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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1923 Had Lobster for Pet. | Had First Call. Australia to Shake Next! | ‘ Gerard de Nerval, the precocious| Coney Island, which has for years | elevator boy According to Prof. Sir Tannatt William David at the Pan Pacific|and eccentric genius to whom a|been known as America’s gri st | green at the job. Two pass | a4 man and a woman, got o Scientific Congress in Melboume,'sla(ue is being erected in the French | popular summer re:ort of a fun-pro- Australia, will in due time be included | capital near the spot where he com- | viding kind, i soon to bid for fame in the active voleano belt. Sir Tan- | mitted suicide, had a habit of walk-|as an attractive winter playground, hott was geologist with the Dritish |ing the boulevards trailing behind | plans having becn finished for flood- | estern front dlring the g pait o ik R R &l Was and was seientific ahsertng the | him a live lobster on a blue cord. |ing part of Dreamland Park and mak the Shackleton expedition to the ant- | One day a friend ventured to ques-|ing it an outdoor skating rink arctlc in 1907-1908, leading a party |tion his taste in pets. | soon as the cold weather sets in e to the south magnetic pole in Janu-| “A lobster s silent.” replied the |year. The rink will have a fronta ary of the last year of the expedi- | poet; “a lobster is Serious; a lobster | of mearly 1.000 fe the tion. | understands the sec $he duch HuoRrONAe, blue hills beyond, a clean, regularly (nels or destroying its banks. The | ::Ld-g:.‘x‘ (?xinh!(\':«k-‘ lth:; ‘?1-;3:"&::- work was completed in four months. s”“yfl*lk,,‘* U BREAYe G IS Not only adjacent farms, but com- | merclal traffic on the river, were made secure. No longer do dragons disport them- selves amid this muddy flood. Mod- ern science and modern industry have put them swiftly to flight. e iy Missourf's first woman preacher was Miss Mary Andrews. who be- came minister of a Universalist church in Kansas City in 1902, World's Bigest Ice Rink. The (0ld site is respectable, faded and di | & in melancholy ugliress, the common- | piac bitants dgy the fishing nets by ns of which ihey eke out their & |, “The pirates. with the two bases, | Tortuga and Port Royal, for opera- | tions, took toll of all the’ iglands and | 1 i et s Dragons and Science. | From the Nation's Business. Monster dragons swished their tails (so. for 5,000 years the Chinese le- gend ran) and caused the Yellow i river to inundate vast areas of fertile Port Hoyal, Now Common-j;; At ports in the West Indies, Its|farm land. Some there were who . foundations were lald by Port Royal | averred that they had seen the giants place, Once Wickedest Spot |suryivo |at heir destructive play. But the in the World. along the Caribbean. s the magnificent harbor from oyal lies Kingston, the capital aica and one of the most im- . “but the lady only 2 pér cent of Chinese are a fatalistic folk, and 000 people a no | they howed to the will of their gods. | Not so modern commerce! At its| beck came engineers of the Asia De- i velopment Company, a New York | rthquakes which corporation. to harness within its | again literally de: s very | bed this unruly and ruthless tor- foundations. Hardly had its charred [rent. The great break of 1921, which | ruins cooled after the violent earth-|cost millions of dollars and untold, quake and fire in 1807 before the|suffering. was diverted to its orlg- survivors were busy ing. be- | inal course, and chained there a tween the paim-frin ibility of digging new. of citizens of any ci shown more courage. energy an, termination during thie hurrican “The Island of Jamaica, in the West Indies, which, according to new pers, is having its tariff disputes the mother country over the duties imposed on its articles of export, was, in the latter half of the seventeenth ronghold of the Eng- lish buccanee ays a bulletin based on a communication by Nell Ray Clarke to the National Geographie here. i n, the greatest and most of the pirates, planned in Port Royal, on of being the spot on_ the ity was af the flamboyant and century, the To Sell 1,000 Additional Pairs a Day For The Next Ten Days, Hahn's Announce When You Save with the Union Trust Company you get more than safety for your money, and more than interest at 3%. i tinged its nd reveiry. rthquake, Toval had You have a banking home and a group of e friendly business counsellors, always ready to advise with you on any financial or investment problem, and always interested in your success. 2% Paid on Checking and 3% on Savings Accounts Of 10,000 Pairs Of Their Very Best $8.50& $10 Women's Shoes, Marked Down to rele hidd haunt its cran- awl lazily over 1 his ‘quarter-deck’ town now standing on the Announcing Three RED TAG DAYS Thursday Friday Saturday A popular style, in Brown Suedevor Black Suede........ $9-99 Patent Leather, Black Satin, Black Suede, Log Cabin Suede. . $850 Another graceful Opera Style, in Brown or Black Suede...... 5595 Black Suede, Brown Suede, Black Satin, Patent Leather... 5850 The next three days will be devoted fo getting rid of all short lots in SUITS AND OVERCOATS —RED TAGS will be attached to all such suits and coats—REGARDLESS OF THEIR FORMER MARKING. Fine Suits and O’Coats That Sold Up to *65 Black Satin, Patent Leather, Brown Black Satin, Suede or Patent. A Cleverly Braided Strap Pump, in $595 Opera Pump, in Black Satin, Black Suede, $8 50 Gray or $595 Brown Suede ..... $850 Black Suede...... Patent Leather. .. Suede, Gray Suede N Patent Leather, Black Satin ...... $595 Black Velvet, $8-50 Brown Velvet. ... Dainty Patent Opera Pump Paten t. Leather, Log Cabin Suede. . HIS remarkable event is exactly what it says it is — and more! 10,000 pairs of our newest arrivals in women's latest Shoe Fash- ions—absolutely marked down from $8.50 to $5.95—and from $10 t0 $8.50. You'll have great difficulty in matching them elsewhere at their regular prices. We know what we're ta’]z;ng about! And we're equally frank in explaining why this extraordinary markdown. To coun- teract the usual dull period between now and December—we're putting on 10 days of extra Sales pressure. So much for explanation—now see the T All odd lots and one and two of a pattern garments. There are several hundred Suits and Overcoats collec- tively, for every man up to size 46. Since our recent store change it has been our strict policy to maintain complete lines in materials and designs that are demand- ed by the well dressed man—and new things of the world’s market. All Suits and Overcoats offered in this t of the present vogue. . i = i Starting Tomorrow, 8 AM., at ALL Our Washington Stores Sturdy and long.wearing two-trousers suits at this price. MEYER’S SHOP 1331 F STREET : Everything for the Well Dreued Man - Many of our own importations Cor. 7th & K Sts. 414 9tk St. 1914-16 Pa. Ave. “City Club Shop” 233 Pa. Ave. S.E. 1318 G St. MALLORY HATS