Washington Post Subscription Rates 1910 Note
Publication details for subscriptions at Washington Post in 1910. Rates listed for daily and Sunday delivery, by carrier and mail, with payment methods and office details. Includes postal classifications and advertising rep contact.
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Republican Loyalty in Illinois and Speaker Cannon’s Tariff Views
The piece discusses Republican loyalty amid tariff debates and Speaker Cannon’s stance. It references Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Iowa, noting insistent support for the Taft administration and Congress. It notes a general mood of cautious revisionism and the push for tariff changes alongside conservation.
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Inibana
Wisconsin
Iowa
Great West
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Olerances
Taft
Congress
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Horace Greeley Memorial Reflections on a Great Journalist
A commemorative piece honors Horace Greeley marking the hundredth anniversary of his influence as a prominent American editor and thinker. It notes his reach, controversy, and stature, calling him the dean of our cloth and the best man of our era while praising his simple yet sharp mind.
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America
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Nes Hampalore
Andrus Scotch-Trishman
New England
de Foe
Republic
Welcome Back President Entwined With Summer Plans
Washington once again centers on the President and his household as he plans a brief stay, a Beverly visit, and a two week summer tent sojourn. The President urges the House of Refuge boys in Cincinnati toward better paths, while facing immense workload and limited rest.
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Beverly
House of Refuge
Cincinnati
White House
Mia
Taft
Norton
Cone
Capital Week Ahead as Taft Plans Economy Reforms
President Taft and his cabinet prepare for a busy week in Washington with economy plans and reorganizations on the agenda. Atlantic City delegates largely ignore the Lee statue dispute, as Virginia honors the Confederate leader in the national temple, resolving lingering sectional tensions.
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Grand Army of the Republic
Virginia
National Temple of Fame
Atlantic City
Washington
Grant
Appomattox
True Heroism Versus Mock Heroism on Behalf of Duty
A critical essay contrasts ship captains who perish with sinking ships with the more laudable self sacrifice of those who seek escape to save others. It praises Mingineer F. Peckinbaugh and other true heroes, argues daily heroism deserves public recognition, and notes advances in science challenging old shams.
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Naion
F. Peckinbaugh
Arm strongs Dream Of Coastline Power For Britain
A professor sketches a future of wind and tidal energy powering Britain and Ireland at a fraction of current steam costs, while Armstrong’s coal cooking proposal and other energy ideas are discussed as historical possibilities. The piece also reports 1909 death rates, noting infant mortality rises and urging public education to improve child health and population prospects.
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America
Protect the Trees Washington’s Vanishing Arboreal Treasures
A historical column laments Washington’s trees ravaged by insect plagues during the season just ended. It urges fall and winter action to protect urban greenery, cites Agriculture Department guidance on arboriculture and insecticides, and calls for systematic, practical pest control while noting political and cultural digressions interwoven in the prose.
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Department of Agriculture
Calls cop to quiet baby in New York tale
The Philadelphia Public Ledger reports a late night clash over a crying infant. Morton Wistar Smith of the Larchmont Yacht Club, at 500 West End Ave, complained to Mrs. Sarah McKinley about 22 month old Henry Southerland McKinley’s cries. Police were called and the infant’s mother defended the child, insisting he did not cry for his papa. The tale portrays a neighborly feud with comic overtones and a sleepy yachtsman.
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Philadelphia Public Ledger
Morton Wistar Smith
Larchmont Yacht Club
West End Avenue
New Yok
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West Eighty-fifth Street
Henry Southerland McKinley
Sarah McKinley
Eighty-fifth Street
Asaward J. de Copper
Smith
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McKinley
Henry Southerland
Martin Wistarmith
M. W. Smith
Washington
Judge Longworth Courage After Garden Party Incident
The Cleveland Leader recounts Judge Nicholas Longworth once on Ohio's supreme bench displaying unusual bravery. A neighbor nicknamed a pet owl "Judge Longworth" after his somber mood. The following day an upset maid disrupted his wife’s garden party with a dramatic remark.
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Nicholas Longworth
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Supreme Bench
Longworth
Inverts Colic Cocktail Revealed at Montclair Saloon
New York Prem Patrick J Farrell, chief of the fire department, claims to invent the colic cocktail. He says it cures colic in horses and quells thirst, describing a simple recipe using ingredients from his saloon. A sorrel horse named Pete reportedly improves after tasting the drink, prompting Farrell to warn against overuse.
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Patrick J. Farrell
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Germans to train Brazilian army in German mission
Emperor William pushes Brazil to hire German officers to reorganize the Brazilian army. Marshal Fonseca travels with German entente to Europe, declines French maneuvers, and agrees to German led reorganization. Germany’s influence grows as Brazilian loans flow through France, prompting French concern and South American realignment.
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Secret Sugar Habit Plague Hits London Men
The Inter Ocean notes a rising craze for chocolate and sugar among city men. George Edwardes reports a surge in sugar use, with some high‑status individuals taking seven to eight lumps per cup. A hotel owner hides sweets in a tobacco case, a cash register, and behind pictures, while a wife battles the habit as a husband spends about $1.25 daily on chocolates and acid drops.
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Harvard Club bartender jailed after crimson punch prank
G Joseph Fennell, a Harvard Club bartender, sought to be jailed after drinking a local crimson punch mix thought to mimic Harvard pride. He repeatedly approached West Side court, shouting college yells, culminating in his sixth attempt and placement in a cell where he caused a disturbance before sleep.
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Hennell
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Painter Wins Over Actor In London Paris Tale
Paris correspondent recalls M. Paul Mounet in the Comedie Francaise scene where a shy young artist sought a portrait. Mounet’s dramatic prank during a rehearsal forced a quick warning, a taxi dash, and a bath flood. The painter now awaits to finish a portrait that may launch his career.
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Mounet
Dream Frock Dominates Chicago Dressmakers Convention
The dream frock at the Chicago dressmakers convention mesmerizes attendees with its elusive design. English actress Miss Daisy Lehay wears an $850 version, proving the style tests seated posture as she shows how to sit gracefully in a stove pipe skirt.
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The Return A Harper's Weekly Poem Fragment
A mixed fragment from Harper's Weekly presents poems about Nancy back and a dramatic scene where a narrator discovers Nancy with another man. The piece blends sentimental verse with a note on the unknown god and a brief crime item about Foster Mather, a 17 year old Chicago man, who pursued Senator Penrose in Philadelphia and was detained for sanity evaluation.
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New York
Foster Mather
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Mather
Senator Penrose
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Fragmented Aphorisms Mixed With Archaic Sayings
A garbled paragraph of aphorisms and wordplay on life learning cooking luck and honesty. It weaves proverbs about bark, growth, rolling stones, suspicion, and fate with jumbled phrases and odd spellings suggesting cut text from an old column or clipped page.
Reflections of a Bachelor and Modern Man
A short, wry meditation on bachelor life and marriage. It contrasts men’s caution in politics with the lure and risk of engagement, noting women’s fortune in birth and the stubbornness of perceived truths, all framed as edgy social commentary from a newspaper column.
Views of Visitors in Washington on Tilman and Era
A South Carolina observer predicts Senator Tillman will not return to active Senate service and will not seek reelection. The piece notes Tillman’s waning grip in state politics, shifts in tobacco and dispensary issues, and the rise of Cole L. Blease as a local option governor candidate amid a broader debate over state prohibition. Also covered are reflections on divorce law rhetoric, Paris experiences by A. G. Doty, and a Virginia reminiscence of Thackeray and Bremer at Charlottesville.
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de Veaux Porter
Horry County
South Carolina
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Samual H. Allen
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Paris
A. G ‘Doty
Cleveland
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M& I
United States
Reforming the Sentence in a Country Classroom
In western Kansas a primary teacher tests sentence structure with two examples on the board, one wrong in syntax and one factually false. Willie attempts to locate the fault, then writes a correction containing divine error. The piece illustrates early language lessons and humorous dialogue from a rural classroom.
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