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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1913
Page
9
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A Santa Barbara man admits offering $1000 to Senator Works and claims ignorance of crime. The piece condemns muckraking exaggeration, warns it fuels distrust, and argues most public servants are honest while noting attacks harm public confidence. It stresses focus on real corruption with cautious scrutiny.
Berlin reports show peace costing Germany a trillion marks in military safeguards and loans. High taxes drive capital and residents abroad while 80,000 Berlin flats sit vacant and construction stalls. Industrial declines threaten a broader crisis amid socialist agitation and a looming political strike.
Readable fragments describe critical conditions and a harsher outlook during the Kaiser’s reign, noting the period’s unusually severe forecast compared with prior times.
Department of Agriculture figures clear the middleman of profit charges tied to farm product price increases. They show farmers’ share of a bushel of wheat remains about half, while middlemen’s roles clear through buyers, shippers and retailers. Despite a 33 percent rise in agricultural staple values, only around 3 percent is linked to middlemen, leaving a $3 billion gap unaccounted for as consumers pay $9 billion yearly. The discrepancy prompts talk of hoodwinking either middleman tolls or product values.
A Berlin archaeologist hosted a Stone Age style feast on a Danube sandbank with cabbage soup and hot-stone pork. The mock banqueters debated vanished eras, currency ideas, and ancient hieroglyphs, questioning what real knowledge about that era they possess.
The Waite House signals urgent currency reform to support the new tariff, with administration forces solidifying their stance. The President seeks a flexible system to allow the tariff to take effect without being blocked by current law, while warning business disruption if timing falters.
The essay discusses how immediate tariff enactment conflicts with the president's call for a coupled currency law. It questions whether a rushed tariff could harm the nation and risk party fortunes, suggesting a workaround endorsing a future effective date tied to currency legislation.
A satirical piece notes that removing a rooster’s vocal cords would mute dawn crowing, imagining a cascade of absurd reforms from croakless frogs to speechless Congress. It recalls Galloway’s department work, jokes about mosquitos, and Folkloric quips on politics and vice presidents from North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
Negotiations proceed between the Prince of Monaco and Enghien Casino owners to transfer public gaming to Marchais Chateau near the Belgian border. The plan leverages exterritorial rights to host all Monte Carlo style games, with a $100,000 yearly royalty and estate expansion, despite French prohibitions near Paris.
In a courtroom exchange, Tudge Sawyer questions the plaintiff's sobriety, and a witness concedes the plaintiff was not ostentatiously sober though not drunk, highlighting a nuanced judgment of conduct during the proceedings.
In a Washington statement dated June 14 1913 the Prosperity letter writer argues that reducing farm prices harms all, denounces demagoguery, and calls for higher wages and better prices for farmers, merchants, and workers. He warns against Congress and administration pursuing price cuts and urges political leaders to act with wage increases instead.
The cruiser Presidente Sarmiento, training ship of the Argentine navy, arrives in New York with twelve officers and nineteen middies aboard from Barbados. The voyage runs to October with calls at Mediterranean ports before returning home. Shore leave will be granted soon as the ship stays in port. The vessel carries 36 officers and 292 crew.
Navy Department has received the court of inquiry record from Norfolk Navy Yard. It investigates Rear Admiral Doylé’s fitness report. Quinby objected to a reflection and requested a complete investigation. The report will be shown to Secretary Daniels on his return tomorrow.
Vienna reports that Count Zeppelin's visit to the city and a report of the airship Sachsen have prompted the Austrian government to order thirty one Zeppelins for delivery after 1914. The aircraft are to be armed with machine guns.
Navy announces the retirement of Professor H M Paul USN a mathematics instructor now serving with the Department of Justice on June 3 creating a second vacancy in the corps. The earlier vacancy followed the death of Professor Philip Alger in February 192. Several candidates are reported for the posts.
A man aged years unknown name asked a newsboy to take him to a police station saying he was John B Lang of 1234 Oakwood Avenue Lions Farms. He could not identify the officers or confirm his employer Prudential at 10 Ferry Street Broad Street. Dr C G W Crankshaw aided inquiry. amnesia diagnosed and patient sent to City Hospital for observation.
In a grim Lisbon outpost terming it a prison of silence, 600 inmates endure a brutal regime. Cells are coffin-like and five stories high around a central hub, with no words allowed. Once daily they exit in shrouds, faces masked, a punishment lasting up to ten years.
A baby girl crowed from a large basket of flowers in a stateroom of the steamer Czar on its voyage to Russia. Rev. Mr. Korchinsky and wife, both Brooklyn travelers, entered the room to discover the infant untagged. The cleric plans to adopt the baby as a gift from God, despite his wife's initial objections. The name proposed is Djominica, after his mother, while passengers prepare baby clothes for the naming ceremony at sea.
Minneapolis Dispatch reports to the New York Herald that trachoma is spreading from northern Minnesota Indians and foreign miners on iron ranges. Dr. Taliaferro Clark of the U S Public Health Service finds the disease in 14 counties with 76 white persons and 533 Indians afflicted, warning of a costly burden of illness and economic strain.
Nicholas Domenico of 28 Eighth Avenue Newark refuses amputation after a left arm crush at Drake Morrison Box Co. Doctors at St Michael's Hospital prepared for surgery but he declined consent, risking death from blood poisoning.
Philadelphia dispatch reports J Milton Colton, a wealthy banker, left sixty thousand dollars in his will to the Presbyterian Church cemetery at Abingdon, Pa. The gift funds a special sexton to keep the cemetery open from sunrise to sunset daily and for the church to remain open during those hours, offering a quiet haven for mourners. The sexton will reside in the manse.
A visiting attache recounts amusing incidents with foreign potentates in London. He recalls an Abyssinian prince who broke a Dresden vase, the Sultan of Oran at a dinner whose etiquette caused a scene, and a Siam crown prince at a bazaar where duchesses knelt to show respect. He notes common travel money troubles for minor powers and ends with a brief obituary of Rev Spencer detailing his Dominican service and ties to Somerset and Columbus.
New York voices urge grand opera careers for American tenors while criticizing climate excuses. Ralph Nicholls argues American youth can earn top opera salaries with hard work. Separately, T W Christian promotes New York as a potential free port to cut duties, lower prices, and boost living costs.
Belgrade reports the Servian cabinet led by M. Pasitech resigns. Sofia notes Greece has submitted to Bulgaria a demobilization proposal similar to Servia. Habana says ex President Gomez and family sail for France on the Espagne as he plans to stay in Europe for months.
High pressure across the western Atlantic and Gulf States signals several days of warm weather east of the Rockies. The warmest spell is in the middle Western States with highs reported Sunday across the middle Atlantic, interior South. Light rains touched the Great Lakes region, while fair weather spread elsewhere. Winds vary by coast with moderates across New England to the mid Atlantic, light to variable on the west gulf coast, and moderate to the southeast on southern coasts. Generally fair, above average temperatures expected over 48 hours. River Bulletin notes, no major storms observed.
Postmaster General Burleson and family visited Newport News Shipbuilding to inspect the Texas, the giant 14 inch rifles and five turrets drawing interest as the battleship nears commissioning. The tour highlighted mounting power and future trials, with Burleson expressing fascination at the vessel’s scale and armament.
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