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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1909
Page
37
The notice advertises women and children hose in black and fancy colors. Prices shown include 74 cents for plain stockings and 2 cents for some items. Mercerized gauze Lisle hose in black and color are promoted as sale items at low prices.
Report outlines plans presented to the president by manufacturers and a Catholic priests group. Athletes greet the executive and public praise privacy measures. Dr Doyle leads the Catholic party, while Passy and others discuss uniform laws, citizenship, and trade impacts amid a Chile-South America exposition plan.
The president greeted Olympic athletes led by Harry Porter and A. A Kern at the White House and praised their records. Father Doyle introduced two young Catholic priests, expressing Catholic gratitude for fair treatment under the Constitution.
A roster of judges, commissioners, senators, and representatives from multiple states attended a White House event. Named participants include Moody, Knapp, Lane, Rowe, Jay White Jr, Herbert Knox Smith, Frank Kellogg, James E West, Aldrich, Cummings, Long, Lodgs, Smoot, Stephenson, Newlands, Goldfogle, Sulzer, Acheson, Madden, McKinley, Clark, Hepburn, Watson, Ransdell, Dawson, Gardner, Hughes, Lovering, Reeder, Rothemel, Austin. Also listed are athletes Melvin Sheppard, Harry Portsr, A A Kerr, Mike Murphy, E R Bushnell, William Schlobohm.
The article describes President Roosevelt shifting patronage away from political appointments to Taft, with limited posts in the army navy and consular service. It notes a March departure from New York for Naples and Mombasa, with likely companions aboard ships Koenig Albert and Admiral. It mentions Buffalo Jones visiting the White House and hybridization talks, plus Frank Steinhart and E A Mosely meeting the President.
An advertisement touts Stuart's Calcium Wafers as blood builders to improve complexion. It claims rapid results for discolored skin and offers a free trial package by mail from the Stuart Co. located at 276 Stuart Building, Marshall, Michigan.
The Post Office Department installed two bronze stamp vending machines at Arlington and National Hotels with more in major hotels and Union Station. Supplied by United States Stamp Vending Co, the units require no government payment and profit via stamp sales. Ten of thirty new delivery wagons also enter service, improving mail deliveries to Georgetown Mount Pleasant and Fourth and East Capitol areas.
Richard Wayne Parker hosts a Rhode Island Avenue dinner where John J Jenkins receives a sterling silver punch bowl inscribed in gratitude for his leadership on the House Judiciary Committee. Henry D Clayton of Alabama presents the gift as the listing of committee members and designers Galt & Bro. are noted.
Chicago feb 20 adlai e stevenson former vice president is ill at his home in bloomington illinois according to reports renewed here today. the activities of the recent campaign which he lost to the republican rival for the governorship are said to have caused severe strain though at 74 his condition is not considered serious.
Nearly 100 real estate men from the Atlantic States met in New York to form the Eastern Farm Life Promotion Association in a campaign to show farmers there are growing opportunities in the East. E A Strout of New York was elected president with vice presidents from Maryland Virginia and North Carolina and W W Leister named secretary treasurer.
Secretary Straus and Director Stratton presided as the cornerstone for the new $200,000 Bureau of Standards building was laid after 4 PM. A bricklayers union member handed Straus a card, he joked about eight hours and eleven hours worked, then Straus praised the bureau’s growing role in science and national standards.
Special to The Washington Fest reports Hughes addressing the Young Republican Club of Brooklyn at the Academy of Music. He advocates direct nominations to curb bosses and cabals, while opposing direct U.S. Senate elections and candidate primaries. Timothy L Woodruff questions practicality, noting Roosevelt spoke on the topic. He backs district voting for state party officials with party regulation and public funding responsibilities.
Denver February 2. William J Bryan says he is not an out and out candidate but would not refuse if people demand another run. He notes four years is a short time and he has other important work to do. He emphasizes remaining true to his known principles and ideas.
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