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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1904
Page
11
Linen pillow cases and damask cloths offered in multiple sizes and prices. Seconds and heavy damask napkins, napkins and towels priced per dozen or by the yard. Various thread counts, sizes 42xM-417, 48x72 inches, and 43x%-inch sheets noted. Second floor Eleventh St.
Advertises LL Toilet Articles bearing the name for travel or home use. Lists Violet Water varieties, Eau de Cologne, Violet Extracts, scents, powders, and cosmetics with prices. Covers W L and WL brands, including Rice Powder and Antigentic Tooth Powder.
Social and personal notes list engagements and visits from prominent figures. Miss Annie Judkins Mason and Lieut Keith S Sumner Gregory are announced to wed with future home at Fort Leavenworth. British Ambassador Sir Mortimer Durand appears at Lenox cricket match. German Ambassador and Baroness von Sternburg host a porch dinner in Lenox.
A mixed note of social items includes Washington residents Perc y Wyndham and Herbert G Deer ing in tennis and sailing tours to Europe and Spitueeland, a Baltimore wedding for Miss M Dorothy Dalton and Mr Leon Co Dick, and a Roosevelt family picnic at Sagamore Hill with 25 family members. President Roosevelt plans rest and limited official contact during his Long Island stay with strict appointment rules for visitors.
Thousands of former New Hampshire residents gather for Old Home Week with Chester dedicating a monument to soldier sons. George C Hazleton of Washington DC and Chester native delivers the oration, joined by Senator Burnham Congressman Sulloway Gen Black Col Kent and Corporal Tanner. Other events include Rindge welcoming Gov Bachelder and Richmond memorials for Eliza Ballou Garfield. Monroe marks 50 years since incorporation.
A district supreme court appointed commission began testimony on the value of square 686 for a new Senate office building. The proceeding, in Criminal Court No. 1, will resume at 11 o'clock and extend for weeks with government representation by Special US Attorney William Frye White and a corps of local counsel for property owners.
At Fort Riley on the first day of the national soldiers shooting match regular army infantry holds the top score as teams from fourteen states plus District of Columbia, Navy and Marine Corps compete. Major General Bates visited the range while Elihu Root initiated the national match concept.
Orders grant leaves and assignments for multiple officers including Contract Surgeon C W Woods and Contract Dental Surgeon W H Ware. Capt Tredwell W Moore gains twenty days leave, while First Lt Henry Clay Evans Jr extends two months. Officers reassigned to maneuvers at Manassas and to hospitals in Hot Springs and San Francisco. Detachments assigned to Florida militia encampment and fort relocation duties. Bates inquiry notes AthensOhio shooting. civil tribunals likely to handle homicide. Several ships and midshipmen movements reported as fleet actions unfold near Gibraltar and Potomac.
Acting Assistant Surgeon A B Wine and G F Duncan assignations shift names to naval recruiting stations. Detachments send Franklin and Dabney to duties with recruiting parties No 1 and No 3 in August 1904. Portmouth and Chicago connections noted.
Private Fred H. Scow of the Twentieth United States Infantry is tried on charges of desertion and treason after joining insurgents in Mindoro as Fredrico De La Crus. The court recommends death, but the War Department may commute to life imprisonment.
Assistant Secretary of State Francis B. Loomis delivered a lecture at the Naval War College Newport on Some Problems of the Caribbean Sea. He traced U.S. diplomatic and commercial ties with Santo Domingo, praised naval diplomacy in the West Indies, and paid tribute to Admiral H. C. Taylor as a founder and model figure of the American navy.
The New York Marblehead and gunboat Bennington arrived today from Bremerton. They reached wireless contact near Point Reyes and Folsom street wharf, staying through the Knight Templar conclave before cruising to southern waters. The New York will proceed to the Atlantic coast after the harbor stay.
Simon W. Gans died Friday at 726 Fifth Street NW and was interred at Washington Hebrew Congregation Cemetery. A private funeral attended by family and friends from Baltimore Norfolk and Richmond was conducted by Rabbi Louis Stern at the home and grave. Pallbearers included Samuel Bieber Samuel Gans Isadore Small William Michalis Simeon Lyon and Max Bergheimer.
The Academy of Music hosted a weeklong engagement opening with Artiss a drama based on Bret Harte’s tale. Nellie McHenry impressed in the title role as a brave waif. George Miller and Howard Sidney gave solid support. vivid scenery and a dramatic schoolhouse fire sequence heightened the production.
Rev James F X Mulvahey Jr departs to take the Bow ie Md charge as pastor of Holy Trinity Church Georgetown. Rev Thomas Holland succeeds him, with Rev Samuel Cahill and Rev Edward Roach remaining as assistants. Mulvaney, once Georgetown University faculty, led a drive that raised about 22000 toward a new parish hall and preached his farewell last Sunday. His health has been poor for some time.
A digest tracing the origins of European royal houses. From Servia’s Peter to Bulgaria’s Ferdinand and Greece’s line, the piece surveys dynasties and their unlikely ascent. It covers Sweden, Belgium, Italy, Holland, and the Hohenzollerns, noting humble starts and foreign ties shaping thrones.
A humorous exchange unfolds as a pompous city chap boasting of using his head contrasts with a farmer’s blunt wit. The farmer jokes the man must be a woodpecker, hinting at stubborn pride and rural vs urban cleverness. The piece closes with lively, rustic wordplay.
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