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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1909
Page
39
A brief price note lists Cah Tiny Beon Chairs with a cane seat at $2.25 and a value of $2.90. Weather Seat priced at $3.25 with a value of 94.
An September furniture sale promotes durable artistic pieces at low factory prices. The event features dressers, chiffoniers, dining tables, sideboards, rockers, dressers, chests, and chairs in oak, mahogany, birdseye maple, and curly birch. Notable values include Birdseye Maple Dressers and Dressers, Curly Birch Bedroom Rockers, and Quartered Golden Oak Chests, with price points highlighting substantial savings and room-furnishing potential.
The Winthrops will return to their Massachusetts Avenue residence in Washington after summering at Highwood and Chevy Chase. Mr and Mrs Winthrop plan a September 16 departure for a vacation, with no final destination yet decided. Other social notes mention diplomats, dances at Hamilton Town Hall, and various society visits and travels among prominent families and government officials.
The article describes the Queen's favored Sandringham residence with numerous dogs and collies, ongoing European marriage and court intrigues involving Prince Graganza and Countess Szechenyl, and social shifts toward walking as fashion wanes amid discussions of mobility, autos, and health trends. It touches Vienna, London society rules, and a note on walking as moral and physical exercise.
A brief notice states Danny closes at 6 PM on Saturdays and 1 PM on Sundays, outlining adjusted hours for the business.
Elegant display of Colonial China reproductions featuring exact seven teenth century shapes with gold decorations. Includes dinner and luncheon plates, bread and butter plates, teacups and saucers, teapots, sugars, creams, compotes, and complete dinner sets. Also reproductions of china used by Martha Washington and George.
Daily diet hints discuss toasting bread to ease digestion for invalids. Toasted starch converts to sugar, aids mastication, and improves milk digestion when eaten with a little toast. Whole grain or refined bread toasted best. avoid toasting high gluten to preserve protein.
Mrs Belmont said two Warren suffrage meetings at her home were very satisfactory financially and otherwise. A new suffrage headquarters at 46 Fitch Avenue in New York will open in September. Belmont plans to be in New York and Newport in September and to remain active in women’s suffrage activities this fall and winter.
The Rev Peter McQueen writes from Africa praising Catholic missions across the continent. He commends missionaries as faithful, earnest, and successful in teaching tribes the way to God and improving life through practical aid.
A celestial event described as the moon passing over Mars drew observers to a Washington area site on a Wednesday in September. Prof Wallace Mvecky noted the phenomenon would last about an hour starting around 7 pm, with viewing from a small field near Was irion. Prices for the Washington occulta ton were not clear, but the gathering promised clear naked-eye viewing despite minor obstructions.
Believers from several states gather in Saratoga New York for a millennium conference ending tomorrow. Services will be held in Convention Hall as followers await a promised transformation of the world into paradise after times of trouble. The Watch Tower Society sponsors the gathering and its study themes.
Boston plans a building to be opened next year for tuberculous children in public schools. The project uses unexpended school funds and summer construction to create an open air treatment facility. Municipal architect Ashford notes Boston and one Connecticut town have tested this method in schools. The board will decide exact sites and finalize architectural plans.
Dr Willand Carr longtime Emergency Hospital associate, passed the July 12 army exam for medical corps admission. Dr Ray Cleveland Hefelbower also passed. Both, among 42 candidates, will receive commissions within days and report to duty. Carr, a former Emergency Hospital superintendent, treated Rodney Rose at the Zoo.
A Washington University graduate, after a rattlesnake bite left her hovering between life and death for weeks, resigned from the hospital six months ago and started army examination prep. She studied under Dr W F Carr and Dr Hefelbower at Emergency Hospital, earning an enviable reputation for her work there.
Medical delegates in Budapest for the International Medical Congress visit the Washington statue and lay wreaths at the memorial base. Coun. Albert Apponys, minister of public instruction, spoke in English praising Washington.
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