Washington Post subscription terms and dates 1913
The Washington Post lists subscription rates and delivery options for Washington and Alexandria. Daily and Sunday plans, by carrier or mail, include various durations and prepaid terms. Postal details note second class mail status and foreign advertising representation. Published Monday October 27 1913.
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Roosevelt Urges Monroe Doctrine Ties With Latin America
Col Roosevelt’s Rio speech calls for Latin American participation with the United States to enforce the Monroe doctrine. He stresses continental jurisdiction and cooperation with Brazil Argentina and Chile to address Mexico and warns of Europe pursuing its own interests. The speech aligns with a broader push for united action among American republics.
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Col. Roosevelt
Rio de Janeiro
United States
Americas
Europe
Mexico
Rio
Bacon
Congress Hall
Brazil
Argentina
Chile
Corn to Pigs and Pig Clubs Grow Across the Farm
The Department of Agriculture creates an information office to translate technical bulletins for farmers and the public. It highlights the corn to pig propaganda through “pig clubs” led by rural youth from Kansas to Georgia, aiming to convert home grown corn into home raised pork and related byproducts.
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Dr. Knapp
Kansas
Iowa
Carolinas
Georgia
Movement to remove middleman in city hog trade
Fragmentary text suggests a plan for a concerted effort by a city official and a key figure to oust the middleman, referred to as the other hog, who stands between. No further context or specifics are available in the readable portion.
Tammany's Mistakes and Irish Settlement Shifts
An analysis of Tammany Hall's missteps in New York politics, detailing how internal choices and strategic blunders shifted the tide against the organization while briefly touching on Ireland's home rule debates. The piece notes Whitman and Mitchel dynamics, Sullivan impeachments, and the Sulzer case alongside Irish minority rights and temperate reform.
Gorki’s moral tale of desertion and redemption
The article reflects on Maxim Gorki being deserted in illness by the actress he lived with, while his wife and children cared for him. It contrasts the actress’s natural reaction with the wife’s steadfast devotion, arguing society’s conventions hold value and that Gorki’s life should inspire a work on real womanhood.
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Gorki
Europe
Mme. I Gorki
Balzac
Home Rule Concession Sparks Ulster Tension Over Ireland
The Asquith ministry faces criticism for a compromise on Irish home rule while Ulster arms itself for potential conflict. Many nationalists exist in Ulster despite strong unionist resistance. East Tyrone contributed 1525 to nationalist funds. Arms shipments to Ireland fuel fears of civil war as the government shifts toward a limited acceptance of the bill.
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Ulster
Asquith
East Tyrone
Porto Ricans seek independence amid trust debate
The article argues Porto Rico has prospered under U S governance since the end of Spanish rule and questions independence aims. It notes improved living standards, fuller employment, and criticizes independence as driven by sugar tobacco interests aided by trusts, urging continued American policy rather than secession.
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United States
Independence Party
Lake Mohonk
New York
Madrid
van Buren
Jsland
Lord Dunedin Favored for Lord of Appeal Post
Lord Dunedin is favored to become lord of appeal with a $9 000 yearly salary. The promotion requires relocation from Edinburgh to London where imperial appellate sessions are held. He hails from the Graham of Balgowan lineage and formerly used the name Andrew Graham Murray.
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George Keppel
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Todd, Murray & Johnson
Dunedin’s heir to Scotland’s great seal and ermine robes
The article profiles Lord Dunedin a Perthshire-based figure, former secretary for Scotland, now to become lord president of the court of sessions with ermine robes and a seat in the House of Lords. It notes his career, salary, and the Scotland heir apparent’s principality. It also compares hereditary duties with modern judicial roles and mentions other political figures and curiosities of the time.
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Harrow
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Stenton
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Theosophist Claims Many Pretty Girls In Hereafter
Henry Hotchner reports from a 19-year-old dead medium that there are as many good-looking beings in the afterlife as in the living world. The lad says death welcomes travelers and spirits gather around church organs, seeking kin on the other side.
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Henry Hotchner
Bourne
Hotchner
Old Times Warfare and the Size of Armies
London correspondence summarizes Prof. Hans Delbrueck lecture on Numbers in History at University College. He notes war histories fix on warrior counts, cites Motghe’s 1870 mass troop deployment and Herodotus claiming Xerxes led 6,100,000 men, implying the last soldiers departed beyond the Tigris as the fleet reached Thermopylae.
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New York Sun
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University of Berlin
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Lady Cook Proposes Branding Evanescent Social Evil Cure
Lady Cook formerly Tennessee Claflin urged drastic measures to curb marriage of physically unfit men. She claimed hot branding would expose unfit husbands and force moral standards on men as women face today. Physicians would violate ethics to disclose such cases.
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Pittsburgh Dispatch
New York
Winsted Baby Lifts Chairs Hangs in Midair Wonder
Lacy Romano, a months-old daughter of cobbler Joseph Romano of 716 Main Street, reportedly performs remarkable feats. She weighs seventeen pounds and can lift a thirteen-pound chair from the floor, push it over her head, and play peek-a-boo. She reportedly held the chair aloft with five pounds of shoes inside. The mother supported the baby as she hung from a clothesline and stood suspended in midair, then balanced on her mother’s hand.
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Beef Exports and Cattle Shipment to London
The New York Sun reports 4000 beef quarters from Argentina aboard the White Star Baltic, the largest since beef duties were lifted. The meat, from Buenos Aires, transshipped via Southampton to Liverpool. Meanwhile the Atlantic transport Minnetonka carried 200 cattle to London for slaughter.
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Favors Mission Unity Resolution at General Convention
At the Protestant Episcopal Church general convention in New York last week a motion urged cooperation with missionary boards of other churches. Rev. Dr. Roland Cotton Smith criticized the proposal calling it weak and unnecessary yet urged support to avoid public ridicule and to back a nationwide missionary effort. The exchange reflects tension between ecumenism and ecclesiasticism amid a broader missionary campaign.
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Protestant Episcopal Church
New York
Roland Cotton Smith
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Afric
White Bear in Adirondacks Captured by Woodsman
Henry Jackson, a Hague woodsman, reported seeing a white bear near his Adirondacks area. Dismissed by longtime Adirondack hunters as a myth, he set traps and soon proved them wrong by producing a large white bear struggling with a trap. It is believed to be the only white bear ever caught in New York State.
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Henry Jackson
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Bad English at Harvard Investigators Appointed
Harvard Overseers partially uphold concerns about student writing and conversational clarity appointing William R. Castle Jr. to study English usage in entrance exams theses and reports at Harvard College Judge Robert Grant notes Harvard undergraduates rarely reach the language standard seen by peers educated in other English speaking nations Cambridge dispatch reports on the inquiry and its aims.
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William R. Castle, Jr
Harvard College
Robert Grant
Boston
Life and death touch at Chicago graveyard
At Mount Greenwood Cemetery in Chicago the body of Bruce Merrick was laid to rest as his widow gave birth to a son named Bruce Merrick. Brokenhearted, Mrs. Merrick insisted on seeing the burial and fainted briefly before being taken home by the undertaker's ambulance.
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Chicago Dispatch
New York
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Bruce Merrick
Plucky Mayor Defeats Ghost in New Jersey Tree
Prospect Park marshals report nightly terror from a ghost in a town tree. Mayor Lambertus Town, New Jersey's youngest, waited two nights and then fired a shotgun to drive the specter away, dislodging a swearing parrot as result. Other snippets recap global changes and humorous clippings from various papers.
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Fingerprints of All Immigrants Urged by Commissioner
A New York Times piece reports Commissioner Waldo endorsing universal immigrant fingerprinting on arrival. He argues it would identify newcomers, aid deportation for those slipping into crime, and prevent unmarked graves from accidents. He also notes other social benefits beyond policing, though concerns remain about normalizing state surveillance.
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Waldo
Three Days in a Box Car Circus Man Nearly Dead
Leon Cash, 17, of West Paris Maine, was found in a box car at Oak Point yards after three days with no food or water. He had joined a Rumford circus as a tent man, rode to Glen Cove Long Island, then returned home. He awoke to a locked door and faint groans until Special Officer George Kemp opened the car.
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Effects of Pie on Emerson’s Mind at Breakfast
The London Chronicle cites Emerson’s longer literary span if not for pie at breakfast. M J Warner writes to his wife that humans need cheering cups but no pie at breakfast, claiming pie ruined Emerson’s memory and mental clarity earlier than expected.
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M. J. Warner
Weather Summary From Sun and Tide Table Report
Distorted weather bulletin from the Weather Bureau notes a central disturbance over New England moving northeast. It records general rain in the north Atlantic States and Great Lakes region with local showers in Missouri Oklahoma Kansas Colorado, plus temperature shifts across the country and a forecast of unsettled weather Monday and Tuesday followed by generally fair conditions.
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Modernizing the British Style in U S Government
John Thornton Helter of London argues for constitutional reform to align cabinet selection with the House of Commons, create dual elected officers in Congress, and allow two thirds veto power over Supreme Court decisions. He suggests salaries totaling about two thousand dollars and envisions the Speaker as leading presidential candidate.
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Progress in the South and reform in contracts
A Birmingham manufacturer extols Southern industrial growth citing Atlanta’s diverse production and wage scales. J G Robinson in New York praises new Treasury and architectural contract rules to protect subcontractors, including monthly progress payments. Nevada official to reform convict labor on roads with honor system, while a new warden shifts views on prisoner treatment and rehabilitation potential.
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