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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1913
Page
8
Dr. J. F. Anderson of the Government Health Service observed demonstrations in New York and is coming here today with a Friday bulletin expected from Surgeon General Blue. The exact date cannot be set yet.
Dr Frederick Friedmann through Dr Maurice Sturm said he cannot set a definite date to visit George Washington Hospital in Washington to demonstrate bi teleats. He will consider the invitation and inform The Washington Post when ready to visit.
In New York on March 19 a crowd of 400 women and children surrounded Dr. Friedrich F. Friedmann outside the Hospital for Deformities and Joint Diseases seeking his tuberculosis treatment. Police cleared a path for him to enter. government physicians watched from Mount Sinai Hospital and were later excluded. A government bulletin noted sixteen patients treated and future statements anticipated by Surgeon General Blue and Gov. Sulzer weighed a possible special license for Friedmann if results prove favorable.
A dense directory style notice lists multiple Washington funeral directors and embalmers with addresses and phone numbers including J WM Lee, R F Harvey's Sons, Thomas Sergen, Thomas Hindle, W R Pumphrey & Son, Frank Geier's Sons, R Speare, Frank A Speare, Geo Zurhorst and heirs. It notes cremation options and modern chapels as part of services. The items read like classified directory entries for funeral services across several streets and venues.
Local hospital officials and Washington physicians press to bring Dr Friedmann to demonstrate his claimed tuberculosis remedy at George Washington Hospital. He has not declined but postponed acceptance, with many patients and doctors eager for tests under hospital conditions. Public health service tests of his cultured cultures are cited as support.
After a conference at the naval observatory four French officers and U S counterparts agreed that most experiments would be conducted at the Arlington wireless station rather than the observatory. Capt Joseph L Jayne hosted a tea for the visitors at his Washington residence and officials were invited. The party toured the observatory and praised its instruments.
Copenhagen reports eight weeks of mourning for King George of Greece with navy crepe wear and funeral salutes. London notes Queen Alexandra’s recovery and Wilson’s condolence to the Greek royal family. Aleko Schinas cited as assassin, voicing anarchist views and a plan to reform government.
Saloniki reports Aleka Schinas, the assassin of King George, held in close confinement. He underwent repeated examinations without revealing accomplices and is described as not mad but mentally weak. He had lived by begging, coming to Saloniki via Athens after a stint at Volo and Thesas, where he issued boisterous harangues forecasting plans.
The will of Mrs. Ida Hancock Ross of Los Angeles disposes of an estate estimated at a million and a half dollars excluding Arizona mining stocks given to her husband Federal Judge HE M Ross. Niece Agostina Stricklind of New York receives 100 dollars monthly for life while son George Allan Hancock inherits the balance. She directs silverware and jewels to be melted into a monstrance for St Joseph's Cathedral with diamonds set into it.
Lincoln reports a large Lincoln homecoming for William Jennings Bryan after his election win. He addresses a joint Nebraska legislature session on dollar diplomacy, attends a 53rd birthday banquet with Govs Dunne Hodges Morehead, and receives congratulatory telegrams from President Wilson.
Admiral Colby M Chester retired spoke at the District of Columbia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution banquet at Rauscher's on Connecticut Avenue about the privateer Gen Armstrong led by Samuel Chester Reid. He credited privateers with much of the war's success and noted the Long Tom in the navy yard. the gathering included Col Gilbert Kniffen and many attendees, with debate over relocating the Liberty Bell for the Panama Exposition.
In Raleigh on March 19 the Raleigh Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union hosted a banquet for Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, marking his first home visit since taking office. Daniels praised the pressmen and stressed interdependence of workers, noting no one is independent. He planned to depart Raleigh tonight for Washington, arriving Friday morning.
Sensational disclosures emerged in the Columbus Savings Bank and Trust Co investigation before Judge George Okey. Henry W. Backhus testified that former State treasurer Isaac B. Cameron kept 100000 to 126000 of state funds on deposit without interest, with ties to a York Pennsylvania loan. He described annual examinations, cash handoffs in a black handbag, and concealment of transactions. Daniel H. Sowers addressed the steering committee of the depositor protective association representing thousands of ruined savers.
Former President Taft requests the Roosevelt portrait that remained on the cant wall of his private office be removed and sent to the New Haven hotel where he plans to reside for several months after taking a Yale professorship post.
In Bristol Tennessee on March 19 Race Hampton a young drug clerk from Elizabethton was found dead in his room. The sole explanation written by Hampton was I am tired of living and the death was by drinking poison.
A jumble of names and ages presents a series of marriage licenses or banns with multiple couples listed in unclear order. The fragment names ministers like Rev Fultz and Rev Stetson alongside groom and bride pairs from Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Washington, many with ages ranging from teens to thirties.
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