Ten Typhoid Cases Reported as August Totals Climb
Health officials report ten new typhoid cases, bringing August totals to 172 with 71 more than July. Exposures to sudden temperature changes and sleeping in drafts are cited as risk factors, while boiling water is advised. Doctors note limited evidence linking the Potomac water to the outbreak and urge precautions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Health Department
Health Office
Mount Savage
Potomac
Woodward
South America
Mount Bethel Baptist Association Sets August Session
The Mount Bethel Baptist Association closed its annual meeting with memorial services at First Baptist Church in Washington D C for Rev Barnett L Phillips and Rev Dri Russell of Baltimore. Next annual meeting scheduled for Baltimore on the second Tuesday in August 1905. Delegates George W Lee and Alexander Willbanks named to the national Baptist convention. The organization reported strong finances and ten new churches joined this year. Sunday school convention officers were elected including Willem Johnson president and Robert Johnson treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Bethel , Baptist Association
First Baptist Church
Sixth
G Streets
Barnett L. Phillips
Dri Russell
Baltimore
George W. Lee
Hickman
Alexander Willbanks
National Baptist Convention
Willem Johnson
J. A Adams
R . T. Wyne
Mary E. Wison
M .K. Hayses
Grace Mas0n
Robert Johnson
Samuel Ward
Louisa Scott
Almarolio Will Case Delayed By Absent Executors
The Alexander boys foster parents affair remains unresolved as executor Lawton and counsel Sullivan are away. Maloney opened and resecured the Sullivan safe vault to verify access to the probate papers. The will probate waits on Johnson and Linton. if urgent waste arises, a peremptory probate may be sought immediately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander
Mary
Alexander) Almarolio
Lawton
George EB. Sullivan
Sullivan
Maloney
Fendall
Mr. Maloney
Mr. Sullivan
Almareo
J. Altheus Johnson
Linton
Perhon
Fought Sweetheart's Father Ends in Fines
John Mann forfeited 5 as collateral for missing Polie Court after a disorderly conduct charge. Hugh Rivers and brother George fined 5 each for a Thursday night fight near Ninth and U streets. Sergt. Wilson testified they were engaged in a fight, Rivers claiming Mann threatened to thrash him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Mann
Polie
Hugh Rivers
George
Sergt
Wilson
Ninth and
U Streets
O'Neal
Mann
Man Dies From Heart Disease After Walk Home
William H. Gettings aged 72 of 2465 Brightwood Avenue collapsed with heart disease yesterday morning and died before a physician could be summoned. Coroner Nevitt issued a death certificate. An advertisement urges Hood's Sarsaparilla as a blood strengthening tonic to aid digestion and systemic health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiliam H. Gettings
Brightwood Avenue
Nevitt
Salary Boost Sought for City Law Office Assistants
Corporation Counsel Duvall proposes higher pay for two assistants and a title change for a third to reflect duties. Second Assistant A Leftwich Sinclair would rise from 1200 to 2200, Fourth Assistant Francis H. Stephens from 1200 to 1600, and Gus A. Schuldt from 600 to 720, with his role renamed clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corporation Counsel
Duvall
A. Leftwich Sinclair
Francis H. Stephens
Gus A. Schuldt
Schuldt
Stephens
Sinclair
Polices Trial Board
Congress
District notes on retirements and building decisions
The police retirement board recommends private John Stewart retire on a six dollar monthly pension. W B Wilson resigns from the Fourth precinct to take effect immediately. Commissioners rule space on P street between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets NW not designated for market use and orders police to enforce this. Hopewell H Darneville, District assessor, visited the District Building and learned his family welcomed a son born last Sunday in Atlantic City. Mrs Darneille and children plan return to Washington around October 1. Corporation Counsel Drywall declined to answer if the Atlantic De Forest Wireless Telegraph Company may build a station here, advising the applicant to specify mast location and detailed construction plans. He also suggests that the Commissioners ...
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Police
John Stewart
W. B. Wilson
P Street
Fourteenth
Fifteenth
Hopewell H. Darneville
Trarneciile
Atlantic City
Darneille
Washington
Wireless Telegraph
Drywall
Atlantic de Forest Wireless Telegraph Company
Union Station Plaza land condemnation case proceeds
The District seeks to condemn land for Union Station Plaza and new streets. Proceedings began yesterday in the District Supreme Court with Corporation Counsel and First Assistant Counsel representing District Commissioners. Named property owners include George B. Clark Walter H Acker Luke Strider trustees Annie M Shea Mrs Jacob L Fechtig Joseph R Edson Charles B Bailey trustees Equitable Co operative Building Association James F Creamer Contanzo Spugnardi Madelena Spugnardi Constanzo Berimerle administrator and Sarah P Peck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Supreme Court
Puvall
Sinclair
Union Station Plaza
New Streets
MC. Luttrell
District of Columbia
R. W
Delaware Avenue
W. C. Luttrell
M. C. Lutttrell
M. C. Luttrell
George B. Clark
Walter H. Acker
Luke ©. Strider
Annie M. Shea
Jacob L. Fechtig
Joseph R. Edson
Charles B.bailey
Equitable Co-operative Building Association
James F. Creamer
Contanzo Spugnardi
Madelena Spugnardi
Constanzo Berimerle
Sarah P. Peck
Annual police census proposed for District of Columbia
Commissioner Macfarland outlines a plan for an annual police census of District inhabitants to replace decennial federal counts. He argues police know the population better and that April censuses, already used in past years, can be efficient and inexpensive. Maj. Sylvester and Health Officer Woodward back the idea. no U S city has adopted yearly censuses broadly. The plan will be submitted to the Board of Commissioners, with the first census planned for next April.
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Macfarland
District of Columbia
Maj
Sylvester
Woodward
United States
Board of Commissioners
Will Pay Visit to Farmers Rights To Occupy Space
Marketmaster Rice and Detective Watson will inspect the south side of B street to determine which stalls selling produce are home grown. Several permit holders surrendered rather than face arrest for non producers. Next week officials plan farm visits to verify home raised claims. George Clevering and William Grove paid fines for selling without permits. Pumphrey and Scott secured five day continuances to prove home origin. Moses August Floor Covering Sale advertises carpets rugs and linoleum in clearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Clevering
William Grove
Maurice Pumpahrey
Robert Scott
Marketmaster Rice
Pumphrey and
Scott Farms
Militia Pay Delays Cruise for Naval Battalion
Five National Guard commands have delayed payroll submissions, halting funding for the naval battalion’s Camp Ordway operations and the expected transfer of the monitor Puritan from League Island. The plan to sail to Philadelphia and bring the vessel to Washington is postponed to learn remaining funds for subsistence and transport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Guard
Camp Ordway
Washington
Philadelphia
League Island
League Island Navy Yard
Signal Corps
Clerk in Grocery Store Falls Twenty Feet in Elevator Shaft
Frank Allen nineteen, a grocery firm clerk at 1107 Eleventh street southeast, carried flour to a customer downstairs and stepped into an elevator shaft instead of the car. He fell twenty feet to the first floor landing, was unconscious, treated at Providence Hospital for a brain concussion, and listed in serious condition but improving. His home is 421 U street northwest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Allen
Eleventh Street
Allen
Fifth Precinct
Providence Hospital
U Street
Inspection of Virginia abattoirs blocked by funds
Acting Secretary Wills Moore told District Commissioners that insufficient funds prevent federal meat inspection across the river in Virginia. Congress has never appropriated enough to cover interstate or foreign slaughterhouse inspection, though the law authorizes it. Many applications are pending, but cannot be granted this year. Also notes Panama M C A push and White House Marine Band program and a hair tonic ad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wills
Moore
Virginia
White
Congress
Woodward
Secret Wedding of Nicholas Mades and Miss Jackson Revealed
Nicholas A Mades and Miss Sie Jackson quietly wed in Alexandria Virginia on September 28 1902. The couple, living at 300 Pennsylvania Avenue and 1616 Twentieth Ninth Street NW, kept the nuptials private while Mades recovers from a May 1901 assault that left him severely injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicholas A. Mades
Pennsylvania Avenue
Sie Jackson
Twenty-ninth Street
Mades
Charles Mades
Mades’ Hotel
Miss Jackson
Mr. Mades
Alexandria
William Bennett
Pacific Street
Washington
Treasury Department
L. O. Rabey
Laurel
George W. Driver
Wille
Rules for Shipping Corpses Regulated Across States
Corporation Counsel Duvall held that the District of Columbia health officer may enforce the shipment rules of the destination state or territory if they do not conflict with DC regulations. Compliance with the target jurisdiction is essential for transporting a body beyond the District, making the destination's rules controlling the move.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duvall
District of Columbia
Excursions to Old Point Comfort and Nearby Resorts
The article touts evening outings at Chevy Chase Gake with Marine Band music, dancing after 3 pm, and nightly pavilion concerts. It notes Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company trips to Old Point Comfort, Labor Day packages, and reduced round trips. Also promotes dinners at Marshall Hall, river trips to Colonial Beach, Queen Anne Railroad routes to Lewes, and weekend sailings with multiple steamers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chevy Chase
Marine Band Orchestra
Rustic Theater
Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company
Old Point Comfort
Norfolk
Old Point
Hampton Roads
Egent
Seventh Street
Bond Building
Fourteenth Street
New York Avenue
Withal
Marshall Hall
Charles Macalester
Schroeder
Marshal Tail
Cape May
Queen Anne Railroad
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Baltimore
Chesapeake Bay
Love Point
Queen Anne
Denton
Milton
Lewes
Delaware
United States
Atlantic
Undertaker Fined for Speeding in Police Court
William Barnes an undertaker was fined five dollars for driving at fifteen miles per hour along Pennsylvania avenue. He said he hurried to a destination due to a defective tire. The notice also covers other city notices on bread claims and local business ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiliam Barnes
Pennsylvania Avenue
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Saka & Company
Seventh St
Mayer G&g CO
Edward Harris
Crossett
Friedlander Clothing CO
Horn
Tailor
GAS Light
10Th St. N. W
Baptists
Almarolio
Sweetheart
Hood
ASES
District Building Notes
Center Market
Moses
Ina
11 & F
Man's Store
M.S.M
D. J. Kaufman
Pa. Ave
Harpere Ferry
Manassas
Fort Riley
Kans
Parker
Manasges
Adjt
Brett
Harries
C. Fred Cook
W. B. Miller
Agricultural Department
John Barrett
Panama
State Department
New York
Colon
Commission
Marines
White House
States Marine Band
von Blon
Jacques Louis Capnouche
Lebanon
Requi Nationa
Cabin John Bridge
Royal Trajan Band
Pacific Coast
St. Louis
Southern
Southern Pacific Railways
A. J. Poston
Fifteenth Street
Harry Randall
T. V. Arrowsmith
Colonial Beach
Samuel J. Pentz
River View
Heurich Brewing Co
Maerzen
Senate
Phone West
House & Herrmann's
City Bulletin
Schneider
Chicago
C. A. Muddiman & Co
G Street
William Marshall
Grant
Rhembard
Mulien
Johnson
Poliles Court
Mills
Helmes
J. T. D. Pyles
Great Bear Spring Co
Boc
Malin
Tanner's Shorthand and Business College
Reisinger’s
Ogram's Drug Store
Rufus H. Darby
Hickory Hill
Annie van Mater
M. Anne van Mater
Mary B. Spence
William Pattison
Lolly K. Pattions
Everett Vp. van Mater
Dsd
J. Bell Austin
Everett P. van Mater
Victor E. Adler
Clothing House
7Th St
Yale Laundry
10Th St
New York Ave
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