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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1911
Page
10
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The Mexican ambassador Senor Don Alberto Crespo and his family, plus embassy staff, plan a few days' departure from Washington to Manchester, Massachusetts, for the summer. Many society figures and guests are noted, including Mrs Theodore Roosevelt aboard Col. Robert M Thompson's yacht Catania on a New England cruise.
Mrs Eldridge Jordan leaves Washington for Watch Hill Long Island to visit Mrs Robert Roosevelt on August 1 and later to Elkins West Virginia to see Mrs Arthur Lee. Mrs F C Walcott of Norfolk Conn will stay a month with Lieut 1 and Mrs Thurston Hughes at Fort H G Wright N Y. Mr Leech stays in Washington through the summer. Mrs Sackett wife of Paymaster F P Sackett of the Michigan is at Fishers Island. Miss Annie S Guthrie visits her niece Mrs Walcott at Norfolk Conn. Miss Helen Emory of New York has been a guest of Paymaster and
Miss Caroline Cannon, a Chicago girl, won a Calgary half mile race three years ago. The prize was 1,000 shares in a Columbia mining company worth $70,000, with potential rise to $100,000. Also notes Thunder the Pomeranian’s death and London society garden party antics.
The article argues infants and adults both overeat, noting wild animals’ resilience links to underfeeding. It advises feeding every two hours in the first month, then every three hours, with water or diluted sugar water between, and suggests an ounce per month up to eight months. It emphasizes gradual exercise and movement opportunities before walking.
Swift and Company reported weekly sales of fresh beef in Washington DC for the week ending Saturday July 15. The average price stood at 735 cents per hundredweight, reflecting market activity and supply conditions in the capital area.
Mrs Narcissa Chisholm Owen mother of US Senator Owen of Oklahoma and Maj W C Owen U S A S retired of Washington funeral services held at St Pauls Episcopal Church and Spring Hill Cemetery Rev Joseph B Dunn presided pallbearers named Frank Lee John C Dabney R Terry H C Harmer T N Davis and others honorary pallbearers included A W Terrell widow of William L Owen a longtime president of the Virginia Tennessee Railway was 79 and a Cherokee chief descendant she died Wednesday in Guthrie Oklahoma
Fire at Sant' Angelo Lodigiano Sforza castle in Milan partially burned the ancient complex. The tower built in 1391 and the armory survived while the archives containing important documents were destroyed. The blaze occurred on July 16.
John W. Gates, the American financier, showed a good night and a sight improvement noted this morning and throughout the day. Doctors report diminished kidney congestion and improved heart function, with a heart specialist to conduct a thorough examination tomorrow.
In heavy rain yesterday more than 500 men and boys bathed at the municipal bathing beach with 415 morning entries and over 1 000 afternoon suits issued. Total attendance for the day exceeded 1 600 as pools overflowed and guards watched over swimmers without incidents. The middle pool held beginners while the smaller pool drew youngsters and adults alike to aquatic play under busy supervision.
The Rev. Dr John Reid Shannon of the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church argues that armaments are unnecessary to arbitrate disputes. He cites Taft and the Anglo-American treaty toward universal peace as a new era, urging reliance on arbitration and denouncing militarism and taxation for war.
Liverpool cathedral dedicates a stained glass window to Dr Alice Marval marking her work in India and her mission hospital service in Cawnpore. Born 1865 she qualified at 36 and joined St Catherine's Hospital for native women. She died of plague in 1904 after months of tireless care, visiting 246 patients in the final month.
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