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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1914
Page
12
The article reports Dr Norris linking quick lunches to dyspepsia among U S government clerks. It notes Washington's many lunchrooms allow 20 minutes for meals, argues most clerks are moderate eaters, and warns rapid meals harm digestion especially for laborers. It also covers suffrage debate and lobbying activity in Congress.
Spokane millionaire and famed yachtsman F Lewis Clark has vanished in Santa Barbara after escorting his wife to a train. Police believe he killed himself by leaping from a pier. Clark, a Harvard alumnus and commodore of the Eastern Yacht Club, was last seen heading to the train with Mrs Clark. His hat was later found drifting offshore.
Violet Hartman known as the bride of the air died in a Kansas City sanatorium of pneumonia at 71. She wed Dr Milos Hatman in a 1912 balloon ceremony opening national elimination balloon races, leaving school to perform the nuptials. The couple sailed in the balloon, which landed 50 miles from town on a farm.
Girard’s municipal well, 750 feet deep, yields unfit water as heat damages hard rubber valves. Pumps were shut down after samples sent to the University of Kansas for analysis. Ten days earlier water began warming. now only shallow wells and cisterns remain viable until the cause is found.
Special Cable to The Washington Post from London dated January 21 reports Prince Albert and the Prince of Wales debated which brother was the better man during Albert’s Sandringham visit. They settled the question with a glove bout and Albert proved the better stayer though the heir apparent endured a warm sparring session at the wands.
A fire at the Samuel Bloise home in Alpemble Michigan last night killed five people including Mrs Bloise and three children along with a boarder Myr Bloise a 14 year old boy. The father escaped by leaping through a window with two younger children. An infant survived.
The War Department will hand over Jefferson Davis’s two pistols and accessories to Joseph A. Hayes of Colorado, through Davis’s eldest daughter, with Mrs. Davis’s shawl and relics to be returned upon request. Secretary Garrison, guided by an Attorney General opinion, ruled Davis never legally lost ownership and rights were restored by Johnson’s 1868 pardon proclamation.
The United States bureau of education launches a nationwide hunt led by Professor Alphonso Smith to recover surviving colonial era ballads. About 306 titles are distributed to teachers as plans begin to create state ballad collections. Notable entries include Robin Hood and The Wife of Usher's Well.
John Burke former North Dakota governor and a Wilson ally testified before the Senate committee on public lands against Otto R. Myer’s nomination as receiver of public money at Dickinson North Dakota. The committee ordered rejection of Myer’s nomination for violating state Prohibition laws.
Portland Maine January 23. Representative Asher C. Hinds former parliamentarian of Congress will not seek renomination in the Republican primary next June due to poor health. He will not enter the contest in the First district.
The Panama Canal now has three feet of water in the Culebra Cut and Cucaracha slide, enabling a large ocean steamer to pass. Col. George W. Goethals announces plans to send a Panama Railroad steamer through in April and abolish Atlantic and Pacific divisions as completion nears. H. C. Cole will resign February 1, and Lieut. Col. William L. Sibert loses his engineering post but keeps a canal commission seat. Electrical work and cleanup remain, with both ends essentially finished. New York reports the first of forty 45 ton electric locomotives, nicknamed mules, shipped to Colon to tow ships through the canal. 89 more engines follow shortly.
President Wilson won his battle to keep assistant postmasters in the classified civil service. Democratic leaders conceded that a proposed 2400 assistant postmasters relegation to spoils status would not be pushed. It is likely the Shackleford five million dollar good roads bill will not be fastened to the post office measure and may pass as a separate act.
New York reports J P Morgan will not sell the Morgan bequests from his father the late J Pierpont Morgan. He may part with duplicates and odds and ends but nothing is to be done now. The $60 million collection is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and will be shown in a new wing likely within a month.
Secretary Daniels praised the navy for expanding academic and technical instruction aboard ships. On the Florida 93 of 34 first enlistments asked for special study, Arkansas reported 499 seeking instruction, and Fargo on the Utah began a mechanical and marine engineering class with 50 students, growing quickly to two hundred others receiving academic courses.
Two 16 year old girls accuse Bolivian consul Carlos Sanjines of a felony charge. He is granted a week to assemble witnesses for his defense after being jailed on $2,000 bail. Sanjines claims police have no authority and threatens an international incident. A separate incident at a moving picture theater led to his arrest.
A Senate resolution, introduced by Senator Weeks of Massachusetts at Boston’s request, seeks constitutional amendment to place interstate insurance under federal oversight. The measure urges uniform reserves and capital, with old line companies possibly backing civil service pensions for clerks. Public hearings will invite Samuel Davis to testify.
Brooklyn merchant Charles Brust dies after attending his brother Ernest Brust’s funeral. He fell ill at the grave and, after returning to relatives in Baltimore, grew worse until his death early this morning. Brust, formerly of Baltimore and later from Brooklyn, leaves a son William Brust of Brooklyn.
A committee on privileges and elections report on Frank P. Glass of Birmingham, appointed by Gov. O Neal to succeed the late Senator Johnston, said it was erroneous to claim no special election was needed. The panel argued state machinery suffices for an election without new legislation or a special session.
The Navy Department will be an early exhibitor with space in Washington submitting the application today to Capt. Asher C. Baker. The naval display will feature ship models in the Palace of Transportation along with educational and hygienic data in the Palace of Education.
In his eighth annual report Chief Goods reports 1456 arrests in Alexandria in 1913 but notes crime is on the decrease. Property stolen valued at 5158 and recovered goods worth 3513. He cites lack of a telephone call system as a major handicap for the police department. A Washington bakery driver narrowly escaped death after a high speed head on collision near Arlington Junction. Annual inspection of Company G, First Virginia Volunteers, set for April 2. Reliance Steam Fire Engine Company officers elected for the year. Funeral services for John R Phillips to be held at Wheatley’s chapel. Fire at 121 Prince Street alarmed residents but structure sustained only minor damage.
A lengthy Washington diplomatic record outlines Japan’s protests and U S responses over California’s alien land ownership bill. It details repeated requests to block the measure, multiple diplomatic notes, and the prospect of a new treaty to resolve rights of Japanese and Americans amid tense negotiations and unsatisfactory replies.
Gov Glynn will oppose a federal expansion of war department powers over Niagara Falls water rights granted by a treaty with Great Britain. He plans to testify at the Washington hearing on January 3, urging state protest against the proposed measure.
Baltimore mother Mrs. Hooker urges lawmakers to curb immorality as she testifies before a House District subcommittee on the Kenyan “red light” bill and anti vice measures. Advocates warn Washington could become a dumping ground for cities enacting strict vice laws.
Rail operators clash over how long to shift from wooden to steel passenger cars with four years proposed by Rep Bisch. George A Post testifies replacement cost at 302 million with annual railroad outlays at 96 million if done in four years, 29 million in ten, while Pullman cites plant capacity limits delaying full replacement to 2 to 3 years.
Fire in Scranton caused by mine subsidence destroyed the Washburn Street Presbyterian Church and damaged three nearby dwellings. Engineers link the disturbance to the mine cave-in zone. Loss estimated at zero.
Duigi Arcez of Brooklyn, father of four priests, died after a ten day illness at age 55. Born in Artina Italy, he came to the United States at age five and lived in the same house where he died. Survived by his wife Raffaela, six sons and three daughters.
A Farmers' National Union delegation backed rural credits before the House banking committee. Speakers urged aid to land development amid a short corn crop and warned of looming scarcity. Representatives Kennett Hulings and others supported the measure while military and harbor projects drew committee attention.
President Wilson voiced support for the Alaska railroad bill as Senates consideration began, while Representative Ferris denounced the plan as a grab. Senator Lippitt read a Morgan Guggenheim denial letter to counter monopolistic charges, and Kenyon questioned stock donors to the Republican campaign. The House also featured attacks on the plan linking it to Northwest interests and bank fund contributions.
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