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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1910
Page
5
Convenient credit terms offered with the display of large bargains on the first floor. Prices range from 7.90 to 27.75 in assorted brackets, suggesting a regular sale event with heavy discounts and installment options.
An old advertisement lists multiple parlor furniture pieces with price cuts. Items include 3-piece and 5-piece mahogany suites with silk, panne plush, velour, and green plush upholstery. Prices drop from 85 to 60 dollars and from 95 to 65 dollars.
The Legal Record shows numerous DC real estate transactions with names such as Joseph Bo Landhan Samuel Ko Wight and Charles Biron. Listings detail lot numbers blocks and monetary values including parcels in Woodley Park Mount Pleasant and Pleasant Plains with dates and mortgage terms.
Walter A Dowd to Clarence F Norment and Charles E White secures George L Starkay with 3150 dollars for five years at 6 percent semiannual payments on part lots and block 22. John L Gallagher ot ux to James F Shed and George Borger secures 1200 dollars for three years at 6 percent on lot 5 same to same. Bert Shannon seeks 1160 dollars in monthly payments at 6 percent for lot 136 square 35.
The first American international humane conference will meet in Washington in the first week of October with delegates promised from twenty foreign countries. A large U S attendance is expected, and exhibits include lethal chambers models for destroying dogs and cats humane devices for slaughterhouses and fire escape inventions for animals.
Internal revenue agents in Roanoke Virginia destroyed four large illicit distilleries on Runnet Bay Creek in Franklin county. In the operation they burned the plant and poured out 6 gallons of brandy singlings 2100 gallons of apple pomace and 2000 gallons of beer. Operators fled in darkness as raiders arrived tearing out copper stills. Two other plants were destroyed on the same creek and near Jamison's Mill.
Alexandria police received letters from William Firth Jr the companion of Ethel Pileree after the death by self inflicted action of Pileree at the Hotel Raminel last Tuesday. Firth expresses deep gratitude for police kindness while in custody and says he will visit with more name cards once rested. He also claims Pileree will be acquitted and intends to come to the city to thank officers.
A Cincinnati informed group led by Mrs John Rechtin has launched the Worlds Health Organization anti kissing campaign. More than a thousand pledges from men women and children promise to discourage lip kissing. The effort targets brides to be with pledges and badges reading I wont kiss while a national network expands to New York Philadelphia and other eastern cities.
Special to the Washington Post Hyattsville Md Sept 17 The Washington Spa Spring and Gretta Railroad Company Reich has asked Hyattsville town council for permission to extend its electric line along the Washington Baltimore boulevard to the railroad depot in Hyattsville a half mile distant Council members questioned the highway's jurisdiction since state funds built the boulevard and suggested consulting the State highway commission The item reflected uncertainty over who governs the extension and how to proceed Also includes a Detroit Free Press cartoon caption about census and proposing.
The Philadelphia Inquirer notes that affluent estates increasingly replica Italian Renaissance garden features. Carved well curbs and old well heads, marble basins, and water gardens from Italy are popular in summer and year round displays, with Villa Piiniana’s famed water garden highlighted as a model.
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