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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1918
Page
26
Washington real estate shows robust activity as buyers, including many permanent residents, snap up homes and business properties. Brokers report rising demand for sites, with older structures being razed for modern offices and stores as August typically slow period gives way to a stronger market and expectations of further gains.
D E Barry real estate office lists transfers including Sarah Wheeler to G Brady for residence at 629 Lamont Street NW for 33650 and 2303 First Street NW at 6000 to Knickerbocker Realty for Mary O Connor at 24 New York Avenue rear yard to Paul Allen for remodel into a garage at 1003 Kenyon Street NW 2650. Isabella McKie to Gracie Cannatella at 746 Sixth Street NW for 3800. Irene Barry to Hose Figalle for 47 Defries Street at 1600. John Allen to Minnia Nicholaon for investment at 2317 Flat Street for 6000. Mohler to Paul Allen for home after remodeling at 189 Rhode Island Avenue 5000 with George W Sinsell. George W Vaughn to Sargent Cross at 726 Harvard Street NW for 3000. Knickerbocker Realty to Standhope Booker at 1425 E Street NE for a 2 story flat 2560. Laura A Ladd to Irene A Brady for investment at 1007 New Hampshire Avenue for 8250. Helen G Doherty to Jean Daughtery with George Henderson’s office. Oscar Mann, now with David E Barry as salesman. formerly with Winfield Preston.
Representative Ira G Hershey of Maine buys a Takoma Park corner eight room home at 6900 Fifth Street from H J Thornton. Several other sales include Calfornia style bungalows and eight room residences to buyers such as Col Adna Clarke and Walter Emerson, with properties ranging from five to eight rooms on three quarters of an acre.
A New York area story details girls from multiple states and nations at Miss Mason's School for Patriotic Service in Tarrytown training for secretarial work, stenography, accounting, wireless, naval yeomanry, and automobile repair under Maj. Dyett. Courses include rapid dictation, typing, filing, reports, and patrol of traffic rules, with drill at 4:34 am and a flag ceremony. The program aims to supply trained women to government and industry for national defense.
Building permits issued for two semi detached brick dwellings at Att 610 and 612 y str Brightwood Park to J Oliver Moque 714 Kentucky av se and J Oliver Mogue 718 Kentucky av se to John Collins for home. Other notices show repairs and garage constructions for F F Smith 609 Sixth st sw A Sterand A R Mobett Co architects Meltzler McKay contractors to alter show windows 736 Seventh st nw and to erect garages at 1629 K st nw 5308 Rittenhouse st 441 Church st and 3109 Thirty BL get along with several private garages and new dwellings in multiple northwest southeast and Petworth areas.
Minneapolis mills halted barley flour grinding Friday due to a government rule limiting fat content to 1 percent. Millers argue 2 percent fat is fair and seek a modification. Special to The Washington Post. Rockville draft board calls 41 colored men to be ready for entrainment to Camp Sevier in South Carolina around August 1.
The program, begun June 12 and slated to close August 7, urges women to pursue useful work. Students learn French and Spanish with Prof. David teaching French, meals conducted in those languages, and many plan to stay beyond the term. Miss Mason's School for Patriotic Service attracts national attention for its unique mission and impact.
Three Chatham Mass aviators W C Briscoe W B Griffin and C A Upton were rescued off Halifax after drifting three days in fog in a dirigible balloon. They left Chatham for patrol duty Friday and were found ten miles off the Nova Scotia port. The craft remained in good condition and the men unharmed. If the course held, the drift covered about 400 miles north of the coast.
New York July 27 Gen de Goutte victor of Chateau Thierry and co winner of the second Marne battle with Mangin De Mitry Berthelot and Gouraud is hailed as an able young French general. He led a corps that captured 4000 prisoners 184 guns and 282 machine guns at the Ailetta in November 1917. He now commands an army that attacked from the Ourey to the Marne with American troops and took Chateau Thierry.
Memphis July 27 A whisky runner Padgett is found dead in the Mississippi River with an arm shot off and bullet wounds to the head. His companion John Pante is missing after a launch carrying five whisky is believed attacked by river thieves near Caruthersville, Missouri. The burned launch and missing partner prompt police to investigate a deadly river piracy.
A New York luncheon for Australian editors heard a committee of the council on foreign relations urge establishing direct cable connections between the United States and Australia. The panel was authorized to lobby the government for a new transpacific cable to deepen close international and commercial ties between the two nations.
Mrs Myrtle Neal 25 of Wyn Nebraska rode freight with her 3 year old baby on her arm to Omaha after escaping alleged mistreatment by her husband. She wore overalls and claimed employment in Union Pacific shops. Reconciliation with her husband followed his arrival today. she planned to work as an engine wiper here.
Maj Armando Andre Cuba's director of subsistence issued a decree placing articles of dress including shoes under price control. Importers must report the cost price of goods and selling price to the public with a visible margin of profit. Each item must bear its cost and profit margin for customers to see.
Columbia Tenn July 27 W W McRae private attached to 154th brigade headquarters division field artillery at Camp Jackson was killed Thursday at 11 80 o clock when a motorcycle he rode crashed into the rear of a motor truck H Simms another soldier in a side car was bruised both McRae and Simms were from Hagleville Tenn
Miners and sappers at Camp Humphreys Va construct an underground city of dugouts tunnels and chambers miles long to train for countermines. Separate Red Cross projects include five new buildings a convalescent hospital nurses home recreation house a warehouse and center camp facilities. New Y M C A secretaries officers and staff expand religious and recreational services as Camp Humphreys reads future for military mining and engineering training.
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