Building Permit Granted for Two Brick Dwellings at 2022-24 Sixteenth St NW
Building Inspector Ashford yesterday issued a permit to Isaac and Albert Herman to build two brick dwellings at 2022 24 Sixteenth Street Northwest. Appleter is the architect and the W E Spier Company the builders. Other notices include various business ads and a typhoid case recovery report, plus local vendor highlights and railroad-era promotions.
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Ashford
Isaac and
Albert Herman
Sixteenth Street
Appleter
Higher Pay and More Jobs in U S Prosperity Record
A Labor Bureau report on 1905 industry shows wages rose 1.6 percent over 1904 while hours stayed the same. More workers earned higher wages, boosting total pay rolls despite higher food costs. The study, covering 4,121 establishments in 42 industries, notes wages per hour up 18.9 percent from 1890–93 baseline and 33.6 percent more hires, with purchasing power of wages rising despite price gains.
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Commissioner of Labor
Manuthe Age ‘Industries
United States
L.A
Neill
Labor Bureau
United Sites
Bureau
Bankrupt Company Issued and Suit by Mrs Susanna C Allen
Mrs Susanna C. Allen widow of Gen Harrison Allen and executrix sued the Southern Coffee and Spice Company and officers for $300 alleging deception to invest. She says the firm was solvent and profitable, bought 20 shares at $10 each, and cashed a $1,000 note in June 1905. Attorney Thomas F. Hanlon represents her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern, Coffee ,and ‘Spice Company
Susanna C. Allen
Harrison Allen
Post-office Department
District Supreme Court
Thomas F. Hanlon
Netitio
Kastle Pleads Guilty In Two False Pretenses Cases
John W. Kastle thirty, arraigned before Judge Mills at the Police Court on two counts of false pretenses. He pleaded guilty in both, with sentencing postponed to Friday as he seeks to repay the money. Prosecution says Kastle obtained 25 from C T Hunter for benzine orders and 10 from William E Parish on a worthless draft. Inquest at Melancie morgue found James Major died in a spent-pit accident while attempting to reach a deeper sand layer for higher pay. Coroner Nevitt issued a death certificate per the verdict.
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John W. Kastle
Mills
Kastle
William E. Parish
Central Union Mission
James Major
Petworth
Major
Nevitt
District Cannot Build Sewer on Conduit Road
Comptroller Tracewell rules Conduit Road is a Federal highway so the District cannot use funds to lay a sewer. Despite health officials urging a sewer and cost estimate of 12 225 dollars, the Commissioners are barred from authorizing the work and cancelled the sewer order.
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Tracewell
Uni Congress
Forty-seventh Place
Arizona
Spencer Cosby
Engineer Corps
Biddie Williikely
Capt. Cosby
Pr. Woodward
Health Department
D E. McComb
Conduit Road
Congress
Thomas
Comptroller of the Treasury
Freight Terminals Needed For Washington Freight Flow
Charles J. Bell of the Jobbers are Shippers Association announces a meeting to review a report on local freight tariffs and schedules. He cites Duluth rail comparisons and urges separate freight depots within city limits to improve speed and reliability of shipments.
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Charles J. Bell
Minnesota
Duluth
Southern Railway
Southern
Washington Southern
Philadelphia
Baltimore and Weshington
Attlnayre
Washington
Thasuime
Repairing District Carriageways Under Biddle Plan
Engineer Commissioner Biddle will begin repairing and resurfacing several carriageways in the District under a congressional appropriation. The work includes H street northwest between Vermont and Connecticut avenues at about 8300, Seventh to Ninth streets southwest at 3500, Ninth to Thirteenth streets southwest at 3000, and adjustements to the H street northwest project. Water mains work planned between Twentieth and Twenty‑first streets, Q street northwest, and Delafield place, with a new inspector for the New York avenue and T street bridge appointed.
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Biddle
Congress
H Street
Vermont
Connecticut
H. Street
Twenty-first
Q Street
Delafield
Fourteenth Street
J. W. Ricker
New York Avenue
T Street
Unscrambled Suit Prices and Money Back Claim
The text lists varied suit prices such as 12.85, 36.45, 15.00, 16.50, 18.50, 9.25, 20.00, 10.00, 25.00, 12.50, 30.00, and 17.50 with an echoed phrase Money's worth of money back. It appears as a fragmented ad or price list with no clear event or article context.
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Sallade
Sallade & CO
Cedarst
Woodward
Lathrap
Waun
Ington
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Pennsylvania Avenue
Saka & Company
Seventh Street
Trenton
Washington Post
N. J
Chestnut Farms Sanitary Dairy
Yster, Jr
Prop
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Connecticut Avenue
Necessar
Kuppenheimer
I. Grosner
I Queeback
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Cheol
DCL Baer
Leo Te
Pape Nhechyee
City. Bulletins
Harvey
I. Harper
Eleventh Street
New Vatoldl Cafe
Mangnolia Spa
Wiliam Bresnahan
Branzell
Seventh Precinct
Chicago
Jsewel
C. A
Shaw
The
Treasury
Iowa
Missouri
New York
Joe
H. Kelly
6Th St. Wing
Says
Andrews
Jis
D. J. Kaufman
Pa. Ave
Californis
Columbia
Mim
Columbia Phonograph
Horn
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Pavifig
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Savings’ Bank
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Nuw
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Maerzen
Senate
Liege
Jehone West
Ah Weidess
Cooke A ‘Eberly
Tts
Maurer
Hess
Adler
Aimerica
Gratin
National Capital Brewing CO
LENOX
Bowen
Progress
BOWER
Schlitz
Milwaukee
Schlitz Brewing No
Regal
SHOE
Penna, Ave
H.W
Warner’ S
Apc
Gratef ‘Ul
Warner
Info Cure
Wette Warner
Safe Curé Company
Rochester
N.Y
Nihagepa
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