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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1909
Page
9
Fragmentary OCR places the publication office on Peseyivania Avenue near Fourtet, with unclear city and context. The readable fragment suggests a local newsroom address but lacks confirming names, dates, or events for a fuller summary.
Subscription terms from Washington Post Company detail daily Sunday delivery, by carrier, mail rates, and payment methods. Remittance options include drafts checks post office money orders or registered letters payable to Washington Post Co. at Washington DC.
The article recounts Fulton and early steamship development from the Clermont’s launch to subsequent vessels like the Nautilus and Demologus. It ties naval progress to political debates on tariffs, constitutional power between Lords and Commons, and President Taft’s tariff stance, highlighting the era’s techno naval strides and unsettled fiscal policy.
At the Ohio delegation’s headquarters for the American Bankers Association convention Taft registers as attendee number 41. He writes his name then the bank New Central Bank and his home place as Adywerd Cinem mati. An attendant blots the ink as he hurries away.
A London Telegraph note recounts Trank Bertram, a renowned actor, recalling a Leeds fair scene where a melancholy rider on a merry go round endures motion for revenge. The man explains he cannot quit riding because the roundabout owner owes him money, and his only way to retaliate is to take it out in rites.
A novelty cabbage arrived in Ros city and astonished locals. Standing three feet tall and weighing about 30 pounds, it filled a table top and could feed twenty families. The enormous specimen was grown in Albert Todesco’s garden. The seed’s past behavior remains ordinary, despite this extraordinary result.
The passage appears as a garbled excerpt about an enormous repair shop linked to a story, noting abrupt silence after glimpses of high costs and a question about selling horsepower and automobiles at typical prices. It lacks clear event, entities, or dates.
English dukes move to cut expenditures as a protest against sweeping government measures and higher land taxes. The plan includes reducing public subsidies, pensions, and local works funding, with action to start only after the budget becomes law and potential dissolution elections. The piece also notes reactions to aristocratic cost-cutting and mentions the Duke of Buccleuch amid broader political debate.
Sixty years after Laurence Oliphant first publicized smoking in London the cigarette emerged from stigma. Charles Greville questioned young men who smoked near St James but the slender tobacco roll offered a neater, refined alternative with Turkish tobacco flavor reshaping English tastes.
Washington dispatch reports Allegheny Penitentiary conditions as brutal and unhygienic with 170 inmates in tight cells and vermin. Federal probes push states Pennsylvania Ohio and New York to reform. Observers warn humane detention must rise with population and resources.
Osaka fire started by a kerosene lamp raged hours burning a large portion of the city. Seismic disturbance and a canal network limited further spread, leaving thousands homeless as many officials and buildings were destroyed. Insurance valued at about 2,000, and relief efforts expand across the empire with YMCA leadership.
A Sapulpa probe claims large amounts of wet goods moved since prohibition while a county prosecutor faces removal motion. In New Haven political horse trading unfolds with attempts by Gov Woodruff and others to pick a mayoral candidate, ending with a bachelor on the track of the party machine.
A fragmented reforming dialogue captures a beggar pleads for a nickel while a benevolent passerby offers coins. The beggar then requests to see the astronomer on the corner, a street vignette likely from a late 19th or early 20th century urban setting.
Frome the New York Probe. Frederick A Cook unaware the funds for a grand Arctic voyage came from tales and roulette schemes at Palm Beach. The money reflects losses of fashionable bettors who played against John R Bradley, whose Palm Beach operation grew into a Monte Carlo of America. Bradley, from ticket writer to millionaire, wields vast influence with US senator partners and a world‑rich protector, rivaling Monaco's prince. Bradley dominates the Palm Beach gambling scene through a high‑layout system, shaping the country’s most notorious crooked devices. Bradley, born in Missouri and a watchmaker by trade, rose from Chicago bank dealing to New Orleans Bud Renaud, then built a empire on West pool halls and his own ventures.
A report from Harvard College describes Peter de Great, a performing monkey invited by Dr Lesroy Sargent. The animal demonstrated feats in the gymnasium, unlocking a door with keys and balancing a heavy weight, while the crowd and professors observed with mixed astonishment and amusement.
A quirky dialogue unfolds with a boy named Tommy Tun and his teacher debating quadruped animals. The exchange features a playful mishearing about four legged creatures and ends with a mention of a trolley car in a loosely connected scene.
Fragmented and fragmentary clippings reveal a satirical collection of opinions on manners criticism and romance. The snippets mock social pretensions warn against vanity and urge caution with critics while hinting at evolving gender dynamics and everyday urban life.
Southern Californians debated breaking from the state as they accused the State Board of Equalization of discrimination. Los Angeles faced steep tax jumps, while San Francisco's assessment rose modestly, amplifying protests against northern dominance and calls for political reform.
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