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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1910
Page
9
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Washington sends a naval drill down the Potomac led by Capt Stratton while 2,000 District National Guard depart for Gettysburg to practice the war game. Militia drills emphasize regular army tactics and solid regulations learned from the Spanish War, with praise expected for their performance at sieges such as Boston.
A callow youth leverages kinship to Theodore Douglas Robinson and Sagamore Hill signals, challenging the Republican machine in Helkimer county. The piece dismisses claims of a national stir and asserts the candidate represents himself and offers no real policy beyond old party lines.
A French proposal would compel government workers over 25 to marry, or resign, to boost birthrates for future workers and soldiers. The idea, framed as patriotism, contrasts with American views where legal compulsion seems unlikely and gender roles complicate any such policy.
The piece argues that wartime sentiment in Europe mirrors domestic concerns over bread and necessity, warning that intervention may loom in Nicaragua. It details Norway recognizing a fictitious Bluefields blockade, risking American commerce, and suggests the United States may intervene to restore order and protect citizens, commerce, and elections in Nicaragua.
The piece argues England focuses on Queen Mary’s sewing duties and frugal household rules under royal supervision. It portrays Alexandra as background, notes strict allowances for royal children, and mocks anti-tax critics while praising public interest in domestic royal life.
In Manhattan the seasonal test keeps actors moving along the midsummer stretches of Broadway known as the Rialto. Police scatter groups of thespians who compare notes with dramatis personae, agents, or fellow performers, amid personal, professional, and political chatter. The piece hints at a link to Parisian patrols and Latin law as a broader legal curiosity.
The piece argues that pedestrians have right to stand or chat on sidewalks without hindrance, with vehicles yielding afterward. It urges peaceful protest and suggests test cases to challenge policing practices, warning against petty tyranny and praising civil rights assertions. It frames sidewalk freedom as foundational and criticizes aggressive enforcement.
A detailed critique of William Jennings Bryan and his Nebraska prospects after the state primaries. The piece argues Bryan misread public sentiment, skewered his own leadership, and portrays his influence as diminishing, with Prohibition party implications. It also surveys Cleveland streetcar fare battles, political jests, and editorial exchanges.
Louisville Courier Journal notes a proposed city ordinance to haul drunken men home rather than to stations. Some aldermen push sobering up at municipal expense and a sobriety station, while others warn of misdelivery and sentimentality. The piece argues the concept merits serious consideration to avoid chaotic homecomings.
An editorial notes the aging Civil War veteran population and rising pension costs, predicting gradual elimination of veteran pensions and possible push for universal old age schemes. It warns a broader civil pension plan may face long political debate and potential expansion of benefits beyond veterans. A second item recounts an Atlantic City motorist's double traffic offense ending in arrests and fines, highlighting reckless driving and police enforcement.
A quirky exchange features a housekeeper questioning why a weary man cannot find work. He replies humorously that he is a kindergartner and that a self-inflicted race death has driven him out of business, framing a strange moral along with his jobless plight.
No make-up can hide bad acting. Smart money deliberates more than it talks. No dinner is good that doesn't linger with its best course. Argument unsettles the temper oftener than it settles the point. Many a speech dwells longer in delivery than in the minds of the audience. A poker player with a losing face and winning hand can be costly. A too active mind tends to outpace its tools. There are as many semi attached married couples as semidetached houses.
Lord Newport, earlier known as Robert Jocelyn, inherits a new title from an Irish Newport, while his family links trace to the late Earl of Beden. The piece follows Lady Violet Jocelyn Watt's scandalous divorce and alleged mistreatment, ending with public sympathy for Violet and Hugh Watt. It also reports the death of Count Nicholas Leontieff, a self styled Abyssinian envoy whose false claims led to dubious ventures in Belgium and Russia, ending in his notoriety.
The New York Times argues that electrical currents can hasten plant growth, but insists farmers must learn advanced agricultural science. It criticizes widespread old farming practices, notes wasted potential, and urges renewed focus on applying knowledge to boost yields, reduce costs, and revive rural prosperity.
An Omaha Bee opinion argues men complain of women entering every labor sphere. It suggests men could switch to domestic service as cooks in households, noting even in large cities male chefs exist and proposing advantages like regular time off and steady pay.
The piece ridicules the summer widower plight as wives flee for vacations. It lampoons the husband left at home, alone in a quiet house, missing snoring, milk deliveries, and nightly comforts while wives and children are away. The editor notes the humor and pity in this yearly state.
In a Harper's Weekly style dialogue a boy asks what it means that Col. Binks has opponents lashed to the mast. The elder explains the expression implies Binks dominates rivals, using vivid nautical slang to convey political persistence and sharp eye.
The Texas Commercial Secretaries' Association pushes a plan to attract manufacturing capital by solving a labor shortage. It argues skilled workers from elsewhere are needed first, with higher wages and better conditions, to train local labor and attract home seekers, echoing the notion that Texas must draw white labor from abroad to spur industry.
Samuel Minturn Peck narrates a playful Boston scene where Dear Lottie, in a red gown, smiles at a clumsy kiss and a clumsy knot as the speaker ties Lottie's shoe. The poem captures shy affection, trembling hands, and a novel love knot formed by a small act.
A child hero rides daringly in play rooms and battles imagined foes across hallway seas and curtains. The Newark Star shares comic dialect stories by Jim McDermit about a traveling salesman and a poolside pond with a silent pond fish and a witty retort about housework. Reflections of a bachelor offer social wit on desire for recognition and perpetual youth.
A compilation of visitor remarks in Washington notes the use of allegorical pageants to celebrate historic anniversaries, the potential of airships to promote world peace, and the rising emphasis on deep breathing in public health and military training. Speakers from Albany to Philadelphia discuss education, insect control, birds as pest deterrents, and the spread of direct primary voting across states.
From Youth's Companion this clipped item offers satirical musings on honesty, patience, and personal discretion. It humorously contrasts a milkman’s song with waiter wagon life and notes how men and women perceive age and opportunity differently.
A visitor asks for suggestions on two principal poems Dying Love and Autumn Fires. The editor replies that the only suggestion is to blend the first poem into the second and report back on the outcome.
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