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Presents news briefs related to politics as of August 1911. Decision of U.S. President William Howard Taft to veto the cotton revision bill; Establishment of additional postal savings banks in first-class post offices in various states in the U.S.; Riots against Jews in several towns in Wales.

The article offers world news briefs. It cites the implications of the death of the 1909 Minnesota governor. U.S. President William Howard Taft spoke strongly in favor of the establishment of postal savings banks. There are rumors about the possible abdication of King George of Greece.

The article presents information on the mail business of Chicago, Illinois. The receipts of the Chicago post are equal to the receipts of Philadelphia, Boston and St Louis taken together. The receipts of the Chicago post-office in 1905 were $11,600,000 in 1905, which is sixteen times of the receipts of 1871, which were $709,000.

Offers world news briefs. Presentation of a bill by the Democrat members of the U.S. House that would revise the wool schedule; Advocacy of U.S. Postmaster-General Frank H. Hitchcock for the establishment of postal savings banks throughout the U.S.; Information on a suffrage bill introduced by the Italian government.

The article offers news briefs on current events in the U.S. The attempt by the Senate to eliminate the provision of establishing a Court of Commerce in the pending railroad bill failed. The postal savings bank bill will most likely be approved by Congress. The warship Florida was launched at the Brooklyn naval yard.

The article addresses some issues concerning education in the U.S. and Great Britain as of December 1909. There is nothing in the least explosive in the first annual message of U.S. President William Howard Taft to Congress. President Taft recommended the creation of a system of postal savings banks. The dissolution of the British Parliament will be announced before January 1910.