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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1917
Page
10
John Jay Ison appeals Washington residents to support social service funds for Camp Pleasant and the Baby Hospital Camp in Rock Creek Park. Camps operate to aid nearly 100 mothers, children, and sick babies, with season length tied to response.
Citizens urged to donate to Mr Edison or treasurer Andrew Parker to prevent camp closures before summer. Requests specify contributions help sustain camps and are directed to 023 H Street Northwest.
Moving pictures from European battlefields to be shown on the monument grounds by the district coastal artillery as part of artillery week. Recruiting continues brisk at the office street with roster additions including Alfred Marks and Charles E. Rouse Jr.
Readable fragments show John A. Hughes at 1432 Biltmore Street and Haywood C. McMullen at 1111 Fairmont Street. No further context or actions are provided in the text.
Treasury Department plans a new annex at Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place. The 91 story marble and granite structure would have no colonnades to save cost and preserve light and work space. Architect Caen Gilbert, formerly with the Fine Arts Commission, is drawing sketches.
President and Mrs. Wilson attended a suburban club poll yesterday then rode by motor. Treasury Secretary heads to visit family at Jue Ridee Summit. Washington hosts many diplomats with dinners at Powhatan and Mount Alto Inn. engagements and weddings, notably Miss Dorothy Shuey to Christopher Smith of Norway, are announced.
Miss Elise Hasbrouck of Kingston will be the sole attendant at the wedding of Elizabeth Harding daughter of Governor W P G Harding to Frederick Henry Prince Jr at St John s Church on Saturday. Best man is Sidney W Fish. ushers include Charles Morgan Ambrose Clark Skiddy von Stade Lawrence Rumsey Tweed and Cowdin. Prince has leased Beverly Farms for the summer. Anna T Croughwell leaves for New York after visiting Washington. A B Ruddock and wife return to spend the summer in Washington at the Edgemoor home.
Miss Lillian M Poore will wed Mr Thomas S Sawyer of the medical department U S Army today at 2 46 p m in Brightwood Catholic Church Georgia avenue Father Frank Bischoff officiating Best man Henry S Wissel Ushers Messrs John Masters Cyrus G Wood Max Hiesenberg and others noted in the fragmented report
Mrs Longworth returns from New York visiting Sagamore Hill and meets relatives including Mrs Roosevelt Jr. in Europe for war relief work. Dinner at Army and Navy Club hosted Col Goodwin. Belmonts arrive in Newport while Minottos stay at Lafayette. Marriages and engagements include Josephine Leone Boland to Hobart Ramsdell at St Rose Clopper Md. Sloan engagement announced Cumberland to Halstead Caldwell later this fall.
Banks weigh women in clerical and bookkeeping jobs as young men enlist or are drafted. Presidents of major banks note limited initial roles for women, but several institutions report some women employed or in training, with plans to expand if work can be done.
Isaac K. and Margaret Lea Oakley petition District Supreme Court for permission to adopt Marjorie Lee O'Donnell 17, their half sister who has lived with them since age six. They wish to give her their name and make her their heir. Marjorie attends college in this city. Her father Martin O'Donnell died nine years ago. Her mother consents in writing.
John B. Ryan president of the Anaconda Copper Company has joined prominent industrial leaders to serve the Red Cross during the war without compensation. He is appointed director general of military relief in charge of all relief work for the fighting forces, succeeding Col. Jefferson R. Kean who is ordered to command 160 U S army ambulance sections in the war theater.
Miss Carol Averell Harriman, one of six Harriman children, married Richard Penn Smith Jr. at St John’s Church in Arden, New York. The private ceremony occurred within the Harriman estate park, officiated by Rev Dr J Holmes McGuinness. The bride wore a white Isatin gown with a long train and carried lilies of the valley. Attendant Miss Kitty Penn Smith wore Belgian blue chiffon and mauve orchids.
The program lists Leyers Fantasia Paul Jones Planquette Waltz Romany Keller Comical Fantasia I m Afraid to Come Home in the Dark Lampe Selection Sweethearts Herbert Military March The Watchword Montgo The Star Spangled Banner.
The Federal Trade Commission issued a formal complaint against Curtis Publishing for unfair practices that hinder competition by refusing to sell to dealers carrying rivals. Curtis officers must appear August 23 to show cause why they should not be ordered to cease the contested actions. Pictorial Review Company alleges Curtis used Saturday Evening Post Ladies Home Journal and Country Gentleman to hamper Pictorial Review sales. A related New York suit seeking an injunction was recently dismissed.
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