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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1911
Page
11
Publication details for the Washington Post including subscription rates and payment methods. The issue features editorials on US Japan relations, tariffs, reciprocity with Canada, naval strategy, Chesapeake defenses, and satirical notes on public figures and current events.
The Minneapolis Jornal details a looming Senate deadlock over ship subsidies direct election of senators and the Lorimer case. Key figures Beveridge Borah Gallinger Heyburn and Root clash as debate intensifies with threats of a special session to pass appropriation bills. A second item recalls Champ Clark explaining his five minute rule and how a witty speech gained him attention in Congress. A Cleveland man recalls a cider anecdote about barrels and an elusive evan gonem joke.
The article notes monarchs like Austria's emperor, Sweden and Norway's kings, the Sultan of Turkey, and the czar send New Year greetings to the pope, while King George of Britain and other rulers abstain. It also covers Grand Duke Sergius Michaelovich of Russia, his ties to the ballet star Mlle. Krzesinska, a past gun salute incident, and rumors of a pious priest falsehoods surrounding the grand duke's life.
A historical reminiscence notes John H. Reagan and the idea that a capable Confederate financier might have altered the Civil War's cost. It praises Robert J. Walker, argues for financial strategy limits, and recalls Samuel J. Tilden and Chase. The piece shifts to a new aeroplane for the Navy, describing Curtiss and Ely's aerohydroplane and its potential to change naval warfare.
H A Austin argues in The Forum that completing the canal reduces the need for large naval fleets in both oceans. He warns of wartime risks if the canal is blocked or captured, and stresses the canal’s strategic value for rapid fleet movements and merchant transport, urging strong defenses.
Representative James A. Tawney recalls a 1906 conversation with Theodore Roosevelt about building the largest battleship. He cites British and American naval plans, noting how the dreadnought fever spurred costly ship programs and driven by national ambition. He argues armed peace wastes resources and threatens international stability.
Mrs. George S. Wilkins of the Hotel St Francis plans to bring about 36 Igorrotos from Samar to New York to teach them music and live near Fordham. She recalls a St Louis fair meeting with a boy named Penossan who outdid a teacher in the cakewalk and says the savages have quick ears for music.
Amy Lowell describes a wood carving hung above a doorway, once a living tree shaped by an artist’s knife. The poem contrasts forest memories with coastal sea imagery, as waves, seabirds, and sunlit light echo the carved piece. The item embodies freedom and the earth’s vast solitudes instead of forest quiet.
Editor urges a unified progressive coalition to counter factionalism in the two major parties. He condemns cross riding and voter apathy, calls for a political umpire press, and promotes a merged progressive Democratic league with Progressive Republicans to clarify policies and educate voters.
A penniless nobleman offered 50 dollars for a ancestor portrait priced at 60 but was refused. Later at a self-made businessman's London home the peer noticed the same portrait and remarked they must be related, claiming the ancestor was within 310 of the line.
A satirical sketch on income and spendthrift outgo. It attacks liars and flatterers, mocks a man who seeks public honors, and provokingly compares a woman’s false adornments to cherry lips and plaster.
At the Willard hotel Dr. Hamilton Wright outlined the international phase of the opium trade, noting 295 tons consumed in the U.S. last year and urging remedial law. Maj. James McLaughlin discussed Salamanca New York where Seneca Nation land rights dispute seeks a high court hearing to settle title.
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