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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1904
Page
7
Woodward and Lothrop announces early closing starting tomorrow the twenty seventh at 5 30 p m continuing until further notice. The New York Washington Paris store timing applies to all locations per annual custom.
E WISH extends compliments to the liberal public and generous patrons amid the Christmas festivities. Holiday business has been phenomenal, with delivery records, an expanded selling and delivery force, and lavish overseas and domestic merchandise. The store credits its organized efficiency and innovations for high customer satisfaction and vows to continue serving customers with excellence.
Lord Fairfax the twelfth Baron of Cameron and native Marylander arrives from England to spend weeks in the United States. He holds banking connections in London and is unmarried. The piece notes his lineage, estate status, and expected leisure amid Washington society, with other social moves of diplomats and prominent families during the holidays.
Word reached Washington yesterday that Rev James B Spearing of the Dominican Order died in New York City from tuberculosis. The 27 year old priest, native of New York, had first served in Washington at the Dominican monastery in South Washington and was recently assigned to his home city. Funeral services were set for 9:30 this morning at the Dominican Church in New York.
Mrs Margaret Green widow of a former Washington businessman and mother of Henry D Green and Mrs F E Bateman died suddenly on Saturday at 3439 Columbia road. Funeral services will be held there tomorrow at 4 p m and the remains will be sent to New York for interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. A native of Georgia she was socially prominent in this city and New York.
Mary Shepard of Poughkeepsie Virginia celebrated her 125th birthday today born in Ireland on December 23 1800. She rose from bed to attend the 6 oclock Mass at St Peter's Church walking several blocks to reach the service.
Woodward & Lothrop used an Oldsmobile special delivery wagon to keep Christmas orders prompt. The wagon averaged over seventy miles daily for a week before Christmas, reaching seventy six miles on Christmas Eve despite poor streets and no breakdowns. The National Automobile Company now represents Packard Motor Car Company and will display a sample car at 1711 13 Fourteenth Street around month’s end.
A collage of opinion pieces critiques on breadstuff exports and the trade balance, praises for tariff effects, and contrasts with Hooley and Wright swindles. It discusses sea level canal plans, Southern labor issues, firearm crusades, stock market impact of Lawson, advocacy for American banks abroad, and Philippines railway policy.
A letter discusses progress in the islands toward ultimate sovereignty with railroad building policy shaping the relationship with Washington. It notes a growing home-government partnership and strong impetus in the Philippines as a major strategic move. The piece also critiques Shaw’s wheat drawback plan, arguing it benefits foreign consumers and raw-material suppliers over American buyers, and condemns labor trusts that monopolize workers while praising unions that raise skill and standards.
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