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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1918
Page
2
Awit and Company report three sales of Fresh Seeef in Washington county for the week ending Saturday September 6 averaging 21.24 cents per pound.
A major rerouting plan for Washington Railway and Electric lines, led by John A Beeler, awaits public utilities commission approval after testing with Capital Traction. Meanwhile Local No 689 union members adopt a wage scale proposing eight or nine hour days, with pay rising to 48 cents an hour after a year, boosting payroll by about 400,000 dollars annually.
The third day of the Jewish new year saw Washington synagogues hold special services with President Wilson's Palestine homeland message read in support. Representative C. F. Reavis spoke on U S war prep in France, Allied military effort, and German ignorance about defeat. He predicted U S troops and air power could end the war by autumn 1919, while neutral nations would promote peace propaganda inspired by a beaten Germany. Rabbi Benjamin L Grossman urged uncompromising change and family unity as Yom Kippur observances were noted.
City Briefs report tonight meetings for Stonewall Jackson Chapter UDC National Evangelical Ministers Alliance White Cross Employment Bureau and Dunbar Armstrong high schools cadets planning draft registration. Atlantis Deep Water Association delegates named. Local dances open air service postponed and Baptist Ministers Conference to address soldiers. Zeta Tau Alpha meets to organize in Washington. Kappa Alpha Association directors elected with leaders named. George Washington University Chapter house to be run as club by alumni.
Thurman A Brown and Israel Hensen among seventeen escapees from the District jail on March 17 were seized at 208 I Street Northeast at 3 30 p m. A dozen police and 30 soldiers helped in the takedown as the men face charges of highway robbery housebreaking and assault. Fifteen of the seventeen escapees are now in custody. The breakout involved cutting a bar in a window and escaping via a trap door.
A delirious German prisoner in an American hospital shouted Let me go and cursed Americans calling them devils as he regained consciousness. Attendants in World War II era hospital ward, including doctors and nurses, were described in a wartime account noting a masquerade by war workers and Real Cross volunteers before wounded from the allied offensive had changed.
Birth announcements list several newborns with parenting pairs and genders including boys and girls. Names are partially garbled but include pairs like Loy Tawis with Elizabeth Darling and Joseph Gleason with Besse Gleason, among others, with multiple sets of parents cited.
A bulk death notice lists individuals such as George Trambie of 470 M St SW aged 75, Grace Leapley of 6370 Et Ne aged 57, Cleanor Wilson Smith of Episcopal Eye Mae and Throat Hospital, Clyde Carter at a tuberculosis hospital, Edwina Brooks of Freedmen's Hospital aged 4, Arthur Jones at Freedmen's Hospital aged 7 months, infants of Edgar and Daisy McEnree at Oakdale Street, Catherine Foster of 622 B St AE aged 46, with various ages and addresses noted.
Funeral for Dr Edmund Townsend, who died at 1135 New Hampshire avenue, was held Friday afternoon at his home and burial followed in Glenwood Cemetery. Townsend, a surgeon on a British ship plying between New York and foreign ports, returned from Liverpool last spring as health declined. He is survived by his wife and two daughters.
Sunrise 6 42 high tide 11 27 11 42 sunrise times and tides listed with a present clock note. Weather forecast covers Columbia Maryland areas with rising temperatures Monday Tuesday and variable winds. Disturbances create showers in the Midwest and mountain states with cooler conditions expected in the Northwest and a dry pattern east of the Mississippi River extended into New England. Temperature records show highs in the 60s and lows in the 50s with humidity near 9 5 and sun exposure around 8 hours.
Rear Admiral Cary T Grayson personal physician to the President addressed the All Comers Bible Class at Church of the Covenant Studio Hall on Connecticut Avenue. He spoke on Medicine of the Old Testament and discussed religious rites surrounding ancient medical practices and their moral lessons.
Mrs Irene Kimball reported being bitten by a dog owned by H. H Miller at Fairmont Apartments. Richard D Lynch, 18, was bitten on the wrist by a dog that appeared ownerless. The animal was later found at Camp Columina and shot.
The National Woman's Party urged every woman to join demonstrations protesting Senate delay in passing the suffrage amendment. The call went out yesterday as mobilization began.
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