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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1911
Page
11
Readers are urged to subscribe to The Post with easy address changes to stay fully informed about national affairs. The piece critiques House Democrats for delaying tariff reform and urges rapid adjournment to give the country a rest, arguing the Senate and House should cease agitation and return home.
A hollow log conduit between Washington and New York nears completion ensuring uninterrupted wire and long-distance telephone service. The system survived last Saturday’s storm, connects towns along the line, and extends toward Boston. The scheme echoes Morse’s underground vision once abandoned, with future wireless possibilities envisioned.
The article critiques slow knowledge transfer from printed manuals to farmers and praises the intermediary role of traveling lecturers. It argues that mere information is useless without practical application and highlights how itinerant educators connect research to field work, turning theory into useful farming practice.
The Gibson county effort led by youths and dogs killed about 3 500 rats in a community drive to protect crops. The event highlighted the economic cost of rodent pests to landowners and the benefit of organized extermination across counties and states.
The piece surveys political alignments and public sentiment as journalists note Garfield and Pinchot shifting to support Taft. It comments on the implications for Gov. Wilson, party unity, and the upcoming campaign, with jests about figures like Cip Castro and Kipling, and a skeptical take on recent court rulings and monopolies.
The sacred brass pound, a duck egg shaped standard from Philadelphia, fixed the exact coin weights of U S currency. Created from a London brass pound sent in 1823, it limited friction and avoided tampering, remaining the ultimate standard for weighing all coins and ending coin sweating.
A New York Tribune piece argues for a careful search into the flag’s origin. It notes pre 1776 pine tree and rattlesnake flags used by colonists, mentions Massachusetts’ 1776 navy flag, and records the 1777 Congress design with uncertain authorship. It urges a diligent historian to uncover the authentic origins and earliest use of the Stars and Stripes.
Chariton, the New York Herald Porter, charged with killing his wife and sinking her body in Lake Como, Italy, remains jailed in Hudson County Jail Jersey City after capture off Hoboken on June 2 1910. Officials say he shows calm demeanor while awaiting a final ruling on his extradition to Italy as an appeal to the US Supreme Court proceeds.
Lord Sandhurst, appointed by King George to attend President Taft's coronation representative, has a storied lineage in India and British nobility. His marriage to the widow of Armine Woodhouse was delayed after a severe taxicab accident that cut her face. D'Annunzio's scandalous life is recounted, including ruined relationships with Eleanor Duse and the ex-Premier Rudini's daughter. The Altempo palace and Gallese dukedom in Rome are traced through a tale of marriages, soldiers, and aristocratic intrigue.
Westfield reporter cites Thomas Tappin and his Baptist Sunday school circle as the cat Barney allegedly hatched four healthy chicks in a cornhouse nest. Tappin plans to forward the cat and brood to President Taft. meanwhile a separate note from Seliergrove recalls Ammon Seechrist’s late cherry delivery after a carp rush blocked the road.
Visitors to Maine's coast near Eastport are warned to avoid wading in rock pools at low tide due to the wolf fish. Dr Theodora Gill describes the creature as ferocious despite small size, with large teeth and a taste for lobsters crabs and whelks.
The Texas army maneuvers show the medical corps preventing typhoid with about 20 000 troops, recording only one case. Taft notes 120 000 mobilized with one sixth infected and seven percent fatal, while 40 percent of volunteers were infected within eight weeks. A separate New Haven dispatch reports a brain surgery curing Mrs Bard of dangerous mania and water fear after trepanation. A New York World item notes an 78 year old man, Lyden Thompson, cutting two baby teeth at rockaway New Zealand.
An Indiana assessor faced a humorous exchange while attempting to collect taxes on dogs. The assessor asked for dogs to be taxed. the reply noted the dogs were absent and asked if an appraisal would still be valid. The humor centers on a playful insistence that the assessor bears responsibility for valuing dogs that aren’t present.
Harold Parmelee, two years old, clerk at Woodward's drug store, was badly burned when a customer bought quicksilver and nitric acid, creating nitrate of mercury. A deafening blast shattered the shop as Parmelee fled the counter, then collapsed with facial injuries. Police and hospital staff treated him. the suspect fled the scene and remains unidentified as friends search for the customer.
A collage of poetry and prose spans memory of childhood in a shifting era, noting changes from a lopsided shack to modern comforts and social habits. Included are verse about youth and aging, a Troy Hospital nurses graduation remark on high heels, and a Chicago Record-Herald quip about mobility and dress.
A collage of quips on gender roles manners and marriage from Chicago and New York papers. It juxtaposes views on honesty patience divorce and domestic life with satirical bluntness and old fashioned assumptions. The snippet captures a period voice critiquing social norms through pithy lines.
US Minister Horace G Knowles recalls La Paz as Bolivias roof of the earth and notes its high altitude climate. He discusses Bolivias stable government, mineral wealth, and potential US openings, while Dr Theophile Ribeiro praises BrazilUS ties and trade potential. Other visitors comment on the Isle of Pines under US influence, the Paria treaty, and Cuba. Harry O Wainwright recounts the English Derby at Epsom Downs and royal crowds amid a thunderstorm.
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