Assailed by teachers deny explanation of school plan
The High School Teachers Association of the Pratrnct condemned Commissioner Oliver P Newman’s proposal to change the school law as a hydra headed plan that fails to show how it gives direct citizen interest, keeps politics out, or applies business principles. They criticize lack of precedent from Washington and other cities, point out the three headed distribution of power, and warn about 2,200 employes being left under political control, calling the plan not single headed.
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Oliver P Newman
Federation of Citizens’ Associations
Washington
Bourt
Newman
arcAtLen
Board of Education
Mission Fath ers In Church In Georgetown
Thaisstun fathers of the Society of Keang opened a two weeks service at Foly Triaits Church in Georgetown. The Holy Name society members received communion yesterday morning and more services are planned in the city. Cardinal Gibbons will confer confirmation on the last Sunday of the month. Mrs Sallie Miller died suddenly at her home in Hillbrook Washington.
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Thaisstun Fathers of the Society of Keang
Foly Triaits Church
Georgetown
Holy Name Society
Holy Yrmus
Ogdock
Holy Name
Seneka
Joan Walsh
Francis Goering
Father WeGhveny
Cardinal Gibbons
Sallie M. Miller
Minnesota Avenue
Hillbrook
D. C
Social butterflies gossip cheers soldiers in trenches letters
A fragmentary social column letter from Phrynette addresses lonely front-line soldiers with flippant remarks and flirtatious asides. It playfully contrasts French Parisian fashion, religion, and patriotism, noting French feminine scrutiny, amour propre, and wartime gaiety amid the trenches.
Woman to Run for Vice President for First Time
Special to The Washington Post from St. Louis dated January 9 notes Kate Richards O’Hare, a leading Socialist figure in the West, will seek the Socialist vice presidential nomination. Her ballot access depends on a party referendum, with George R. Kirkpatrick favored for president. O’Hare edits the National Rip Saw and previously drew national attention for a speech interrupted by a garden hose incident.
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Washington Post
St. Louis
United States
Kate Richards O'Hare
West
Socialista
George R. Kirkpatrick
Baltimore Longshoremen Strike Threatens Port Activity
Four thousand Baltimore longshoremen plan a dawn strike over wages and gang sizes, seeking 8 cents an hour and 23 workers per gang. Pickets will block piers and docks. union leaders hold meetings to enforce work stoppage, with possible guidance from Samuel Gompers. About twenty foreign ships remain at the port amid potential clashes.
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International News Service
Baltimore
Lnduce
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Washington
Engagement of Hilzabeth M Southard to William L Stoddard
Mrs Harry Codding Southard announces the engagement of her daughter Hilzabeth Marie Southard Smith to William Leavitt Stoddard Harvard 07 of Washington DC. Stoddard is son of Prof John T Stoddard head of chemistry at Smith College. The match draws much interest with many colleges expected represented at the nuptials and the bride noted as a popular class member with congratulations from schoolmates.
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Washington Post
Boston
Harry Codding Southard
Hilzabeth Marie
Southard
Smith
William Leavitt Stoddard
Harvard
Washington
Becomes Spaniard's Bride in Taunton Pageant Tale
Evelyn Wilkes daughter of Mr and Mrs Samuel Wilkes married Joseph Ramdes Hibie, a South American representative for a Waterbury silver firm. The couple plan to travel to South America then Spain after news reached Taunton. In 1911 she performed as a Spanish dancer at The Taunton Pageant and joked about being a Spanish lady.
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Washington Post
Taunton
Mass
Evelyn
Samuel Wilkes
Joseph Radames Hibie
Waterbury
Conn
Richie
South America
Spain
Evelyn Wilkes
Public Decision On Presidential Term Deliberations
The draft letter, written during former New Jersey governor’s tenure, discusses a joint Senate House resolution on presidential term limits. The author notes no public interest evidence but addresses frankness between public servants and the people, pondering if the president should be free from certain legal constraints.
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Paltner
House
Senate
Americas Pact Awaits After Pan American Congress Close
Latin American delegates to the scientific Pan American Congress wrap up in New York and begin a tour of eastern cities. The U S executive committee orders immediate steps to implement scientific recommendations while political talks await the fifth conference of American states. Delegates from Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia Cuba Peru and more will visit Johns Hopkins Columbia Harvard Yale and the University of Pennsylvania with a New York finish planned.
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Santiago
Chile
Washington
Mexico
Rio de Janeiro
Buenos Airea
United States
pan-American Scientific Congress
Baltimore
Princeton
Philadelphia
Boston
New Haven
New York
Johns Hopkins
Columbia
Harvard
Yale
University of Pennsylvania
New
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Juan B. Ambrosatti
Carlos Octavio Bunge
Stubbs
Bunge
Raoul E. Fitts
Enrique Gil
Cristofal N Hicken
Jose Ingenieros
Eduardo Sarmiento Laspiur
Richardo Sarmiento Laspiur
Juan A. Martin
Ing. Aguatin Marceau
Ernesto Nelson
Ernesto Quesada
Tomas
Varala
Honn
Amos T Post
Bolivia
Alberto Gutierraz
Coytia
Elias Sagarnaga
Brazil
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Juaquin de Oliveiro Botsiho
Vital
Pedro de Siguiera Cam- Poa
Vicente Licinie Caradoso
Josa Rodrigues da Costa Doria
Feliciana Mendez de Moraes Filho
Rodrigo Octavio
Antonio Carlos Simoens de Silva
Daniel Armanet
Eduardo Carrasco
Ramon Salas Edwards
Datio E. Salas
Enrique Soro
Meises Vargas
Julio Philippi
Colombia
Rafael Alvarez Salaa
Matilda Ancizar
Carlos Marquéz Cuervo
Meliton Escobar Larrazabal
Franz Héderick
Julio Capina
Eduardo Rodriguez Pineros
Calixta Teorros
Miguel Triana
Wits
Diego Martinez
Maria Hanebergh
Francisco J
Marine Band Concert At Barracks This Afternoon
The United States Marine Band Orchestra conducts a program at the barracks this afternoon at 2:98. Led by William H. Santelmann, the concert features Marph Song of the Brave Bidgood Overture It Guarany and more including Carmen and Montezuma themes. The item also includes a political query about a second presidential term and public opinion guiding the decision.
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United States Marine Band Orchestra
Willian H. Santelmann
Tha Progroza
Marph
Bidgood
Gomex Habgnora
Vequere
Wells
Marino
Sigma
No Food for 25 Days in Senate Fasting Tale
J R B Adams, Senate Committee Clerk, ends twenty fifth day of fasting to cure indigestion. Ray Adams, clerk of the Senate committee on worn suffrage, claims no ill effects and says he has lost eight or nine pounds. He drinks hot water each morning and asserts he can be cured by fasting though he cannot continue indefinitely.
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J. RB. Adams
Senate
Ray Adams
Adams
Mr. Adams
Need of Defenses Highlighted at Belgian Fund Evening
At the Lasco Theater a distinguished gathering explored American unpreparedness and the need for fortified defense. Speakers led by Charles Page Bryan and Dr Nevil Monroe Hopkins urged remaking fortifications and cited two to one military advantages in past conflicts to stress urgency for preparedness and stronger land and sea defenses.
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Belgium
Belasco Theater
Charles Page Bryan
Japan
Nevil Monroe Hopkins
Hopkins
George Barton
University of Ghent
Sarton
United States
Frederic R. Court
Washington Weeps Over Its Faith Says Minister
Pastor W R Wedderspoon of Foundry Methodist attacks Washington’s indifference to churches and worship claiming the city’s transient population breeds mammonism and intemperance. He urges living like Jerusalem’s example, praises Billy Sunday, and insists Jesus weeps over Washington’s grandeur and religion.
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Billy Sunday
Jesus Christ
Washington
W. R. Wedderspoon
Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church
Tte
Billy
Slays Self and Five Children in Chicago Tragedy
Chicago reporting Mrs Christina Mayes wife of a teamster killed herself and her five children ages 2 to 7 by gas. She left a fragment about misery and lack of money. Maves, absent, testified he gave most wages to his wife and did not abuse her, suggesting grief over her mother’s death may have affected her mind.
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Chicago
Christina Mayes
Maves
Washington ladies host grand musicale at Raleigh Hotel
Marquis and Marchioness of Aber deen and Temar attend as guests alongside delegates to the National Council of Women for a Washington event. Nearly 1,500 invitations issued. A talk on The Part of the Woman In Home Life by the marchioness will precede speeches by Senator Porter J Meecumber, Representative S D Fees, and Mrs Kate Waller Barret, among others. Twenty of Washingtons beauty squad will carry flags. Music and orchestra selections accompany the program.
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Aberdeen
Temar
National Council of Women
Washington
Womans Benefit Association of the Maccabees
Raleigh Hotel
Marchioness
Porter J Meecumber
North Dakota
S D Fees
Ohio
Kate Waller Barret
Eva L . Merett
New York
Atha B Locke
Michigan
Mabel T. la Rue
Woman's Benefit Association of the Maccabees
Mabel T la Rue
Lulu S Hammond
Mary A van Ness
Stella Fowner
May K Bosworth
Virginia Metcalf
Ila Weeks
Dorothy Jost
Htta Degenhardt
Bane Batch
Hattie E. Palmer
Lilllie Patrick
Jane Cochran
R McIntosh
Phoebe Perry
Pattie P Gregory
Kate Shannon
Mary Killeen
Katherine Cartner
Mary Dunn
Mary C Adamson
Estelle Huntington
Edith van Ness
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