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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1919
Page
8
Pimples boils and blemishes stem from toxins in the body. A noted authority advises washing toxins from bowels by taking four ounces of rad Salts dissolved in hot water each morning before breakfast for one week. Jad Salts, made from grape and lemon acids with lithia, purports to cleanse blood, stimulate kidneys, and clear skin.
The late Dorsey A. Oland’s 177 acre farm between Goshen and Laytonsville in this county sold at public auction today for 313,300 to Lenox Howes of Laytonsville.
In memory of a husband and father who passed two years ago on February 19. The wife and children express their grief and love, noting you are not forgotten and that the old apist ground holds their memories. A brief, solemn remembrance from the family.
A collection of obituary items listing names such as Pam F. Rrandstedt and Prank Asdury, with funeral and interment details. Entries note residences on Fleet street and Old H Street, private interments at Congressional Cemetery, St. Patrick's Church services, and Confederate Arlington Cemetery rites. Also references to John Anthony Stephenson and Thomas Jackson Waters with service times and locations.
Grain and livestock prices from Baltimore and Chicago dated Feb 18 show oats wheat corn and rye values across regional markets. Live stock quotes include hogs cattle veal calves and sheep with bid ranges and price differentials by grade and weight.
Special to The Washington Post details Commissioner Pergler of the Czecho Slovak republic visiting Petersburg and Richmond with Maj Sipek Col Leroy Hodges and a Richmond Czecho Slovak delegation. They spoke at the Bohemian National Hall and in Richmond an honor event was planned. Also covered are Virginia obituaries and local notices including a Richmond funeral for Bishop Robert A Gibson, and marriages and deaths in Harrisonburg Fredericksburg Danville and Harrisonburg sections.
Potomac division plans to award badges of distinction to workers who served during the world war. A committee will be at the local Red Cross rooms at 16 to 12 in the morning and 2 to 4 in the afternoon today tomorrow and Thursday to receive statements from volunteers.
Citizens with 200 hours of Red Cross work in six months qualify for service certificates. White bars on ribbons indicate longer service. The Episcopal Theological Seminary of Virginia will be represented at Bishop Gibson’s funeral in Richmond by Rev Dr Berryman Green and Prof Ball, with Rev Dr P P Phillips also attending. Memorial services will follow at the seminary chapel. Legal officials from the corporation court and city offices travel to Norfolk for testimony in court. Archdeacon Greig of Worcester, England, will speak at the seminary chapel at 4 PM.
DoJ agents boarded the steamship Kershaw of Merchants and Miners here and seized whiskey valued at $5,000 intended for Virginia in violation of federal law. The liquor was packed in pint bottles and hidden in suitcases, bags, lockers, and bunks in crew quarters.
Miss Lelia Leuthan daughter of Mr and Mrs James C Lowathan died suddenly in Washington from acute indigestion while at work. She is survived by both parents three sisters and a brother.
Fire from an overheated flue destroyed ten government harbor and floating equipment board structures at Lambert’s Point Norfolk. Buildings unused and soon to be turned over to contractors, all were loss. Estimated damage stands at 140000. Flames rapid and total in about an hour. Special to The Washington Post. Rockville Md thieves active in Montgomery County with four attempted burglaries reported. Pages note safe at Oscar L Johnson lumber yard broken into but funds removed. Stores at Boyds and Barnesville also entered with little value taken. Cumberland Md Robert Blackburn convicted of manslaughter for stabbing Joseph Daulbaugh, a former Elk Garden resident, and sentenced to ten years in prison.
The Maryland and District of Columbia Laundry Owners Association will hold a three day convention at Wardman Park Hotel starting tomorrow. The annual banquet is set for tomorrow evening at 7 30. Speakers include Representatives Linthicum Cannon the Rev James Shera Montgomery William Knowles Cooper and Mrs Kate Waller Barrett. Secretary Redfield is invited to address the convention.
Fireman James C. Moody saved the Baltimore and Ohio train when passenger engineer George W. Orem leaned too far from the cab and was knocked senseless near Lansdowne station. Train, traveling about 50 mph, halted after conductor Joseph Lowe signaled. Moody moved Orem to safety and stopped the train.
New Orleans February 18 resolutions from a conference of growers bankers merchants and farmers call for cutting the 1919 cotton acreage by one third and holding the present crop for higher prices. They form state acreage reduction associations to secure written pledges to carry out the program and pledge not to sell the present crop for nonremunerative prices.
Special to The Washington Post reports in Agrestown Md on February 18 that George W Wilkinson was injured perhaps fatally when an elevator carrying him Martin C Funk and William T Hammaker dropped 40 feet to the cellar. Wilkinson suffered leg and shoulder fractures while Funk and Hammaker were seriously bruised and lacerated.
Two volunteer firemen were killed by falling walls and a school boy was fatally burned when a music hall building burned in Keyser West Virginia. In Hagerstown John O. Smith aged 63, a retired merchant and real estate broker, died today. his wife and four children survive.
Parkersburg West Virginia February 18 The Rev Harvey Cofer 72 the oldest Baptist minister in the Parkersburg association died last night after three weeks illness He was a native of Bedford county Virginia taught school in Nicholas and Roane counties and was once superintendent of schools in Roane He served as pastor at Elizabeth until illness struck He is survived by five children.
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