Senators Best of Work Rushes to Senate Office Building
Upper House members secure ready offices as contracts for furniture and electric fixtures are awarded. The new Senate office building, near Delaware Avenue and B Street, will be ready when Congress convenes in December. The rotunda rises through the building with a 63 foot dome and 75 foot five inch enclosing wall. Two large staircases flank a central passage to the conference room behind the ablaze renaissance stair, providing space for public hearings.
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Library of Congress
Senate Office Building Costs and Layout Details
Detailed report on the Senate office building project describes total cost near KW, construction progress including roofing and furniture, and a subway link to the Capitol. It outlines site boundaries, frontage measurements, three story office blocks, 99 two room suites, a public hearing rotunda, dining and post office facilities, and a classical design echoing the Louvre and Concorde.
Fort Myer Improvements Attract With New Buildings
Fort Myer rapid improvements ahead of schedule include ten new buildings such as officers quarters barracks for men stables and guardhouses. Contract awarded to Thomas H Melton after ground breaking in March for about 210600 under War Department supervision by Capt B B Hyer. Occupancy expected by November 1 with colonial brick houses featuring broad porches and furnished quarters for officers and lieutenant sets.
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Ulal Uteys
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B. B. Hyer
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Ore My
Nourtse
Lee bill upheld by Arkansas court ruling on liquor ads
Judge John E B Winfield of Perryville circuit court declares the 1907 Lee bill constitutional. The measure forbids liquor dealers from sending circulars to the public and advertising or soliciting business in prohibition counsel.
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Arkansas
Tittle Rock
Aug
John EB. Winfield
Perryville
Washington Diocese Seeks Bishop in Tight Canon Law Climate
Clergy and lay members of the Washington Diocese of the Episcopal Church anticipate a difficult bishop election this October. Canon law prohibits asking candidates for assurances, and salary plus travel allowances strain suitability. Outsiders favored, with Randoph McKim or George Calvert Carter among potential electees, as the cathedral finish and diplomacy weigh heavily.
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Satterlee
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Soistrong
Post
Women Advised to Strike for Vote in Austin
Chicago report says Mrs. Berence Richards of Ohio urged a Tin Lincoln temperance chautauqua audience to a general strike until women win voting rights. She argued wives would abandon housework and childcare, forcing men to the polls, and claimed saloon doors would close as a result.
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Chicago
Berence Richards
Ohio
Tincoln Temperance Chautagqua
Austin
Fire guts Pearl Street tobacco offices in five story blaze
A blaze on Pearl Street in New York destroyed tobacco offices and manufactories of White Bros and M Sacks. Three firemen were overcome by smoke and hospitalized. Two more were seriously affected and withdrawn from the building. Loss declared not heavy.
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New ‘Ork
Pearl Street
Peter Toner
George Morris
Charles Huston
White, Bros. and M
Toistoi Flays Government In Protest to English Press
A strong protest from Mount Tolstoii warns of ongoing injustice and asserts he will continue writing, stating he never ceases to write as he believes he is following God’s understanding. The letter, printed yesterday in English newspapers, reflects his defiant stance against prevailing government actions.
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London
Aus
All Wash Suits Choice of all our cloth suits
All wash suits offered with a choice of cloth styles and models priced up to 40 dollars. Plain materials highlighted as a feature of the selection.
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Cy Mate
Death and Loss in Storm Hits Northeastern States
Eastern Pennsylvania New Jersey and Boston endured powerful electrical disturbances. Two people died and two were injured by lightning in Pennsylvania and New Jersey as floods and hail damaged Philadelphia. In Boston the storm brought record rainfall and roaring thunder with cyclones and cloudbursts.
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New Jersey
Boston
Philadelphia
Robert Heimbach
Lewisburg
Walter Cattell
Glassboro
N. J
Mabel
Rebecca
Turner
Gattel
Miss Turner
Cattell
Mass
United States Weather Bureau
Marvelous scientific discovery promises youth restoring beauty
An advert touts a wondrous treatise claiming to enlarge the bust, smooth wrinkles, and restore youth. It boasts Paris medical faculty endorsement and translation into four languages, offering free copies via the French American Importing Co. Syracuse.
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Vickly
Faculty of Medicine
Paris
American Importing Co
Syracuse
N.F
Basement Flooding Destroys Washington Street Pressrooms
Heavy damage followed basement floods in downtown areas with two feet of water reported in newspaper offices along Washington Street. Floodwaters inundated pressrooms, disrupting operations and causing extensive property loss.
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Washington Street
Reexamination Required for Former Gov Printing Office Staff
About 400 former government printing office bindery workers, dismissed in 1907 by Public Printer Stiggins, must undergo another examination to reenter service. Civil Service Commission ruled one year, not two, for eligibility post-dismissal unless for cause. Union seeks retroactive extension. Feeney to consult Roosevelt. Leech favors experienced workers over new hires.
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Stillings
Civil Service Commission
Civil Service Regulations
Bookbinders’ Union
John C. Black
Feeney
Roosevelt
Leech
DAY TUBERCULOSIS CAMP OPENS FOR OPEN AIR TREATMENT
The American Red Cross Society opens a day camp at the tuberculosis hospital grounds for twelve patients. Originating in Germany the program has patients report at morning, get milk and eggs for breakfast, then a physical exam and a substantial noon dinner. They receive a lunch before returning home. Exercises and open air rest are provided with invalid chairs. A nurse oversees care during the day.
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Red Cross . Society
American Red Cross
Germany
Robbery at GC D Kenny Coffee Store on Fourteenth Street
James B Reed manager reports two thieves broke in Friday night rifling the cash drawer of 14 cash and two dollars in stamps. Entrance pried woodwork with a dumb hinge as police suspect three men involved. Thomas Lightfoot arraigned earlier for animal cruelty and reckless driving charges.
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Dkenny Coffee Company
Fourtenth
Thomas Lightfoot
Pensylvania Dverue
Cragons
Mrs Roosevelt Sees Play With Relatives From Oyster Bay
Mrs Roosevelt visits New York to view the Ben Greet players open air production of As You Like It at Columbia University. A Roosevelt party traveled by the Sylph, guards from the university greeted them at the Gould Boathouse, with a private box on South Field. After the play the group dined at Earl Hall before returning to Oyster Bay. The party included Kermit, Quentin, Archie Roosevelt, Margaret and Nicholas Roosevelt, and Capt. and Mrs. Williams. Funeral services for Thomas S. Evans were held at the Church of the Sacred Heart with interment at Oak Hill cemetery. pallbearers named A. J. Cummings, Harry Beard, Lee Dorsey, and J. B. Young.
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Archie
Shemerd Cowles
Sheffeld Cowles
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J. F. McGee
Oak Hill Cemetery
A. J. Cummings
Harry Beard
Lee Dorsey
J. B. Young
Fulton’s Renal Compound touted as cure in certificate notice
An official certificate from Oakland California dated December attests to a Dr B who suffers Bright’s Disease and claims three bottles of Fulton’s Renal Compound improved his condition. A second physician reports another case improving after Fulton’s. the notice promotes the remedy and offers literature and a bulletin of late recoveries.
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Arel Notary Public
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