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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1904
Page
19
Describes desirable women’s summer garments the Shirt Waist and Shirt-waist Suit offered at a one third to one half reduction. Highlights include fine shirt waists in lawn and Swiss, and Persian embroidery ensembles with matching waistcoats, priced at 7.50 dollars instead of 12.50 or 15.00.
Bargains on straw sailors in all sizes priced at 25 cents each, marked down from 2.00 and up. Limited stock, hurry for quick wear in warm weather.
Washington society notes countess Maury Thaw en route to Newport with visit plans. Miss Elizabeth Tuckerman of New York announces engagement to William Elkins of Philadelphia. Alice Roosevelt guests of Vanderbilt stay includes elaborate Newport dinners. Several Washington figures attend Adirondack and Atlantic City gatherings, weddings and society events across Newport and Boston.
Mrs Hilza beth Delano Ames dated May 17 194 filed yesterday by Henry V Tullo ch in the registers office. The Ames estate leaves 1358 Corcoran and 1600 Thirteenth in trust for Dorothy Ames Skelding with sale and reinvestment options. If Dorothy dies with heirs, property to heirs at eighteen. else to Ben Ames John Griffith Ames Jr and Arthur Vertram Skelding. Husband John Griffith Ames may occupy 1600 Thirteenth rent free and receive income of personal estate for life. Other bequests to silverware jewelry china and a grandson Delano Ames. Executors are husband and two sons. A separate Daggs will leaves widow Mary Daggs home on 240 Fourteen and a half street NE and Barry Farm lot to Marin Stoddard Home after legacies, W ex W J Howard executor. A Harris Lanham Atchison will allows widow Eliza Ann Atchison to remain unmarried, else to daughter Anna Cecilia Atchison. Maurice D Rosenberg appointed administrator of Charles Henry Blumer estate after a drowning at the Potomac regatta.
A Manila letter from Henry C. Ide reports the Philippines near complete adoption of the peso, with most provinces in free circulation and old Mexican and Spanish coins largely withdrawn. The switch to a gold standard currency is expected to be finished by January 1, 1905, after eliminating 80 to 40 million dollars of debased currency within 16 months.
George W. Cissel died Sunday morning and was buried yesterday in Oak Hill Cemetery. Services were held at his Oak Crest home at 1645 Thirty-first Street NW with Rev. Carl S. Smith officiating. Honorary pallbearers listed. Warmers and Mechanics National Bank directors adopted condolences and extended sympathy to his family.
In a brief Chicago scene Pauline teases that she never says witty things while Fedora retorts that he cannot help laughing whenever she speaks. The exchange captures a sharp, lighthearted clash between the two figures in a city chronicle.
The St Vincent's Academy for Girls and St Joseph's School for Boys will merge to form St Patrick's Academy in a new parish building set to open September 12. The unified school will include elementary through high school levels with separate boy and girl sections, affiliations with Catholic University and Trinity College, and a planned dedication on November 20 during a hierarchy meeting.
A miscellaneous collection of practical tips from The Pilgrim and Newport Telegram. Notes include stain remedies with whisky for fruit stains, paregoric to attract ants, ammonis for insect bites, and sea bathing tips. Also mentions fashion satire about women in dark garments, and a piece on green goggles scaring women linked to Col. John J. Astor and Alfred and Reginald Vanderbilt.
A Washington delegation of Knights Templars sails on a special train for the twenty-ninth triennial encampment in San Francisco, September 6 to 9. The train, leaving at 1:10 a.m. from Washington, routes via Parkersburg Cincinnati St Louis Kansas City Denver Salt Lake City Sacramento to Santa Barbara Chicago and Pittsburg, carrying many titled officers and companions on the two week journey with numerous accompanying members and their spouses.
Quartermaster units load wagons and horses at St. Asaphs for Manassas and Thoroughfare camps. Twenty five vehicles per train with twenty five teamsters and a full wagon crew. Two day march with nights near Centerville. Several crews include Cuban campaign veterans and familiar Northern Virginia roads. Additional trains depart today and tomorrow, with a 100 wagon push on Friday.
Alfred Parkins a well known business man from Winchester Virginia and New York died in Pittsburg after moving there six years ago from Washington and Takoma He had recently shifted his career plans to Pittsburg and was stricken with a fatal illness Interment was in Winchester.
One hundred Pension Office officials and clerks will travel this evening to Chesapeake Beach to hear Commissioner Wars read a new poem and to honor him. A Belvedere Hotel dinner will follow with guests of honor including John R. King, newly elected senior vice commander of the G A A and William Henderson of the Southern Railway.
The monitor Arkansas arrived off Fern's wharf with 60 midshipmen aboard as part of the Atlantic training squadron assembling in the lower Potomac. The squadron, including Massachusetts Texas and several destroyers, will transfer middies to three monitors for two days in Washington before visiting Indian Head and later Chesapeake Bay target practice.
Orders authorize two month leaves for Capt. Houston V. Evene and Maj. Henry L. Ripley, with transfers and detailing across artillery and cavalry units. Lieut. Col. Califf and First Lieut. Commiskey receive duty changes while Second Lieut. Breckinridge resigns. Capt. Stesle heads to Thoroughfare for Ohio National Guard maneuvers, and Archibald Commiskey leaves the Philippines for Georgia duty. An army retiring board meets in Denver and a line promotion board is set at Fort Niobrara with multiple officers detailed for judging fitness and assignment.
A series of 1904 era assignments transfers and duties are issued for Lieut. Commanders and other officers to posts in New York Norfolk Washington and Kentucky among yards war colleges and ships. Souvenir from Boston engineers to Judge Advocate Diehl highlighted by a six pounder cartridge stein. Armies and navies move as several vessels arrive depart and commanders return from tours including Chaffee and Humphreys.
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