Light Wagon Safety Regulation Sparks City Debate
Proposals to require all horse drawn wagons to carry lights take effect Sunday amid protests from Chamber of Commerce and major wagon owners. Critics warn heavy drays with noise would be unfair, while officials argue lights prevent fires and protect pedestrians. The new rule mandates a white light visible 200 feet on the left, plus a rear light, with certain belated route exceptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Georgetown Citizens’ Association
P. T. Moran
Moran
Columbi Etween
Metropolitan Police
Death of Joseph E. Crandall at 85 at Washington City
Joseph E. Crandall of 1240 Irving Street died yesterday afternoon at Washington Asylum Hospital aged 85. A Maryland native, he worked 30 years for the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company. He leaves a wife, five children, a brother Milton R. Crandall of the post office, and two sisters Mrs Melick and Mrs Warry Kenner, both of this city.
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Joseph E. Crandall
Irving Street
Washington Asylum Hospital
Crandall
Maryland
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Milton R. Crandall
Register Division
Post Office
Melick
Warry Kenner
Cosmos Club Opens New Building at Lafayette Park
The Cosmos Club celebrated formal opening of its new building at Lafayette Park and Hatree Northwest with rooms adorned by palms tropical plants and cut flowers. Refreshments featured various punches and the structure recalls Dolly Madison home. Lectures included The Homeward Voyage of the Battleship Fleet by W H H Smith. Priest Fr Fink injured in fall at Wisconsin and P streets Georgetown. Home grown roses by Gude at 1214 F.
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Cosmos Club
Lafayette Park
Hatreet Northwest
Dolly Madison
Father Fink
Leonardtown
Wisconsin Avenue
P Street
Georgetown
Georgetown University Hospital
Engagement of Dr Wiley to Miss Anna Kelton Publicized
Dr Harvey Washington Wiley, 60, chief of the bureau of chemistry at the Department of Agriculture for 27 years, will marry Miss Anna C Kelton early in the spring. Miss Kelton, a Library of Congress clerk and suffragette, is the daughter of the late Adin Kelton and Mrs Kelton of 1941 R Street NW.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey Washington Wiley
Bureau of Chemistry
Department of Agriculture
Anna C. Kelton
Adi. N. John C. Kelton
Kelton
Adelatie l
Josephine Ketton
R Street
Br. Whey
Miss Kelton
Library of Congress
Wiley
Ernest H Daniel Named to Succeed Cox on School Board
William V Cox resigned as president of the District board of education. Ernest H Daniel, a prominent real estate operator with Willige Gibbs Daniel, was appointed to fill the unexpired term to July 1 1911. He is 34 and lives at 2111 Nineteenth Street NW. Work resumed on the McKinley School addition with plans for a school paper office and later a school press. nineteen students graduate tomorrow from the preparatory program for the United States revenue cutter service including three from Washington who studied at McKinley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William V Cox
Board of Education
District Supreme Court
Ernest H. Daniel
Willige,Gibbs
Daniel
Geological Survey
J. Louis Willige
Danie i
Nineteenth Street Northwest
Cok
Cox
James F. Oyster
Washington
William D. Hoover
Henry P. Blair
McKinley School
George B. Myers
Clore
McKinley
December Mik' souri Society meeting at Pythian Temple
City bulletins note the December meeting of the Mik' soui Society at the Pythian Temple with Senator William Warner as principal speaker on Saturday evening December 17 plus music and entertainment. Also listed are local ads for property sale at 450 dollars cash and monthly payments, a Xmas lunch, liquor ads, and population figures from the thirteenth census for Kansas towns Hutchinson and Coffeyville with growth contrasts.
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Mik' Souri Society
Pythian Temple
William Warner
Missouri
Maas
Ave
Wisconsin
E. M. Law
New York Ave
Kansas
Hutchinson
Kans
Coffeyville
Arnold
Ogdensburg
Lee Grocer
Arlington Bottling, Co
Last Rush at Height as Post Contest Sees Record Puzzles
The Washington Post puzzle contest crowd swells as four days remain to submit estimates before closing. Officials warn of a possible great rush and note that accuracy matters to avoid mistakes in filling blanks.
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Post
Wisten
Washington Post
Washington
I.witt
Puzate
Cettlea
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Pennsylvania Avenue
Seventh Street
Karlton
Saks
Burchell’s
Whitman’s and Lowney’s
N. W. Burchell
Shefford
Chautauqua Dairy CO
Syracuse, N. Y
G. A. Muddiman & CO
J.maurydove Company
Prince Albert
Potomac Electric Power. Co
14Th St. NW
Hig
Vicar Judd & Detweiler, Inc
Club
W. H. H. Smith
Bureau of Steam Engineering
Men's Brotherhood of
The
Western Presbyterian Church
ATTCO
Phone North
Gude
Dk. Wey
Ernest ‘H. Daniel Is
W. V. Cox
City Bulletins
Missouri Society
Gould's
Seksatein
John T. Crowley
Copeland
Sea Foods
C. Phila
Oyster & Chop House
Lithan
Conger
N.Y. Ave
West
Fifteenth Cavalry Band
Post Gymnasium
Fort Myer
George F. Tyrrell
Beant
Lucian di Lammermoor
Lucretti Borg
Baldwin Chattaway
Tobani
Delibe
Donizetti
Rossini Harnhourse
Ripley
Avan
Romeds
Fausts
Cavaliers
Law
Vici
Everett
Algo
E.Z
WindAlahn & Co
Corith & K
N. W
Lacey & CO
G Street
Ina
Washington Drug Store
People’s Drug Store
Massachusetts
United States Civil Service Commission
United States
Washington, D.C
United’ States
Black
Civil Service Commission
Pitman
Pitmanie— School
N. Y. Ave
Belvedere
Charles. and ‘Chase
Sts
Baltimore, MD
Ates
Busines
Washington Gas Light: Co
Tenth Street N. W
Jouc
Andrews
Calsefars B. P. Andrews
Avnet
Bowes
Lansburgh Furniture Co
Steel’ Wheele and
Ha Bearings
Barney & Berry
Gary
S of Winslow
Morsell
Albert L. Johnson
Apollo
F.G. Smith
Plaxo
Wan
Bqutterine
Washington Dairy CO
Louisiana Ave
Jace
House & Herrmann
Sts. N.W
Tharp
Berkeley Rye
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