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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1905
Page
12
A midweek market note reports liberal trade orders boosting railway earnings for the first half of July with a stronger pig iron market and higher unit prices. Wholesale and jobbing trade show good volume while weather and crop movements support fall trade prospects. manufacturing activity remains mixed with summer shutdowns easing.
An account describes opposition to transferring temple property for a new school and free tuition for nearby children. It notes fears of private pockets and mentions officials, missionaries, and local gentry resisting the plan. The piece also critiques postal service waste and free-matter misuse in Harpers Weekly.
The Washington Association gathered at the New Willard to plan the American Bankers Association meeting in October. Executive committee sets dates and venues for sessions while arranging committees for finance, auditing, program souvenirs, and logistics for the national convention in the city.
Real estate broker Whitefield McKintay filed for voluntary bankruptcy. Assets listed at 15 242 dollars, liabilities 99 343 dollars, including 383 24764 from deposits of Capital Savings Bank stockholders. Case follows Court of Appeals ruling holding bank stockholders liable for bank debts. Most claims secured by real estate, with estate mainly real property and local stocks.
List of seven days ending July 19 detailing officer transfers leaves and reassignments across the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service including grants of advance pay, medical examinations of lifesaving keepers, quarantines, and numerous leaves of absence for officers such as F W Mond Rupert Blue J T Burkhalter and others with dates extending from July to August 1905.
A Harpare Weekly report describes a German incandescent lamp using a tantalum filament drawn from a new metal. Tantalum proves a poor electrical conductor with a very high melting point and strong formability, enabling bright efficient light far above carbon filaments when heated.
A Chicago Record Herald report recounts a distraught depositor who wrapped ten thousand dollars in a newspaper and moved it to another bank to deliver to a fiancé. Bankers describe women as often misunderstanding deposits and collection notes, leading to overdrafts and forged or misused signatures.
Elbert Hubb argues that parcel post is a universal post office expansion that would replace private express companies. He extols government provision, cites arbitrary express rates, and notes officials like Wanamaker facing five insurmountable obstacles to parcel post. He urges citizens to demand postal reform and rue express firms as costly and unnecessary.
Special to The Washington Fest New York reports Rev A J Fisher, assigned to Shek Lung China by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, held a house warming for a new mission home. A baby, described as the “star,” drew hundreds, with guards posting tickets and doors opened to about 600 guests. The infant’s charm brought locals closer to the missionary family as crowds gathered to glimpse him and the scene as tea and cakes were served.
The New York Tribune reports a three inch wide by ten inch at the broad end parcel along Canal Street in the Bronx was condemned to widen the street. Belmont sold the strip to the city for about 3000 dollars, while Orin J. Stevens pressed for the land. The Board of Estimate decided in favor of Stevens after debate led by Nelson P. Lewis.
Serious conversation in London has nearly vanished except on money making. Gossip spreaders and those peddling drivel with smiles gain popularity rather than substantive discourse.
Sir Oliver Lodge spoke at the London Mat Dental Hospital in Birmingham noting general neglect of teeth and arguing that brain development in civilized races correlates with poorer dentition. He joked brains grow as teeth disappear, suggesting high civilization may worsen digestion and tooth loss. A travel snippet references Baltimore trips by train.
Ranchers celebrate after "Old Bob" the mountain lion is shot near Ballda in the Collegiate Mountains. The male, weighing 225 pounds and fourteen feet long, had terrorized stockmen for five years, killing calves and colts. The mate and two cubs were captured, then killed. Old Bob died defending his family as Hicks's rifle ended the threat.
Senator W A Clark builds a New York home at Fifth Avenue and Seventy Seventh Street using his own granite sources. He bypassed a $450,000 price surge by locating a nearby unworked quarry in Maine and securing an option for $20,000, then opened a Portland stone dressing plant to control supplies and cut costs by about half a million dollars.
Mr Clement Shorter argues the Irving photograph copyright ruling should warn public figures and editors of illustrated journals. He notes Sir Henry Irving paid a photographer for prints while incurring substantial legal costs, and suggests public men may now demand copyright control before sitting for portraits.
A miscellany of ads and updates near the Patent Office area cites Miserman Sultan building deadlines, clothing and household goods sales, dental and medical services, ice delivery assurances, jewelry and watch repairs, and a rights talk on photography Copyright questions surface amid market chatter and a trip to Atlantic City.
A collage of small notices lists Burdine Comer Wa and other merchants offering union goods and summer specialties. It mentions Horace Chandice at Paconiso Springs Virginia, George Croswell real estate at 421 Tth st sw, and various products from coffee to roasted chickens. Several personalities like Mr Hugh Relley and Mr Will Chesley appear in brief items with travel and shopping notes.
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