Activity in Building Busy Season Promised
January permits for erection and repair topped 566 projects at an estimated 1 202 523, a sharp rise from December's 383 deals totaling 125 875. News notes 528 permits covered frame and brick work with brick dwellings 239 900 and apartment houses 323 500 among key items. District districts show varied improvements totaling 4 179 200 in the Northeast Southeast Southwest Northweast County area.
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Snowden Ashford
Mas
Spencer Cowley
Ashford
Railway Hearing Halted Over City Car Route Plan
The Washington Baltimore and Annapolis Railway seeks to run cars into the city to Fifteenth Street and New York Avenue NW via the local tracks. A hearing set for Monday morning may be unnecessary if arrangements with Washington Railway and Electric Co. proceed, signaling no objections.
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Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Railway Company
J .S. Flannery
Washington Railway and Electric Company
Ffteenth Street
New York Avenue
Hamada
IL O
New Bread Law Urged by Chamber Committee
A Chamber of Commerce committee urged Commissioner Macfarland to drop the appeal in the bread case, saying the 1855 bread law is antiquated. The group proposed drafting a new law after consulting interested parties and postponing prosecutions under the old law.
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Chamber of Commerce
Macfarland
Arthur C. Moses
R. Golden Donaldson
John L Weaver
A. B. Graham
Thomas C. Noyes
Bicycle Police Find Faulty Car Meters In Use
Washington bicycle policemen, at the request of the commissioners, tested automobile meters to ensure speed limits are accurately measured. Tests on Sixteenth Street and New Hampshire Avenue showed several meters register inaccurately, causing unaware violators to exceed speed limits.
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Washington
Sixteenth Street
New Hampshtra Avenue
Pigeons, Plans, and a Juvenile Court Jam
Vivian Jones a 24 year old boy faced juvenile court after allegedly breaking into a neighbor barn with a beer bottle opener and stealing corn to feed pigeons. He admitted entering the barn and packing corn for his birds but denied using a Jimmy or throwing beer bottles. judge DeLacy fined him five dollars.
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Vivian Jones
Vivian
Paic & Double
Vivine
Jimmy
DeLacy
Vivien
January Fire Loss in District Totals $22,800
Fire Chief Wagner reports district wide January fires numbered 91 with total estimated loss $22,800, covered by $424,650 in insurance. Fifty one fires were in brick structures and twenty five in frame buildings. two fires required a second alarm, others involved automobiles and rubbish.
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Wagner
Lecture on the Irish at New National Theater
W E Curtin and Michael J Ryan to speak on Celtic progress at an illustrated lecture February 7. Ryan, president of the United Irish League of America, will discuss Ireland’s constitutional gains. Willam Downey urged Irish unity at 1628 L street, and the league accepted the Ancient Order of Hibernians invitation to participate in the upcoming celebration.
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Order of Hiberniany
Evangelist to Begin Campaign at McKendree ME Church
The Rev Thomas Harrison will start a Sunday night evangelistic campaign at McKendree ME Church, running for several weeks. Pastor L Wright and the church board have prepared, with a large chorus choir led by William J Palmer and soloists and quartets providing music each evening. Ministers from various churches are expected to assist. Harrison has held meetings nationwide and is noted for unique methods.
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Thomas Harrison
McKendree ME
L. Wright
Mr Harrison
William J. Palmer
Wil Funnish
Harrison
Missionaries Seek Inquiry Into Congo Trial
Reverend S H Chester of Nashville urged Secretary of State Bacon to authorize an investigation via Consul General Handley at Boma into the trial of American missionaries accused by Congo Free State authorities of withholding food from natives while protesting the labor tax. The charge claims the Bakuba people faced famine due to lack of food to grow crops.
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Bacon
S. H. Chester
Nashville
Southern Presbyterian Church
Handley
Boma
Congo Free State
Firemen Not Blamed for Deaths in Oct. 11 Fire
Investigation board found the fire department relieved of all blame for the October 11 fire at 9 T Street NW where three children died. Fire Chief Wagner and Captains O Conner and O T Rossiter reported to Commissioner Macfarland that crews responded immediately and exercised all possible care and judgment.
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T Street Northwest
Wagner
O'Conner
O T. Rossiter
Yeaturday
Macfarland
Pai Etinaibhaladine
Saeiaaenie Daan
Arabella Gates in Juvenile Court Case Sparks Courtroom Outcry
In a juvenile court scene, Arabella Gates, a young girl described as alarmingly fat, testifies about being teased by three white boys in a drugstore incident. The judge orders probation for the boys after Arabella recounts injuries from a lunch basket swipe. the tale unfolds with sharp social tension and racial undertones.
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Arabella Gates
Arabella
Harvey Wilders
Wile Hicka
Ernest Frazier
Harvey
Concert at Auditorium Promises Great Bispham Recital
The announcement of David Bispham at the Masonic Temple Auditorium this Saturday evening signals a notable musical treat. The renowned baritone, under London Chorlton, performs a varied program with Leila Livineston Morae and includes arias, songs, and duets from composers such as Haydn, Rubinstein, Reichardt, and Goring-Thomas, along with modern recitations and piano by Harold Osborn Smith.
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Masonic Temple
M. Bispham
Ha Bey
Comes
London
London Chorlton, Mr Bispham Is Assisted By Leila Livineston Morae
Washington
Bohol
Haydn
e’King Purcell
Jolly Jenkin
and the Templars
Ivanhee
Arthur Buliway
Mr Bispham
Vrehme
Rubinstein
Bungert
Reichardt
Walter Motss
Thea Hagen
Edgar Alan Foe
Arthur Bergh
Haan
Remberg
Galloway Mma Morse
Voss
Slaney
M J Moses
Harriet Ware
Little Boles
Thackeray
Graham Peel
Bispham
Goring-Thomas
Mias Morsa
Harold Osborn Smith
Wife Is Named Beneficiary In Strother Estate
Estate notices list Lucy Strother as idle beneficiary under the will dated January last filed for probate. The 928 Kenyon Street NW property and other holdings are under the plan with John F Strother to receive the rest after the mother’s death, contingent on tax and interest maintenance.
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Thomas R Strother
Lucy Strother
Kenyon Street
John F Strother
National University Law School Banquet Honoring Class of 1909
The class of 1909 of the National University Law School will hold its annual banquet at the Shoreham on Saturday evening February 11. A large attendance is expected as this may be the last scholastic year event. Officers elected for the remainder of the term include President Charles Van Vleck Iowa. Vice President William E Gordon North Carolina. Recording Secretary RL Shanafelt Oklahoma. Corresponding Secretary J Dana Faber Maryland. Treasurer Charles M Jones North Carolina. Sergeant-at-Arms I H Hemming District of Columbia. Directors Ralph H Case South Dakota. Benjamin Favorite District of Columbia. John A Thompson Maryland. Luther M Kaughan North Carolina. Rice Have Virginia. Thomas J Wilson Jr Virginia.
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National University Law School
Shoreham
Charles van Vleck
Iowa
William E Gordon
North Carolina
RL Shanafelt
Oklahoma
J. Dana Faber
Maryland
Treasuer
Charles M Jones
I H Hemming
District of Columbia
Ralph H Case
South Dakota
Benjamin Favorite
District
Columbia
John A Thompson
Luther 2 Mkaughan
Rice Have
Virginia
Thomas J. Wilson, Jr
Dr Caspari seeks lunacy inquiry for sister Frances Caspari
Dr Charles Caspari dean of the Baltimore Dental School and brother of Frances Caspari filed a supplementary petition in District Supreme Court asking the question of his sister sanity be inquired into. Miss Caspari previously charged with falsely obtaining thousands from Washington society women and business men. Her attorney Walter Clethane will argue for lunacy trial before Justice Gould, hearing set for February 1b with possible asylum confinement if insanity is established.
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Caspari
Charles Caspari
Baltimore Dental School
Frances Caspari
Washington Society
District Supreme Court
Slater
Walter Cletphane
Clent
Gould
Caspar
Secretary of the Interior
Maine Memorial Speakers Set for February 15 Celebration
Brig. Gen. Charles F. Humphries U S Army retired and Representative Hobson will headline speeches at a Maine Memorial event hosted by the Battleship Maine Memorial Association. Services are scheduled for 11 a.m. at St Patrick's Church 2:30 p.m. at Arlington and 7 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church. Association members will convene at 4 p.m. this afternoon at the Fortner.
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Humphries
Hobson
Charles F. Humphries
U 8. A
Hichmond Pearson Hobson
St Patrick’s Church
Arlington
First Presbyterian Church
Fortner
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