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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1911
Page
6
Saks & Company on Pennsylvania Avenue and Seventh Street offers $15 Serge suits advertised as all wool fast color and London cold water shrink resistant. The ad emphasizes foundation quality, careful cutting, and a satisfaction guarantee with no prior complaints. Options include plain weaves and self-stripes in two and three-button sacks, in regular, stout, and long sizes.
District officials defend sending prisoners from the District Jail to the Occoquan workhouse as legal under 1910 appropriation laws and federal title. Corporation Counsel Thomas will appear in Alexandria on July 3 as habeas corpus suits by Nata Alexander and Edgar Fisk move forward.
Rudolph Bourne and his mother pursued a horse and buggy after a concert, damaging the auto. The chase ended when two police spotted the scene and Crystal confessed he ran away with the team from a Georgetown home for a joy ride. Judge Mulloway sentenced Crystal to three months in jail plus ten days for reckless driving.
Police in the Sixth precincts target troublesome youths around Fourth and G streets northwest arresting ringleaders Fitebura and four others John McGicker Marvin Brown Stadley Sutton Francis Cleary and Earl Matthew were ordered to appear before Judge DeLacy of the juvenile court with most lacking attendance today the case postponed to today unless they show by 1 pm Attachments possible. Nothing finer than a ride through the gales in a Federal Taxicab.
Dr. Thomas Nelson Page joined the drive for higher government employee wages with a $50 contribution to the clerks fund. An additional 350 yesterday boosted the guarantee fund toward a $20,000 goal, as P B Chase chaired the reception of subscriptions. Issac Gans leads the finance committee canvassing the city to invite more donors.
The Riggs House at Fifteenth and G streets, a longtime Washington hotel, closed yesterday and furniture was sold. A wrecking crew will raze the building and adjoining Citizens National Bank by month’s end to make way for a new skyscraping theater and office complex. Col. Orrin G. Staples plans a vacation. George Howard, president of Riggs Realty, said New York contractors will begin excavation July 1.
The American consulate in Managua Nicaragua will close because the local legation suffices for consular and diplomatic work. Thomas P Moffat of Elmira New York who has served as consul at Managua resigned after several months. He will remain with the mixed claims commission of the Nicaraguan government. The Finest Auto Livery Service is the Packard 30 livery of Terminal Taxicab Co $5 hour Phone N 1212.
City bulletins list ginger ale brand promotion, warehouse storage and renovation offers, floor coverings cleaning, motproofing, bottled goods prices, and car schedules. Notices urge use of Post Want Ads, with steamer and streetcar times for Mount Vernon and Glen Echo trips, plus Marine Band performances each evening.
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