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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1908
Page
22
Report by investigators urges a special commission to approve new school structures in Jamia district, citing sanitation and safety concerns. It notes six teen room buildings lack the four interior stairways legally required, a flaw found in construction at the Mottana Cooke buildings and flagged by The Post and official inquiry.
Townsend-Stewart presented a Benefit program at the Arlington Hotel with a song by Mrs Zaidee Town send-Stewart and an original play by Mabel Martin Dill Isabella Campbell James McClure Henry and Benjamin Robert Johnson to aid the Charles Alvin Smith Memorial Home. The event drew a large audience, with Mrs Townsend Stewart receiving strong applause. accompanist Harvey Murray aided the performance with Vass Holden and Alessandra Cares M Delbert. The cast included Tord Arthur Wellesley Wellington Waterloo Cox and Mr Johnsen ay Robert Lindsay, praised for their roles in the three-act piece.
Representative Burton of Ohio says he is not seeking any office but the United States Senate and will stay in Columbus for the legislature caucus, while Knox defers cabinet timing. Roosevelt discusses postmasters exams, Africa fly dangers, and a Mauser rifle request for Spanish War Veterans. The President expects to receive twenty chorus girls at noon.
Secretary Straus proposes forming a special committee in the Department of Commerce and Labor to consider major national labor questions. He suggests a joint meeting with labor readers, bankers, and industry leaders around January 1 to discuss extending steamboat inspection to locomotives, preventing European misinformation about U.S. labor demand, locating immigrants, unemployment during downturns, and the Roosevelt foundation for industrial peace. The aim is to boost understanding between employers and workers and aid national commerce.
The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed the case Wo A Gains & Co v Knecht & Son for lack of jurisdiction, affirming the district tribunals. The dispute centered on a crow design claimed to infringe Gains’s mark, with the patent office ruling that the raven differed from a crow and found no infringement.
The Chicago St Paul Minneapolis and Omaha Railway asks the Supreme Court to review a ruling upholding a grain rebate charge. The case contests rebates granted on Minneapolis shipments, previously sustained by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Also mentions unrelated local ads for electronics and auto services.
New York Herald reports Taft plans a strong rebuke at an Ohio Society dinner to counter last year’s Foraker attack and to counter perceived influence by Standard Oil backers John D Archbold and William Rockefeller. Taft originally declined an invitation amid controversy over the plan.
The act directs the District to settle pension claims from June 1884 to May 1 1898 amid fund shortfalls. Deficiencies will be paid, and amounts due to pensioners will be remitted to their heirs upon death.
Official Montana canvass reports the Board of Canvassers certifying presidential electors chosen in November 1908. It lists vote totals for each elector candidate including McCormick Warren Gallik Hartman and others, and confirms deputy governor Edwin L. Norris’s certification with the state seal.
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