The Washington Post Ad Rates Notice 1907
The notice lists subscription options and prices for The Washington Post Co in Washington D C and New York with daily Sunday editions and various periods. It notes remittance methods and addresses, plus management names and a date of March 15 1907.
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Wlashington
Eleranoria
Washington Post Co
Wiashington
D. C
Washington
Ae Acrond-Claus
Matt Matter
New York
Offie
Flatiron Huilding
Paul Block
Chirazo Ottee
Ualty
Maragar
Public Conference With Roosevelt On Railroads
The piece argues for an open White House conference between the President and railroad leaders to seek public backing and trust. It urges including newspaper reporters to report fully so the nation can judge whether railroads are penitent and ready to cooperate, stressing the public’s crucial role and the need for transparency.
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White House
Pubiic
Theodore Roosevelt
Washington
Japanese Exclusion Policy and Kansas Statues Debate
A long column discusses the Japanese exclusion order affecting laborers from Hawaii, Mexico, and Canada, and the California education compromise. It then critiques Kansas withholding funds for a John Brown statue, praises Ingalls’ statue, and comments on governmental paternalism and public figures. It notes urban and national issues and a mix of political and social observations from various states.
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United States
Hawaii
Mexico
Canada
Japan
Japlanese
San Francisco
California
Kansas
John Brown
National Capital
Washington
John J. Ingalls
Illusions
Justin 8. Merritt
Ethan Allen
Jacob Collamer
Vathola
Henry Cabot Lodge
Lewis Cass
James A. Garfield
Wiliam Allen
Lenge
New Hampshire
Texas
Inter Ocean on corporate money in politics and tariffs
The Inter Ocean supports limits on corporate funding in campaigns and criticizes George W Perkins for a 1904 $50,000 New York Life contribution. It warns directors cannot use corporate funds for party campaigns and recalls tariffs shaping factory closures and wage trends under McKinley and Wilson-Gorman era.
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Chicago Inter Ocean
Promament
George W. Perkins
New York Life Insurance Company
Republican Campaign Fund
Post
Per- King
Inter ©Cean
Ife
Inter Ocean
A Rich English Bachelor. London Cable in Kansas City Star
A Chicago Record-Herald tale from a Kansas City Star column portrays Walter Rothschild as a celebrated bachelor son of Lord Rothschild. It sketches his reputed cynicism, social crowd, and a dramatic anecdote of a fiancée and her mother plotting to marry him for wealth. The piece contrasts romantic folly with common laborers’ quiet hopes.
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Nebraska
Kansas City Times
Feodor Gotovin
Richmond Pearson Hobson
Hobson
London
Kansas City
Walter Rothschild
Lord Rothschild
Lord Rothschid
Walter
Beng
Pacific Ocean
Woman Applies for Permit to Wear Trousers in Chicago
Marie Hunt, 24, of the Chicago Beach Hotel, asked Police Lieutenant Ryan for a permit to wear trousers and other male clothes. She argued heavy skirts and cost of women’s wear, while Ryan cited expense and authority limits, suggesting the chief or mayor might decide.
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Chicago
New York
Marie Hunt
Chicago Beach
Ryan
Statra
Leutenant
Advertising in England and a tombstone inscription
The piece discusses potential and limits of advertising in England, noting American druggists rarely advertise in public spaces. It cites a graveyard scenario where a druggist is imagined to advertise on his wife’s tombstone in Greenwich, highlighting the gravity of the matter.
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Greenwich
Strother brothers murder acquittal reception planned
The McDowsil Gun Club of West Virginia prepares a large reception for James A. Strother and Philip J. Strother, recently acquitted at Culpeper for a murder. Philp Strother is ill but may attend with his wife Helen Johnson, as club members from four states converge for the event.
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Richmond
New York American
McDowsil Gun Club
West Virginia
Mason and Dixon Line
James A
Philip J. Strother
Culpeper
William F. Bywaters
Philp Strother
Botts Strother
Helen Johnson
Fishing with shovels in Norfolk gets bushels of fish
Norfolk residents use axes and shovels to scoop horned bull heads through a lee opening on Wood Creek. The frozen creek forces the fish toward the ice, making the feast cheap and common for meat dealers and locals alike.
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Winsted Conn
The
New York Herald
Norfolk
Wood Creek
Only Woman Mason of Doneraile Court Tale
Old Lady Doneraile at Nice dies nearly eighty. Doneraile Court, her home for fifty seven years, passes to her son in law and daughter Lord and Lady Castletown. The story recounts how Elizabeth St Leger became a Master Mason after inadvertently learning lodge secrets when a library wall was altered. She later led as president of a female orphan asylum and never revealed secrets. Lord Castletown and Lady Castletown assume ownership and have notable Irish and international ties.
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Nice
Doneraile Court
County Cork
Duke of
Richmland
Canada
Donveraile Court
St. Leger
Lord
Lady Castletown
Elizabeth St. Leger
Donevans
Lord Castletown
Tyler
Ryler
Ond
Lord Poneralle
Col
Alcock Stawell
Lord Doneraile
Donevalle
Astietown
Eltzabeth St. Leger
Miss St. Leger
Richard Aldworth
Newmarket
Aldworth
Masonic Fermale Orphan Asylum
Dubli
Doneraiie
Doneraiie Court
United States
Wyoming
Rocky Mountains
Royal University of Ireland
Irish Forestry Society
South Africa
Egypt
Barnaby Fitzpatrick
Rory Oge O’more
Edward VI
Upper Ossory
Bernard Barnaby Fitzpatrick
Castletown
St. Louis
Missouri
Moberly
Hardware Horse
Chinese Differences in Etiquette and Dress Compared
The passage notes a Minoan figure with southward compass, saluting customs, differing greetings, and age queries. It describes him avoiding your handshake, casting south in politeness, discarding fruit flesh for seeds, and swapping trousers for gowns while presenting coffins as gifts or books to friends.
Shaw Algo a Lunch Counter Eater in Washington
Secretary Shaw at a fast lunch spot in Washington keeps a frugal regime, often choosing country sausage buckwheat cakes and sweet cider over club luncheon invites. A banker notes the Treasury post’s appetite seems to sharpen the secretary’s midday repast.
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New York
Lestie M. Shaw
Washington
George B. Cortelyou
The
Treasury
Mr. Shaw
Carnegie Trust Company
New Telephone Device from the New York Sun
The Sun reports a new public pay station invention that protects both telephone companies and patrons. A nickel-paid connection links the caller to an operator who switches lines, with a three minute talk window timed by a clock. If the call fails to connect, the nickel drops as the operator reports no answer, and the customer can renew.
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The
New York Sun
Geniugy
Central Office
Connecion
Central
Misunderstood Him from Harper's Weasty
An army chaplain chased a soldier named McDonnell who fled into a saloon. The chaplain called him by name, McDonnell paused outside, then returned and explained he only had the price of one drink.
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Harper's Weasty
McDonnell
Juror Protest Highlights Courtroom Etiquette in Jersey City
A Jersey City juror John G. Snyder urged judges to curb wit during a murder trial remarking that facetious repartee lengthens cases and costs money. The Louisville Courier-Journal notes analogies about geniuses and eccentric behavior in public life.
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Jersey City
John G. Snyder
Louisville Courier-Journal
Won Million in the Slump From Lakewood Hotel
J Brandt Walker of the Chicago Stock Exchange reportedly cleared over 31 million in a single session from a Lakewood Hotel room with private wires to New York brokers. He cited declines in bond markets and rail stock optimism as causes and predicted further copper stock liquidation. Walker, son of Edwin Walker, has long been connected with Walker & Co. and Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul Railroad affairs.
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Lakewood
N. J
New York Times
J. Brandt Walker
Chicago Stock Exchange
Lakewood Hotel
New York
Walker
Union Parifle
Chicaze and
Northwestern
Standard
Mr. Walker
Edwin Walker
Marty
Chicago
Milwaukee and St. Pat
Walker & Co
Songs of the Cities from a Birmingham paper
An humorous列 tasting piece contrasts U.S. city pride with Pittsburgh noted as humble and modest. Boston, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Milwaukee, and Frisco boast their virtues while Pittsburgh remains unglamorous and silent, despite regional fame.
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Birmingham
Ags-Herald
Boston
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Milwaukee
Piltsbore
Ferrets in Underground Work Drafted for Telegraph Wires
A Chicago Post correspondent reports that labor unions may not know ferrets and rats are used without union cards in Terre Haute Lafayette and Huntington. Superintendent Cline of a telephone firm admits ferrets and rats are employed to lay wires in ducts. Ferrets are baited and guided by a rat through ducts to pull strings and pull-in ropes for wiring. Ferrets are fed and prepared before use to maximize performance.
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Indianepolia
Chicago Post
Terre Haute
Lafayette
Huntington
Cline
Mr. Cline
Remarkable World Doll Collection At Brussels Exhibit
Princess Clementine of Belgium owns one of the world’s finest doll collections. It includes ancient Babylonian terra cotta figures, Roman ivory and clay dolls, rare Greek dolls, Greenland bone dolls, a Greek doll house, and a Foster doll from Assam. Some pieces date to the French court, inspiring the term poupee from Poppea, and the exhibit supports Calvary guild care for tuberculosis patients.
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Chicago
Inter Ucent
Clementine
Belgium
Leopold
Calvary Guild
Brussels
Babylon
Louise
Clerentine
Greenland
Duke of Orleans
Assam
British India
Stis
France
Charles VI
Padua
Pasmo
Pusmo
Charles
Pasma
Poppes
Nero
Poppea
Forced Run On Fried Fish Across City Lunch Counters
A Philadelphia Bulletin report describes a lunchroom using fake fried fish orders to boost sales during Lent and a Friday. Workers push fried fish by shouting fake orders while the boss later adds a two cent surcharge to all fish meals. The tactic aims to clear excess fish, despite customers' mixed feelings.
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Philadelphia Bulletin
Fis
Blowing Bubbles From the Baltimore Run
A poem recalling a child blowing bubbles in bright sunlit play. The verse evokes carefree days and the imagery of bubbles rising, glimmering, and bursting like fleeting dreams in golden memories. The speaker contrasts childhood innocence with adult life, using aerial bubbles as a symbol of fleeting joy.
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Baltimore Run
Reflections of a Bachelor from the New York Press
A collection of humorous sermons contrasts domestic life with bachelorhood and marriage. It quips that a man’s view of a wife’s cooking changes after years, notes a woman’s need to be born to please, and laments boarding house realities with light satire on meals and letters.
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New York Press
Georgia building at Jamestown Exposition described
W M Mitchell of Atlanta, head of Georgia’s exposition board, outlines a Georgia building at the Jamestown Exposition replicating the President’s mother’s home. The structure will feature interior mantels, a sun dial, and a lunch at a table once used for the President’s parents. Georgia Day on June 10 includes a speech by the President and a presentation to the battleship Georgia.
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Georgia
W M. Mitchell
Atlanta
Georgia Board of Commissioners
Southern
Baltimore and Ohio ‘Railroad
Washington
Southern Railway
Norfolk
West Point
Gov. Terrell
United States
South
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