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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1909
Page
13
A small catalog entry lists Cah Tiny Beon chairs with cane seats at $2.25, noting a value of $2.90. Weather Seat is shown at $3.25 with a value of $9.40.
Ir a high grade furniture exhibition offers durable pieces with elegant lines at wholesale prices. The sale highlights dressers, chiffoniers, toilet tables, bedroom suites, dining tables and chairs in oak, mahogany, and Birds eye Maple, with values up to 7500 dollars and discounts near half.
The report lists the Winthrops returning to their Massachusetts Avenue home after a summer at Highwood and Chevy Chase with plans for a September vacation. It notes other social moves and visits by figures such as Senor Orenclo Kodarse, Mrs Meyer, Mr Taft, and Mr Bacon, plus a lengthy account of Newport society events and a critical aside on Mrs Belmont’s suffrage stance amid Marble House gatherings.
A fragmentary society column describes Queen Alexandra and Sandringham life with pets and travels to Vienna for marriage arrangements. It mentions Prince Briganza and Bourbon hopes, Austrian court etiquette, fashion shifts, and the rising neglect of walking as city life changes.
A brief notice states that Danny is closed at 6p on Saturdays and at 1p on Sundays. The readable fragment indicates irregular hours for the subject named Danny without additional context or entities.
A new display showcases colonial china reproductions in seventeenth century shapes with gold decoration. The collection covers dinner and luncheon plates bread and butter plates tea cups and saucers teapots sugars and creams compotes and complete dinner sets. Also reproduced are the china once presented to and used by Martha Washington and George.
Toast is easier to digest than fresh bread and often prescribed for invalids. Dry, toasted toast aids mastication and digestion by turning starch to sugar and breaking up milk curds. Milk digests better with a little toast, and toast digestion resembles that of eggs and milk. Whole grain toast improves starch. barley and gluten tread should not be toasted.
Mrs Belmont said two suffrage meetings held at her home were very satisfactory financially and otherwise. A new suffrage headquarters at 46 Fitch Avenue, New York, will open in September. Belmont planned to be in New York and Newport in September and to return to Newport to engage actively in women’s suffrage efforts this fall and winter.
The Rev Peter McQueen praises Catholic foreign missions in Africa noting earnest missionaries who devote themselves to teaching tribes the way to God. He pens to Rev Father Walsh praising faithful, sincere, and successful efforts across the Dark Continent.
A meteor event observed from Washington noted by Prof Wallow Re Mvecky at the nth observatories. The phenomenon lasted about an hour beginning around 7 pm local time and ending near dusk. Prices and exact details are unclear due to garbled text.
Believers from several states arrive in Saratoga New York in August 1914 for a multi day meeting at Convention Hall. The sect’s core study focuses on prophecies and services as they anticipate a world transformation to paradise after times of trouble, under the Watch Tower Society.
Boston plans an open air tuberculosis hospital for infected children in the district. The project, directed by municipal architect Ashford, uses unexpended school funds to build next summer, with an open air approach modeled after a Boston trial and a Connecticut town. The board of education will decide exact site and open air design details.
Dr Willand Carr formerly with Emergency Hospital passed the July 12 examination for admission to the medical corps of the army. Dr Ray Cleveland Hefelbower of Jersey City also passed. Both doctors, well known locals, were among 42 candidates who will receive commissions soon and report for duties.
The text notes a physician who nearly died after a rattlesnake bite, resigned from a hospital six months ago, and now prepares for the army examination. A graduate of George Washington University, he was once connected with Emergency Hospital and earned a strong reputation for his work there under surgeon Dr Hefelbower.
Medical delegates attending the international congress in Budapest visited the Washington statue. Rodny laid wreaths at the memorial base as Coun. Albert Apponyi spoke in English praising Washington.
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