Real estate men await DoJ model rental law for DC
Washington area renters and brokers seek clarity as Attorney General Palmer hints at a national rental model. Charles Shreve of the Real Estate Brokers Association notes no new bills have emerged, while renters face steep increases and unclear protection under the Saulsbury law.
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Washington Real Estate Desiers
Department of Justice
Klan
District of Columbia
Charles Shreve
Charles
Fairfax
Real Estate Brokers’ Association
Shreve
Japanese immigration row sparks senator critique in California
Senator Phelan accuses Dr. Gulick of acting as a Japanese agent to ease immigration targets. He cites a Kawakami letter and cites a bill allowing up to five percent of the population for aliens plus broad entry for professionals. The exchange centers on Japanese land ownership and calls for stronger alien land laws. The local obituary notes former Judge Thomas Johnson’s funeral held in Cumberland, Md.
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Sidney L. Gilick
United States
Japan
Gulick
Senate
Phelan
California
Dr. Gulick
Secretary of Labor
le Phelan
K. KK. Kaweikami
Kawakami
V. S. McClatchy
Sacramento Bee
Hearst
Orient
Korea
China
New York
Washington
Congress
Cumperland
Thomas Johnson
Masonic Fraternity
Police News Notes in Willow Tree Alley Heist Report
Police notes report a string of incidents in Washington including Clarence Lamophin’s claim of $23 stolen at Willow Tree alley and Nathan Johnson losing four cases of whisky valued at $500 plus $300 cash. Other items include a watch worth $124, a break from a hospital patient couple, a telephone receiver theft at Seventh Street and Florida Avenue, a scalp laceration from a fireplace fall, kitchen fire damage from an overheated stove, a $125 diamond ring theft, a store theft of $300 and cash, a blaze at 436 Seventh Street Southwest causing $100 loss, an E Miller storage use, Julia Sykes hospitalized with a thigh wound and police seeking James Sykes for the shooting.
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Nathan Johnson
H_ street
Marshall Smith
Ninth Street
Washington
Seventh Street
Florida Avenue
E. Miller
Julia Sykes
Limrick Court
James Sykes
Chauffeurs Protest Ban On Public Soliciting
A protest against police rules that bar public soliciting of business for hotels and other zones will be filed with District commissioners this week by the American Federation of Labor and the Central Labor Union at the request of the public vehicle chauffeurs union. They argue large corporations are favored and will seek court action if regulations are not revised. The subject will be taken up at a Thursday night union meeting at Waiters Hall.
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American Federation of Labor
Central Labor Union
Waiters’ Hall
Sixth Street
Funeral notices from Washington DC area August 1919
A sequence of obituary notices for Butler Carlton Louise Cornish Creswell Dodge Grubb Kurtz Lee Leek Plant Barbates Joe E Bobe Mary S Thompson Thompson Baker Thompson details interment times and locations Arlington Glenwood Mount Olivet National Cemetery Foundry Church Church Street NW Avon Maine with dates August 13 15 16 17 18 1919 and addresses including 1780 Pennsylvania Ave NW 440 Kentucky Ave NW 624 Fifteenth Street NW 49 Rhode Island Ave NW and 1353% C Street SW note Arlington and Mt Olivet cemeteries are listed along with privateInterments and church services in Washington DC area and beyond.
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J. E. Cornish
Steere
Creswell
Creswell Hell
Elkton
H J R Creswell
Dodge
WS Paul
R Street
Grubh
Webster Street
Louise
John
Edith Leesmtter Grubb
Kurtz
Hinsdale
Minnie
William T
Suele Kurtz
Rhode Tusnd Avenue
Mienday
Orth Capitol
Uosts
Kentuky Avenue
Ure
Bessie P Leek
Petersburg
C Street
George A OW
Joseph Trk
Toulsa Wo Plant
Barbates
Fifteenth Street
Horihcant Joh E
Susie Rabbitt
Holy Name Church
Mount Olivet Cemetery
Bobe
Fourth Street
Mary S
Henry Rebe
St Joseph's Church
Haitimore
Thompson
Haven
William Farcer
Foundry Church
Sixteenth Street
Thompson— Savitari Oare
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Loyal Legion
United States
District of Columbia
City of Washington
William Baker Yhompson
U. B. Volunteers
Avon
Maine
Companiona
Foundry Methodiat Church
Sixteenth
Church
Cock P. m
the National Cemetery
Artington
Virginia
George W. Baird
U. 8 Navy
Blackmail threat ends in fatal shooting in Ashland
In Ashland Kentucky guards shot and killed a man identified as Charles Hammond of Hanging Rock Ohio near the home of Mrs P Fetter formerly Mrs John Mayo after he refused to halt following a demand to place 10 000 at a marked spot to spare her home. Hammond died at a local hospital within an hour. The case ties to a notorious coal property figure linked to eastern Kentucky wealth.
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Ashland
Charles Hammond
Hanging Rock
Ohio
P. Fetter
John C . Mayo
Fetter
Hammond
Kentucky
Virginia Obituary Notices From Winchester Area
Winchester Aug 17 Frances Ruth Ritter 22 wife of Perry Ritter railway postal service died Saturday at her parents home from acute Brights disease She belonged to Grace Lutheran Church Luray Jonn T Burner 72 longtime Page county road officials supervising board died near Bixters Ferry Ida 9 miles west of Luray James F Printz 78 died near Ida from a barn door accident survivor of Civil War era Thirty third Virginia Regiment Mrs John G Bradley about 50 died near Kimball Page county widow and daughter of the late Capt B F Shank
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Winchester
Frances Ruth Ritter
Perry Ritter
Railway Postal Service
Charles B Henry
Grace Lutheran Church
Luray
Jonn T Burner
Page County
Bixters Ferry
James F Printz
Candidates enterPrince Georges primaries in Md county
Upper Marlboro August 17 The latest to announce themselves for office in Prince Georges County are Frank M Stephen of Riverdale district a Democratic hopeful for the house of delegates and R Hugh Perrie of Croom Nottingham district seeking a Democratic nomination for county commissioner John M Bowie of Mitchellville has filed for one Republican nomination for county commissioner Supervisors set to meet tomorrow for final certificate receipt Primaries are scheduled for September 5.
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Wiebungtar
Upper Marlboro
Prince T Georges County
Frank M Stephen
Riverdale
House of Delegates
R Hugh Perrie
Croom
Nottingham
John M Bowie
Mitchellville
Democrats Stir Up Hornets Nest In Montgomery County
Special to The Washington Post reports a party split over Montgomery County Democratic nominations for the house of delegates. Four candidates, White Walker Griffith Canby, were named to balance Lee and anti-Lee factions, sparking discontent as many aspirants had hoped to run. Voter appeal and November chances are debated amid fears of a major misstep.
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Washington Post
Rockville
Montgomery County
House of Delegates
J. Farr White
Poolesville
Crittenden H Walker
Gaithersburg
Charles G. Griffith
Beallaville
G Rust Canby
Colesville
Messrs. White
Walker
Lee
Messrs
Griffith
Canby
Peter
Francis Snowden
Sandy Spring
Alfred Wilson
Bethesda
William S Stamper
Somerset
Clyde C. Harris
Travilah
James N Barnsley
Olmey
Clarence M. Griffith
Clarksburg
J. Melvin Etchison
Chanecea
Four Die Amid Pernambuco Strike Violence in Brazil
Four people were killed and two wounded as Pernambuco street car workers strikes and a heated political campaign sparked clashes near Erirusthada. Strikers damaged the Pernambuco Tramway power house, sabotaged boilers and fired cars while gas plants were attacked. Election for governor set for August 18 with fears of further disturbances.
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Pernambuco
Brasil
Associated Press
Mtate
Erirusthada
Pernambuco Tramway Company
Seversl Parta
Ana Strest
Edwards brothers seek probation for Hillaville shooting case
Winchester Virginia August 17 court action soon to seek probation release for Wesley and Sidna Edwards brothers serving 15 and 27 year terms for alleged complicity with the Allen outlaw gang in the Hillaville courtroom shooting of 1912 in Carroll County Judge Massie killed and others wounded Floyd and Sidna Allen executed. Sentiment in Carroll County shifts toward leniency as they have served about six years and claims arise they were summoned as witnesses and did not fire a shot. If probation denied an appeal to Governor Davenport may be filed.
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Winchester
Wesley
Sidna Kawarda
Allen
Hillaville
Carroll County
Massie
Floyd
Sidna Allen
Davin
Edwards Boys
Hilleville
Floyd Allen
Pershing Plans Memorial at Romagne After Meuse-Argonne
Gen. John J. Pershing told reporters he would sail for America around September 1 and, after arriving, visit his Missouri home and Cheyenne Wyoming. He urged placing a monument at Romagne to honor the United States troops who faced the fiercest combat in the Meuse Argonne offensive.
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Paris
Associated Press
Italy
John J. Pershing
America
Missouri
Cheyenne
Wyo
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Tie
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Johnson
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Clarence Lamophin
Fwanty-third Street
Willow Tree Alley
John Bailey
William Ryan
Children’s Hospital
Ryan
Bewls Gyverlin
EB Street
Street
Joseph Caruso
Charles McConnell
Sistersville
W. Va
Friendly
Parkersburg
England
Regular Baptist Association
India
Thomas H. McKee
Herorder
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Petanit
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Harpers Ferry
Taekay
Frank Geter
Bent” Co
Seventh Street North
Weet
Yeamore
Fiarpers
AFT
Mas Howard Chandler Christy
Bober Bachmann
Comsuelo Howerson
Howard Chandler Christy
Nancy Palmer
Marie Antoinette
Broadway Tabernacle
Pomerene
Stephen and
Perrie
T. R. Nalley & Sons
Blain
Timothy Hans Hanlon
St. N. B
James T. Ryan Roary
Lincoln
Soseri Gavisis
Sons
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Frank Geier
Montgomery
Morgantown
McBee-Steele
Morgeantown
Goshen Baptist Church
Ridgedale
Satterfield
Loop
Park Fairmont
Devault
Smithtown
Eddy
McCurdysville
Jem-Eleno
R. Harris & Co
Date Goldsmith & Co
M. S. Kann Sons & Co
Goldenberg’s
Palais Royal
Woodward & Lothrop
King’s Palace
Lansburgh & Bro
Sher Gap
Cape Cnot
SF Street
Edwards
Carroll
American Express
Union Trust Company OF the
Edward J. Stellwagen
Romagne
Pershing
Arthur Burt Co
Ae Ieee
Tuxedo
Pennsylvania Avenue
Robert L. Owen
Oklahoma
Federal’ Reserve ‘Act
AuBak
Century CO
Srey
Byron &. Adams
Milburn
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