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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1907
Page
32
Early notice details subscription options for the Washington Post including daily and Sunday delivery, various term lengths, and rates. Remittance forms note drafts checks and post office orders payable to Washington Post Co. with addresses in Washington New York Chicago and Winston.
On March 14, 1897, observers note railroads face higher costs while Westward freight boom and rising passenger traffic strain capacity. Industry critics argue carriers lack foresight, urging expansion to meet demand. Railroads eliminate nonessential rates, yet overall growth rewards those who invest in facilities.
Vicount Hayashi counsels calm in face of anti Japanese sentiment as Roosevelt's friendship with the United States is cited. California moves to bar Asiatics from schools and to exclude Japanese laborers, while lawmakers seek a mutual exclusion treaty with Japan balancing sovereignty and most favored nation rights. The Senate backs a public vote on Asiatic exclusion amid tense diplomacy and constitutional questions.
The article blends political debate on exclusion treaties with a cheerfully defiant forecast that spring will arrive despite snow. It praises President’s support for a treaty with Japan, describes reclamation service growth under Prof. Frederick H. Newell, and ends with broad remarks on civic reform and public works, all in a period newspaper voice.
A Manchester Chronicle summary notes diplomacy lacks a barometer. It cites near-misses from minor incidents under monarchies and empires, including Pritchard’s Tahiti affair, the 49th parallel Canada US boundary, Morier’s Berlin talks, and Russo Japanese War naval balance.
A satirical poem laments elite social life while municipal reform advances. Then a New York Times report praises Brooklyn’s new trolley ash removal system as a model, noting Cincinnati Boston and Chicago discuss adoption while Manhattan congestion challenges its rollout. Ex-Deputy Piper leads the Brooklyn plan, replacing slow cart hauls with fast ash cars.
A New York dinner for 150 SAE alumni featured a staged burlesque act called the girl in the pie. Charles Studin led as presiding host while waiters released a wax doll from a giant pie amid applause and table roars. Sparrows fluttered over guests as the doll rose, aided by hidden wires.
Reports say Sir Edward Tennant will hold a dominant stake in the new Times board taking over management from Arthur Walter this month. The Tennant family holdings, plus new American links, could steer the paper toward Home Rule advocacy and align with the Liberal government.
Washington disputes reach New York Times as reports describe Oklahoma Territory delegates debating county seats and legislative control. Osage Nation neutrals swing votes amid clashes between white settlers and Indigenous delegates over offices, committees, and county lines in the early push to statehood.
A beauty treatment tale unfolds with a doctored routine and a lurid scene amid admonitions of vanity. In science news, Prof Koellicker reports a Naples lab study describing a microphoneograph proving fish hum to communicate, calling him a sea lawyer for the title.
Nellie Melba signed a contract with a talking machine company described as the largest remuneration ever given a singer. She will receive more than 50000 dollars for a week’s singing ending April 7, with a guaranteed total and a passage to England arranged for March 26 per Chicago News.
The New York Tribone profiles Cyrus W Field and brothers David Dudley Field Stephen Judson and Henry Martyn Field. It traces Cyrus W Fields role in the Atlantic cable, the elder Fields legal code influence, Stephen Judson’s Supreme Court career, and Henry Martyn Fields religious publishing work and editorial leadership of the Evangelist.
Edward Curtis of Seattle, famed for Indian studies, discusses photographs of Hopi snake dance at length in a hotel lobby. He details the nine day rite, snake handling, and ceremonial washing, praising the pagan pageantry and its social meaning amid his travels in the West.
A Washington Dispatch from New York Herald reports Japan has built a remarkable torpedo fired by wireless telegraphy. Details are scarce but naval observers see it as a major step in naval warfare. The article also notes Japan’s armored cruiser Techuba to visit the Atlantic coast in May as flagship for the Jamestown Exposition and compares its speed to American cruisers.
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