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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1921
Page
6
Fashion pronounces plainly on Full Dress with clear edicts. It specifies coat and trousers conforming to features like high waist close fit and peaked lapels. Tuxedo options include conventional Black and deep Blue Sheathing/Oxford mixtures with prices from 47.50 to 75 dollars.
Advertisement notes a wide range of evening waistcoats in materials like pique, mercerized, silk, satin, and duck in plain and self figured styles, including V or U shapes. Prices range from 5 to 15 dollars. Also lists cutaway frocks and Oxfords in all sizes for afternoon formalities.
Silk hats shoes and pumps full dress linen cravats gloves reefers even to the jewelry give us an hour's notice and we can groom you for any occasion.
Four foreign representatives lingered in Washington for courtesy calls and site visits ahead of the American Legion convention. A Fort Myer salute honored Italian Gen Diaz. Diaz then went to Mt Vernon to lay a wreath on Washington's tomb. Belgian Gen Dias visited Gettysburg battlefield. Japanese Gen Tanaka and Admiral Kato toured the area ahead of the arms conference.
In the district supreme court Virginia H. Zier sues Paul Carl Zier for limited divorce and alimony claiming cruelty since their 1916 marriage and asks custody of their two children. Helen Riley sues Cleveland Riley for limited divorce and alimony alleging a systematic cruelty and fear for her life, seeking custody of their child.
McKinley Jones was fined five dollars by Judge McMahon after being caught stealing a pint of milk from the doorstep of Harry Yager at 228 F Street Northwest. Yager had tallied a week of morning thefts before catching the culprit in the act, who claimed he bought the milk at a nearby store for seven cents.
District forecasts indicate increasing cloudiness with rain by Wednesday and again Thursday. Tropical storm active inland in Florida moving northeast, hurricane and storm warnings issued along Florida coast. Regional high pressure and scattered rain across states with cooler temperatures in the northeast and Ohio valley. Local data include temperature readings from midnight to 4 p.m. and relative humidity, with a section on departures from normal and temperatures in other cities as of Oct. 25.
Leonard Freeman of 910 Raylor Street was fined 100 and placed on six months probation by Judge Hardison for driving a horse drawn vehicle while intoxicated. Freeman claimed wartime injuries caused muscle loss and denied being helplessly intoxicated.
The bride of six months filed threats against Ear Ryan a painter at 413 G Street Northwest claiming six weeks of harassment since he left her. She said he threatened to kill her unless she returned home. Ryan denied making threats.
The column lists numerous newborns with parents and genders, noting James E and Mary Walker a boy, James W and Adah Curtis a girl, Thomas A and Irene Bowie a boy, James W and Carrie Hunt a girl, Frank W and Alma Setters a girl, Abe and Lena Goldberg a boy, Theodore T and Julie Columbus a boy, and many others including Charles W and Nora Garrison a boy, Walter W and Ida Beall a boy, Simon and Esther Berson a boy, Isaac and Mary Silverman a girl, and more newborns through the line ending with James I and Siberia Wilson a girl.
A list of couples licensed to marry includes Luther Rankin of Midland Virginia and Thelma Goode of Catlette. Daniel E. Searcy of Griffin Georgia and Agnes V. Scott. Jack Ferguson and Mildred Wilkens of New York. Thomas Regan and Katherine Karm. Thomas Cooksey and Mabel Seaman. John Reeves and Nellie OConnor. Robert Keleher and Grace Ryder. Thomas Smythe. Thomas Keane and Mary Walsh. John Mahone and Helen Kuhlman. Will Reed and Luciel Hickman. Lester Milstead and Myrtle Mills. Albert Jeffries and Agnes Reed. and John Briggs. with various officiants noted.
A Washington notices death entries list Charles Dunham 67 at Garfield hospital and Ella Jackson 58 at 47 Q Street with dozens of other names and ages, from infants to elderly, including addresses on Quincy Street ne and Anacostia road se, and mentions of Garfield and Walter Reed hospitals and Children's Hospital.
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