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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1909
Page
38
The piece argues that while naval circumnavigation showed U S naval strength and progress, it laments the retirement of senior officers who shaped the voyage. It contends delaying their retirement would preserve expertise and readiness for national emergencies, criticizing the system as wasteful.
Drafts and orders to THE WASHINGTON POST CO detail arrangements for an inaugural ball in Washington DC. Paul Block, vice president of the Flatiron Building, reports funds for decor, comfort, and attendance, with emphasis on a national, democratic and prestigious event drawing guests from abroad and across the Union.
Contained within are reflections on prudence in foreign relations, the dangers of passion in government action, and Washingtons guidance on calm, faithfulness to engagements, plus notes on private claims, Japan Latin America emigration, and political currents shaping U S policy in the era. It references Congress delays, debt payments, and global trade shifts involving Japan Brazil Mexico Chile and Argentina.
The article discusses farm productivity and fertility improvements in agriculture, contrasting domestic gains with foreign competition. It notes urban drift of migrants to industrial centers, growing production and consumption, and the impact of foreign-born workers on labor dynamics.
The article recalls a Supreme Court decision reflecting on U S possession of the Philippines and native land claims. It notes that justice and fairness to locals should guide government action rather than private exploitation, stressing the need for trust in courts and integrity of the American government.
The Huston Herald reports, citing Stanford and Washington officials, that college women’s fashion and conduct worry administrators. Rules urged modest dress, late evening restrictions, and discouraged social strolling, with dorm hair styles and strict curfews noted. The Wisconsin Cardinal also mocks some coed names.
Mrs Lydia Commander argues in New York that society suffers from a savage masculine spirit and that giving women a voice would restore balance. She cites deadly skyscraper girders and dangerous trains, saying men fund battleships yet neglect life safety, while women naturally seek preservation of life.
The Rev Dr Cyrus Townsend Brad reeled against the unwritten law during a Sons of the Revolution dinner in Kansas City. He named Delphin M Delmas, Barry Thaw’s counsel, as the $100,000 sophist behind insults to God and humanity. Delmas rejected the term dementia Americana and faced sharp public denunciation over degenerate aristocracy.
A Kansas bill proposes a five cent bounty on jack rabbit scalps to aid farmers in western Kansas where rabbits plague crops. Canners may gain from cheaper meat as hunters sell to processing plants, boosting local industry amid high material costs.
A fragment references Atchison Globe tales of a generous local man strolling with a girl past a candy store. The girl’s line about smelling candy leads the man to propose stopping to enjoy it. The excerpt shifts to a Judge piece critiquing suffragette governance and naval reform.
A draft constitution for United South Africa, devised at Durban, is approved by supporters at home and abroad. The plan relocates headquarters to Cape Town with Blomfontein housing supreme courts and Pretoria the governor general’s residence. Parliament schedules proceed through March and June before London approval. Winston Churchill may be named governor general, earning about fifty thousand dollars yearly, and a broader reform aims to cut costly governorates and save funds across colonies.
A New Jersey undertaker runs a sensational full page ad swathing Jersey City in a price war over funeral costs. It boasts level service, refunds if not satisfied, and attacks rival undertakers for graft while appealing to affordability for the dying and sympathy for the laboring class.
A group of boys at St Marys Cemetery in Wappingers Falls staged a funeral game. Johnnie Horton, five, and Joe Gillen, aged about ten, were buried alive when a sack and earth covered them. Horton's father halted the mock burial and revived the children with medical help, narrowly avoiding tragedy.
Newburyport high school faces crisis as a junior girl is expelled amid allegations of misconduct by students. An earlier dissipation incident at Dummer Academy also sparked discipline. A reception for new teacher Miss Helene Robinson followed by claims of whisky and cigarette use are cited in the investigation.
A lengthy critique of the Court of Claims and congressional inaction, detailing how creditors win court judgments yet struggle to collect money. It laments government indifference, describes the probate of debts, and contrasts the delay with imagined prompt payments, reflecting on reforms and the political calculus of repayment. It also contains a verse on women’s suffrage and civic reform presented in a sharp, polemical tone.
A collage of quips and witticisms from Chicago and Toledo newspapers on yawns, sleep, work, and marriage. Diminutive jokes probe laziness, appetite, and social norms with brisk punchlines and playful misdirection. Named papers include Chicago News and Toledo Bride.
Canon City lawyer Clyde C Dawson argues against salary restraint for national leaders and stresses that adequate pay attracts capable officials. He predicts a Republican tide in Colorado and notes westward urban growth as a trend. The Raleigh witnesses discuss business revival, steel prices, and planning in Europe and the United States.
Springfield Report notes Americans abroad may be taxed under a proposed measure in the French chamber of deputies. If enacted, resident aliens would be taxed on seven times the rental value of their residences, with potential gradual adoption by other European countries seeking revenue from small incomes.
In a playful Chicago exchange a Massachusetts maid declares she is dreaming of Berkshire Hills and her native town. A youth questions her father’s pork-raising business as he puzzledly replies and the dialogue veers into humorous mishearing of place names and origins.
A fragmented quip filled scene shows a tense exchange as a man awakens his wife and a voice from a window questions sobriety. The woman demands a strange response saying reciprocity.
The Sese Islanders in Uganda are noted for a peculiar secret group called Bachichi not a burial society yet its members follow deaths and burials closely. In remote villages they carry the body on a rough bier to a secluded spot and abandon it rather than bury or cremate it, while distant relatives avoid formal rites and simply feed on the deceased.
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