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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1917
Page
9
The Washington Post lists subscription options for daily and Sunday editions with prices by mail and in the city. Rates include one month and one year terms, with variations for daily or Sunday editions and prepayment requirements. Edward B McLean is noted as president and the paper shows mail handling and foreign advertising reps.
A discussion notes that some professors challenge established education with socialistic views and pacifist rhetoric. Trustees at a major university adopt resolutions making loyalty to the United States a faculty requirement, warning that disloyal teaching to formative students risks treason, despite constitutional free speech protections.
Parishes in the Senate were shattered by the armed neutrality bill. Republicans favored it nearly as much as Democrats. Public sentiment, not party politics, guided the lower house, with a likely quick action in the House and Senate.
A Japanese editor argues a prophecy of peace will arrive between August and November with a conference in Copenhagen or Paris. He predicts Kaiser defeat, Turkey subjugation, Russia pursuing the Dardanelles, Belgium indemnities, Alsace Lorraine return, and Japan restoring Kla uchau to China for payment. The piece weighs peace against bitter medicine and notes mixed reception.
The readable fragments show garbled text with references to paving and a named person or organization, but details are illegible. No clear event, date, or location can be determined from the visible characters.
The Austrian note to the United States defends unrestricted submarine warfare as a lawful right but argues for sinking armed merchant vessels without warning. It asserts neutral immunity is limited to ships, not individuals, and brands enemy war policy as murder. The piece calls for breaking with Austria and condemns the central powers’ legal stance.
The piece argues that fears of total Federal control collapse when nations nationalize energy and resources. It stresses that individual, state, and national rights must be weighed, with national needs taking precedence in emergencies. It notes railroads and highways as examples of negotiated rights and warns of shifting sentiment toward deregulation while reserving power for extreme times.
In a long case the heir Lord Edmund Talbot challenges the current Earl of Shrewsbury for the title and entailed estates. The dispute centers on which line holds the premier earldom and the right to Alton Towers, with complex entailments leaving personal property in dispute despite the title's contested ownership. The matter highlights royal and noble succession tensions and interlinked family intrigues across England and Ireland.
The Kansas City Star notes how different civilizations saw dogs. Babylonian lore links the dog with snakes and scorpions in a protective prayer. Maori and some Indian groups used dogs as food, while others valued them as beasts of burden or companions.
Mrs Paul Bus saved 41 dollars on shoes in a downtown store sale but lost 1200 dollars from a bank roll she carried in a bag. Two adorned women jostled her as she bought a discounted pair and opened the bag on her left arm. The bag contained 1200 dollars in saved bills from a bank in Pennsylvan ia intended for deposit at a Detroit bank.
An observer recalls a German born neighbor in New York who hid Kaiser Wilhelm and Bismarck pictures after Prussian aggression. The grandfather allegedly burned the images, replacing them with ones of Washington and Lincoln, suggesting many German born citizens quietly renounce the hyphen.
Alice Tisdale depicts a mud hut inn with thatched roof and busy family life. A grandfather tends a clay stove while children play. a blindfolded donkey grinds cornmeal. women in red pound and winnow. men fetch firewood. travelers rest in a separate k’ang area with cradles hanging from the rafters.
An elegiac verse fragment from Pearson's Magazine evokes a soldier’s dying night in France. The speaker pleads for passage to rest as shells explode and ghosts of fallen comrades crowd the sky, their presence framing a final, still vigil over the battle.
The Southern Workman describes native Alaskan meals where winter fare centers on meat and fish eaten raw or stored. Women guide meals and ensure guests are served first, with portions taken home for absent family. Summers add berries and roots. flour and canned goods shifted diets after contact. Ice cream lacks cream, using tallow and berries, sometimes fish, frozen into a dessert.
The article recalls Montgolfier descendants inspiring balloon flight beginning with a 12 foot craft in Paris on August 27, 1738. A later Versailles ascent carried a sheep a cock and a duck to prove animals could endure air at height. On November 21, De Rosier achieved the first manned flight lasting two minutes.
Military orders list officers from various branches, detailing promotions, detachments, duties, leaves, and assignments across departments and posts. It covers Army Medical School, quartermaster and coast artillery corps, inspectors, and exam boards with movements to Fort Leavenworth, San Francisco, Honolulu, and Chicago institutions.
The report recounts Confederate forces under Van Dorn and Price facing Federal troops at Pea Ridge, detailing troop numbers, engagement on March 7 1862, fierce assaults, ambushes by McIntosh and McCulloch, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides and a Confederate retreat after two days of combat. Curtis’s defense and Sigel’s reinforcement are noted with Federal losses around 1,351 and Confederate losses likely similar.
The Treasury shows a general fund balance of 65 million 735 thousand 608 dollars with total receipts of 1 million 787 thousand 529 dollars and payments of 2 million 941 thousand 504 dollars, widening the year deficit to 163 million 462 thousand 213 dollars. The War Department announces revocation of Paragraph 32 Special Orders No. 43 and details transfers and discharges of officers, including Capt Edward M Wells Jr, First Lieuts Berhardt Stumberg (two mentions) and Capt Charles A Hunt assigned as professor of military science at New Hampshire College.
The Sevierville Vindicator editor cheerfully says he will get along despite the hone dry law, even if it means spending summers in Kamooky and winters in Florida as a lighthearted vow to endure the prohibition era.
Hudson County Sheriff Kinkead comments on national events at Raleigh during inauguration ceremonies. He urges support for the President amid international tensions. Pennsylvania politics discuss gubernatorial prospects with Mitchell Palmer as a Democratic candidate and possible New York cabinet links. Darcy, Australian boxer, defends his wartime record and was mischaracterized as a slacker by Gov Whitman.
A fragmented snippet from the Brewingham Age-Herald features dialogue about a woman agreeing to an arrangement. The challenged phrasing implies social or romantic bargaining, with emphasis on mutual assignment and ownership or partnership language within a tense exchange.
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