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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1918
Page
8
The Department of Agriculture was established to solve the people’s issues and has been working on food problems while aiding citizens across the country.
Twenty three suffragettes released from District jail after sentences cut from ten or fifteen days to five following a five day hunger strike. Miss Julia Emory of Baltimore in serious condition. They reach headquarters on Jackson Place for rest with beds and food. Alice Paul calls the victory a step toward democracy for American women. Senator Borah visited the jail to inspect conditions. officials left word for a meeting tomorrow.
Harry M Crandall manager of Crandall theaters and J H Wallberg adviser of the motion picture industry fuel conservation committee were appointed to cooperate with the fuel administration representing the film industry. A ten member committee led by Marcus Loew of Loew theaters met officials and submitted guidance suggestions for fifteen thousand theaters nationwide. A definite cooperation program will be drafted at today's conference.
Col M A Winter, head of the Home Defense League, was appointed by the district commissioner to lead the DC rifle team for the national matches at Camp Perry starting September 1. A District team must be organized quickly as time runs short. The national guard district also plans to send a team.
The Vice President and Mrs. Marshall tour northern Indiana Imola Ohio and southern Michigan before returning to their Cushman herdquarters at Little Traverse Bay Michigan. Notables include Panama minister Belisario Porras and Guatemalan officials at a Washington luncheon. the Pan American Society hosts Gen Ismael Montes Bolivian minister to Paris. Misses Harrigan sisters of the Philippines governors general visit from France and Plan to study in San Mateo Cal. Rev Isaac Stuart McElroy Jr and wife arrive at White Sulphur Springs for a year. Mrs. Lewis departs Washington for Chicago for the autumn season.
Miss Lilly Glory Spitzler, daughter of the late Louis Spitzler, marries Sergt. Charles Howard Grauman of the camouflage corps U.S. engineers in the King Howard Hotel Toronto. The ceremony, August 14, featured maid of honor Miss Elizabeth Spitzler and best man Cecil Spitzler. The couple departed for Sharon Springs for a short honeymoon.
Helen Rowland lampoons wedding rhetoric as a bachelor’s pivot to matrimony in 1918. The piece lists comically self centered vows and duties, from “I will bestow myself upon thee” to dodging the draft, ending with a tongue in cheek asset metaphor.
An advertisement touts an oatmeal Derwills combination claimed to make the skin appear transparent smooth and velvety. It promises improvements for freckles tan sun exposure rough skin wrinkles and discolorations within twelve hours with a money back guarantee and wide retailer availability.
Miss Edith Virginia Le Due will marry Mr. James A. Miller of Pittsburgh in St. Pauls Catholic Church with a nuptial mass and brief reception at the bride’s home. The couple will honeymoon six weeks and reside in New York. Miller, British-Canadian by birth, is to be welcomed by the Le Duc family before their departure for California.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics began a national inquiry into living costs in Washington and across the nation to aid wage adjustments. Six agents started in Baltimore gathering family expenditures for food clothing housing fuel furniture and more. Households urged to participate. Prices for foods nationally rose 3 percent from June to July, with a 16 percent year over year rise overall. Beef cuts up to 36 percent, hens 46 percent higher, lard pork chops bacon ham and lamb up 19 to 25 percent. Five items beans potatoes flour coffee and bread were cheaper than July 1917.
Opera star Fraico Caruso obtained a license to wed Dorothy Park Benjamin and married her at Marble Collegiate Church in Fifth Avenue New York. Mrs John Keith acted as matron of honor and Bruno Girata served as best man. The couple plans to stay in New York. Other brief items note social figures in Hancock Maryland and Washington, with Lt Edgerton’s naval aviation service and a Washington residence.
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