Washington Post 1911 Subscription Rates and Panama Visit Debate
The Washington Post outlines subscription options with daily and Sunday delivery by mail, including rates for various terms. It urges Congress to designate San Francisco for the 1915 Panama Canal exposition, arguing California’s city and state funds can finance it without federal appropriations and highlighting potential benefits for Pacific commerce and U.S.-Japan relations.
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House of Representatives
San Francisco
New Orleans
Golden Gate
The Poet of the Poor and Crabbe’s Enduring Power
A recognition of George Crabbe as a major eighteenth and nineteenth century poet whose stark realism, virile verse, and unflinching depiction of rural life endure beyond his era. Despite waning popularity, his works such as The Village Farish register and Tales of the Hall reveal nature’s stern painter and the persistence of pathos and universal poetic philosophy.
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George Crabbe
National Gallery
London
England
Crabbe
Cratbe
Ufe
Burke
Johnson
Thurlow
Fox
Byron
Edward Witzgerald
Cardinal Newman
Scott
Moore
Campbell
Lfe
Thomas Hardy
Notable surgeon-clergyman under moral critique and district finances dispute
The article depicts a revered surgeon-clergyman whose portrait may renew interest in his works and notes Miss Anna Maria Crabbe’s bequest. It then attacks Congress for underfunding the District of Columbia, claiming a $600,000 phantom cut and a $1,136,895 transfer, urging adherence to lawful budget uses and local needs. It ends by examining Britain Japan trade frictions and tariff shifts impacting open door policy.
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National Gallery
Anna Maria Crabbe
Jivan
Congress
Treasury
House Committee
Banking System Critique and Aviation Triumphs Across Era
The piece critiques the American banking system's flaws and political inertia while praising J. Pierpont Morgan for stabilizing distressed banks. It also covers Ely's aeroplane demonstration aboard the cruiser Pennsylvania with Army and Navy officers endorsing aviation's wartime potential and forecasting a turning point in naval history.
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Eugene B. Ply
Ely
Pennsylvania
Geck Ely
Army
Navy
Milton
Reese
Maj
O'Neill
Prohibition Lesson Spurs Tennessee Cities to Seek Repeal
Mayors from Memphis Nashville Chattanooga and Knoxville held a Nashville conference to urge repeal or amendment of the state-wide prohibition law. They called prohibition a failure and plan to lobby the legislature to relieve cities of crippling financial and moral burdens. The piece contrasts Tennessee with Texas and notes Memphis has suffered from unregulated dramshops and poor enforcement.
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Tennessee
St Louis
Memphis
Nashville
Chattanooga
Knoxville
Texas
Tennesnee
Ternnessee
Clifes
Venus Inhabited Says Harvard Professor Beliefs
A Harvard professor argues Venus hosts millions of prehistoric giants and intelligent beings. He contends the universe’s vastness implies life on many larger planets, while biblical and philosophical views support a progression of existence beyond death as eternity unfolds.
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Venus
Harvard
Africa
Isaac Newton
Earth
Arcturus
Waren Arcturus
Socrates
London Bomb Factory Found in Stepney Anarchist Arsenal
Police uncover a bomb factory at 44 Gold Street Stepney in a flat once occupied by the dead anarchist Polosk Morountzeff. Detectives seize a trove of rusted correspondence written in Russian and other materials for weapons. Investigators regard the find as a grave threat to society and ponder whether the coronation was the target. Morountzeff lived there about nine months, with unclear visitors and no evident artistic talent.
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London
Gold Street
Stepney
Polosk Morountzeff
Ruatiat
Morountzeff
Uve
Goldstrest
Lord Fisher to retire at seventy next week
Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, turning seventy on Wednesday, will retire from active service and his post as principal naval aide to the king. He will receive a special retiring allowance of 10000 a year, while promotion is unlikely for his rival Admiral Lord Charles Beresford.
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Lord Fisher
Privy Council
Admiralty
Great Britain
Edward VII
Jane Morgen
Philadelphia
Lord Charles Beresford
George Awails
Lord Charley
Charles
Hippo Comedian Outwits Keeper With New Uniform
Pete the hippopotamus at Bronx Park Zoo amuses spectators by ruining keeper Dick Richards's new uniform. Pete tormented Richards with splashes and a staged illness, then rolled into his bath as the keeper approached. The prank left Richards in soaked clothes while animals laughed at the scene.
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Pete
New York Herald
Richards
Central Park
Miss Murphy
Ralph II
Bill” Snyder
Caliph
Whistler's Old Friend and Longtime Confederate Ally
A Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial recalls James McNeill Whistler and his West Point friend William Robertson Boggs. It notes Boggs as Whistler’s adjutant, his Confederate service as engineer, and his later life in his eighties, alongside reflections on their enduring bond. Also recounted is a small Battery Park dog rescue, where a Newfoundland befriended sailors, received milk, and was sent to a dogs home.
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Great Britain
Japan
Russia
Tokyo
United States
William R. Boggs
West Point
Richmond Times-Dispatch
James McNeill Whistler
United States Military Academy
Whistler
Corps of Cadets
Augusta
William Robertson Boges
Winston Balem
N. C
Academy
Young
Boggs
Boge
Century Magazine
Sheridan
Scho- Townfield
Winchester
Schofield
Primrose
Boggs Im
Davis
South
Kirby Smith
trans-Mississippi
Gen. Boggs
Ufa
New York Sun
Battery Park
Park
Joe Mary
Pilot Wittel
Wheel
Mary
Famous Hill of Tara in Early Irish History
The Pall Mall Gazette extols the Hill of Tara as the most interesting monument of early civilization in Northwestern Europe. It recalls Tara as seat of the Ard Righ, St Patrick’s Christianizing event, the ruinous curse by clerics, and tales of shifting ownership and excavations seeking the Ark of the Covenant.
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Bryce
Pall Mall Gazette
Tara
James Bryce
Ireland
Washington
Walking Encyclopedia
Hill of
Europe
St. Patrick
Leary
Clarence Mangan
Ard-Righ
Guare of
Connaught
Talbot Champneys
GooD WAY AND OURS
Elizabeth Rachel Chapman portrays a poised figure amid a bustling city. The passage contrasts a gentle character with London’s discord as the presses and crowd disturb his calm.
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Elizabeth Rachel Chapman
London
There, He His Flowers He Would Thrive and Grow
A reflective verse fragment recounts judgment and shame cast on a speaker, with a central figure facing ridicule as the world fixates on their name. The piece contrasts external scorn with inner confrontation, ending in solitude and self-reckoning. A Frost notes a frostbound show backstage as a London Nation and New York Telegraph citation.
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New York Telegraph
Pointed Paragraphs From Chicago News Money
A collection of aphoristic lines on aviation, honesty, patience, and human behavior. It notes aviation as a costly skill and stresses practical experience over books. It mocks gossip and cautious risk, while contrasting plain spoken truth with exaggeration and social judgments.
Reflections of a Bachelor From the New York Press
Reflections on temptation and vanity note that no one should presume moral perfection. The speaker argues that people trap themselves by clinging to strong beliefs and that genuine fault finding sows discord, urging caution in judging others' errors.
Omaha Democrat outlines 1912 ticket and tariff plan
Representative-elect C. O. Lobeck of Omaha promotes a Democratic ticket for 1912 with Champ Clark for president and Claude Swanson for vice president. He asserts Swanson would attract Southern and Scandinavian voters, notes Bryan's waning influence, and calls for tariff revision while recounting his party switch from Republican in 1900.
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C. 0. Lobeck
Omaha
Gilbert W. Hitchcock
United States Senate
Lobeck
Riggs House
Clark
Baltimore
Swanson
Secor Place
Virginia
New England
Delaware River
Nebraska
Mr. Lobeck
Bryan
Great Britain
Bobeck
Washington of Europe and Arkansas Opportunities
An Edwardian style feature quotes William Morehead praising Edinburgh as the Washington of Europe with a better climate and residential character and notes a new racecourse being built near Glasgow. It then reports H L Remmel of Little Rock extolling Arkansas opportunities, rice production gains, and land value rises, plus a political forecast touching Judge Goeke’s call for party unity and tariff approach and Ohio Democratic prospects for 1912.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Europe
William Morehead
New York
New Ebbitt
Washington
London
King James
James I
Paisley
Clyde
Glasgow
Billy” Morehead
Sheffield
Arkansas
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Pacific Coast
H. L Remmel
Little Rock
Republican State Central Committee
Arlington
Prairie
Mussouri
Taft
McKinley
Remmel
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