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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1918
Page
5
This authorized compiler presents a single volume for mothers guiding a child’s musical education. It includes mother’s songs, rhymes, musical games with instructions, nature and educational songs, vacation and school songs, patriotic and Sunday School pieces, totaling 343 songs, 99 piano pieces and 27 piano duets.
Large crowds attended Thanksgiving services across Alexandria despite rain. Masses were held at St Marys and 11 oclock service united several churches at the Presbyterian. Clergy included Rev Dr John Lee Allison and Rev Cecil Cook, with others from Methodist and Baptist churches. An Emanuel Lutheran service also occurred. An oyster supper and dancing followed for soldiers in uniform. A double marriage was performed at Grace Episcopal with several other marriages recorded. Deaths include Frank F Heisley 99 and Edith Goodhand former Alexandria resident. Red Cross aims and annual meeting planned with by laws review.
London via Montreal November 28. Australian premier W Wo Aughes received a cable from treasurer W A Watt stating that with a new harvest due and payments totaling at least 50 million pounds, the Australian Wheat Board favors selling 1,000,000 tons of wheat at a minimum price of 7 shillings per bushel to allow Australia to compete in world markets and to dispose of the remaining supply.
In New York City a bear hunt in Central Park drew two thousand spectators. Keeper Louis Sebold died of heart failure during the chase. Mounted officer John Copeland was bitten, another man lost part of a thumb, and the bear Mollie was finally captured near the Astor home at Bixty-Arth Street and Central Park.
After a hotel and restaurant workers parade and mass meeting in New York the chiefs announced that restaurant owners had yielded to demands for higher wages averting a Thanksgiving Day Strike for the night dinner hour. The waiters’ strike had been in effect for several days and would continue.
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