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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1909
Page
39
Anticipated annual sale offers unpresented stock and value from Manufacturers Wholesale Prices. Readily available are Quartered Oak Flat-top Desks in multiple sizes with strong value gaps and sanitation styled roll-top and typewriter desks. Also featured are Bankers Desks, Office Chairs in oak and mahogany, and solid mahogany options with leather seats.
A Japanese party of business and professional visitors, with Tacoma Commercial Club and Chamber of Commerce committees, left Tacoma for a special train ride over the Tacoma Eastern Railroad to Mount Rainier National Park. They will visit the lower Electron power plant, travel to Ashford and Nisqually glacier, and inspect lumber industries at Eatonville before returning. A chamber meeting and an evening reception in their honor are planned.
In Madison County near Skyland Virginia a marriage was held on the Blue Ridge summit. Edward Parka and Miss He Stakving, popular sweethearts, arranged a unique ceremony with vaudeville acts. About 160 guests, mostly from Washington, attended and contributed around $5.00 to the bride. The event included music, dancing and rifle shooting after the ceremony.
Alfred Vanderbilt led the competition at the thirteenth annual Newport horse show, held at the Newport Casino. The Oakland stable entries carried off five first prizes and several seconds and thirds, with Vanderbilt and his newly acquired English horses Favor and Mala boosting his totals.
A Swedish star arrived today in Wallaxton post heading, amid notes that this marks the second trip of the act to the region. The performer, praised as the country’s greatest, will begin a tour schedule starting October 1, after previously visiting two years ago to study local customs.
A Washington dinner hosted by Mr Barrett featured guests including Mr Pomponio Guzman and Mme Toledo de Herrarte with ministers, secretaries, and diplomats from Colombia, Mexico, Persia, Chile, and Russia. Attendees included Mrs Burrows, Miss Leavitt, and numerous officials as talks touched on recalls and postings while plans to travel to New York, Boston, and Europe appeared.
The Duke of Marlborough leaves London for Italy, often visiting Venice in September with the Wilsons. The Duchess stays abroad with young Lord and Lady Curzon before touring Scotland to meet Mrs Jack Astor and attend the Hragansa Stetrart wedding. The couple remain distant, with her obstinacy blocking reconciliation, while the Russian court grapples with the czarina's melancholia and health woes.
A fragmented antiquated list outlines top eating errors harming health especially in youth. It ranks overeating, junk food, hurried meals, indiscriminate mixing, excessive condiments, fat and sugar use, overeating meat, eating too much white bread, worrying about meals, avoiding poisonous foods, overeating grains, skipping meals, and restless eating patterns.
The Post reports Pope Pius X will use his influence to block any move to transfer the holy sepulcher from Jerusalem to Rome. Mer. Falconio, papal delegate to the United States, reiterates the pope would resist such a change and even denies seeking German help. He says Catholics at all levels are satisfied with keeping Calvary’s sacred relic in Jerusalem and rejects rumors of Vatican support for relocation.
The International Esperanto congress opened in Barcelona and will run through September 10. Among the American delegates are Herbert Harris of Portland Maine, representing the government, and Arthur Becker of Chicago, editor of the American Journal.
James Bellows McGregor of North Newport New Hampshire celebrated his 108th birthday at his home The Maples. He has been a Freemason since his early years and is noted for long life and community involvement in North Newport.
The body of Capt Inno A Dougherty of the U S Navy and Rainbow was removed from Bubbling Well Cemetery in Shanghai for transshipment to the United States. A funeral cortege with troopers sailors and Marines moved to the Bund where a salute and American flag covered casket marked the solemn sending. Messages of condolence from Japanese and other officials were received.
The Italian cruiser Eun with about a hundred crew members dropped anchor near Annapolis this afternoon. The visitors plan to tour the Naval Academy and later dine with Capt Bowter, superintendent, and his staff.
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