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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1911
Page
11
A damaged text fragment describes subscription forms and delivery terms for a Washington area publication. It mentions Peasepivania Avenue, Fourteenth Street, delivery by carrier in Washington and Alexandria, various Sunday and daily options, and a critique of official spending without questions.
The piece surveys Democratic control facing a wave of vacant offices and a quest to cut expenses while balancing political gain. It notes upcoming turnover in the Sixty-second Congress with fresh lawmakers in the House and Senate, highlighting John Sharp Williams and other leaders as potential power players in a pivotal session.
A tribute dinner honors Senator Jacob H. Gallinger for his work on the District of Columbia. Prominent national and civic leaders commend his industry, courage, and independent stance guiding the capital’s growth and governance. The piece notes the era’s appreciation of sustained capital improvement as true statesmanship.
A Pennsylvania widow who advertised for a husband received 159 proposals but rejected them all. The article questions whether the fault lay in unreadable photos or the suitors, noting the lack of data and photographs. It muses on gender traits and the widow’s control in choosing.
The piece contrasts a widow’s celebrated success with a call for exposing rejected suitors, then critiques the Navy’s Brandeis method as reorganizing records under Emerson. It cites efficiency aims, cost reduction, and intense interest in how data and time studies could reshape production. It closes with a stream of satirical witticisms on current affairs and public figures.
In Hoboken the baron Max van Ryckevorsel wed Marie Schwarzenbart a governess after a six day romance aboard the Nieuw Amsterdam. An immigration inspector warned she might be held at Ellis Island, but the couple proceeded to marry on the spot, beginning a world tour honeymoon.
French crew aboard the Max reported St Elmo's fire off Eureka California Friday night. They described blue and white flames along masts and rigging, with other vessels visible by flickering glows and will o the wisps at sea before a thunderstorm ended the display.
A Buffalo Express note questions vehicle rights including hurdy gurdies and wood carts. Knoxville Journal mocks partisan choices while noting Japan-US relations. Chattanooga Times teases press golf scores and royal majesty. Baltimore’s Frances Duncan praises true garden charm born of care, not wealth.
A clerk endures a long string of blankets offered to a young woman who claims she is not buying, saying she seeks a friend instead. The piece contrasts patient service with pretentious demand in a metropolitan setting.
King George appoints Capt. Dudley de Char of the Royal Navy as naval aide-de-camp. His career includes service as naval attaché in Washington and a harrowing period as a prisoner in Cairo during the Egyptian conflict. He hails from Canada, is related to Sir Harry Rawson, and is married to Emid Struben of South Africa.
Mrs W A F Parker of Linwood was severely burned when a can of tomatoes heated in hot water on the stove exploded, ejecting scalding steam and splinters that lodged in woodwork. She was knocked unconscious and is under a physician’s care as doctors assess facial burns and possible disfigurement.
Hartford Dispatch reports on Andrew Kingsbury a Coventry agriculturist and former Connecticut legislator whose experiments with breaking two bulls to work as one plow failed when a bull gored him. He died five years later after being injured in the barnyard incident. Kingsbury a noted cattle breeder and Republican figure led a model grange farm and state farming groups.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle discusses the romance of medicine with London students citing Napoleon and Louis XIV as cases of disease shaping history. A New York World note reports John J. Maynard trapping and executing a crow that robbed his henhouse and eggs over weeks, hanging the bird as a warning.
Ellsworth McDonald four years old in East New York suffers a mysterious suicidal mania. Doctors planned X ray brain study at Kings County Hospital after Mrs. Lillian McDonald sought help. Relentless self harm included knife attacks and near fatal stunts. yet the boy remained robust and hopeful about school.
Poem recalling a farmer’s boyhood and a father guiding him home. The speaker, now aged, finds comfort in the memory of his father’s encouraging words as he nears home, implying a spiritual guide leading him still.
A Denver Republican feature explores a dream in which a consumer longs for free necessities and claims all markets would gift him goods. It’s paired with Chicago News opinion snippets on money, politics, social observation, and envy, noting how wealth reshapes perception and social dynamics.
A witty column satire notes that small success inflates egos while men dodge debts on imagined duties. It jokes that people blame government or weather for life’s misfortunes and mocks the restless husband who blames his wife for unrest in bed as he returns home worn by folly.
Abner Caldicott of Lawrence Kansas laments missing old fashioned pie in Raleigh taverns and reflects on pie as a civilizing force. He argues modern pie causes dyspepsia but history shows pie spurred westward expansion, exploration, and national wealth, contrasting American pie with European fare.
A Sunapee NH speaker extols greatness from mountain regions and cites Napoleon Caesar and Shedd as examples. A Cincinnati Harrison Memorial Club aims to fund a grave monument for President Harrison, noting Hayes Garfield and others have larger markers. Discussion shifts to cottonseed’s value and uses from seed parts to oil and cattle feed, highlighting industry impact in the South.
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