Inauguration Date Shift Urged In District Annual Report
The annual report of the District Commissioners to Congress urges moving inauguration day from March 4 to the last Thursday in April to protect health during ceremonies. It urges civil service for the District, financing plans for major improvements, school expansions, new fire protection, and a larger public works program.
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Congress
Lind
Supreme Court of the
United States
Hapy Ray
Treasury
Board of Commissioners
Nstead
Morgan
Washington Heights
Columbia Heights
Sixteenth Street
Mott
Abbott
Garfield
Hyn
Georgetown
Capitol Hill
Lincoln Park
Central
Eastern
M Street
Commissionera
Armstrong Maouat Training School
Takoma Park
Board of Charities
30 Ag
Board of Children's Guardians
Superintendent of Insurance
Superintendents of Insurance
Commissioners of Insurance
Health Department
Shaw's Surplus Report Highlights 1906 Fiscal Year
Secretary Shaw presents annual Treasury report to Congress showing a surplus of 95,069,822.01 and total receipts of 762,386,004.62 against expenditures of 736,779,582. The document details postal revenues, sources of government income, and district finances including debt reductions and per capita circulation data. It notes a profitable year with net surplus and changes in trust funds, currency stock, and bonds. Local district finances show a $11,487,249.80 net expenditure and a $5,995,018.96 revenue deposit for 1906.
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Water Department
United States
Union Station
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Treasury
Fatarnal Faye Coe
Columbia
Feltere
Department of State
Pei
Soldiers’ Home Permanent Fund
Alacka
Alesina
Central Pacific Railroad
Panama Canal
District of Columbia
Philippi
Spain
Naval Establishment
Shaw
National Bank Note Redemption Fund
Government Finances and Banking Report Summary
The report covers national banks with 80 chartered institutions, 6189 active, and 48 closures since inception. It notes 37.2 percent of banks organized since 1900, growth due to minimum capital. It cites deposits, coinage, and calls for more elastic currency, plus demands on the Bureau of Engraving for notes and a push for a new building. It details public buildings completed, alien examinations, life-saving stations, vessels saved and lost, and counterfeit trends with a request for wireless apparatus funding.
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Agan
Bunoh Ssa
Bellion
Surgeon General
United States
Atlantic
Gulf
Secret Service Bureau
Russian Officer Visits War Department After War Losses
Gen Kondratevitch, chief of the Ninth East Siberian Rifle division, thanked American observers and spoke of heavy Russian losses during the Russo Japanese War. His corps reportedly lost 11 000 men, with over 300 officers and 14 000 men in battle. He heads to St Petersburg for the Far East.
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Japan
C. A. Kondratevitch
Ninth East Siberian Rifle Division
Siberian Army Corps
War Department
Barry
United States
Kuropatkin
Kondratovitch
St. Petersburg
Far East
Steam er Monroe Blamed in Hampton Roads Collision
The supervising inspector general of the Steamboat Inspection Service ruled the Monroe at fault in the Hampton Roads collision with the battleship Virginia. Navy officials accept the decision, which overturns an earlier board finding clearing Virginia's officers. The inquiry originated with a local steamboat inspectors board before referral.
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Hampton Roads
Virginia
Monroe
Old Dominion Line
Steamboat Inspection Service
Navy Department
Naval Court of
Army Leaves and Promotions Report on Officers
Army orders list leaves of absence for Captains Nicilin Watson Smith Atkinson Purtnell Dugan Hubberd and others with several promotions to major. It notes transfers to Fort Monroe Providence Leavenworth and work related to inspecting artillery and infantry units.
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Ninth Infantry
John W. Watson
Eighth Cavalry
Emery T. Smith
Mnth Infantry
Benjamin W. Atkinson
Sixth Infantry
Fourth Infantry
Benjamin W. Purtnell
Eighteenth Infantry
Fielder M. M. Baal
Third Infantry
Twenty
Eighth Infantry
Providence
Clyde
Ford
Aesistant
Army
Walter M. Whitman
Fort
Leavanworth, Kane
Ayetam
Samuel E. Smiley
Fifteenth Infantry
Maj. Cherley
G. ‘Trent
Artery Corps
Y Department
Army Needs a Fleet to Move Troops in Emergency
Acting Chief of Staff Brig. Gen. Thomas B. Barry in his annual report lauds the Army’s resourcefulness during the San Francisco earthquake and fire and cites Cuba and Atlantic transport gaps as critical. He urges higher pay for NCOs and soldiers, and removal of unfitted or old officers to maintain an active force.
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Anacostia
San Francisco
Thomas B. Barry
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Atlantic
Barry
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Brownsville
Tex
Savant Ath
War Department plan to strengthen Newport coast defense crews
The War Department proposes withdrawing troops from minor coast defenses at Newport and Narragansett Bay to concentrate manpower at larger strategic centers. The goal is to ensure adequate manning of modern defenses and provide officers and men with needed experience in mass maneuvers amid decades of underfunding and reliance on undertrained watchmen.
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Citizens Jing
Grant Road
Congeticut Avenue
Alto
Fort Reno
Minter
Wyomingdale
Grge
Newport
Narragansett Bay
War Department
Ed Newport
Coast wireless breakthrough sets coast-to-coast distance
San Diego reports that a government wireless station at Point Loma exchanged messages with the Puget Sound station, 1,200 miles apart. It marks the longest distance ever transmitted by a coastal wireless station, achieved last evening.
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Cal
Point Loma
Puget Bound
Stomach Sufferers Squander Millions In Search of Relief
An 1900s style remedy ad blames over eating for stomach issues and promotes Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as nature’s fix. It claims the product supplies missing digestive elements like pepsin and diastase to aid digestion and restore stomach function, urging readers to buy or request a free trial.
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Richart
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