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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1908
Page
24
A scanned fragment outlines subscription options for the Washington Post with carrier delivery in Washington and Alexandria, plus various daily and Sunday terms and payment methods. The remaining text covers diverse clippings on politics, figures, and editorial remarks reflecting late 19th century U.S. events and opinions.
New York American reports Miss Lucy Alvord of Taylortown claimed a dream of her grandfather, dead since 1837, guiding her to a brick oven in the family home. Her brother Claude assisted, breaking through the oven wall to reveal a crock of gold totaling about four thousand dollars, stored since the grandfather Silas Alvord’s era.
A garbled composite text cites a poetical attack on a political figure, references fatigue science by Dr. Waterman, and notes Pacific Coast defenses shifting toward state militia coasts. It includes scattered mentions of campaigns, personalities like Cortelyou and Parker, and a long digression on energy, plants, and nervous exhaustion.
The Chicago News notes cynicism in ball players amid trust issues and recalls an Indianapolis man assaulted at 530 pm amid town lethargy toward danger. A New York Tribune line on public honors cites forty aspirants seeking two Republican National Convention delegates in Washington.
The article discusses wealthy stage marriages broadening philanthropy and notes Lady Pearce and Mrs Lyne Stephens as examples, then shifts to France where Clemenceau plans to repeal banishment laws for pretenders Victor Bonaparte and the Duke of Orléans, arguing their harmlessness and potential return to normal citizenship.
The piece outlines a bleak view of the Democratic Party with Bryan’s leadership weakening northern representation and Populist influence rising. It then describes a dramatic medical case where Dr Lusk inserts a gold wire coil into an artery and uses electricity to encourage coagulation, aiming to reinforce the artery walls.
Bellevue authorities report Mulhare resting comfortably and able to resume daily work after five years of enlarged artery. Roosevelt praised in Washington Dispatch to New York American for criticizing Admiral Brownson’s action as brutal and inflammatory. The Army and Navy Register condemns harsh language as harmful to discipline and morale.
A Denver Republican feature envisions a future of animal organ transplantation and scientific miracles while a Brooklyn dispatch recounts Policeman Bomgard guiding a stalled Coney Island line cow away from trains, enabling service to resume amid crowding and tension.
The article mocks health faddists and praises moderation. It cites William Evarts favoring plain living, lasting health from balanced habits, and criticizes extreme exercises and cold baths. Advice urges clean living, adequate sleep, varied diet, moderate tobacco use, and following the Golden Rule to maintain well being.
Reports from Louisville, Frankfurt and Washington allege mounting pressure in Kentucky as Governor Beckham eyes a U S Senate seat. Republicans hold a solid lower-house bloc and may block or entice a Dem ally to back a rival candidate, with Bryan rumored to have a hand in the dispute.
James Mulhara survived an unprecedented operation at Bellevue Hospital after fifteen feet of eighteen carat gold wire was inserted into his aorta and four hours of electrical current applied. The costly procedure, funded by Dr William C Lusk, followed months of declining health and years in hospital.
The piece warns that continued Southern subservience to Republican power could lead to a heavy penalty via a constitutional move to reduce Southern representation where Black voters are disenfranchised. It argues no militant Democratic party in the North would aid Southern battles, risking the South’s fate as Republican platforms threaten representation.
A storehouse cat nick named Nick escaped from a barge headed to Jersey City and traveled 120 miles on foot to Coxsackie, arriving at the Coxsackie storehouse hungry but alive. The dog rescue tale follows a Camden man, Samuel Floyd, who swam 200 feet to save a starving dog stranded on a small island in Cooper Creek. Floyd then took the dog home, after a quick dinner break.
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