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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1914
Page
7
A Shanghai stage production titled The Fate of an opium smoker portrays a three generation family’s downfall after opium addiction. The drama shows gambling ruin, suicide risk, insurance fraud, and sale of a daughter as a social critique with dramatic force.
Washington Post dispatch from Berlin notes excavations at Taron site in Palestine uncover a canal older than King Josiah era and a statue bearing an inscription in Greek and Hebrew dating to between the destruction of the Second Temple and Hadrian. The find sheds new light on the revolt of Jerusalem’s Jews against Rome.
Government employees and families extended the first half holiday into today with many traveling out of town and crowds at Washington area excursions. Steamers to Baltimore and Colonial Beach were crowded while picnics formed at Great Falls and Rock Creek Park. Indian Bureau employees went to Fort Foote, Md for a packed outing.
Martin J. Hinson, president of the Concert Direction Company of New York, signs a contract to bring a Russian ballet troupe to New York in the autumn. M. Legat, Imperial Theatre St. Petersburg ballet master, set to direct. The Imperial troupe members drafted from Russia include principal dancer Nadeia Nivoloyaya.
A French modiste argues that women's influence rests in skillful dress and poise. The piece notes readers' growing interest in dress, contrasts mothers' restraint with modern excess, and warns that neglecting regal bearing risks men's deference and respect.
Mary H Folsom a Smith College graduate arrested for shooting her husband Henry H Folsom near Exeter. She said I do not know why I killed him and claimed the revolver was for protection not harm. Officials doubt trial, considering recommitment to an asylum with possible insanity evaluation.
Department of Justice officials warn that unscrupulous individuals use cross state line schemes to extort money from men by threatening exposure under the Mann act. A. Bruce Bielaski cites several cases and notes the act has produced many arrests, with about 230 cases currently in hand and more pending, while urging continued agent vigilance.
The piece notes Fathers Day passed with few overt tributes as men toil daily and keep up a quiet pose. Fathers find quiet joy in family time and nature, while others fish or roam to escape thoughts of offices and workshops.
Dr. Arthur Deerin Call of the American Peace Society urged Hartford graduates that public schools should serve broader community functions. He proposed schools as polling places, reading rooms, health offices, dance and drama venues, civic theaters, and social centers with supervised activities to promote democracy and social welfare. He listed features like library rooms, gym, mothers’ rooms, folk dancing, cooking and sewing classes, and moving pictures as parts of a modern city school system.
The Marquis of Anglesey and his wife formerly Lady Marjorie Manners have separated. Friends say reconciliation is unlikely as tensions began after their 1912 marriage and persisted despite hopes for an heir in June 1913. The marquis does not live with her and refuses communication.
Paris crowds have grown wary of tiny Chinese beggar children used as performers and thieves. Managers ship them from China to perform juggling and knife tricks while shop thefts occur. Police seize the children and plan to send them back to China via the Chinese legation.
Commissioner Newman will appoint a committee of 10 to raise 110 each toward a 1000 fund for a community Fourth of July celebration. The varied program includes field day events for amateur athletes, mounted contests for soldiers, aquatic races, under water swimming, diving, and a special set for colored children at Howard University. Events start 9 30 a m on Monument grounds and Potomac pool under C Edward Beckett. Medals for winners and entry blanks at Spalding's 613 Fourteenth Street or municipal bathing beach clerk.
Mitch. in this city a year ago while collecting funds for the Servian Red Cross, is understood to be pressing to have Servian government send several nurses from the recent Balkan wars to Baltimore hospitals for nursing and related studies. Three nurses have been detailed to Baltimore hospitals at her request to receive instruction in hospital administration and teaching, to be placed in charge of large training schools for nurses upon returning to Servia. The nurses are under the patronage of Princess Helen Constantinovitch of Russia, who helped care for the sick in the Turkey conflict.
Austrian writer and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Bertha von Suttner died at Vienna after undergoing obesity treatment. She devoted her life to peace, edited Die Waffen nieder, advised the Carnegie Peace Foundation, and traveled to promote disarmament and the Brotherhood of Nations.
Miss Lucy J. Price cites a Nevada notice showing suffragists accepted liquor interests’ aid. The antisuffrage leader claims suffrage does not dry up liquor consumption and notes cooperation by Woman's Equal Franchise Society members in Winnemucca. A seventh White House appeal for Bristow Mondell amendment is set for June 30 with a mass meeting and garden party hosted by Rep. William Kent.
Charles Cox tells in court that his wife agreed to separation and a contract allowing him to live with Maria Reyes Castillejos in Mexico. She allegedly received 7000 cash and mining stock for the arrangement, while Cox claims the private contract replaces divorce and asks for dismissal of her divorce bill.
Parla June 21. Countess Adelr Maria de Jouffray d Abbane once a king's morganatic wife, later married a sailor and roamed from riches to ruin. Born Chaband to a cook and coachman, she pursued yachting, faced betrayal, divorced, and faded into debt and solitude under police watch.
The House of Representatives held special services paying tribute to Timothy Daniel Sullivan known as Big Tim with eulogies by New York delegates and others. Speakers recalled his life from East Side poverty to three terms in Congress and his charitable work aiding children and the needy. Official New York figures attended, and Sullivan’s relatives were present.
London crowds harassed suffragists in Hyde Park on a Sunday. Police used truncheons to disperse rioters and escort women to safety as speakers were hustled from platforms amid threats of ducking in the Serpentine. Several women spectators faced rough treatment during the disorder.
In Washington on December 3 1918 a patient reported severe body pimples causing constant itching and sleep loss. After two applications of Resinol Soap and Ointment the symptoms eased, and the patient claimed a return to health. The ad notes nineteen years of medical use and urges readers to obtain trial sizes from Dept 45 R Resinol Baltimore Md.
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