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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1916
Page
13
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Washingtonians leaving the city are urged to keep THE POST with them to stay informed about affairs at the Capital. Addresses can be changed frequently and the paper will be mailed promptly nationwide. Send orders to POST, Main 4206, giving old and new addresses and how long to mulch. Subscriptions payable in advance to the Washington Post Company.
The condition of the United States Treasury at the close of business yesterday shows a net balance in the general fund of 228,307,475 dollars. Total ordinary receipts amount to 1,720,407 dollars and ordinary payments total 1,442,923 dollars. The deficit this fiscal year stands at 9,907,069 dollars, compared with a 11,281,030 dollar deficit last year, excluding Panama Canal and public debt transactions.
The House holds power to enact a real naval preparation or risk inviting foreign powers to exploit weakness. Senate amendments urge larger ships and more manpower to defend the New World and uphold the Monroe doctrine. Democrats faces a choice between national defense and political stigma, with consequences for Panama Canal and Pacific positions.
The Prohibition party, acknowledging unlikely success in a national race, nominates a steadfast advocate at St. Paul. It rejects William Sulzer, former New York governor, as a candidate. The move signals a firm commitment to the party's core principles despite low odds.
The Prohibition Party settled on J Frank Hanly over Sulzer to preserve party principles. Sulzer’s sensational campaign was seen as risking religious intolerance and eroding the party’s core ideals, despite possible vote gains. Hanly’s nomination aims to keep the movement’s entity intact and faithful to its platform.
Pancho Villa may rally 1,800 to 18,000 men toward Torreon if reports from Gen Pershing are true. The piece argues Villa could sway Carranza loyalists, disrupt proposed commissions, and press US forces toward decisive action rather than negotiation. It cautions Carranza cooperation would risk US aims and urges Pershing to advance without aid from Carranza factions.
The piece argues human nature remains constant despite hopes for improvement. It cites Senator Cummins calling war history a growing danger yet asserts battles persist with unchanged aims. It reflects on Europe's drive toward a universal parliament amid ongoing conflict and deteriorating impulses.
The passage argues that a faction plans a war to the death against outsiders with no quarter or neutrality for neutrals. It claims recognition will be punished and nations must bow or face punishment. It reflects wartime rhetoric and the belief that the world is approaching a grave emergency.
A long op-ed argues for limited foreign trade restrictions and for American traders to combine for foreign trade defense. It defends Hurley’s view, warns against domestic restraints, and calls for a U.S. merchant marine to counter British and German pressures amid a global commercial struggle.
Prince Wedel is chosen to lead the Berlin organized national committees to mold German public opinion toward an honorable peace. He has a long career from Hanoverian cavalry to Prussian diplomacy, with a fall and return to favor, inclining toward Alsace Lorraine reconciliation and Berlin governance, amid imperial favor and royal marriages.
A fragmented anecdote captures a soldier bidding farewell before deployment with a lover promising to look at the star she named. The text blends a wartime line about nightly thoughts with a quip about music and age, referencing Crass Criticism and Birmingham Herald.
Congress condensed as further efforts toward Senate action urging clamony for Bip Roger Case ment failed. Debate continued on the army appropriation bill with 486,000,000 cut due to improved Mexican conditions. Recessed at 6 until 10 Monday morning. House not in session meets Tuesday at noon.
In Lerttner's Magazine a tale recalls Flockton of the old Lyceum living with Alexander Salvini in a New York flat. A window signal system uses shop items to convey an order for dinner. Boots, coats, and garments are swapped as coded messages to nearby tradespeople who supply the meal.
Fragmentary verse recounts a widowed narrator recalling a past Irish romance. Images of moonlit nights, a village green, and a dancer from Kildare evoke a longing for a vanished beloved known as Michaela. The speaker laments separation, old wounds, and a faded joy carried in the beloved’s Irish eyes.
From the Bowton Post Charlotte Smith, president of the Women’s Homestead Association, asserts that about seven percent of militiamen at the Mexican border are married. She leads a chain of letters to the War Department protesting federal oath requirements for married volunteers while single men remain behind.
A long profile notes Viscountess Christobella Bay's life ending July 23 1789 at age about 95. It highlights her wealth from three marriages Doddershall House lively social life dancing into old age and a quip about her lost baptismal record. It also mentions her charitable will and a separate note on Amelia Bloomer’s 1851 ball introducing the Bloomer dress.
A New York Independent note discusses Kilimanjaro’s location being split by a British German boundary drawn in 1990, the Kaiser’s desire for Africa’s highest point, and Kilimanjaro named Kaiser Wilhelm Spitze by Dr. Hans Meyer. The piece blends geography, history, and poetry, mentioning explorers Rebmann and Aristotle, and contrasting alpine snows with tropical forests as Bayard Taylor poets reflect on the mountain’s surreal position.
from the London Telegraph report the Pennsylvania castle known as Red King’s Castle linked to the Norman ruins Rufus raatle and Thomas Hardy’s The Well Beloved was sold by auction in Dorchester by order of the Merrick Head executors. The property fetched £5950 (329,750).
A fragmentary Baltimore scene shows Cholly Ayres-Yaa and Miss Keen exchanging a polite, kind message after the Parkers have stopped calling. The tone suggests small social friction and lingering courtesy amid poverty or disappointment.
At the Willard hotel observers from St Louis and Helena discuss a booming President’s popularity, Missouri’s likely Democratic victory, and looming senatorial races in Montana. Notes on Li Yuan Hung in China, copper tax politics, and growing U.S. economy offer broad context.
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