Unfair to Teachers Board of Trade Report Charges Pay Delay
A Board of Trade subcommittee reports unfair pay delays harming women teachers while male workers are paid promptly. It cites Washington and other cities with earlier checks, urges a fixed pay day such as the 5th, and notes a lack of female leadership in protests. The report urges reforms to ensure timely monthly pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yenterday
Washington
Hen- Polis
Board of
Ation
Caroline Ho Stepheng
O Yeuter
Aise
Colyta
Supervsera
Ant Janttora
Newsook
Cpteage
Baston
Cleveland
St. Toda
Aml
Miresburgh
Aes
Anainey
Chicago
New York
York
Waltimore
Pang
Opssenha
Porvoo
Hye Med Blane
Lae Wranklin School
Pogee
Peau Bey
Board of Education
Morse's illness deemed incurable by army hospital
Charles W. Morse once a New York banker is reported as incurable by medical officers at Fort McPherson Georgia. His arteriosclerosis is progressive and the end cannot be predicted. Morse, imprisoned for violating banking law, was moved from Atlanta to the army hospital by order of President Taft. No action on commutation is known. Attorney General Wickersham departs for Panama Wednesday, likely to affect the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Morse
New York
Army Hospital
Fort McPherson
Morse
Atlanta
Taft
Department of Justice
Wickersham
Panama
Supreme Court Rejects Land Conveyance in Mayer Case
The United States Supreme Court refused to require American Security and Trust Company to convey a Chevy Chase Maryland parcel valued about $200000 to Theodore Albert Mayer. The trust dated from his father's will, with Mayer claiming the property did not pass to the trust upon his father's death in 1907 due to a prior gift offer to George Washington University for the Dean or Oak Lawn property for university buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Supreme Court
American Security and Trust Company
Theodore Albert Mayer
Chevy Chase
Mayer
Theodore J. Mayer
George Washington University
Oak Lawn
Washington
Susanna Mayer
Marry Before Date Set In Rockville Wedding
Estelle May Rector age 18 and Louis Conrad Mueller 2 years old wed in Rockville yesterday though the ceremony was planned for Christmas. Sister Caroline Virginia Rector married Robert Otto Wolff days earlier. Mrs Mueller said they could not wait and will start housekeeping at Orleans place northeast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Estelle May Rector
Jefferson Rector
Pickford Place
Louis Conrad Mueller
Sixth Street
Rockville
Caroline Virginia Rector
Mra. Mueller
Robert Otto Wolff
MC Orleans Place
Woman Struck by Auto on Pennsylvania Avenue
Mrs. Charles F. Morrison of 2 Ninth Street Northwest was severely bruised after being struck by an auto driven by C. Lloyd Kaufman of 1442 New York Avenue Northwest while attempting to cross Pennsylvania Avenue near Seventh Street. The incident resulted in notable injuries and disruption at the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles F. Morrison
Ninth Street
C. Lioyd Kaufman
New York Avenue
Supreme Court of Theistrict
Columbia
Bais
Rhode Island Avenue
Melville L. Hradford
Mike
Sourt
Iwi
Rece
Ralph Vi. Quinter
Century Building
Washington, D. C
Delsct
Elderly Norfolk man steals gifts to aid friends
Robert Block, 64, of Norfolk Virginia, arrested for taking Christmas presents valued at $310 from a downtown department store. Detec tives say he confessed to stealing from Washington stores to gift friends, blaming age and unemployment for his actions. He cried at police HQ and faces petit larceny charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Block
Station House
Norfolk
Warren and
Mullen
Block
Washington
Jackson Day Banquet Substitutes Named for Absentees
Jackson day banquet committee at the Raleigh Hotel chose substitutes to speak if Governors Marshall of Indiana Foss of Massachusetts Harmon of Oldland cannot attend. Senator Pomerene would represent Ohio Senator Kern Indiana and Gen Baldwin Connecticut would represent New England. Senator O Gorman of New York named toastmaster. Invitations extended to Democratic editors mayors chairs and prominent party members. Next meeting set for December 27 at the Raleigh Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Gove
Marshall
Indiana
Foss
Massachusetts
Harmon
Ould
Pomerene
Ohio
Kern
Gen. Baldwin
Connecticut
New England
O'Gorman
New York
Elotel
Weather conditions at Mount Weather and regional forecast
U S Department of Agriculture weather bulletin reports temperatures at 5 000 feet 9 degrees above zero and at 6 000 feet 24 degrees above. By 14 000 feet 4 degrees above zero with a wide lapse rate. Cloudiness in the northeast and central portions tied to a shallow inversion layer. Snow and rain in the Rockies and southern Utah. light snow in Nebraska and the Dakotas. Temperatures near normal except in Arizona western Texas and Nevada. A cold wave warning issued for New Mexico southwestern Colorado and southern Utah. Winds vary by coast and region, with steadiest winds along the Atlantic. Potomac River very muddy. Shenandoah clear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S Dept of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
Washington
Mount Weather
Arto
Colorado
Hocky
Arteous
Utah
Nebraska
Dakotas
Lake
Tegen
New England
Coumity
Arizona
Texas
Nevada
North Atlantic
British Isles
United Mates
Misouri River
Rocky Mountains
Widnesday
New Mexico
Middie
South Atlantic
Went Gulf Coast
Lake Michigan
Grand Banks
Carnegie Exhibit Shows 100 Inch Telescope Model
A special exhibit opened yesterday at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, featuring a model of the new 100 inch telescope. The display includes photographs from the 60 inch telescope and covers departments such as historical research economics sociology international law terrestrial magnetism botanical and marine biology. Photographs by Dr Esther B Van Deman depict early Roman brickwork and mosquito larvae.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carnegie Institution
Sixteenth
P Streets
Esther B. van Deman
Wife Denies Affinity In District Supreme Court Divorce
Mrs. Mary Colling testifies she never violated vows and that a young man merely visited her apartment to bring medicines during illness. She says she was confined without a nurse and admitted the visitor with the rooming house owner’s permission, while alleging her husband worked only two weeks of their marriage and she had to support herself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Colling
District Supreme Court
Arthur R. Collins
Fund for Fireman Sliney Relief Drive Initiated
Petitions circulate among police and firemen to raise funds for Fireman G. W. Sliney of Engine Company No. 8. Injured September 5 after being kicked by a horse. pay suspended under department rules. District officials including commissioners have contributed to the fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Sliney
Stoney
Eight Hour Law Violations Probed by Labor Union
Central Labor Union opened an inquiry into contractors handling city garbage and refuse working employees ten or more hours daily. A committee was instructed to investigate and report violations of the eight hour law to Congress. Also noted is a $177,000 will of Mrs. Jane H Sayles of this city, formerly Boston, leaving the remainder to Miss Laura T Sayles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane H. Sayles
Boston
Mass
Laura TF. Sayles
Mindblank defense in grocery hold up case
Mrs Margaret Laffey testified in Criminal Court No 2 that at the time of the July hold up of C M Mattfelit manager of J D Pyles grocery at 2 Park Road her mind was blank. She claimed injuries from a May car crash impaired her reason and suggested any robbery would have occurred during lapses. Her 9-year-old son Timothy supported her. Doctor said she seemed insane then. Prosecution planned rebuttal. Precinct matron to testify.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Laffey
C. M. Mattfelit
J. D. Pyles’ Gracery
Park Road
Timothy
Muttfeldt
Allentats
Firat -Precinct
23 New Postal Employes Appointed for Christmas Mail
Postmaster Marritt hires 23 temporary clerks to handle holiday mail at the city post office. Names include Alfred Klein, John M. Phillips, Dexter P. Reynolds, Harry A. Dyson, Wellington W. Cooper, Marcus W. Newman, Rudolf F. Bird. They will be paid 36 cents an hour and may be kept until Congress adjourns. Additional wagons were pressed into service yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marritt
City Post Office
Alfred Klein
John M. Phillips
Dexter P. Reynolds
Harry A. Dyson
Wellington W. Cooper
Marcus W. Newman
Rudolph F. Bird
Harry B. Knee
Charles D. Myers
Greene. Donahue
Raymond McDonald
Russell B. King
Isaac McN. Bray
Welder J. Lynn
Edward 3. Storke
R. Jh. Duffy
Daniel T. Johnson
Nathan M. Nolan
James M. Montgomery
Clarence A. Robinson
George E. C. Walker
Charles H. Butt
Congress
Potter Leads Dispute Over East Washington Association
President William M. Potter of the East Washington Organization accused the East Washington Citizens' Association of being controlled by four men. He condemned Thomas W. Smith and Samuel W. Curriden as disruptive, saying the group’s constitution bars debate on district governance and that commissioners and district officials have overridden local representation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potter
East Washington Organization
East Washington Citizens' Association
William M. Potter
Thomas W. Smith
Samuel W. Curriden
Smith
Curriden
Capt. Potter
Celebrate Emancipation Meeting In City Church
Former Senator Jonn Henderson spoke at the Cosmopolitan Baptist Church on N Street NW to mark four years since emancipation and the Thirteenth Amendment. Other speakers included E B F Macfarland former District Commissioner Judge William St DeLacy E M Hewlett Henry L Johnson recorder of deeds representing President Taft and Rev A Willbanks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonn
Henderson
Cosmopolitan Baptist Church
N Street Northwest
E. B. F. Macfarland
William ST. DeLacy
E. M. Hewlett
Henry L. Johnson
Deeds
Taft
A. Willbanks
Tug in Distress Off Delaware Capes At Sea
The Neptune tug, possibly from Philadelphia, sent distress signals one mile northwest of Northeast End Lightship off the Delaware Capes. The Revenue Cutter Mohawk was ordered from New York to assist. Wireless reports also indicate two barges adrift in the same area, likely in Neptune’s tow when it became incapacitated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neptune
Philadelphia
Delaware, Capes
Mohawk
New York
Revenue Cutter Service
Sixteen Burned Horses Shot After Stable Fire
Sixteen horses rescued from Johnson Brothers stables on Saturday night were shot Sunday due to injuries. John D. Haynes directed the humane society agent in the act. The fire destroyed the stable, and animal remains were removed yesterday. Fire Marshal Nichaelson and Fourth District police probe the fire’s cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson Brothers
John D. Haynes
Humane Seciety
Nichaelson
Justice White Sends Three Commerce Court Judges West
Chief Justice assigns three Commerce Court judges to January duty in crowded districts. J. W. Mack to Chicago W. H. Hunt to Montana J. J. Carland to St Louis. Law grants authority to transfer to congested federal courts. no Commerce Court business is planned in January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice White
Commerce Bench
West
Supreme Court
Commerce Court
J. W. Mack
Chicago
W. H. Hunt
Montana
J. J. Carland
St. Louis
Postmaster Controversy Draws Takoma Park Meeting
Takoma Park Citizens Association debated a new Black postmaster during the holiday season. The retention issue was sent to the public utilities committee. A resolution urged commissioners to prevent danger to workers installing gas mains was adopted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Takoma Park
US Horses in Collision at Fort Myer
A Fort Myer quartermaster team ran away at Fourth and K streets northwest and collided with L. E. Smoot’s team. One of Smoot’s horses was killed, while drivers Private B. Cook and BR. Rowe sustained minor injuries. Also included is Senator La Follette’s long itinerary for a progressive Republican campaign through Ohio Michigan Illinois and Indiana with tentative speaking dates and cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quartermaster’s Department
Fort Myer
L. E. Stroot
Smoot
B. Cook
BR. Rowe
la Follette
Senator la Follette
Wisconsin
Ohio
Youngstown
Cleveland
Norwalk
Elyria
Toledo
North Baltimore
Lima
Dayton
Cindinnatl
la Folbet
Annual stockholders meeting notices from Washington firms
Notifications announce annual meetings for Potomac Electric Power Company Washington Railway and Electric Company and Georgetown and Tennallytown Railway Company. Locations at Capitol area offices with meetings on January dates, and stock transfer books to close in late December to early January. Secretary F J Whitehead oversees the notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potomac Electric Power Company
Ith
Sis
Washington
D. C
F. J. Whitehead
Char de Se
Georgetown & Tennallytown Railway Company
Muhid East Capitol
Firemen‘s Insurance Company of
Washington and
Georgetown
7Th Street
Louisiana Avenue
Wiremey’s Insurance Company of
Ice
Polla
14Th
East Capitolsta
Washington, D. C
Brightwood Railway Company
Mth and
Baat Capital
Sta
Anacostia & Potomac River Railroad Company
Lth
East Capitol
District of Columbia
George Ober
M. UD
Board of Medical
Desir
Peran
Postoffice
Worthington and Son's Real Estate Offices relocate
Worthington and Son's Real Estate Offices and Southwick Briggs, representing the Walbridge estate, announce their new location in Rooms 208 and 208 Woodward Building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aeo. iV. Worthington & Son
Southwick Briggs
Walbridge Estate
Woodward Building
Washington Market Company stockholders meeting notice
Stockholders meet at Center Market offices on January 9 1912 at 1 pm to elect thirteen directors for the coming year and address corporate matters. Secretary Frank G Wilkins and other notices from the Firemen's Insurance Company and Washington Georgetown offices listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Market Company
Seventh Street
Center Market
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Board of Trade Committee
Treacnais
Avalon Ieankin
cnIaboy
Pranighin
Sn Iieledt
Mr. Blair
Galt & Bro
Noz Pla
Theodore Mayer
Trust Company
Miss Rector
Louis Mueller
Black
Germany
Baltimore
Richmond
First Precinct
Asport
Midsight
Wa. m
Bainfall
Moura
Max
Min
P.m
Cheyenne
Wyo Co
Davenport
Low
Denver
Colo
Dea Maines
Rows
Calveaton
Heteng
Mont
Jacksonville
Fla
Kansasity
Einte Rock
Ark Cod
Angelo
Calan Marquette
Mich
Memphis
Tana
New Orleeans
North Platte
Nebi
I oRsha
Fhiladainhia
Sgrisfield
Tacoma
Tampa
Fis
Tokedo
Oboto
Hery Vicksburg
Mia
Mary Collins
Sliney
Spriends
Central Labor Union
Réara
Laavas
Congressional
Johnson Bros
U. S
Re Hart
Asimal
Steinway and Other Pianos
Steinway Pianola Pianos
E. F. Droop & Sons Co
G Street
Walford’s
Parker, Fox
Ithaca
Lefever
Remington
Winchester
Penna. Ave
Seeley
Christian Xander
Batavian Arrak
Family Quality House
Sth
Ems
Ballentine
Newark
Shoemaker Co
Regent St
Mark Cross Monogram
Mark Cross Christer
Mark Cross
Mark Cross Company
London
England
New York State
P. V
California
John H. Magruder
Conn. Ave
K St
Deal & CO. and
Embalmers
American Telegraphone
Washington, D
Notle
American Telegraphone Company
Old Magonic Temple
Ninth
F Streets
Board of Trustees
Charles Halmes
R. B. Pollock
Ballard
Newtion
Charles v. Rood
Maryland Motor Car Ineuran Company
Halph W. Lee
Commercial Ban Building
Chase’s
II Exchange
Wo Players
Conservat Sherwood Whittier Steinway
F. G. Smi
Iece
ST. Is Riel
the Sunday Post
WPA
Hrenty
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