District Investigates Playground Dept Scandal and Suspends Supervisor
An investigation into methods in the district playground department leads to the suspension of Holgar S. Martin, supervisor, amid questions about funds and chauffeur expenses. Deputy Auditor Daniel J. Donavan assumes control as officials examine books and papers, with allies from the Police, Boy Scouts, and Washington Playground Association attending a preliminary conference.
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Hewun
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Washngton Féraind
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Washington Flasground Association
Brownlow
Mart
Jae
Lus Oatine Berg
Macc
Coelzim- Busbli
Roosevelt's Inside Story of New York Politics Continues
Roosevelt testifies about party bosses and machine control in Albany. He recalls conversations with Barnes and Platt, describes direct primaries, race track laws, and the Bayne committee report while witnesses discuss the structure of the Republican machine and its allies.
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Weed
Abraham Lincoln
Policeman Brown Dead After Illness at Home
Police veteran Brown died yesterday at his home on Ninth Street Northwest after a protracted illness. He served 23 years in Washington with the police department, was a former artilleryman at Fort Monroe and other posts, and was esteemed by his fellow officers. Funeral plans include a requiem mass at the Church of the Immaculate Conception and a Mount Pleasant Cemetery burial. Pallbearers will be fellow officers.
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Church of the Immaculate
Wtiel
Mount Miver
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States Army
Cease Artillery
Fort Monroe
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Krowit
War pictures tonight at Press Club with Harvard stars
Veving will show kinemarolor motion pictures of the European war at the Press Club tonight. Harvard baseball club led by Dr Sexton, with athletes Brickiey Hardwick Mahan Fowler and others, will be guests. Lalue Damino company will sing. 3990 feet of film chosen from 60900 feet, cost said to be $200000.
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Dr. Sexton
Charles Brickiey
Tacks Hardwick
Belie Mahan
Fowler
Ebb
Ari Gantveort
Dary Tone
Lalue Damino Company
Washingtons City Beautiful Plan For Better Lawns
The Post will publish a series of practical articles starting next Sunday promoting the City Beautiful idea to enhance Washington homes. It urges residents to plant gardens and flowers, improving curb appeal citywide through simple lawn and garden improvements.
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Post
Nature
Thia Cium
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Lafert
Nonpartisan civic push urged to end party machines
The speaker warned that “this condition of affairs” could only end if both party machines were smashed and urged a nonpartisan citizen movement to take power from parties. References to Hennessy, a former newspaper man, and Roosevelt’s excusal frame a landscape of political maneuvering as testimony proceeds. William Lyon of Albany testified as treasurer of his company, adding to the unfolding record.
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Hughes
Albany
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Barnes
Gore Hughes
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Hennessy
Democrat
Tam
Racing at Rockville May 31 program announced
Special to The Washington Post Rockville April 21 under Montgomery County Agricultural Society an afternoon of racing at the fair grounds May 31 was approved. Race program includes Free-for-all purge purse 50 dollars 2:25 or 2:30 class trot or pace purse 50 dollars Montgomery county and District horses only ever trained roadster or Rockville fair 1914 purse 69 dollars Colt race 3-year-olds and rider best two in three cup hurdle race 1½ miles purse 350 dollars.
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Washington Post
Rockville
Montgomery County Agricultural Society
Fair Grounds
Montgomery County
Bank Data Request Probes Funds Originating From Family Ties
John Skelton Williams, comptroller of the currency, seeks full disclosure from Riggs National Bank on notes totaling 6.69 million dollars, including maturity dates, endorsers, and collateral values. The inquiry asks whether funds were originally obtained by a member of the borrower’s family, a point whose significance remains undisclosed. The bank faces a daily penalty of 100 if information is not supplied, while Treasury officials are enjoined from transferring funds pending legal action.
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Riggs National Bank
Treasury
Comptroller
Walter I. McCoy
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
General Fund of the Treasury
Ibuamea
Federal Reserve Bank
Comptrollers Office
New Old Dutch Markets Open In District
The Old Dutch Market Company adds two fully equipped food shops at 1440-1442 P street and 726 Seventh Street NW. The P street store sits near Rigga Market and the Seventh Street store lies between G and H streets. In the heart of the shopping district the firm now operates thirteen branches citywide as officials plan further territorial extensions.
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Seventh Street
Rigga Market
Atreet
Old Dutch Market Company
Itia
War progress reports from Russia Germany and Austria
Official reports from Petrograd Berlin and Vienna detail anti Austrian and French actions. Russian and German fronts include battles near Gorlits Pole n Verkhetla and Le Pretre with hundreds of prisoners and heavy losses. Bombings at Bialystok Loerrach and Lorrach are noted along with artillery duels in Lorraine and Alsace.
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Clechanow
Soldau
Penasie
District Court News Highlights Local Civil and Criminal Matters
The District Supreme Court awarded real estate brokers Ciseel, Talbot & Co. $5,000 against Frank Walter in a June 1913 exchange dispute. Separate suits include Walter Thomas seeking $10,000 for injuries at the Powhatan Hotel, and Henry J. Fones suing for $10,000 over a allegedly negligent streetcar incident. Probate filings note Jessie A. Cunningham's bequest of estate and wills for Richard Wilkinson and Frank A. Speare. Delays and docket intentions are outlined by Chief Justice Covington and associates.
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Frank Walter
Justice Gould
Circuit Division 2
District Supreme Court
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F. H. Gillett
Walter Thomas
Powhatan Hotel Corporation
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A. Leftwich Sinclair
Thomas
Corporation
Henry J. Fones
Washington Railway and Electric Company
Minster
Margaret Stoul
District Criminal Court
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Covington
Patrick J Daly
George WW. Thoma
Warry
Samaon
Stout
Auto Delivery Truck Wrecks After Steering Failure
An auto delivery truck owned by W. E. B. Pyles of Camp Springs Maryland, driven by Thomas Pyles, 33, plunged over a high embankment on Good Hope road near German Orphan Lum Anacostia. the operator escaped injury after leaping clear. Police report the crash due to a sudden steering gear disarrangement and call it unavoidable. A colored man left his bicycle in front of Annie Watson’s home on K Street NW, went inside, robbed a bureau for a 35 dollar pocket book and pennies, then fled. The Service Messenger Company complained that a messenger failed to return after delivering a 45 dollar package to a Massachusetts Avenue address between 14th and 15th Streets NW after the recipient paid 20 dollars to change it.
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Good Hope Road
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K Street
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Pennsylvania Avenue
Muassachuseta Avenue
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Fifteenth Streets
ASK SUPPLIES FOR SERBIA TO SEND STERILIZERS MEDICINES AND FOOD
A committee led by Mrs. Charles Henry Butler will open a temporary depot at 811 Vermont avenue to collect sterilizers medicines drugs and food delicacies for American Red Cross Serbian units in Belgrade Serbia. Dr Lane will discuss Serbia conditions at a 3 to 5 pm meeting today at the Vermont avenue headquarters as ar unfurling efforts continue toward a large May shipment.
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Belgrade
Serbia
Charles Henry Butler
AMS
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Lane
Real Crosa
Kirby-Smith
Ryan
Butter and Powner
Magruder
Ex Congresssman John M Faison Found Dead
Former Representative John M. Faison of North Carolina’s Third District was found dead in his home bathroom. Unclear if death came from heart disease or suicide as family and officials withheld comment. A brief obituary noted he was 64.
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