Commissioners Oppose New Office To Replace Municipal Architect Ashford
District commission report rejects House bill creating a superintendent of buildings and supplies under the board of education. They call the measure unnecessary, noting the present municipal architect’s office and school supply procedures already meet needs. They urge unfavorable action and preservation of current control under the commissioners.
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Board of Education
Ashford
Board of Commissioners
Congress
House District Committee
Smith
House of Representatives
Capt Oyster
Capt. Oyster
Commmenoaers
Calvary Church Women Hold All-Day Foreign Missions Conference
The Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church on Columbia Road near Seventeenth Street hosted an all-day conference with the Home Missionary Society. Mrs Hall opened the Foreign Missionary Society session with papers read on missionary topics, followed by a Ladies Guild musicale planned for March and a sale of satinines to support the guild fund at 1248 Newton Street.
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Columbia Road
Eit Teenth Street
Home Missionars
Foreign Missionary Society
Hall
Ladies Guild
Walker Charman
Circle No 1
Holzer
Circle No 4
Newton Street
Hail
St That Calvary
New Pastor Soon Arrives at Epiphany Lutheran Church
The Rev Charles F Steck, formerly of the Svan gelical Lutheran Church of Frederick Maryland, is called to Epiphany Lutheran Church in Washington. He will assume duties within days, with services at Confederate Memorial Hall 1822 Vermont Avenue. Steck, a Wittenberg Seminary graduate, has led Frederick church about six years and serves as president of the Maryland Lutheran synod. A house at 16 Riggs Street NW has been prepared for him. The funeral of the Rev Joseph A Price, who died Monday, is postponed to tomorrow morning to allow his two sons Henry W and L Morgan Price from Chicago to attend. Services will be held at the Hamline M Church with the Rev Sumwalt and Rev Guthrie officiating.
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Epiphany Lutheran Church
Charles DT Steck
Svangelical Lutheran Church
Frederick
Wil Astume Chain
This City
Confederate Memorial Hall
Vermont Avenue
Steck
Wittenburg Seminary
Ohio
Nmber
Frederick Church
Lutheran Maryland Synod
Riggs Street
Joseph A Price
Henry W
L Morgan Price
Chicago
Manor House
Monroe Street
Hamline
M & Church
Mr Sumwalt
Charles Guthrie
Bookbinders Meet At Typographical Temple
International Brotherhood of Bookbinders Local No 4 held its monthly meeting at 423 G Street Northwest last night. Robert J Glocking of Toronto Canada international president gave an address on the growth and work of the organization.
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G Street
International Brotherhood of Bookbinders Local No 4
Robert J Glocking
Toronto
Canady International
A Little Red Spot Revel Experiment In Skin Cure
A dubious claim describes an experimental skin treatment by Emergency Laboratories offering a sample to apply to a skin spot about the size of a silver dollar. It promises disappearance within 24 hours and cites eczema and minor skin troubles. A fifty cent package is sold at various Washington drug stores and others nationwide.
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New York City
Qgrans
Odonnet's
Affieck 6
People's Deux Store
Washington
Country
District to extend Columbia road and rename area near McPherson
The commissioners approved public improvements including extending Columbia Road northwest from its eastern terminus east of Georgia Avenue by 200 feet to connect with a newly dedicated road. The plan also proposes renaming the west side of Fifteenth Street Northwest between T and K streets to McPherson Place, increasing master plumber and gun fitter license fees to five dollars and extending permits to five years.
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Senate
House of Representatives
Columbia Rosd Northwest I
Georgia Avenue
McMillan Park
Fifteenth Street
Bettween T
McPherson Ware
McPherson Place
Named as a curate former pastor of St Marys Clermont Mills to Washington
The Rev Andrew H Muhm former pastor of St Marys German Catholic Church Clermont Mills has been named curate of St Marys German Church in Washington. He was born in Baltimore and ordained June 19 1898. He previously served as pastor at Clermont Mills before his return to Washington. His successor at Clermont Mills is the Rev Francis D McGrew of Frostburg Md, ordained in Baltimore at Christmas.
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Clermont Mills
Washington
Andrew H Muhm
St Marys
Clermont Mulm
Tather Muim
Baltmore
Church of the Holy
St Mary
Chick Dermot Mills
Trancis D McGriw
Frostburg
Ballimore
A Collection Grows At Smithsonian With New Moths
A new donation arrived at the Smithsonian consisting of moths embedded in a painting frame. The larvae are secured on antelope horns and are expected to hatch under careful conservation. The exhibit adds to the Roosevelt collection and museum wards oversee the care.
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Towbie de Roosevelt
Smithsonian Institution
Col Roosevelt
Shahan to Lecture at Catholic University in Providence
MGE Shahan, rector of the Catholic University of America, travels to Worcester and Providence for events this week. He attends Clark College installation and planned lectures for the Catholic Women’s Club of Providence and other educational gatherings.
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Providence
Mgi Shalan Retor
Catholic University of America
City Leaders Endorse Sunday Rest Bill in DC Debate
A recent Central Union Vlea meeting endorsed the Johnson bill to observe Sunday as a day of rest in the District of Columbia, arguing it promotes temperance civic virtue and economic equity. Support calls for swift action by the District committee and passage of the measure.
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Central Union
Vlea
Hume
Johnson
District of Columbia
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