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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1909
Page
27
Final sale at 708 12th St marks the end of Young and McHugh piano business with heavy discounts on remaining stock. The ad promises high quality pianos at unusually low prices and invites inspections to verify genuineness, with flexible terms offered for the closing transaction.
Commissioner Macfarland urges immediate purchase of 100 acre tract near Rock Creek to extend park and connect to Rock Creek drive. He warns Massachusetts avenue land will be subdivided for housing, raising costs and risking loss of a vital city recreation site. Senate already favors purchase. Congress urged to act now to save public funds and space for parks and playgrounds.
Andrew Lightfoot, convicted of murdering Patrick Maloney and Minnie Fellin at St Elizabeths Insane Asylum, was declared criminally insane by a jury in Justice Anderson's court. He attacked with a crowbar, later captured after a woods escape. doctors testified to dementia Erecox and current mental state. Following jury verdict, he will be confined in the criminally insane ward.
James W Beucomb a former railway mail clerk was found guilty on two counts of robbing the United States mails aboard the Southern route between Washington and Goldsboro North Carolina The jury spent about one hour and thirty minutes deliberating before Justice Goulds court The court immediately sentenced him to eighteen months in the penitentiary Beucomb was arrested by post office inspectors earlier and four marked one dollar bills were found on his person He denied knowledge of the money and later confessed claiming a plot by white mail clerks to remove him from the job This report notes U S District Attorney Turner led the government case.
Leading medical authorities declare asthma constitutional and treatable by ascates a proprietary remedy from Austrian Laboratory New York. The drug, offered in 50 cent and $2 sizes, is claimed to prevent choking spells and steadily cure in a month at home without climate or diet changes.
Board rejects abandoning appeal in the bread law test case and will pursue the matter to the Court of Appeals. They plan to shape a new statute after the appellate decision with support from the sealer of weights and measures and the corporation counsel.
Health Officer Woodward reports partial district birth returns for the week ended Saturday last. He notes 9 white and 41 colored births were recorded, urges prompt full reporting, and aims for complete birth registration similar to deaths. The week also shows 153 new measles cases and 120 deaths overall, with racial breakdown and continuing epidemic trend.
Mary Cunnion seeks 30000 damages from Cephital Traction Company alleging carelessness by employees caused injuries when the Fourteenth Street car started suddenly while she attempted to alight at K Street on November 4, 1907. She attributes head injuries skull bone removal and lasting mental anguish along with $3000 in medical bills. Represented by Downing and Berry.
Charles Catletts received a six year term for a hand satchel theft. Frederick Davis and a relative charged as accomplices with posing as police and robbing Frederick Harper and Anne Mooney in the northeast city district. Judges called the crime heinous and urged heavy sentences to curb this surge in such offenses.
The commissioners granted a hearing on the cruelty to animals bill now before Congress. It shifts enforcement from the Humane Society to the police court. The Horse Owners' Association prepared the bill and Representative Cary of Wisconsin introduced it in the House. The date is set for a future hearing and public views are sought before a recommendation.
A compiled list shows guests and their hotels across multiple cities. Names and affiliations include Miller and Sproul in Boston, Rousmansle and Dunbar in Arlington and Chicago, and numerous patrons at New Willard and Metropolitan across New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh and beyond.
Hecht stores announce a major trade event starting Saturday morning with cash purchases of the entire stock of the Departmental Cooperative Guild at 701 03-105 Ninth Street Northwest. The整理 sale will offer low prices on fresh stock across both Guild and Hecht locations, promising the most sensational distribution Washington has seen with brand new goods including groceries clothing shirts footwear and more. The Post will publish full grocery sale details today and Saturday.
Voluntary bankruptcy papers filed yesterday in the District Supreme Court by Robert Kelner of 919 Ninth Street NW, listing assets at 68 586 dollars and liabilities at 1 159 490 dollars, with attorneys Roach and Watkins. The same city reports a probate filing for the estate of a deceased individual on February 6, with six children named Anna Harrison Lena Jacobson Peter Arthur George and Henry Latterne, Peter named executor without bond.
The Door of Hope Rescue Mission begins weekly clothing distributions for the needy and operates a sorting warehouse for the unemployed. S H Ganz leads the industrial home department and J Newton Richmond oversees spiritual work. Wagons will collect clothing from residences to aid poor families, with nightly services held in a ten room, three story mission building.
Frank Hawkins, a Black man, was sentenced to three years in Moundsville Penitentiary by Justice Anderson after stabbing Luther J Johnson, also Black, during an altercation. Hawkins drew a pocketknife and struck the blade into the outer back of Johnson’s heart, requiring surgery. Despite Johnson’s remarkable vitality, doctors warned he would be an invalid for life.
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