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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1917
Page
8
A vivid catalog touts wicker furniture as beautiful and versatile for indoor and porch use. It highlights diverse designs, colors, and pieces from novelty items to exquisitely upholstered seats, noting options from frosted brown and English shellac to ivory and gray tones.
Rustic Hickory Furniture offers outdoor pieces praised for charm and durability. The ad highlights rustic hickory pergolas playhouses outhouses and large rustic houses with seating options. Prices range from mid twenty to several hundred dollars for chairs rockers and swings.
Miss Latlah Pugh, a sergeant in the National League for Women’s Service, sails tomorrow to France as an ambulance driver for the American Ambulance Field Service. Judge Norris links war to morality at Immanuel Baptist Church urging faithful support.
Diplomatic Washington has undergone several shifts over recent weeks caused by wartime needs. New ministers, attachés, and counselors arrived or were reassigned across Colombia Italy Spain Brazil Chile and Japan embassies while several officials departed or relocated to different residences in the capital.
Captain F A Button of the Royal Engineers visits Washington to confer with American ordnance officers. He buys six for a quarter street car tickets as if in London, believing the system matches London trams with receipts. Captain Sutton, who lost an arm, discovers conductors take tickets and give change, a practice he finds humorous and wonders about fare differences.
Moving pictures of the funeral services for Dynamite Johnny O'Brien will be shown throughout Cuba at the request of the Cuban government. The services will be held here next Tuesday and the Cuban president will be represented at the funeral. O'Brien was a popular filibuster and adventurer.
Norfolk June 34 Two companies of the Fourth Virginia regiment assist at the Old Dominion docks loading steamers. Regular hands left for better pay causing congested wharves and a $104,000 loss. Citizens urged to help and police ordered to recruit unemployed men.
Chicago churches will be opened as recruiting stations for the regular army this week. They will display the American flag and the recruiting flag to aid in raising the 70,000 volunteers called for by President Wilson.
Special to The Washington Post from New York reports Julia McNair Henry wife of Brig Gen Guy V Henry T S A and governor general of Porto Rico in the Spanish American War died Saturday in her Lorraine Hotel apartment She was born in Danville North Carolina seventy two years ago She leaves two sons Capt Guy V Henry USA and W Seton Henry a New York real estate dealer Burial will be beside her husband at Arlington National Cemetery Washington D C
George W. Mason Jr a lifelong resident and carriage and wagon builder died at his home on Longfellow Street last night He was unmarried and survived by three brothers Charles Mason J V Mason and P L Mason and one sister Mrs J G Hardy Funeral arrangements have not been completed
In Cambridge on June 24 the government radio school at Harvard-Wesley described as Warvard Whewtidets hosted protests by students over meal quality and scheduling. They planned a petition for better food and revised menus while noting many stay in the school building dorms, paying $9 weekly for board and lodging.
President Wilson will stay in Washington through the summer abandoning his habit of spending time in the mountains or at the sea shore. He joined Mrs Wilson on board the naval yacht Sylph on a hot afternoon to escape the heat, with an occasional golf game and car ride as his only recreation.
A large party including Baron Moncheul and Special Ambassador Boris Bakhmetieff joined Secretary Lansing and other dignitaries for a wreath laying at Washington's tomb and a tour of Mount Vernon. The Mayflower guests were entertained aboard and speeches were delivered by the Belgian and Russian missions leaders.
Mme Ekengren wife of the Swedish Minister returned Saturday night from Edgartown Mass where she took her children and saw them established in the cottage the minister has rented for the summer She will stay several weeks at the legation before returning to Edgartown for the late summer. Lieut Col Guy W Henry USA arrived at the Powhatan yesterday from West Point. Mr and Mrs Walter S Penfield entertained at dinner last evening at the Brooks Tea House west of Chevy Chase. John Clement Washington son of Capt Thomas Washington has returned home from Tome School Port Deposit Md where he won the Ramsey prize for best work in senior science. Myr Perry Schofield son of Comdr and Mrs Frank H Schofield has returned home for vacation from the same school where he won second prize in the state wide public speaking contest. In May Mrs Byron Andrews of this city spending the summer in California was at Camp Curry last week.
The Arlington Cemetery will require commissions from the Fine Arts Commission for all future memorials and markers. President Wilson directed this to preserve natural beauty and the cemetery’s artistic harmony. The Army quartermaster general received designs from leading architects that meet standards and will be recommended to applicants.
The marriage of Misa Beatrice Crawford daughter of Rev Dr and Mrs Angua Crawford to Mr Merritt Todd Cooke of Norfolk will take place on June 80 in the little chapel of Seminary Hill Theological Seminary Va Crawford family note she and her sister made their debuts there and her father was present for the ceremony
The article lists society events including a wedding with attendants Charlotte Harding Brown and Lucy Lee Kinsolving, performed by the father with Rev Oscar Randolph. Alma Hodges, daughter of Gen and Mrs Harry Hodges, will wed Lieut George Dickson U N at Fort Totten July 10. Cora Barry has recovered from appendicitis and operation at home. Mr and Mrs Buchanan are in Washington staying at the Powhatan.
Copper interests say government must pay 25 cents a pound while allies are charged 38 cents. Big metals and oils warn they cannot sustain ruinous terms, citing navy and War Department needs and prior "sacrifice" pricing. Steel, lead, zinc, aluminum, and nickel producers outline two thirds pricing for war orders, with July lead delivery and rapid steel for merchant ships. Swift & Company reports beef prices in Washington for week ending…
Quartermaster General Henry G Sharpe faces an immense task supplying 1 090 000 soldiers with 43 articles from fresh beef and coffee to sugar and pickles. The scope includes 200 000 tons of beef, 866 000 gallons of pickles, 3.72 million cans of peppers and spices, 29 million yards of cotton cloth, and 174 500 axes plus 165 extra purchasable items for varied fare and comfort.
In Brest France on June 24 Ralph Hide an American sailor aged 40 died in a hotel from an act of self harm police reported the cause remains unknown.
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