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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1911
Page
10
The passage lists subscription options for The Washington Post with various frequencies and prices, including daily and Sunday editions, rates by month or year, and payment methods. It notes mailing details, foreign representation, and mail handling terms, all in a period-appropriate broadcast style.
A reflective New Year meditation cites Benjamin Butler and notes progress toward justice and reform. It honors aviators Molsant and Hoxsey and lists notable deaths, urging looking forward, aiding others, and resolutions aligned with virtue. January, named for Janus, symbolizes memory and hope.
Uncertain reports from Honduras warn of potential outside attacks on President Davila while the United States seeks to block Bonilla Christmas filibuster efforts from New Orleans. Naval and troop movements are unconfirmed, with no solid evidence of a large filibuster force or Hornet’s appearance in Honduran waters.
The column laments aviation deaths Hoxsey Morsant Laffon Paula and a French lieutenant while critiquing sport aviation’s safety and urging reforms. It ties aviation risks to broader economic strains in cotton, wheat, and industry, noting uneven regional prosperity and the need for safer air travel amid a wary public.
The cruiser Detroit once valued at 700000 and famed for its service in the Spanish American War is sold by Secretary Meyer to be stripped of guns and equipment for use as a coal barge at Boston navy yard. The hulk, once swift and storied, is transferred as navy disposal policy dictates.
Merchants report 1910 holiday trade the largest in Washington history and expect 1911 to bring higher business. The Post celebrates a bustling season with elaborate displays and new growth. Prof Willcox’s baby prophecy alarmed readers, while a Nebraskan professor floated a stork fund for motherhood. Diamonds and steel show divergent trends in trade fortunes.
Mrs Ellen H Richards of the Boston Institute of Technology argues for a home economy built on a business partnership model. She urges treating the home as a firm with the wife as vice president and manager, provided women learn the value of money and invest widely. The piece cites wage earners and family accounts as keys to reducing domestic tensions.
A detailed account of Scottish representative peers, notably Lord Fairfax who naturalized as British to claim Scotch peerage prerogatives and allegedly cast a solitary vote at Holyrood for Westminster representation. It covers elections, the Torphichen and Leven Melville lineages, and biographical notes on peers and their U.S. connections.
Miss Geraldine Farrar defends ragtime as a valid musical expression if good, arguing public taste for quality music is rising. She challenges Harvard President Lowell on emotion in the current era, praises modern operas at the Met, and notes American composers will gain recognition when deserved.
A thousand one year old fingerlings of the black bass were shipped from Northville Michigan to Sao Paulo Brazil to stock a lake. The voyage on the Verdic Tobar lasted 23 days with only 126 losses about 17 percent. The trip cost 800 dollars and featured constant monitoring of water temperature and oxygen levels aboard ten gallon milk cans.
Newark Evening News reports Prof Svante Arrhenius proposes a canal theory for Mars, arguing dark markings are deep fissures filled with salty water that freezes, sublimates, and forms seasonal salts. Water concentrates at junctions creating lake-like or vase features, while canals fade in winter due to dryness and freezing. Critics note theory ignores canal visibility year round.
Consul William F. Doty reports from Tebiz that Persian antiques remain scarce but available, including pottery tiles armor daggers swords axes and manuscripts centuries old. Some illuminated Qurans on fine deerskin with gold leaf are described as very beautiful and Seneca coins from Nero’s era occasionally surface as genuine.
A Battle Valley woodsman named Charles Skinner finds a two and a half foot red adder freezing in snow. He covers the snake with his coat and brings it to town, placing it in a glass jar until summer boarders may view it. The tale is backed by local officials in a colorful New York American report.
A child narrator in Leulie a pleads with Jesus God for help amid tenement poverty. He recalls the mission man saying Jesus grew to help kids, near abuse and famine, and asks for kindness, guidance, and restraint from cursing or fighting, hoping to be good and loved like rich kids.
A dramatic London Academy piece extols a fighter’s love as banners rise and bugles sound. The speaker swears to conquer distance for a queen’s heart, invoking stars, fortresses, and thunder in a fervent siege of romantic devotion.
In the Senate four years ago Senator Crane warned Piles a new member not to let Fiint speak on the Hepburn rate bill. Piles tried to shield Fiint by keeping him from delivering his planned speech. Piles pledged to keep Fiint silent and Fiint held back his remarks.
A column of witty maxims and aphorisms on life, women, work, and society. It mocks pretension and offers quips about happiness, money, and family burdens, noting how attitudes shift with circumstance and responsibility.
Judge Edwin M Shepard of Brooklyn attended a Washington dinner for Chief Justice White and headed to Albany for the New York assembly opening. Judge Burke of Seattle praised Taft's growing popularity, citing his record and steady leadership. Oklahoma City wins as capital after political maneuvering and legal battles, with Gov Cruce supported and public funds planned for a capitol building.
In Peternon New Jersey Judge Scott faces a bright Irish applicant. When asked who rules Ireland the youth says Ireland has no king. The judge replies with England’s king and the man answers he is no king of mine, yet the applicant is admitted. The excerpt ends with a quip about the old story of debts.
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