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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1915
Page
10
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A social column recalls a formal dinner hosted by the Persian chargé d affaires and Mme Ali Kuli Khan for the former Minister to Peru and Mrs Charles W Russell. Guests included Mina Lucy Russell Princess Mahin Banou and Mr and Mrs Albert H Putney amid other diplomatic and social figures. The piece notes other official entertainments and travel plans involving diplomats and prominent Washington figures.
Senora de Stuven arrives to join Capt. Luis A. Stuven naval attaché at the Chilean embassy in Washington. The residences of Carl Joerissen at 1619 Massachusetts avenue host Mr and Mrs Ely Elliot Palmer recently returned from Paris. Mme EF Lefevre arrives from Panama to winter with her son the Panama legation secretary and Miss Ramona Lefevre at the Portland. Former Representative James McKinney of Illinois has begun a Washington winter stay as the tea dance at the Washington Club promises sociable chatter.
Rence DH Landas by blood linked to European houses is to be rector of a New York Episcopal parish. The Rt Rev Bishop Greer announced the appointment of the Rt Rev Bishop Prince de Landas Berghes et de Rache, an Old Catholic bishop whose orders are recognized by the Episcopal Church. The prince is among the few clergy whose orders are accepted across Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Eastern and Anglican groups. Also noted is Junior Teague’s annual New York carnival with many society girls and dances, and Evelyn Hall sailing to Bolivia to claim an emerald mine valued at $600,000, planning to work among miners. Several Columbia Co-Ed University classmates attend to see her off, including seven suitors aboard.
Mrs. C. M. Stevenson of the Smithsonian reports that the Tewa Indians of the Southwest still practice human sacrifices as part of religious rites. She describes a ritual to propitiate rattlesnakes, performed in the kiva with secrecy and involving a young infant or an adult woman, followed by the flesh being disposed of and a skeletal remains buried beneath the floor. Also noted is a weekly market price for beef in Washington, D C with average domestic beef at 11.03 cents per pound.
New York Jan 17 1914 prominent writer Inez Haynes Gillmore advocates for the labor movement praising IWW and AFL Lively portrait of her views on unemployment and solidarity Her forthcoming appearance at Lenox Casino Jan 19 will recount the Marysville hop strike of Aug 8 1913 in California where four men were killed and two life terms handed to innocent prisoners The piece highlights the harsh Durst ranch conditions and the single heroic act of a Porto Rican defender amid the violence
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