Washington Post Subscription Rates and Addresses 1907
The Washington Post announces subscription terms including daily and Sunday editions with varying periods and prices. It lists payment methods and post office entry details, along with office locations in New York Chicago and Hartford.
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Washington Post Co
Washington, D. C
Washington
New York
Flatiron
Paul Block
Chicago
Offee
Hartford
Faul Block
Elar Ees
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Pennsylvania Avenue Resurfacing Delays and Dreams
The article discusses the planned resurfacing of Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the Treasury, detailing widened lanes, raised tracks, and updated curbs to create a grand national thoroughfare. It questions weather delays from rain and snow, Congress schedules, and costs, while urging officials to accelerate the project amid a broad feeling of energetic national purpose. It also notes a separate item on the growing demand for ministers as professional opportunities in engineering and business attract young men away from theology and teaching.
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Pennsylvania Avenue
Capitol
Treasury
Washington
Congress
Wash‘ington
Love of the horse and humane reform critique
A 1908 essay questions society’s horse shows as mere social display and urges care for working animals. It critiques humane societies, warns of coming heat cruelty, and calls owners and contractors to reduce abuse by scheduling work for cool hours and better watering. It also argues trusts drive cheap goods and questions alcohol’s medical claims amid a broader policy debate.
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New York Society For the Prevention
Washington Humane Society
Washington
Masonic temple vision and varied 1900s snippets
This column mixes a sermonized vision of a new Masonic temple as a center of brotherhood and patriotism with a medley of social wit. It also surveys diverse items from politics to fashion, noting Roosevelt, Bryan, sheriff jokes, a seven foot black snake incident, and light notes on weather, luxury, ice cream Sundays, and a crab marked 1814 in New York.
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Panama
Pittsburg
Pittsboro
Massachusetts
Boston
Ene Ag
Seaford
Del
Pennsylvania
New York Times
Ell
Emi Schiellein
Canarsie
Jamaica Bay
Esterday
Thuredey
Eph” Skidmore
Pop”Ferguson
Maj Lke Remsen
England
Inconceivable reply to charges against me over animals
A long, odd letter contends President Roosevelt has not replied to charges of cowardice and familiarity with animals. It recounts adventures with a reporter, a monkey pianist, mongooses, cockroaches trained to play music, and a shrew tamed on a diet of vegetables. The author claims many animal specimens and insists he has owned more intelligent animals than anyone alive.
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Roosevelt
Joseph Mulhatton
South “Africa
Bosra
Bellevue Hospital
New York
Connecticut
Denver
Nebraska
Count Harrach
France
Paris
Bella
Clarence
Edward
Toledo
Jones
W. H. Tucker
Ohio City
Raleigh
Brant Whitlock
Whitlock
Southern
Congress
Feminine intrigue and aristocratic finance in Vienna
In Vienna a web of courtly plots surrounds Archduchess Frederick and her daughter Countess Sophie Chotek. Princess Hohenberg’s $40,000 chrysanthemum purchase tests loyalties as Archduchess Frederick weighs family dignity against a potential mother in law. Count Harrach leads a hatless salute crusade amid influenza fears and imperial ceremony.
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Trieste
Archduchess
Frederick
Archduchess Add
Ita
Eid
Sophie Chotek
Fredérick
Prince of Croy
Princes Croy
New York
Washington
Archduchesa
Francie Ferdinand
Sophie Chatok
Princess of
Austro-Hungary
Vienna
Hohenberg
Austria
European state lotteries and their practices described
The piece explains how the French and Italian state lotteries operate. It details French draws with the wheel, or drum, and officials overseeing the process, plus the use of orphans as wheel pullers and the payment to them. It then outlines the Italian lotto, weekly draws in major cities, payout multipliers for matching numbers, odds, and the popularity driving a large yearly revenue despite slim chances, aided by dream-guided number selection.
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Paris
Shania
Credit Foncier
Wheel of Fortune
Italy
Pete the pup learns brains beat brawn in dog tale and roast
The New York World features Pete the dog as a harsh critic of President Roosevelt, urging him to mix brains with brawn. The column also reports on the death of Dandy Jim the dog, aged thirteen, once owned by Miss Ellen Anne Griffin, and mentions her eccentric life and the will left to her housekeeper.
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York
Philadelphia
William Fox
Adams Express Company
New York
Pete
Roosevelt
Peter
Eit
Grifin-McGivney
Mary McGivney
East Forty-second Street
Jim
Ellen Anne Griffin
Union Square
Misa McGivney
Miss Griffin
Erastug Hymen - Fort
the Dos
Banket Ini
Hartedale
Sid Aio
Tdeut
Louis McLane Hamilton
Philippines
Lonleville Courier Jourtar’s Odd Foreign Count Tale
A garbled Lonleville Courier Jourtar item hints at a foreign count with an American wife leaving him and an odd exhibit or touristic scene. The fragmentary text remains unclear on names, places, or concrete actions.
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Lonleville
Jourtar
Pimcelt
Dusinses
Diamond mines and smuggling in South Africa's vast fields
The article details Boer immigrant bands discovering immense diamond reserves, including a 21 carat stone shown at Paris and the Star of Africa. It explains mining methods, labor by thousands, processing of blue and yellow earths, and the global trade, with smugglers devising clever concealment schemes and tailings yielding valuable gems.
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Cape Colony
Jacobs
Schalk van Nelkirk
van Neikirk
du Toit
Agea Ko
London
Europe
Amsterdam
Antwerp
Married in a coffin at Luna Park wedding
The New York Sun reports Miss Anna Snyder, a Luna Park ticket seller, wed M. Jerry Barnett yesterday in a coffin. Publicist Jim Shesgreen and Alderman Klein oversaw the ceremony in the burial chamber as Chopin’s Funeral March played.
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New York Sun
Jim Sheegreen
Luna Park
Anna Snyder
M. Jerry Barnett
Jim Shesgreen
Jim
Alderman Klein
Brooklyn
Oriental relics and Chinese labor in Mexico spark debate
In Mexico a Guerrero businessman reported ancient Oriental idols found in a cave near Cortez landfall, suggesting pre-Columbian Orientals. He notes thousands of Chinese laborers arriving monthly to build railways, mixing with Mexicans and impacting society. Other interviews cover Pennsylvania Dutch, Toledo mayoral race, and White Earth Indians.
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Mexico
George Mitchell
Guerrero
New Willard
Mitchell
Ferrin
Cortez
England
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