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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1907
Page
20
A pasted page shows subscription terms for The Washington Post and notices from 1907, followed by lengthy remarks on Mr. Stuyvesant Fish, Wall Street confidence, and editorials on Hughes as New York governor. The columnists critique clerks, discuss politics, foreign affairs, and race matters with period tone and mixed wit.
A Bronx man John Koenig reports two tiger cats, Tom and Jennie, behaving oddly as the new year begins. The pets ate mice and brandy soaked fruit cake, causing Katzenjammer after a night of mischief.
The piece critiques the New York Mall's claim of a global rise in one-man rule and a democratic decline. It argues that while virility of rulers grows, democratic spirit weakens, with examples from Germany France Russia Great Britain and the United States. It notes Kaiser Wilhelm’s limited protests, Clemenceau’s France, and Russia under the weak czar as evidence of a temporary strongman trend.
From the New York World, Roosevelt denounces race suicides as health gains bloom in 1906 New York City. Marriages reach 48,355, births 1,772, with Manhattan accounting for three-fourths of marriages. Daily births average, marriages 142, deaths 209, total deaths 76,208, up 2,492. Health commissioner Dr. Darlington credits prosperity and Roosevelt for the boom in births and marriages, while cancer and heart diseases show rise and typhoid declines.
A fragmentary collage mocks a Pure Food Bill and Bill Batley with humorous dialect verses and notes from writers like Wallace Irwin and Bernard Shaw. It mashes in political cartooning on food safety, liquor, and public appetite, then shifts to sociopolitical quips about Gorky and New York satire.
Chicago Evening Post reports on attorney Frank D. Comerford outlining a series of lectures for police officers on how to conduct arrests and handle prisoners with civility. He stresses law basics, translation of court terms, and maintaining dignity in the sweat box while preparing officers to act with judgment and avoid brutality.
The New York American reports an inaugural national movement to improve work safety and industrial hygiene. A January 23 banquet at the Waldorf Astoria will launch the effort led by Morris K. Jesup with speeches by Gov. Hughes, Baron des Planches, and M. Jusserand. An exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History will follow, showcasing live demonstrations of safety devices and industrial hygiene measures across many industries.
London dispatch notes Liberal MPs urge abolishing hereditary pensions after centuries of payments. Many lineages, including the Rodneys and Napier heirs, have drawn large sums for services long past. Proposals seek to end future pensions and bar hereditary grants, citing waste and lack of direct merit. A separate item reports a bicycle oil mix up leading to a hospital visit for Kevin Bettnisch.
Fragmentary Chicago item notes a moving dining car scene with quirky lines about time and trouble and mentions New Year’s resolutions, banquets, and a bartender quote. The text reflects a lively, period tone with scattered phrases and a sense of travel and social commentary.
England's new ambassador to Washington need not seek royal approval to resign his Commons seat. The Chiltern Hundreds device costs nothing and signals leaving Parliament, while tales of Tyrrell Cavendish and Ben Tyrrell paint a tangled inheritance dispute. A cabman claimant pursues Drakemarsh Hall and Tyrrell estates through centuries of title law and family intrigue.
The report lists remarkable records such as Tre-Bita the three and a half year old New York chauffeur, a 371 pound Seychelles tortoise aged over 150, and Rev Clapton ringing 70 bell changes before preaching. It notes lengthy marriages and large families in Lincolnshire, a hermit in Brooklyn, morphine dreams avoidance, Garnier’s 27 hour Marseilles piano feat, and a 24 hour Paris billiard match with 30 miles walked.
A narrated verse extols honesty in marriage. The speaker, addressing reasons why men lie to their wives, argues deception is wrong and claims his wife is perceptive and unlikely to be misled. He asserts flawless candor since marriage and notes his wife’s disbelief of men’s trust.
Harold Healy Lake County clerk ended Hammond deputy marriage license clerk role at noon angering three justices of the peace and local business owners. Healy cited Chicago couples flooding Hammond as excessive and said no more licenses would be issued, noting 23 marriages so far today.
Passengers aboard a New York and St Louis Limited on the Pennsylvania Railroad watched a big black bear race the train from Horse Shoe Curve toward Altoona. Bruin started ahead, then the limited surpassed it, with the bear fleeing cityward for miles. Flagman WynLoop saw the bear last about two miles outside the city. John Treesler and friend searched the mountains for the bear but found nothing.
Judge Robert 8. Taylor of Fort Wayne speaks at the Ebbitt House on a fourteen foot waterway from the Lakes to St. Louis. He cites the valley as a future global wealth center and predicts rapid population and economic growth from improved river access and new markets in the Panama era. Kansas Governor Samuel J. Crawford also attends, praising state progress while Oklahoma’s constitutional convention works.
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