Washington Post Item From Dnsylvania Avenue
The snippet from the Washington Post mentions a location on Dnsylvania Avenue near Fourteenth Street.
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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1907
Page
14
The snippet from the Washington Post mentions a location on Dnsylvania Avenue near Fourteenth Street.
The notice discusses immigration as a sociological lever for Southern race relations, arguing a gradual reduction of Black proportions is a relief strategy. It outlines subscription rates for The Washington Post with daily and Sunday editions, delivery details, and payment methods including drafts and checks.
A reader asks The Post whether a person is responsible for the evil outcomes of actions done with the best information available. Moral philosophy often supports responsibility despite best efforts, noting missed opportunities to learn could shift blame.
The piece denounces corporation lawyers as a corrupt force who help clients evade the law. It cites Tilden and O Conor as examples, calls for a new breed of lawyers with integrity, and urges reform to curb demagogy and corporate fraud before predicting Washingtons prospects in a spring training context.
South Carolina seeks to aid European immigrants by funding passage and guiding settlement to the South, arguing it complies with federal law and may ease labor shortages. President studies southern labor conditions as manufacturers urge action to relieve a regional labor famine and potential population dilution.
A legislative proposal in Pennsylvania seeks longer prison terms for night entry to commit burglary, with first offenses punished by five to twenty years and second offenses life imprisonment. The column also reports on Cumberland Presbyterian Church union cases in Indiana, upholding union rights to church property despite minority status.
Henry Watterson argues Spain’s government is impotent amid five ministries in months of turmoil. He notes Moorish influence lingering in Valencia, the church’s grip on education, and a reactionary politics while Castilian conservatism traps reform. He cautions Americans to beware Spain’s instability.
A Philadelphia hotel discussion among traveling men from Bloomsburg and beyond yields broad support for Roosevelt's return. L. M. White reports the reply from White House secretary William Loeb Jr stating the president has nothing to add to his 1904 statement and will not be a candidate.
An amateur evangelist in New York amid a blizzard ranted of hell fire and brimstone, drawing a crowd near Park Row as a freezing rain fell. In Bloomfield a kerosene lamp fire endangered Mrs Myer and three children, but a neighbor’s quick actions saved them and one child’s doll amid smoke and flames.
A discussion of Kaiser Wilhelm II gifting a statue of King William III to London fronts Kensington Palace as the ideal site. Also described is Byron House, an office building in London lined with Byron quotations and a portrait, built by Sir John Tollemache Sinclair. The piece notes the building’s profitable tenancy and humorous verse on its walls.
A New York World piece argues President Roosevelt faces strong third term pressure from voters in several legislatures and contrasts popular sentiment with political leaders. It notes polls show Roosevelt leading renomination among state lawmakers while federal leaders resist. The piece contends only the public supports a Roosevelt bid and questions if party machinery can stop conscription for a third term.
A Denver Republican report from El Paso notes locals mocked an opera manager who cut a scene from The Barber of Seville. The piece mocks the impresario and asserts El Paso’s knowledge of opera from Lohengrin to Parsifal with a defiant, music loving tone.
A New York Press item recounts the steamship Aelia bringing a varied menagerie to port. A hippo died after seasickness and a terrier alerted the crew by barking. The hippo was rolled overboard, raising the ship’s loss value to 97,000. Also noted is Mrs Olive Russell Burns trading her husband for 60,000 under her father’s will.
Frederick August Wilhelm Gaffron, cashier at a Kansas restaurant, was born aboard the Constitution in the Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans on August 18, 1815. He was baptized in Bocholt Westphalia by Rev Quade, later recalling his refugee parents and a life linked to the historic frigate.
The piece juxtaposes a humorous radio style phone scene with Booker T. Washington speaking at Harvard on progress of African Americans through education. He cites Tuskegee Institute, notes 32 percent of black adults literate after forty years of freedom, compares rates to Spaniards and Russians, and argues industrial education reduces lynching and crime. asserts Tuskegee graduates rarely in prison and most Southern Negroes lack trades.
Emportal claims the Golden Rule for railroading demands wage increases to match workers' demands and transportation rates be cut in half if possible. It likens this to coal industry history and the effort to lower coal prices, praising a supposed interposition of a superior intelligence to ease poverty. The piece urges immediate action and opposes resistance.
A jumble of notes from Joplin and New York recounts Baron Paul von ZeHmiski, once of Flint & Co, about to work with his fianc e Frank Nicholson’s mining firm. He speaks of starting at the bottom, while Canary Islands reflections joke about famine and diplomacy. The piece blends social gossip with misquoted maxims and stray quotes about wealth and marriage.
Senor Luis Toledo Herrarte the new Guatemalan minister to the United States stays at the Arlington to present credentials to Secretary Root and seek a White House interview. He notes Central American tensions will affect all, urges peace, and mentions Guatemala’s strong export trade and mobilization fears.
From the Denver era, Old Henry Jones lies in bones with a scarred visage. He bears a burned eye a lost thumb and a flattened nose yet marries a woman described as more than passing fair. He won her with bold talk and fearless wit.
A quirky Chicago News fragment riffs on a man choosing bets and facing a divorce court. The snippet features playful yet caustic remarks about a wary hatchet-faced figure and a supposed society for the prevention of cruelty to bivalves, all framed as pointed paragraphs.
News of the passing of Rev Franz Joseph Schneider, the East Side "marrying parson," at Castel-on-the Rhine ends a 30 year career in which he performed over 1000 marriages. Born seventy five in Germany, he operated from Allen Street then Second Avenue, serving diverse couples regardless of creed. Death cause not stated.
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