New Wells for Schools Bring Clean Water to District
Three of eight deep wells funded by Congress are completed and supplying Londont Road School Main Bridge School and Bennings School. Five more wells at Congress Heights Garfield Stanton Burrville and Bunker Hill Road schools plus one at Bennings Hotel are under construction. Officials say the new system ends the previous impure water era linked to a typhoid outbreak and assures a pure supply for pupils.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Heaith Department
Washington
Ashford
Columbia Pump and Well Company
Londalt Road
Main Bridge
Bennings School
Congress Heights Garfield
Stanton Burrville
Bunker Hill Road
Bennings Hotel
Warrants Against Butter Dealers Issued by City Counsel
Assistant Corporation Counsel James Pugh issued warrants against seven butter dealers for selling process butters as butter in violation of the law. Acting Health Officer Sawtelle and Inspector Haley with Harry M Phillips will aid in prosecutions. Merchants named are Henry Cow or, Edwin Shuffle, Touts J Kettler, Edward T. Weller, James O Turner, Norman Tavign, and T William Crompton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Pugh
Kaw
Pugh
Ht’ Sawtelle
J C Haley
Harry M Phillips
Henry Cowor
Edwin Shuffle
Touts J Kettler
Véward T. Well
Prisoner Gets Long Term For Larceny In Maryland Ave Case
Assistant U S Attorney Turner notes larceny charge against Herbert Andrews after he looted the Shelly home during a family funeral. Judge Mulloway condemns him as a thievish type, sentencing to workhouse time, with two months added for good measure. Separate case involves Edward White, an ex sailor, charged with bicycle theft and horse and harness theft, pled guilty and receives six months in the workhouse. also details on school repairs and debris left by a department crew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Turner
Herbert Andrews
Mulloway
Mra Sallie Shelly
Massachusetts Avenue Northwest
Mra Shelly
Virginia
Andrews
Bhellys
Weedon
Burlingame, Evans
O'Dea
Missine
Varity
Tudge Mulloway
Edward White
Percy Brunger
J. T D Pyles
White
Swantheart
Hyattsville
Board of Education
Commissionera
Wihad
Marth
McQueeney
Engineer Department
Ashford
Gambling at Takoma Park Players Run Sunday Woods Games
A Takoma ParkMd gambling group operates weekly poker sessions in nearby woods straddling Montgomery and Prince George counties. Reports say the club has persisted over a year drawing young men including church members. Local officials vow action if players are found.
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Takoma Park
Washington
Montgomery
Prince George
Woods
Matt
W. G. Platt
War on Caterpillars In City Trees Begins
The District superintendent of parking and trees launches a campaign against a caterpillar invasion. Workers wash infested elms and maples eight hours daily, fighting to save foliage. The heaviest damage is in the area bounded by New Jersey Avenue Eleventh Street H Street and Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest. The outbreak began about three years ago and expands each season, threatening more trees unless controlled.
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New Jersey Avenue
Eleventh and
H Streets
Pennsylvania
Tala
Jrst
Trouble at Willow Tree Alley and liquor license protest
Reports recount a midnight intrusion by Harry Phoenix at Annie Cogey's home on Willow Tree Alley, resulting in a $20 fine after a confrontation. Other items note August Schaller's guilty plea for selling three half barrels of beer, health department typhoid figures in the District, a disputed instalment case, and the Excise Board granting a liquor license to the Columbia Turnverein despite protests.
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Willow Tree Alley
Harry Phoenix
Annie Cogey
Annie
Harry
August Schaller
National Capital Brewery
Carl Birkle
Sundland
H M Jett
Schaller
Mckee
Health Department
Furnyerem
Columbia Turnverein
M Street
Excise Board
Lcense
Stuart M Namara Back From Paris Visit
Stuart McNamara assistant to the Attorney General appears hale after a two month stay in Paris. He left Southampton a week ago aboard the Hamburg American liner for New York to continue prosecutions in Abel cases against New York and Indianapolis newspaper men. He declined to discuss findings, saying his work was confidential.
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Hale
Paris
Stuart McNamara
McNamara
Southampton
America
New York
Suit by Administratrix vs Capital Traction Company
Harriet T Lipp as administrator of Sarah E Cotton filed suit yesterday in the District Supreme Court against Capital Traction Company. Cotton, formerly Mrs Sarah E B Thompson, was killed when struck by a streetcar at Perry and B streets on April 21. She worked at the Pension Department and was on her way to business when she died. The suit covers her four surviving children and notes Cotton was the only woman on the Pension Bureau rolls as a soldier of the United States. It claims she aided in the capture of Gen John T Morgan and was pensioned for wartime bravery. Also noted, False Alarm Company Incorporated formed with M. H Ramage, JB Nicholson, Dan B Miller Jr, and JM Smith as officers. offices to be in the Evans building.
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Newmyer
District Supreme Court
Capital Traction Company
Harriet T Lipp
Sarah E Cotton
Sarah EB Thompson
Piret
B Streets
Dirs Cotton
Penjaffce
Cotton
Pension Bureau
United States
John T Morgan
False Alarm Company Incorporated
Automatic
M. H Ramage
JB Nicholson
Dan B’ Miller
JM Smith
Evans Bulking
Smithsonian officials refute Corbett writer on institution
Acting Chief Clerk Traylor defends the Smithsonian against F A Richardson of Corbett Ma who alleged in a New York article that the institution lacks transparency. He asserts annual reports, 1 876 publications, and detailed accounts exist, with funds from the US Treasury and a permanent fund fully accounted for, and notes forthcoming 1907 1908 reports and catalog publications.
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Traylor
Traducer of
Board of Regents
Smithsonian Institution
F. A. Hichardson
Corbett, Ma
Institution
New York
Congress
Smithsonian
Washington
Smithzonian
JG Traylor
Walcott
Smithson
The
Smithsonian Instituion
Smithsonian Museum
Xasil
Executive Committee
Treasury
Steamboat Card Shakedown Reported by Passenger Fletcher Dungan
Fletcher Dungan of 12 Second Street Northeast was approached by a bareheaded young man aboard the steamer Northumberland and asked for 225. He paid but later had to pay again after the purser disputed the man’s employment. Dungan notified harbor police upon return to the city. Northumberland crew say the scam was run in Baltimore by posing as a steamboat ticket agent.
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Northumberland
Fletcher Dungan
Second Street
Dungan
Baltimore
Woman Sues District for Damages Over Tripping on Manhole
Mise Lewellyn Melzer filed a case in District Supreme Court charging the District government with injuries from tripping over a protruding manhole cover at Seventh and K streets NW. She alleges no light at the site, and lists WC Balderson and Hayden Johnson as her attorneys.
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Mise Lewellyn Melzer
District Supreme Court
WC Balderson
Hayden Johnson
Seventh
K Streets
Miss Melzer
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Ok’d
Delta
Hanan
Saks & Company
Penny Avenue
Seventh Street
Oregon
Idaho
Union Pacific Electric
Seattle
Wash
Wilaquane
Chemont St
Philadel
Electric Light Potomac Electric Power Company
14Th St. N. W
Prince Aldlat
BRESS
Sng
Kuppenheimer
Casiaer
Ley
Friedlander Bros
ONS
Wood
T. W. Wood & Sons, Seedsmen
Richmond
Graham
People's Drug Store
Wudge
Takoma
Philly
Sarah
Stuart M’namara
Panama
Lane
Administrateix
Judiciary Park
Fifteenth
U. S. Cavalry Band
Fort Myer, VA
George F. Tyrrell
Waldteufel
Merbert
Dodo" Marck
Gobin Guards
Ces Milehaelin Luders Durrefi
Marine Barracks
Marine Rand
Willan
Santelmarin
Lender
Dano
Pic
Mustelans
Offenbach
HL Jaarzemsen
Herbert Vollatedt
Sappe
United States Treasury
Smaithconian
West Shore Railroad Company
Thomas Hodgkins
West Shore Railroad
City Bulletins
Hurich
Senate
Arlington Bottling Co
Hancreda
Schneider
John F. Dries
Attornneys
Clinton James
Henry
Annis M Dries
W. P Mason
Renawetner Polytechnic Institute
Crowley's
CL ‘A. Modaiman & Co
Mer Home Consult
POST
Economy Co-Operative Society
Shawspems
Dt Row
Randle Highlands
Randa Hilgilands
Anma
Capics
Ax Trepont
Lota
Sexy Permmente U8 Realty CO
Ttnsf
Peave Om
Tey Weeley Institute
North Ceptrol Street
Washington, D
District of Columbia
Burchell
A.W. Burchetl
F Street
Tharp
Berkeley Rye
F St. Nw
Spenal Pirate Delvery
O’donnell’s
F St
Washington Gaslight Co
Tenth Street N. We
Warner
Devtors
Avery Aufere
Warnern
Gratreni
Gratreni Pactenta
Warner Rate Care Company
Rochester WY
Mension
Pera
R. P. Andrews
la. Ave
Royal Gas
A. Eberly
7Th St. N. W
Lansburgh Furniture Co
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