Elks Jubilee at Benning Ends with Auto and Other Races
The final day of Washington Lodge Elks festivities at Benning featured a 24 horsepower auto race won by Thomas E Miller in 11 minutes 5 seconds, a 25 mile gas car race won by Wallace C Hood in 32 minutes 9 seconds, plus a 5 mile gasoline car event won by Sam Luttrelli. A male race drew merriment and the crowd praised the program as a rural jubilee and barn dance atmosphere with German village attractions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fraternity
Thomas E. Miller
Lace C. Hood
Benning
Washington
Elks’ Fraternity
Elks
Adolph Loehl
Edward H. Neumeyer
Charles P. Stohlman
Fred H. Geyer
Miller
Loehl
Neumeyer
Stohlman
Loehr
Wallace C. Hood
J W John E. Lutz
Harry A. Orme
Charies BE. Miller
A. Loehl
J. A. Muehleisen
Mr. Muehleisen
Sam Luttrelli
Pat Throop
M. ©. Mangold
George W. Beall
W. J. Wells
C. E. Tyser
P. Il, Willis
F. A. Mertens
Vanderbilt troubles echo through Newport society
The text describes Mrs Lydig's nervous depression and prolonged hospitalization at Waldheim New York, with her husband sending flowers and rare visits. European travel plans follow, as Mrs Vanderbilt contemplates a London estate while Breakers Newport closes. The piece also notes mispronunciations of astrantia and a Boston Seattle romance ending in a May wedding between Ethel Nason Brockton and Wirt Hawkins Seattle.
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Ada de Acosta
Ly Sqfl
Europe
Denda
Lydig
Newport
London
Vanderbilt
Robert Goelet
Dust
Johnny
Caspar Wistar
Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Boston
Barvard
Brockton
Seattle
Wash
Ethel Nason
Wirt Victor Mawkins
Harvard
New Books Received and a Divorce Granted
New books announced include The Princess Virginia by Williamson et al, My Graduation by Marion L. Peabody, and several others exploring romance, history, and travel. Also noted is the divorce of Mrs Helen Finley Cook from Dr Richard L Cook with custody awarded of their son Richard L Cook Jr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princess Virginia
C. N. & A.M. , Williamson, McClure, Philips & Co
New York City
Garden party at Garfield Hospital raises funds for Columbia chair
A Garfield Hospital garden party today features refreshments palmistry and fortune telling from 4 to 10 pm to raise money for endowing a Columbia University Teachers College chair in Hospital Economics. Delegates at meetings in May pledged substantial gifts toward the $70,000 goal. Washington Bay to Graduate: Samuel Dean Caldwell Jr of this city will graduate from Swarthmore College engineering June 12 after attending local high schools and early work in construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garfield
Garfield Hospital
Teachers’ College
Columbia University
New York City
Nurses’ Associated Alumnae of
United States
Richmond
Philadelphia
Columbia
Nutting
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Washington Bay
Samuel Dean Caldwell
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore
The Sagarisia Advocate Promotes Hood's Medicine
A rhetoric filled with exclamations praises Hood's Sarsaparilla for revitalizing the weak and debilitated. It claims the tonic builds the whole system, restores vitality, and enables living with vigor and duty. Readers urged to submit notices about life improvements to the reform office in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medicie
Hood
Washington
Depleting Pension Rolls Hits Ninety Day Veterans
Federal pension rolls shrink by about 200 daily as many Civil War veterans lose stipends. A March ruling by Garfield bars pensions for those with service under ninety days, affecting mainly early war veterans and groups like Mechanics Fusiliers of Indiana. New scrutiny will trim old and new pension claims, with many Ohio regiments facing greater losses.
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Father Time
Garfield
Kindara
Congress
Mechanics’ Fusiliers
Ilinda
War Department
Ohio
Fragmentary Army Memoir Fragments Report Defections
Fragmentary notes describe daily papers from regiments being purged for defects. If a soldier fails to prove the defect as actual, his name is dropped from the roll. The text reflects ongoing internal discipline and routine clearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nen -In
Perp
Keok
Hina Wallace Illness and Theater Struggles Reported
Hina Wallace is seriously ill in a cozy studio at 28 West Thirty third Street, threatened with typhoid. Physicians fear her demanding season and the failed suit to break Alexander Dungmuirs will have drained her robust health. She previously suffered peritonitis in 1905, rested until February, then performed with Lew Fields, then White Chrysanthemum, and signed with Klaw and Erlanger before quitting the stage to under Dr. Ely care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hina
Wallace
Atreet
Typho
Arthur Ely
Alexander Dungmuir
Lew Fields
Herald Squares
Confederate Honor Wearers Gather for Arlington Memorial
Confederate memorial committees of the District met at the Arlington Hotel for a joint convention. They plan Sunday at 4 PM Arlington National Cemetery commemorations with Gen. Robert White delivering the oration. The Thirteenth Cavalry Band performs Rock of Ages and a quartet sings Nearer My God to Thee.
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Confederate Memorial Committees
Arlington Hotel
Arlington National Cemetery
McKinley’s
Washington
Richmond
Arlington
Robert White
Western Division
United Confederate Veterans
Thirteenth Cavalry Band
Beatrice Goodwin
Armand Gumprecht
Melvin. D. Hensey
J. C. Murray
Ceremony Marks Unveiling of the Southern Cross Camp Event
Miss Caroline Green leads the unveiling assisted by Miss Elizabeth Gould as maid of honor. Rev. Randolph H. McKim delivers benediction. Attending notables include Mrs. George Henderson of Greenwood, Mrs. William J. Beham of New Orleans, Mrs. Maggie Davis Hayes of Colorado Springs, Capt. John M. Hickey, and officers Daniel J. Grant and J. McDowell Carrington among others.
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Southern Cross
Caroline Green
Elizabeth Gould
Randolph H. McKim
Campi7i
George Henderson
Greenwood
The
United Daughters of the Confederacy
William J. Beham
New Orleans
Confederated Southern
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Elks’ Jubilee
Marion L. Peabody
H. M. Caldwell Co
Mass
Carl Gregg Doney
Fleming H. Revell Co
Valhalla
Myra Gross
FLA Stokes Co
Avignon
Cale Young Rice
McClure Phillips
England
Ford M. Hueffer
Coralle Stanton
T. J. McBride & Son
Paris
Elizabeth O. Wiliams
A. C. McClurg & Co
Chicago
Brand Whitlock
Bobbs Merrill
Indianapolis
Ind
Hachive
Gray
Falien
Arington
H Tyene
CG. Sloan & Co
G Street
Sloan’s Galleries
G St
Bidile
Jeff
Peters
Tom” Reed
McKinley
Scott Campbell
New York
Wharton
Issay
Admiral Peters
W.W. Jacobs
Chigwooltz
L&w. W. Eiseman
7Th Street
Sale
Adler
Rees
Cravenette
Victor E. Adler
Tth
Mass. Ave
Post Business Office
Washington Post
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