song composer. He notes Maybrick took interest in the Mrs Maybrick trial yet likely did not support the verdict. Alfred Maybrick, his brother, died. Michael kept his identity secret unless pressed by others.
A U.S. political history note on how the title judge clings to distinguished figures. It cites Taft, Foraker, Hoadly, Goff, O Gorman, Day, Holman, Thurman, and others who were repeatedly addressed as judge in campaigns and public life. The piece reflects on how jurist honorifics persist beyond offices held.
London observer Charles Knight says American women may gain suffrage earlier through persuasion than through violent campaigns. He doubts Britain will rush reforms under pressure and praises American liberty, noting greater personal freedom compared with Europe, including Russia.
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