The Washington Post Subscription Notice 1913
Daily and Sunday postage rates and payment terms for The Washington Post in 1913. Subscriptions by mail payable in advance with remitances by money order check or registered mail. Foreign advertising offices listed in New York Chicago Boston. Washingtonians urged to have the Post follow them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arate
Cbecke
Washington Post
Washlington
D. C
Washington
Pith Avenue
New York
Masters
Tramiont
Boston
Washington Post Company
Tariff defeat in Maine reshapes 1914 politics
The Third Maine district vote shows Peters defeating Pattangall and Lawrence, signaling a strong Republican shift and a setback for the Democratic administration. Analysts warn the tariff issue may rally GOP factions, while the bull moose movement wanes.
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Peters
Pattangall
Lawrence
Maine
Taft
Bull Mooser
Roosevelt
Washington
Wilson
Senate
House
Pattangah
Senate Tariff Committee
Tarif
Lyceum
Alilar-Im
Congress Tariff Bill Examined In Early Opinions
The piece argues the tariff measure is a compromise and faces criticism from Democrats and others. It notes lower living costs promised by the party may not materialize and observers urge judging the law by results once in effect, with blame or credit shift as outcomes appear.
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United States
Congress
Democratic
Democratic ‘Party
Ce ‘Ap
Recent Election Reforms and Senate Battle Ahead
The piece argues that new direct election reforms will ignite political competition. It predicts a wave of fiery oratory by unknown candidates and warns incumbents face electoral peril as reforms alter Senate selection dynamics and public judgment.
Old District lands being peddled as govt sites
A House committee chair warns real estate dealers offering government building sites in the District should not apply. He says the government owns ample land to meet long standing needs and accuses some private interests of attempting to profit from public space.
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Dileus
Clarke
War Spirit in Japan and Pacific Tensions Rise
A tumult of Japanese pacific policy and public anger is noted as authorities press for restraint while mob demands for retaliation grow. The piece links Tokyo’s stance on Nanking with Pacific coast sentiment and questions Britain’s balance of interests amid broader tensions in the Western Pacific.
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War Party
Ing
California
Pacific
Washington
State Department
Eib
Japan
Tokyo
Ching
Nanking
America
Great Britain
China
Britain
Western Ocean
Notable French Officer Frangois de Negrier in Wartime Feats
The article recalls Francois de Negrier, a French officer wounded at the head of his company in a German war, who escaped surrender after disguising in civilian clothes, and later led a rapid counterattack that killed a German lancer. It also notes his daring escape to join Gen. Waidhers army in the north and mentions his later command of the Foreign Lesson corps in Algeria.
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Frangois de Negrier
Pring ¢ ‘Murat
Thes Park - Moredan
Paris
de ‘Negher
Andre
Bartak
Crawford
Benedict Arnold
George III
Arnold
St. James’ Palace
Ticonderous
Lord Crawford
Arenold
Francois de Negrier
Germany
Waid‘herbe
Algeria
Counmand
Abolition and Beef Bill Debated in House Session
The record notes a proposal to abolish a provision related to commerce and a marketing bill in the Department of Agriculture with a chief at $10,000. Representative Britten introduces a prohibition on killing and interstate shipment of beef cattle under two years old as the House adjourns at 6 10 p m until noon today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commerce
Biseau
Miss Wilson Aids Rural Child Mail Delivery Permit
A brief item notes Miss Wilson a Cleveland 18 aided Rural’s child and secured a postal dispensal permit after writing to the Postmaster General. An appeal led to a regulation affecting mail transport by carrier on mail wagons.
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Cleveland
Army Orders Reflect Movements and Duty Assignments
Military notices list numerous officers and units with travel to Fort Riley Fort Lawton Fort Omaha and Fort Caswell for duties and training. Assignments include field artillery infantry cavalry medical corps and chaplaincy with relocations to Texas New Jersey Washington State and Kansas for observation service or instruction. Dispatch outlines temporary duty periods and reporting dates for officers at Purdue Annapolis St John's West Point and the United States Military Academy.
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Thoma W. Griffith
Infantry
Robert F. McMillan
Coast Artillery Corps
Henry’ B. Claggett
Twentythird Infantry
Milton
Holliday
Eighth Cavalry
United States
Jay’ W. Smith
Yapiort
Caniz
Val
Miltenberger
Carps
Fort
Omaha
Nebr
John We “Trinder
Trinder
Texas
Francis M. Wall
Medical Reserve Corps
Fort Lawton
Wash
Robhhtm
Hardaway
Medical Corps
Lisit
City
Tex
Brn
ST W. Roberts
Fort Caswell
N. C
Charles M. Wall
Fort Do An
Utah
Texas’ City
Walter W. Morrill
Louis R. Dougherty
Feld
Third Field Artillery
Dougherty
Fort Sem Houston
Robert G. “Kirkwood
Purdue University
Lafayette
Ind
Kirkwood
Chauncey
M'Neill
Fifteenth Cavalry
St. John's College
Annapolis
A Neill
St. John S College
H. Percy Silver
United Statag Miliary Academy
Fort Leavenworth
Kana
West Point
United States Military Academy
Naval Orders Among Navy Yard to Various Posts
A list of officers detached to multiple commands and stations from ports and yards nationwide. Includes Lieut. Comdr J D Wainwright to Vermont, Lieut GONSTIEN to Tinota as executive officer and navigator, Lieut H C McClure to Portland recruiting, GULL and BAKER to Naval Academy Annapolis, Le 3 GUELAVER to Portsmouth, Parker to Indiana, Surg Hoyt to Michigan, L W McGirr to Naval Hospital, Pease and others to training stations and ships.
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J. D. Wainwright
Navy Yard
Portemouth
N. H
Vermont
Lient. Gomdér
Gonstien
Ward Mont
Tinota
Jones
Worth General
Blevirle Co
Otley
H. C. McClure
Lamaon
Navy
Portland
Oreg
Walt
Washington, D.'c
L. W. McGquirr
Naval Hospital
Waal Abe Su Peassey
Island
Cal
Washington,d. C
W. Robbins
Sa Francisco
Puget
Sound
Washi
Ciyti Engr
Ralph Whitman
Naval Station
Guantanamo
Putas
Movement of Naval Vessels Near Island Harbor
Fragmentary report notes naval vessels including a Minnesota ship moving near Schufhe Island harbor. Details are unclear due to OCR errors but indicate movement of vessels in a harbor area with references to ships and island.
Mayflower voyage and the imagined voyage of an aristocracy
The text debates the Mayflower’s historical scale comparing it to a mammoth liner and weighs the idea of a modern voyage carrying notable figures to found a distant aristocracy. It mentions Wedgwood, Outhwaite, and Pankhurst among imagined passengers and referenced leaders.
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Raye
Credie
America
Joglah Wedgwoog
William Byles
Mr. Outhwaite
Keir Hardie
Arnold Lupton
Pankhurst
Lloyd George
Somaliland
Errors in Pictures in Capitol Dome Revealed
From Youths Companion report defects in five of eight Capitol paintings in Washington. In Washington resigning commission scene shows extra hand on a girl's arm. Pocahontas painting misdraws Pocahontas’s uncle and a six-toed foot. Columbus landing shows three flags with contradictory winds. Washington at Cornwallis surrender absent, and the title of the Declaration of Independence scene misstates signing date as July 4, 1776.
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Capitol
Washington
Continental Congress
Eiris
Trumbull
Rotunda
Opecancanough
Cornwalls
Cornwallis
Philadelphia
Congress
Oklahoma ten year old to pay large income tax
Muskogee Oklahoma dispatch reports a 10 year old girl named Sarah who lives west of Muskogee will pay the largest income tax in Oklahoma. She is tied to an allotment of 160 acres with the Jones Gusher near Cushing producing over 2,500 dollars daily, with Sarah receiving one eighth of the income. Plans await further drilling of more wells in the midcontinent field.
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Oklahoma
Muskogee Okla
New York Sun
Sarah For
Muskogee
Sarah
lof'a.Cresk
Mid-Continent
Jones Gusher
Cushing
Bugs Hit Town in Swarms Described as Snowstorm Like Plague
Pittsburgh Dispatch reports a New York Sun item detailing millions of white bugs swarming the town in cloud form on a Saturday. The creatures darkened streets as they hovered over the town late into the night, hindering activity before authorities or machines intervened.
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Pittsburgh Dispatch
German Army Opens Annual Maneuvers Under Royal Oversight
The German army begins its annual land maneuvers with Emperor Wilhelm, King Constantine, and the Crown Prince of Greece present as supreme umpire. Armies of Germany Austria Italy and the Argentine Republic observe. no corps engage. The drills test straight fighting with flanking barred while zeppelin balloons and aircraft practice aerial warfare with harmless bombs and machine guns.
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Greece
Frederick August
Saxony
Germany
Austria
Italy
Argentine
Probe railway purchase sparks NC commission hearings
The North Carolina corporation commission opened hearings on charges that Southern Railway and Atlantic Coast Line violated statutes in acquiring the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad in 1908. Harry Walters testified the deal was worth 8.6 million dollars with plans to dismember and split the assets. The line connected Wilmington to Mount Airy and cost about 7 million to build.
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Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina Corporaton Commission
Southern Railway
Atlantic Cogat Line
Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley
Harry Walters
Atlantic Coast Line
Walters
Cape Fear
Yadkin Valley
Cape,Fear and Yadkin Valley
Wilmington
Mount Airy
Writing Wilsons Life Story Biography Nears Completion
Secretary of the Navy Daniels is writing a life of President Wilson. The manuscript will be completed soon and sent to the printer. Arrangements with a New York publisher are underway to distribute the volume.
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Daniels
President Wilson
New York
Caffery Named to Sweden Legation Post
President Wilson nominated Jefferson Caffery of Louisiana to be secretary of the United States legation at Stockholm Sweden. Caffery currently serves in the Latin American bureau of the State Department and this marks a promotion in his diplomatic career.
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Wilson
Jefferson Caffery
Louisiana
United States Legation F
Stockholm
Sweden
Caffery
State Department
Ambassador Penfield Arrives in Vienna to Take Post
Vienna September 8 The newly appointed American ambassador to Austria Frederick Courtland Penfield arrived today. He succeeds Richard C. Kerens.
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Ambassador Penfield
Vienna
Austria
Frederick Courtland Penfield
Richard C. Kerens
Weather Summary and Tide Data From The Sun and Tide
The report covers daily sun and tide figures, then provides a national weather summary from the U S Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau. It notes high pressure over central regions, general showers nationwide, warmer conditions in the West, and a northwest to northeast wind pattern along coasts. It forecasts further showers across the Rocky Mountain and plains states, with fair conditions in the north and northeast and moderating temperatures east of the Mississippi. Local reports list hourly temperatures, humidity, rainfall, and sunshine percent with city readings elsewhere.
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Ue. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Weather Bureau
Washington
Atlantic
Gulf States
Canadian
California
Mississippi River
Rocky Mountain
Plains States
Northwest
Missouri Valley
Mississippi Valley
Upper Lake Region
South Atlantic
East Gulf
Middle Atlantic
Guaderate
East Gulf Coast
West Gulf Coast
Currency reform urged by Whitney official at New Willard
Lo Weber vice president of Whitney Central National Bank, New Orleans, argues currency and banking reform is vital for all citizens. He praises sincere lawmakers but warns the topic is complex and requires broad study and open minds to craft a sound measure benefiting future generations. Bankers claim their aims are altruistic, focused on stable legislation for the public good.
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Congress
Lo Wexler
Whitney Centralational Bank
New Orleans
New Willard
Deter Ag
England
America
Ralph H. Sullivan
New York
Shoreham
United States
Kennel Club of
London
Piccadily
Kennel Club
Kingdom
Fta
Portuguese Africa and Kennel Club Topics Highlight European Influence
The article surveys Laurenco Marques and Portuguese East Africa trade notes, noting steamship routes, population, and future agriculture aided by a U.S. expert. It also covers England’s Kennel Club pedigree records, the London shows, and prizes. It closes with Knoxville’s 1913 National Conservation Exposition plans and expected national impact.
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Laurence Marques
Wacurai
Transvaal
South Africa
Cape Town
Laurent Marques
Europe
la Tence
Ca. Town
Mate
America
Standard Oil Company
Laurenco Marques
Portugal
United States
Prof. Barrett-t0
Department of Agriculture
Portuguese East Africa
Africa
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Berlin
Metz
Miss Wilson
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Probe Railway Purchase
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Minn
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Mont
Indianapolis
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Fla
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Tenn
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