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Washington Post

Location

Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America

Date

Mar 15, 1917

Page

8

Banking Statements from 1917 DC Banks Reveal Condition

Transfers and notes show total resources around 1.9 million with loans and discounts chiefly from Security Savings, Northeast Savings, and other DC institutions. Deputies confirm capital stock, surplus, and undivided profits, with demand and time deposits, notes, and bonds listed, and sworn attestations by bank cashiers and notaries.

Federal Reserve Bank Federal Reserve Dewan Olusabia City of Washington Robert YQ Roberc J_Robert Somerville Security Savings & Commercial Bank District of Columbia National Oman United States

26492 Parade At Inauguration With Notable Officials

A total of 26492 persons paraded in the inauguration parade. Gen Scott, army chief of staff and grand marshal, submitted the report to Col Barper, inaugural committee chair. Divisions ranged 867 escort, 5461 first, 12867 second, 1087 third, 6710 fourth. Scouts praised for service.

Ge Hugh L. Scott Col Barper Gen. Scott Col Harper Alvin Belt Tasker H. Biss Carroll A. Devol Raymond W. Pull

Mystery shoots Heth still unsolved at Vawter home

Roanoke Virginia March 14 mystery surrounds the shooting of Stockton Heth jr three times in the home of Prof Charley E Vawter Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Prof Vawter and Mrs Vawter and student Bernard Williams refuse to talk while Heth’s condition improves and his brother Lieut Clement Heth and sisters remain at his bedside. Only Heth could shed light if he speaks. he is being cared for at the hospital and is not talking. Stockton Heth Sr and the family await word as the case remains unsettled.

Roanoke Stockton Heth, Jr Charley E. Vawter Virginia Polytechnic Institute Prof Vawter Young Williams Heth Lieut Clement Heth Washington D. C

Health Hazards to Women in Industries Discussed

The Consumers' League meets at Rauscher's to hear Surgeon J W Schereschewsky of the U S Public Health Service discuss industrial fatigue and the physiological risks of long women’s work hours. Miss Larare Shapiro will address long days in needle trades and new legislative gains include a cost of living study for minimum wage and a women’s division in the Department of Labor.

Consumers’ League Rauscher J. W. Schereschewsky United States Public Health Service Larare Shapiro New York City Shea Department of Labes

High Heel Health Risks Shown by Philadelphia Doctor

Philadelphia March 14. Dr. Albert G Miller head of the X ray laboratory at the German Hospital demonstrated injurious effects of highheeled shoes on women’s feet before the Chiropody Society of Philadelphia using lantern slides.

Philadelphia Chiropody Society of Albert G. Miller German Hospital Miller

Theaters Bring Nazimova Back To Washington Stage

Nazimova returns to Washington at Belasco Theater in Ception Shoals a tale of a girl raised in ignorance jailed by a fanatic uncle ending in a plunge to death. Next week Poll Players present Rich Man Poor Man with Bab and Beeston in a tangled love plot. Cosmos Theater offers The Broken Mirror and In the Jungle with other acts. Gayety Theater features A Wife in Haverty Port and a Ziegfeld Broadway lineup at matinees Wednesday and Saturday.

Wnazimova Washington Belasco Ception Shoals Austin Adama Turnir Church New York Henry Mapleson Bob Pater Beeston Bayard Varick Bab Mapleson Mr. Beeston Young Varick Cosmos Theater Schwartz Brothers and Company Rianos le Belle Carmen Fairbanker Ruth Curtis Billy Grady Companying Danny Man of My Story E. H. Sothern Charlotte Ives Hivery Port Sam Howe Gayety Theater Eva Mull Dee Loretta Flimsky

Keith's Elsa Ryan billed in Peg for Short at Keith's

An unusually strong week at Keith's features Elsa Ryan in a sketch Peg for Short supported by William Roselle with Maude Lambert and Ernest R. Ball in song and piano. Other acts include Chic Sala impersonations and Rubino and Company in The Dancing Girl of Delhi. Mary Pickford leads A Poor Little Rich Girl at the Columbia.

Keith Elsa Ryan William Roselle Peg Maude Lambert Ernest R. Ball Max Cooper Irene Chords Parish Peru Riale Inga Vernon Castle

Footwear fashions and a soldier’s dismissal in El Paso

X ray photos showed how high heels distort feet, provoking commentary by Prof. Miller on Western fashion. In El Paso, Second Lieutenant Percy A. Jordan of the Fourth Infantry Texas National Guard was tried by general court martial and dismissed from the U S army for violating War Department rules.

Percy A. Jordan Fourth Infantry Texas National Guard Fort Bliss el Paso Tex War Department United States Army

Supreme Court session items and adjournments listed

The United States cases, including United States v. United States Steel et al and v. Insurance Company of North America, were argued with Solicitor General Davis and Assistant Attorney General Wallace. Adjournment ordered with a list of present justices and daily calls, continuing several patent and equity docket items and trial assignments.

United States Supreme Court Justice McKenna Justice Holmes Justice Day Justice van Devanter Justice Pitney Justice McReynolds Justice Brandeis Justice Clarke T. W Mletchke Sheridan Wyo United States of American, Appellant United States Steel Corporation United States

At Moore's Strand Theater This Week

At Moore's Strand Theater next Sunday Monday and Tuesday the principal attraction will be an intensely interesting photoplay titled To Save Her Soul with an all star cast. On Wednesday and Thursday Enid Bennett appears in Princess of the Dark a tale of Eastern mysticism. Friday and Saturday Dorothy Gish stars in Stage Struck a novel story of theatrical life.

Mary Pickford Columbia Miss Pickford Pauline Frederick Sapho Alphonse Daudet Harvey O’higgins Harriet Ford Jack Pickford Mme Olga Petrova Garden Theater Loig Meredith Willam Conklin Marguerite Nichola Frank Mayo Viola Dana Garden Symphony Orchestra Moore's Strand Theater Enid Bennett Dorothy Gish D. W. Griffth Willl Crandall Kenneth Driscoll Robert Warwick Mary Baker Doris Kenyon Clara Kimball Young Mountain Fe Blue Ridge Skinner Bryant Washburn

Crandall's Savoy to Show The Price She Paid Next Week

The Price She Paid, a film adaptation of David Graham Phillips novel, heads Crandall's Savoy program next Sunday and Monday with Clara Kimball Young in the lead. The week also features The Devil's Double, Each to His Kind, A Girl's Folly, The Bride of Hate, The Pipe of Discontent, and Her Own People. Dwight Elmendorf presents an illustrated travel talk at the National Theater this afternoon at 4 30, touring Old German Towns and musical landmarks with live selections.

David Graham Phillip Cranedall Savoy Clara Kimball Young Wiliams. Hart Bessye Hayakawa Doris Kenyon Robert Warwick Dwight Elmendorf National Theater Rothenburg Fatherland Nuremberg Elmendorf

Russian Piano Recital by Ossip Gabrilowitsch at National Theater

Ossip Gabrilowitsch, famed Russian pianist, will give a recital at the National Theater tomorrow afternoon featuring Chopin and other works. The program includes Fantasie in F minor Op 49, Sonata in B flat minor Op 35, plus six Preludes Op 28 and other pieces. A final chance this season to hear the Philadelphia Orchestra comes next Tuesday afternoon with Leopold Stokowski conducting an all Russian program.

Ossip Gabrilowitsch National Theater Philadelphia Orchestra Leopold Stokowski

Frederick Palmer to speak on Somme battle at Masonic

Frederick Palmer, the credited American correspondent with the British forces in France, who spent four months in the battle of the Somme, will describe the action at Masonic Auditorium next Wednesday afternoon at 436. He will use specially chosen official French and British motion pictures as illustrations.

Frederick Palmer France The Somme Masonic Auditorium

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