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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1915
Page
5
A columnist urges people to ignore pastry bans and enjoy pies and cakes select. He advises long life through moderation focusing on sleep walking work and avoiding excesses. He promotes practical daily routines and balance for lasting health.
St Louis reports 96 year old Isaac Baer advocates a plain living plan to live long. He praises regular routines and marriage while attacking pastries and indulgence. Baer says work daily, walk plenty, sleep well, avoid worry, and drink a toddy each day. He predicts a saner generation and more pageants reflecting aging city.
English sociologist Mrs Havelock Ellis visiting Washington stood on a Raleigh Hotel table so guests could see her readings of popular short stories. Prominent clubwomen gathered as she toured the capital with Mrs Alexander Graham Bell and enjoyed meals with Mrs Ernest Roberts and Julia Marlowe. Mrs Robert M La Follette planned a reception for Ellis later that afternoon.
Milwaukee couple Hornell Hart nephew of Harvard professor Albert Bushnell Hart and Miss Ella Brockhausen, long associated with social settlement work, married in Milwaukee following a self penned ritual inspired by a Cambridge precedent.
Special to The Washington Post from Springfield mass on January 23 recalls Elsie Hensler later known as Countess Edla, a Springfield native who married King Ferdinand of Portugal and lived as a royal wife until his death. The note ties her marriage to Portugal entering the European war, highlighting her charity work and ideal life.
The George Washington University board announced the appointment of many faculty across the arts and sciences and medical schools. Names include Morse, Andrews, Wetmore, Pahl, Pope, Stewart in arts and sciences, and Hornaday, Langdon, Martht, Stout, Bricker, Carr, Cox, Lindsey, Starburg, Pagan, Reeves, Sloat, Snowden in medicine and physiology. Hospital staff also named, detailing specialists and instructors. The report then shifts to a lengthy, nonessential account about Countess Edla of Portugal, her marriage to King Ferdinand, life at Cintra, and later retirement, with reminiscences of Miss Hensler’s life and career.
Lawrence Morris, leader of the orchestra at the Chester estate of Robert Goelet in Orange County, fled an action to recover 5000 dollars in damages claiming a wheel came off a carriage en route to the railroad station causing a head injury. He alleges the incident occurred after New Year's at the Goelet residence.
The article describes a brain weighing system devised by Prof. Robert Yerkes at Harvard to measure intelligence across ages and groups. It notes averages between 70 and 86 percent, with 90 percent as exceptional, and outlines early test groups from easy picture judgments to memory of digit sequences.
A collection of quirky, dated lines including a rail safety remark about removing the last car, a signpost joke about Boston distances, a Beacon Street anecdote with a dapper gentleman and hat, a Jones family name puzzle, and a bicycle accident report noting fatal injury and uncertain prognosis.
An old article lists a series of intelligence and reasoning tests, from backward counting to verbal fluency, geometric questions, memory drawing, and word association. It mentions the Yerkes Point Scale as a tool for measuring mental ability in schools to identify pupils needing individual attention.
Special from The Washington Post reports Mrs. Robert B. Brownell known as Kady Brownell died at age seven, after a wartime honeymoon on the Bull Run field. She fought in the first Bull Run, was the only woman said to have enlisted in U.S. service, and remained in the Grand Army of the Republic. She and her veteran husband lived at the James Mansion and worked as caretakers for seventeen years. Memorial services were held for her at the Eighth Avenue chapel.
An old home remedy promotes darkening gray hair with sage tea and sulfur to restore a glossy youthful look. A ready-made tonic named Wyeths Saga and Sulphur Compound is offered at drug stores for about 60 cents a bottle, claimed to darken hair naturally after repeated applications.
Missy Kady Southwell married Robert Browne ll in Providence three days before the Civil War. She joined the First Rhode Island Battery of Volunteers and endured nearly three years of campaigns. Wounded, she dressed her own wound and rode 34 miles to a town near Washington before mustering out in 1864.
The twenty first annual meeting of the Teachers' Annuity and Aid Association heard treasurer Alexander T Stuart report last year paid annuities totaling 45630 93 to 25 former teachers in the District of Columbia at Franklin School yesterday. The financial secretary Miss Anne…
Beers reports nine thousand four hundred forty one dollars received for the annuity fund in the year. The organization shows assets totaling one hundred thousand seventy five dollars and thirty eight cents, with part in first mortgages. Dr B G Kimball reelected president. other officers named with Rebecca Stonebread first vice president and Nora Hoegelsberger second vice president. Death of Capt Stewart A Geoghegan at 68 in Baltimore with three sons and two daughters surviving.
Frederick the Great of Prussia, who began great work, finished by Bismarck, born January 24, 1712 and died August 17, 1786. He doubled his realm, raised Prussia to first rank, fought Silesia wars, and led an army of 200,000 with 76 million thalers in treasury. He befriended Voltaire, then clashed, and his reign saw seven years war, victories at Rossbach Leuthen and Zorndorf, uprisings of vast armies, and Poland’s partition before his death at Potsdam.
A persuasive ad praises Parisian Sage as a delicate fragrant tonic that nourishes hair roots, fights dandruff, and promotes long soft lustrous hair. It claims one application cleans dust and excess oil, improves fullness, and invites purchase at O'Donnell's Drug Store or any drug or toilet counter.
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