Washington Post subscription notice from 1896
An old Washington Post payment and subscription notice lists delivery options and terms. It shows multiple formats including daily and Sunday editions, weekly and yearly rates, with payment by checks and post office orders. Names of regional offices and managers are included, reflecting a historical newspaper distribution ad.
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Carrie
Washington
Snk Bleranoria
Washington Post Co
BC. c
Pennsylvania Avenue
Fourteenth Street
New York
Flatiron
Paul Bloe
Chiesso Omce
Unity
PAT
Iroex
Let The Post Follow You
Washingtonians leaving the city should keep The Post as a constant informant about happenings at the Capital. Change of address may be made anytime and the paper will be promptly delivered nationwide. Notify carrier or send order directly to The Post. Telephone Main 4205.
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Chicago News
Wa Perdom
Ike
Abe
Abe Doom't ‘Ponsom
Iowa GOP Faces Dueling Paths to Governor Nomination
The article weighs George Perkins and Gov. Cummins as front runners for Iowa's Republican nomination. It notes Cummins' organization edge and Perkins push for national committee intervention to ensure a fair convention. It predicts no major intra party split, citing past Democratic shocks as unlikely in Iowa today.
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George D Perkins
Iowa
GOP
Cummins
Committee On
Perkins
Iman Cortilyou
Horace Boies
Mat Butler
Congress
Licker
Weather Opinions On Seasonal Forecasts And Variations
The piece argues that public weather views differ, tests a thirty year record, and notes June’s temperatures and rainfall. It cites government data showing wide yearly variation yet possible improvement in longer term forecasts, suggesting the Weather Bureau may one day predict entire seasons.
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Beth
Weather Bureau
A Hero Model Due For Col Bledsoe Medal
A North Carolina colonel named Bledsoe saved travelers during a railroad excursion near Wilmington last Saturday night. He intervened when a drunken assailant drew revolvers and threatened massacre, disarming the man and steering him away, earning praise for safeguarding passengers and proving the need for brave, organized protection on excursions.
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Col Bledsoe
North Carolina
Bledsoe
Wilmington
Steadman
Col Billaton
L Tt
Elliston
Prohibition
Go Elliston
Col. Bledsoe
Elston
Evergreen Shore
Bredsoe
Colr. Bledsoe
A View on Abolishing Embassies and Middlemen
A regional newspaper column weighs abolishing embassies and running diplomacy as a commercial system. It questions why Brown and Jones should shuttle between capitals when two officials could settle matters, noting costs and politics. It also warns of delays from pomp and circuslike saloons abroad and argues for patriotic access to diplomacy.
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Geo the Post
Brown
Jonas
Jones
Wall Street
Soma
Han
Chicago Schools and Reform Movements Debate Public Education
The Chicago Chronicle argues the public school system is badly managed and politically entangled with the city’s machine. It cites labor unions and the teachers' federation as threats while urging reform leagues to oversee school governance and protect educational integrity.
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Chicago
Chicago Chronicle
Board of Education
Municipal Voters’ League
Legislative Voters' League
Citizens’ Association
The
Civic Federation
Favo
the Chronicle
Teachers’ Federation
Chronicle
Nno
Republican Party
Methodism and Modern Demands for Doctrinal Restatement
A recent Methodist Episcopal Church South conference endorsed a 24 point restatement of Methodist doctrine. Progressives seek clear, living faith without criticizing other denominations, arguing current creeds need to reflect modern tolerance and discard outdated terms. The aim is to preserve core Methodist beliefs while removing guarded references to rivals.
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Methodist Episcopal Church South
Great
Methodist Church
Methodist Church South
Church of England
Woman's Ways and Pointed Paragraphs Recall Fading Gags
A clipped, humorous page blends a verse scene about a kiss and a cautionary quip on friendship. It includes short, wry maxims from the Chicago News and Philadelphia Press, highlighting social mores, superstition, and tongue in cheek observations on love, truth, and propriety.
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Philadelphia Press
Metz Surrender and Bernstorff Memoirs Stir 19th Century Debates
The piece discusses Alphonse Hazain seeking to clear his father Marshal Bazaine’s name over the Metz surrender, tying memoirs of Count Bernstorff to Empress Eugenie and the 1870 siege. It covers interviews in London, peace efforts, and Bazaine's capitulation context, plus sideline notes on Lord Westbury and royal bloodlines.
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Dreyfus
Alphonse Hazaine
Isabella
Spain
Alfonso XII
France
Metz
Col. Banavia
Maitre Peyron
Ber
Nimes
Col Hazaine
Germany
Count Bernstorff
Ismarck
Berlin
London
Bazaine
Eugenie
Wilhelmshohe
Alsace
Lorraine
Gen
Boyer
Marshal Bazaine
Empres
Bhmarck
William
Count Bernstorif
Frederick Charles
Vernalien
Zaine
Marshal Bazainé
Bernstor
Eugenjs
Bismarck
Bursine
Eimpress Eugenie
Col Bazainele
Maximilian
Rmpress Charlotta
Roosevelt 1908 candidacy dismissed by Union League ally
A Union League Club friend argues President Roosevelt will not seek renomination in 1908. He says the White House statement was honest, reflecting reflection and purpose, and that Taft Fairbanks Root Shaw Foraker and Cummins supporters are already organizing to delegate plans.
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United States
Union League Club
Roosevelt
White House
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Taft
Fairbanks
Root
Shaw
Foraker
Cummins
Cummons
Good by to the Cowboys in Billings Montana
A Denver Republican report describes Billings Montana as a magnet for homesteaders from Iowa and the Middle West. It highlights young farmers seeking land with irrigation capable of three alfalfa crops and big yields, noting Western land’s lure and the shift of opportunity from cowpunchers to Midwestern settlers over time.
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Byam
Denver Republican
Billings
Mont
Musselshell Way
Iowa
Horamer
Hesainert
Crow Reservation
Middle States Land Office
Towa
Kansas
Nebraska
Missouri
Winola
Far West
Middle West
Rocky Mountain States
Tales From a Newspaper Page of Bright Bits
A collage of quips and vignettes from a bygone era in which a pocketbook mishap prompts a comic exchange about honesty and small temptations. Jokes about sailors knots and fashion mix with puns, street observations, and light moral musings reflecting daily life and public manners.
Gage Praises Theosophy In California Statement
Former Treasury Secretary Ly man J. Gage explains his coming to Point Loma California and his relation to theosophy in a carefully worded declaration. He cites reasons of climate simple living and personal friends, notes no formal ties to the military or theosophical society, and says he is choosing to live his own life.
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Point Loma
Chicago
the Tribune Today
Yan J. Gage
Secretary of the Treasury
Cal
Vila
San Diego
California
Theosophy, &c
United States Military Reservation
Hyes
Tale
Theosophical Society
Leman J
Gage
Turning Colorado River to Old Channel Near Salton
Salton, July 9. The Southern Pacific Company fights a closing river advance to redirect the Colorado River back into its old Gulf of California path. Forty miles of transcontinental line affected as crews and graders work Pilot Knob area. A nine mile spur to Hot Knob through Mexico begins to deliver materials to dam the intake.
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Cal
Salton Sea
Southern Pacific Company
Colorado River
Gulf of California
Pilot Knob
Yuma
Hot Knob
Mexico
Tobacco men demur in interstate traffic case
New York July demurrers were filed in federal court against indictments found by the grand jury against the MacAndrews & Forbes Company New York J S Young Company Baltimore subsidiaries of the American Tobacco Company Carl Jungbluth president MacAndrews & Forbes Howard E Young president J S Young Company charging violations of the interstate commerce law in restraint of trade The demurrers allege the acts charged do not constitute a crime under the statute facts not set forth with sufficient particularity and improper joining of defendants
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United States District Court
Federal Grand Jury
MacAndrews & Forbes Company
J. S. Young Company
Baltimore
American Tobacto Company
Carl Jungbluth
Howard E. Young
J. 8. Young Company
Independent judiciary ticket named for New York county
The committee of lawyers chaired by Joseph H Choate and with Alton B Parker as vice chairman announced selections for an independent judiciary ticket in New York County. Justices for the Supreme Court first department include Michael H Carton Edward Clinch Theodore Connolly Lewis L Delsfeld John Fran kehheimer Leonard A Glegerich Arthur H Masten Samuel H Ordway Charles E Rushmore and Edward B Wiltner.
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New York
Committee of Lawyers
Joseph H. Choate
Alton B. Parker
Independent Judiciary
Supreme Court of the First Department
Michael H. Carton
Edward &. Clinch
Theodore Connolly
Lewis L. Delsfeld
John Frankenheimer
Leonard A. Glegerich
Arthur H Masten
Samuel H Ordway
Charles E. Rushmore
Edward B. Wiltner
Frank T Fitzgerald
Geenlons
Finfos Bowing
Willlem & Wsatt
Soldier Regains Antietam Identification Badge
Utica New York July 1902 44 years after the battle of Antietam Zelie Smith of Whitesboro recovers his lost identification badge. The badge dug up in 1902 by farm laborer Hugh Spickman and later seen by battlefield guide CT Reilly passed through State Historian Hugh Hastings to Gen Anson G McCook of New York. The badge was finally returned to Zelie via the New York State Battlefield Commission after a lengthy search for the rightful owner or heirs.
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Antietam
Hugh Hastings
Zelia
St” Albany
Forty
New York Volunteers
Ellsworth Avengers
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C T Reilly
New York State
Mielle
McCook
Wisconsin Politics and Jamestown Exposition Projections
Key figures in Wisconsin politics advocate for Senator Spooner over La Follette, with business leaders in Racine and Chicago praising Spooner’s conservatism. Exposition funding and construction progress for Jamestown 1907 are outlined, including the administration and transportation buildings and state contracts. Discussion of legislative revision challenges follows, stressing need for phased actions and accurate codification.
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Wisconsin
John F. Johnson
Racine, Wis
la Follette
Davidson
Bpooner
Thomas F. Hanley
Chicago
Raleigh
C. Brooks Johnson
Board of Governors
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Uys
Pardoned murderer still jailed amid policy dispute
Pedro daswell, pardoned by Gov After, remains in state prison as authorities decide his final fate. He refused to sail to Italy after release, was deemed insane aboard the ship, and forced ashore. He was sentenced to life on May 7, 101 for murder in Rumford. The prison warden lacks authority to detain him.
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Pedro Daswell
Jaswell
Italy
Romania
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Insene
George Callms
Rumford
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