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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1908
Page
15
Saks Clothes The Best offers regular stock goods in fashion and fabric. Suits include worsteds cassimeres and cheviots with distinctive black chevios and bhibetsthat. Saks straight-front model featured among many. overcoats in blue black fancy and Oxford styles. Medium-weight overcoats for moderate weather also included.
Mrs Helen W Boynton of Washington argues in her December 28 1908 letter that animal brain research under strict diets no daylight and solitary confinement risks insanity, yields little usable data, and questions the ethics and value of methods used at George Washington University in a debate on animal welfare and scientific progress.
The Rev Di S if Wooedrow preached on Christmas at the Freest Congregational Church. He stressed that true Christmas joy dispels fear through Christ’s coming, brings pardon, faith, and eternal hope, and should remain the giver’s focus amid gifts and seasonal cheer.
The Forty Hours devotion started at St Aloysius with a solemn high mass led by Rev Francis X Renaud at 8 o clock and a procession. Devotion continues with benediction and planned masses, including a 9 o clock morning service by Rev Timothy Barrett and nightly benedictions. Confessions available this afternoon and evening until 10.
Mrs M G Rives aged % fell % feet into an elevator shaft at 1723 I Street NW on Saturday afternoon while entering the car to travel from the third to the first floor. The elevator was at the bottom of the pit and she was rescued by the janitor. She is the mother of Dr William Rives.
Funeral services for Dr Charles Allen were held at 3 PM yesterday at Second Baptist Church with Rev E Hez Swem officiating. Burial followed at Congressional Cemetery under Masonic auspices with representatives from the Association of Oldest Inhabitants and local Masons in attendance. A prominent Washington physician, Dr Allen had lived in the city for more than five years and died suddenly last Thursday night.
Charles Callahan a watchman in a northwest street area was found dead on building steps early yesterday with his clothing smoldering from a fire believed sparked when he tried to rekindle a lamp in a small guard box about 29 yards from the building He reportedly left the box as flames spread and his wife and three children lived at 1453 W street no arrangements for the funeral had been made
The Church of the Coven hosted Rev Charles Wood Freached on The Fergious Stress of Cry Life, urging focus beyond riches. He warned wealth’s deceit and urged churches to care for all urban people, not systems, while stressing social and spiritual reform. An entertainment at St Aloysius’ Parish showcased a Bethlehem musical in the parish hall.
The Rev Father Brusnayap S J the Rev Timothy Barrett J and the Rev John Brosnan J of Woodstock College spend holidays as priests of St Aloysius Church. The Rev Aloysius Brosnan of Georgetown College also joins. The two Brosnans are brothers. Also mentioned are Washington bays Lynn Haver Daye Philia. Oyster and Shop House advertises lunch and a new girl room at Coldenstroths 113 Pa. Mass at St Marys for Holy Innocents with German Catholics, led by Father Wannenberg at 8 am. Heaths and Arlington Bottling Co advertise in the same column with local vendors.
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