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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1917
Page
27
Buenos Aires faces a recurring lottery scandal as tickets soar to fund a new hospital. Officials warn against premium resales, while agents and speculators push prices well above par. Public anger mirrors World Series ticket hysteria as many see no chance of a prize.
A dispatch from the American legation in Peking states the Siems-Carey Company of St Paul won a contract to build a 200 mile railway in China from MChowkia Kow to Stang-Yane. The firm already holds a wider 1109 mile railway contract in other provinces and surveying for the new 100 mile project has begun.
Semirecluse heir Alson W Rus sell, long a farm supervisor in North Dakota, was located by administrator agents after a weeklong search. He is one of hundreds of heirs to a 1 5 million estate from Ssisia Ann Howland, aunt of Hetty Green. The report notes Rus sell's age and residence. A German official dispatch claims a German submarine sank a British destroyer on January 15 in the English Channel, with British admiralty countering the claim.
Library sale listing many multi volume sets and authors. Includes De Maupassant Walter Flaubert Bouvard Dickens Poe Thackeray Muhlbach Balzac Emerson Hugo with leather or limp leather bindings. Athenaeum Society Brady Photographic History of Civil War and more Volumes range around 4 to 80 volumes per set.
A catalog note offers 1140 Macmillan Co titles at half price including scientific, medical, nursing, fiction, travel and history works. Notable entries include Mr. Brittling Sees It Through by H. G. Wells and The Brook Kerith by Moore, with limited copies and urgent availability amid varied prices.
A list of fiction titles and authors including The Old Flute Player by Mar- This Way Out by Anna M shall and Davey Scholl, The Progettife, by Arthur, The Ret Stain by Achmed Hornblow, Abdullah, The Count of Luxemburg, The Old Homestead by Don Edwards and Simpson, and many others by various authors such as Margaret Blake, Arthur B. Reeve, and Bertrand W. Sinclair.
A catalog listing numerous illustrated histories and travel works from Briard Pub and others. Titles include The Doges of Venice, China Revolutionized, Antartic Adventures Scott's Northern Party, The War Drama of the Eagles, Sicily in Shadow and in Sun, and many art and travel volumes with prices and plate information. Includes authors such as Mia Aubrey CG Blew, Raymond H. Priestley, Maud Howe, Hilaire Belloc, and John T. McCutcheon.
The catalog lists numerous books and authors from Mitchell Kennerley including The Drama of Love and Death by Edward Carpenter Speculation Dialogues The Mother and the Child by Norman Barnesby Studies in Wives by Mrs Belioc Lowndes Letters to a Daughter by Hubert Bland Spiritual Curiosities Just Horses by Sewell Ford Murphy by Gambier Parry The Eternal Maiden by Everett Harre When Love Flys Out o Window by Leonard Merrick Hindrances of Life by Johannes Muner The Dawn Builder by John C Neihardt The Censor and the Theaters by John Palmer Oscar Wilde by Arthur Ran some The Spirit of Life by Mowry Sachen True Adventures of a Play by Louis Evan Shipman Bracken by John Trevena from the Eastern Sea The Pilgrimage by Yone Noguchi Orestes Hieroglyphics by Arthur Garden of Desires by Edna W Underwood Omar Repentant by Richard Le Gallienne Lifes Lure by John G Neihardt
A catalog entry lists reduced prices for biographies with multiple figures and codes such as B85 30 3.50 and OB L775, indicating discounts and varied pricing across editions.
A catalog listing numerous fiction titles and authors including Five Thousand an Hour, Hammer and Rapier by J. Chaetor, The Supplanter by Boylan, The Cocoon by Stuart, Voice on the Wire by Ball, Misleading Lady by Godda and Dickey, and many others such as The Reef by Edith Wharton, The Wind's Will by Britt, Lovers of Skye by Allen, Stanton Wins by Ingram, and King of the Honey Islands by Thompson.
A catalog-like list presents varied books and prices. Notable entries include A Dictionary of Universal Biography by Albert M. Hyamson at 7.50 down to 4.00, Reptiles and Batrachians by EK G Boulenger, Sea Land and Air Strategy by Sir George Aston, and The American Sportsman by Eisha J. Lewis. Several titles show substantial discounts with prices and editions listed.
A list of juvenile books with prices and authors including Blair of Balaclava by Lynn Pam Robin and Stumps by Doughty The Crimson Aeroplane by Beck The Middy of the Blunder bore by Greig Sons of the Sea by Beck Moll Meredyth Madcap by May Baldwin A Hero of the Mutiny by Es cott Lynn A Band of Mirth by Mrs L T Meade Rosaly's New School by Elsie Oxenham Teddy and Lulu's Adventures by Baldwin
Recent Rambles by Charles Conrad Abbott travels in a tree top and other works. Clear Skies and Cloudy by Animal Ingenuity by Coupin id Sea. The Plant World by G F Scott Eliott. Mechanical Ingenuity by Archibald Williams. Asiatic Explorations by Archibald Williams. Choosing a Career by O S Marden. The Women of Shakespeare by Frank Harris.
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