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Washington Post

Location

Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America

Date

Feb 18, 1912

Page

9

Smithsonian Expedition in Borneo to Gather Vertebrates

H. C. Raven will lead a Smithsonian field project into eastern Dutch Borneo to collect vertebrates and ethnological materials for the National Museum. The voyage aims to secure orangs, deer, wild pigs, squirrels, rhinoceroses, and tapirs, traveling by houseboat via Singapore and Samarinda to Mabokamar Koil River, lasting most of a year.

Raven Smithsonian H.C. Raven Borneo United States National Museum Dutch Borneo United States National Museum Barneo Singapore Batavia Java Samarinda Mabokamar Koil

Classic Drama Weekends at Belasco Ends in Triumph

Sothern and Marlowe close a noted Shakespeare run at Belasco with Macbeth and As You Like It. Receipts near $20,000 for the week. Marlowe’s Rosalind praised. Sothern as Jaques and Lamison as Celia also lauded. Epilogue omission noted as missed finale. Also, officials announce appointments at city homes for the aged and infirm and the industrial home school.

Sothern-Marlowe Belasco Henry Trving Ellen Terry E. I. Sothern Julia Marlowe Miss Marlowe Sothorn Jaques Norah Lamison Industrial Home School Home For George 5. Wilson Board of Charities Rose Holzer Bertha Thorpe Early Hansborough Derryman Josephine Smith

The National Press Club Hidden Behind a Dingy Entrance

Thousands pass a dingy doorway on Fifteenth Street to reach the National Press Club hidden behind signs of bootblacks and parlor chatter. The club has hosted dignitaries such as Taft Roosevelt Togo Wilson Bryan and Bernhardt, with notable guests visiting during Hobby Night Count Bernstorff Knox Burns and a cello performance adding to the bohemian atmosphere.

Fifteauth Street Kentucky National Press Club America Elpbhoure Harris-Bying Ing Taft Roosevelt Togo Shackleton Gov Wilson New Jersey Gannon William Jennings Bryan Peary Dr. Cook Thal Harmon Uhatop Clark Takahira Japan Count Bernstorff State Knox Bootblack Detective Burns McNemara Asault Jatrams Victor Herbert

Films to Aid Pastor Rev Zed Wetzel Copp at Sunshine City Temple

The Sunshine City Temple under Rev Zed Wetzel Copp resumes moving picture preaching begun last year with a Doxology service. Plans outline a central downtown church with separate homes for working boys and girls, eight rooms, and under wartime development. The sermon today at 1 will show a colored film on the tenth plague, followed by a drama about child welfare work by the National Civic Federation.

Zed Wetzel Copp Sunshine City Temple Copp City Civic Center Hla Egypt Child Welfare Department National Civic Federator

Insurance Men to Host Ministers Banquet and Reception

The Home Office Agents' Club of the National Benefit Association in Washington will host a reception and banquet for about 260 resident and visiting ministers and business people and their wives at Metropolitan AME Church. Judge R H Terrell to preside. pamphlets on property offered for nonpayment of taxes sent to District tax collector Charles C Rogers. distribution starts tomorrow with 118 pieces of property. Sales begin March 12 and run one week.

Home Office Agents’ Club National Benefit Association Washington Alm. E. Church Matrest Fifteenth and Sixteenth Streets R. H. Terrell Charles C. Rogers

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