District heads back plan to close streets near cathedral
District commissioners told Senator Ball they would not object to a bill closing 34th place and removing several streets from the highway plan near the National Cathedral. They cited urgent public need to widen Woodley Road and noted Congress forbids action without cathedral land dedication.
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Senate District Committee
National Cathedral
Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation
District of Columbia
Cleveland Avenue
Thirtyfourth Street
Woodley Road
Cathedral Avenue
Wisconsin Avenue
Thirty-sixth Street
Garfield Street
Commissionera
Portner Estate Valued At 150 000 In Probate
Oscar C Portner who died recently left an estate valued about 150 000 dollars the will and codicil filed in probate court show. The bulk goes to widow Mary A Portner with Augustine L Hume and Mrs William P Meredith named executors and a life income to the widow until the elder child is 21. A man named William Bowman was found unconscious on the sidewalk at Twenty first and M streets and taken to emergency hospital with epilepsy and no known relatives.
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Oscar C. Portner
Lambert and Yeatman
Robert Portner
Alexandria
Mary A. Portner
Augustine L. Hume
New York
William P. Meredith
William Bowman
Twenty-first Street
Twenty-first
M Streets
Weather today DC reports and tide table for Dec 5
Forecast for the District of Columbia fair Saturday, increasing clouds Sunday with unsettled, moderate temperatures and winds. Maryland partly cloudy Saturday and Sunday, Virginia fair Saturday with increasing clouds Sunday. Southwest winds prevail. Swell of the storm moving north, rain or snow from the Missouri basin to the Atlantic coast. Temperatures range around 40s, with rising late Saturday, storm warnings issued Atlantic coast from Delaware Breakwater to Eastport Me.
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Dent of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
Washington
District of Columbia
Maryland
Virginia
Tisterbanas
Lake Michigan
Miseouri
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Atlantic Coast
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Texas
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Canadian Northwest
Philo Valley
Misalgsippi
Three A Will Get 1923 Tags for Members
Automobilists affiliated with the District branch of the American Automobile Association must go to the District building at 1108 Sixteenth Street NW to apply for 1924 license tags. Applications require $1, license number, engine number, and return receipt. Processing will take four to six days, and the association expects this to ease member inconvenience.
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American’ Automobile Association
Districtp
Sixteenth Street
Stoder
Vital Statistics Births Reported In City Records
A list of births recorded in the Vital Statistics column includes multiple families with newborn boys and girls. Names span Herschel Piccolo Sabetti Robey Malcom Mathews and many others, with parents such as Chas and Bertha Herschel and Joseph and Ross Piccolo. The piece also notes licenses to marry and various ages of officials and residents connected to hospital and city records.
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Chas
Bertha Herschel
Joseph and
Ross Piccolo
Antony and
Josie Sabetti
Walter G
Helen MM. Malcolm
Patrick J
Mary BM. Mathews
Harry T
Sarah W. Robey
John B
Mildred
Lawrence and
Louise Colburn
Thomas A
Gertrude M. Burns
Warren
Cornelia Oakey
Jack and
Xanthe Heres
Aubrey
Viola Osmond
Cornelius J
May E Norton
Harold F
Ruth Birpbaum
Halford B
Edith Greenies
Walter A
Annie BH
Bélina
Thomas H
Rose M. Rhodes
Guy B
Sigrid
Stepheawn
Cornelius D
Myrtle H. S Moynihan
John
Marie H. ‘Weber
John H
Virginia
Denhelly
Louis Uy
Beatrice Watson
Bessie Shorts
Joseph H
Bernice
Johnson Reelected Highway Research Head at Fourth Annual Meet
Dr. A N Johnson of College Park Maryland was reelected chairman of the highway research board at the closing session of its fourth annual meeting. W E Connell of Harrisburg was elected vice chairman and Charles M Upham of Raleigh was reelected director. The executive committee members were reelected as well. Delegates heard that research boosts highway efficiency and economy and should use local materials when possible.
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A. N. Johnson
College Park
College of Engineering
University of Maryland
Highway Research Board
National Research Council
W. 8.Connell
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania State Highway Department
Charles M. Upham
Raleigh
N. C
A. H. Blanchard
University of Michigan
Lyons to Speak at District of Columbia Music Club Meeting
Mrs John F Lyons national president of the Federation of Music Clubs will address the District of Columbia branch board meeting this afternoon at 436 in Kitt Knaabe hall 1330 G Street NW She is en route to Texas after attending the national board semiannual meeting in Pittsburgh two weeks earlier and will outline the season’s planned work.
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John F. Lyons
Federation of Music Clubs
District of Columbia
Federation
Kitt- Knaabe Hall
G Street
Lyons
Texas
National Board
Pittsburgh
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