Florida Honors Gen Kirby Smith Statue at Capitol
A life size bronze statue of Gen Kirby Smith was installed yesterday in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall as a Florida memorial. The model by C A Pillars shows Smith in Confederate uniform with the pedestal inscription praising him as Florida’s most distinguished soldier.
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Gen. Kirby Smith
Capitol
Florida
C. A
Gen. Smith
Kirby Smith
Co. 8
Virginia
Robert. E. Lee
Congres
House of Representatives
Waas
Lee
Food Market Struck in Mendota District Conflict
Food administration officials ordered the Mendota Market on Nineteenth Street and Columbia Road NW to suspend selling certain goods from August 27 until further notice. Market owner W. B. Krantz was found guilty of charging exorbitant prices for potatoes eggs corn and tomatoes and adopting a hostile stance toward the administration.
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Food Administration Met
Mendota
Nineteenth Street
Columbia Road
W. B. Krantz
Food Administration
Births Reported In Local District
A list of birth announcements: multiple couples welcome newborns including girls and boys. Notable entries include Wm A Wise with a girl and Howard A Williams with a boy. Other families such as Weightman Robbins Ogston Mustin McDaniel Logan Johnson Janeseck Hefferman Lirsh Ganon Aggleston Dolph Strother McManus Martin Jones Henson Brown and others record births in the community.
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Wm. A
Martha E. ‘Wise
Howard A
Mabel A. Williams
Roger
Mabel M. Weightman
Carl C
Lotte T. Robbins
Alfred J
Lucy Ogston
Mawin M
Bertha McNulty
Henry C
Corrine Mustin
Robert L
Ming EB. McDaniel
Hazel V. Logan
Frank H
Bertha B. Johnson
Leo F
Mary ¥. Janeseck
Thomas T
Eleanor V. Hefferman
Edgar M
Irene R. Lirsh
Irving C
Gertrude Gensford
Truman A
Clara M. Ganon
Joel B
Eleanor Aggleston
Zi Theodore B
Eva EB
DeFoe
John M
Muriel Dolph
Helen P. Strother
Luther M
Hanttie McManus
Clement
Janie Martin
Nellie Jones
John
Annie Henson
Win
Martha Brown
Francis X
Cora Brown
LICENSED TO MARRY LIST OF BRIDES AND GROOMS
A long list of license marriages is shown including Robert L iormes and Bila G Newhall along with many other couples such as John H. Jeffries and Harold G M Cartney, and Henry J. Shandelie. The notices also include a death section with names and ages like Robert Allen 59 and Julie McC Huggins 81. Also advertised are floral tokens from Artistic Floral Tokens at 1214 F st.
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Robert L. Iormes
Kooter
Mfnn
Bila G. Newhall
Philadelphia
William Taylor Snyder
Charles M. Hobiinson
Edith M Drory
John H. Jeffries
Harold G. M. Cartney
Connellaville
Mary Charles Cawood
I Gbhanies Wood Horace C. Campbell
Mukeesport
Gertrude W. Kean
Midland
Milton Strasburger
Penny Ek, Spangter
Roanoke
Rene Sheridan Dyer
Henry J. Shandelie
Russell V. Barner
Creive
Annie Aulette Oder
Appomattox
Howard F. Downe
Charles
Chicago
Illand
Erie
Charles H
Robert Allen
Harvard St
Mattie M. Keith
Tan L Pickett
T. Ave
Julie McC. Huggins
St. Ave
Alford H. Gawler
U. S
C. A. Lipphard
Monica BH. McAvoy
C St. Ne
John Sorrett
Virginia Simons
John van Dyke
8Th St. Re
Wn Clair
Lugenta
Norris
Arlee Ave
Garfield
City Briefs Show Various Community Events and Labor Talks
City briefs report a labor mass meeting at Camp Humphreys with speakers from the Carpenters Union and Washington Brotherhood. Alumni smokers at Cosmos Club feature Professors Overstrect and Breithut. A Piney Branch center hosts French class for uniformed men, and the District salvage committee continues metal drives for the Red Cross. Ohio Girls' Club to visit College Park for vaudeville night at the YMCA hut.
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George Crosby
Carpenters’ International Union
Caleb Adams
Washington Brotherhood of Carpentera
Joingrsa
Camp Humpheys
Washington
The
Associated
College of the City of New York
Cosmos Club
Harry A. Overstrect
Frederick
Piney Uhranch
West School
J. A. Holmes
I Center
Prof. Lazar
Ohio Girls’ Club
College Park
Fifteenth
G Streets
High Milk Price Hurting Babies in Washington
An investigation by the children’s bureau of the Department of Labor finds half of Washington two year olds and a third of babies under two receive no adequate milk. Many rely on tea or coffee, with purchases down from last year and averaging about one quart per family daily. The decline mainly hits poorer families due to high milk costs. no assurance milk will be added to the District Food Administration price list.
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Children’s Bureau
Department of Labor
Washington
Bureau
Theiistrict Food Administration
Sun and Tide Table and Weather Summary for Aug 27 1918
The notice provides a sun and tide table with clock times, followed by a Weather Bureau forecast for the District of Columbia and surrounding states. It notes warmer conditions for Thursday, chances of showers in western portions, gentle to southeasterly winds, and a cyclonic low over the Missouri valley moving eastward. Temperatures range from the 60s to mid 80s with humidity and rainfall details and a Potomac and Shenandoah river bulletin from Harpers Ferry.
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IT. S. Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
District of Columbia
Maryland
Virginia
New England
North Pacifier
Missouri Valley
Gnlf
Apalachian
Ohie Valley
East Gulf States
Ohio Valley
Lake Region
Middle Atantic States
Middle Atlantic
Harpers Ferry
W. Va
Potomac
Shenandoah
Sanitary Grocery Plans War Savings Stamp Promotion
The Sanitary Grocery Company led by president E. G. Yonker announces a plan for 259 employees to boost war savings stamps sales. District Director Calahan calls it liberal and constructive. Participating employees buy a $5 stamp each month and receive an additional stamp, with restrictions on resale until after January 1, 1919, aiming for about $2,500 in monthly sales.
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Sanitary Grocery Company
E. G. Yonker
D. J. Calahan
Yonker
Answers Ouster Suit Denied by Publicity Corporation Officers
Harvey Jester president Homer Joseph Dodge secretary and Edward A Gross treasurer of the Publicity Corporation filed an answer in Distribet Supreme Court denying irregularity in management. George H Gall had sued for an accounting claiming illegal ouster from office as secretary and treasurer. Affidavits state Gall was voted out at a stockholders meeting on November 14.
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Harvey Jester
Homer Joseph Dodge
Edward A. Gross
The
Publicity Corporation
Distribet Supreme Court
George H. Gall
Gall
Frank J. Hogan
William 4. Donovan
Leave With Pay Granted for Spanish American War Veterans
District commissioners granted paid leave to government employees who are Spanish American War veterans to attend the twentieth annual encampment in Baltimore from September 3 to 6. The leave augments existing annual leave and was requested by James B. Carver, deputy adjutant of the United Spanish War Veterans in the city.
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Baltimore
James 8B. Carver
Dyer Estate Sues Haw for 10000 Damages After Fatal Crash
Joseph F. Dyer as administrator filed in the District Supreme Court suit against Luciala P. Haw doing business as L. P. Haw & Co. hauling contractors for $10000 in damages. Bernard Dyer died hours after a March 23 bicycle collision at Twenty-first and N streets NW with Haw’s truck.
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Joseph F. Dyer
Bernard Dyer
District Supreme Court
Luciala P. Haw
L. P. Haw & Co
Daniel W. Baker
Dyer
Vacuum Cleaner Makers Agree to Cut Lines
Manufacturers of power driven portable vacuum cleaners reached an agreement with the war industries board to limit output to no more than two models or sizes and to discontinue nonessential attachments. The plan is expected to save at least 1,000,000 feet of rubber hose annually.
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War Industries Board
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What the Packers
America
Swift & Company
U.S. A. Washington
Center
D. T. Dutrow
Haddon & Dodge Bros
Assenger Wilcox & Dodge Bros
Semmes Motor Company
Byron S. Adams
Tith St
ST I
Geo. Pitt Co
Ine
Edison Diamond DiscoPhonographs
Gibson Co., Inc
Food Chief
D. J. Kaufman Concernars
Pa. Ave
17Th St
Church of the Incarnation
Congress Heights
Carl Wahler
Almos ‘Temple Patent
Walter Reed Hospital
Rock Creek Park
Noble W. W. Georges
Navy Yard Band
Virginia H. Jordan
Julian Etinge
Sylvan Theater
Swift & Co
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Wyo
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Penn
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Nobite
Ala
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Nebr
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Ariz
G. H. Gall
D. CG
Ferdinand King
New York
Belasco
Celal
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Filmittee
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Gaon
Poraht
William Collier
Montgomery County Fair
Rockville
Talon
D. W. Griffith
Hedda, Nova the
John Come
Wis- Mella
Pat
Henry Miller
Ruth Chatterton
Chicago Tribune ‘War Cearmanandent
Floyd Gibbons
Chateau
Lyceum
Franklin
Joyland
Funny Billy Gilbert
South America
South Africa
Buenos Aires
Aventda de Mayo
Buenos Air Argentina
Atlas Advertising Agency
Fourth Ave
Horacio Camps Adv
Cortland
Library Bureau Automatic Index
Army
Navy
Library Bureau
Baridad
Wood and Steel
H. S. Walcott
Fifteenth Street
B.f.keith
Emma Carus Graig Campbell
Paris
McKay & Ardins
Loews Columbia Ee Pee William
Hart A
Solly Ward
Roseland Girls
Harry Colman
Krywin
Ee ‘Theater N Rth
B Star Ladies
Uncle Sam's Belles
Chevy Chase Lake
Vm Vase
Polar Club
Maddiman
Maia
Les
Eves
Shubert
Ourres
Cote Eos Frey
Sue
Leon Gordon
Ad Leroy Olew
Sometine
Rey
Melee
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