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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1918
Page
9
The season features practical plaid skirts as the most popular choice with checks and plain colors in Jersey and Velour also offered. A large, well assorted stock includes checked Worsted skirts in light and dark tones, plain and broken checks, priced from S050 to 12.00, plus handsome plaid skirts in multiple plaiting styles priced from 18 to 27.50.
Eppo Petticoats in taffeta satin and jersey fabrics with flounces are shown alongside white tub skirts featuring double panel and tucked flounce. Available in all leading shades plus black, prices start at five dollars.
Lieut. Harry W. Caygill A. S. 4 of Mount Vernon New York was named a chevalier for wiping out a machine gun nest near Viresy with one helper and capturing sixteen privates and two German soldiers. He was wounded and gassed two days later and is hospitalized in Paris. A Columbia graduate of 1917 and Plattsburg alum, he was 23 and had joined after the first Plattsburg camp.
The War Labor Board announced a new women's department with two divisions. The division of examiners, led by Miss Marie L Obenauer, will investigate plants through hearings and report findings. The division of field representatives, led by Miss Elizabeth Christmas, will prepare women for presentation to the board and file petitions.
Jesse R Grant son of former President Grant obtained a marriage license in New York Aug 27 five days after a Tonopah divorce. He, age 60, plans to marry Mrs Lit Han Turns Wilkins widow of this city age 41. Divorce grounds were desertion and the prior San Diego decree was set aside in Goldfield Nevada.
French Ambassador and Mme Jueser guest on the North Shore of Massachusetts with Misses Loring at Beverly. Senators and representatives host and attend luncheons in Washington in honor of Uruguayan envoy Dr Baltasar Brum and other mission members. Mrs Bryan departs for Asheville after a summer of war work travel. Various society members and relatives are noted with travels, visits, and military assignments.
Prof and Mrs Vernon Kellogg, now with the food administration, are guests of Mr and Mrs Albert Brud dock at their city home 2209 Massachusetts avenue. Mrs Kellogg spent much of last winter and spring here giving lectures on Belgium. The note lists other locals: Sands lease their home to Howard a New York lieutenant and Mrs. Wadsworth Howard for the winter at 3401 Massachusetts avenue, with further changes at adjacent houses.
A 1918 column humorously surveys domestic life and gender roles. It critiques marriage expectations and social norms with wry observations about wives, husbands, fat shaming, and patriotic pressures. The piece closes noting military hierarchy and public sentiment.
Secretary Daniels issued a general order aligning Navy uniforms across regular and reserve forces by rank with only corps devices differing. Officers will be addressed by rank titles, ending the practice of naming staff by position such as Chief Constructor Taylor, now Admiral Taylor.
Virginia Christian College in Lynchburg and the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington are listed as institutions for organizing and equipping students' army training schools.
U S Marine Band directed by William H Santelmann performs at 5 PM with program including Invincible Eagle Overture Bohemian Girl and Cavalleria Rusticana grand scenes My Country Tis of Thee Our Governor Beautiful Galatea The Little Sister and Cocoatown Chimes among others at the bandstand.
Details arrive on the shelling of an American Red Cross bathhouse for Belgian soldiers. Twenty two Belgian employees were killed and sixty nine injured as shells struck three buildings including a laundry and fumigating plant, with about two hundred workers in service. A wounded boy's fate and a hunchback girl's leg loss are noted amid relief efforts.
The following Washington men have been commissioned in the army. Edwin Vivian Dunstan and Thomas J Moore and George Arthur Ninas are captains in the quartermaster corps. Walter Franklin Whitlow, Joe Philip Fulcher Jr, and Russell Worthington are second lieutenants in the quartermaster corps. Arno Carl Fieldner is major in the chemical warfare service. James Shepherd, Hugh Lawrence McGraw, and Harold Carr McGrew are second lieutenants in the signal corps. John Z Steese is captain in the chemical warfare service. Paul C Grunwell is first lieutenant in the ordnance department. Harry Thomas L Hoyle is first lieutenant in the quartermaster corps. Ross Halin McLean is first lieutenant in the United States Army. William Argo has a first lieutenant rank in the chemical warfare service. Lawrence E Burton is second lieutenant in the chemical warfare service. James M Sherman is second lieutenant in the sanitary corps.
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