Washington Post Subscription Notice 1914
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The Administration and Mexico Policy Debate
The editorial lauds the watchful Mexico policy, tracing its domestic and foreign impacts. It notes congressional shifts on tariffs and trusts, assesses investment losses, and argues for robust citizen support if actions protect Americans abroad and restore peace in Mexico. It also questions Congress authority on imposing taxes and using corporations as tax collectors.
Testing the Income Tax in Virginia and Southern Railway
If true that the Virginia and Southern Railway will challenge the constitutionality of the income tax, the outcome will interest every corporation. The Constitution’s amendment allowed Congress to levy income tax, though debate over class legislation ends here. The question remains whether Congress may compel industrial and financial institutions to collect the tax at the source and bear the related burdens.
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Virginia and Southern Railway
United States
Congress
Japan Demands Equal Rights for Citizens in U S Lands
The President convokes the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to discuss Japan pressing its demand that Japanese in the United States may own and lease real property on equal terms with other foreigners. The piece warns of constitutional, state, and treaty obstacles, racial opposition, and the Mexico and Pacific policy context.
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Japan
Great Britain
United States
Baron Makino
Senate
Janan
Mexico
Panama Canal
Pacific
Magellan
Congress
England
London Strike and Dublin Echoes of Socialist Turmoil
A portrayal of Britain's general strike threat led by Larkin and Dublin's recent upheaval. The piece condemns socialist influence on labor activism, linking 200000 workers to a planned London stoppage and coal distribution disruption to heat 7 million people, warning of escalating industrial terrorism.
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London
Dublin
Organized Labor
America
Labor Party
Keir Hardy
Larkin
British Isles
Alaska Railroad Bill Marks First Step in Development
The Senate passed a bill to buy or build 1000 miles of railroad in Alaska at up to 40 million dollars. It creates a redemption fund using 75 percent of Alaska land and mineral revenues. The article notes that one rail line won't unlock Alaska without further policy support and urges swift House action.
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United States
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House
Militant suffragists split in US reform efforts
A conservative stance from Mrs. Medill McCormick condemns militant suffragettes who threaten Congress, arguing their tactics undermine the National Woman's Suffrage Association and the nonpartisan cause. The piece labels militancy as harmful, insists on dignified advocacy, and notes public figures commenting on related political curiosities.
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United States
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Medill McCormick
National Woman's Suffrage Association
Democratic Party
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Rules Committee
Heir of Milltown family and Russborough estates saga
The long saga of the Milltown earldom and Russborough estate unfolds with Geraldine, Countess of Milltown,’s sudden death at Russborough in Wicklow and the entailed properties. It traces attempts by various heirs and claimants, including Edmund Russborough Turton, a legless fourth earl’s line, and the obscure Australian connections of a fifth earl’s son, through to the dormant title and the Countess’s conflict with Ireland’s National Gallery over the Milltown collection.
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Lucas Malet
Richard Calmady
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Harrington
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India
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Mercers’ Hospital
Richard John Leason
Royal Dublin Society
Rosemount Terrace
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Lady Milltown
National Galery of Ireland
National Gallery
Rossborough
Marquiss DE Fontenoy
Brestwood Company
Goethala a Soldier Born From Long Military Line
The Goethala family, noted for martial prowess, traces ancestry to Swiss roots and a Crusader-like origin. George Washington Goethala, aBrooklyn-born soldier and administrator, rose through the army ranks from lieutenant to colonel. His lineage includes a French Army surgeon grandfather with Napoleon at Austerlitz and a Swiss-born father who moved to Amsterdam before emigrating to the United States. The name Goethals, meaning stiff necked in Dutch, honors a crusader who defied a king after a heroic clash, while the family motto proclaims they break before they bond.
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New York Herald
George Washington Goethala
Brooklyn
West
Napoleon
Austerlits
John Goethals
Switzerland
Amsterdam
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Goethala
Enelieh
Flanders
Goethals
Engineer Corps
First Army Corps
What the Rivers Carry
A summary of Mississippi and other Western rivers transport of salts and dissolved matter to the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of California. It cites river discharge, totals of salts, and dissolved minerals, noting vast volumes but low concentration per total discharge. A contrasting vignette from Cleveland about Villa’s counterfeit money joke follows.
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Mississippi
Gulf of Mexico
H.L. Abbott
United States Geological Survey
Colorado
Gulf of California
Colorado River
Lun Fork
Red River
Oklahoma
Elm Fork
Ocean
Gum-Shoe Tactics From Lippincott s Beaten Transcript
A Baltimore shop employee and two workers are surprised by the boss while playing a quiet game of seven up on a barrel. The boss demands why they are playing cards and one man cites rubber heels as the reason. The piece also asks why certain age old similes for cold dry deaf and slick are used.
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Darkies
Animals of California described by museum curator at Oakland lecture
Walter P. Taylor curator of UC Berkeley’s museum of vertebrate zoology illustrated rare, often extinct or dwindling California species in an Oakland talk. He cited the fisher, black bear, tea otter, Roosevelt elk, woodchuck, mountain beaver, coney, big horned sheep, pronghorn antelope, skunk, bat and kangaroo rat, noting conservation concerns and unique adaptations.
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Walter P. ‘Taylor
Museum of Vertebrate Socology
University of California
Washington School
Oakland
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Board of Education
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del Norte
San Francisco
Museum
Mount Whitney
Sierras
Desert
Freeno
The Road Becomes a Street
Sherman, in the New York Times, contemplates a grass fringed country road that winds through hills and meadows. The poem contrasts youthful grace with urban progress as the road narrows into a straight city street, losing its wilowed fields and singing brooks.
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Bilen Burns Sherman
New York Times
Tomanhood
Bible phrase sparks divorce suit in Newark court
John P Hammer sues Anna Hammer for divorce alleging his wife took scripture too literally. He cites her view that a husband must cleave to his wife and avoid relations, triggering repeated quarrels and a final separation on March 24, 1911. Mrs Hammer counters it was constructive desertion aided by abuse. The case includes testimony from Rev. Charles Fries who tried reconciliation.
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Newark News
Emer
John P Hammer
Anna Hammer
Kinney Street
Hammer
Mra Wammer
Charles Fries
Fallacies of disarmament and the case for armament
Rear Admiral Mahan argues armament is essential to justice order and peace and that organized force protects citizens and maintains civilization. He claims arbitration often fails due to lack of applicable or timely law and that security needs outweigh individual liberties in safeguarding millions.
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Agmira Mahan
Army
Palippines
New York City
Cure for Unrighteousness and the Law as Cure-All
From the Omaha Bee, Clarence Darrow argues that belief in laws as a universal fix for social ills is false. He asserts that true reform comes from individual righteousness, not more statutes, and that society improves only as individuals improve, regardless of legal changes.
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Omaha Bee
Lawa
Clarence Darrew
Sun and Tide Table and Pacific Weather Storm Update
The record shows tides with sunrise and sunset times, and a detailed Pacific coast storm forecast from Washington weather services. It notes high winds, rain, and snow across the West, with temperature contrasts across regions, and lists temperatures and humidity for multiple times and cities. A miscellaneous weather summary and a creditors joke follow.
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Oklahoma Politicians Debate Gore Nomination and Louisiana Tariffs
In New Orleans and Oklahoma discussions reveal strong bets on Gore’s renomination and election, with Judge Highchew predicting a solid Democratic win despite Republican and Progressive splits. Interviews touch on Louisiana tariff impacts, sugar crops, and mules, while remarks from John Addison Hunter and others discuss broader party unity and historic Democratic leadership.
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