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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1917
Page
6
A Washington report from Trenton on February 20 details radical changes to New Jersey corporation law. The committee urges repealing six of the Wilson era acts, arguing they reduced revenue and failed to curb abuses, while noting reforms to allow nominal stock and streamlined mergers.
An archival obituary column lists several deaths with brief details from February 1917. Entries reference Addison, Bobbitt, Capehart, Fowler, Frisby, Green, Jarboe, Maphew, Jeffries, Schneider, Spaulman, Wheevey, Tyrer, and related kin. Interments and funeral arrangements occur in Richmond, Alexandria, Portsmouth, Newport News, and local ancestral plots, with service dates ranging Feb 19–Feb 23 and various addresses in the area.
New York report covers Eleanor Taylor a 21 year old Vassar alumna who enters an individual marriage with Benjamin Marsh war correspondent seventeen years her senior. They keep separate finances and identities. both work in New York and contribute to household costs while maintaining independent names and futures.
A state committee notes that consolidation of corporations law would favor New Jersey firms while easing county clerk duties. It proposes creating a commissioner of corporations to take over secretary of state's duties or designating the secretary as commissioner if the proposal fails. The report warns current policies risk shrinking state corporation business and tax income, which exceed four million dollars annually in filings and transfer taxes on nonresident decedents.
Mrs Radcliffe was reelected president of the Women s Foreign Missionary Society of the Washington presbytery at the annual West Street Presbyterian Church gathering. Officers elected include J N Mills first vice president and Mra J A Le Clerc second vice president, with several other women named as vice presidents and secretaries. Over 300 attendees heard reports showing the society s work flourishing.
Ethel Leginska dazzled Washington critics and audiences in a recital presented by Arthur Smith at the National Theater. The agasi sting artist impressed with a superb technique and magnetic personality, delivering Chopin, Beethoven, and MacDowell with elegance and power.
Senor Don Ricardo Guardia Diaz, representative of Costa Rica's de facto government, says he will not seek US recognition for the new regime now. He notes elections are set for April and May to convene a constituent assembly. He predicts the chosen president will be the legally constituted leader and US recognition will be requested then.
Cheers rang through Gonzaga Hall as St. Aloysius Church announced successful completion of a ten day drive to raise 100000 dollars for a new parochial and high school for girls at First and K streets northwest. Director Charles Jerome Sheffield started the total with a 1000 dollar pledge and others quickly followed. By midnight the final amount had been raised to cover the shortfall of 4350 dollars though cup prizes were not yet awarded due to a pending reading of team reports and the apostolic delegate John Bonzano's illness.
The House rescinded its prior discharge of conferees on the general dam bill due to a stalemate with the Senate. It reappointed conferees to retry agreement efforts. The bill, passed by both houses last session, has been deadlocked in conference. President Wilson has urged action on water power legislation this session, prompting renewed efforts.
Secretary Baker asked Congress for 23,371,000 in an emergency appropriation to fund new troop quarters in the Panama Canal zone and to cover costs of added garrison increments. He called the funding imperatively necessary and requested immediate availability.
Advertised as a fragrant antiseptic cream that penetrates nasal passages to soothe inflamed mucous membranes and relieve stuffiness from colds or catarrh. Claims rapid relief within a minute with a small bottle from your druggist.
The House votes today on a Senate amendment barring liquor shipments into prohibition states even for personal use and banning liquor ads in mails. Wet and dry advocates split as debate centers on enforceability and potential backlash against the prohibition movement. The panel’s action also touches on tube mail, travel allowances, and postal pay in a broader postal bill.
Brig. Gen. William Crozier, chief of ordnance, entered Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for a skin graft on burns suffered fifteen years ago during an operation in which X rays were used. The procedure tomorrow involves removing skin from his legs and thighs to cover the abdominal burns.
New York on February 26 reports the Duke of Aragona, an Italian nobleman aged 39, renounced Victor Emmanuel II and his title as he ceded his dukedom by taking out naturalization papers. He has been in the United States just over a year.
Representative Lindbergh told the House judiciary committee he has no direct evidence to back impeachment charges against the Federal Reserve Board he says he inferred from official acts He named Paul Warburg and others and urged summoning board minutes to prove a conspiracy Lindbergh cites a push for a new currency system and wealth transfer to Wall Street The committee adjourned with members skeptical of an investigation
Thirteen people were injured when the Spanish steamer Joaquin Mambra struck the ferryboat Scandinavian on the North River causing a large dent below the waterline. The two vessels drifted upstream with tugs aiding until help arrived and no deaths were expected.
Philander P. Claxton, director of the bureau of education, told the Raleigh meeting of the Congress of Mothers and the Parent-Teachers Association that 360000 children below school age die yearly due to lack of home care. He warned that neglect is underrecognized and urged trained matrons in schools and visiting teachers to boost home school cooperation. Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter announced a committee to study child welfare laws and push a mother pension bill at the next Congress session. A joint meeting of national bodies was announced for Raleigh in late April.
Nearly 80 delegates from the George Washington Mazonic National Memorial Association arrived in Alexandria for the seventh annual convention. James R. Johnson of Charleston, D. C., will preside at the opening session as Gen. Shryock is delayed. The program includes a welcome, business, a luncheon, and a visit to Mount Vernon, with a banquet tomorrow night at Alexandria Washington Lodge No. 22. Separately, a police dragnet nabbed eight men in a liquor sale raid, yielding six quarts of whisky and warranted bonds of $500 each. Lenten services begin across Catholic and Episcopal churches with a detailed Lent schedule meanwhile. Representative Eugene Black of Texas will speak at the Potters Hill school dedication in Fairfax. William Birrell resigns from the house due to federal service. Canton Alexandria Militant officers to be installed. Paul Hamilton, 13, to be tried in corporation court for alleged robbery involvement.
T C Rice-Wray of Detroit spoke to a large Washington audience in the Raleigh oak room on salesmanship. He presented a scientific approach to business and showed the practical use of common sense in modern sales practices.
Representative Franklin L. Ensworth of Minnesota spoke to the Washington Association of Credit Men at the Commercial Club about Henry VIII drafting bankruptcy laws to rid debts and finance affairs. Walter C Carnan of the Baltimore Credit Men's Association said nearly all men are honest at the meeting.
Muskogee Oklahoma February 20 Mrs William Davia and her two children Benjamin two months and Bessie five are dead and her brother John Miller may die from injuries after a gasoline tank exploded in the Davia store at Keeton near Muskogee. The youngest child burned in its cradle and the mother and the other child died at a local hospital tonight.
The Georgetown University observatory logged violent earth shocks yesterday from 2.34 to 3.15 pm with an estimated震 distance of 1900 to 4000 miles from Washington. In Chicago, Judge Landis was sued for 25000 dollars for slander after an in court dispute with attorney Carroll Gigliott. Albany saw the Brereton resolution pass without debate, calling for voter reconsideration of the woman suffrage amendment next fall by a 124 to 10 vote.
The British committee on commercial and industrial policy calls for imperial preference in future import duties to aid self sufficiency and production of empire goods. The report signed by Lord Balfour and others favors wider duties, remission for empire products, and commercial treaties with allies and neutrals, ahead of an imperial conference in London.
John W. McGrath of 543 East Seventy ninth Street Manhattan, once Theodore Roosevelt’s private secretary, was cleared in Brooklyn Special Sessions. The assault case, brought by Charles Lighte and wife of Brooklyn, ended in a private settlement. McGrath and accomplice William Powers had been found guilty previously, then granted a new trial on appeal.
A court accepted a compromise settlement in a civil action and dismissed the case today after the parties requested dismissal. The appearance on the noted date concluded the matter with the agreed resolution and no further action required.
Indianapolis Feb 20 the judiciary committee report backing passage of the Maston woman suffrage bill won approval in the lower house with one dissenting vote. The measure had already passed the senate, marking a key step for women's voting rights in Indiana.
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