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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1909
Page
18
The page includes subscription terms for Washington Post fare and a feature on a public debate about Darwin's theories. It contrasts American and British views, notes newspaper offices in Washington, and highlights a discussion on science versus religion, emphasizing intellectual progress and critique of opposition.
A long, opinionated survey discusses science and religion cooperation, dairy improvements for Southern farms, and a critique of railroad valuation for rate setting. It cites Darwin era terms now common, urges better cattle breeding and self-sufficient feed, and questions equitable rates when railroads differ in capitalization and terminals. It also reviews Shakespeare authorship debates and humorous pig rights rulings, finishing with Illinois politics and Senate deadlock rumors.
In Herald Square a petite 17 year old woman with a slender silver chain faced a young dog refusing to move. A crowd gathered as a policeman paused traffic and whispered to the dog, which then rose and walked away with its mistress, without details of the exchange.
Dr Charles W Eliot president of Harvard University spoke to Hamline University students on liberal education outlining four phases: knowledge of events, expression, knowledge store, and imagination. He noted the rich use of wealth as a privilege often neglected and discussed heredity and the transmission of traits relevant to public life.
Provincetown voters at the January town meeting refused funds for police maintenance. The selectmen discharged the entire police department after cutting the appropriation from 2500 to 1600 dollars. By now only 180 dollars of the 1600 had been spent and the head of the department received formal notice that the organization had been dissolved.
A Department of Agriculture discussion outlines why Southern dairy farms stagnate despite favorable pastures and markets. It pins blame on farmer inertia and suggests dairy farming could boost soil productivity and regional wealth, citing Taft’s rhetoric and diverse political notes from Oxford to Toledo.
Peterboro Ontario dispatch reports Ottawa speaker John 8. Ewart argues Canadians should support the Monroe Doctrine as a bulwark against European encroachment. He warns Canada cannot pledge blind obedience and should maintain political independence in peace and war decisions.
Antoine de Noailles, Duc de Mouchy, is described as grandson of Anna Murat and connected to American families through his mother and grandmother. The article recounts his marriage to Anna Murat, the empress Eugenie’s confidante, and outlines the family’s scandal, exile, and political rise, linking the Mouchy line with Bonapartism and finances tied to the empress.
A warrant issued for Louis Scaffini of Bayonne after his cousin accused him of feeding a horse apples containing hair pins needles and common pins. The horse’s throat was swollen and a veterinarian removed several needles from the animal’s throat and stomach, with more believed to remain.
John K Findley a Pennsy machinist surprised his aging parents by sending graphophone records from near Glasgow Scotland. He spoke greetings sang songs and delivered congratulations to their 60th wedding anniversary. The mother cried out that the voice was her son Johnny on hearing the first line. The rest of the text includes scattered historical and unrelated notes.
San Francisco Bulteun lauds Truxtun Beale for public service in Bakersfield. Beale funded and built city clock tower library Greek theater and public park, maintained a summer school, and brought UC and Stanford professors for lectures. Career includes Persia and Greece diplomacy and writings on political economy.
County Treasurer John R. Thompson drove a moving van with deputies and a lawyer to collect delinquent personal taxes. Stops included Adams Manufacturing, where a payment was secured, and other sites where owners paid to avoid seizure of machinery. The effort aimed to recover about 8 million dollars in back taxes, with additional vans to come.
In the desert town of Arizona, a traveler and a resident discuss a humorous obituary. The Weekly Cactus Spine editor is buried after a printer misreads a note about a tow-headed baby, claiming a two headed child arrived at Cal’s home. Cal held a funeral for the “two headed baby” the day before yesterday.
Dr George W Crile of Western Reserve University outlined a rapid resuscitation technique to revive apparently dead patients. The process uses prone chest compression, cannulation, saline or Ringer solution, and injected adrenaline timed with chest pressure to restart heart activity, with prompt readiness of instruments and fluids within two minutes of respiration or heartbeat cessation.
Daily Consular Revols reports a Belgium cancer association formed with Burgomasters of Ghent Antwerp and Ostend on its managing committee. Baron Cingal Senator Delanne and other professionals aim to spread knowledge of cancer and promote hospitals dispensaries and patient care facilities amid thousands of annual deaths and undiagnosed cases. Prof Laurent notes up to three thousand cancer patients in Belgium's four largest cities.
A fragmentary set of quips on human folly and social habits notes that absent-mindedness leads to trouble, drunken escapades may drive escape from tight spots, people minding others’ affairs stay busy, some men lack excuses for misused canes, the self-made man creates noise, a phonograph is referenced, women’s disagreeableness yields strength, and most seek justice by passing it to those in need.
A satirical piece on marriage and social rituals notes a husband’s reluctance to attend afternoon tea and the entanglements of romance. It critiques men meddling in others’ affairs while humorously contrasting spending on pleasures with household duties and late-night routines.
Isham Randolph, Chicago engineer, returns from Panama and backs President-elect Taft to complete the Panama Canal project. He cites Taft’s knowledge of the work and says peers recognize his grasp of engineering issues and necessary decisions.
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