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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1909
Page
39
A September sale promotes high grade furniture at wholesale prices with many parlor, bedroom, and dining room pieces. Listings include leather couches, rockers, oak chairs, library rockers, mahogany tables, and dining chairs with notable discounts, emphasizing value and economy without sacrificing workmanship.
The marriage of Miss Antonia B. Carmody to Mr. A Saunders Piatt Worthington took place yesterday at Holy Trinity Church Georgetown with Rev Edward Corbett officiating. The report notes connections to Gen Wesley Merritt and other military families and mentions attendees and subsequent society sightings.
The weekly register lists Percival Pagett Mise Rees Pagett Alice Pagett L R Adam L D Hankel J Jackson R G Neighbors T Martin A E Martin L Adams A Lynch G Augustin McCarthy Heth Fleetwood C M Hyman and others. Miss Helen Winter travels to Richmond Virginia. Mr Waldott Tuckerman visits Stockbridge Massachusetts. Mrs John Nolan and party tour the White Mountains. Miss Anna Bally and the Murphy sisters visit Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. The Rev E Marshall will spend two weeks in September with his father William Hi Mar. Minnesota. The piece discusses Miss Mary Snow proposing to teach domestic cooking in Chicago to curb divorces, arguing cuisine affects family stability.
Snippets describe social spectacle around Lady Granard at Mortimer House Belgrave Square with hidden electric lighting and ornate interiors. Separate items note Mrs Mitchell J. Clark hosting a dinner at Gray Crag Newport transformed into an Italian garden with electric fountain, plus a discussion of English widows' business success and a Bavarian fashion clash in Nuremberg.
An excerpt from a 1900 article notes shifts in tuberculosis care from drugs to fresh air sunlight and rational feeding. It emphasizes natural, scientific feeding, outdoor activity, and mental wellbeing as recovery factors, with evolving treatment from past methods to more modern approaches.
Local members plan to urge Washington as the 1910 convention site for the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Seattle hosts the next gathering next month with an invitation to be extended by local members. Chamber of Commerce president will push the plan tonight to secure $25,000 to entertain the convention before inviting the group.
Fairmount Heights Citizens' Association contemplates admitting women residents as members. At a recent meeting the proposition was discussed and definite action is expected at the next regular session, aiming to make the group unique in the district by including women.
London August 31 Prince Emiyoshi Hun grandson of the Emperor of Japan accompanied by the princess and Col Kurita his aide de camp left Liverpool today on the steamer Carmania for New York where he will represent the Japanese government at the Hudapb-Patton celebration He will then visit President Taft and undertake a tour of the United States
Imperial press today reports the suppression of the council of imperial defense established in 1905. The move is seen as a clear victory for the Stolypin cabinet, which aims to subordinate branches of government and curb grand ducal interference.
The Marine-Hospital Service plans a large campaign against ground squirrels in Contra Costa County near San Francisco, linking several plague cases to the rodents. Dr. W. O. Rucker presents a report tracing human illness to squirrel infections, prompting control efforts and quarantine-like measures.
A giant crate shipped for Swiss Minister Ritter in Washington creates a spectacle as onlookers misinterpret it as diplomatic cargo. The shipment, claimed to total about 480 tons of oriental furniture gathered during Ritter’s travels, fills the street with curious crowds and prompts jokes about the Matterhorn and Swiss legation. The minister plans to furnish a unique embassy with rare, oriental pieces from Japan, China, India, and beyond, blending art and diplomacy in a grand, travel-worn display.
Colonial era COLONIAL CHINA reproductions shown in a new display. The collection features dinner and luncheon plates bread and butter plates tea cups and saucers teapots sugars and creamer sets compotes and complete dinner sets. The items imitate early seventeenth century styles with gold floral decorations. Notably the set is tied to reproductions of Abe china used by Martha Weington and George Washington.
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