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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1906
Page
13
Dress shoes pumps opera hats silk hats priced from four to six dollars, with higher ends at thirty two fifty to forty five dollars for dress items. Footwear and headwear offered in multiple ranges, including men and women's styles, within a vintage catalog listing.
The rough draft of charges against Francis L. Cardozo, supervising principal of colored schools, accuses disloyalty and authorship of an anonymous letter, with several dismissed teachers likely to seek back salaries. The board plans a Monday meeting to expedite the case, with trial possibly late next week. Cardozo seeks $421.66 back pay from October 18, 1908, and auditors weigh judge Anderson’s decision on salary implications for other teachers.
Christian Endeavor Society of the District urges the Washington Commission ers to remove garish electric beer and whiskey signs along Pennsylvania Avenue. President Edward Tarring forwards a letter and Albert Shoemaker, attorney for the Anti Saloon League, argues signs violate show regulations. The Commissioners say no legal authority allows denying licensed businesses the right to advertise on their premises.
United States District Attorney Baker sustained Deputy Re order of Deeds Dutton in refusing to accept for record the proposed certificate of incorporation of the Supreme Lodge Improved Order of the Knights of the Mystic Chain of the World in the District of Columbia. The action cites that a fraternal benevolent association cannot be incorporated under the general law when it intends to conduct many diverse businesses such as charitable work, hospital care for the poor, organizing lodges, funding benefits, and publishing a newspaper.
The Potomac Electric Power Company will supply electricity to Eckington streets where its conduits lie. Corporation Counsel Thomips states the obligation, following a complaint by Sidney H. Cluxton of 57 Q Street NW about poor lighting. Work to install lamps will begin soon, improving lighting in Eckington. Henry B. Davis, District plumbing inspector and society president, heads to Cleveland for the American Society of Inspectors of Plumbing and Sanitary Engineers convention, aiming to influence next year’s meeting venue in Washington.
Miss Christiana Dengler, known to Washington’s German community, left about 15000 to relatives in the United States and Germany under a 1914 will filed yesterday. The estate is divided into three equal parts to Theodore and Ahna Dengler, Merle Ehmann, and Fried rich Dengler and Marie engier.
Mrs Annie M Bradley cheerful at jail as her counsel George P Hoover departs for Salt Lake City. She hopes Western friends will understand motives behind former lover Senator Arthur Brown killing. She mails long letters to East Lake contacts, reads avidly, and trusts Hoover to mount the defense and locate witnesses.
Henry Plater, colored, was sentenced to one year in jail by Judge Mills for carrying a pistol. He allegedly entered James Connor’s shop, pointed the pistol, and pulled the trigger, which did not discharge. Connor would likely have been killed if it had.
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