Trains of Subscription and Policy Debate in Canada
An 1910 Washington Post page fragment discusses subscription rates and mail delivery terms, then shifts to Canada where opinion splits on naval policy. It notes Laurier’s moderating naval plan, French Canadians opposing navy, conservatives favor ships funding, and possible Canadian shipbuilding affecting trade and steel industry. The piece also covers Ohio state politics about Governor Hughes and Colonel dynamics ahead of an extra legislative session, with implications for primaries and party strategy.
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Canada
Wilfrid Laurier
Dominion
St. Lawrences
Pacific
Great Lakes
Hughes Republicang
Hughes
Let The Post Follow You In Washingtons Capital
Brief notice urges readers to keep The Post as they move within the city or country. It explains flexible address changes and prompt delivery and reminds readers to use Post Telephone 4208 for updates and subscription details including rates.
From the Producer to the Nation on Prosperity and Labor
The piece presents a producer’s view that business is expanding nationwide, driven by demand from all sectors. It notes labor shortages in harvests, high wages for weather and harvest work, and widespread prosperity from the bottom up. It also critiques railroads, travel costs, and calls for stricter laws to curb abuses.
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Wycos
Ava KT
Avelers
Weat
Caith
Wailstret
Tle
Waglington
Alteather
Plas
Cines
Lawa
Mar
United Labor movement sparks labor party debate in Pennsylvania
In Pennsylvania a group forms United Labor amid talk of a genuine labor party. Observers warn cooperation with major parties may invite compromises and dilute aims. They argue class-based politics fail, citing the American Federation of Labor and the impossibility of monolithic parties for any social group.
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Commonwealth
Pennsylvania
United Labor
Canada Naval Development Faces US Public Skepticism
The United States public shows disapproval and suspicion toward Canada entering naval development. Some argue Canada should share Monrose doctrine protection with Latin American states. Given friendly US-UK relations, a modest naval buildup by Canada could align with defending the British empire without overburdening UK taxpayers. Australia and New Zealand have already contributed battleships.
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Thorn
United States
Canada
Central
South America
Washington
London
Accra
United Kingdom
Australia
New Zealand
A Beneficent Tax in French Theaters
A proposed ten percent tax on theater tickets in France funds aid to the poor. Proponents say it boosts attendance and profits while serving charity, aligning with Christian duty. The article suggests Americans have similar compassion for the needy and praises the plan as beneficial and widely accepted.
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France
America
Chicago
Lower
Mississippi
San Francisco
Portia criticizes foresight as stunted in officials and workers
A reflective piece argues that government and business suffer when workers are underpaid or treated unfairly. It likens this to slavery era economics, noting that humane treatment and fair wages boost morale and productivity. A call is made for wage increases across departments and a pension fund for long-serving public workers.
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Washington
Lazarus
Congress
Mathematician of Matrimony Proposes Bureau of Love
The article satirically touts W. A. McKeever, a philosophy professor at Kansas Agricultural College, who would quantify courtship with charts and tests. It imagines marriages regulated by statistics, with health, experience, and housing knowledge certificates required, and a clergyman finalizing unions.
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W. A. McKeever
Kansas Agricultural College
Cupid
State Bureau of Matrimony
Aitaira
Science and Industry and the American Future
H Le Gantt argues in Engineering Magazine that superb natural resources foster progress despite neglect of science. He warns Germany's example shows science must guide industry. The piece laments US universities biased toward classical training and urges scientific and engineering recognition through compensation, cooperation, and economies to raise prosperity and curb regulation.
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H. le Gantt
Engineering Magazine
United States
Germany
The Colonel A Poet From Roosevelt's Oxford Lecture
The Springfield Republican reprints a paragraph from Roosevelts Oxford lecture. It frames Imperial Romes martial supremacy, decline and fall, in verse-like two stanzas. The piece notes how a schoolboy might have declaimed the passage, turning prose into poetic lines.
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Springfield Republican
Roosevelt
Oxford
Rome
Mr.Roosevelt
The Legend of Black Bart the Stage Robber
A historical profile of Charles E. Bolles known as Black Bart, detailing his 27 solo stage robberies from 1875 to 1883 across Northern California, the fear he inspired among Wells Fargo drivers, clues that never revealed his identity, and his eventual capture in San Francisco aided by a dropped laundry mark.
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Jenkins
National
Charles E. Bolles
Black Bart
California
Wells Fargo
San Joaquin Valley
San Francisco
Kindness on a Farm in North Dakota
A winter sick farmer in North Dakota is visited by neighbors who with 22 outfits plow harrow and sow 100 acres in one day. Wives and daughters prepare a noon lawn dinner, turning the day into a communal act of neighborly aid and mutual charity. The piece laments modern society’s loss of simple kindness and urges cultivation of unselfish acts.
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Leslie
North Dakota
You Look Old Tonight John Dear
Mrs Peters remarks on John Peters aging as she readies for a theater outing in this vignette from Lippincott's. The light exchange reveals a domestic mood and intimate humor between the couple.
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Lippincott’s
John
Mrs. Peters
Peters
Post Philosophy and the Costs of Eloquence
A reflective piece on rhetoric and honesty notes that smooth talk masks rough deals. It warns true love cannot be bought with hollow words and neglects of mistakes can seed bad habits. It laments that sympathy without substance is useless and that philanthropy often buys only silence or return.
Crown Jewels Guarded In Wakefield Tower After Security Overhaul
British authorities reveal a new security scheme for the crown jewels at the Tower of London. The jewels, including Cullinan stones, were moved to a steel cage with hidden alarms, reinforced locks, and automatic safes after structural work. Guards remain on duty as officials consider past daring thefts and ensure public display remains authentic.
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England
Wakefield Tower
Tower of Lonian
Bank of England
Threadneedle Street
Col
Thomas Blood
Charles
Crown Jewel Room
Tower of London
Kia
Tower
Alexandra
Cullinan
Queen Mary
Moral debate over automobiles and public amusements
In a New York World analysis Chancellor Day opposes autos as self indulgence harming the poor and wasting capital. He notes moral and economic dangers while arguing restrictions on amusements mislead the public, suggesting the effort to enforce virtue by limiting pleasures may backfire and corrupt morality.
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New York World
Day
Caplitat
Europe
Mable
New York
Ink maniacs and other noted phrases in divorce lore
Mrs. Dr. Harry Thurston Peck explains the term ink maniac as a husband who writes fervent letters to other women while his wife sues for breach of promise. The piece argues such divorce cases enrich language with vivid descriptors like love pirate cocktail lady and ink maniac, celebrating linguistic contributions from marital disputes.
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Peck
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Harry Thurston Peck
Dr. T. P No
Senator Scott as Emperor Guest in Japanese Audience
In a Popular Magazine note on democratic tastes Senator Nathan B. Scott of West Virginia is mock crowned king of anti royalty. The Taft party met the mikado in Japan with Taft and Gen. Clarence Edwards entering first and Scott entering last, greeting the emperor, shaking hands with aides, then hurrying to see the capital.
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Nathan B. Scott
West Virginia
Orient
Taft
Gen
Clarence Edwards
Bureau of Insular Affairs
War Department
Scotty
Emperor
Mr. Scott
West, Virginia
Brewers’ Convention
South
James L Griscom
Chattanooga
Tenn
Raleigh
Boutell
Tennessee
Georgia
Griscom
Victor
Roosevelt
Safe Railroads Show Record Immunity for Passengers
The Philadelphia Press notes a record of near immunity from passenger fatalities across American railways for the year ending June 1903. Of 368 reporting companies with 159,000 miles, 570 million passengers, 847 lines logged zero passenger fatalities. Pennsylvania Railroad reports only one passenger death in two years while carrying 299.8 million passengers, underscoring safer management and economic benefit.
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Philadelphia
Bureau of Railway Laws and Statistics
Railways
Bureau
Maine
California
Europe
Russia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania
Reflections on a Bachelor and a Wild Car Chase Tale
A mixed nostalgic column blends a runaway car fantasy with aging satire on marriage. It muses on a lone driver chasing a blazing auto through dust and danger, then pivots to reflections from the New York press about love, trust, and the woes of married life.
Pointed Paragraphs From Chicago News
A column of aphoristic musings on gender, manners, and social behavior. It contrasts appearances with truth and warns about convenience of elopement versus home return, noting widows, arousal of gossip, and the persistence of mosquitoes as a metaphor.
Visitors praise Washingtons beauty in July notes
Berlin chemist Dr Erich Kunheim visiting Washington lauds the city and Niagara Falls Grand Canyon and Washington parks as superior to European scenery. He criticizes U S pay for foreign reps but admires the capital and calls Washington the city beautiful.
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G Erich Fuunhelm
Berlin
Germany
Wney
Germien
Washington
Rivelt
Col Reigsevalt
Dr.Kunhelm
United States
America
Dr. Kunhelm
Niagara Fells
Grand Canyon
Colorado
Europe
Alps
New York
Chicago
Central Park
Two of Them
From the Catholic Standard and Times Towne My wife's nerves are such peculiar things She always worries when she's having a dress made just as if Browne interrupting Huh My wife only seems to worry when she isn't having one made.
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Catholic Standard and Times - Towne
Browne
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