Vivisection query on keeping tabs on physicians
Officials deny dogs are placed under the knife at the Bureau of Animal Industry Hygienic Laboratory and Naval Hospital for experiments in standardizing drugs This investigation follows claims that the District pound supplied dogs for vivisection while authorities admit experiments have occurred at the three institutions They insist dogs used are for testing remedies and disease control with some animals still in laboratories and others disposed of after study
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Animal Industry
Hygienic Laboratory
Naval Hospitale
Washington Humane Society
Naval Hospital
Humane Society
A. D. Melvin
Bureau
John F Anderson
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Walter Wyman
Pena
Samuel Einstein
Hays
Department of Agriculture
District of Columbia
Army Nurse's Tribute to Florence Nightingale
Editor post as an old army nurse pays tribute to Florence Nightingale of England who has died. She cites Nightingale's Crimean War work and her own Civil War service, saying her duty to suffering soldiers was guided by Nightingale's influence and that many hospital heroines will arise in years to come. MRE. Ella KH Newsom Trader, 1122 Thirteenth St NW, Aug 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence Nightingale
England
Ella KH Newsom
Thirteenth St. Nw
Northeast Residence Sold at 16 Fourth Street NE
The three story brick dwelling at 16 Fourth Street Northeast was sold by Willige Gibbs Daniel for Mrs Annie V Anderson to Mrs Caroline Morgan. The lot is in square 786, 21 by 96 feet with a 30-foot rear alley totaling 2064 square feet. The house has ten rooms two baths and hot water heat. About 21500 dollars changed hands in the sale, the brokers having sold the property again within three weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fourth Street
Willige, Gibbs & Daniel
Annie V. Anderson
Caroline Morgan
Immigrant Shipments Questioned By Coast Leagues
Four hundred Punjabis and Hindus sailed from Calcutta for San Francisco, with two hundred more due a week earlier. Officials wonder if they can be barred after passing tests and paying a four dollar head tax, despite protests from Asiatic exclusion leagues on the Pacific coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calcutta
San Francisco
Department of Commerce and Labor
Department
Pacific Coast
A Hig Time Saver Taxicab Ad Opens Byline
A promotional ad urges using Federal Taxicab for time saving. It lists a 6670 phone number and features an emphasis on time as money. The piece repeats the slogan and advert details for a business offering hourly rates. A separate note announces a Canoe Club outing with an open-air smoker and ladies night on the river bank near Three Sisters island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interclub Canoe Association
Three Sisters Taland
City bulletins and local ads mix in brief format
A jumble of small town notices and advertisements appears, promoting TTCO taxicabs at 3 per hour, Grogan's Grocers, Criterion Rye, Allington Bottling, various hardware and laundry services, grocers and insurance-like claims, and other local business messages clustered as city bulletins for readers. The text lists phone numbers, addresses, and product mentions with no single news narrative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Boc
Grocers
Allington Bottling Co
West
John T. Crowley
C L Bowers Co
Hib
St. Nw
Typhoid Crusade Starts As 83 Cases Reported In Two Weeks
Health officials warn typhoid prevalence rises with season and urge precautions. Dr Woodward and colleagues link the disease to house flies, advise home screening, boiled drinking water, avoiding raw foods, and strict sanitation for sickrooms. Milk supply not implicated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodward
W. ©. Fowler
Health Department
B.L Lemerle
Hatpin Attack Leads to 20 Days in Workhouse
Mary Jones, a Black woman, was sentenced by Judge Pugh to twenty days in the workhouse after an incident on a House of Detention van. Guard Charles Beall sustained hatpin punctures on his neck as defense, then Beall repelled the attack with a fitted response. Police arrested Mary Saturday on suspicion tied to a larceny case and detained her for further investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Jones
Pugh
Charles Beall
Strohma
House of Detention
Beall
Mary
Fetes for Delegates Under Washington Chamber Plan
Washington Chamber of Commerce executive committee outlined a campaign to entertain two conventions in Washington next month and attract more large gatherings. An appropriation funded a delegate to Saratoga NY to invite the National Association of Postoffice Clerks to meet in Washington in 1914. A reception and luncheon will honor delegates to the Union Printers Baseball League tournament. The Chief Joint Car Inspectors and Car Foremen’s Association will tour the city by sight seeing autos at chamber expense. A Walsh pardon petition will be filed September 1 after Justice Department absence. Walsh serves a five year term in Leavenworth for banking law violations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Chamber of Commerce
Washington
Saratoga
National Association of Postoffice Clerks
Chamber
Union Printers’ Baseball League
Department of Justice
John R Walsh
Chicago
Wickershamn
Walsh
Leavenworth
Kang
New York Customs Appointee Wilhelm Lutz Deputy Surveyor
Wilhelm Lutz former chief of the Insular police of Porto Rico has been appointed deputy surveyor of customs at the port of New York. He will earn a salary of 3000 dollars a year and has served in the New York customs service in the Inspection division for the past two years. The appointment was announced at the Treasury yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Customs
Wilhelm Lutz
Insular Police
Porto Rico
Port of
New York
Lutz
Customs Service
The
Treasury
Milk drivers urged to carry union cards by wives urged
Delegates to the Central Labor Union, with their wives, were ordered to press milk wagon drivers to show proper credentials. If drivers refuse to affiliate, wives may demand cows or canned milk. Labor Day plans progress with attractions at Ben ning race track, including horse racing, ostrich race from Florida, and motorcycle racing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Labor Union
Organized Labor
Sam Dé Nedrey
Benning Race Track
John B Colpoys
Florida
Forest Settlement Plans For Homestead Claims
Delegation from Interior and Agriculture will travel from Washington to the West to coordinate with General Land Office and Forest Service agents on hearings and appeals for homestead claims in national forests. James M Sheridan, D D Bronson, and R W Williams Jr lead the mission. Joint instructions by Secretaries Ballinger and Wilson guide conduct of cases. Coal lands in Dakota opened to settlement. Professor George L Clothier begins study of Arkansas national woodlands to identify forest lands suitable for entry under the forest settlement act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Land Office
Forest Service
National Forests
Interior and Agricultural Departments
Washington
West
James M Sheridan
General Land Offee
D D Bronson
R W Williams, Jr
Department of Agriculture
Ballinger and Wilson
North
South Dakota
Taft
Arkansas
George L Clothier
University of Mississippi
Despondent man hangs self in boarding house room
Benjamin Caldwell, 50, a stonemason's helper, killed himself in his second floor room at 508 EK Street Northwest. The transom rope broke. Frank MacCaskey found the body at about 6 am. Caldwell had told George Loftus he planned to take his life. Coroner Nevitt issued a certificate of death by own action and the body was turned over to relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin Caldwell
EK Street
Frank MacCaskey
Caldwell
MacCaskey
George Loftus
Gettysburg maneuvers yield record low illness at camp
War Department reports only twenty six one ten thousandths of a percent of regulars and militiamen at Gettysburg last month fell ill due to field and camping exercises. Medical officers submitted the reports to Brig Gen W W Wother spoon who commanded the division and led the camp of instruction, marking the lowest illness rate ever recorded in such a camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gettysburg
War Department
W W Wotherspoon
War College
Retail Merchants Plan Meeting for District Association
Joseph Strasburger, temporary president, announced that the Retail Merchants' Association of the District, an auxiliary to the Chamber of Commerce, will decide working plans at a meeting early this week. Washington merchants back the movement. the governing board is to be ready to convene on short notice. The relation to the chamber has already been settled.
Negro Voters Called to National Convention Here
The Administration Republican Club invites Negro voters to a national convention in this city on September 19 and 20. Eight states plus the District of Columbia joined in the call to cooperate with Republican national committees in organizing Negro voters across state and congressional districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican National Congressional
Administraion Republican Club
District of Columbia
March Concert Selections Include Classic Overtures
The program features George Overture Morning Noon and Night In Vienna ae Japanese Love Song Potpourri Night In Berlin Bartered Bride Suite Ky Iai Waltz Murmuring Waters March Georgetown University orchestral pieces presented in a cohesive concert potpourri format with varied composers and styles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goronation
Wee E
T. George
Vienna
Berlin
Georgetown University
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Humane
Florence Wnightingale
Munsey Historic Tour
D. W. F. Hess-Bright
Washington Flying Squadron
H. P. Washington
Carter Motor Car Corporation
Munsey Building
Washington, D. C
the Man In Black
House& Herrmann
Sts
N. W
R.P. Andrews Paper CO
New York City
le. Ave
Star Laundry
Tharp
Berkeley
John F. Ellis & CO
Penn. Ave
Becker
Brown
Avery
Henry Evans (Inc
Driggist
F St
Chette Denby
Gor Teer
Troy, N.Y
Mr. Merchant
Potomac Electric
14Th St. N. W
Keeley Gore
Keeley Instituts
North Capitol Street
District Columbia
Marsland
Mall Peat
People's Drug Store
America
TTCO
City Bulletins
Grogan’s S
I, Glasser & Co
7Th St. Nw
Star Laundry Co
Beneth St. Es
Darling
Health ‘Department
Chamber of Commerce
IC. L. A
Friedlander & Bro
Twin Cities
North Western Limited
St. Paul
Minneapolis
North Western Mail
Chicago &North Western Railway
Orno M. Brown
N. W. Ry
Chennnut St
Philadelphia
Pavo
New Merchants’ Association
Alwase
United States Cavalry Band
Fort Myer
Berens
E. Z
O’donnell’s
Rexall Drug Store
DR. White Tir
7Th St. N. W
the. Lansburgh Furniture Co
Ninth St
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