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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1913
Page
2
An old advertise claim touts Stuart's Calcium Wafers as a blood cleanser that clears pimples blotches warts and blackheads. It asserts rapid visible skin improvement within days and promotes easy home purchase from druggists for 30 cents per package. The copy emphasizes health benefits and lack of harmful drugs.
Washington graft investigation expands with confessions from police officials. District Attorney Whitman names a likely mastermind behind protection money schemes, but refuses to disclose the state’s key informer. Captains Cray Corcoran Maude and Martens deny Purcell charges while Purcell’s fuller story awaits grand jury testimony and further indictments.
Special to The Washington Post from Kansas City Feb 8, German scientist Dr. Friedmann, who says he has a cure for tuberculosis, has left Germany and will reach New York aboard the Kronprinzessin Cecilie. Millionaire C. R. Finlay offered $1,000,000 for proof, and plans to test the serum on 100 gravely ill patients at the Polytechnic Sanitarium in New York. Government documents are being prepared to share available data with the public.
District commissioners report to Senator Gallinger object to a bill to buy about 53 acres in Brightwood for park use. They note the land between Peabody and Underwood streets near Georgia Avenue is not in the McMillan plan and would cost about 427689 dollars. They urge adverse action, saying their estimates cover required park purchases and there is no reason for selecting this tract.
The article discusses right hand steering with center gear shaft competing with left hand steer and center control. It notes this layout rises in 1913 while left hand steer with center control grows sharply since 1912, driven by buyer preference. It emphasizes that the buying public dictates changes in motor car construction.
Secretary Meyer ordered Col F L Denny to return to Washington from San Francisco and resume the quartermaster duties at marine headquarters. Denny had been unable to pass the naval physical exercise due to heart trouble and was ordered before a retiring board upon arrival.
The torpedo boat destroyer Parker was launched at Cramp shipyard in Philadelphia with 150 guests present. Mrs Henry W. Hand christened the vessel, which measures 305 feet in length and slid into the Delaware River.
British forces report waves sweeping a dreadnought and breaking a ship's floating target, damaging other vessels in a naval action described by a Washington Post special cable from Portland, England dated February 8.
Port Deposit Maryland February reports George Todd a stableman inherits 200000 from his grandfather who moved West years ago. Todd was summoned to Wilmington Delaware and told of the fortune. He plans to repay friends’ kindness and follow advice of business advisers.
Dr Burt G Wilder of Cornell University spoke to the Biological Society of Washington at the Cosmos Club last night for 42 years of university service. His talk titled The Value of the Brain In the Classification of Vertebrates featured charts and two specimens of pentan chus profundicons, a shark recently discovered in the East Indies.
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