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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1922
Page
4
The notice lists White Ripple Dimity bed spreads and matching shams. Spreads 72 by 90 inches now $2.10 each, 80 by 90 inches $2.35 each. White scapped edge with cut corner and bolster sham matching. 72 by 90 spread with sham priced at $3.00 per set. 80 by 90 spread with sham at $3.50 per set.
Mt Alto hospital on Wisconsin Avenue will be turned over to the Veterans Bureau under decentralization in the Fourth district. Fort McHenry patients will be moved here and St Elizabeth's status will stay unchanged. Fourth district includes DC, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia with about 60,000 claimants, 6,300 in training, 3,000 in hospitalization, and Foster clinic patients moved to Perryville center.
Campaign committee of Central Mission and Child's Home met at the City club to plan a $200,000 drive for a new central mission building and emergency home for children. Speakers included Rev. James Freeman Epiphany Church William Knowles Cooper BE H DaGroot Jr James E B Lloyd L B Breuninger and Mrs Archibald Hopkins.
A long death notice column lists numerous individuals by name with ages and living addresses or hospitals. Entries include Mary J Carswell 2. John H Ladd 54 at Geo Wash Univ Hosp. Michael Hassett 19 at St Eds Hosp. Julia Rysn 72. Wade 62. Shelton 70. Schaffer 78. Byrne 69 at Home for Aged. Johnson 76 at Garfield Hosp. Whittlesey 78 at St Biz Hosp. Edwin Trey 95 at Garfield Hosp. Addie Campbell 12. Godfrey Lincoln 21. Ronnie Thomas 1 1 2. George W Lee 50. Jefferson Woolage 38. Lucy Hawking 17. Hoy Iowa Jr 2. Dorothy E Gook 1. Clarence Hargrove Jr 1. Age spellings and places are variably garbled but indicate a local obituaries list with hospital affiliations.
A letter to Foley Co Adv claims a six year army service gives a good stomach and credits Foley Cathartic Tablets for this condition. The writer advises others to write to Arthur L. Lyons at 454 Cincinnati St Dayton Ohio for verification.
Daniel J. Callahan of the Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company was named by the District Supreme Court to fill the unexpired term of D. A. Edwards, former school board president. Callahan, a prominent businessman, will serve until June. The order was signed by Chief Justice Walter I. McCoy and Justices Wendell P. Stafford Frederick L. Siddons Williamitz Jennings Bailey and A. A. Machine.
The issue lists tide times and high and low values, Washington and Maryland Virginia weather forecasts with rain likely Friday and Saturday, wind shifts, and temperature changes. It includes flying weather forecasts for routes to Long Island and Norfolk, and a sequence of marriage licenses and names of couples filed in Washington area. The document cites multiple disturbances over Lake Erie and the west Gulf states and references pressure patterns from Quebec to Bermuda.
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