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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1908
Page
2
A rambling excerpt savors a playful old time mood, mixing nature imagery with fashion satire. The prose meanders through dawn, bees, flowers, and a critique of clothes and style, ending with an abrupt fragment about garments and fashion care.
The Elks announce a rural Jubilee and barn dance festival at Benning race course on June 16 to 18 with a street parade, mule races, and a prize for the slowest mule. An executive committee outlines a packed program including horse races, entertainment, and a long list of participating helpers and organizers.
Chicago tests by the Gro onal Survey of the United States find bricks best resist fire compared with concrete, limestone, granite, and other common building materials. Two brick samples endured extreme heat. an old foundation brick remained sound while most new bricks cracked or split. The tidraylle pressed brick also performed well, while natural stone fared worst among tested materials.
Last season readings and mute in the reading room for the blind at the Library of Congress list events from May 28 to May 29. Performances include Keller's sense and sensibility renditions with musical numbers by Kamtola Wsperant r clubs, a song and piano recital by Charles Girlock and Miss Lerom Facey, and Juanita Miller reciting her father's Joaquin Miller poems with her own songs.
The St Francis de Sales congregation will dedicate its Langdon church next Sunday at 4 p m on the site of the historic Queen's Chapel. Cardinal Gibbons or Bishop Curtis will preside with bishops and clergy from Washington attending. Local Catholic orders and prominent residents will participate in the exercises.
Special to The Washington Fest Guilford Conn May 23 Judge Charles Post announces engagement to Miss Fanny M Biel of Norwich after more than twenty years of proposing each year. She finally accepts after caretaking her parents and choosing marriage. A June wedding is planned with a Moronean tour after the ceremony.
A cooperative plan between the health department and the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals aims to stamp out rabies by removing stray dogs. Officials estimate thousands of strays threaten community safety after a fatal case linked to hydrophobia sparked public alarm.
Robert Harper aged eighty three and father of Robert N Harper president of the Washington Chamber of Commerce died suddenly at his home on Kenyon Street. He had been ill for months and the funeral will be at Leesburg with burial there. A longtime resident since 1901, he was born in Alexandria and at one time ran a dry goods business. He leaves a large family including several Washington residents and relatives in Leesburg Culpeper and Danville.
Mrs EH Heath Rawden wife of a Cincinnati University professor who faced dismissal for anti marriage and free love views travels to Cambridge Ohio with two young sons to visit Prof Bawden's parents She asserts her husband's vindication of freedom of thought and speech while noting disagreement with his beliefs.
Special to The Washington Post Detroit mid May reports Tudson Maxim the Invator and Charles Herreshoff a lead boat builder visiting to test launches built locally The plan calls for a fleet of several hundred torpedo craft each carrying a torpedo The craft are shown entering a harbor as dawn glows and guns are readied The piece notes such numbers would overwhelm battleships at night and be quickly destroyed
Two counties held their conventions in Mecum Park and endorsed WJB vin for president. Senator Adam Witlepige was nominated for governor.
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