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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1916
Page
4
A notice invites applications for loans to merchants in Washington and to individuals backed by approved stocks or bonds. Merchants must provide financial statements or solid evidence of responsibility. Individuals must offer securities with ample margin above the loan. Monthly statements are sent to depositors detailing balances and all transactions.
Third Infantry militiamen at Fort Myer plan a 5 PM White Lot exhibition drill to boost recruitment and showcase camp life. Troop A cavalry vaudeville, Battery B field artillery, and two participating companies prepare for border deployment with parades and a public display.
More than one thousand children from city orphanages enjoyed a day at Glen Echo hosted by the Elks. Chartered cars carried youngsters from Eleventh and F streets NW to the park where free amusements, two luncheons, ice cream, cake, and toys were provided. Volunteers and a large committee oversaw transportation, lunch, and activities including balls, jacks, and baseball gear.
Local items report probation officer Amos A. Steele in court showing that nonsupport collections more than doubled from the prior year, and a Delta Tau Delta picnic in Great Falls organized by the Married Deltas. Health officials report infantile paralysis largely contained with several cases under observation, while lunchroom inspectors face possible prosecutions. Other notes cover a Washington Grove camp meeting, Camp Good Will activities, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad excursion to Harpers Ferry, and assorted local incidents including a piano for a party, a conference in New York, and a boating mishap near Lake St. Catherine.
An OCR fragment mentions Judd and Detweiler Inc and a shop at 44e2 Lith. The readable text is fragmented, with references to a beating and listed names unclear to interpret, providing limited facts about entities or events.
The District Supreme Court heard injunction bids by International Fidelity Insurance Company and others seeking to restrain payments to Benedetto on a $9,935 claim for unpaid materials on a Paytonce project in Orange New Jersey. It also covered probate wills directing legacies and estates, a $10,000 damages suit by Mamie Lee Brown against the Philadelphia Baltimore and Washington Railroad, and a government land title decree regarding parkway extension around Washington. Additional items include a divorce grant to William Mueller with child custody rights.
U S Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau forecast for District of Columbia Maryland and nearby areas July 21 shows partly cloudy and warm conditions into Friday and Saturday with locally thundering in one area and gentle to moderate winds. Highs around 100 degrees in the Ohio valley and Great Lakes region and temps near 92 in Grand Rapids. Local report notes midnight through evening readings and a total rainfall of 0.0 inches with 58 percent sunshine.
A trio of measures introduced in the House by Representatives Caraway Gardner and Huddleston proposes excluding colored men from army and navy enlistment calls for War Department facts on guardsmen past service and furloughs for guardsmen under arms who apply, all referred to committees without action.
A large crowd attended dances last night at C W O Connors studio on Connecticut Avenue for the benefit of dependant families of soldiers on the Mexican border. Miss Charlotte Hogan and Brooks Johns performed an exhibition dance as Japanese lanterns and American flags decorated the venue. The committee in charge included Mrs Allyn K Capron as president and chairman, Mrs W Robertson, Mrs KE W Barclay, Mrs John Doyle Carmody, and Miss Rose M Sefton.
Policeman from the Fifth precinct stopped a car on Pennsylvania avenue and Seventeenth street southeast yesterday morning. The operator fled, abandoning the vehicle. John W. Hlack of Gannonsburg, Pa. reported his car stolen from the Washington navy yard entrance on Eighth street southeast. The abandoned auto was later identified as Hlack’s stolen car by Officer Woodward.
Birth announcements listing multiple couples and newborns include Sopers and Thorgtag, Reynolds and Lavine, Athananopoutous and Zahara, Cannon, Yo Nyee, Koundounotts, Whitehorn, Verne, Dagnesux, Kline, Mattinas, Gambrell, Cheatnut, Dove, Naw, Epps. Names and genders noted for each newborn.
Vernon W. Shives of Beltimore Maryland and Ethel Lee Watson of this city plan marriage. Samuel W. Pinwell and Alice A. Collins, both of Richmond Virginia, also listed in the license notice.
A list of deaths in the city reports Sylvia C Hollaggt four months at 1218 th et nw and Ida B Berktey thirty years at 2 10th at se among many others. The mixed entries include ages from infancy to ninety five with names such as Laura V Glenn 1 year, George Washington Hoepstad, Elsie I Schaub 223 years, Benjamin W Haynes four years, Grace Graham 95 years and Benjamin Thomas thirty four years. Burial and hospital affiliations appear with Sibley and Providence Hospitals and others in the record.
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