Washington Post Subscriptions and Rates June 7 1911
The notice lists subscription options for The Washington Post including daily and Sunday delivery in Washington and Alexandria. Payment methods in advance by draft, check, postoffice order, or registered letter are required. Foreign advertising representative details are provided for New York and Chicago.
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Washington
Alexandria
Daly
Mall
Washington Post Coy
Washington, D. C
Postoffice
Washington, DC
Paul Block
Fifth Avenue
New York
Steger
Chicago
Let the Post Follow You In Washingtons City News
An notice urging readers to arrange mail delivery of The Post by sending orders to the Post and providing current and future addresses. It emphasizes prompt nationwide delivery and asks for inscription dates to be updated as needed.
Agitation Without Revision Pushes Tariff Debate
The piece argues that Democratic leaders, buoyed by wool tariff unity, plan to tackle cotton, steel, and sugar schedules. It warns that continued tariff agitation serves political aims, not economy, and could alienate public support as the Senate remains largely opposed to tariff legislation. Gov Wilson of New Jersey stresses indifference to party advantage over national interest.
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Senate
United Action
Ways and Means
Whilaon
New Jersey
Democratic Party
Socialist Republic Threat Looms in Lower California
News warns of a force of about 1,300 Mexican soldiers under Gen. Luque moving from Chihuahua through U.S. territory from El Paso to Yuma, to strike socialist leaders in Lower California. Mexican troops will surrender arms at the border. American troops guard passage. a swift campaign against Gen. Pryce and the socialist gang is anticipated as Madero supports action to restore stability and end the rebellion.
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Lower
California
Chihuahua
Luque
el Paso
Yuma
Tla Juani
Gen. Madero
United States
Madero
Mexico
Tia Juana
Peninsula
Monkeys to Pick Cotton Experiment In Georgia Fields
From Savannah comes word that French cotton experts plan to teach monkeys to pick cotton in Fulton County. Four pet chimpanzees carried by a farmer's boy in a field inspired the plan. The chimpanzee reportedly began picking cotton after watching workers, sparking questions about future animal-powered tasks.
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Savannah
Fulton County
A Vision of Scientific Management for Animals in Panama
A satirical piece imagines training animals for human tasks from sparrows to bedbugs and laments endless “scientific management” of nature. It then notes President Taft’s stance on Panama’s election, stressing the U S role to ensure a free, honest vote and to safeguard Panamanian sovereignty.
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Panama
Taft
United States
Republic
Fairbanks Challenged by Studebaker for Horseshoes Title
Charles W. Fairbanks the champion horseshoe pitcher of the world is challenged by John M. Studebaker head of the Studebaker corporation of South Bend Indiana to a championship contest. If accepted the match would be at Indianapolis on June 24 during the Indiana Society of Chicago visit.
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C. W. Fairbanks
Charles W. Fairbanks
John M. Studebaker
Studebaker Corporation
South Bend
Ind
Fairbanks
Indiana
Sherman
Studebaker
Indianapolis
Indiana Society of Chicago
George Ade
Kentland
Portable Fogs and the Invention That Shrouds Enemies
An ex perienced inventor Archibald Watkins proposes a portable fog device for war to blind attackers by unmooring fog toward them. He cites biblical precedents and imagines use along Nicaragua’s coast and at Nippon, claiming potential to confound land sea and air invasions.
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Archibald Watkins
Moses
Red Sea
Watkins
Nicaragua
Messrs
Castro
Zelaya
Nippon
Hobson
Fog makers and reformers in public life form hazy compare
The piece likens politicians socialists doctors and preachers to fog makers in a critique of public figures and the tendency to cloud the atmosphere with rhetoric. It then shifts to a court report about Justice Davis sentencing Dan O Reilly to five months for receiving stolen goods, noting his career and disbarment.
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Watkins
Moses
New York
Justice Davis
Supreme Court
Dan" O'Reilly
Metropolis
New York City
Dan O'Reilly
Harry Thaw
Thaw
O'Reilly
Dan
Panama Canal and American commerce in a new era
The article argues the Panama Canal will reshape trade with South America especially Chile, Peru, and Ecuador. It warns America must ship its own vessels through the canal to counter non American lines and protect American interests, urging American lines and control to maximize benefits.
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New York Tribune
Paris
Panama Canal
United States
America
Panama
Great Britain
Germany
Chile
Peru
Ecuador
Waldorf Feasts Westener Englishman in Khaki Atop Gold Rush Tale
A Western Englishman in khaki attire packs the Waldorf dining room, claims recent gold digging in the West, and pays a fortune in coins for a meal, tipping with a double eagle. The man, Bertrand Lewellyn Cherles, presents as penniless settler who made it big and left a lasting impression on patrons and staff alike.
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Waldorf
New York
Waldorf-Astoria
Bertrand Lewellyn Cherles
Clotheslines a Life Net
A New York American item recounts Rose Gasser, aged 21?2 years, who survived a sixth floor fall from 63 East 112th Street when she struck clotheslines before landing with a broken leg. The incident notes fate spared her from a fatal plunge onto the yard pavement below.
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New York
Lord Brassey for Votes for Women and Naval Eminence
Lord Brassey, age 7, is cited as a convert to suffrage, noted for his peerage, naval influence, and public roles. The piece recalls his admiralty ties, Cinque Ports wardenship, Brassey’s Naval Annual, the Sunbeam voyages, and his railroad contractor father. It contrasts royal tastes in horsemanship among European monarchs with Brassey’s maritime prominence.
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Admiralty
Victoria
Institute of Naval Architects
Trinity House Corporation
Jord
Cinque Ports
Earl of
Londesborough
Yorkshire
Mount Edgecumbe
Cornwall
Marquis
Donegal
Lough Neagh
Ireland
British Isles
House of Lords
Galler
Sunbeam
Lady Brassey
Royal Naval Reserve
Lord Warden
United Kingdom
Burke
Robert de Brescy
Edward III
William the Conqueror
Sieur de Brescie
Tom Brassey
Europe
Lfe
Gladstone
Brassey
Asuboreas
Bombay
Australia
Lord Essex
King George
George
London
Edward
Duke of York
Westbury
Long Island
Alfonso
Spain
Kaiser
Francis Joseph
Greece
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Wurttemberg
Saxony
Servia
Roumania
Montenegro
Albert
Belgium
Victor Emmanuel Tit
Marquise DE Fontenoy
Brentwood Company
Lucky Water Fraud Sparks Charleston Court Duel
In Charleston a quarrel between the Ware and Jones families erupts in a special sessions court over a $5 bottle of lucky water and a red flannel charm. Miss Alice Ware, a dressmaker, testifies that she bought the items amid financial worry and eviction threats, while Miss Susan Jones denies involvement. Judge Deuel dismisses the case as the two dignitaries exit through separate doors.
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New York
Betty Ware
Malaria Jones
Drum
Maj. Pilkington
President Jackson
South Carolina
Wares
Joneses
Alice Ware
Court of Special Sessions
Susan Jones
Ware de Ware
Reno
Clytemnestra Ware
Madison Square
Mise Ware
West Thirty-fifth Street
Appomattox
Miss Ware
Sprinklin
Charleston
Deuel
Sidelights on Washington and Library Portraits at LOC
The piece blends a Brooklyn Rage anecdote about Representative Olle James of Kentucky recalling Carlysle’s morale speech before Bull Run with a report on a Library of Congress exhibition. It highlights an engraved portrait collection from Gardiner Hubbard and T Harrison Garrett, featuring five hundred works across English French Spanish Italian Dutch and German schools, emphasizing French Sevenaire era brilliance and historical reading aid.
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Brooklyn
Carlyple
Olle James
Kentucky
Carlysle
Bull Run
Reecruit
Helen Wright
New York
Fivening Post
Library of Congress
Division of Prints
Gardiner Greene Hubbard
T. Harrison Garrett
Louis XIV
Fine Arta
Lone Grave in the Shenandoah and Impromptu Picture Show
Narrative blends Civil War nostalgia with a Wakefield fire incident. J D Wells reports a dramatic moving picture scene from a Broadway film plant fire in the Bronx. A photographer named Al Leach saved film as explosions engulfed the block and a ball room scene turned into a real fire sequence. The tale shifts to a duplex telegraph string and a witty aside about a caller’s wife as a telegraph operator toils amid shrinking time and nerves.
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Harry
New York Times
Powers
Ivy
Bronx
al Leach
Wakefield
Leach
Necklace Found by Bellboy at Plaza Hotel
Thomas McGiss, a hotel Plaza bellboy, found a $10,000 pearl necklace in the lobby. Mrs. Raymond identified the jewels at the desk and rewarded the bellboy with a total $15 tip for recovering the item.
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New York Press
Thomas McGiss
Hotel Plaza
R. & Raymond
McGiss
Soldier's grave and unknown sainted dead in springtime Citations
A housewife tends a soldier's grave on a reflective spring day. May Spreads roses and petals for an unknown soldier fallen near Early's march. The piece blends poems from the Saturday Review and Cleveland Plain Dealer, with snippets of other columns and reflections on love and life.
Sailors warned by St Agnes light history told of new Pennins Head beacon
In Washington a traveler recounts the old St Agnes lighthouse off the Isles of Scilly and its perilous legends. He notes a new lighthouse to replace it at St Mary called Pennins Head, with ships adapting gradually to the change and to improved oil lamps and reflectors.
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Europe
Scilly
Richard A. Outhwaite
Washington
St. Agnes
Claudesley Shovel
Gibraltar
Cincinnati Gets Castle Park Extension in Bowler Estate
Capt Cassilly Cook praises Cincinnati park expansion featuring the Bowler estate overlooking Mill Creek valley. The Bowler home, visited by the Prince of Wales in 1860, linked to Cincinnati’s social and political life through the Ohio valley. Elizabeth Williams’s joy at her husband’s presumed death leads to a remarriage after a Welsh romance. Gasoline jag fear moves from London to New York as drivers claim intoxication from fumes. police likely unswayed by such excuses.
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New York
Lily
Taft
Cincinnati
Washington
Capt
Cassilly Cook
Queen City
New Willard
Mill Creek Valley
England
London
Prince of Wales
Bowler
Kentucky Central
Ohio Valley
Robert B. Bowler
Cleveland
Ohio
Edwin 0. Wood
Perry County
Dewey
Elizabeth Williams
Colorado
Elizabeth
Thomas Jones
Jones
Thomas
Edgar M. Rice
Gotham Town
Raleish
Aleoho
Atwater Civil War Hero Honored in Connecticut
A monument in Torreyville, Conn., honors Derence Atwater, a Civil War prisoner who copied the 18 000 Union deaths at Andersonville and secretly kept a duplicate list. His quiet act helped locate and mark each grave, a story recounted by Spencer A. Evans of Boston. Atwater died in San Francisco and wished to be buried at Tahiti, though sentiment favored New England.
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Sumter
Spencer A. Evans
Boston
Derence Atwater
Torreyville
Conn
Atwater
Andersonville
Connecticut
San Francisco
Tahiti
Society Islands
New England
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