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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1905
Page
6
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The Washington Post notes Texas as an empire in size and resources, warns against dividing the state, and cites its growth in cotton, cattle, sugar, and minerals. It discusses Platt amendment ideas, national divorce statistics, and liberal education sparked by Cornell’s Schurman, with broader comments on crime, weapon laws, and national policy.
The article notes many officials and foreigners planning swift returns home as the far eastern war seems near ending. It highlights Cecil Spring-Rice and Walter Townley at Washington, royal family moves, Servia's political shakeups, and the Prince of Wales preparing David and Albert for Osborne Naval College with a plan for their futures.
Editor Whitelaw Reid and Postmaster General Robert J. Wynne near Senate confirmations for ambassador and consul general posts. Speaker Cannon's adjournment sparked laughter as Littlefield Mann and Bede quarreled over a treaty remark. Senator Spooner and Perkins debated a paymaster clerk’s age waiver while Charleston representative Legare relayed his polar trip with humorous praise for Republicanism.
A collage of quotations from the Atlanta Constitution Louisville Courier-Journal Detroit News and others lampooning politicians and issues. Senators doctors and presidents are framed amid satire on brains statesmanship and power struggles with sharp lines about Roosevelt Cannon and Masterson and court roles.
Opinion on how the New York legislature and rural GOP power shape city life. Cites Poland, cites the Sunday beer ban and the Raines law as examples of state control over local affairs, mocks the system, and notes press scrutiny in the metropolis. References Odell and Raines as key figures in the law.
A quirky column lampoons social mores noting that too many bills spoil income and a woman's path to marriage changes after gaining knowledge. It playfully contrasts fears of pneumonia with thick stockings and hints at secrets told on postal cards to ensure privacy between lovers.
The New York Evening Post notes a surge in global gold production, rising from about $200 million eight years ago to a record $328.5 million in 19, with expectations for further gains. It examines who benefits, highlighting the United States adding $53 million to gold reserves, European banks expanding reserves, and Russia and France increasing holdings despite limited domestic production.
A New York lawyer credits auto-suggestion with curing years of dyspepsia and other ailments by thinking himself well and mocking pain. Dr H H Seeleye promotes psychotherapy as cure but the piece notes mixed outcomes, citing rapid relief in some cases and reliance on patient self-delusion.
A columnist notes that Congress, like simple animals, signals feelings only by adjourning or odd gestures. It cites sorrow, joy, and humor as occasions for recess, jokes about a Russian incident, and a digression from a Chicago child recounting astral projection before asking for the tale to be told again.
A satirical exchange from Chicago Journal and Philadelphia Press mocks a deaf and mute woman playing whist and a Sunday school quiz about a pyramid with a humorous definition linking it to pool ball arrangement.
A collection of satirical and moral maxims reflecting on humility honesty and social behavior. The pieces compare savage and civilized ways of living and critique hypocrisy vanity and propriety with aphoristic quips about men women and money.
The Arlington hotel crowd hears R E Brounger, once a railway engineer in the Orange Free State, recount his war era capture and Costa Rican rail leadership amid hopes for mineral wealth and a rising Central American future. Also notes W Pollock, M H Trent, Judge Rumney, and Oklahoma New Mexico statehood talks echoing in Washington.
From the Chicago Record-Herald the call for U S leadership in international arbitration contrasts with a Senate seen as slow to act. The piece frames the stance as a duty to set a global example, positioning the nation against lagging peers and invoking a steady course toward peaceful settlement.
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