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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1918
Page
7
Congress presses a revenue bill linked to waterpower development and broader fiscal reform. Leaders anticipate a quick House action by unanimous consent, aiming to extend wartime taxes and explore excess profits taxes to raise funds before the November elections.
The society page records a busy social circuit with President Wilson at Central Presbyterian Church and White House dinners, plus Secretary Lansing and family travel from Henderson Harbor to New York. Others include longtime figures like Chauncey Depew in Lenox, Mrs Talmage touring New England, and numerous spouses visiting White Sulphur Springs, Newport, and Bar Harbor during August.
Accommodations arranged for 200 delegates and others attending the Potomac Baptist Association annual meeting at the first Baptist Church in Alexandria. Samuel W Pitta chairs the committee on entertainment. The association sermon will be preached Wednesday morning by Rev George T Baker. A tablet commemorating Rev Jeremiah Moore will be unveiled Friday morning.
Madame Nazimova stars in Toys of Fate at Moore's Strand Theater with a dual gypsy character study Hagar and Azah amid demanding photography and strong supporting players. Also featured are Back to the Woods with Mabel Normand at Crandall’s Knickerbocker and The Death Dance with Alice Brady at Crandall’s.
Glen Echo Park featured four popular concerts directed by Charles Mills while Antonio Celso was away on vacation. Visitors enjoyed rides and diversions as crowds gathered for music, free concerts, and a selection of park amusements. The park offers free fishing and picnic facilities for all ages.
William S Hart abandons his Western persona to play a rough seaman in Shark Monroe. Monroe, a brutal sea captain, encounters Marjorie Hilton and her drunken brother Webster aboard his vessel bound for Alaska, with plans to sail toward Skagway.
A wartime short piece laments vanity and egotism behind outsize rewards. It recalls a Marine officer sending six thrift stamps paid by a seven cent daily wage for a German crown likeness. The speaker mourns "somebody's boy" and questions whether the crown is solid gold or pewter. The lament ends with a critique of profiteering from war and a plea for humanity.
Hundreds of Washingtonians packed the three steamer trips to Marshall Hall yesterday. Picnic parties enjoyed the shaded lawns and the amusements offered by the management, crowding the vessel nearly to capacity.
Chesapeake Beach offers a site special vaudeville attraction with Clark Ragaillian’s troupe of acrobats and aerial performers giving free shows daily at 3 and 8 o'clock. The broadwash is crowded with amusement devices and the bay provides salt water bathing, fishing, crabbing and boating opportunities.
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