Washington Post subscription rates and details for 1916
The Washington Post lists subscription pricing by mail and carrier with daily and Sunday options. Notices specify delivery area Washington and Alexandria, payment methods, and foreign advertising contact, dated Thursday July 14 1916.
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Washington
Alexandria
Dally
Daly
Washington Fost CO
Washington, DC
Washington, D.C
Paul Block
Finch Avenue
New York
Steger
Chicago
Let The Post Follow You In Washington
Washingtonians are urged to keep informed about Capital affairs by The Post by updating addresses as needed. Subscriptions and rates are listed, with orders to Post Telephone 4203. The freight rate question remains unsettled, delaying final decisions and keeping markets wary as hearings and inquiries prolong the analysis of proposed railroad rate increases and passenger charges.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Short Weights in the District Probe
Col Haskell district weights and measures chief campaigns against grocers using false weights and cut price ads. He notes many cheats profit at public expense, especially harming poorer residents. Aims to retry suspects who forfeit bonds to curb the growing practice with prosecutions and jail terms.
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Col Haskell
Gounge
Haskell
A Glance Ahead of River Trade and Future Transport
A historical forecast notes vast river traffic from Fittsburg to Cairo via the Ohio and Mississippi, shifting from wooden to steel barges, and envisions airships eventually supplanting ships and trains. It predicts open river seasons, expanding trade, and a century of transformative transport, with river, sea, rail all evolving toward new uses.
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Fittsburg
Ohio
Mississippi
Fitzaburg
Cairo
Ohio River
Ohio Valley
Mississippi Valley
Colonial prospects and Cuban development under the Platt amendment
The text discusses government devotion to grasslands and self salvation, envisioning Cuban cities rising under independence yet subject to intervention for order, property, or sanitation. It notes Cuba’s resources of sugar, tobacco, forests, and minerals, urging prudent investment and labor while natives pursue patriotism.
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United States
Platt
Cube
Open Door in Manchuria Faces New Diplomatic Test
The article argues the open door policy remains rhetoric as Russia and Japan lock the Manchurian door with a status quo, while China is pressured into favorable treaties. It notes U S, British, and German leaders may protest. London sees open door in the new treaty, yet power interests may prevail.
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Manchuria
John Hay
Portemouth
Russia
Japan
State Department
Baron Rosen
China
Knox
Rusa
America
St Petersburg
Tokyo
Berlin
Great Britain
Germany
London
Moving Pictures and Mothers Inspire Moral Education Trial
A Boston inspection of Milton Fairchilds graphic teaching method, tested in over twenty states and in Japan, aims to use moving pictures to teach morals in public schools. While promising stronger visual lessons, guardians must use caution as vivid crime scenes can attract morbid imagination, and home influence remains crucial to moral training. A Lynn apple theft case shows parental bonds delaying punishment, underscoring limits of such media in shaping youth.
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Milton Fairchild
Boston
George Kennan
Japan
Lad
Lynn
House of Correction
The Task of Cuba and Its Quiet Progress
The day has passed when Cuba’s government can tolerate revolutions. Capital investment on the island has grown, producing vast plantations and rising sugar output under disciplined management. Prosperity for labor and capital, with equal legal rights, is seen as key to social and political order, making suppression likely of any Independent party of color conspiracy.
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Cuba
Independent Party of Color
Friends of Cuba
Medical Licenses Across States Spark Debate
A cross state dispute over medical licensing arises from New York and New Jersey interpreting high school requirements differently. New York refuses to recognize New Jersey licenses, while New Jersey allows simultaneous high school work with medical study, breaking a prior reciprocal practice. The issue highlights the push for uniform state laws to standardize medical education and licensure nationwide.
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New York
New Jersey
New York Board of Regents
Jailing the Lynchers Delivers a Strong Stand by Gov Harmon
Gov Harmon intensifies crackdown after Carl Etherington lynching in Newark Ohio. Mayor suspended, sheriff resigned, ten ringleaders jailed on first degree murder charges. Attorney general leads the investigation with aim of convictions to deter mobs nationwide.
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Newark
Suffrage Bill Blocked By Parliament Referenced To Committee
The suffrage bill faced a strategic move as parliament sent it to the committee of the whole for reference, delaying a third reading for about a year. Suffragettes outside the chamber lost hope as the government stalled with little public reaction, while other political notes touched on tariffs, Wall Street chatter, and international affairs.
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Parliamen
Public duty urged for Italian canal worker Alexandre Comba
The New York Times argues it is unworthy of a republic to abandon Comba, an Italian Panama Canal foreman who lost limbs, after being sent home as an immigrant. It calls for a legal remedy and public action to prevent him becoming a charge, urging justice beyond private charity and quicker adoption of humane employer responsibilities.
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The
New York Times
Alexandro Comba
Panama Canal
New York
Comba
Alexandre Comba
Italy
Aerial Warfare: World Powers Push Air Machines in War
The Chicago Post notes that airships and aeroplanes are seen as decisive in future wars. It argues Congress has underfunded U S aeroplane development while England Germany and France invest heavily. The piece recalls prior conflicts and urges peacetime spending as preparation for national safety and potential war.
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Chicago Post
Congress
United States
England
Germany
France
Capron
Santiago
National
Cuba
Coffenne
Congress of the United States
In a Nice Cool Sewar From the National Monthly
A humorous collage of quotes and quips on heat and daily life. The piece blends mock dialogue from Mrs Casey and Mrs Lacey about heat while a separate gag features Jinks and Binks at a bar. The humor shifts to pithy maxims on sympathy criticism and fate.
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The
National Monthly
Casey
Why Lord Alfred Hates Americans Leads London Gossip
The piece clues the Academy editor Lord Alfred Douglas and T W Crosland to a libel suit by Henry Manners Sutton over the paper’s anti American stance. It links royal intrigues to social circles in London and Washington, noting King George’s cabinet stance, Queen Anne era etiquette, and Holland House fame. It mentions Lord Londonderry, Lady Chester, Lady Ilchester, and the swannery at Abbotsbury as part of elite society’s web.
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Lord Atteed Dongies
London
The
Academy
Fleet
Henry Manners Sutton
Viscount Canterbury
Alfred Douglas
T. W. H. Crosland
Lord Alfred Douglas
Manners Sutton
Mannera Sutton
Alicea Cousins
New York
Washington, &c
Oscar Wilde
Lord Alfred
Washington
Marquis of
Queensbury
Sholto Douglas
California
George
Lady Giffen
Sir Robert Giffen
Queen Vicctoria
London Times
Privy Council
Queen Anne
Prince George
Queen Caroline
George II
Robert Walpole
Chelsea House
Robert
Walpole
George I
Nicholas
Francis Joseph
Turkey
Victor Emmanuel
Albert
Belgium
Wilhelmina
Holland
Kaiser
Bismarck
Scheater
New Fail
Uchester
Champer
Queen Mary
Lord
Londonderry House
Metbury House
Abbotsbury Castle
Dorsetshire
United Kingdom
Europe
Canute
England
Marquise DE Fontenoy
Hrentwood Company
Education of Doctors Tendency Toward Higher Standards
The piece discusses a New York New Jersey medical licensing dispute over education requirements. It notes the 1907 reciprocity allowing practice across states and the New Jersey interpretation that disrupts it. It argues for uniform education standards across states to ensure high physician and surgeon competence.
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New York
New Jersey
New York Board of Regents
Board of Regents
New York State
Union
Silent Thirty One Years Silent Man of Bedminster Dies
Silas Koffman, longtime Bedminster Township resident who spoke for 31 years only to die last night, failed to utter a word. He lived in isolation, cared for by his sister Mrs Margaret Lane, with a sparse income from Bedminster township. Physicians doubted insanity, noting apparent normality despite the prolonged silence. Funeral is set for Thursday at his house. He was 57.
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The
New York Tribune
Silas Koffman
Bedminster
Margaret Lane
Hoffman
Somerset County
Hoffmen
Bedminster Township
Hoffmean
Chicago News
New York
Dexter
Adirondacks
Henry Dexter
Bill Ingo i
Wes
Reelfoot Lake
Tennessee
Stoke
Franklin County
New Jersey Justice Promotes Domestic Self Help
A north Jersey justice of the peace endorses a bold domestic rule allowing a mistress to slap a delinquent cook or kick a helper if the maid causes mischief. The decision cites the home as a sovereign sphere, prompting sharp rebuttal from domestic workers associations and urging cautious adoption while advising gentleness toward household treasures.
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North Jersey
Jersey
Imports from Philippines prompt tariff policy debate
The Philadelphia Bulletin notes Taft argues for duty free Philippine sugar and tobacco as a matter of justice. It cites Aldrich Payne tariff limits and shows current imports are well below caps. It argues Philippine demand will grow and domestic growers unlikely to be hurt, urging broader tropical trade under the U S flag.
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Philadelphia Bulletin
Taft
Philippines
Louisana
Commonwealth
Aldrich-Payne
Pacific Archipelago
United States
Seaboard
H. F. Dickinson
Philadelphia
Shoreham
Vampire' Revamped and Jeffries Recalled in Verse
A critical verse recalling the Jeffries fight and his era, with names like Kipling and references to Jeffries who could never come back. The piece laments fools who wagered a fortune and the consequences of past bravado, framing the moral in a retrospective tone.
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Kipling
New York American
You
Jeffries
Jeff
Cou
Ice Cream Girl Speaks in Bold War Cry for Freedom
A dramatic verse mocks tyranny and gendered labor, contrasting old and new diets, as a figure denounces pricey sodas and demands end to pink ice cream being kept from women. The speaker rails against restriction from Iowa to the Everglades, calling for ongoing resistance with the chant I C E C R E A M F O R B E V E R.
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Iowa
Everglades
Would It Work from Puck
A brief cartoon caption shows a wife presenting rent and baby to the landlord while the husband suggests a future reminder to show the rent again. The exchange implies domestic humor about landlording and family life in a single-panel gag.
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Puck
Reflections of a Bachelor and Suffragette Thoughts
A collage of sharp wits and social musings from early 20th century press. Witty barbs on suffrage and gender roles mix with jokes about men, women, money, and marriage. A New York World excerpt questions social pretensions and outlines brisk opinions on romance and independence.
Views on Canadian experimental farms and U S topics from Washington visitors
In Washington, visitors discuss Canada’s experimental farm system led by Dr William Saunders, its regional farms, and its impact on agricultural knowledge and wealth. They contrast this with critiques of denatured alcohol, note abundant urban cats in the capital, and comment on American technical schools and tariff politics. They also predict a lively U S summer at coastal and resort areas.
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C L. Fishman
Bangor
Willard
William Saunders
North Plains
Saunders
Central Farm
Ottawa
Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Manitoba
Brandon
Northwest Territories
Indian Head
Canada
Northwest Dominion
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You and I
Ice-Cream Girl
Wiley Man
John O'Keefe
New York World
Sullivan
Myrtilla
New York Press
D. F. Layton
Milwaukee
Wits
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Httle
P D. Finch
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