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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1915
Page
7
Fragmentary OCR line from The Washington Post cites Pennsylvania Avenue near Fourteenth with unclear numbers. No clear event, date, or named entities present to confirm a specific item.
The speech notes booming export trade and growing domestic commerce across New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and more. It highlights farmers in North Dakota earning large crop sums, rising factory capacity, and calls for Congress to provide merchant vessels to sustain growth, warning against delays by any political or financial group. The speaker credits global capital flowing into U.S. ports and urges rapid vessel provision to unlock further expansion.
The Navy Department has received about 80 communications on new war devices and inventions. An official will sort these ideas, sending the useless ones elsewhere, to emphasize the need for a great scientific naval laboratory. The piece lauds American inventive genius driving wartime progress and notes many European war devices originated in the United States. It highlights aeroplanes, submarines, and new explosives as major factors shaping modern warfare.
The European struggle hastens American inventiveness and prompts many ideas to be submitted. Captain William B. Smith is named supervisor of communications at the Philadelphia navy yard, an office detail intended to speed referrals, but a scientific laboratory urged by the naval consulting board is deemed essential to bridge theory and practice and convert promising inventions into tangible national achievements.
The United States must stay a neutral nation and uphold its full freedom of the seas against British oversea dictation. It denounces any move to align with allies, warns against European entanglement, and urges strict impartiality to protect national trade and sovereignty. The administration should follow a clear, open neutrality, compelling respect for U.S. rights among all belligerents.
A Wisconsin board member reports cows respond to treatments and surroundings, noting a shift toward music as a future influence. The study aims to increase productivity, observing the bell cow tends to appear more smug, with selection of music to consider. Beethoven may not affect all cows, while Chopin appeals to others.
The piece whimsically links music and livestock, recalling Seth Goodrove’s French horn days when cows and dogs seemed to respond to melody. It imagines a future with barrel organs in dairies and a moonlit bovine aviation scene, hinting at higher milk via nostalgic fantasy.
The administration debates revenue plans as Congress nears opening. Proposals range from bond issues to taxes on munitions, gasoline, tea, checks, and more, reflecting diverse constituency interests and potential public pushback. A bold approach from the President is urged to unify defense financing and fiscal strategy.
The article discusses Prince Alfonso of Bourbon, a largely Austrian figure due to maternal and marital ties, and his history in Carlist wars and anti dueling efforts. It notes his Austrian outlook, the Goerus tunnel access aiding Austrian reinforcements, and Italy’s limited choices in retaliation. It also covers Lord Braybrooke’s appointment of Arthur Benson as master of Magdalene College and related Cambridge history tied to Audley End and the Pepys diary discovery.
A 50 year old girl took a tin cup from Ignatz Trilling’s Menasha hardware store. Now living far away, she mails 60 cents to Hi H. Trilling, son of the merchant, explaining she deeply felt the wrong and that the 50 cent cup plus interest is paid.
A man returns home late and avoids telling his wife where he has been. Their child questions him at breakfast and learns he was with a sick friend. The punch line reveals the friend held four aces, implying a poker game.
London Answers notes a wide array of animals aiding the conflict including horses mules dogs elephants goats and camels. Doga provide sentry and messenger duties while goats supply Indian troops and elephants handle heavy timber. The camel, though ungainly, is praised as tireless and highly esteemed and is expected to meet wartime demands.
John Lee Strange, a general store operator from Eddystone, thanks a stamped return envelope for foiling two highwaymen who tried to rob him of 800 dollars last night. He hid 600 in the envelope, dropped it at a post office door, and the robbers fled after a revolver was shown. He retrieved his letter at the post office next morning.
Louis Boyden of Springside avenues used corn on a trout hook to catch chickens from a fence line. A Rhode Island Red swallowed bait and hook, drawn from Rebecca Rogenthal’s yard. Police observed. Boyden pleaded no contest and paid a $3.80 fine.
A fragmented verse fragment recalls Punchinello's sorrow and the burden of clowns who entertain crowds while masking their grief. It laments the weariness behind the motley and appeals for divine aid to bear the mask in sorrow.
Charles Page founded Sand Springs to assist widows and orphans. He provided free gas and rent, factory jobs, a free car line to Tulsa, a day nursery, medical care, and a vocational school. He legally adopted the nearby orphanage to better support its residents.
A short, odd exchange about card sharping and insults unfolds with quips about weight and calling a bluff. The dialogue hints at a perfunctory feud and a dismissive attitude toward those who fail to grasp the game’s finesse.
A condensed account recalls Poland rising against Russia in 1830 31. Ensignia led the revolt starting in Warsaw on November 29 1880 and the ensuing two year rebellion that freed Warsaw, followed by the 1816 constitutional limits and Constantine governorship. The text covers mobilization plans Nicholas I suppression Grochow Ostrolenko and the Warsaw siege ending with Polish remnants escaping to France.
The Seattle Post Intelligencer explains the city’s guinea pig program, counting about 700 animals kept for municipal health work. The pigs serve as official test animals for bacteriological labs, aiding doctors by matching human blood reactions and enabling tests for diseases, despite their vulnerability to pathogens.
A Kansas City Star item recalls a salesman in a small Midwest town who asked for a meal before noon. Flies swarmed the dining room so the landlord had to swat from behind the salesman’s chair. The landlord boasts the real infestation is in the stable once he rings the dinner bell.
A Buffalo Express manager says the theater wants a performer to play Samson in a stage or film adaptation. He quips about wrecking the temple while recalling eleven years as a baggage man, signaling a playful job pitch.
In capital hotel lobbies travelers discuss women power and suffrage as a world movement. John Seymour Wood notes women arrive in schools and delegations, seek votes for women, and push for peace, corruption reduction, and better governance. Henry Hapgood recalls Spokane’s rise with mining and railways driving growth, from 1888 onward, shaping the Inland Empire and the Bunker Hill district.
Commentator Harvey Boden of Montreal notes Canada suffered more from the European war than England and other colonies, as a booming but fictitious market collapses. He cites bankrupt sales in Quebec, with bids far below assessed values, signaling a price break. Yet he predicts a postwar revival and eventual prosperity for the Dominion.
In Cleveland a man named Hergiu Nathan Elleyer was reported dead after a basement fall but revived an hour later at a hospital when doctors found faint signs of life. He had been pronounced dead after his breathing stopped and a morgue report had been telephoned. Hope remains for his recovery.
In a Chicago Journal school scene a teacher warned pupils to answer only if certain. Asked which woman was mother of Robert the Bruce, the class fell silent until a boy at the back stood and answered Mrs Bruce, prompting the inspector and teacher to recognize the correct historic figure.
In this brief Ludicrous Exchange from the Louisville Courier-Journal Blithers notes buying a setter, Slithers flippantly remarks on a coincidence and Bilthers boasts a Gordon, while Slithers adds that his dog is a hired man in a quirky, offbeat dialogue.
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