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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1906
Page
6
A short notice outlines subscription terms for a local publication located on Imnsylvania Avenue near Fourteenth Street offering readers details on payment, renewal options, and delivery cadence.
A collage of 1906 era notices and opinions from The Washington Post including subscription details, delivery options, and editorials. It notes Roosevelts foreign visits, Pennsylvania graft chatter, Canadian visits, and various political quippes while listing offices and mailing instructions. The piece strings together campaign commentary, governance critiques, and public notices in a dense, historical snapshot.
Mr Bridge described an odd scene where fleas fled as an army of tree toads descended, gobbling them mid song. The toads overfed and later tired, toppled from branches as campers watched, then resumed pursuit with quieter chorus.
European heraldry interest grows as Royal College of Arms reports surge in requests for family banners. Banner design, color and crest details urged to reflect inheritance and noble ranks, with pennon forms for commoners and banners for knights. Separate reflections on bachelor friendship and Lady Munster’s royal lineage accompany.
The article contends modern infant survival rises, reducing natural selection, while weaklings survive to adulthood and propagate weaker stock. It notes higher child survival boosts later life death rates and comments on South Africa natives, colonists, and social inequality near Westminster.
Diaries of a late German chancellor reveal a claustrophobic court intrigue around King Louis II of Bavaria. Aims to kidnap the sixteen year old prince of Naples and force Rome’s return to the papacy prompted Bavarian ministers to place Louis II under restraint after Italian authorities uncovered the plot.
Alfred Mosely, an English admirer of American progress, praises Gardner F. Williams as the man who directed the world diamond output. Williams, a Michigan-born pioneer who rose to general manager of South Africa’s diamond monopoly, earned worldwide acclaim for building a vast empire and shaping the era’s mining industry. He retired to the United States after a storied career as fighter, manager, writer, scientist, and engineer trusted by Cecil Rhodes.
A letter decries straw polls as old tricks used by parties to manufacture sentiment. It notes Republicans and Democrats inflate or distort strength while mocking minor parties. The piece previews a Seattle Alaska exposition plan and ridicules the prospectus as dull, while predicting factional political posturing and delayed outcomes.
A political column argues for virile partisanship yet warns that party machines corrupt government. It cites Pennsylvania and Missouri examples, quotes editors like Charles Emory Smith, and notes Roosevelt’s appointment of Oscar Situs, urging independence when regularity funds graft and rogue leadership.
The article extols Attorney General Moody as crucial to Roosevelt’s drive against trusts and railroad combinations. It cites Moody’s industry and persistence, his alignment with the president, and his influence in expanding federal power through executive, legislative, and judicial means, including reshaping the Supreme Court balance with Massachusetts representation. It notes Roosevelt’s Harrisburg speech urging stronger federal action.
A collage of prose pieces notes a young girl's betrothal with lines on youth health and love, followed by fiscal estimates of the growing automobile industry including 20 000 cars, 60 percent motorcycles, capital and output figures, and a London view of the lord mayor's coachman described as a droll, round figure revered by Paris papers.
Francis M. Ware argues that incessant racing and abuse of horse breeders have crippled the thoroughbred from birth. The breed is nervous, unhealthy, and erratic, eroding both harness and saddle horse lines and leaving progeny weak and overtaxed.
A fragmentary piece notes a photograph misread as a famous actress, remarks on public spiritedness after theft, and jokes about a churchgoing woman extracting money from a husband. The text mocks gender roles and financial balance in marriage with humorous asides and incomplete sentences.
World’s Work recounts Brig. Gen John M. Pershing as a West Pointer with a decade of Indian fighting on the plains. It praises his actions at Santiago with the Tenth Cavalry the Niggers and his notable Philippine campaigns where he won Moro friendship.
On a train from Arizona to Martínez California after an earthquake, geologist and naturalist John Muir calls home the most dangerous place. He says outdoors suits him best, prefers rough living, and can survive on about fifty dollars yearly for bread tea and tobacco with simple gear.
A German town plans to test perforated pipes beside curbstones to spray water into streets for short intervals. When needed, water will be released to create a decorative mist along each side of the road.
A historical note recounts massive Irish immigration to the United States from 1840 to 1880, with figures claiming up to 5,000,000 by present times. It details distribution across agricultural and industrial states, urban concentration, farm trends, and the Irish nearing population majorities in New England and prominent cities like New York and Chicago.
A U S Bureau of Fisheries project at Lynnhaven Virginia explores artificial oyster fattening using fresh water soaking and fertilizer inputs to boost diatoms growth. A surrounding wall, controlled currents, salt water inflow, and careful lime levels aim to produce plumper tastier oysters while avoiding typhoid risk and off flavors.
A reflective autumn poem laments death and decay yet finds renewed life in the sky and mosses. It contrasts April primroses with a fog that endures beyond waning seasons. The speaker senses a warm heart within death and whispers to pallid blossoms as meaningful, enigmatic verses remain beyond full understanding.
From St Nicholas: birds trained after a meal learn more quickly than when starved. Nervous birds respond to a low quiet voice and gentle movement. Start by teaching them not to fear you, then introduce simple games and later training tasks. Also notes a Tyrolese skyscraper claim and a collection of light newspaper quips.
Col Daniel A Tomlins of Charlotte discusses cotton markets and regional advantages as Sen Martin of Virginia and Charles A Bowman of Philadelphia weigh Democratic prospects in New York and Pennsylvania. Others, including William Harmon and Dan Reynolds, forecast real estate trends and a looming credit cycle while New Willard visitors comment on Mexico and Diaz before Jamestown Exposition plans.
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