The Washington Post 1906 Legal Notices and Topics
The article outlines pricing and delivery terms for The Washington Post to readers in Washington and Alexandria, lists office locations, and notes managers in multiple cities. It then reviews public affairs topics including a critique of the Crowe trial verdict, concerns over the gypsy moth outbreak, and debates over the Isle of Pines transfer with references to congressional and federal actions and historical statesmanship.
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Advance of Medical Science and Tariff Reflections
The essay notes slow human progress from disease and poverty to better health, highlighting preventive medicine and mental therapy as promising. It cites Behring on tuberculosis, open air treatment for smallpox and pneumonia in New York, and German cancer observations. It also discusses tariff impacts on daily life, arguing taxation touches every living moment from birth to burial and shapes costs of food, fuel, and goods.
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Lingland
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Presbyterian Aospital
Germany
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New Mexico
Argentina
Isle of Pines treaty and consular reform debate
The article analyzes a 1904 treaty negotiated to adjust title to the Isle of Pines, noting a 1903 lease granting Guan tanamo and Bahia Honda for 2000 gold annually. It questions legality and hints at political manipulation, then shifts to a critique of the Lodge plan for five consular inspectors and Secretary Root’s effort, concluding with a defense of the Boston Advertiser as the administration’s organ and predicting tariff action by year’s end. It cites figures like Gen Leonard Wood, Senator Morgan, and President Roosevelt.
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Isle of Pines
Spain
United States
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Leonard Wood
Paris
Porto Rico
West Indies
Cuba
Wood
Meiklejohn
General Land Office
American Territory
Congress
McKinley
Interior Department
War Department
Wooden
Platt
Connecticut
Root
Gen. Wood
Isle of Pinés
Island of Cuba
Guantanamo
Bahia Honda
Lauiers
Jose M. Garcia Montes
Morgan
Isle of Pine
Boston Advertiser
Roosevelt
Cannon
Victor Huge
Joe
G O. P
Evie
Oracle
Washington
Congréss
Tariff pledge and political maneuvering in 1908 era
A collage of political chatter notes tariff revision aims before summer, possible extra session, and assertions about President and Ways and Means. It spans reactions from Rockefeller to Morgan, a skeptical press view, and scattered comments on railroads, debt, and municipal ownership.
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Ways and Means Committee
The Play in Paris
An old theater note from Paris hints at a new play drawing crowds within a fortnight. It notes that fashionable audiences avoid attending once a play has run beyond that period.
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Paris
Reflections of a Bachelor from a New York Press
Abridged humorous reflection argues that money and willpower are unreliable around household routines. It notes a cashier’s trick to spend and retrieve funds, mocks notions of a woman’s figure as a compliment, and pokes fun at self‑discipline learned in sleep. It also wryly questions a teacher praising children.
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New York
Quaint Scenes in Parliament Opens Mourning Year
King Edward opens Parliament amid mourning for King Christian with a speech shaping the new Campbell-Bannerman administration. The Order of Merit will add fourteen members, including Balfour, while Parliament begins with ceremonial robes, oaths, and heraldic pageantry.
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Christian
Henry Camphbell-Bannerman
Privy Council
Arthur Balfour
Lord Roberts
Lord Wolseley
Lord Kitchener
Edward Seymour
John Fisher
George Meredith
John Morley
India
William Holman Hunt
Alma Tadema
Lord Rayleigh
Order
House of Lords
High Court of Justice
England
Denmark
Domestic training for Girard boys draws curious debate
Philadelphia column relays a board of city trusts plan to teach Girard College graduates domestic skills. The revived program would start with sock darning and sewing, then move to making beds and sweeping. The piece also notes a colorful uptown janitor and local vignettes including a rhyme from a departing Mary and the long service of Gabe Beckley at Chestnut Street Theater.
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City Trusts
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Gabe Beckley
Chestnut Street
Edwin Forrest
Charlotte Cushman
John Drew
I. S. Bowers
Edwin Booth
John McCulough
Lawrence Barrett
Beckley
Wall Street for Sleep as Millionaires Flee New York
The New York World notes bankers and plutocrats are abandoning Wall Street with many heading abroad or to warmer locales. Names like Schiff Budge Heidelbach Neustadt Vanderbilt Morgan Rockerfeller Stedman Croker Gould and Payne appear amid chatter of a sleepy market and a city seen as a place of insomnia for the rich.
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George Washington
Russell Sage
Duma Ma
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Jacob H. Schiff
Henry Budge
Hallgarth & Co
Alfred Heidelbach
William K. Vanderbilt
J. Pierpont Morgan
Europe
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Trinity Church
J. J. Hill
Aiken
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Liv
George Crocker
California
Thomas P. Fowler
Messenger Boys
Stock Exchange Board
John D. Rockefeller
William
Jay Stedoon
D. O. Mils
Clork
John W. Gates
So, Springs
Ark
Morris K. Jesup
George Croker
Edwin Gould
Howard Gould
H. Meek. Twombly
Oliver H. Payne
Wanington & Conner
M. E., Ingalls
Edward ‘Wasserman
Financial District
Doubts of immortality in religious scholarship
Chicago University professor George Furman Foster argues in Biblical World that miracles are unproven and conscious immortality unlikely. He says faith in an afterlife has faded amid scientific inquiry, and moral laws should rest on human welfare regardless of life after death. He questions personal continuity if consciousness shifts after death.
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Jerome
Lfe
Cannon
Philadelphia
Committee On Appropriations
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Chicago
New York World
George Furman Foster
Chicago University Divinity School
Biblical World
Peter
Paul
Country News Snippets and Personal Notices
A collage of small town items ranges from Undertaker Foster in Caliente accusing low coffin sales to editorial pushes for openly naming “the strings” behind a newspaper. Other notes include residents moving to Appomattox and Bowdoin College students visiting Bath and Remington with light social humor.
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Kennebec Journal
Marcis Blaney
Bath
Jasper Stahl
Bowdoin College
G. Reed
Dudley Harvey
Ending of romance and a Paris divorce case
A Chicago Tribune page blends verse on love and longing with legal notices. It cites Countess de Castellane’s 1906 divorce filing in Paris, noting separation, property division, and potential custody, with final decree unlikely before 1907. It also mentions a New York Herald piece on keeping servants and a failed Chicago bank loan.
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New York
Lrance
Countess de Castellane
Paria Court of First Instance
Count Bont
Bristol
Paris
New York Herald
Chicago Bank
Tula
Public Printer and Worm of Public Offices Debate Brews
In hotel lobbies officials and editors discuss the Kansas figure Eugene Ware ex‑Commissioner of Pensions and his ouster, the Public Printer’s orders and potential conflicts with Congress. They note Stillings creates offices with high pay, and debate Heyburn bill’s impact on state rights and consumer choice. Consul General Gaffney’s Dresden posting is touched on amid broader policy chatter. Ohio figures prominence in the upcoming Congress as Rev. Washington Gladden and Judge Bigger weigh in on divisive issues.
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Arlington
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Stilins
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War Department
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Stillings
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American Food Journal
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Judge Bigger
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John A. Rorsefeller
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