Washington Post Subscriptions And Connecticut Senate Race
The Washington Post subscription terms detail advance payments and delivery options while the Connecticut Senate race features Col. Hiram Bingham winning the seat, framing the election as a vote against entanglement with the league of nations and praising Holt’s league stance.
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Hiram Bingham
Frank Brandegee
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President Coolidge
United States
Bingham
League of Nations
League
Mr. Holt
Martyr to Healing Receives Legion of Honor
France awards the Legion of Honor to Dr. Bergonne, Bordeaux professor of physical biology, who dedicated his life to cancer research using X rays. He lost both arms in the process, dictated plans from his death bed, and urged a major cancer hospital, embodying selfless sacrifice in the fight to save others.
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France
Bergonle
University of Bordeaux
Jesse Larear
Rhodes Scholarships Awarded to Three West Point Cadets
The War Department approves Rhodes scholarships for three West Point cadets joining Oxford studies. The decision reflects Cecil Rhodes’s aim to bind English speaking nations through education. The cadets, due to graduate next June, join last year’s recipient serving in the U.S. Army.
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West Point
Rhodes
Oxford
Military Academy
War Department
United States
Cecil Rhodes
University of Oxford
Rhodesimsulf
America
Rhodesian Vision and Anglo American Unity Suggest Global Peace
The passage argues that bringing American army officers into contact with the Oxford academic community will foster a race unity akin to moments at Runnymede and Independence Hall. It defends invading Oxford with military scholarship as aligning with Rhodes's aim for international understanding to render war impossible, despite pacifist opposition.
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Runnymede
Independence Hall
Oxford
Turbulent Albania in Balkan Politics and Intrigue
An overview of Albania's fragile state facing regional influence from Austria Italy and the Soviet Union. Tribes or clans dominate, literacy is low, and religious divides fuel political shifts. With Ahmed Zogu toppled by Fan Noli and cross-border brigandage linked to international forces, the region edges toward conflict.
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Lmelight
Adriatic
Albania
Abdul Hamid
Rivera
Ahmed Zogu
Mohammedan Party
Fan Noli
Austria
Balkan Peninsula
Balkans
Vienne
Comitadjis
Serbia
Committee of
Kossovo
Bulgaria
Moscow
Jugoslavia
Italy
Restoring Louvain Library Progress Amid Loss
The Louvain library restoration advances with one wing finished as 245,000 books and 40,000 documents pour in from foreign donors, including a unique oriental collection from Japan. The effort aims to rebuild knowledge and beauty, despite the lasting loss of medieval books and masterful carvings.
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Louvain
Belgium
Murcier
Christopher Smart and his Song to David praised for literary merit
The linking of Christopher Smart with William Cowper over insanity and divine atonement has revived interest in Smart. His long poem Song to David, praised by Browning Rossetti Gosse, is noted for its eight four six line stanzas and remarkable contribution to English literature, with passages of splendid thought.
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Christopher Smart
William Cowper
Guthrie
Smart
David
Browning
Milton
Keats
Rossetti
Gosse
Smart the poet and the shadows of his madness
The text surveys Samuel Smart's life and claims his genius, noting two periods of madness in 1751 and 1763. It mentions his Cambridge folly,Gray’s warning, and his confinement in madhouses and Kings Beach prison for debt. Johnson disputes treatment in asylums and jokes about praying together. An ill regulated life and youthful excesses are blamed as a major factor.
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Smart
Cambridge
Gray
Bedlam
Kings Beach
Johnson
Kit Smart
Roosevelt and the Isle of Pines tribute in Cuba
The ceremony dedicating Theodore Roosevelt’s monument on San Juan Hill in Cuba drew both Americans and Cubans, but a call echoed for Senate ratification of the long stalled Isle of Pines treaty. Prompt ratification would honor Roosevelt, repair the U S name, and recognize Cuba’s historic title under international law.
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San Juan Hill
Cuba
Senate of the
United States
Isle of Pines
Senate
America
Elihu Root
Cubs
The Subtlest Art by a Woman Expert
A reflective piece on the subtle art of listening by a woman expert. It argues that men talk and women listen and that genuine listening requires real interest, not feigned attention. The author contrasts superficial silence with true engagement and notes how attentive listening signals shared focus and enthusiasm.
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Daphne
Alma
Sara
Near West
A Short Engagement Poem by Ellen Hughes
A brief verse from Life by Ellen Hughes about perseverance in adversity. It repeats no matter to emphasize focus on present effort and doing your best rather than past deeds or opinions. The piece closes with a question about having done your best.
Advance Book Notice and Press Comment Highlights
A roundup of remarks from multiple papers. The Philadelphia Inquirer notes Bryan may write memoirs despite public forgetfulness. The St. Paul Pioneer Press discusses farm cooperatives facing global competition and price pressures. The Philadelphia Public Ledger imagines Kaiser Wilhelm II as a private citizen with a modest budget, illustrating postwar royal penury and wealth perceptions.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Bryan
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Europé
Department of Agriculture
Citroen plans Sahara caravan service and Sahara route opening
Andre Citroen, noted French industrialist, announces a bi monthly automobile caravan across the Sahara starting January 1, 1925 with hotels and camping spots to blaze the first motor route from the Mediterranean to the Niger valley. Nature yields to human effort as new transport methods may bridge the desert and unlock Niger cotton and other products.
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Sahara
Buffalo Evening
Andre Citroen
Sahara Desert
Mediterranean
Niger
Central Africa
If I Were a Man by January Mortimer
Vera and I discuss love and imagination as Anna is praised, debating whether a man would fall for her. The speaker argues most men would admire but few would fall in love with Anna, noting fear of angelic, perfect women and the mystery of why love does not fit a neat formula.
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Anna
Vera
Dante
Beatrice
Anta
Harvard Education Leader Links Low Birth Rates to Alumni Marriages
Dr. Charles Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard, warns that Harvard graduates marry and reproduce at very low rates. He cites averages of 1.74 children for Harvard men and about 1.6 for women’s college graduates, urging educated people to have more children to sustain humanity and progress. He questions whether higher education today blesses or curses society.
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Charles Elfot
Harvard University
Harvard
Letters to the Editor and Civic Suggestions
A selection of readers letters and civic notes. Retired federal employee praise for editorials. General Mangin expresses unease about Allied communications. a reader advocates placing small Thank-Ye-Marms at street crossings to slow fast drivers, arguing it would be effective and low cost. Pro Bono Publico.
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Washington
Det
Isle of Pines Dispute Letter to the Editor
T J Kernan addresses The Post to dispute a recent Isle of Pines treaty article. He states the Supreme Court did not rule on title, calls the treaty a political matter, notes no Cuban grants, cites massive public petitions to keep Isle of Pines as American territory, and signs from Raleigh Hotel on December 18.
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Washington
United States Senate
Supreme Court
Pearcy
United States
Cuba
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Philippines
Coolidge
T. J. Kernan
Raleigh Hotel
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