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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1912
Page
19
The Washington Post outlines the Maryland primary as a clash of arms void of Massachusetts campaign flaws. Both sides seek to avoid alienating factions, fearing a Chicago outcome and a split expected to weaken the national party.
A column critiques U S intervention in Panama and Cuban resentments while lampooning political parties and officials. It mocks calls for foreign supervision of ballots, notes the Union Patriotica party’s weak stance, and ridicules moralizing railroad proverbs as people face consequences for their actions.
Secretary MacVeagh advocates nonpartisan action to reform monetary laws and curb concentrated money power. He supports urgent congressional steps, rejects passive reliance on financiers, and questions whether immediate currency reform would eliminate the money trust’s justification.
A reflection on Western opportunity: a man may rise after East failures due to self-reliance and fewer questions about ancestry. Rev Dr John T Stone cites Chicago as valuing what a person can do, not who he is, noting doors once open may still be ajar for risk takers and self-made entrants.
The English inquiry into the Titanic disaster outlines key questions on compliance with passenger ship laws, design safety features, crew staffing, lifeboat numbers and drills, and the vessel’s track. It contrasts England’s public hearings with the U.S. process and signals possible penalties for criminal negligence.
The House of Hope reports the birth of twin sons to Victor Alexander John Hope, Marquis of Linlithgow, and his wife Doreen Maud Milner. The pair, born this spring, are said to be thriving per latest bulletins.
Army orders list leaves of absence extended for Col Stephen W Pootf and other officers. Capt Edot A Fry to Twenty first Infantry July 2. Capt Clarence A Knight to Manners Hot Springs Wyoming. Aerial officers to remain at School of Fire for 4s weeks. Several Lieutenants reassigned to various coast artillery and engineer units with July 1 or August 24 effectiveness. Includes transfers to Seventh, 14th, and 43rd companies and medical reserve movements.
Navy dispatch lists assignments for officers including Commander B Brittain and Commander C Vogel with duties from inspection boards to home stations. It notes executive officers, powder inspector, and chaplain movements, plus vessel arrivals and sailings such as Rainbow at Taku and McCall to Norfolk, with numerous routes to New York Washington Philadelphia and Portsmouth among others.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes Washington rising high in the base ball percentage column as a spring signal while a Missouri centenarian mourns losses from Galveston and a flood, and Missouri lawmakers debate naval moves and a projected yard.
Neighborhood House marked ten years with a spring festival and a pageant of community progress. The event featured plays by Pocahontas, White Eagle, Virginia, and Country Hance clubs, with participants from Hennessey to Barghaugen and Kersey.
In Durham on May 4 junior class members joined 170 striking freshmen and sophomores to protest the suspension of W H Brackett, popular sophomore president, for ringing a false fire alarm April 1. They demand reinstatement and vow not to return until then. President W D Gibba threatens expulsion if students do not resume studies by Tuesday.
New York May 4 the appellate division of the supreme court ruled Clifford W Hartridge must defend before an official referee on charges of misconduct in disbursement of funds in Thaws first trial. The action, brought by the bar association, is his second against the lawyer. The court reopened the matter after Mrs Mary C Thaw swore she did not know how the money was used.
A collage of quirky clips covers experiments on memory in insects, odd court testimony about oysters and gas, a horse care note on deadly snakes, a fatal drake attack on Mary E Newman, and reports of moccasins driven out by high water. Snakes appear around homes, telephones, and power lines in various towns.
A jumble of clipped items notes public public drink fountain delays due to rain, a Kentucky man delivering a whipping then taking another lash at Lex Phipps, vandalized horses, poultry anecdotes, a Rhode Island red hen laying eggs, and political predictions by a widow about Roosevelt and Champ Clark, with a Harper's excerpt finishing the roundup.
Algot Lange leads University of Pennsylvania Museum backed expedition to the Amazon in 1912 to collect ethnological specimens and film wildlife. A steam yacht will carry gear for three years from Manaos with footage of jungle dances and daily life. The journey aims to produce moving pictures of a 60 foot boa and other wonders while seeking rare aboriginal scenes.
An invitation fragment invokes Richard Le Guilienne, urging presence in a green world of birds and May before August departs. Interwoven are reflections on flowers and faces, with cryptic lines about autumn and memory. A separate dispatch reports a brain test using craps on William Twiman, a man awaiting trial for murder, judged capable yet ill.
A quip filled snippet on marriage and male bluntness. It lampoons floorwalkers laundry pricing unstarched work and payday bluffing. It notes a woman’s dependence, a man’s chase for money, and the common skein of ignorance, folly, and social pretense in relationships.
A long discourse by Dr John Marshall Granty, a South geologist, praises the Stanley steel committee for highlighting Southern mineral wealth and notes Alabama’s presidential boom influence. He predicts Woodrow Wilson’s Virginia surge and weighs Underwood’s protectionist stance, while contrasting Roosevelt’s era psychology with early 20th century political currents and Connecticut’s Baldwin as a Democratic option.
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