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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1908
Page
6
A long Washington Post article outlines the 1908- era topics: deliveries, subscription terms, and press coverage. It reviews Taft and Cannon cooperation on tariff revisions, praises bipartisan business support, and debates the fate of the Japanese exposition commission and broader implications for governance.
Harvard professor Hugo Münsterberg outlines practical uses of psychology across daily life. He says doctors, lawyers, teachers, and business leaders can apply psychological methods to treat nervous disorders, uncover witness truth, optimize learning, and select employees, forecasting a future of applied psychology in universities and industry.
A fragmented article blends hunting scenes with a political note on Congress considering cutbacks to funding for the American commission to the Tokyo exposition of 1917. It references hunters in Scotland, pheasants, and a vivid hunting tableau, then shifts to praise for the commission’s peacekeeping role between the United States and Japan and a call for continued support.
Rear Admiral J B Coghlan died last week and as first vice president of the Navigation Congress he pressed for completing Point Judith harbor of refuge and a landing place. He urged War Secretary Wright to supply cost estimates so Congress could fund the improvement and wrote to Senator Frye to aid the effort.
A writer urges consideration of fair treatment for ex convicts as the season of goodwill approaches. It argues that after paying their debt to society, offenders deserve a chance to reintegrate as law abiding citizens without suspicion or reproach.
After Dr Charles H Parkhurst sermon at Madison Square Presbyterian Church an aroused congregant challenged his remarks on refined sin. The exchange drew a comparison to Parkhurst's list of social sins, contrasting Madison Avenue depravity with that of Third Avenue.
Dr Carlos D Godfrey clips a finding challenging the belief that the 1776 Provincial Congress met in an old Haddonfield tavern. His documentary proof places the meeting at North Warren Street in 176, not at the Royal Oak or Mrs Rachel Stelle taverns, casting doubt on decades of state preservation claims. The 2005 state funding for the tavern site now faces renewed scrutiny.
A mysterious phone message claimed a husband and a woman were at the depot with tickets to Seattle. Mrs Brace, wife of a former department store superintendent, and Mrs Bradace, widow of Joliet’s sheriff, were arrested as the couple disembarked from a Western Pacific train in Seattle. Bruce, 43, resigned from the store and drew $9,000 from a bank before accompanying his wife and four children to dinner. The message prompted police to detain the pair amid rumors of an affair and possible flight.
Count Alfred Durckheim Montmarin, newly promoted to full general and Bavarian army chief of a corps, endured arrest on high treason but was never tried. Loyal to the late king, he later advised the king via telegrams from Tyrol and helped draft a contested proclamation against deposition, while the king’s decline and fall culminated in a palace coup.
In Brooklyn a flock of starlings nests atop Manual Training High School and imitates human whistles. Motormen stop trolley cars thinking signals urge halt. Students, especially girls, report the birds mimic kisses, creating a comic, chaotic scene as a bird signals with song.
Isaac Stevens of Jacksonville New Jersey bought an aged horse in Paterson last week. While riding toward Essex Falls the horse chased a red fox through farm land and woods, weaving past trees and fences. Two men with dogs appeared as the fox neared the road. the chase ended when the dogs captured the fox and Stevens was exhausted. A passerby with a car gave Stevens a ride home.
The Philadelphia Ledger recounts Verona waking to ashes after the Capulet palace fantasy burns. Locals, pilgrims, and scholars debate the balcony scene and the house’s historic authenticity while lamenting the ruin and clinging to a mythic Romeo and Juliet pilgrimage.
The University of Breslau partners with an accident insurer in Frankfurt to cover mathematics physics chemistry pharmacy botany zoology mineralogy geology and related fields. Students pay 86 cents per semester for accident coverage while in duty. Firemen machinists and clinic employers are included with premiums 119 cents and ten cents for others. The policy ends when research affiliation ends. Benefits include death Fil¢, total disability 3570, partial disability amounts, and 71 cents daily for up to one year if cured. Optional for other branches.
A rarity in Borneo beside the Rafflesia, the buah pak mah of Malays is a fully parasitic plant that hides within the host tissue and only reveals a two foot diameter flower. Its odor is repulsive yet it holds a place in native pharmacopoeia as locals seek hidden virtues in nature. Various Raffesia species are known in Borneo, typically of ving (clesug).
Republicans in the Indiana Senate adopt a retaliatory rule nicknamed eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. They pledge solid unity and vow to unseat any Democratic senator if Democrats unseat a Republican in the house. The plan was outlined at a Thursday meeting and will guide partisan conduct in the upcoming session.
A poem-like column contrasts a boy’s bright nature with vanity and stubbornness inherited from his father and mother. It wryly notes maternal traits in mischief and resilience, linking family traits to seasonal shifts in a New York City winter and the bustle of city life.
A literary travel sketch describes ruins in Venezuela near San Carlos amid earthquakes, plagues, and depopulation. It notes Boliarty’s base near Carabobo, decaying walls, a butcher shop in a rooved corner rock, and frescoes in Casa Bianqueria while detailing ants forming a sand path causeway and a harsh stop at a Colombian village with barter money and a shopkeeper denying lodging.
A fragmentary reflection compares marriage and aging with sharp, satirical observation. The narrator contends that youth’s pleasures fade, and a wife fears social scrutiny when faced with unflattering self-image. The tone blends wry critique with existential resignation.
The text presents a satirical view of gender and finance with choppy aphorisms. It questions payback expectations and social dynamics, noting women, men, and payment biases. It contains observational humor about relationships and economic trust in a dated, opaque voice.
Governor Joseph H. Kibbey told visitors in Washington that Arizona is ready for statehood and that efforts to gain admission this session will continue. He highlighted Arizona's copper production, citrus, land under cultivation, and a large reservoir with 1.5 million acre feet of water, asserting the territory can supply crops without rain.
A New York based report notes Oklahoma students at State Agricultural and Mechanical College stage a walkout after the regents refuse to reinstate a football coach. About 400 students join, leaving around 100 staff and "mofiy caddies" in lecture halls as campus life strains under the dispute.
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