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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1911
Page
4
In New York, a safety lecture by F. W. Marshall featured gasoline, kerosene, smokeless powder, matches, and a candle to show how air content governs explosion risk. He demonstrated flames from gasoline vapor 50 yards away and cautioned against careless handling near flames.
Special to The Washington Fast New York Janes a dispatch to the New York Herald. Mrs Desmond Humphreys spent two months in Washington New York, and Boston readers will be shocked by her book America through English Eyes. She portrays America as a land of licensed rudeness, with heavy taxation, despotic rule, and a system of blackmaled mistreatment.
President Roosevelt plans a March traveling itinerary starting March 8 with stops in Atlanta Birmingham Jackson Mississippi New Orleans San Antonio Albuquerque Azopa Phoenix Los Angeles Throop Pasadena San Francisco Portland Spokane Seattle Sand Point Idaho and a Montana town. He will address business groups colleges and civic clubs and visit the Roosevelt Dam and Grand Canyon during the trip.
A Brooklyn wife sues a Philadelphia insurance man for 25000 alleging he caused the end of her marriage by alienating her husband George Roe from his wife Mary Roe. The suit cites two letters from Mamie E Taylor to Roe, including a May 17 message praising their love and calling herself “The Woman Who Understands.”
Dr. John Henry Jowett, pastor of Carr's Lane Congregational Church in Birmingham, has accepted a call to lead New York City's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, succeeding Dr. John Hall. He denies salary-influence claims and notes he would accept equivalent salary. Jowett, born 1864 in Yorkshire, is president of the Free Church Council of England and a leading nonconformist preacher.
Washington patch reports House members planned a surprise for Chaplain Couden on his twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. The gift fund quickly grew as pages and messenger boys collected about 200 dollars. Sergeant-at-Arms Casson forwarded the money to the Treasury to be exchanged for silver dollars, forming a pyramid display at the party. Couden remains unaware of the plan.
Wholesale prices for fresh fruits vegetables eggs butter cheese poultry and related items across Virginia Tennessee Florida and California. Entries cover potatoes cabbage cucumbers onions peppers tomatoes beans apples oranges and meats with varied unit prices and batch sizes.
Veal calves steady in the Washington market. Hogs rated at 8.5 percent per ewt gross. Sheep priced at 33 cents per pound and lambs for spring at 6 cents per pound. Young calves and midseason stock noted with prices around 44 cents and 1925 era figures.
Reports from Peerless and Chalmers dealers, and a move by The Terminal Taxicab Co into a new building, are linked to October property sales in Sumter County driven by better roads and rising auto travel. Emerson & Orme unload roadsters as James Wynn arrives in Washington. Continental tire chief FF Phillips tours Europe, praising Revere wireless solid tires and ridiculing foreign side-wire tires.
Paris January 24 The Geographical Society has not officially honored Capt Robert Peary due to a rule requiring proof before recognition. Baron Hulot secretary says most members believe Peary reached the North Pole and would welcome proof if Peary provides it.
In honor of the centenary of the American legation in Copenhagen, King Frederick dined at the legation with diplomatic representatives court dignitaries and prominent members of the American colony. The king praised closer Denmark United States relations in a congratulatory speech.
Douglas Fairbanks stars as a cub reporter in The Cub at Belasco next week a satirical Kentucky feud comedy. The Commuters, James Forbes four act comedy, comes from New York to the National. George Evans leads Honey Boy Minstrels at Columbia with Corbett as interlocutor and Chase presents The Careless Sophomore with Yale’s Harry Tighe. Academy hosts As the Sum Went Down. Casino vaudeville marks first anniversary with Primrose and dancers. Gayety presents The Green Sod Club with over 50 entertainers. Lyceum hosts Follies of the Day with new jingle heavy score. New York Symphony opens at National with Damrosch and Wagernian numbers.
The program by F Eugene Farnsworth at the Columbia includes moving pictures of life across the Panama Canal with a $1,000,000 gold pay car, scenes from native quarters and a cattle ranch, plus arias sung by Miss Edna Shaw Mrs Bow man Flint and Miss Hulda Laehanska. Arthur Smith directs the show with performances Friday at 4:30 and Sunday at 8:30.
An ammonia tank exploded at Locust Laundry in Philadelphia injuring 16 to 20 girls and injuring or panicking about 250 workers. The dead were Annie Hall and Lizzie McGuigan. there was no fire after the blast. Firefighters evacuated fainted workers to hospitals.
New York Jan 25 J P Morgan sailed today on the Celtic after delaying his Europe voyage to await resolution of Robin bank complications. He said little about his plans but would go to Egypt as soon as possible after reaching England.
Money to loan on real estate in the District of Columbia at low rates. Various firms offer first and second trust loans with loans from 100 and up, flexible payments, no delays, and open hours late in the day. Firms listed include The F H Smith Company at 148 N Ave, National Loan and Investment Co at 108 Fifteenth St NW Thompson Bldg, Ty ler & Runnenroxh at 720 Fifteenth St, and Walter H Acker at 1420 Street NW.
Rail schedules show trains from Cave Union Station to Philadelphia New York and Baltimore with Royal and Royal Special services including sleepers and diners. Local trains operate daily and Sundays. telephones listed for ticket offices and connections via Union Station and Norfolk Virginia routes with through sleepers to destinations like Bristol Chattanooga Nashville Memphis and more.
Florida Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Air Line Railway announce daily departures and connections with through sleeping cars and dining service. Services include the Coset Line Mail to Jacksonville, West Indian Limited to Charleston and Savannah, Florida Limited to Palm Beach and Miami, Palmette Limited to Charleston and Savannah, Seaboard Florida Limited to Jacksonville and Palm Beach, and Seaboard Express to Atlanta, Birmingham, and Memphis with parlor and dining cars. Ticket offices listed in New York Avenue and at key depots.
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