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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1913
Page
6
Grogan's invites shoppers to compare prices on furniture with plain figures and bargain sale claims. The ad guarantees reliability and satisfaction after actual use, offering flexible installment charges to make payments easy.
A bank highlights complete facilities and readiness to serve, stressing mutual advantage. The ad promises cooperative handling of banking business, sound conservative principles, and balanced policy. It touts real service real security and real cooperation to attract customers.
George J Robinson of Detroit Mich donates 30000 for Ashley Hospital and its nurses training school. The gift funded a new hospital and training building now occupied and named Robinson Hall in his honor. Robinson, a retired lawyer with diverse business interests, has long supported Sibley Hospital and related projects nationwide. The Sibley Hospital Training School board meets at Sibley Hospital October 15 for Robinson Hall dedication.
Belmont the old Barber estate at Fourteenth and Clifton streets northwest is favored for district acquisition. A citizens preservation committee and a commission stated that Belmont would be considered in the annual budget preparations. The district budget must be in the Treasury by October 15.
Washington and Baltimore merchants held a conference on lower freight rates after the railroads ended free freight delivery. Maurice D. Rosenberg and others represented business groups from both cities. Rosenberg called the meeting successful and said a series of conferences will be held this week. The Interstate Commerce Commission hearings will examine rate equality between Albany North Carolina to Washington and Baltimore to the Capital, among other discrimination examples.
A hearing by the excise board Monday at 3 PM will decide if women may obtain liquor licenses under the new excise law. Attorney Henry B. Davis represents a woman applicant and several other women have renewals on file. The outcome, not only for these cases but for others, hinges on the board’s interpretation of the law. Funeral held for John Burnside, 9, longtime pressman from Sideburn, Fairfax County. He was buried at Glenwood Cemetery after services at Wright's Chapel with four grandsons as pallbearers.
Pennybacker a statistician and chief figure in the good roads movement has been appointed by the Meads to a Canadian commission. He will continue as statistician for the joint Congressional committee and as secretary of the American Highways Association. He leaves for Canada to organize a statistical bureau for the Canadian commission as Ontario plans large highway expenditures.
Miss Norma Lee Johnson private secretary to Representative Samuel B Avis of West Virginia disputes a Navy weight ruling that left Frank Lively from Kia district short of midshipman physicals by about five pounds. She persuades Secretary Daniels to order a second examination to check for arithmetic error and restore the appointment to Annapolis.
An obscure Valparaiso hillside tomb bears a 1914 inscription honoring officers and seamen slain on the U S frigate Essex during a February 28 1814 action with British ships. Dr W B Aughinaugh argues the remains belong in a national cemetery and notes W B Schley of Spanish American War fame.
Members of the Randle Highlands Citizens Association met last night to renew the fight to extend Pennsylvania Avenue to the District line. They criticized car service over the bridge and referred Carraway and Crosser bills on District revenues and public utilities ownership to the executive committee for investigation. E. Snyder presided.
Patriots day celebration in Chesapeake Beach features suffrage debate with speakers Lucy Burns Mrs Jessie Hardy Stubbs Migs Representative Heflin of Alabama and others. Other speeches on varied subjects follow the suffrage discussion.
John G. McGrath president of the Park View Citizens Association of Washington fell while climbing near Zepp Va and became stuck between rock and a tree. Treasury official James M. Wilmeth aided in the rescue as McGrath vacationed in the Alleghanies to rest. Pension data and encampment plans for veterans noted. Attacks-Relief Association reported $2,800 in bank and continued benefactions over the year.
An itemized sale offers colonial and Sheraton styles with cane rush and wooden seats. Prices range from 4.75 to 22.00 for tables washstands and furniture in mahogany and oak, with white enamel and walnut finishes, noting several small items and sale dates.
Reports from Alexandria detail funeral services for William H. Peck and Ernest Dell after they were struck by a train at Hume Crossing Sunday morning. Peck's service occurred at Sharon Episcopal Chapel with burial in Sharon Cemetery. Dell's service was at his home with burial in Bethel Cemetery. Also included are notes of minor arrests, a marriage at Immanuel Lutheran, and upcoming teacher hiring by the city school board.
Forty three young men and women from the Southern Railway accounting department returned to their desks after vacations described as a home-coming day. In Auditor J A Robinsons office the clerks reported with delays in auditing freight accounts for the entire system. The largest group had vacationed at seaside resorts. Morris Stiteler and several women named M Moran Lowell King Strahlan Easton Lohman and Helm were noted. Stiteler visited New York while Moran toured Boston New York and Norfolk.
Fragment reads as a garbled 20th century ad style notice praising a non intoxicant malt drink. It promotes table and family use with the brand Noatco and urges purchase at fruit stands and grocers. Contact Tel Sweee 3 appears as a misread telephone cue.
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