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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1909
Page
20
The piece argues against reformers pushing social and tariff changes. It urges returning to sober policy, warns tariff reform will unsettle revenue and commerce, and calls ordinary citizens to curb reformers while defending traditional lawmaking and decency. It also laments sensationalism and scandal culture in New York.
Fragmented OCR passage discusses "smoked chine" meals, regional foods, and a lengthy digression on Southern states after the war. It references Kentucky, Virginia, Oregon, and New Orleans, with asides about naval theory, economic restructuring, and the South's shift from slavery wealth to natural resource reliance. The text is garbled and spans multiple topics.
Justice William J. Gaynor told a New Rochelle Forum audience that courts should be watched and criticized not abused. He argued the mayor must actively oversee departments to ensure honest work and avoid despotism under the city charter.
In a Sunday sermon at Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, Rev. Dr. C. F. Aked lauded Darwin as nature's high priest and an emancipator of the human mind, joining him with Lincoln, Gladstone, Tennyson and Poe as figures born in the same era. He urged honoring heroism and warned against undervaluing true greatness, arguing that society should esteem those who elevate the soul.
The Indiana will test a new sea brake to reduce collision risk. Wings extend along the hull and hinge to block water flow, enabling near instant slows. Pneumatic control from the firing bridge will operate the mechanism during a Delaware Bay test with Navy officials present.
Excerpt from the New York Times notes wireless telegraphy as a fact and foresees telepathy approaching as a divine guided advance. A Sunday night sermon at Metropolitan Temple predicts rapid thought transfer will outpace wireless speed and usher in an era of intellectual human supremacy.
A Texas lawmaker, newly elected, asked an Austin hotel for session rates for himself and wife. The hotel quoted 195 a month. He replied that with a 150 salary he could not pay that rate. The reply came back, "It can be done," written without signature on the bottom. Also a note on Africa jokes from period magazines.
A Chicago Evening Post piece mocks New Orleans threats to feed President Taft or prepare him as alligator steaks. The satirical item questions if Taft could become an experiment station for edible uses.
The article contrasts the Earl of Morley Parker with Lord Morley of Blackpool, noting Parker's Devonshire lineage and family ties. It recounts Parker’s guard, naval and colonial connections, and how a London financier named James Roe claimed Morley titles, challenging official recognition. It highlights generals and peers, including Sir Hyde Parker and Gen. Sir Thomas Kelly-Kenny, linking their roles to British military history.
Mayor George A. Hibbard claims Boston cut expenses by about a million in the first year of his administration, crediting job terminations and contract practices. The report cites the city auditor and contrasts with prior-year figures as the Chicago News wires desk notes.
An 1860s New York American notice by T O Loughlin 73 Carroll Street Brooklyn draws 300 applicants for servitude offering anonymous bids. Buyers from Ohio Texas and the West request profitable man servants while 200 applicants seek sale of workers. some women among them.
Joseph S. Wilson of Newton New Jersey proudly asserts his integrity after catching ten black bass that were frozen into a large ice cake. He thawed them and chose to release each fish rather than keep them, insisting a true fisherman would not profit from nature's mishap.
Billy the goat at James Mendel's garage in Livingston gnawed tires and stirred trouble. A chauffeur splashed gasoline on Billy, igniting a blaze when the goat charged a brass wheel hub and the coat burned. Alfred Schwartz and onlookers quenched the flames with snowballs after ten minutes of chaos.
An amused Denver Republican poem recounts an airship pirate tale with a parodic narrator aboard a six-winged ship above Pike's Peak. He loots six million taels, escapes a Flatiron building collision, and wanders the skies seeking the cloud with his treasure while warning readers about anchoring gold to clouds.
A humorous verse notes growing old with gray hair and thinning presence. The speaker describes a decrepit walk, fondness for a pipe, reluctance to walk far, reading the paper twice, giving advice, and nightly drinks. He admits not being young or sporty and hints that the reader is also forty.
Boston dispatch reports Mrs A G Brown leads a new group calling themselves the Crusaders under a plan to house a church and industrial work for women and young girls. A physician, Dr Herman G Nierman, underwent surgery blamed on hernia and peritoneitis after asserting medical theory from Washington congress.
New York born cont hologist and Bertilon expert W F Blosgom says Boston shows an extraordinary number of cases of delirium grandiocum or swelled head. He notes in his crime tracing observations that incendiaries or firebugs tend to be light built with long legs and are often boys or old men.
A quip about an inventor of a design for a tip-over airship and a cat’s instinct to land right side up is noted as a playful comparison, suggesting borrowed inspiration from nature and a wink at clever aviation ideas.
In Guthrie, Oklahoma, Republicans claim impending party dominance as state prosperity rises with GOP control while Democrats lose ground. National pilots' president J Howard O'Brien notes safety value of pilots amid pending legislation. Texas growth cited by Mangold includes 900 miles of rail and farming expansion, with newcomers shaping a booming middle state and strong booster efforts across business circles. News from Raleigh and New Willard highlights postal, political, and civic developments with assorted figures from New York and Florida weighing in on infrastructure and governance.
Tom the horse, belonging to Samuel Goodman a Bayonne Republican leader, has been pensioned after twelve years of faithful service. Sent to North Branch for retirement, the animal knew Bayonne freight stations and would fetch wagons on cue by name of the station.
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