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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1904
Page
19
The Series of August Sales offers table and Pollet Linens, Jankets, Spreads, Sheets, and Pillow Cases, Brass and Iron Bedsteads, Rugs, Plattings, and more. Beds and Rugs include rare finds while other departments provide a broad assortment at extraordinarily low prices to meet current or near future needs.
Annual sale of wool blankets offered at one third to one half off regular prices. Describes sizes from crib to double, colors white red gray, calling them seconds with slight imperfections. Sourced from East manufacturers due to mill improvements, with prices ranging from 2.00 to 9.00 per pair. Second door sale on Eleventh Street.
The August sale of lace curtains begins today offering discounts of one third to one half on one two and three pair lots. Designs include Renaissance Drassels Net Irish Point Arabian and imitation Arabian with many items priced well below regular levels. First choice suggested as stock varies across the offered lots.
Mrs Mary Sherman Miles died suddenly at West Point after a day of calls. she was 62. Gen. Nelson A Miles away, son Sherman at West Point, funeral at the academy chapel, burial in Arlington. She was a noted Washington society leader, connected to the Sherman family and prominent charity work. President Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt sent telegrams of condolence.
Consul General Gummere reports mounting unrest in Morocco after the Perdicaris incident. He notes strong foreign representations to enlarge customs storehouses, halted by tribesmen threats. He describes an attempted kidnapping of Harris of the London Times and warns the issue grows more serious daily.
Lieut Gov Curtis Guild and Gen Blackmar led a committee to invite President Roosevelt to attend the G A R National Encampment in Boston from August 5 to 20. The President valued the invitation but likely cannot attend due to prior engagements. A naval squadron of ten ships will be ordered to Boston for the encampment, including the Massachusetts, Des Moines, Columbia, Hartford, Hull, Whipple, and Truxton.
George Francis Clay of Grand Rapids died of pneumonia while a midshipman on the monitor Florida. A service attended by about six hundred North Atlantic Squadron midshipmen was held at the soldiers and Sailors monument in heavy rain. Rev J Homeyn Danforth officiated. Floral tributes came from squadron vessels. The body will be shipped to Grand Rapids.
Rear Admiral Whiting, aboard the battleship Ohio, telegraphed the Navy Depart ment from Santa Barbara that uncorrected figures show an average speed of 17.86 knots during the preliminary speed trial. Figures may change with tidal allowance under contract terms requiring 18 knots. Penalties apply for shortfalls at 25,000 dollars per quarter knot for the first half knot under 18.
The battleship Ohio completed her trial trip in Santa Barbara Channel and departed for San Francisco today. Gunboat Annapolis and the tugboats Fortune and Unadilla accompanied her away, while torpedo-boat destroyers Paul Jones Preble and Perry remained. The trial board left with the Ohio without announcing results of tidal and wind computations that determine if speeds meet government requirements.
Pacific Squadron ships New York Marblehead and Bennington will depart Bremerton between Aug 15 and 40 for San Francisco to join Boston. The quartet will sail on an extended South American cruise, meeting Chicago en route. Admiral Goodrich will transfer flag to Chicago and send New York to the Atlantic.
Army notices extend leaves of absence for First Lieut Charles E McCullough and Twelfth Cavalry officer W Van Way while Captain Charles B Wheeler is sent to Dover powder depot for Ordnance Department duties. Retired Maj Henry A Barber announced. Engineer Lieut Mark Drucke to report for fitness exam. Lieut Col Richard Thompson shifts to Seattle with Alaska telegraph duties. Artillery officers Clarke and Carleton transferred to unassigned status and named to head to West Point.
Rear Admiral Converse appointed chief of the Bureau of Navigation effective Aug 1 1904. Lieut Gimer detached to General Electric at Schenectady NY for home leave. Lieut Blue to duty Buffalo. Surgeon Grunwell to Dixie. Movements include Saized to Mare Island, Scorpion to Dolan, Michigan to Milwaukee, and Arrived Denver at Guantanamo.
Five Cabinet members attended the yesterday meeting with the others out of town. No business of importance was concluded. Dominic Murphy of the Panama Canal Commission met the President to discuss isthmian canal matters. The President and Postmaster General Fayne approved several new postmaster appointments: Cherokee Kansas John F. Price Chapel Hill North Carolina W A Lloyd Fort Payne Alabama R W Frasist Tennille Georgia I A Smith.
The General Land Office announced registr ation for Devil's Lake and Grand Forks North Dakota Indian reservation lands to be opened to settlement. Registration runs from 9 a.m. August 9 to 6 p.m. August 20 with strict adherence to the President's proclamation rules. Applications must be on government blanks from soldiers' agents. power of attorney blanks issued by the General Land Office. other blanks obtained at registration sites.
Minister Leishman in Constantinople reports the Sultan will answer the U S demands in a personal audience next Thursday rather than yesterday. The main issues are ending discrimination against Americans and granting equal privileges, including education and religion, in Turkey. Postmasters appointed in New York Pennsylvania and Virginia. A new counterfeit ten dollar note was found by U S Secret Service Chief Wilkie, printed on the National Bank of Commerce in New York, 1882 series.
The text warns that acid and grit in cheap dentifrices injure teeth. It stresses that low price does not ensure quality and urges readers to choose better products for dental health.
Special cablegram from Paris reports Paul Potter leaving for New York aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II with an Alaine play The Girl Who Forgot written for Mary Mannering. He will also see the production of The School Girl with Edna May at Daly's in September and brings French plays such as Montansier la Troisieme and Lune la Rabouilleuse for American adaptation.
Commendatory resolutions adopt ed by Gunton Temple Congregation honor Rev Dr Asa S Fiske D D pastor resigning September 1 1904. Clerks reading notes praise his sermons and character and pledge prayers and interest in his welfare as he goes to Philadelphia for two Sabbaths and Geneva NY for vacation.
Mrs. Virginia Adela h Wainwright widow of Philadelphia banker Peter Wainwright died Monday. Funeral at her brother Gen. Catingerfield Parker’s home in Washington with Rev. Enoch M. Thompson officiating. She will be buried in Ronaldson Cemetery Philadelphia. Gen. Wainwright accompanied the boy to Philadelphia. Nervousness tied to health, Hood’s Sarsaparilla advertised.
Social items note Craig Wadsworth returning from Murray Bay rest period and preparing to visit Washington then Newport. Secretary Taft at Gray Gables. Mrs Taft not returning. Mr and Mrs Bertram Greene and Mrs Bainbridge-Hoff back from Porto Rico. Mrs Charles Bennett sails aboard Minnetonka. Numerous readers traveling to Europe and Atlantic City for August leisure, with society figures and families named.
Mrs Arthur Paget wife of Maj Gen Paget Scots Guards suffered a fractured thigh and knee injury after opening an upstairs elevator door and stepping into the shaft in her Belgrave Square home London She is listed as progressing well. Also Duchess of Marlborough had a horse accident and Miss Alice Roosevelt arrived at Bar Harbor for a visit with the Damroschs.
The Business Men's Parker Club of the District organized with John F. Monaghan as president T R J Campbell as vice president M H Ramage secretary Clinton M Stahl corresponding secretary and EL L Jordan treasurer About a hundred Democrats attended in the P J Ryan Columbia Building They adopted resolutions pledging support for Alton Parker citing his judicial temperament legal knowledge and principled refusal of the nomination unless terms were acceptable to the convention.
Analyzes a Philadelphia Ledger report on 1903 railway accidents in Great Britain and the United States. It notes far higher American fatalities and injuries, cites official tables, and discusses classification issues and potential undercounting, urging acknowledgment of differences in reporting.
The poem parodies restaurant miscommunications with a waiter and a diner named Honest Richard. It riffs on repeated calls of Willie tip Willie and a surreal exchange, ending with a choked final line attributed to the knave. The piece preserves the mock newspaper voice of the era.
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