Massachusetts Avenue stores to host fall opening week decorations
Merchants along Massachusetts avenue plan a celebratory week with lamp posts draped in oak leaves and flowers, flags, and palms. George J. Marott offers three prizes for best window displays as thousands visit the district to receive souvenirs and view elaborate storefronts.
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Massachusetts Avenue
Marott
Ohio
Vermont Street
Irwin Bettermann
Avenue
Woman to Return Coal She Carted Leads to Sentence
Mrs. Frank Wright, with her four sons, appeared in police court after picking up about ten and a half tons of coal from A. B. Meyer & Co. and Merchants' Heat and Light Co. She must return the coal and faces possible prison time. She said her husband owns four properties renting for $20 a month and that she works constantly, receiving $3.59 in four weeks.
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Frank Wright
A. B. Meyer & Co
Merchants' Heat and Light Company
Williams Named Superintendent of Wayne County Schools
Charles C. Williams was elected superintendent of Wayne County schools by the township trustees acting as county board of education in Richmond Indiana on September 30. He defeated rivals Joseph Blose Charles Woolard and Joseph Burgess as Charles Jordan resigned to lead the local Commercial club.
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Richmond
Ind
Charles C. Williams
Joseph Blose
Charles Woolard
Hagerstown
Joseph Burgess
Dearfield
Williams
Charles Jordan
Commercial Club
Taft Appoints Negro To Treasury Post
Washington on September 30 1909 President Taft named J E Napier a Negro from Nashville Tennessee as register of the treasury His signature will appear on all new currency He succeeds W F Vonan a Negro from Kansas in the post
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Taft
Washington
J. E. Napier
Nashville
Tenn
Register of the Treasury
Napier
W. FT. Vonan
Kansas
Have Your Clothes Made to Order by Us
Wholesale tailor offers all wool suit or overcoat cut and made for you individually priced from 13.75 dollars. Save the local tailor's profit. G. J. Singer & Sons at 43 West Washington Street.
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Seave
G. J. Singer & Sons
Washington St
Leader in Move to Boost Avenue Trade
George J. Marott, president of the Massachusetts Avenue merchants association, offers prizes for the best dressed windows on the avenue during the coming week to boost trade.
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George J. Marott
Massachusetts Avenue Merchants’ Association
Fortune for charity from Patten estate in Chicago
George W. Patten, a wealthy grain operator, died of tuberculosis at his brother James A. Patten’s Evanston home. He left an estimated fortune of 85 million dollars, most of which will go to public charities including a large donation to fight tuberculosis.
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Chicago
George W. Patten
James A. Patten
Evanston
Jackson vies for new army post in Mississippi
Jackson, Mississippi, seeks an army post with support from the board of trade and local interests. The War Department is weighing a Gulf-adjacent site, and Jackson is considered to have a strong chance of securing the establishment.
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Jackson
Miss
Board of Trade
War Department
Gulf
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Columbia Oil Electric
Detch Wheel CO
Transfore
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Maassachusetts Avenue Merchants' Association
Wayne
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Army Post
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Superior Wood and
Massachusetts Art
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