City Philharmonic Society Forms to Fund 63 Concert Series
A new city wide phil harmonic society proposes 63 afternoon concerts by a 63 musician orchestra. Membership costs 1 to join and 3 for an official subscription. Hammer Orchestra led by Hemsich Hammer is organizing, with weekly concerts planned at Knickerbocker Theater and Metropolitan Theater. The effort seeks public funds through voluntary subscriptions and appeals for donations to sustain the project.
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Piage
Philharmonic
Ouiety
Washington
Leleyme
Seciety
Metropolitan Theater
Mission Head Studied Here By Chinese Education Envoy
G Wo L graduate Tsannyuen Philip Sze was named director of the educational mission here. Sze, who was last at center of a murder at the Kalorama mission house, arrived in Washington after studying medicine at George Washington University. He served as intern at GW hospital and earned praise for medical work. He previously came to this city in 1904 and led a hospital in Shanghai during the war.
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Br Tsannyuen
Philip Sze
Washington University
Dar Sze
Washington
T T Wong
Mission House
Inary Ur Sze
George Washington University
Shanghai
Cotton ginnings fall. season totals show small yields
The department reports sluggish cotton ginnings due to delayed planting across the belt, with early-season ginnings before September 1 totaling 13 987 running bales including 112 round and 30 Sea Island bales, far below last year's 103 678 running bales. A Marine Band concert at Reservation 309 was moved to Judiciary Park from 7:39 PM tonight.
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Sea Island
Todet
Marine Band
Reservation 309
Corner Sixteenth
Columbia Road Northwest
Judiciary Park
Dr Gordon to Speak on Unions at First Congregational
Rev James L Gordon will answer questions on police force, war effort and parade timing at the First Congregational Church Thursday. He will discuss the state and national issues affecting labor, civic duty, and Pershing’s parade plans.
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Dr. Gordon
the & F of Lu
James L . Gordon
The Disillusionment of Nora the Nursemaid
A satirical tale frames a nursemaid's vanity through editorials and cinema images. Nora longs to resemble screen stars like Bara and Lillian Gish, but after repeated attempts her look remains unchanged, revealing bunk in editors claims. A clipped note hints at other scattered items about prices, annexation, and actors carrying the Stars and Stripes with Cohan’s copyright.
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Nora
Douglas Fairbanks
Bara
Lillian Gish
Mount Pleasant Clownette Ruth Newman Near Return to Playgrounds
Children at Mount Pleasant playgrounds await Ruth Newman 11 year old official clownette who leads acrobatic games and health exercises. She has been absent since her father died, with supervisor Lowe Root Rhodes noting she may resume next month. Mrs Rhodey announced a new Bloomingdale gymnasium at First and Bryant and a Park View Playground opening this week.
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Childen
Dev
Mount Pleasant
Ruth Newman
Dnatri
Ruth
Park Road Northwest
Cho Cho
Lowe Root Rhodes
Huth
Rhodey
Bloomingdale Playgrounds
Bryant Streets
Park View
Princess Della Patra Visits San Francisco For Wardrobe Hunt
Princess Della Patra, claiming kinship to the Khedive of Egypt, is in San Francisco intending to spend 50 000 on a wardrobe and seek a young temperamental husband. The 22 year old says she will introduce Egyptian styles in California and travel the United States after a West stay. Her attire blends Occident and Orient with turbans and loose flowing gowns, including pantalette bloomers in harem fashion. In other news, Col E F Abadie is named comptroller of the Operations Division at the United States Shipping Board, replacing John J Nevin, and Alonzo Tweedale becomes treasurer of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, with Waldo S Reed resigning.
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Della Patra
Egypt
San Francisco
California
West
Orient
United States Shipping Board
Col E FI Abadié
John J Nevin
Alonzo Tweedale
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Waldo S Reed
Fringe fashion takes over hats and dresses in Paris trends
Fringes dominate couture with silk fringe in overdresses, blouses, and even entire outfits. Hats feature fringe crowns and trims, while shapes shift from three-quarter sleeves to fingertip-length coats. Paris reports a short-sleeved fur coat as the latest novelty.
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Paris
Jace
Study of Boston schools by local union head
Miss Alice Deal president of the High School Teachers' Union travels to Boston to examine conditions and teaching methods. Upon return she will make recommendations to the Board of Education. Tomorrow the board will consider plans for a new junior high school in the old Central High School building, Seventh and streets northwest, the first of its kind in Washington to relieve high school congestion.
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Alice Deal
Boston
United States
Miss Deal
Mbkke
Board of Education
Board
of Educattion
Central High School
Seventh and © Streets
Washington
Return Letter After 37 Years
A long-dormant innovation in post history returns to light as a letter mailed during the Timothy G Howe era is found at the Hirbitt House. The note asks to return it to Col. Sherman, once a guest at the Metropolitan Hotel, with an address directive if not claimed in ten days. The letter traveled seven blocks to the hotel and back, while a procession of Postmasters General through 1883-1909 era is named in the vintage account.
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Albert Sidney Burleson
Postoffice Department
Burleson
al Jetter
Hirbitt House
Charles E Sherman
Metropolitan Hotel
Ebbitt
Gus Gumpert
Harns
Us&s Army
Col. Sherman
Chester A Arthur
Timothy G Howe
Wisconsin
Walter Q Gresham
Indiana
Frank Hatton
Iowa
William F Vilas
Don M Dichinson
Michigan
John Wanamahker
Pennsylvania
Wilson S Binsell
New York
William IL Wilson
West Virginia
James A Gary
Maryland
Charles Emory Smith
Henry C Payne
H Rub
Veterans Homecoming Aid Sparks U S Debate
Excerpted letter from Ex-Buck Private Washington 1919 questions how the United States should address returning soldiers with French brides and foreign ties. The writer advocates sending regiments back to France to preserve good relations and to prevent a melt of American national spirit.
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France
Washington
Paris
Royal € Johnson
South Dakota
Unites States
American Red Cross
Oscar Hantsehick
Clay
Nebraska
Hant
Sehick
Red Cross
United States
Inrle Sams
Post Office Distribut ing Center Opens in Northwest
Speed up mail delivery expected with a new distributing center at the U street branch near Fourteenth street NW. Seventy carriers will join the new canal ter opening October 1 and distribute about 70,000 letters to the area each day. Washington Chapter No 30 American Ambition Association holds its fall meeting at 1414 N street NW tomorrow night at 8 p.m. The session is open and a polished program is planned.
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U Street
Fourteenth Street
Pehl
Washington
American Ambition Association
N Street Northwest
At & P. Jp
The Jarr Family Irritable People In A Talky Scene
Roy L. McCardell presents a domestic vignette about Mrs Jarr and her husband discussing friends including the Bickerleys and the Rangle encounter at a seaside resort. The dialogue touches on drinking, nagging spouses, and perceptions of love and marriage.
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Jarr
Roy L. McCardell
Bicherleys
Mrs Jarr
Ember
Jerri
Mrs Serr
Rangle
Simmer Hotels
Rangit
Mr Jarr
Dopelys
Bickerley
Waldo Throckmorton Bickerley
The Vogue of Embroi Dery and Fashion Fables
The piece blends fashion notes on embroidered overblouses and navy skirts with a humorous, domestic vignette. It weaves vivid descriptions of outfits with clipped social scene dialogue featuring Mrs and Mr Rangie and the Jarrs, Bickerleys, and others amid a light, stagey tone. The style mixes decor and banter, ending with a note about a novel light source invention.
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Symphosy O
Chester
Maith Hemsich Hammer
Severnmert
Mission Head
G. Wo L. Graduate
Census Bureau
Resino
Sten Turner, Inc
More Truth
James J. Montague
Palmer
Mexico
George M. Cohan
Peli Syndicate
Shipping Board
P. O
Royal C. Johnson
Atlantic
Legacy For Red Cross
Columbus Country Club
The
Fort Berry
Twelfth Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Nev
America
Americana
Yonfler
Buck
Kom Milady
Ann
Nad
Northwest
Ambition Association
Fela
Rangie
Man Rangle
Bickerleys
Mrs Bickerley
Lerner
Gloriana
Mr Bickerley
Mr Bikerley
George
Homicide
Trudh
Mre Bicherle
Jarre
Re Jarr
Prees
Nestlé's
Nestlé
Nestlé S
Nestley
Pwile Spooh Company Dept
Willem Street
Mel Ory
Tee
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