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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1905
Page
27
The new fall models of the Saks Special $3 Shoes have arrived, offering 22 distinct styles. Despite higher leather costs the shoes match the quality and finish of prior seasons and rival the best $3.50 to $4 options. Made from Vici Kid, Patent Calf, Patent Colt, Gun metal Calf, and Wax Calf in button, lace, and Blucher designs with various sole types and finishes.
You would be surprised how some acquaintances are comfortably situated financially. Depositors have quietly saved for years, small amounts at a time, building a snug fortune. It is not too late to begin. Open an account with our Savings Department and add to it as opportunity permits for satisfactory growth. We pay 3 percent interest and invite you to talk it over today. IOW Savings Bank, Seventh Street and Massachusetts Avenue. Deposits exceed a million and a quarter.
Capt and Mrs Abraham Hart celebrated fifty years of marriage at their Kalorama avenue home. They were married in Philadelphia in 1855 and moved to Washington forty two years ago. The event drew seven children six grandchildren and many officers from Grand Army and Masonic groups who presented gifts and telegrams of congratulation.
Attorney General of the Post Office Department issues fraud orders against Omega Investment and Western Medical Institute for marketing quack cures and false cancer “remedies.” The cases claim money is raised for bogus health products amid deceptive assurances. Maj. Sylvester invited to address New York State Police Chiefs Association in Albany on September 12.
Thirty six Filipino students aged sixteen to twenty one sail from Hong Kong to the United States on the Manila steamship for government funded education up to 3500 annual. They will be placed in various schools nationwide except in the South due to race tensions. They must enter civil service on return for an equal number of years studied. They will be met in San Francisco by instructors and selected by competitive exam.
Justice Gould signed an order dismissing without prejudice the habeas corpus petition by Henry H. Rawlett against Annie E. Sherwood for custody of Katherine Virginia Rawlett and Ernest Albert Rawlett. Rawlett, the children’s father, claimed their grandmother refused access. Sherwood said Rawlett deserted his wife and family in November 1902 and denied denying access.
A northwest city girl fears dog thefts and asks where to hide her puppy. Her brother replies with a riddle about grandma’s chicken nest, suggesting a place no one could locate, highlighting teased danger and a child’s evasive humor.
The sixth annual Chase Chace Family Association reunion will convene at Hotel Vendome in Boston next Thursday. Rev Platt R Chase of Sugar Loaf, N H, and Lieut Gev Guild of Massachusetts will deliver principal addresses along with other notable speakers. The group, formed twenty five years ago, seeks to reclaim old English estates confiscated by the Crown. Prominent Washington figures supported the effort, including the late Mrs Kate Chase Sprague, daughter of Chief Justice Chase.
On Labor Day weekend the district issued licenses with one on Sunday, two on Monday, and forty three yesterday. Many couples were nonresidents, with Virginia appearing most often, followed by North Carolina and single cases from Maryland South Carolina Pennsylvania New York and Ohio.
The grand jury did not meet yesterday and will not convene until next Monday. District Attorney B D Baker, who took office last Friday, has yet to address the cotton crop report scandal and other graft cases. No changes were announced in the DA office staff.
The District Commissioners hear the appeal of Private J Miller after the trial board upheld a charge of unbecoming conduct for arresting Herschel Reese without a warrant. Reese called back, Miller ordered detention. the boy replied pudding in fame leading to controversy. Other items include promotions, tax exemptions, street improvements, and staff changes in the District offices.
The Rev C P Stealy, formerly of Broaddus Memorial Baptist Church in Richmond, Va, began duties as pastor at West Washington Baptist Church last Sunday. Born in Clarksburg W Va, he transformed a small chapel at Broaddus Memorial into a modern church and built membership to 340 in about five years while his Sunday school enrollment reached 450. His wife Mrs Stealy was popular with Richmond children, and the couple now resides at parsonage 3154 after moving to Washington.
A coroner's jury yesterday ruled Joseph Mangum's death accidental after a streetcar truck collision with an electric current in a conduit on Delaware Avenue and a street northeast. Funeral services for Mangum will be held at A. J. Schippert's chapel on Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest at 2 PM, with interment in Bladensburg, Md. Careful housewives rely on Burnett's Vanilla noted for its claimed absolute purity.
Joseph Bradley, manager of the Columbia Land Company, dove into the river after Edward C. Darrell fell from the wharf, assisted him ashore, and attempted resuscitation though Darrell did not survive. The report also notes a color line and a public notice about quarantine delaying jury trials in DC.
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