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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1909
Page
18
The page surveys U S tariff policy debates amid Treasury deficits and calls for revenue reform, arguing against blanket cuts and urging retained duties on luxury goods and art. It also reviews Russian capital punishment, stressing humanitarian concerns and the threat to czarist authority, and critiques American college athletics overtraining plus comparisons to English practices.
An editorial argues for funding great permanent improvements through equitable taxation rather than heavy today’s taxes. It favors long term bonds with sinking funds and urges that posterity pay its share, not today’s generation alone, to support durable public works and national progress. It also notes cotton cloth exports to China rising, implying expanding demand and the need for free market pricing over artificial controls.
Trinity Church in New York published its asset statement, highlighting realty valued at 14.63 million and bonds on non-interest properties at 50,908. Its total assets reach 14.079 million with a cash balance of 3,410, and last fiscal year income near 780,000. The church defends its dwellings as not major revenue sources, citing complex housing issues and long underway vestry responsibilities. The note mentions tensions over St Johns Chapel’s closing and future consolidation with St Luke. The piece ends with political and press implications involving figures Harriman and Heney.
A fragmentary 1909 New York press item mocks fashionable young women noting dull hygiene, critiquing debutante fashion, and mentioning a Detroit scheme to spur growth. It claims Congress could use Capitol subways for cyclone cellars as the debate heats up.
A Minneapolis dispatch to the World reports a new fare rule allowing conductors to give riders a promissory note for unpaid fares. Riders sign the note agreeing to pay at the company office, with nonpayment potentially leading to further action. The note is part of a broader set of quirky items including political quips and crime notes from New York.
A 1882 Navy yard bulletin announces a walking match between yard double horses to judge fitness for work. The slowest team will be disposed of, with a prize to the fastest driver. Goats, mascots aboard ships, fear becoming walking abuse victims as they await the outcome.
A fragment suggests a plan to wipe out the Cuban Junta and keep American troops at home for three or four years, reflecting wartime rhetoric and strategic ideas from the period. The note presents an aggressive proposal without detailing methods or sources.
A world of titles and Americans spreads across the Exmouth lineage with Henry Pellew and his son Charles named as heirs to the Exmouth peerage amid pension debates and colonial connections US links include Maryland estates and the Naval Academy while Lord Tweedmouth and Count Monta face decline and Italy’s triple alliance tensions shape European diplomacy through Rome.
The New York Time reports Rabbi Joseph Silverman at Temple Emmanu-El denounces New Year celebrations as degraded and unworthy. He likens the city’s bacchanalian feasts to ancient Rome, citing sensual excess, loud noise, and improvidence as a stain on metropolitan life. He warns of Rome’s fate if excess continues.
From the New York Harald Ferdinand Pinney Earle eraI wife then wed his soul mate sparking praise and mockery. An anarchist circle hosted a nontraditional birthday party for Esther Johnson-Tucker, emphasizing individual identity with invitations listing Benjamin R. Tucker Pearl Johnson and Esther Johnson-Tucker. A crowd of writers and thinkers attended as Esther kicked her heels in a cradle while Comrade Tucker and Comrade Johnson mingled over tea.
A quirky column blends verse with a court tale from Montelar New Jersey where Justice of the Peace William Williams presides over a separation. A couple cites differing habits as the cause while the husband jokes his chewing tobacco and the wife her cat kisses. They decide to part after New Year’s.
Mrs Mary Beck of 263 Pulaski Street Brooklyn was waiting in a Grand Central women's room Saturday when a man reached into her handbag on her left arm grabbing a watch chain and jewelry believed tied to her deceased daughter. Beck’s husband intervened and police at East Fifty First Street say the suspect, named Samus Tittlebaum of 553 Bushwick Avenue, is a known pickpocket.
George Reeds, manager of a Westhampton Beach poultry farm, envisions a chicken hospital with wards, private rooms, an operating room, and sterilizing devices. He aims to study why hens stop laying when egg prices are low and to share the findings with the world.
A bulldog sacrificed itself to wake William Keller and his wife as a fire swept the Wuctid avenue roller rink and bowling alley in Millville. Firemen pulled the couple to safety from an upper window while the dog perished in the hall. Keller, the bowling alley’s manager, and his wife lived in a second-floor apartment.
In Michigan a court decision held that a cat is not an animal. Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Lindsay cites this ruling in dismissing charges against Sin Clair Clark and James Gross, Grand Rapids veterinary students accused of cruelty to cats. The judge notes felines are not property under Michigan law.
A comic ode to bread and cheese contrasts with a New York theater incident. Mrs William Klis, wife of a steel magnate, refused to remove a hat at the Manhattan Opera, prompting an usher to seek Hammerstein’s intervention. He relocated her seat. the matter ended without further disturbance. Also noted is a Fort release scheme at 260 West Light Street, involving Fort Sotton at Wiliete Pont Long Island and a dispute over payments from government contracts.
A satirical piece discusses money and investment habits, noting the fall of man and a curly headed girl’s kiss, while claiming a bachelor’s guide to life. It asserts a man learns from his own advice and mocks a woman’s mortification at remaining unmarried.
The fragment notes moral quips about skeletons in closets and conscience, mentions theater box offices versus church plates, and ponders New Year calls and train of thought. It hints at a hold-up man using highways to raise money, and a wife’s buying needs.
A Raleigh salon discussion features William C Gregg of Newburgh New York arguing that freeing Philippine sugar imports would boost local sugar production to about 300000 tons, shifting trade away from European machinery and raising American market competition and tariff implications.
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