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The notice details subscription options for The Washington Post including daily and Sunday delivery by carrier in Washington and Alexandria, mail options, prices, and payment methods. It also includes how to change addresses and how to order, with guidance on advance payment and foreign advertising representation. The piece closes with editorial opinion about O'Brien, fame, and social climbers referencing $1,600 as a landmark of affluence.
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Diggs Caminetti Case Sparks Political Hype In San Francisco
A San Francisco hearing exposed the Diggs Caminetti case as a political skirmish. Judge Van Fleet rebuked a grand jury for criticizing McReynolds and Wilson. The piece argues no government dereliction and condemns muckraking by politicians and ill informed public.
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San Francisco
United States
van Fleet
McReynolds
Wilson
Buncombe
Diggs
Caminetti
Washington
Happiness for John O'Brien in Van Buren Arkansas
John O'Brien of New York abandons millionaire circles to live in Van Buren Arkansas earning 1500 dollars a year and claims happiness. The piece treats happiness as relative to environment and notes Van Buren's own social and economic milieu, suggesting adaptation defines fulfillment rather than wealth or status.
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John O'Brien
New York
van Buren
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O’brien
Board of Trade
Atchison, Kans
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Molly Smith
Jane Evans
O'Brien
Arkansas
Martin Luther
Cap Potts Plucked By Fate In Navy Career
The piece reflects on Capt Templin M Potts facing an irony of fate as he, despite long shore duty and a push for sea service, is set to be promoted to rear admiral only after fulfilling more sea time. Secretary Daniels favored sea service for officers, while Potts was reassigned to sea duties, then faced postponement of promotion on the eve of recognition.
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Navy
Templin M. Potts
Washington
Daniels
Navy Department
Naval Service
Naval Affairs
Potts
Europe
Atlantic
Scotland
United Kingdom
Lfe
Mr. Gladstone
Lord Rosebery
Marquise DE Foxtenqy
Brentwood Company
U. S
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Louis P. Hoster
Columbus
Ohio
Germany
Trinidad
Wester
Occidental
West
South America
Canada’s New Bank Law Opens With Distinct Canadian Approach
Canada's new bank law took effect July 1 and departs from the Glass Owen plan by placing a central gold reserve at Montreal and giving bank members electors control. The board will appoint 40 auditors, chosen by stockholders later, creating independent audits and avoiding centralized government domination. The system allows flexible circulation and retains crop emergency provisions, showing a practical, nonrestrictive design.
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Canada
Montreal
Minister of Finance
Ottawa
London Airship Service Planned Between English Cities
The Post reports a regular passenger airship service between English cities is planned with a London to Paris extension. A new semirigid dirigible is said to reach 60 miles per hour, aiming to outpace the Zeppelin model. Zeppelin shareholders face disappointment as last year’s figures show more passengers and higher earnings but a loss of 375 009 dollars.
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London
Paris
Zeppelin Company
Germany
Zeppelin
Costly Zeppelin ventures threaten fiscal balance amid risky flights
The deficit grows as new airships rise from 100000 to 250000 dollars due to larger size complex machinery and patent royalties. A wrecked Zeppelin incurs heavy writeoffs, while meteorological and route factors show no clear edge for London-Paris flight over German paths. Promoters cling to a hopeful forecast despite repeated financial disasters in aerial navigation.
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Newlands bill delays amid rail strike threat
Congress stalls as 45 eastern railroads face a potential nationwide strike threatening millions in daily losses. Railroads push for enlarged Hidman arbitration board via Newlands bill, with opponents wary of public impact and costs. Public harm from delays, shipments, and contracts cited. arbitration change supported by labor and industry.
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Hidman Arbitration Board
House
Senate
Eastern
Congress
Persian Empire on Verge of Collapse, Britain and Russia Eye Roles
The article argues Persia faces imminent disintegration under a corrupt regime. It notes Sir Walter Townley's London report detailing chaos, with Russia occupying northern provinces and Britain aiming to secure trade via a southern sphere. It argues a split control would stabilize life for property owners while warning of jewel loot risks.
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George
Nolens
London
Foreign Office
Walter
Washington
Susan
Derek
George Keppel
Teheran
Sir Walter
Persian Empire
Gibbon
Roman Empire
Persia
Shah
Oxford
Edward Grey
Tabrias
Russia
England
Great Britain
St. Petersburg
Europe
America
Orient
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Juxton
Charles II
Holland
Travernier
Congress Condensed Senate and House Actions
The Senate planned a session after routine committee activity with a lobby probe and favorable public lands report. The finance panel prepared the tariff bill for printing while banking and currency work began. The House adopted the Mulhall investigation call, planned public currency sessions, and McAdoo sought 18,150 for a lighting plant at the Government Hospital for the Insane before adjourning at 3 40 p m.
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Banking and Currency Committee
Henry
House
Mann
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McAdoo
Government Hospital
Graves Heads to Alaska to Study Chugach Forest
Henry Graves chief of the forest service left yesterday for Alaska to personally study conditions in the Chugach national forest. Efforts seek restoration of territory to the public domain arguing it is not properly forest land. Timber supply estimates range from 18,000,000,000 to 30,600,000,000 feet.
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Henry 8S. Graves
Forest Service
Alaska
Chugach
National Forest
Students Study War Game at Gettysburg Camp
In Gettysburg Pennsylvania July 3 one hundred forty one students from forty colleges engage in a six week military training camp led by Regular Army Maj McHae and officers from every service branch. Reveille at 5 20 drills and maneuvers precede a war game lecture period. Idaho Wins Gunnery Trophy for final merit in gunnery among twenty one ships. Navy congratulates Capt Howard Idaho commander.
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Wisconsin
Lfe
Maj
McHae
Fifth Infantry
Idaho
Navy Department
W. L. Howard
Army Orders Delays and Board Examinations At Forts Plattsburg Hoboken
Army orders list leaves of absence for several officers and notes a board of officers to meet at Fort Leavenworth on August 1 to examine enlisted men for promotion fitness. Additional boards will convene at Plattsburg Barracks and Fort Jay for officer appointments and medical corps appointments. Several lieutenants are assigned new duties and postings at Meade, Snelling, Leon Springs, and Texas City.
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Henry B. Clagett
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Hoboken
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Naval Orders Detachments and Promotions Listed
Commander Philip Andrews to command Maryland. Lieut. Comar J T Tompkins detached to Wisconsin. Several lieutenants and junior grades commissioned or reassigned. Ensign Helmick resigns. Assistant surgeons named in medical reserve corps. Marine Corps orders place Second Lieutenant Thes at Adv Base School. Arrivals and movements listed for multiple ships and yards.
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Montana
Maryland
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Wisconsin
Wall
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Pacific Reserve Fleet
Quaier
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Botsford
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H. H. J. Benson
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W. B. Hetfield
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F. H. Haigler
Bruce Elmore
C. C. Ammerman
M. HI. C
E. A. Schumann
I. Payne
Marine Corps
R. H. Thes, Jr
Magine Warracks
Navy Yard
Washington, D. C
Advantve Base
Philadelphia
Problems for Aviators. Flight of Gulls Leads to Exposition
A discussion in The Auk of William Brewster's claim that gulls kept pace with a moving steamer, proposing two theories of air currents and wind interaction. Forbes argues the observed horizontality was illusion, suggesting gulls rode ascending currents caused by ship motion, with confirmation from gulfs avoiding the steamer’s ice where upward air is absent.
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New York Times
Auk
William Brewster
Leeward
Brewster
Alexander Forbes
Mr. Forbes
McDevitt Seeks City Commissioner Post in Open Town
John Jay McDevitt announces his candidacy for city commissioner under a new form of government. He advocates a wide open town with nightlife and recreation, criticizing reform efforts and pledging honesty and bold leadership if elected.
Unusual Feats of Memory by Historical Figures
The London Chronicle recounts extraordinary mnemonists like John Wesley’s cited Bible expert Thomas Walsh who recalled word counts and meanings across Hebrew and Greek texts. It also notes Macaulay’s prowess in quotes from Demosthenes Milton and parts of the Bible. A Scottish servant girl, though nearly illiterate, recited long Hebrew Bible passages while delirious, learned from overheard readings in the minister’s study.
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London Chronicle
John Wesley
Wesley
Thomas Walsh
Walsh
James Stephen
Hen Causes A Strike At Northeast Railway Station
A porter moving a crate of live hens finds an egg, triggering a sudden work stoppage by railway staff until the district superintendent orders the porter released. The egg remains in the superintendent’s office as officials decide its fate.
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New York Times
No Reciprocity for Him. Brooklyn Citizen Snippet
A brief item from the Brooklyn Citizen notes a humorous exchange where a customer offers to trade on credit but the grocer refuses, quipping that the man is an undertaker, so no reciprocal trade. The tiny anecdote reflects streetwise morality and local humor.
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Grand Opera War in Court in New York
The Metropolitan Opera Company seeks an injunction to block Oscar Hammerstein and his son Arthur from building a rival grand opera house and producing operas in competition. The suit claims contracts with Edward T. Stotesbury bar Hammersteins from grand opera in New York and other cities for ten years, tied to a $1,200,000 sale of their business and goodwill.
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Muller Praises Washington as Most Charming City for Envoy
Brazil's Secretary of State and special envoy Dr Laura Muller completed a 10 000 mile US tour visiting major sites He called the Grand Canyon the most unusual thing in the world and Washington DC the most charming city he had seen He praised New York and Chicago skyscrapers as distinctive achievements and forecast the Panama Pacific Exposition and the Panama Canal opening would bring great national credit and importance
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Chicago
Laura Muller
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East
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Grand Canyon
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Pfy
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Von Buelow Leaves Washington for Berlin Embassy Transfer
Bernard von Buelow, until now at the German embassy in Washington, is recalled to Berlin to join the foreign office. He traveled with Countess von Bernstorff’s party in April and has served about a year in Washington. He will prepare for a future secretary position through study and examination. He is unmarried and about 30 years old.
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Berlin
Foreign Office
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Salem to Give Free Cook Stoves to Poor Families
In Salem Massachusetts on July 9, it became known that under the will of Thomas W. Sweetser who died in Boston 59 years ago a free cook stove and cooking utensils will be provided to each very poor family if the city accepts provisions of the will. The will directs $10,000 to be paid to the city and $600 annually to buy stoves if the estate is at least $30,000.
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Mass
Thomas W. Sweetser
Boston
Weather Forecast From U S Department of Agriculture
Thundershowers drenched the upper Mississippi valley to New England with rural showers across Florida Tennessee Arkansas Kansas Nebraska Colorado and the northern Rockies. Temperatures cooled in plains central valleys upper lake region and north Pacific while the Northwest rose. Showers expected in the upper Ohio valley middle Atlantic and New England then fair in many regions Thursday and Friday with warmer plains and Northwest and cooler Northwest Friday. Winds along New England coast moderate southwest to west. mid Atlantic and Gulf coasts south to southeast. Steamers to Europe face moderate to brisk southwest and west winds with showers to Grand Banks. Local report notes midnight 67 F to 77 F through day with humidity and rainfall figures.
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Democratic program linked to tariff and currency hopes in Wyoming
Col John Charles Thompson of Cheyenne argues the fate of democracy rests on how the administration implements the Baltimore platform, with tariff and currency reforms tied to lower living costs. He praises Wyoming dry farming gains and laments meat prices while noting cattle scarcity in Texas and rising grain shipments from Pine Bluff.
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Will of penniless Western farmer shocks relatives
A brief archaic will fragment from a wealthy regional farmer ends with the line I leave the earth. He states his relatives have long desired his fortune, but the document leaves only one thing behind, stirring family questions about his estate.
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