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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1915
Page
9
New York inquiry finds figures from a church forum overstate joblessness. Estimates claimed 526000 unemployed citywide a figure widely dismissed as exaggerated by officials including Judge Filbert Wolfe Gary and Strobel.
A schedule of talks and discussions at the Public Library outlines a series of meetings addressing city poverty and relief. Speakers include Walter S Wt Hsoma, Miss Janet, Mrs Harre Hunter Sel ver, and other community figures from neighborhood groups and political circles. Topics cover peace, war, Holidays Offers for home relief, and Capitol Hill history.
The governor’s spouse announces a restriction on tango dancing during official gatherings. She argues social dances are unnecessary for governance and calls for more formal, restrained activities at government functions amid tensions with Washington Post reporting.
Garret P. Serviss notes Sunshine Baths in snappy ozone and alpine snows for pampered European and American aristocrats. The practice sends lightly clothed youths to snowfields near Leyden, Switzerland, for exercise and cold air to strengthen frail constitutions. Proponents claim rapid skin adaptation and sunbeam exposure aid health, while critics view it as back-to-nature nostalgia with uncertain science.
Miss Janet Richards and Mme Rosika Schwimmer spoke at the Washington Alliance of Jewish Women meeting at Eighth Street Temple. Richards outlined feminist gains in wealth distribution and labor laws. Schwimmer described Allied War conditions in Gallipoli. Mrs Charles Richardson spoke for the D A R. A Red Cross letter announced a nurse lecture course for volunteer Washington women.
In Merion suburbs detectives uncovered midnight railway station parties where policemen and telephone girls dined on fare from fashionable homes. Maids served lavish suppers as cabaret shows unfolded nightly, with police snoozing on benches. Burglaries intensified as investigators exposed the scheme and led to dismissals.
Burnside Post No 8 and Burnside Womans Relief Corps No 4 install officers elected in December. Mustering officer George M Rowe assists with installations, plus Mrs Matilda Ro Sprague as installing officer for the Woman's Relief Corps. Officers include Commander Convis Parker and President Anna S Hamilton. Temple Musical Club rehearsals begin at Eighth Street Temple with 25 members under director Harry Wheat.
Alfred B. Urion of Armour & Co sails to London to press Britain over detention of meat cargoes. Pack ers claim Agriculture Department seal proves meat non contraband and demand faster inspections to prevent losses from delays, demurrage, and spoilage totaling around several million dollars. The mission has State Department approval and likely tacit British backing to ease Admiralty inspection practices.
Douglas Cochrane, a Detroit stenographer, collapsed emotionally after a court granted his divorce from Mrs Cochrane. He quit work under her demand for luxury living in a Grosse Point home, while his wife’s share of a $60,000 yearly income funded the split. She refused him support, and he sued for desertion.
A poverty stricken woman in Denver offered to sell her body for dissection to the University of Colorado, writing to the dean that she is healthy with a perfect physique and needs money for food. The university rejected the proposal.
Mrs Hessia Myers Robinson grandniece of the late Jay Gould and social figure in Denver eloped with Bert Beard of New York City. They sped to Dallas to marry soon. Robinson is 23 years old with a child from a previous marriage. Beard is 28. Robinsons mother Harriet Gould Myers did not know of the elopement. News came by telegram from the Pullman conductor of the Denver train into Dallas.
In Reading on January 13, Miss Frieda Flismann, a 25 year old Penn Street clerk, sued Charles Liebermann of Wilmington Delaware for $10,000 claiming breach of promise after he accepted marriage but said a new eugenic State law disqualifies him due to his physical disability. The romance allegedly began in Atlantic City in August 1913 with an agreement to wed.
The debate centers on whether general legislation can ride onto an appropriation bill and if a two thirds vote is required to suspend the rule. Senators Smoot Townsend Thomas O Gorman Lodge Sheppard Hardwick Owen and others weighed constitutional and parliamentary grounds. The vice president offered to submit the question to the Senate for a ruling on the two thirds vote.
Senator Root urges adherence to the Senate rule on general regulation in appropriations. He reads Thomas Jefferson's Manual to warn against arbitrary power and to stress orderly government. He invokes minority protection and warns that swing in party control will eventually test the rule again.
A 19th century West Virginia dispute questions enforcement of temperance measures. The court examines if a consignor or advertiser can act without unlawful advertising while state authorities challenge illicit distribution. A Woods of the cited case appears in the report, with the Prohibition Commissioner weighing the Jay decision and its impact on local commerce.
Fragmentary notes discuss women health needs, regulation, and therapy. Mentions laxatives and herbal blends, with unclear references to a location and a sample address at 402 Wasrmata St Mert cello.
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