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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1916
Page
11
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A sweeping wartime summary notes the ongoing Franco British struggle against Germany, with Russia pressing Galicia and Bukowina to split German forces, while Verdun loses strategic hold and Allied leaders seek a durable peace based on security for Britain, Belgium, and northern France.
The article argues that vast public lands withdrawn from entry should be leased with royalties to boost oil output, lower gasoline prices, and fund government needs. It cites Roosevelt Taft conservation work, a pending public land leasing bill, and potential wealth from potash coal phosphate and other minerals. It highlights the need for a square deal, anti monopoly safeguards, and shared national benefit.
A 1910s syndicated column notes suffragists in New York discussing voting rights and modest dress. Women’s focus on clothes ethics eclipsed suffrage talk, denouncing hose, powder, teas, dances, and excess athletics while endorsing a back-to-the-farm stance. authors hint at political strategy behind the indirection.
The nation grows aware of wartime preparedness as the government accelerates measures and citizens rally to support national defense. The text notes U S scientific and industrial strength and a resolve to match European efforts amid growing military tensions.
The revenue bill proposes a United States tariff commission of six members with limited party ties and a ban on former Senators or Representatives. The goal is to strip tariff deliberations of politics by favoring business experience and judgment, blending practical expertise with congressional insight.
A U S navy buildup tops urgent policy questions as leaders weigh cost against human lives. President Wilson backs preparedness while critics question the 315 million to 316 million outlay. Europe’s war spends trillions, and advocates argue spending now saves future bloodshed.
The article traces the Brabourne lineage noting the present Lord Brabourne aged 38, his Austrian wife, and the heir to the Knatchbull baronetcy, Sir Wyndham Knatchbull, with residence at Mersham Hatch near Ashford. It recalls the family’s long Kentish estates, earlier seats, and the literary fame of the late Lord Brabourne as a children’s author, plus connections to Eva, Countess of Mexborough. It also mentions Count Ladislas Szögyeny-Marich, long-time Austro-Hungarian envoy in Berlin, and his relationship with Crown Prince Rudolf and the Meyerling tragedy.
The county prison feeding contract holder closed his shop and quit after six months with no prisoners housed in the county jail. Sheriff B Noyes notes no immediate prospect of filling the jail. County Clerk Alvin Weis has not issued a marriage license in three months. The city marshal performed one official duty in a year, killing a sick dog. Undertaking houses have closed. local mortuaries unavailable, forcing calls to Marysville for burials. The post office remains open daily.
On a New York summit of a man made hill the quiet above the streets reveals human scale. From this height one recalls how the mountain arose from earth’s crude material, shaped and bound to endure, and feels reverence for the human effort that built it.
The Senate opened a condensed session at 29 pm to consider a 296000000 income and inheritance tax package and a federal trade commission probe into the beef trust. The Judiciary committee held hearings on the proposed FTC inquiry while a public building bill of 25 million dollars moved through committee before adjournment at a little past six.
The text recounts King William's War origins in 1689 with the Dover massacre where Mai Waldron's home was attacked, hundreds slain or enslaved, and how English Protestant and French Catholic powers clashed across New England, Maine, and beyond. It notes early campaigns against Montreal and Quebec, colonial leadership shifts, and the 1697 treaty at Ryswick ending the fighting for a time before broader European conflicts rekindled colonial hostilities.
A wartime aviation update praises zero plane progress and rival updates from France Germany and Britain while American optimism cites a cross Atlantic flight by a future era. The piece also surveys U S political forecasts with Dockweiler and Heney discussions and notes Mexico’s turmoil harming $2,000,000,000 in foreign investments and widespread unemployment amid ongoing revolutions and looting.
A four foot snake sent from South America astonishes visitors at the Bronx park reptile house by inflating its body to resemble a tire, then deflating suddenly. Dr Raymond Ditmars notes it as a rare exhibit showing dramatic expansion and contraction, drawing crowds as it twists and arches in its glass enclosure.
Farnum T Fish and George K B Sprague staged a bomb dropping display over Lynn Massachusetts. Five bombs exploded simultaneously but were of a harmless type. Sprague suffered minor leg burns while Fish kept the biplane under control amid fog. The duo planned to show how easy it is for airplanes to bombard cities and attributed the detonation to acid washing the fuses from vibration.
The piece reflects on mothers waiting as war tears families apart. It blends elegiac lines about fallen sons, distant fronts, and shared grief, with repeated calls for courage and remembrance. The narrator laments the cost of conflict and questions where the bodies lie and how families endure.
Lava from Maunaloa erupts again in May sending a flood down the mountainside at about a mile per hour from 7900 feet. It divides into two channels and lights the landscape at night, with newspapers readable miles away. The sea lies about 60 miles to the southwest, with little valuable property between.
An old resident near Baxter, Ailes Howard, caught a large yellow catfish weighing 471 pounds and 41 inches long with a 2s inch body circumference near the Uncle Henderson Howard canoe landing on the Cumberland River. The catch was brought to Harlan, creating excitement over its size and age.
In Rock Creek Lake Oregon odd humplike growths appeared on Lake Michigan trout planted years ago by Ellertson rancher and biologist Finley Millerton. The tiny humps behind the back fin persist but do not affect size or flavor. no crossbreeding is suspected as only Lake Michigan stock were introduced.
A wounded Highlander near recovery regressed after a Scottish piper was brought to lift his spirits. The doctor boasted of the idea, but the matron noted that while one patient improved, twenty others suffered serious relapses in the same period.
A fragmented diary style note recounts an odd day in Chicago with dinner including welsh rarebit mince pie and lobster Newburg followed by a visit to an amusement venue and an aquarium. The speaker attributes misheard names and a humorous misexplanation to the experience.
A terse exchange shows a judge and nurse discussing a motorist brought in an hour earlier. The nurse notes the man has not regained consciousness while the attendant confirms he is still unresponsive.
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