Washington Post Subscription Rates 1810
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Carcer
Washington
Alexandria
Wdady
Mall
Washington Post CO
Washington, D. C
Paul Block
Firth Avenue
New York
Steger Tsuliding
Chicago
Dogs for Vivisection Sparks Washington Post Debate
The District commissioners consider a contract selling unclaimed city dogs to the Bureau of Animal Industry for vivisection. Antivivisectionists, Humane Society, and kennel groups protest. supporters claim economic benefit. Debate centers on ethics, revenue, and potential harm to pets.
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Washington
Gay~ Comment Bureau of Animal Industry
Antivivivecton Society
Humane Soreety
Kennel Clut
Wook Rover
Bureau of
Ial Ied
Perpo
Lars Haye
Lvhoe
Alliek
Hicapo
Etumane Sociéty
Pownd
Sam
Bureau of Animal Industry
Harriman Fortune Now Put At 71 Million Or Less
The estate of Harriman, once estimated between 50 million and 200 million, is now valued at about 71 million by Charles Peabody, chief adviser to Mrs Harriman. The drop halves earlier forecasts, challenging the Wall Street deluge prophecy that followed Harriman’s leadership of the market rise.
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Ced Howhiman
Mm Wat
Magwid
Charles Peabody
Artiman
Blarkiman
Harriman
Wall Street
The Crippen case and Scotland Yard’s flaws
An optimistic view hints the Crippen case exposes underlying causes and faults in Scotland Yard. The piece argues Yard relies on secrecy, resists publicity, and outdated methods, hindering detection while criminal activity thrives in London. It calls for reform to make the force a truly serviceable agency.
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Crippen
Scotland Yard
London
Cripper
Scotland
England
American Aristocracy in the Metropolis Debate
The piece contrasts Mrs. Nannie Langhorne Astor with the Duchess of Marlborough, mocks aristocratic pretensions, cites Napoleonic and Habsburg boasts, condemns Albert of Habsburg for cruelty, and champions an honest heart under any garb while praising ancestral martial virtue.
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Nannie Langhome Astor
Duchess of Marlborough
Vanderbilt
Astor
Consuelo
Napoleon
Rudolph of
Hastings
Bannockburn
Crecy
Pottiers
Flodden Field
Two Eminent Women and the Chicago Example
The article lauds Jane Addams and Mrs. Killa Young as exemplary women in Chicago and the central West, praising Addams for civic problem focus and practical benevolence, and Young for educational philosophy and broad administration. It argues similar capable women exist beyond Chicago and celebrates daily philanthropy nationwide.
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Chicago
Jane Addams
Killa Young
Central West
Miss Addams
Mrs. Young
Young
A Cow of Fame in Milk and Mythic Issues
A column contrasts prized cow records with speed fame, notes on New Crimes in Cities and judge led reform, then surveys crime trends like pickpockets and confidence schemes. It critiques municipal justice, praises reform, and lightly covers political currents and oddities from Bryan to Roosevelt era figures.
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Agricultural Department
University of Missouri
Missouri cow rivals record milk yield despite short time
Announcement praises a Missouri cow whose one third time output reached 11,536 pounds, daily 9.4 pounds and a top day of 11012 pounds. She exceeded butter fat standards, could yield 9% pounds of butter weekly, and lives in a well cared for, insulated home with strict diet and exercise. The note suggests any similar cow could reach comparable results in Maryland and Virginia.
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Josephine
Wisconsin
Johanne
Maryland
Virgina
Missouri
Long-Distance Air Plans Face The Atlantic Challenge
The piece notes intermittent progress on long distance air plans including Zeppelin inspired designs and a German engineer building a transcontinental airship. It mentions a Russian idea of a 1000 foot long balloon with metal alloy skin, a German disciple of Zeppelin with a keel within the craft, and gas or gasoline engines. It cites Russia and Italy pursuing experiments and hints at funding motives amid wartime fears while wishing safe progress and progress in air travel.
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Atlantic
Lfe
England
London
Berlin
Zeppelin
United Kingdom
Russia
Italy
Mississippi Sharpshooter Scene Draws Nationwide Interest
A Chicago Inter Ocean dispatch from Eliott Mississippi details Deputy Sheriff Sid Cauley of Carroll County killing five men and wounding two in about ten seconds while they advanced with axes and pitchforks. The piece argues Mississippi leads rapid-fire homicide, noting repeated deadly confrontations, high death ratios, and quiet self-advertisement failures compared with other states.
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Chicago
Eliott
Miss
Sid Cauley
Carroll County
Bret Harter
Mississippi
Bresthitt
Tennessee
Rio Grande
Union
John Hay
Commonwealth
Jaguar Fishing by Fitzgerald Heads to Trinidad
Charles W. Fitzgerald, a naturalist explorer, sails for Trinidad to film and photograph jaguar fishing behavior and other wildlife on the Orinoco. He travels with two student assistants and plans minimal hunting, using rifles only for self protection, aiming to capture moving pictures of jaguars, snakes, and alligators.
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New York Sun
Charles W. Fitzgerald
Royal Mail
Mner Atrato
Trinidad
Boston
Mr. Fitzgerald
Orinoco
Mike
Negro Malady Incurable Fraud At Pasteur Institute
A Paris cablegram reports a fraud at Institut Pasteur where a man from eastern Africa posing as a sleeping sickness patient was treated at length before being discharged. Doctors later learned his illness was incurable, exposing the ruse amid a tale of lavish care and hopeful diagnosis.
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Paris
New York Tribune
Institut Pasteur
Africa
Post Philosophy and Observations on Life
Overwdek tires yet remains unfazed by life’s ups and downs. Two minds aligned may diverge in action. Chance ripens with difficulty to predict. A hard past often becomes a tender subject. Vacation money rarely sticks to its itinerary. Bad manners stem from timidity attempting to bluff. A stage villain Sigrath devours quick answers. The man who labors soon esteems capital.
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Sigrath
Ceanital
Gladstones Edict Offends the Boers in South Africa
Lord Gladstone begins as governor general of the union of South Africa with an edict demanding Dutch wives and Boers show homage to Lady Gladstone, provoking offense and ridicule among Boers. The piece notes past colonial appointments and critiques Gladstone’s tact and political spin alongside a digressive panorama of colonial governance. It also mentions Countess Camilla Hoyos, her fortune, origins, and connections, plus a brief profile of Sir David Hunter Blair, a British baronet turned Benedictine monk, and other noble lineages.
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Lord Gladstone
Union of
England
Lady Gladstone
Queen Mary
Queen Alexandra
London
South Africa
Home Department
House of Lords
Canada
Lord Durham
Heligoland in German British Bargain Revisited
In a Baltimore Sun reflection the ten year old swap of Heligoland for Zanzibar and Pemba is revisited. The piece notes Heligoland’s strategic shift to a German Gibraltar, describes island life past and present, and describes costly coast protection and Torpedo base developments funded by Germany to anchor ships and supply coal.
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Baltimore Sun
England
Zanzibar
Pemba
Heligoland
North Sea
Elba ‘River
Gibraltar
Cuxhaven
Tomb in Rear of Costly Home Sparks District Protest
In Venice's Coeur d'Alene district residents plan to petition the city trustees to restrain mining heir E. F. Kelner from completing a tomb for himself and wife behind his mansion. Kelner defends the plan as sentimental and notes a South. burial tradition. The tomb will be a concrete vault with two coffins and gold ore inscriptions, costing about 70 dollars per coffin and featuring ore from Kelner's collection. Also: New snake labor found to control potato bugs near Cadiz Ohio.
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Los Angeles Examiner
Coeur d'Alene
Venice
Board of Trustees of
E. F. Kelner
Kelner
South
Mr. Kelner
Arizona
Southland
Samuel K. McLaughlin
Cadiz
Ohio
Charles Albright
Simple Life Advice Promoted to Reach Centenarian Status
A Montgomery Advertiser excerpt mocks a physician claiming living to 140 is easy by simple living. Avoid alcohol and tobacco, sleep from 10 to 6, avoid excess, and live calmly. The writer notes they would not trade a lively pay night for such a century‑long dull life.
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Dow
Montgomery Advertiser
Alabama
Med
Montgomery
Five Baths in Sixty One Years From the World
A New York World item reports a Missouri man, Joh Sweeney of Joplin, arrested in Frisco yards on vagrancy. Claiming to be 3 years old and never shaved, his snow white beard stretches five feet seven inches. He is described as a lifelong tramp with only five baths in years, who has been put to work on streets and draws attention.
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David Hunter Blair
Order of St. Benedict
Amazon River
Europe
Pagett Stecher
Wiesbaden
Hunter Blair
Scotland
Forbeses
Pit Siigo
Edinburgh
Roswall
Johnson
Lockhardt
Sir Walter Scott
David
Eton
Magdalen College
Oxford
Pius IX
Leo XIII
Blairquhan Castle
Maybote
Ayrshire
Edward Hunter Blair
Royal Navy
Earl of Glasgow
Patagonia
Abbey
Fort Augustus
Galedonian
London
Marquire de F Fontenoy
Ceprright
Brentwood Company
New York World
Joh] Sweeney
Joplin
Frisco Yards
Natant
Bat Masterson’s Pal Fights Two Men In Tucson
Alfred Henry Lewis recalls Bat Masterson in Reno and Tucson bravado in a Shanley’s round table tale. Jim Bruce, a rugged Western frontiersman, roars back with whisker bets and a dramatic brush beard as Masterson’s presence sparks a lively debate over frontier justice. The poem by Douglas Dobbins reflects resilience and triumph after hardship.
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Bat” Masterson
Pal Bluffs
Tucson
New York
Reno
Alfred Henry Lewis
Round Table
Shanley's
Bat Masterson
Jeffries
Sea Masterson
West
Old Jim Bruce
Old Jim
Bat
Bruce
Missouri
Jim Bruce
Wild West
Fara
Masterson
Jack
Mr. Lewis
Crullers and a Nostalgic Café Dream
A poetic reminiscence compares a simple old-fashioned cruller to gourmet fantasies. The narrator sits in a modern cafe dreaming of a childhood treat, describing the dough, frying, and the hot, browning crullers rising from the caldron to the pan. The piece blends culinary longing with vivid sensory detail.
Cash Owed Sparks Old Village Debt Visit
A Cleve and Leader excerpt shows a magnate grilling a former neighbor, Hank, over a 473.62 debt from a grocery job era as a village gotcha. The Los Angeles Times piece pivots to Placerville’s gold rush era dining prices at the Eldorado Hotel, listing steakhouses and meals priced in gold scales and dollars, including a square meal with dessert at 3 dollars, and various beef, hash, and pudding items with price detail.
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Hank
Cajler
Los Angeles
Vidorado Hotel
Placerville
Cal
Eldorado
Reflections Of A Bachelor From The New York Press
Grief dominates joy and gossip learns every language as a man reflects on love letters and the heroism of men. An essay on humility toward enemies, vanity in business, and social foibles ends with a cheer about posthumous praise.
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New York
Heny
Chitaze Daily News
Lungs, open air schools, and iron drainage in early 20th century talk
Dr. Fred A. Walls advocates deep breathing and lung strength as the foundation of health, urging schools to teach breathing exercises and praising Ruebsam methods. Rhode Island and New England population gains are noted, along with Georgia swamp land drainage plans to boost farm land and public health. An open air roof school in Boston for consumptive children is praised for improving health and learning outcomes.
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Fred A. Walls
San Francisco
Cal
New Willard
Dr. Wal
Ruebsam
Army
Navy
Police
Fre
Jeffries
Rhode Island
Durand
H. K. Battles
Providence
Raleigh
New England
Massachusetts
Bay State
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Connecticut
Georgia
Senate
Charles D. Warren
Maran
National
Alfred F. Gardiner
Topeka
Kans
Allington
Boston
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