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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1904
Page
33
Linen pillow cases in multiple sizes 36 by 21, 26 by 50, 58 by 27 inches, prices ranging from 150 to 3.00 per pair. Damask tablecloths and napkins offered with designs described as excellent quality. Toweling and linen fabrics priced per yard, with sheets and pillow slips on sale. Second floor Eleventh Street.
Advertising copy lists W L & L toilet articles including Violet Water in various scents and sizes, Violet Extract, Triple Extracts, scents, Talcum Powder, Rice Powder, Antigentic Tooth Powder, Violet Almond Meal, and Sachet Powder with prices per bottle or box. Reads like a period catalog page with product names and costs.
Miss Annie Judkins Mason announces her engagement to Lieut Keith S Sumner Gregory of the Sixth U. S. Infantry. The couple will wed September 21 and reside at Fort Leavenworth Kansas. Engagements and social notes from Lenox, Bar Harbor, and Washington feature diplomats, entertainers, and summer visits by notable families.
Social items from Washington include engagements of Percy Wyndham and Herbert G Deer ing with European tours planned. A Baltimore marriage unites Miss M Dorothy Dalton and Mr Leon Co Dick, while other Washington residents travel or visit Afton Virginia. Roosevelt's Oyster Bay picnic marks a restful period with family reunions and limited official calls as Loeb handles accumulated business and public access remains restricted.
Thousands of New Hampshire residents return for Old Home Week events. In Chester a monument to soldier sons is dedicated with oration by George C Hazleton of Washington DC. Speakers include Henry W Burnham Cyrus W Sulloway and Gen John C Black. Gov Bachelder delivers first Old Home Week address in Rindge. A Richmond marker honors Eliza Ballou Garfield birthplace. Monroe marks 50th town incorporation.
A district court appointed commission began testimony on square 686 to determine value for a new Senate office building site. The hearing resumed at 11 this morning and will run for weeks with government counsel William Frye White and local attorneys representing various property owners. The piece also notes a lodge delegation heading to the National Grand Lodge session in St Joseph, Missouri.
Fort Riley Kansas August 22 Regular army infantry team leads after day one of the national soldiers shooting match. Teams from fourteen states plus District of Columbia Navy and Marine Corps compete in the largest small arms contest to date with 50 marksmen on nearly every team and $2600 in prizes. Major General Bates observed scores while coaches captains and officers from Washington State Maryland New York and other states oversee the event.
Orders to army officers grant two months leave for Contract Surgeon C W Woods and Contract Dental Surgeon W H Ware. Capt Tredwell Moore gets twenty days leave starting September 1, and First Lieut Henry Clay Evans Jr’s artillery leave extended two months. Other officers assigned to maneuvers, hospitals, and militia encampments. Bates reviews Athens affair. ships and arrivals noted along with personnel changes and duties in multiple departments.
Fragmented report notes several medical officers reassigned to naval recruiting duties. August 1904 entries include Dr Wilson and Acting Assistant Surgeon A B Wine moving to naval recruiting party No 1 in Chicago, G F Duncan detached to party No 2, and Acting Assistant Surgeon W Dabney to party No 3 with dates August 24 and 25 1904.
Private Fred H. Scow of the Twentieth United States Infantry faced a court martial over desertion in Luzon in 1900. The panel recommended death, but officials expect the President may commute to life imprisonment after final action by the War Department.
Assistant Secretary of State Francis B. Loomis delivered a lecture titled Some Problems of the Caribbean Sea at the Naval War College in Newport on August 22. He reviewed the diplomatic and commercial history with Santo Domingo, discussed naval diplomacy in the West Indies, praised officers’ conduct and legal knowledge, and paid tribute to the late Admiral H C Taylor.
United States ships New York and Marblehead and gunboat Bennington arrived from Bremerton Navy Yard. New York established wireless communication at Point Reyes then with cruiser Boston off Folsom Street Wharf. The vessels will stay for the Knight Templar conclave and then cruise southern waters before New York sails to the Atlantic coast.
Simon W. Gans died Friday at his home on Fifth Street NW and was buried in the Washington Hebrew Congregation Cemetery. A private funeral was held with Rabbi Louis Stern officiating at the home and grave. Pallbearers included Samuel Bieber, Samuel Gans, Isadore Small, William Michalis, Simeon Lyon, and Max Bergheimer. Relatives from Baltimore, Norfolk, and Richmond attended.
Nellie McHenry stars as the waif of the hills in Artiss a dramatization of Bret Harte s story with a strong cast George Miller as Yuba Bill Howard Sidney as Juan Waiters L J Loring as the Judge and others deliver solid performances The stage scenery and burning schoolhouse scene heighten realism while audience applause confirms approval
Rev James F X Mulvahey Jr departs to assume new pastorate in Bowie Maryland at Holy Trinity Church Georgetown. Rev Thomas Holland succeeds him as pastor with Rev Samuel Cahill and Rev Edward Roach remaining as assistants. Mulvaney helped start a 360000 fund for a new parish hall and had prior ties to Georgetown University.
A compact survey tracing the origins of European royal houses from Servia to Bulgaria Italy and Greece. It notes dynastic shifts involving Karageorge Milosh Obrenoviteh Ferdinand of Coburg Leopold II and other lines. The piece contrasts modern ascent stories with older lineages and highlights the Savoy Hohenzollern and Dutch royal evolutions.
A humorous village scene unfolds as Tad proclaims he works with his head not hands, prompting a farmer to retort that he must be a woodpecker. The lively exchange captures rural speech and comic clash as townsfolk poke fun at appearances and clever words.
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