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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1908
Page
3
Summary unavailable due to poor OCR quality. readable fragments show Mrs Hart McKee sues for divorce from George McKee amid allegations that the husband lavished funds on flowers and trips, including payments totaling tens of thousands of dollars, while asserting countercharges and financial transfers.
Murky OCR text outlines a merger battle in New Haven involving Lavors and B M control. Regulators debate restricts, potential reallocations, and corporate impact amid local opposition and market concerns.
Increases in rail movement hint a recovering iron trade as indicators suggest rising activity. Analysts note stronger demand from mills and distributors, with early signs of price stability amid seasonal upticks.
In February Balmore and Ohio released a financial statement detailing monthly earnings and expenditures. Figures show notable activity across rigs and related assets with indications of interim balances and allocations to operational costs.
Armour succeeds in a major corporate vote as central stockholders meet to decide on key governance. The tension centers on leadership direction and strategic shifts after the Fish Fa 5 move, with decisions impacting future dividends and control.
A large fashionable Washington audience attended a Monday night entertainment at the New Willard for the Bell Home for Children. The program featured Mrs Charley G Bennett soprano Mrs Dolin Leech contralto Miss Edith Sessions soprano Philip Lee Scantling tenor Roswell Boothby soprano Mitton W Lusk pianist Anthony Savage violinist Jean Wilson reader Ade laide Slack and Anthony Savage as accompanists. Boothby impressed with a powerful sweetness in The Swallows, Bennetts soprano selections, Leech popular with locals sang A Dream and Red Ros. Sessions sang Where Hips Grow and Questa O nella from Verdi. Scantling’s ripieno from Rigoletto drew applause. Miss Wilson’s impersonations and readings included The Story of the Painting of Mona Lisa and other pieces.
Delegates selected for the Brussels Congress and appointments made to departments in the union's national structure. Arthur Birny and Bardem Schoff win to set headquarters in a preferred city, Mrs Ida Grice resigns as president, D Gibbs named filling vacancy, list of delegates includes Mary Cutt Eli Teimplua and others from Philadelphia Atlanta Chicago and Washington.
A Pan American committee meeting in New York includes a bill to fund fair exposition costs through federal appropriations. Officials expect government aid will be limited, pushing private backing to showcase American industry and foreign trade. A second event notes a St Thomas Guild hat sale at 34 Massachusetts Avenue today from noon to 6.
The board of education reports estimates totaling about 500000 for improvements at Washington Schools, citing lack of an architect. Planned projects include 150000 to replace wooden stairways with fireproof versions, 400 for two four room manual training buildings, 2200 for four four room manual training buildings, 140000 for a twelve room manual training building, and 3100000 for repairs and grounds. The Olcott bill is urged to remove open meeting restrictions for school appropriations, while two nurses are proposed for white and colored schools. Arbor Day is set for March 2, with playground funding to be raised in May.
A committee toured the Belmont hotel examining boiler rooms laundry and kitchens noting cold air blasts for firemen and chefs assistants an exhaust tube clearing fumes. They praised worker protections and plan further studies and legislative pressure to improve conditions.
Belasco presents Mme Nazimova in a repertoire of Ibsen roles Nora and Hedda Gabler with Monday to Wednesday performances and a Saturday matinee. Elsie Janis star in The Hoyden at the National. Maxine Elliott in Myself Bettina at the Columbia. and Chaze’s Romany Opera Company brings a grand program of opera and vaudeville. The Majestic hosts Under Southern Skies, a romantic drama, while the Gayety features The Blue Ribbon Girls with Constance Stewart Richardson in a lavish ballet burlesque showcase.
A Monday afternoon meeting at Mrs William Beidon Noble’s home addressed individual distress cases in the West End division of the Associated Charities. Prof W Veditz presided with Dr Toreman and H Jennings leading a discussion on policy and community role, as attendees listed including Prof C Wood, Mrs Noble, Rev Bradford, and many others. Contributions totaling a substantial sum were sent to the Associated Charities at 11 G street and acknowledged by treasurer John Joy Edson.
The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee reports a 1907 year of record expansion with new insurance paid totaling 102,283,634 dollars, a rise of nearly nine million over the prior year, as the company broadens its field across health insurance nationwide while maintaining low expenses and prudent asset quality. Northeast Club hosts second annual ball at Magone Temple with 1000 attendees, Pistorios Orchestra providing music, and committees led by Hubn, Waldron, Donahoe, Ryan, Johnston, Bullvan, Kelley, Dougherty, and others overseeing reception, floor, and finance.
Special season event features toank B Ceres f orqushbrds presenting an all greyer program of refreshing farce vaudeville and extravaganza. Lectures by Mr Frederick Monsen on Mexico and the Golden West, artful colorgraphs, and a Peary Arctic lecture with images. Also concerts by contralto Mlle von Monesen and Chaffee talks on Women of the French Court. Amherst College Musical Association presents a Willard ball room concert Monday evening.
Mr and Mrs Hamilton Mehas Twombley and Miss Ruth Twombley visit Biltmore House in Asheville hosted by Mr and Mrs George WV Vanderbilt. Dr and Mrs Sewart Webb return to New York after a Biltmore stay. The Burden family arrives, and Mrs Connally Coxe entertains a horse party at Black Mountain with guests from Washington and New York. Mr Thomas Cheeseborough and others from New York arrive from Augusta.
A group of Shoshone Indians from the Wyo reservation met President Roosevelt at the White House. They presented a red stone pipe and buckskin tobacco pouch while Little Wolf received a signed photograph inscribed to him by Roosevelt. Wahwan Nib and others wore campaign buttons, and the party later visited Secretary Taft inviting him to hunt on their grounds.
An advertisement touts S S S as a safe, plant based treatment for contagious blood poison. It claims to purify the blood, remove the virus, and cure completely without minerals, offering a free home treatment book and free medical advice from The Swift Specific Company in Atlanta Georgia.
Mme Jolanna Gadeki appears at the New Hallnel Theater Sunday evening March 29 with pianist Frank La Forge. Advance ticket sales opened this morning at T Arthur Smiths 1411 T street northwest, where the Glee Banjo and Mandolin clubs will also present entertainment.
The Duke de Chaulnes sails from New York aboard the Teutonic with his duchess mother and a group of friends as he plans to return in September to become the New York and Parisian representative of an international financial firm handling railroad matters. The event drew a large crowd and notable escorts. Separately, Charles P Lavender, 33, was declared insane by a police court jury and sent to St Elizabeths Hospital, with hope of treatment restoring his reason.
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