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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1905
Page
32
The Daily and Sunday editions priced for delivery in Washington and Alexandria. Daily rates five cents per week or fifty cents per month. Daily with Sunday twenty cents per week or seventy cents per month. Mail postage prepaid.
The notice urges readers leaving the city to have The Post follow them so they stay informed about capital affairs. It explains changes of address can be sent quickly by wire or order direct to The Post and provides telephonic contact Main 4205 for prompt service.
In Washington a three month feud between the board of education and Prof Swartzell at Eastern High School intensifies as diplomacy, public opinion, and political pressure fail to bring peace. Swartzell, accused of lack of tact, faces shifting fates from promotion to reassignment and back, highlighting a stubborn clash that the public reveres for its resilience and stalemate.
A provocative column analyzes the China boycott and its shifting signals from Shanghai. It notes 169,000 bales of American goods salved at 23,000,000 gold and the Chinese refusal to buy, suggesting a strategic move to modify the exclusion law by hitting the US pocketbook. The piece questions Japanese involvement, fears of a Japanized Chinese army, and the potential reshaping of policy in the Asia-Pacific.
The piece notes California fruit growers want 50,000 more Chinese laborers and domestic work in eastern homes to undermine bans. It reports on a growing anti-pass movement in Wisconsin, Indiana, and Kansas, detailing old laws and legislative resistance, with Indiana praised as a reform-minded example and potential start of real change.
Dr. Woods Hutchinson argues for evolved ethics favoring divorce when a marriage harms the individual or race. He opposes church restrictions and sees biology and modern ethics supporting dissolution under grave defects, while noting consequences for women and calls for community support for noble mothers.
A column of satirical remarks targets Philadelphia machine politics Mayor Weaver and penitentiaries, Yale president Hadley, Rockefeller, Gen Wood on Moros, James J Hill on China biscuits, life insurance syndicates, Norway diplomacy, Addicks aiming Delaware return to Democrats, Bryan abroad, and tariff wars with Germany.
The aged Grand Duke Michael Nicolaivitch, uncle to the Czar, challenged noble priveleges during imperial council sessions. He denounced aristocratic neglect of peasants and questioned noble services to the empire, signaling a reformist stance amid looming constitutional shifts.
The Philadelphia Press relays a quip about a customer asking what can be done with a chafing dish and a ragged clerk replying I can tell you what should be done with one after a Welsh rabbit party. The Boston Globe notes Nobel money came from dynamite manufacturing to fund peace prizes.
The Interstate Commerce Commission is poised to require railroads to provide refrigerator cars for fruit and other freight. Private line monopolies face extinction as railroads abandon private lines and submit schedules to government rate controls. The shift signals a long battle for public regulation, with farmers bearing the brunt of private line abuses and big corporations paring back to comply.
A collage of small town items crosses the country from Hennessey Oklahoma to Iowa and Tennessee. Notable notes include friendly praise for Roll Blackburn in Hennessey, a Main Street slip causing Miss Katherine Brewer to twist an ankle, brief travels of John Lackner and Will Westrick, a berry-picking Lackner report, a Sanborn accident with three fingers lost, a ram attack at a farm, Flat Rock baseball games amid rain, and local miscues about editors, marriage records, and political figures.
Savannah business leader J P Williams of the Georgia Florida and Alabama Railroad discusses Georgia politics and Southern progress while at the New Willard. Judge James A Neville and W A White from Gulfport detail Mississippi railroad expansion. R I McLaughlin of Boston notes potential Anglo German conflict amid European tensions. T O G Neill of New York praises Dublin horse show.
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