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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1906
Page
6
A notice urging Washington residents and travelers to ensure The Post follows them to any location. It advises changing addresses as needed and promises prompt delivery nationwide. To order, notify the carrier or send it to The Post at Telephone Main 4205.
The piece analyzes a hypothetical Democratic House after the 1906 elections and its possible tariff stance. It argues a free trade bill would be unlikely to pass, given historical Democratic support for protection and the political split between Republicans and Democrats. It warns free traders may hinder a Democratic victory in 1908.
The Kentucky home comers draw thirty thousand into Armory Hall with singing My Old Kentucky Home and a feast of mint juleps barbecue burgoo and convivial cheer. The scene blends exiles from Chicago New Orleans Boston and Montana with Kentuckians in a grand celebration of hospitality and camaraderie.
A long column blends cultural vignettes from Kentucky's May celebrations and a baroque critique of Charles Francis Adams with a debate on Harvard’s educational plan. It contrasts the Old South feast with Adams’s iconoclasm and Boston voices praising and mocking public schooling and immigration policy.
A long editorial note links Sutton Place near Guildford to a haunted reputation and tragedy tied to the Weston family and Henry VIII era. It discusses Sir Richard Weston, Francis Weston, and the curse rumored to affect occupants, alongside unrelated political jabber about trusts, inspectors, and public figures of the era.
A New York Tribune statistical survey sketches city life as a sequence of phases. It notes trains unloading hundreds, ships arriving, immigrants, crime, marriages, funerals, and legal activity at irregular intervals, interspersed with editorial quirks and social anecdotes from various papers.
The article details whimsical and practical gifts given to royal brides and notable spouses. Examples include a mass of 120 gowns shaped like dancing slippers for a Serb king’s wedding, a giant 11 hundredweight cheese for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and stockings, trousers, and a hair-stuffed cushion sent by admirers to various husbands.
Police recovered a steel lined coat from the room of Lee Peck in the Willie Les York shooting inquiry. The garment weighs about fifty pounds, measures three-fourths of an inch thick, and is built with interlocked steel squares and leather trim, resembling a heavy laundry blouse. It features a front pocket like a holster and doubled layers in the chest area. The coat will be exhibited in court as evidence in the Lee Peck case.
The Paris Syndicate of Women Workers drafts a 5 franc daily budget showing careful thrift. Rent at $3 yearly, meals around 3 cents per day, two boots cost 2.12 dollars, two dresses 5.83, and a grand yearly balance of 1.94 dollars. Many Paris women earn less than 3 francs daily, especially shop girls and those in feather and artificial flower trades.
A hazy survey notes the New South’s surge in industry from 1840s figures to midcentury totals, citing census data and St Edmunds. It lists dramatic gains in capital investment, factory output, cotton, lumber, pig iron, exports, farm products, railroads, oil, spindles, phosphate, beef, petroleum, and overall assessed property value, illustrating a century-long ascent in industrial power and wealth.
A fragmented verse from The Modern Puzzle warns that money, health, and safe living are all precarious. It questions modern knowledge about disease and medicine, noting the impossible choice between danger and survival. The excerpt blends humorous dialogue from various papers, including Chicago News and Columbus Dispatch, with a punchline about life insurance.
A guest column reports on St Michaels Island as a tranquil retreat forty miles from New York, where U.S. consul George H. Pickerell praises its climate, living costs, and social life. He notes frequent cultural visits, meditative baths, and simple living with a family budget cited.
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