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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1915
Page
6
Tennyson Neely, lecturer, supplemented the Belasco Theater wartime slide show yesterday. The presentation intertwined war scenes with music and commentary, highlighting currents of the conflict. The audience saw vivid depictions of battles, troop movements, and the impact of war on civilians, framed by Neely’s interpretive notes.
A lineman fell and sustained a neck injury during work near the Chesapeake and Totalonia area. He was transported to George taser University Tipepitel where he died several days later.
Wallington Post reports Catholic and Episcopal congregations in Alexandria observed Holy Week with daily services. Details include St Mary’s offerings, Christ Episcopal prayers, St Paul Episcopal schedule, and Grave Episcopal routines, plus funeral for Mrs Evelyn Courtenay Lewis. Albert Harris, jailed, faces preliminary hearing for purse snatching. Gloth questioned in prior cases. Funeral arrangements for Evelyn Lewis noted.
Camille Schneider 77 conducted rehearsals and received a loving cup as Visio Protective Union staged its first Cantamenotin Wand concert in Polis Theater. Arthur Praor from New York aided the effort, with Washington players under veteran Sousa influence delivering an artistic performance. The event aimed to establish a permanent home for musicians and was hailed as a success likely to become annual.
Mrs Iduna Bennis of the New York Antivivisection Society condemned vivisection in public schools as demoralizing pupils and scientists and useless for science studies. She urged a New York law to halt school vivisection and require publicity for surgical experiments. Dr J J Shirley defended vivisection while John Ridley presided over the secular league meeting.
Closing hour set for this afternoon may extend due to debates memorial services for those who died in the past year at 11 a.m. Bishop Candler led ordination of deacons and elders at the Southern Methodist session in Baltimore. Additional talks focused on Sunday schools and the church school ideal.
A list of obituary notices with many misspellings and unclear names. Entries mention Lavinia Stevens age 0, Jerusha Richardson age 5, Luther Mose 28 at Georgetown University Hospital Fort Dykes, Willem Harpsberger 56, Dongins Road 36 at Government Hospital for Insane, Robert Beatty 37 at Government Hospital for Insane, Mary Minogue 1% at 50 26th St, Jacob Fowler 78 at 385 Moat Washington, Hose L. Jackson 26 at Government Hospital for Insane, Anns Hughes 50 at Gaillinger Hospital, Wiltam Coleman 40 at Gaillinger Hospital, Ada Botts 25 at 1657 327 Rd, Infant of Hears C2 and Viola Spriggs 11 at 1519 4th Ave, 126 Mass.
Birth notices list numerous families with newborn girls and boys. Names include Joseph Af and Misna G Stewart with a girl, Georges and Patria Scaler with a girl, Ioan DK and Jahana So Street with a girl, Albert and Elizabeth Magruder with a girl, William A and Vincentige Brickman with a boy, and Mary E Watson with a girl among others.
City news in brief reports an entertainment at the Belasco under the children's relief committee to aid Belgian children. Names listed include Miss Katherine Dabney chairing, plus participants such as Miss Margaret O'Toole Miss Emma Cohen and many others. Other items note Cornell alum luncheon at Abbitt and district osteopathic meetings.
Dr. Harry Lewis rushes to Lancaster after his brother Will Lewis, head of a major power plant, is badly burned but not fatally. The report also covers police precautions on prisoner transfers, a secretary of commerce aide arrest and release, hospital equipment purchases in New York, dog bite injuries to a child, horse riding injury, two street incidents, a bootlegging arrest, and a fire damage claim in Anacostia.
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