Washington Post Subscription Rates and Notice 1915
The Washington Post lists subscription options and rates for carrier and mail delivery including daily and Sunday editions. Payment methods include drafts checks and postoffice orders with advance payment required. Published December 20 1915 in Washington D C.
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Washington
Alexandria
Washington Post CO
Washington, D. C
Postoffics
Washington, D
Paul Block
Fifth Avenue
New York
Mallera
Chicago
Devonshire Street
Boston
Kresge
Detroit
War Turns Graver as Allies Face Possible Endgame
The article analyzes a strategic shift in World War I with Germany and allies forming a plan to target the Suez Canal and Egypt. It discusses Saloniki operations, the Bulgarian-Turkish threat, and Britain's potential choices if India and empire holds falter, weighing the risk of separate peace and the collapse of allied cohesion.
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Great Britain
Saloniki
Alles
Suez Canal
Egypt
Damascus
Egyptian
London
Aleppo
Jerusalem
Bagdad
Sinai Peninsula
India
Belgium
France
Russia
Balkans
Italy
Cairo
Britain
Deceiving Patriotism in War Mobilization Debate
This excerpt argues against overestimating patriotic recruitment during war. It compares Civil War and England's wartime contexts, stresses needs for short enlistment terms to attract youth, and warns that a hypothetical million volunteers would be useless without training and discipline.
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United States
War prep movement framed as dangerous propaganda
The text accuses pacifist propaganda of deceiving patriotism and fostering blind reliance on the hope that no enemy will attack the United States. It argues that preparedness demands a disciplined army to avoid useless sacrifices of millions if war breaks out.
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United States
Stupendous Exports Highlight New York Port Record
Customs estimates show New York Port November exports above 180 million dollars, a record driven by diverse goods including foodstuffs explosives iron steel and fabricated metal products. Cotton copper cartridges automobiles aeroplanes and firearms also feature strongly amid postwar reconstruction demand and rising South American trade. The piece urges tariff protections and a long term industrial program to safeguard domestic and foreign trade growth beyond the war.
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New York
Europe
South America
United States
Taft calls for national university to reform U.S. education
Former President Taft proposes converting the education bureau into a national university for training teachers. He criticizes current methods as inefficient and superficial, urging federal inspection to raise standards. He notes England Rhodes scholars and German higher work habits as benchmarks, while emphasizing uniform state action and better practical relevance in schooling.
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Taft
Bureau of Education
United States
England
Rhodes
Lfe
Financial Ascendency In Britain And Global Markets
London is described as the world’s leading financial center due to its mobilized capital invested across nations. The financial district hosts banks serving global commerce, with British capital heavily financing American securities and South American trade, suggesting the US cannot easily surpass Britain without similar investment resources.
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London
Great Britain
South America
United States
National Bank Behind 60 Million Drive to Boost U S Trade
Announcement of a 60 million dollar company to develop foreign trade is seen as pivotal for the United States industry and finance. Backed by major New York bankers described as captains of industry, the venture aims to place U S products in foreign markets and finance expanded world commerce.
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United States
National City Bank of New York
America
New York
Proposed Tax on Prosperity sparks partisan clash in Congress
Before Congress met, John J. Fitzgerald warned that prosperity and jobs depend on fiscal policy. He argued the party faces tax and bond choices, criticized Democratic leaders for avoiding tariff reform, and warned that current plans threaten thrift and industry. The column also riffs on foreign affairs and a joking aside about figures and suffragists.
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Congress
John J. Fitzgerald
Appropriations Committee
Fitzgerald
Treasury
Panama Canal
Democratic Party
Henry Fjord
Norway
British Prime Minister Says $25,000 Salary Is Too Small
Herbert Asquith resists cabinet and Commons pay cuts proposed to cut costs during war. He notes his own $25,000 salary plus Downing Street residence and his prior lucrative law practice. Records compare past premiers’ finances and pensions, including Pitt and Gladstone, amid calls for economic sacrifice.
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Herbert Asquith
House of Commons
Asquith
Coalition
Sir Charles Tennant
Sir Charles
A&6
Woolsack
London
Downing Street
Lord Loreburn
Lord Haldane
William E. Gladstone
Lord Beaconsfield
Pitt
Lord Rothachild
Benjamin Disraeli
Addington
Dukes of Beaufort
Rutland
Harts of
Lonsdale
Hertford
Lord Rolle
Lord Carrington
Cinque Ports
Gladstone
Marquise DE Fontenoy
Brentwood Company
Leg Broken He Walks On in Cincinnati Tale
Albert Betche, an 82 year old laborer from Wine Press road, fractured his left leg but walked with a friend for three days before the pain forced aid. He was taken to General Hospital after the injury occurred on Dumont Avenue. In Lonion Answers timetable notes warn changes can come with little notice as a suburban Irish railway altered trains and a porter Pat warned passengers of the schedule shift and a no further train.
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The
Cincinnati Inquirer
Albert Betche
Wine Press
Dumont Avenue
General Hospital
Lonion
Pat
$1 Tooth Triples to $5,000 in Court Saga
William B. Peck, a Baltimore structural engineer, paid $1 for a wisdom tooth extraction by Dr. Jerry R. MacNeille. After coughing fits and a pneumonia scare, the tooth later emerged from his bronchus in 1918 during a trial, where Peck sued for $20,000 and the jury awarded $56,000.
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New York Dispatch
Philadelphia
North American
William B. Peck
Supreme Court Jastios Glegerich
Peck
Baltimore
Jerry R. McNeille
Refuses Home From Wife In Divorce Case
Mary Elliott Heness, a singer, files for divorce from Charles G Heness of Peru Indiana. She says he refused to leave Peru for New York where she achieved success and would not establish a home there or with her in Peru. She seeks restoration of her Elliott surname and alleges willful absence and neglect.
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New York
Byrom
Cincinnnati Enquirer
Peru
Mary Elliott Heness
West Ninth Street
Charles G. Heness
Ind
Elliott
Heness
Mra. Heness
E. & King
East Third Street
Dutch Bulbs Bloom At Sea On Mesna Voyage
The Norwegian steamer Mesna carried 600 cases of Dutch bulbs and roots from Rotterdam to Philadelphia that sprouted during the 50 day voyage. Delays from weather and fuel shortages forced a harbor stop. upon unloading, heat and travel caused germination, with blooms of various colors and sprouts up to eight inches. Most plants are spireas and were to be grown for the Easter trade.
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Philadelphia
Rotterdam
Asore
Jewels Found In Snow Sparking Pawn Plot Unfolds
A penniless woman with a hungry child entered a Sixth Avenue pawn shop and offered a watch with diamonds for a loan claiming her husband found it in the snow. Detectives questioned the pair, and the husband Robert Decker admitted pawning nine rings and a chain for two dollars each after finding the items on December 9 in front of East Forty Second Street. The store valued the watch around $500 and a pearl necklace of 104 gems with a diamond clasp was also turned in.
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New York Dispatch Philo. Evening Ledger
Sixth Avenue
Claire and
Whales
Robert Decker
Bedford Street
Forty-second Street
East Forty-second Street
Nevermore by P. Jones in the New York Sun
A peace laden voyage is described with a white flag, doves, and poems read aboard. The piece contrasts love and hate, noting even doves on the steamer engage in conflict, ending with Poe’s Nevermore.
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P. Jones
New York Sun
White buttons for men across coats and suits
Philadelphia dispatch notes that men will soon wear white buttons on outer garments as logwood dyed vegetable ivory buttons face shortages. Emil Weicht of a large livery button maker cites color button shortages and embargo on logwood intensifying an already critical situation in the button industry.
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Philadelphia Dispatch
N. Y. Evening World
Emil Weicht
Patience Lovell Sculptor Born 190 Years Ago Today
A compact survey traces American sculpture from Puritan suspicion to early national pride. It highlights Patience Lovell born December 26 1725 in Bordentown NJ as the first American woman to shape sculptural expression, her London move, and descendants in U.S. art.
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Patience Lovell
Bordentown
Joseph Wright
London
Benjamin Weet
United States
Virginia
America
Houdon
George Washington
Lafayette
Franklin
New World
Giuseppe Cerrad¢éhi
Canova
Pantheon
Congress
Liberty
Washington
France
Odorous Onion in History and Trade
The onion, worshiped in ancient Egypt and used in Druidic Britain, traces its origin to southern Asia or the Mediterranean. In the United States the onion ranked third among truck crops, with 1908 production of 14 million bushels valued at about 10 million dollars. Garlic is noted as a different onion.
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Kansas City Star
Egypt
Britain
H. Batley
University of Kansas
Asia
Mediterranean
United States
Kipling
Pitchfork Injury at Farm Near Woodstown
Eugene Peterson, a prominent farmer and dairyman from Woodstown New Jersey, suffered severe injuries when his pitchfork was torn from his hands by a rapidly turning fly wheel of a fodder cutting machine. The fork struck his jaw breaking bones and one prong pierced his body. A farm hand carried him to the farmhouse where Dr Husted treated him before he was rushed to a Philadelphia hospital.
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Woodstown
N. J
Dispatch
Philadelphia
Eugene Peterson
Peterson
Husted
Original Uncle Tom Dead in Vermont Home at 82
Daniel Worcester known as the original Uncle Tom of the Uncle Tom's Cabin drama died at the Vermont Goldiers' Home aged 82. He was said to be the last survivor of the company that first produced the drama in Lowell Massachusetts in 1851. He served in the Civil War with the Twenty seventh Connecticut regiment.
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Bennington
Dispatch
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Daniel Worcester
Uncle Tom
Vermont Goldiers
Mr. Worcester
Lowell
Maas
Connecticut Regiment
World travelers discuss Roosevelt and 1920 politics at Willard
A Kansas Republican Progressive ally argues Col Roosevelt will not seek the presidency in 1920. He urges a GOP Progressive reunification with a loyal, reform minded ticket led by Hughes or Borah or Cummins if nominated. Southern Republicans see improving chances, while Democrats in the South show varied support for administration figures.
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Col. Roosevelt
Henry J. Alien
Kansas
Sunflower State
Willard
Allen
Cal
Roosevelt
Progressive Party
Republican Party
Republicana
Root
Weeke
Cummina
Borah
Hughes
Chicago
Justice Hughes
Minnesota
Cummins
Ncw
Indiana
Fairbanks
Col
South
Col. E . Duncan
North Carolina
Louisiana
Uncle Sam
Missouri Republicans back Weeks for White House nomination
Representative Y C Dyer of Missouri, commander of Spanish American War Veterans, at the Shoreham, says Missouri will vote for Senator John W Weeks at Chicago. Weeks will gain strong regional support and, with New England behind him, could be nominated on the second or third ballot. He is praised as a capable leader with business training ready to tackle postwar challenges. The sentiment parallels McKinley’s 1896 path to the White House.
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Y C Dyer
Missouri
Shoreham
John W Weeks
Chicago
Massachusetts
New England
Senator Weeks
William McKinley
White House
Scramble for a Good Job as Civilian on Army Board
Joseph McLennan of New York cites the scramble for the vacant civilian seat on the army board of ordnance and fortifications after Francis M Cockrell's death. The old post paid 5000 dollars annually and required little time, drawing many prominent Democrats and ex-officials as potential nominees from states like New York Alabama Louisiana.
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Joseph McLennan
New York
Raleigh
Board of Ordnance and Fortifications
Francis M. Cockrell
Missouri
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Cockrell
Gov Dix
Secretary of the Navy
Hilary A. Herbert
Alabama
Joseph L Thornton
Louisiana
Army “Board
Buried by Lantern Light in Pennsylvania Cemetery
West Chester reports the burial of Annia M. Scott of Phoenixville at Grove Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, West Whiteland, after a 10 mile, two day journey by lantern light. The funeral procession started in Kimerton, five miles from the start, halted by heavy snowdrifts and resumed next morning, finally reaching the cemetery on the second evening with roads mainly through fields.
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West Chester
Philadelphia Inquirer
Annia M. Scott
Phoenixville
Grove Methodist Episcopal Cemetery
West Whiteland
Kimberton
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