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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1913
Page
6
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Forty hours of devotion opens at St Marys German Catholic Church with a high mass by Rev John Roth, sermons by Rev L A Schumacher and others. Dominican missionaries Ripple and Higgins begin a two week mission at St Dominics in South Washington with twice daily Masses and nightly sermons leading to papal benediction.
A marvelous production The Spider Gang plays today at the Virginia Theater. Tickets cost 20 dollars 25 cents to Nashville Tennessee with return via Chesapeake and Ohio Railway on sale October 28 and 29.
Robinson Hall a 3150,000 structure at North Capitol and M streets DC was dedicated yesterday by the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church for hospital use in connection with Sibley Hospital. Mrs. George C. Robinson praised as benefactors Mr. and Mrs. Robinson contributed 750,000. Bishop Quayle urged the human touch in care. ceremonies moved to Rust Hall chapel due to rain. officers to be elected and White House reception planned with Secretary Bryan and Commissioner General Caminetti speaking tonight.
Members of the Independent Order Sons of Jonadab held a rally at Capital Heights. Capt John C Daley the grand chief was introduced by James Malone. He outlined the good the organization does while numerous members praised temperance and the group. John Moore was elected grand secretary at a special session Friday evening.
Dr Willam D Brace druggist at 2929 M Street NW left the city for Laporte Indiana to retrieve his wife’s body after her auto mobile was struck by a freight train Saturday afternoon. Funeral services will be in Frederick Maryland where she was born. Interment will follow. Her sisters Mrs Thomas Kemp and Mrs Charles F Kreh live in Frederick. She had been married 24 years. Brace plans to return with the body Thursday.
Takoma Park's Washington Foreign Mission Seminary will become a college with a department of foreign missions. The institution, founded in 1907, will draw students from the Atlantic to Southeastern states and expand to train missionaries for work abroad. Prof. M. E. B. Kern is president.
International W C T U delegates explained global progress in temperance work at the First Congregational Church in Washington. Attending were Emma Shelton and Mabel Beddow among others. A reception for visiting delegates will be held at 522 Sixth Street and at Mrs Wilbur Crafts home.
Medical Director Lucien G. Heneberger, retiring on age, leaves eight other Maine veterans from the night of the explosion at Habana harbor still on active duty. The list includes Lieut. John Hood, Jonas H. Holden, Wat T. Culverius, Amon Bronson Jr, David F. Boyd Jr, Charles M. Ray, Arthur Crenshaw, and Albertus W. Catlin, with Pope Washington not aboard. Heneberger’s career spans James River Ironclads, hospital duty, and the naval examining board, totaling sixteen years at sea and nearly twenty ashore.
A carriage en route from Alexandria to Braddock Heights veered off a 6 foot embankment near the bride's parents home. Passengers including Mr and Mrs Samuel L Monroe, Mrs C Leadbeater, Miss Margaret Ashby and Misses Judith and Isabelle Boswell escaped with minor injuries.
Carmelite members plan a convert near Wheeling West Virginia soon. The order traces to St Theresa in the sixteenth century and the Wheeling convent will replica the Arila Spain facility where she was a nun. Honor Memory of Rev William Watters. Services observed at Furlong farm near El Nido to mark the anniversary of Watters birth.
German day events mark Franz Pastrius’s commemoration of Germantown. Martin Wiegand will helm a Mount Vernon pilgrimage with wreaths at Washington’s tomb as singers and speakers take the stage at the Saengerbund. Representatives Kahn and Dyer are among speakers at tonight’s meeting.
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