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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1905
Page
13
A column mix of social notes and humorous vignettes. Readers share decor dislikes and gift woes, a colorblind elderly man’s Christmas misadventure with a taxi lift, tales of etiquette around drinks and a ghost story about a Jackson Democrat who defeats a haunting with a whip.
A returning American notes how a Venetian shopkeeper offered to ship an ebony slave-carved table for payment on arrival home. The seller boasted that Americans never lose a penny, citing Washingtonians who buy there. The tale ends with the observer not purchasing but impressed by American honesty abroad.
A toy money jug longs for fullness and marriage to a china doll as children arrive on Christmas Eve. The rag mother schemes and the jug boasts of being full. The children crash the jug and pennies spill, ending the tale with the rag mother’s grim verdict.
Special Correspondence from London reports Joseph Conrad’s car accident near Rochester. A laborer named George Field received $100 damages paid by Conrad after suing the chauffeur. The piece also covers Kipling wintering in South Africa, Morley’s magazine plans, Pall Mall price cuts, Wells and Hardy works, and a Saint Petersburg manuscript Koran reproduction.
Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis manuscript, written in Reading Gaol, passes to G P Putnam's Sons for American rights. The study reframes Wilde as both author and man, portraying Christ as a Spirit of the Romantic and a confession shaped by confinement, suffering, and eventual belief in a loving God.
The Century notes rapid London redevelopment with grand river bridges and rising hotels and offices, while municipal water rights and port improvements loom. Major projects include widening the river channel, new docks, and towers like Blackwall, Rotherhithe rail and the Tower Bridge. The piece contrasts London's growth with the Thames’s dwindling supply and government changes under the county council.
A fragment on art and sorrow argues that sorrow is the supreme emotion revealing art and truth. It traces Wilde and Christ as sources of artistic insight, noting Christ's unity of humanity and perfection, and ends with a self interrogation about truth and the soul.
Washington Heights local board of improvement advances measure to obtain Hamilton estate for a park. City plans designate Hamilton Grange Park with the house as a museum center, seeking about 150000 dollars. Original Hamilton elm trees remain, amid strong support from local societies and the Alexander Hamilton Post.
London Graphic reports elephants near Gondokoro delay Cape to Cairo railway construction. Logistical hurdles include falling trees and fever zones causing line pauses. Egyptian section about 700 miles from Gondakoro, with two years expected to reach that point. Route may change to bypass fever districts. iron standards replace wooden posts in Uganda region.
The Savannah Press denounces the Athens Benner for wasting American Beauty roses on Ben Tillman and Joe Canr, calling the choice imprudent and ill advised amid public spectacle and local press critique.
Sedalia Missouri recounts a fisherman sighting of a phosphorescent sea serpent about ten feet long in the Muddy River. Hunters later encountered the creature in lantern light, observed green glassy eyes and horned scales, and fled after the luminous trail faded. No one has captured it.
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