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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1915
Page
6
The store presents two standout spring values at twenty dollars each. Oxford Gray Cheviot suits feature braid bound edges and tailored fit with a high cut vest and snug trousers. Tan covert cloth top coats come full-back or body-fitting with silk yoke and sleeve linings, waterproof to serve as rain coats.
Citizens and business groups met at the University Club to form a joint committee to gather facts on Fiscal relations between the Federal government and the District of Columbia. Former Commissioner H B F Macfarland heads the committee with Richard R B Watrous as secretary, aiming to support a congressional inquiry into the half and half funding arrangement.
Members present urged prompt organization to prepare and present facts to the joint select committee. The gathering may launch a series of citizen meetings. Attendees included leaders from the Committee of One Hundred Federation of Citizens Associations Board of Trade Chamber of Commerce and Retail Merchants Association.
An error in the omnibus bill from the last Congress leaves two Louisiana claims unsettled. James A Verret estate faced a $4 087 denial while Elizabeth White estate missed a $27 800 payment due to enrollment clerks error. The White estate awaits a reconvened Congress to correct the mistake and authorize payment.
City officials and promoters outlined a cross-town jitney route starting at Twenty-sixth and M streets, spanning M Street to Thomas Circle and Massachusetts Avenue to Union Station, with a return via same route or via L or N streets. A north-south line may run on Fifteenth or Seventeenth Street, with suburban lines under study.
Educational editor urges four days left in a ten day vote contest for special prizes. Subscriptions count as votes twice during the final period, boosting totals for film service prizes and Pathescopi machines. Readers are urged to bring subscriptions to credit their school with a receipt for votes.
Birth announcements list numerous couples and newborns including William A P and Honora Zereggo a boy Giuseppe and Lina Zanellotti a girl Wills Zelia Walden a girl Robert and Grace Wright a girl Robert and Gladys Wright a boy James D and Molite Z Williams a girl Ruben B and Anna J Warner a boy Wiheta and Emma Webbe a boy Harford T and Alice T Thrift a boy Thomas F and Lois E Snyder a boy Charlies B and Ethel Bernsburg a girl Ulrich F and Camilla M Oertly a girl Alvin W and Helen Siler a girl Vinecen and Carmela Portale a girl Charles M and Lena Paschal a girl Treymond and Florence V Tiley a girl Isaac and Sarah Ferthktott a girl James R and Julia M Facer a girl Prank B and Alice W Cogswell a boy Frank and Nettie Cowen a girl Lee B and Ora Conk a boy Henry and Helen C Brown a girl Toney and Annie Aice a boy Ellsworth and Mamie Watts a girl Charles od Blanch Willis a girl L dob L and Kattie Thomas a boy Richard H and Lillian Jennings a boy Johnny and Edith Holmes a boy Clarence and Pearl Griffin a girl John N N and Rose Branch a girl Samuel and Millie Edmeanaton a boy Angustine and Elizabeth Uneenanue a boy John and Bargie Byrd a girl.
Rob ert T. Miller filed a holograph will torn up by Maj Gen Charles Heywood U S M C retired Heywood died February 26 The affidavit by Andrew Parker vice president of Washington Loan and Trust Company explains the July 15 1905 tearing of the will after a codicil was made The 1905 will left the estate to his wife Caroline with a codicil naming Antonia Heywood Stellway as sole beneficiary if both died unexpectedly The trust company was to act as executor
A long list of deaths is reported from various local institutions and residences including Washington Home for Incurables, Government Hospital for the Insane, Emergency Hospital, Ruppert Home Anacostia, and multiple city hospitals. Ages range from 1 month to 85 years with names such as Georgia S. Tittle J Orville Johnson Jon V. Slater Borie Mary E. Chamberlin Viola L. Thomas Everett Vail Mathew Hopper Harold A. Davis Loreia Moore Cora Hassel Philip Rotmand Arthur DT eno Elizabeth L. W. Bailey Israel Bricker Mary E. Jones Panny Smith Jacy Lee Octavia Allen John Brown Verletta Roas BH Williamson Robert Russell Samuel Robinson and infants from local households and wards.
Special commissioners announce a public auction of the Emerson Steam Pump Company assets in Fairfax County near Alexandria. The sale includes the plant, patent rights, machinery, tools, and completed and uncompleted pumps, with the plant described as large steel brick cement construction on 0.388 miles of land, a fully equipped pattern shop, and close to the Washington Southern Railway freight station. Sale is at noon on Monday March 15 cash terms with thirty day payment, conveyancing at purchaser cost.
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