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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1917
Page
11
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The piece criticizes Germany for a bungled plan to involve Mexico and Japan against the United States. It notes the Kaiser and Carranza would only ally if the U S declared war, and claims the disclosure shows German treachery. Japan’s reaction and the diplomatic humiliation are highlighted as a warning to future alliances.
Railroads, consuming one quarter of the nation’s coal, face higher costs as heavy transport and stockpiles tighten supplies. Last year they paid 220 million dollars for coal. with wage hikes and cost rises, prices may double this year, risking dividend erosion of about 190 million. Prosperity has aided railroads, but finances remain strained.
The war accelerates a Lloyd George land reform plan in Britain. English farmers, like their American counterparts, now accept compulsory cultivation of all available land. Landowners resisting cultivation face government pressure as the regime uses wartime power to push socialist style measures.
A fragmented passage notes a government plan to fix maximum prices for staple products through a graded scale covering years up to 1922. It contrasts free trade England and a socialistic plan as wartime necessities, asserting the U.S. should not require such a plan even in war emergencies.
A stance endorses presidential authority over Senate obstruction as the nation moves toward potential war with Germany. It argues the United States must repeal Senate debate limits to arm merchant ships and defend life and property on the seas, foreseeing a broader global clash and a pledged resolve to defeat German aggression.
A war correspondent cites a supposed German staff remark favoring Belgium over Switzerland due to Belgium’s unpreparedness versus Swiss universal service. The piece argues universal military service strengthens democracy and national resilience, noting England’s early losses from untrained officers and praising trained soldiers’ health and survival. It connects defense with republican ideals and mentions weather as a factor to aid the country.
Whitelaw Reid's daughter, who married the Hon John Ward, becomes Lady Ward through her husband's knighthood in the Victorian Order. He served as an equerry to both kings and fought in the Boer War, now holding rank again in the army. The couple reside at Chilton Lodge Berkshire and Dudley House Park Lane. Sir Charles Matthews, new baronet and head of England's criminal prosecutions, is a neighbor with ties to Montagu Williams. He earned his first knighthood at Newgate. King Edward was nearly misled by a clerk’s slip. Cyril Grand Duchess of Russia earns St George Cross for bravery. her marriage and later life include divorce and remarriage to Grand Duke Cyril.
A reader asks about planting potatoes in the garden and discovers potatoes must be planted in hills. The exchange notes the yard is not prepared and the idea is reconsidered.
Bill Nye, famed humorist editor of the Laramie Boomerang, also served as sheriff of Laramie County. In a famed 300 mile pursuit, Nye cornered a criminal in an abandoned miner cabin, but a blanket attack allowed the desperado to escape on horseback with his wife spared only briefly before fleeing into Wyoming’s mountains. Nye’s deputy pursued, yet the outlaw vanished, leaving Nye stunned but unharmed.
In House and garden verse bless the Four Corners Hearth and Board. The blessing invokes rest doors windows walls and roof to share peace of man and god with love filling the home and kin. A ceremonial domestic poem praising household harmony and spiritual shelter.
Cambridge Dispatch to Philo Press reports Harvard undergraduates outperform Radcliffe students in naming infant movement types. Professor Johnson and his class list seven methods of baby locomotion including creeping on all fours and hopping forward by lifting the body. The piece highlights student observation skills.
Kansas City Times reports Neville Chamberlain framed a national service scheme mobilizing clergy in two classes. Special service includes naval chaplaincy and hospital duty, while general service covers munition work and agriculture. Bishops decide parish sparing, aim to keep religious work ongoing. England and Scotland physicians and surgeons to be mobilized similarly to best meet army and civilian needs.
A writer recalls two American youths aiding a crippled man awaiting a crowded streetcar near Sixth Avenue and Fourteenth Street. One youth offers to fight the crowd to place the man on the car, reflecting a modern and vivid spirit of chivalry akin to Lancelot. The act underscores integrity and practical gallantry in everyday urban life.
An excerpt recounts colonial French visitors mispronouncing English terms like plente and piqua-nique, and notes their lively yet uncertain reception of rustic picnic customs. Baron Closen and Bayard describe meals by riverbank, cold punch served in a china loving cup, and attention to fish and cooking as guests arrive.
A compact ode to bells as sacred objects and literary imagery. It cites Shakespeare’s midnight bell and Dickens’s Nickleby, recalls a Book of Days note on brass alloys, and recounts a Cornwall belief about continental bells heard through stormy seas near Bottreaux/Boscastle. A Louisville Courier-Journal quip follows about a mail order tragedy.
New York observers note Japan's emperor Yochi Hito bestowed nobiliary rank on the oxen that drew the funeral hearse carrying the late mikado's body toward Kioto. The act is likened to General Nogi's dramatic gesture and contrasted with Lord Townshend's dogs in Ireland.
The London Chronicle reports large gold deposits at the New Malden London and Southwestern Bank as citizens rush to invest in the war loan. A Lady Maxwell offers one third of her capital, about £1,750 yearly, plus £25,000 to the government, while a widow contributes a 10 shilling note and 6 pence postal order, urging women to put country before fashion and invest.
Centralia, Washington dispatch reports W F Bryan, a deceased Centralia resident, left a quirky will promising one half of a half gallon gold coin jug to the finder who publishes the discovery and arranges digging with a partner. Another jugful is buried west of the old home. mark lost. Bryan died in the 1890s. Allan Miller, a Centralia resident, is a nephew of Mrs Bryan who died six weeks earlier.
From the Youth's Compent the difference is apparent early. A boy seeks fun in a broken ice box and a girl in violet hunting. Boys seek cheap thrills, girls in display at home. A dollar buys a boy food, a sister will wear it. Siblings share traits yet differ in behavior and attitudes.
Shipping men on the Great Lakes gripe at lacking a Lakes representative on the Federal shipping board. Detroit’s Lake Carriers Association president laments need for balance since lakes tonnage dwarfs Atlantic and Pacific ports, and warns of strategic risk in war. Toronto lawyer notes Canada’s rapid wartime mobilization versus American potential.
M Jackson Miller chief clerk at General Electric Erie Pa says American manufacturers have nearly finished munition work for the sea and only about 2000 12 inch shells remain for the British with possible more for other belligerents. Australia uses strict closing hours for saloons during war and overall prohibition remains unpopular though some states impose strict licenses not total.
In Homer Croy's Everybody's a sharp critique of English barbers, noting a dirty sponge and a rotary brush as germ spreaders. The piece toys with civic unease, claiming barber practices fuel germ proliferation and birth rates across generations. The text mocks sanitation zeal and contrasts American prudence with English habits.
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