Washington Post terms and old subscription notice
The notice outlines subscription terms for The Washington Post, including carrier deliveries in Weekington and Alexandria with various weekly and monthly rates, prepaid postage, and mail payment in advance. It includes archaic typos and advertising copy, plus 1912 masthead details and erroneous lines about photography and appeals.
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Weekington
Alexandria
Sanday
Deir
Gonday
Sy Mall
Battle ship fight shows public sentiment sways Democrats
The House sides with a two battleship program as public opinion backs a stronger navy. Twenty one Democrats, led by Representative Sulzer, pledge support to two battleships, breaking party lines. Backers urge full backing, while opponents concede the inevitability and seek unanimous accord.
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United States
Sulzer
Curing the Blues and the Hopkins Clinic View
A Johns Hopkins psych clinic planned to study the blues in emotion and sanity, arguing that frequent melancholy signals insanity rather than mere mood. The piece mocks melodrama, cites diet and egotism as causes, urges work and outdoor activity for those with the blues, and ends championing poetry from neglected poets.
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Phipps Psychiatric Clinic
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Adolf Meyer
Hedda Gabler
The Warning to Mexico Pushes for Clear U.S. Stance
The United States, warning against actions that could spur a costly war with Mexico, reiterates that Orozco and the Madero government must answer for outrages against Americans or their property. Secretary Knox vows strict accountability, signaling that further provocations will prompt drastic U.S. measures.
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Mexico
United States
Orozco
Madero
State Department
Bone
Hig
Knox
Fall of
New Mexico
Republic
Madero No Orozco
United
Medro
Orezca
The Photographic Likeness and Public Trust
A critical look at photographic portraits in public life, arguing abuse of likeness harms honor and calls for regulation. It cites Lef tenant Becker’s off duty portrait and mocks exaggerated serene expressions, warning such imagery can mislead the public and shield crime.
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High Station
Joliet
Podunk
Leftenant Becker
New York
Jonathan Wilde
Raphael
First Aid for Poets A Chicago Club Funds A Literary Magazine
A group of Chicago society members plans a no charge magazine to nurture young poets. One hundred patrons pledge $5,000 annually for five years to finance the venture, hoping to stimulate prolific writing nationwide from firesides to attics as news spreads.
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Chicago Magazine of Verse
Taft
Self Reliant Boy Scouts Fund Drive Aims for Self Support
A call to fund five field superintendents accompanies the push for a fourth hundred thousand Scouts. Washington’s troop pledges 25 cents per member, with 300 000 to contribute equally, to cover operating costs and teach self reliance as the movement grows toward 400 000.
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Boy Scouts
Young America
Baden-Powell
Washington
United States
Strozzi Palace Bequest and Heir Disputed in Florence
A report traces the Strozzi family’s lineage and the Florence palace bequeathed to Italy by Prince Piero Strozzi. It notes current heads Don Leone and Don Roberto, a sister married to Count Guicciardini, and the ambiguity of a young American claiming the title. The will assigns the palace and archives to state and city, preserving art and records.
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Max Btrozsi
Linda Arnold
Giney Arnold
Providence
Rhode Island
Strozzi
Donna Luise
Francesco Guicciardini
Donna Antoinetta
Strossi
Marguerite
Strozai
Florence
Max Strozzi
Prince Piero Strozzi
Italy
Sophie Branicka
Piero
Mor
Strozss
Elmca
Arno
Benedetto da Malano
Simone del Polla- Julio
Nicolo Grosso
Nicolo
Lorenzo di Medici
Don Pallas di Stromal
Prince Fiero di Strozzi
Olney Arnolds
Narragansett Pier
Bincé
Almanach de Gotha
Strozal
Don Leone
Don Roberto
Washington
Rome
Consulta Heraldica
Ticino
House of Stroznt
Army Orders Patchwork Leaves and Retirements
Army orders list numerous leave extensions for officers including Benjamin Atkinson, William Gibbon, Walter Wilson, and Charles Chandler. Retirements include Brig. Gen. George F. Chase and Capt. John A. Lockwood. Details cover postings to Los Angeles, Seattle, Fort Williams, and Fort Lawton, with assignments to quartermaster, medical, artillery, and inspector roles.
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Lisut
Benjamin W. Atkinson
Infantry
Lidut
William W Gibbon
Ordnance Department
Walter K. Wilson
Coast Artillery Corps
Carroll Power
Charles de F Chandler
Aignal Corps
Edward J Moran
Russel V. Venable
Peeareca Eee
William
Purviance
Medical Corps
Los Angeles
Cal
John A. Lockwood
United States Army
William & Tunt
Twenty-second Infantry
Quarterma&atera
Walter K Wilson
Coast Artilery Corps
Fort Wiliams
Artllery Dietrigt
Portland
Henry
Bames
Tenth Infantry
Organized Militia of
North Carolina
Alfred J, Smith
Twelfth Infantry
Quartermaster’s Department
Henry L Kinnison
Leopold Mitchell
Army Tramsport Service
Seattle
Wash
Ernest F. Slater
Medical Reserve Corps
Nix
John C. Fielden, Jr
Surgeon General of the Army
Robert 3. Hardaway
WIM
Fort Lawton
NAVAL OFFICER PROMOTIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS LIST
Navy announces numerous appointments from June 7 1912 and February 12 1812 including Lieutenants Junior Grade across fleets and naval yards. Names include WALKER BRAYTON LANDO NORTON STEWART GEARING PARKER SIMPSON POUSLAND WINDSOR ALMY GROSS ROULIDAY Lofquist TOD COX BARKER NICHOLS BELLINGER HINKAMP STYLES MANNING MOSES WALLACE LOFTIN ALLEN SAUNDERS DAISONSTOK BIRD BUCKMASTER FULTON ZACHARIAY MIGNFONT HALMICKS and others with assignments to Kentucky Charleston and various naval yards. Movements of vessels Cleveland Danvers Mare Island Newport Patrel Santo Domingo Scorpion and other ships noted with sailings and missions.
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Navy
C. Rowan
Ata
United States Atlantic
H. Walker
Kaval Academy
Annapolia
Liew
Woc Barker, JR
Navy Yard
Puget Sound
Wash
EB. Brayton
Ellis Lando
Tt Oh Norton
Quaier
Abvy
Rob Stewart
H C Gearing, JR
Hunter
OC Parker
G W. Simpson
CT Pousland
Leutenant
Windsor
E D Almy
Ro of Gross
Omsy
Ligut
Utter Grafe
ST Rouliday
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Lofquist
Saehy
Ture
Qunior
EB W Tod
J. F. Cox
Hentensat
N Hinkamp
J. Styles
Manning
Mary
Moses
W. C. Wallace
Boslyn EB
H. Loftin
Bailey
A. Mor. Allen
Attlag Ot Jarvis
Ft Commisson
HL EB. Saunders
Kentucky
J. Y Daeisonstok
Rek Bird
Elliott Buckmaster
Garland Fulton
E. M. Zachariay
J. C Mgnfont
G. A Halmicks
Charleston
8. C
Reading Ban At Lunch Hour Angers Engraving Department
Workers in the numbering division of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing protested a new restriction forbidding newspaper and magazine reading during lunch. The division, working long hours from 7 20 a m to 8 30 p m, processes money and seals bills. They say the lunch rule limits a rare break, while Director Ralph denied knowledge of the order and said readers may be allowed at lunch.
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Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Treasury
Ralph
Taft Praises Thorpe for Stockholm Olympic Victory
President Taft published a letter of congratulation to James Thorpe Carlisle Indian School student and Stockholm Olympic winner. He praised the victory as a high standard of physical development achieved by right living and thinking and expressed hope for future success in his chosen field.
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Taft
James Thorpe
Stockholm
Congress Condensed Senate and House Actions
Senate debated irrigation claims and high cost concerns while approving treaty ratification with Hungary. House considered Indian appropriation and tariff bills. rejected amendments and sent measures back to the Senate. Adjournment noted with no conference on wool bill.
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Burton
Hungary
Ratifea
Renate
Bon
House
Toley
Paris Tale of Dissatisfaction Denied in Capital
The Paris Daily Mail report prompted U S defense leaders to defend Col George W Goethals engineer in chief of the canal. Henry L Stimson called the colonel praised by Washington officials. Maj Gen Leonard Wood said Goethals is universally liked and respected by his superiors. Senators Borah Bristow and Simmons praised his record and admin skills.
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Paris
Henry L. Stimson
Paris Daily Mall
United States
George W Goethals
Washington
Leonard Wood
Bia
Col. Goethals
Brandegee
Senate
Borah
Bristow
Simmons
Japan Querries For Treaty With Fur Seal Pact
Japan has voiced concerns over Washington slow to implement the fur seal treaty with the United States England and Russia. The pact aimed to end sealing with Japan and England slated to receive 200000 each from the United States as payment for cessation of sealing activities while Lodge sought Senate action yesterday but other business intervened.
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Congress
United States
Japan
England
Russia
House
Lodge
Belgian Color Reform in Nurseries Sparks Health Debate
Dr Louis Delattre of Belgium cautions against white walls in children's rooms claiming strain on retinal health and potential brain and stomach issues. He promotes blue or green decor as calming, with yellow as a warm alternative, noting many painters already repainting white nurseries.
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Beusse
New York World
Belgium
Louis Delattre
Tle
Ufe
Pointed Paragraphs on Love Money and Flattery
A collection of satirical lines on romance, money, and marriage from a Chicago newspaper style column. The quips compare love to light in a parlor, warn of easy marks in relationships with wealthy people, and liken fashion to tin plates. It ends with a wry remark on a woman’s new hat affecting her halo.
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Chicago
Ike
Reflections of a Bachelor from the New York Press
A column notes how a girl forms a figure in imagination aided by a mirror of domestic bills. It argues ideas need no lectures or articles to prove themselves and says a man trusts his wife because she deserves it.
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New York Press
Corea Loses Suit Over Attorney Fees Bid
New Orleans July 9 A U S district court Special Master ruled Dr Lula Corea a New York attorney and former Nicaragua minister acted improperly by serving as counsel to Bluefields Steamship Company and seeking 367 000 in attorney fees The report recommends dismissing the suit noting a foreign minister accredited to the United States cannot contract to represent an American company before his government
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New Orleans
Lula F. Corea
New York
Nicaragua
United States
Bluefields Steamship Company
United States District Court
H. Chaffe
Corea
New Orleana
Managua
Escondido
Chaffe
Virginia to reclaim flag linked to Stonewall Jackson
New Jersey adjutant general Wilbur F Sadler displayed a silk division corps flag to Virginia Governor Ellyson, believed to be the flag that bore Jackson’s mortal wound. Ellyson plans to verify the flag with Capt JP Smith of Richmond and seek its return to Virginia in a ceremony possibly attended by Governor Wilson and a New Jersey National Guard regiment.
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New Jersey
Stonewall” Jackson
Trenton
Wilbur F . Sadler
New Jersey National Guard
Saeut
Gov Ellyson
Virginia
Gov Wilson
Capitol
Sadler
Stonewall Jackson
Ellyson
Guv Wilson
Chancelloraville
Jackson
JP Smith
Richmond
Elyson
Seedless seeds sought by Georgia farmer inquiring letter
Representative Dudley M Hughes of Georgia, a farmer and former Georgia State Agricultural Society president, received a puzzled constituent’s request for seedless seeds. Dr B Tt. Galloway of the bureau of plant industry said the seedless tomato has not yet been perfected.
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Dudley M Hughes
Georgia
Georgia State Agricultural Society
Sam Yorp
Woods
B Tt. Galloway
Bureau of Plant Industry
Isidor Consino Dies in Erie After Auto Train Crash
Isidor Consino, 93, Toledo area landowner and dean of the Consino family, dies in Erie Sunday evening. He leaves 6 children, 7 grandchildren, 30 great grandchildren, and 93 descendants. Funeral set for Trice Midh. County kin of same name were killed and several injured in a nearby train collision.
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Gia
Isidor Consino
Trice Midh
Consino
Consino Famiy
Erie
Weather Notices From the Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau reports general conditions with a low pressure system affecting most areas. Showers confined to limited regions with rainfall minimal in the interior. Temperatures remain hot in the South West and warm in the Northwest with moderating values elsewhere. Forecasts show unsettled weather near the Atlantic and lighter winds along coasts.
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Dept of Agriculture Weather Bureau
Washington
Rocky Mountain
New England
Middle Atlantic
South Atlantic
Yarlsbie
Florida
Massachusetts Democrats poised to win House seats and Senate
Representative William F. Murray of Massachusetts predicts a mostly Democratic next House delegation as party leaders unite to elect a legislative majority and nominate a successor to Senator Crane. He cites strong candidates and the Bay State’s forthcoming Democratic victories amid nationwide concerns over the Rosenthal case and graft in police and public offices.
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House of Representatives
Massachusetts
William F. Murray
Raleigh
Murray
Bay State
Mr Murray
House
Murray Crane
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