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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1919
Page
16
Silk lined tuxedo coat with silk lapels sized 33 4 offered for 15 dollars. Medium weight blue heather overcoat with patch pockets and shoulder pleats in size 38 priced at 18 dollars. First Floor Goor, Tenth Street.
Friday reductions list end of discontinued lines and clothing items with marked-down prices. Items include Mens Fine Linen Handkerchiefs 25c reduced to 0c per pair, Mens Fine Seamless Wool Socks 75c per pair, Mens Extra Fine Silk and Wool Drawers $3.75 per pair, and Mens Pajamas $2.28 per suit across sizes small to large.
Alma Gluck soprano presented a varied program with harpist Br Stephano in a performance praised for beauty and polish. Russian songs plus English numbers showcased her smooth legato and rich middle tones, with encores including classics like The White Lily Grow Old and Car ry Me Back to Ole Virginny.
Arrangements for a Monday Senate vote on the federal woman suffrage amendment were set yesterday between managers and opponents. Both sides agreed the advocates were one vote short of the two thirds needed. Friends of the measure believed they would gain the necessary vote and perhaps one or two more. Yesterday included plans to pair absent senators.
The price fixing committee of the War Industries Board will cease to exist on March 1. The conclusion came via the Official Bulletin of the Committee on Public Information. The panel extended only for certain commodities whose price ceilings do not expire until March 1.
Burlington Vermont February 6 1919 Christian Donhauser the German aviator who shot down Lieut Quentin Roosevelt over German lines was killed on January 13 according to Ben Braker a veteran pilot in Germany who witnessed the death Braker says Donhauser’s plane became uncontrollable and plunged to the ground confirming the demise of the World War II era note is from the era’s reporting style
The Vice President and Mrs. Marshall hosted guests at dinner with 39 covers, and the Nether lands minister and Mme Cremer entertained a small group of 17. Generals Goodloe Edgar and military figures hosted events in honor of the Postmaster General and Mrs. Burleson, with 12 covers. Numerous society figures and diplomats attended luncheons, dinners, and meetings at the Shoreham and Willard, while plans for a Trinity parish hall recreation house and a Noel House benefit ball were announced. Several engagements, arrivals, travels, and marriages were noted, including the Coblentz and Stone wedding in Baltimore and Ida Havenner's marriage to George W. Poole in Washington.
General Pershing dismissed reports of congested mail at French rail heads. He said no delay or accumulation of mail for the United States and that 1,210 sacks of misaddressed mail in France are being redirected. Only 726 sacks of dead letters were sent home in January.
Special to The Washington Poet reports Miss Gladys and Misa Dorothea Cromwell of New York, twins who leaped to their deaths, were deemed mentally distressed after exposure to battlefront horrors. Dr Caroline M. Purnell, who tended them aboard, said they had slept poorly, could not speak rationally, and endured numerous air raids from Chalona to Verdun while aiding the war effort.
A mass meeting of women in the printing and publishing trades in Washington named representatives to sit on a conference to study wages of women and children under the minimum wage law. Representatives will be chosen February 18, with three employers three employees and three from the public.
Funeral services were held for Mrs. Marjorie Corcoran McCormack at her mother's home in Washington, then at St Pauls Church followed by burial in Bonnie Brae Cemetery. She was wife of Dr. Frank C. McCormack of Englewood New Jersey and long linked with St Patrick's Church and its Dramatic Club. Former St Patrick's Dramatic Club members served as pallbearers.
In Boston a dame consults a Wise Man on becoming a perfect wife. He lists many lifelong arts from psychology to interior decoration, nursing, and spirituality, then reveals the primary rule to marriage: catch your husband first, as one husband beats college.
A lighthearted column recalls Jim taking Saturdays off, enjoying golf and long lunches but returning hungry. The narrator describes cooking a large leftover loaf using malt pork, Brand’s Al Sauce, bread crumbs, and onions, praising its cost effectiveness and flavor.
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