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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1905
Page
18
In a New York press reader tale a Caldwell train scene pits an optimist against a cynic over a lost opal pin. A passenger claims ownership while a wary fellow passenger reveals the pin belonged to him all along, making the wife’s question reveal a gift.
Porter F. Cope of Philadelphia denounces vaccination as the age’s great crime, claiming it causes smallpox instead of preventing it. He argues vaccines are deadly, citing cadaveric poison from deadhouse sources and linking vaccination to rises in tuberculosis and cancer while praising anti vaccination crusades as essential.
A Brooklyn column extols Canada's strides toward economic independence from the United States. It notes a new transcontinental railway toward the Pacific, cotton ginning from Egypt and South Africa, expansion from seven to nine provinces, and the reemergence of the Northwest Territory as Alberta and Saskatchewan. Manitoba remains wheat country, aided by the Canadian Pacific Railway and Grand Trunk plans. The piece cites Norwegian emigration to the prairies and favorable climate as attracting settlers, while expressing cautious optimism about Canada’s growth.
A fragment states that many libraries must fill shelves with popular modern novels to prevent collapse and spur self culture. Mentions Baltimore and Return 61.25 as a Pennsylvania Railroad service on weekends, excluding Congressional Limited trains.
Details of daily life on torpedo craft with crews of sixty to seventy, crowded quarters, intense heat below deck, constant movement for fuel and water, officers and men enduring long hours, rough seas, and hazardous climbs as Japanese ships loom during wartime. The piece notes the cramped, dangerous conditions and sheer endurance required by sailors on these vessels.
An area classified page lists dental specialist contact info, animal hospital services including skin clinic, pet grooming, and boarding. It notes dogs, cats, birds for sale, plus lost and found notices for a brown belt and a gold watch and chain with rewards offered. Multiple street addresses and names appear in abbreviated form.
Numerous classifieds offer sales and office jobs, plumbing schooling and shop work. Advertisements promise quick training, high earnings, and steady employment with firms such as COYNE BROS CO and HOLLING. Listings include office helpers, bookkeepers, and colored or white applicants for domestic and personal service roles nationwide.
Extensive real estate listings in Washington DC area show numerous furnished and unfurnished apartments and houses for rent. Properties span Northwest neighborhoods including Calayows, Hillier Place, Conn Avenue, 16th Street NW, and Quincy areas with rents ranging from small flats to large 12-room houses. The notice highlights agents Fisher Co and others offering rental spaces, stores, stables, and loan services, with multiple 4 to 12 room residences and ancillary facilities.
A mixed set of historic real estate notices offers multiple properties priced from 46 000 to 105 000 with 10 room full tile houses, three stories, and new apartment houses. Listings mention locations near North Capitol Street, Mount Pleasant, and near railway terminals with broker contacts and rent details. The fragmentary text notes features like tiled baths, brick construction, large lots, and amenities.
Multiple lenders advertise real estate loans in Washington DC with rates from 3 to 6 percent. Firms include Arlington Fire Insurance Company building, JAS. M. & SONS, Tyler & Rutherford Incorporated, Moore & Loan Inc, A. B. Fox Inc, Reed Room 2, Corcoran Building, and Stone & Fairfax. Offers cover mortgages on DC real estate, stock and bond loans, and salaried individual loans with prompt replies. Various amounts from small to large, with terms and conditions varying by lender.
Over 2 4 of a century in the carriage and wagon business at 484 and 466 Pennsylvania Avenue. Javon tory offers a larger stock of carriages harness and accessories with low prices and guaranteed quality. See Willard automobile station and carriage storage 400 408 14th St aw for a wide range including rubber tire runabouts and pony wagons.
The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia holds probate court notices for estates including Matz Moes Léon Gotpaed James Brown and Fat-Yick Mann. Appointments for executors and administrators, deadlines for creditors, and return dates are published. Notices urge appearance and claims with details on dates, executors, and offices.
Trusths sale of property in Washington DC to satisfy deed of trust recorded in Liber 2284. Public auction set for Wednesday August 9 at 4 PM in front of the premises. Described as lot 9 in Swammiedt and Bradley's subdivision of square 873 with details per Book 19 page 10. Terms to be announced at sale. Thomas W. Stubblefield, agent.
FOR SALE-LOTS. In grading on 14th at car Wine extended. Few lots remain at Mount zen Basee prices. 4000 cash, balance monthly. Fulton Northwest Subdivisions, Main 629, Colorado Bldg. Buy now beautiful lot near electric road, one fare, only 250 cash, balance weekly. Write for booklet. phone or write.
For sale a house and lot near Tacres Theological Seminary about ten minutes’ walk from the station in Alexandria area, with all modern improvements. Apply to Robert W. Smith, Box 40, Baltimore, Maryland.
Train services list daily and weekly departures to Hersiahburg Warrenton Danville and Way stations with limiteds to Washington Florida Columbia Savannah and Jacksonville. Includes First-class coaches sleepers dining cars and through Pullman service on multiple routes plus Bluemont Branch local trains from Washington and connections via Lynchburg and other hubs.
The Pennsylvanian routes list trains from Harrisburg to Chicago, Buffalo, and Atlantic City with through Pullman cars, dining and observation coaches, and sleeping cars. Connections to Philadelphia New York and Baltimore routes are noted, along with station check and baggage services.
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