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Washington Post

Location

Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America

Date

Sep 18, 1905

Page

13

Slums and disease blamed on city life and policy failures

The piece argues slums breed disease and cities cannot combat the scourge. It urges federal aid and a national health push, warning Italian quarters and immigrant pockets are the danger zones. It calls for a stronger health secretary and a cabinet portfolio to address urban distress.

Botkin Replies On Diamond Cutting Industry Debate

Alex C Botkin defends his prior statement about the diamond industry and wool growers, arguing Savoyard misinterpreted words and asserting the industry’s fate rests on free admission of rough diamonds and the Wilmot Proviso era policies. He invites further debate but cautions against personal misrepresentation. Washington letter dated Sept 16.

Col Botkin Tiamond Mito Potkin Wotson Alex C Botkin Washington

Would Welcome Retirement for Civil Service Clerks

Edmund Murphy argues a pension retirement bill would not help most clerks. He cites Civil War veterans, government workers, and railway mail service staff as content with steady salaries from $1000 to $1400 a year, calling out G C Kniffin and suggesting the editor seeks his own interest instead.

Murphy Post G C Kniffin Kniffin United States Railway Mail Service Knuffin Vr Kniffin

Endowment Day Gifts Boost AME Education Efforts

The African Methodist Episcopal Church marked Endowment Day with large donations worldwide to fund education. In Washington and church branches in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cape Colony, and Rhodesia, funds surpassed prior years, with youths contributing through plays and other events. The AME Church reports annual income rising toward 170,000 and anticipates further growth as Endowment Day proceeds.

Sierra Leone Liberia Cape Colony Rhodesia African Methodist Episcopal Church Fourteenth Q Streets General Conference South J R Hawkins Kittrell Nco AME E Www Lampton AMWT Washington Metropolitan

STATE SHOULD CONTROL PRICES Quasi-public Corporations

Henry W Stamper Sr argues that rapid corporate consolidation in railways and trusts concentrates power, usurps taxation, and risks democratic control. He urges prudent regulation and supervision of rates rather than government ownership, warning of radical shifts if popular demand is unmet.

Cumimerc Bryan Henry W Stamper

Liberated Russian Revolutionary Leader Michael Trigoni

A report from Kobe dated August 22 states Michael Trigoni, once a prominent Russian revolutionary leader, has been freed from Sakhalin and transported to Amori Japan by Japanese war transport. The notice requests funds for his travel from Amori to Kobe as he starts life anew, with others believed to follow as Japanese ships return.

Nicholas Russe Hawaiian Territorial Senate American Friends of Russian Freedom Japan Kobe Michael Trigom Sakhalin Aemori Lbelly Russel Michael Trigom Schluesselburg Schmesselburz Siukhahn Alex Kent Society of Friends of Russian Freedom

ONE WOMAN AMUSED BY BIGAMY CRITIQUE AND GENDER VIEWS

A reader remarks on a The Post article praising women amid bigamy cases, arguing virtue lies in choice rather than sex. The letter contrasts male and female infidelity, notes marital progeny needs both parents pure, and invokes Dr Johnson’s era. Mary Smith signs off with a call for progress.

the Post Johnson Henning Mary Smith

Canal Digging Dilemma Prompts Dual-Goal Proposal

Editor urges a hydraulic approach to Isthmus soil movement, suggesting sluicing soil from higher slopes to fill tide lands using water pressure and giant sluiceways. The idea aims to wash dirt downslope and reuse it to reclaim coastal lands, potentially lowering costs versus mechanical digging. A separate note reports a US Mail wagon overturned by a driver named William Bennett near Third and Virginia avenues after crossing the Pennsylvania Railroad.

United States William Bennett E Street Third Street Virginia Avenue

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