Schools Face Uphill Fire Risk With 1778 Students At Stake
Board weighing minor repairs to nine buildings to keep 1778 pupils in classrooms and avoid 47 teaching jobs loss. Plans include moving students to lower floors, removing heating dangers, and possible outside stairs if fire protections funds are delayed. New construction and upgrades cited for Mott Garfield Cook Burville Birney Hillsdale Threlkeld and Benning schools, with staffing changes approved.
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Balt Py
Mott
Garnéid
Birkley
Annex
Cook
Hillsdale
Burrvine
Threlkeld
Agid Benning Public
Board of Education
Franklin School
Jef Belt
Committee On Buildings
Senate
District of Columbia
Cook and Benning
Mott School
Garfield
Burville
Birney Annem Hillsdale
Benning
Mortality Report Shows Net Deaths Over Births in District
Health Officer Woodward released the weekly mortality report for April 18 showing 127 deaths and 123 births in the district. Among deaths 58 were colored and 69 white. births were 35 colored and 83 white. Heart disease caused 12 deaths, pulmonary consumption and pneumonia 12 each, kidney disease 11, and apoplexy 8. Contagious diseases rose in diphtheria to 11 cases and scarlet fever fell by 3. smallpox declined by 21 cases.
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Woodward
Disinherits Wife in Will Amid Domestic Troubles
R Brown who died recently at his home on Hatpeet northwest left no provision for his wife in the March 23 208 will filed for probate. The estate is mainly left to Mariah Brown a daughter of the testator due to their separation and domestic troubles.
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R. Brown
Bawara
Brown
Hatpeet Northwest
Mariah Brown
Officials Review Sentencing After Appeal Decision
An appeal brief from the patient references a police beards matter where the individual was sentenced to dismissal. The Commissioners stated both cages would be given consideration in the review process.
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Tadings
Go ‘Police
Beard
Frere
Patie
Demand Safe Schools as Fires Destroy 58 Buildings
Fire Chief Belt condemns ten local schools after inspection and urges automatic sprinkler protection. Across the United States and Canada, at least fifty eight school buildings damaged or destroyed since January with losses over two million dollars.
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Belt
United States
McCormick
Potomac
Thirkield
Burrvilla
Cook, Mott, Garfield
Birney Annex
Hillsdale
Johnson Annex
Chief Belt
Board of Education
Canada
Santa Monica
Cal
Washington School
Central Point
Ore
Greensboro
N. C
King Wall
Guilford College
Oxford
Ohio
Hepburn
Miami University
Medford
St. Remi
St. Anne's Convent
West Seneca
Father Baker's Protector
Stamford
Cann
Retta Academy
Wessington Springs
Wessington Springs Seminary
Shawneetown
Publi
Lansingburgh
N. Y
Powers School
Ithaca
Cornell University
Alpha Tau Omega
Funeral of Owen R Wixom and Gwen Wixony
Funeral services for Gwen R Wixony who died after a two year illness from heart failure and dropsy were held at his Massachusetts Avenue home. Interment at Glenwood Cemetery. Wixom, born September 3 1847 in Steuben City New York, served in the Civil War with Company T Fifteenth New York Veteran Engineers. He later ran a mercantile business on a city street before retiring. He was a member of Roosevelt Garrison Army Ives Bt Onion and survived by his wife.
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Gwen R. Wixony
Massachusetts Avenue
Glenwood Cemetery
Wixom
Steuben City
N. Y
New York V Volunteer Engineers
Roosevelt Garrizon
Ives Bt Onion
No Favoritism Shown in District Engineering Hearings
A conference in the office of Commissioner Morrow examined charges of favoritism in district contracts. Charles Fernald resigned after admitting a $1,000 payment from a construction firm. officials criticized contractor Brennan for sweeping accusations. The review found little chance of further resignations and affirmed that contracts were drawn under personal supervision, with Fernald’s acceptance of $1,000 and a $300 loan cited as improper in context.
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Indineer
Morrow
P. J. Brennan
Charles Fernald
Engineering Department
Drake & Stratton Company
Brennan
McDermott Aud
McDermott
McMullen & McDermott Company
Brennan, Johnson
Davis
Brennan Construction Company
Bradley
Columbu Land Dredging Company
Fred Smith
R. J. Beall Construction Company
Robert Farnham
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Maj. Morrow
Mas. Morrow
Ma. Morrow
Fernald
Washington
Grennan
McMullen & McDermott
Elis
Wainright
Virginia Avenue
Water Mains Ordered Laid by Engineer Commissioner Morrow
Engineer Commissioner Morrow ordered 765 feet of twelve inch water main laid on Emerson Street between Thirteenth Street and Brightwood Avenue and 345 feet of eight inch water main on the west side of Brightwood Avenue between Emerson and Farragut Streets.
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Morrow
Emerson Street
Thirteenth Street
Brightwood Avenue
Rightwod Avenue
Emerson and
Farragut Streets
Anacostia
Nicholas Avenue
Hillsdale
Sumner Street
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