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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1905
Page
25
The Washington Post presents its subscription rates for carrier and mail delivery, including daily and Sunday editions with varying weekly and monthly costs. It lists the Washington and New York offices, payment methods, and the managing post office details.
Washingtoniana leaving the city should have The Post follow them to stay informed about Capital affairs. Addresses may be changed as desired and the cheaper will come promptly to any part of the country. Notify carrier or send order direct to The Post. Telephone Main 4205.
Hartford Courant weighs the futility of a premature millenarian peace. It argues a world Parliament will come but not soon, and war may endure for centuries. If resources now spent on armaments were redirected to peace, humanity could advance, though the wait for peace could be long.
The article argues for direct state or popular elections of U.S. Senators, noting Virginia and southern states adopting primaries. It cites Senator Martin’s victory, recalls figures like Hanna and Burkett, and suggests the movement may end once the constitutional amendment gains support.
States have sent formal resolutions to Congress seeking a constitutional amendment. The framers feared giving too much power to the people, establishing Senate selection by legislatures as a check. Yet the text suggests the people found a path around that carefully designed limit.
A Washington pamphlet from the Bureau of Entomology highlights quirky insect studies and methods, from bedbug dispatches to a turtle-nosed kissing bug and a squeaking Port Gibson caterpillar. It notes plumbers’ woes over Odorous beetles and recalls the death's head moth and cabbage snake interactions, praising science’s public service role.
The Gazette critiques Chinese boycotts and Japanese influence while Iowa politics buzzes. Senators Allison, Hepburn, and Cummins feature in a battle over standpat versus revisionist stances as Gov. Cummins travels the state urging farmers.
September 1 1905 saw Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation. The Toronto Mail and Empire criticizes Liberal governance and gerrymandering while noting friendly U.S. sentiment toward Canada. Articles discuss Japan’s rising trade with China, Chinese students in Tokyo, and broader imperial tensions.
A jumble of rumors and observations spans topics from Detroit population estimates and a census to Berlin, Paris, and Moscow gossip. It notes proposals on Panama Zone trade, arbitration plans, and political figures, with stray jokes about royalty, labor, and social directories.
From the New Orleans Item a critical putdown targets Mississippi Governor Vardamen and a leading Alabama governor. The piece accuses them of nerves and political grandstanding, claiming their actions harmed the South and mocked Southern chivalry while praising those who stayed to defend their city and country.
The Baltimore American contends Japan emerged the victor in the war and Russia stands defeated, while Christian nations failed to match the sacrifices demanded for peace. Japan’s material losses may be recovered, but her prestige and moral standing among nations remain strong.
Sir Rudolph Slatin Pasha reports an Arab sheik laments desert fighting now risks jail among thieves and murderers. Rebellion once chic in London society has degraded into a vulgar brawl with revolution replaced by ping pong and bicycles in social circles.
A Chicago News item recounts a boy racing inside to report Mrs Prune next door wants to borrow their flatirons and toss them at a cat. The boy explains the neighbor’s nerve and reveals the plan centers on their own cat as the target.
A series of antiquated quips on vanity, marriage, bargaining, and wisdom. The speaker mocks self praise, urges caution before leaping into risk, and notes gender and age with a wry social lens. It mixes aphorisms about ministers doctors and stubborn pride.
Lord Minto, nicknamed Rolly, is named viceroy of India succeeding Lord Curzon. A soldier by trade, he served in the Khurdum frontier, Egypt, and the Turkish war, and is linked to Lord Lansdowne and Canada ties. The piece also surveys press censorship in Constantinople, royal deaths described as natural causes, and a curious Serbian marriage amid Baron Heyking and Baron von Putlitz intrigues. The tale moves through Barons Heyking Putlitz and German diplomacy, ending with a miscellany of notices and a Philadelphia cartoon aside.
Roosevelt has united Russia and Japan in the Far East and seeks a lasting peace that preserves open door principles in China Manchuria trade and sphere of influence concerns. The piece argues goals require open agreements with other powers and cautions against excluding the United States from any lasting settlement.
An excerpt presents a series of quick back and forth quotes between a moralizer and a demoralizer. The Philadelphia Press vignette includes a clerk, his red-eyed reaction, and a boss advising the use of water colors after a painted scene.
A lighthearted piece shows Euclid frustrated by a servant problem and leaving for the intelligence office as Mrs. E. laments the limits of old geometry. The vignette uses playful dialogue to cast Euclid in a modern domestic scenario.
Col George W Warder, a Kansas City man, long argued the sun is not a molten fire but a living, self sustaining cosmic organism. His theories, once ridiculed, have gained supporters as scientists study today’s solar eclipse and the sun's corona. If confirmed, the sun may be seen as a great dynamo radiating electrical warmth to Earth.
The Chicago Tribune notes that bigamy crosses gender lines with a Philadelphia woman Miss Marion Happ taking eight husbands in three years, challenging male case narratives. It cites international gossip and cautions readers about sudden love and hasty marriage.
In Shoreham and Plewitt House conversations, travelers recount South African colonel Collinbrander’s legendary duel with a Zulu warrior, a Maryland man laments ragweed allergy, Yokohama observer reflects Japan Russia war indemnities, and New Orleans poker tales reveal a strict no-borrowing rule in a social club.
A reader described a modern breathing scheme praised as a systematic method of physical development. An inquirer spoke with a professor and reviewed a pamphlet noting a rule to take a morning breath, hold it long, then slowly exhale, which the reader chose not to attempt.
From the Hartford Times reports that after twenty months of conflict the Russians achieved their first victory by avoiding further military defeat. The note suggests potential dispatch of troops, while a Pittsburgh Gazette item mentions sending disinfectant from New Orleans to Wooster, Ohio.
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