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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1905
Page
6
The Washington Post announces subscription terms and delivery details for Washington and Alexandria. Rates include daily and Sunday editions, weekly pay options, and monthly plans with postage arrangements. Remittances should be by draft, check, post office order, bank notes, or express orders payable to The Washington Post. Published May 8 1906.
Washington residents planning to leave the city can arrange for The Post to follow them. The paper will continue to deliver to any destination in the country if a notice is sent. Notify carrier or send order card to The Post Tele-Phone 4205.
The piece mocks Charles Bull a Rough Rider newly famed for San Juan Hill and his London discomfort yet defends his patriotism while scrutinizing Poultney Bigelow’s liberal critiques. It then shifts to a tariff debate showing sugar trust influence and partisan responses citing Curtis in the Chicago Record-Herald and Havermeyer testimony on imports and duties amid revenue concerns.
A noisy collage of political rants and fanciful tales on tariffs and beef trusts, a tall tale about Secretary Loeb and a jackrabbit, scrutiny of Gov. Pennypacker, and notes on Emperor William and international affairs. Also covers yacht racing policy talks, Adelina Patti’s Legion of Honor, and scandalous swindler plots across Europe.
The piece reviews rivalry among Ohio figures in 19th century Republican politics, noting how divisions among Dick and Foraker, Sherman, Blaine, and Thurman shaped nomination outcomes. It weighs Taft’s potential role and the impact of factionalism on Ohio’s grip on national power.
A critical survey of New York and Philadelphia politics notes a trail of greed over honest legislation. It cites gas price reform as a GOP failing, implicating McCarren and Tammany foes, while condemning votes of fourteen majority Republicans. It contrasts editorials from the Globe and Evening Post and expands to Pennsylvania politics.
A potpourri of clipped quotes from The Washington Post cited by papers from Chicago to Florida. Mentions include remarks on missionary resistance to tainted money, a $50 000 Kiss payment tied to couriers, Rockefellar gambles, a proposed railway act, and commentary on state rights and Senate expenses.
The article extols baseball as a growing national pastime over forty years, praising players for physical conditioning, swift vision, precise judgment, and moral restraint. It compares baseball’s cleanliness and skill to chesslike precision, notes the role of chance, and claims baseball uniquely engages body and mind for enthusiastic spectators.
Local column reports in Emporia Gazette style from Knoxdale and Antwerp detailing residents George Hutchins Nelson Morley and Eliza Hustwen visiting Antwerp, new house beginnings, guests of Miss Helens McGuire, and various farm tasks like straw batting and fodder shredding. The piece also notes editor accused of liquor concealment, gout accusations, and a humorous dinner menu. Bessie Faille’s stage appearance atchison Globe includes audience reactions to a show and a comic song, with hope she recovers stage fever and assists her mother.
Delegates and officials at the Arlington during the Railway Congress include C. M. G. Schreiver deputy minister and chief engineer of railways for Canada who will depart Washington early, with a stop in Phenixville to view the Quebec bridge under construction. Also present are Tennessee insurance commissioner Beau E Folk and ex-mayor Welling G Sickel, who urge more government buildings in the capital. The piece recounts speeches praising civic progress, notes on Equitable Insurance Company matters, and reflections on the funeral of Gen Fitzhugh Lee along with social minutiae from the Willard and Shoreham hotels.
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