Prison Plans Rush Ahead At Occoquan Workhouse Site
Surveyor Hazen rapidly completes plats for 21% acres at Occoquan Virginia where a new district workhouse is planned. The cost of land, stone crushers, and improvements totals about 27 200. Attorney General will investigate titles. bids will be sought for permanent buildings while prisoners may be used for labor and agricultural work on site.
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Occoquan
Hazen
Tweedale
Attorney General
United States
Bso
Publi Han
Squire Tile
Laad
JL Dawson
Fairfax County
Department of Justice
Balleva
Commissionera
Secretary of the Treasury
LE Delves
Washington Architect
Alte
Alleged Horse Thief Taken by Brentwood Man Charged
Brentwood man Tarry Clark was arrested on grand larceny charges for stealing a horse and buggy valued at 40 from Sophia Tord who runs a stable at 488 Virginia Avenue SW. Clark allegedly jumped into the buggy outside a Third and L streets SW cigar store while Frank Hemmerich had left it momentarily. The team was later recovered at Grays Stable in Bladensburg after detectives traced the vehicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brentwood
Central Office
Barbee and
Vermoillion
Tarry Clark
Sophia Tord
Virginia Avenue
Clark
Third and
L Streets
Frank Hemmelricht
N Stiert
Southwest
Maryland
Clark 5
Grays Stable
Tlyatteville
Bo bel foundation meeting in Washington October
The Bo bel foundation for the promotion of industrial peace will hold an executive committee meeting in Washington in October to devise a working basis. Attendees include Archbisop Ireland Marvin Hughitt Lucas Tattle Samuel Gompers John Mitchell Marcus M Marks G Gimbee Jonstan and Ralph M Bailey. The foundation aims to resolve disputes between labor and capital. The Nobel prize awarded to Theodore Roosevelt and attributed to the foundation now totals about 42900 with interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boel Foundation For the
Washington
Archbishop Ireland Marvin Hughitt
Chicago
Lucas Tattle
Boxton
Samuel Gompers
John Mitchell Marcus M Marks
New York
Gimbee Jonstan
Avanta
Ralph M Bailey
Theodore Raaseve
Ty Tim
Realty Company Wins Point In Gilfry Case Testimony Rule
Judge Thomas Anderson dismissed a petition by Henry H Gilfry and former Senator William A Clark seeking a rule to show cause against District Realty Company. He ruled the charges of neglect in settlements for the sale of property at Gly View Halgets require testimony. Attorney C M Culton represented the Realty Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson
Gilfry
Henry H Gilfry
William A. Clark
District Realty Company
Thomas Anderson
Gilby and Clark
Really Company
Joly
Gly View Halgets
C M Culton
Realty Company
Permits Issued for Six Dwellings and Repairs
The city issued construction permits for six dwellings and repairs. G W Barkman receiving three two story brick and frame houses at 315 to 319 Fourteenth Street NW and 32 Fourteenth Street NW. W Barkman for a dwelling at 16 Perry Street NW. J H Weisman for a three story brick dwelling at Half Street SW. Holorean Rosenthal to repair a store at 124 Seventh Street NW. Estimated costs range from about 2,000 to 75,000 dollars with architects A H Beers, A B Mullett, and Frank B Essex.
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G W. Barkman
Fourteenth Street Northwest
A. H. Boers
A. H. Beers
G W Berkman
Barkman
Perry Street
W. Barkman
John H Weisman
Half Street
Frank B Essex, Pulder
K. P. Whitty
Holorean Rosenthal
Seventh Street
A. B Mullett
R. Z . Hasill
Wall Up Old Wagon Yard and Sewer Orders Given
Commissioners order walls placed around the old wagon yard north of the blacksmith shop at the pumping station on Bryant Street with a brick coat not exceeding 350 dollars. An officer named Ebenezer Jackson Washington is involved in river basin and sewer work near Four and a half street and Maine. A court case details a fight on the River Queen and ensuing arrests, fines, and a vagrancy charge leading to Newark.
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Bryant Street
Water Department
Ebenezer
Jackson Wahington
Ebenezer Knowiog
Maine
rIver Front
Fing
DOB
H Street
Fifteenth Street
Gemmen Freb
Jim Green
Della
Washington
Jim
Delia
Hackman
United States
Norris
Joe Barnes
Kidwara
Thomas Dorsey
Leat
Kimball
Robert Burgess
Richard Powell
Burgess
Powell
Bucgens
Police Court Delivers Fine in Racially Loaded Case
A crowded police court scene records a $40 fine for Della, a Black woman, amid a broad sweep of crimes. Several defendants faced gambling and liquor charges, while Officer Kite and others testified in a storebreak case involving Joseph Green, with bond set at $1000.
Two Children Struck By Epileptic Attacks In Street
Frederick Eckhardt aged 2 of 1143 Eighteenth Street NW collapsed on Kelorama and Connecticut Avenues NW and was taken to Emergency Hospital for treatment after an epileptic seizure. Bran Calden aged 6 years fell behind 18 First Street NW with a deep head wound, received medical aid at Emergency Hospital and was moved to 83 First Street NW.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvaum
Cuntry
Tran
New York
Chicago
Pittsburgh
New York City
Pennsylvania
Frederick Eckhardt
Eighteenth Street
Kelorama
Connecticut Avenues
Famergency Hospital
Brandis Calden
Birst Street
Calden
First Street
Millers See Bleached Flour Dispute Proceed To Adjudication
Millers request to halt further bleaching of Nour flour was denied as Dechinea and the pure food board pursue a test case. Seizures of flour will continue while the matter is decided. Two bleaching methods exist, with Northwest mills stopping bleaching on February 1. Much of the country’s flour bleaching status remains unsettled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wade Trim
Gental
of Dunlop
Pure Food Board
Department of Agrculture
Impunty
Nebraska
Northwest
Middle West
Protect Indian Girls Disappearance Probed by Haskell Institute
Kansas City reports of a raid on Haskell Indian Institute prompted the Department of the Interior to seek facts on four girls said to have run away amid alleged inducements to immorality. Acting Secretary Pierce pledged full investigation and swift action if trafficking is proven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Gars
Haskell Indian Institute
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Infan
Pierce
Indian Bureau
Kansas
United States
Twenty-fifth Annual Tournament and Dress Ball at Marshall Hall
The twenty fifth annual grand tournament and dress ball will be heldWednesday August at Marshall Hall. Weahington and Alexandria citizens and nearby Maryland Virginia counties are invited. Prizes attract knights and many ladies will attend. A dining room and amusements open, with a concert by Schroeder x military band and a dance orchestra on the lawn.
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Marshall Hall
Weahington
Alexandria
Maryland
Virginia
Schroeder x
Charles Macalester
EH Williams Buried After Funeral Services At Home
Funeral services for William Henry Williams, last charter member and former vice president of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants, were held at his residence at 1633 Thirty fourth Street Northwest. Rev Edward D Stone and Rev T C Grouse officiated. Burial followed at Oak Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers were Association members. he leaves two daughters Mrs Bla Hoover and Mrs George Bell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiliam Henry Willams
Association of Oldest Inhabitants
Moon
Thirty Fourth Street
Edward D Stone
Congress Street
Girls Saved From Water at Colonial Beach Rescue
Miss Helen Donovan of Gas City was saved from drowning at Colonial Beach when Sergt Charles P M Lord of the Third precinct, visiting, and Thomas Welsh, a local man, pulled her from a overturned raft about 200 yards from shore. Miss Ollie Meyer, able to swim, was saved by Welsh after the raft capsized. Donovan failed to regain consciousness briefly but revived, while Meyer remained afloat until rescue. The pair, daughters of local proprietors, were spending a week at Colonial Reach.
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Sergi Charles P
Colonial Beach
Helen Donovan
Gas City
Misa Donovan
Allie Meyer
Huselt
Berst Lord
Losi
Miss Donovan
Carrie
Thomas Welsh
Miss Meyer
Donovan
Mss Meyer
Mr Welsh
Mrs Donovan
William J Donovan
Mrs Meyer
Marinn Street
Colantal Reach
City Bulletins Run Over He Sues for 10004
Charles I and William Corby bakers named defendants in a District Supreme Court damage suit for 1004 brought by James W Robinson. He claims a wagon owned by the defendants ran over him on September 10 on Rhode Island avenue NW, causing permanent injuries.
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Charles I
William Corby Bakers
James W Robinson
District Supreme Court
Robinson
Attor Hays
Ring
Bleyrle
Rhode Island Avenue
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Bulletin
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Consumers Coal Company, Inc
Best Coal
Furtner
Wba
Grinnell Ug Sorsry
Robert H Love
Oficn
F Street
N. W
Kuppenheimer Clothes
Assaer
Pat
Mandi Elighiande
Septal Ag Dupact
Lansburgh
Electric Light Potomac Electric Power Company
14Th St. N. W
INCE
Albert Ard Deess
West
Horn
Bobel Foundation
Organization For Industrial Peace
Friedlander Bros
Wood
Algo
T. W. Wood & Sons, S
Seadamen
Richmond, Va
Add
Chadwick Robertson
Julius Koorfman
Ninth and
W Streets
Turner
Alexander Schenk
Alexander
Newark
Flaherty
Rairoad
O Tudge Kimball
Helms
Gentry Bros Circus
Hia
Aisat
Strana
Lttie
Grant Dison
Mulrowny
Gemmeen Fren
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Kimben
Woather
Willam Medley Medley
Percy Ellis
Ellis
Hits
Joseph Green
Kite
Oppenheimer & New
Green
Lester
Samuel J . Thomas
Millers
Agricultural Department
Dechinea
Haskell Institute
EH Williams
Sergi Lord
Ollie Meyer
City Bulletins
John T Crowleys
Schneider
Heurleh
Senate
Tel West
Arington
North Capstol
F Steels
Georges
Blum
George Thornton
Dr Miller
North Camtol Street
Marion Street
Altamont
W P Mason
Convoisiors
Seree
PecSuile Sugnarre
Baffin
Pto Fr
Ah He Ped
Gastoria
Bears
Castoria
POST
Niagara Falls
R. R
Susquehanna Valley
Smithsonian Grounds
Julius Kamper
Mustcfan
Daughters of America
Sally Robbers
Moonlight On the Hudson
Heidel
Pantasia
Lampe Suppe
Denisetti
Herman ‘Wagner
Roberts Bellsteat Herbert
Fifteenth U.S. Cavalry Band
Fort Myer
George
Tyrrell
Moreh
Intermexo
Rerture
Selectida
Idyl
Dodo” Marck
Gebin Guarda
Ita Verai ‘Obani
Waldteufel
Herbech
Mickacke
Ludern
Toren
Andrews
R. P. Andrews
Royal Gas Range
A. Eberly
Economy Co-Operative Society
St EW
Washington Gaslight Co
Tenth Street NW
Uffy
Rochester
People’s Drug Store
Keeley
Keeley Institute
Capitol Street
Washington, DC
Eles
District of Columbia
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