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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1914
Page
11
The Washington Post lists carrier and mail subscription options with daily and Sunday editions, including monthly and yearly rates. It notes payment methods, foreign ad rep locations, and prints the masthead with a 1914 date of Tuesday November 3.
The Aguascalientes conference ignores Carranza’s ultimatum and nominates Eulalio Gutierrez as provisional president, signaling possible war with Villa and Zapata. Villa is reportedly slated as secretary of war. Carranza faces pressure to step down or fight, with American interests monitoring, fearing U S intervention risks if conflict escalates. An implied danger to Vera Cruz refugees exists if U S troops depart.
The article argues that Germany cannot win a global holy war. It notes Boer revolt failure, no Ireland civil war, Italy’s stance, Indian loyalty, and limited US Canada Japan entanglement. It says modern powers need resources, transport, and trained troops, while Muslim forces are scattered and weak.
A portrait of voters as the real bosses in American democracy. Farmers, workers, and businesspeople travel to polls to set fiscal and industrial policy by a simple cross, judging officeholders who govern in their name while demanding accountability for promises kept.
The Moonlight Schools program in Kentucky trains a thousand volunteer teachers to teach reading and writing to about 206000 illiterate residents. Advocates call it a historic effort to end illiteracy by offering education to all ages, with a vision of freedom from ignorance through the written word.
The piece praises the railroads for safety initiatives and notes U S navy adoption of rail safety rules. It highlights the Rockefeller Foundation relief for Belgian hunger with ships carrying flour rice beans and bacon and lauds American charity. It weaves in political jabs and humorous quips about elections and current events.
Count Sergius Witte, premier and head of a wartime finance commission, oversees a 30 million rouble five percent bond issue and plans a national loan of a billion roubles. Proposals include income tax increases and a salt monopoly, with salt mines in Galicia to boost treasury revenue. Witte’s family work and the czar’s policy shifts on liquor reflect broader state reforms. The piece also traces the Monck family titles linked to Albion and Ireland, noting the heir and historic estates.
The article notes that funding limits hinder grade crossing removals but rails show strong effort and safety campaigns cut fatalities. It compares corporate progress with government adoption, cites auditing and pension retirements as lagging, and praises the navy for adopting New York Central safety rules for workers.
Edward Rattler, 60, milk wagon driver for H. Lack, went blind while driving up Avenues A in early morning. His horse Baldy kept to the road, guiding past passing autos to Eighteenth Street where a routine milk bottle was left for Patrolman Bergman. Bergman took him to East Twenty-second Street Police Station. Dr. Taylor from Bellevue deemed the blindness permanent. Rattler home at 82 First Avenue. He had suffered eye pain but delayed medical advice.
Azua Cal dispatch reports Steve Saunders rescuing Mrs. Lee Bonner and her three young sons from a perilous mountain ledge. Henry Williams alerted rescuers, Saunders used a rope to reach them, lowering Mrs. Bonner to safety and guiding the boys back to safety up the canyon trail.
City dispatch reports motorists struck wildlife in two days near Ol City and Reno. A rabbit was killed while William Baughman was transporting a Democratic campaigner, and Millard Kohimnan’s Petroleum Telephone Company truck struck a flock, killing three pheasants.
The Wolf clan war bundle of the Wisconsin Winnebago Indians, used to inspire courage before warpaths, has been donated to the Wisconsin Historical Society by Chief Spoon Decorah’s family. The bundle includes wolf tails hawk feathers a wild cat tail a lynx tail five reed flutes a drum stick a fire stick cedar incense and a bark filled skin bag.
The University of Pennsylvania Museum revealed three ancient counterfeiting setups from 313 to 67 A D. The molds were brick, used to cast coin impressions in soft clay, then fired with molten metal poured in through an opening. The devices date to imperial Rome under Maximus Licinius and Constantius.
A large coal specimen from Central Coal Company Higbee Missouri arrived to be shown in the Missouri mining display in San Francisco. Otto Rhul received the chunk and is assembling its exhibit crate. The coal weighs about 4250 pounds and measures roughly four feet by six feet by two feet.
A vast elk drive near Buttonwillow California resulted in 150 elk netted by George B Palmer of Miller and Lux, with 50 vaqueros driving the herd. Dr. Everman of the California Academy of Sciences plans to distribute the herd to state parks, while a Provident life insured veteran notes wartime mortality will affect only a small portion of overall insured lives.
Lawrence students Donald Carpenter and Harvey Kerr ran a frog and turtle trade to the University of Kansas, shipping live specimens from the Ozarks to a Lawrence cellar. Nearly 3,000 frogs and 1,600 turtles were used in experiments last year, with expected earnings of about $1,600 for frogs and $100 for turtles as they continue selling next year.
A Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph tale shows a jockey nearly at the limit of his weight and a desperate owner suggesting drastic measures to shave pounds. The scene shifts to a World War I era ballad about casualties and a lingering sense of blame for violence and loss.
Frederick W. M. Burmeister is appointed custodian of the cutoff channel front and rear-range lights in the Patapsco River at a salary of one dollar per year. He also receives use of a house on the light house reservation. The arrangement places him on the government payroll with a token salary and unclear monthly or yearly accrual.
Edward Harvey of Morham Park was struck on the head by a flying branch after a dynamite bag exploded in a tree when a shot fired at woodcock missed, leading Madison men Harry Doyle and others to rush Harvey to a farm house for medical aid. The bag was believed to contain dynamite hidden by a laborer who stole it from a neighboring quarry.
A widower asks if the woman could love his children as her own and she replies she would care for them deeply. The exchange appears in a Chicago bown screen piece with a tone of marriage and family concerns. The dialogue hints at emotional tension and potential union.
On a wet early morning at Ravenswood Golf Club Dr Gates faced a par four dilemma when a gopher snake struck his putt by the third green. The snake retreated as the ball vanished into the cup, sparking debate over whether he should be credited with a three or a four. The rule book suggests replacing the ball and attempting the putt.
Jan Les a bellboy from the 8.8 S. Arizona arrived in Milwaukee. Doctors report his heart and liver are on the opposite sides of the body, with the heart apex on the right. Roentgeno logy reveals full transposition. Les born October 16, 1892 in Zoeterwoude, Switzerland. He sailed to America in 1919 and has lived in good health despite the rare condition discovered by a Leiden physician.
Four young men obtained marriage licenses to marry the same girl. Ordinary A M Wiley issued the licenses and vowed to keep identities secret until one suitor is chosen. Each man confided the scheme and pleaded with him not to let newspapers reveal the plot.
Appleton dispatch reports Oscar Kunitz and Fred Krantatoven plan a daily swim in Fox River from now until Christmas. At the four ladders near the CNW depot they will swim across and back each day, braving cold to harden themselves. A Superior, Wisconsin man, 82, has bathed daily in Lake Superior for 30 years year round.
The report lists tides and weather with forecasts for DC Maryland and Virginia. It notes cooler conditions on Tuesday, fair weather midweek, and winds from the northwest. A disturbance moved northeast from Minnesota with no major precipitation. occasional light rain likely in the lake region. Temperatures ranged from mid 40s to mid 70s with high sun exposure and storm warnings on western Lake Superior.
Rural and urban visitors in the Tenth Indiana district discuss candidates J B Bergen and Will Ade amid Republican hopes and Progressive claims. The mix of wartime issues, moonshine lore, fertilizer costs, and American tourism abroad frames a broad snapshot of political and economic thought.
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