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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1911
Page
6
Saks & Company on Pennsylvania Avenue and Seventh Street promotes Serge fabrics with a guarantee of satisfaction. The ad emphasizes wool content and fast color, urging customers to buy Serge and choose Saks for confidence in quality.
At a Washington hearing before the district commissioners the Monday Evening Club and the Federation of Citizens Associations clashed over converting alley slums into minor streets with costs borne by residents. William McK Clayton argued against the plan while Dr Thomas Jesse Jones and Frederick L Siddons urged reform. Commissioners will decide in two to three weeks.
Chief Wagner announced plans to equip all outlying stations with the new motor driven fire engine after successful tests at the District building. The engine threw two streams over 300 feet, with additional trials at the fireboat on the Seventh Street wharves lifting water from twelve feet depth.
Miss Helen Griffith, a young Baltimore society girl, was moved to her home after severe injuries from a car accident near Autoville, Maryland. She left at noon accompanied by her father Edward A Griffith and her brother Raymond Griffith, still reeling from nervous shock rather than the injuries themselves.
Mrs Desmond of 612 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest appeals to police for help in finding her husband William A Desmond reported missing after last hearing from him on May 6. She fears he may have taken his own life, noting his recent morose and despondent mood.
Sixty five members of the Washington Society of Engineers and the Washington section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers will tour the McCalls Ferry concrete dam and generating station tomorrow. A special train will carry the Washington group to Baltimore where another train awaits them, with Baltimore engineers and AIEE members meeting them.
Dr Sibley advocates rectal injection of a drachm or two of olive oil at bed time to ease symptoms by morning. The method is an emergency option preferred over enemas which strip mucus and foster dependence. Regularity should come from natural methods, but small daily or meal-based oil intake can supply energy and aid digestion.
Nearly all of the Chamber of Commerce members boarded the steamer Northland for a three day excursion to Norfolk and Old Point then New York. The group aims to see Fort Monroe and Hampton Roads, with a baseball game against Fort Monroe led by Capt Phil King. Some members will remain over Sunday at Old Point.
In a distinguished audience last night at the Friends School on I street one girl and four boys graduated. The program opened with Shubert's Military March. James G Creswell of Brearley School New York delivered the class address on The Vocation of Culhinre. Diplomas were presented by Prof W Sidwell to MacLatimer Baker class president Manning Force Stead secretary Miss Lacy Thurber and How ard and David Selwin Tait. Prof and Mrs Sidwell hosted a reception for graduates students and visitors in the new building amid green and white decorations.
The largest May festival of the year drew over 2,000 kids with teachers from all district public school kindergartens. Supt A T Stuart, Capt James F Oyster, and many parents attended as hundreds enjoyed the all day celebration beginning at dawn and lasting into the evening.
City bulletins announce that Representative Thomas Upton Sisson of Mississippi will address the Southern Society at Confederate Memorial House next Monday evening. Also noted is Delta Tau Delta reception at Hauscher’s tonight with speakers Clark and Mann, and an advertisement for Heurich’s Senate Beer. Public ads invite readers to use Post Want Ads, free of charge.
Reminiscences of Weber Walts feature in a Marine Band program alongside melodies from Lindam Sherry and The Merry Widow. The concert includes marches Semper Fidelis Risadeau Beethoven Van Aion Tregine Gottfrey Lebar Hoschaa Sousa and showcases a variety of timeless wind ensemble pieces.
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