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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1910
Page
10
Woodward & Lothrop in New York Washington Pa aris offers a Labor Day sale with 25 to 50 percent below regular prices on high grade furniture. Rare additions cover parlor to office rooms with expert designs and harmonious colors. Office items include Roll-Top Desks and Revolving Office Chairs with deep discounts and assorted woods.
Berlin September 4 Emperor William received Field Marshal Lord Roberts the British envoy announcing George V’s accession. Roberts explained missing Sunday arrival due to Vienna indisposition and late embassy notice. William lightly suggested the embassy should rise earlier as dinner plans followed by a state event.
William toasted King George and detained Lord Roberts for several hours in animated conversation. Leora Stoberts wore the Order of the Black Eagle, conferred by the Emperor William at the close of the South African war.
Atlantic Mass Sept 4 Cromwell Dixon, testing his airship at Harvard aviation field, faced engine failure at 500 feet. He crawled to the forward part and dangled a tether to drop the anchor rope to rescuers below. Tomorrow Burgess and other pilots prepare trials as the $10,000 Boston Light prize doubles in trials aboard Curtiss machines.
These special sales of rich Cut Glass need no introduction to Washingtonians. They are the bargain event of the year. Our efforts are to make this sale the greatest opportunity for Cut Glass buying we have yet offered. As we are supreme in the Cut Glass field, you will be assured of the finest quality. Some of the many bargains will appear in the newspapers on day of sale tomorrow.
James L Hutchinson longtime circus man and partner of Phineas T Barnum died at his Shelter Island summer home aged 64 He was born Jerseyville Ohio and earlier controlled a rival circus to Barnum later retiring with a fortune His son Guy Hutchinson a Yale quarterback and two daughters survive him
This 1910 column by Dr T J Allen debunks the idea that fish is a superior brain food. It argues intellectual capacity hinges on liver and kidney health, not specific foods, and elevates fresh fish and especially salmon as the best sea foods.
The Chevy Chase Club hosts the Interty tennis match this week drawing dinners and teas as Norfolk players are hosted at a large luncheon. Various Washington society figures and their guests are noted in a bustling social roundup with travel to Atlantic City and New York.
Mrs Chapman of Staines topped 200 competitors in the London and Middlesex Rifle Association meet with 103 of 106, narrowly missing the bull. Duchess of Bedford among famed shooters with remarkable totals. other titled ladies and social figures listed as keen deer stalkers and sport shooters, amid discussion of marriage and women’s roles in society.
James R Keene of Lexington Ky is taken to Good Samaritan Hospital with pneumonia feared after high fever and lung congestion. Maj Foxhall A Daingerfield and Dr John Scott stay with him. Daingerfield’s arrival expected. condition improving but not yet out of danger.
The National Zoological Park prepares for winter beginning November 1 with indoor housing for most mammals and birds. Monkeys and antelopes require careful confinement while polar bears and bears cope with cold. new arrivals include a female grizzly from Yellowstone and rare addax-like antelopes. Heating uses a central plant, with underground pipes and concrete-walled enclosures ensuring warmth for large houses.
Misa Amelia A Hetzel daughter of Mr and Mrs John J Hetzel married Dr Harold H Bender of Princeton NJ at Windewald Martinsburg WV. Ceremony by Rev Dr Henry Bender uncle to groom. Bride prominent socially. father a bank president and Republican figure. Groom teaches at Princeton University and is Johns Hopkins PhD graduate. King Menelek in Abyssinia in grave condition after afresh apoplexy.
Roslyn L I Sept 4 Special to The Washington Fest rector Hew Clifton H Brewer says a report of a strike by ten girls in Trinity Episcopal Church choir is incorrect Katherine Mackay was not involved as she was abroad and unaware of the dispute. Ten choir members left for a time and were replaced before the morning service.
Special to The Washington Post. Baltimore. Sept 4. William W Southard attempted a motorless biplane flight before a crowd at Prospect park. The craft nosedived, tossing him headfirst into bushes. He escaped with only slight injuries. The plane lacked an engine by design, and previous tests had failed after rope pulls and prior structural failures at Prospect park.
The Columbia Theater hosted Lyman Howe's motion pictures as part of a Sunday series. The funeral of King Edward VIII was the main feature, shown again after prior praise. Other views included Lake Como, Indo China, Cowes yacht races, and Canadian railroad building, interspersed with comic shorts.
Union Station reports vacation traffic from Atlantic City requires two-section evening trains while the rest of the flow balances out. Captain J W Robey notes Washingtonians leaving for Labor Day and Southern visitors pass through daily, with homecomings slated for mid month. Navy orders ten ships to San Francisco for California celebration. Swift & Company reports beef sales in DC for the week ending Sep 3 averaging 78.8 cents per pound.
A fragmented moral meditation on living upright daily by a couple, urging self-denial to help others. A gondola of moral anecdotes and poems extols humility, kindness, and steadfast love as paths to genuine religion and character.
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