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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1908
Page
6
Washington Post highlights subscription terms and rates as circulation details. The piece discusses Senate control over treaty approval, arbitration provisions via The Hague, and calls for stronger foreign service funding and efficiency. It critiques protectionism, cites Secretary Root, and surveys broader international policy debates and domestic political tensions.
Editorial endorses Senator Longworths proposal to fund embassies and fixed houses abroad up to six million dollars. It argues permanent official residences will aid US diplomacy and prevent constant relocation of ambassadors, ministers, and consular offices worldwide.
The steward of a select hotel resigned last week and took a place in another hotel. He found the women banquets and luncheons intolerable, noting the burden of entertaining women diners. He praised the proprietor and salary but disliked the demand for lavish, costly meals while customers objected to higher prices. Three seasons of continual floundering in the hot water of those functions finally drove him away.
Fragmented text recounts admiration for a horse braider named James, praised for horse tails and hair styling. It references a bride and reflections of a bachelor, with scattered lines about fashion and parental views, all drawn from a New York Press item.
A dense lettered rant debunks claims of Servian princes in Brooklyn, Jersey City, and Hoboken. It names Stephan Dusanjich and other impostors, explains royal status under the Karageorgevic line, and notes Serbian laws ban titles. The piece also cites actors and nobles succumbing to delusions of grandeur as cautionary examples.
Dr Dixwell and Dr Diawell pressure a Massachusetts legislature to require ten medical tests before burial to prevent being buried alive. They cite cases of people pronounced dead who nearly woke during preparation, urging action despite disputed methods and the ethical issues in prolonging false death.
A Chicago editor reflects on true worth not wealth or power. The second item describes Lucy Mackey of Washington Street who after twenty years of paralysis regains use of her right arm and leg, crediting persistent prayer and a sudden healing felt as a wave of strength.
Burkens reported intruders raid his feed boxes last night and ate snake eggs he found nine eggs packed for Philadelphia Zoological Garden. He had prepared a supper for the intruders offering food for their stock and a meal for themselves.
A mysterious stranger with a menacing glare lingered beside a shoemaker in a department store. He watched the craftsman load tack after tack into a shoe sole while the store detective grew suspicious. The man claimed he was waiting to see what would happen if the shoemaker sneezed with a mouth full of tacks.
A brief scan notes Ohio’s electoral history with Cleveland securing an electoral vote, a later Democratic governor win by a large margin, and a current Republican split influenced by the Foraker Taft faction. Taft’s delegates prevail while Foraker maintains clout, signaling anxious GOP expectations for November and moves to push Foraker from politics.
A fragmented Chicago text comments on the hard duties of a model citizen and the effect of flattery. It notes mistrust amid domestic life and reflects on the value of a wife in marriage, suggesting alimony and the dynamics of a husband wife relationship.
A Boston Transcript Washington Correspondence reviews Ohio as a pivotal maker and mother of presidents in Republican conventions from 1860 to 1908. It notes Ohio’s pivotal votes for Lincoln, Grant, Garfield, Blaine, McKinley, Roosevelt, and Taft, and recounts how Buckeye delegates shaped outcomes across multiple ballots and ballots’ shifts. The piece highlights the state’s loyalty to favored sons and the impact on nominations while mentioning Ambassador Jusserand’s Grand Rapids reception and a French campaign anecdote.
A fragmented 19th century style narrative intertwines a mock valentine tale about envelopes and stamps with comic misfortune and a surreal celestial scene. It then shifts to stray naturalist notes on bird lifespans and aging, followed by a grim curiosity about a Georgia figure Hargis and violent deaths surrounding kin.
The article outlines W Conrad of Great Falls and William Jennings Bryan as contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination in Montana. It notes Conrad’s local support, potential party backing, and the broader national contest shaping in-state politics amid Bryan’s appeal and future prospects.
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