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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1919
Page
8
Legal notices announce estate proceedings for Catherine Gilbert Riggs and multiple others in the District of Columbia. The papers seek liens, probate actions, and sale details, with warrants for creditors to file claims by specified deadlines.
This legal notice states that executors in the District of Columbia have letters testamentary for the estates of Dante Wo Baker and Thomas J Owen, both deceased. Creditors must present their claims with vouchers authenticated by a specified date, or be excluded from the estate. Pages list witnesses and officials including Andrew H Baker and Laude Owen.
A collage of District of Columbia court filings including a mortgage trust action involving Geo. Francis Willea WS, perils for trustees under a July 1900 deed of trust, and multiple probate notices. Names include Margaret Sealer, Sealey family, Morange heirs, and Harrington era executors. Public notices urge appearances, filings, and deadlines for estate matters and appeals through 1919.
The piece details rising anarchist and socialist propaganda in the United States after World War I, citing multilingual papers, foreign links, and threats. Government agents warn of a broad spread reaching millions, with calls for deportation and bold, violent rhetoric against authorities.
Chicago market figures show hog receipts at 66,000 with steady to higher prices and strong cattle and lambs, backed by New York receipts noting beef and veal gains, steady eggs, butter, and cheese prices, with pork and hog values broadly rising amid firm dairy and grain trends. The item cites United States Bureau of Markets data and lists specific price ranges for hogs, cattle, lambs, and calves, alongside New York and Chicago price movements for butter, eggs, cheese, sugar, and coffee.
The Cairo Hotel on Q Street near the corner of 16th presents a steel fireproof structure with rooms offering bath at 2.50 dollars per day and rooms with running hot and cold water at 2.00 dollars per day in a compact urban lodging listing.
New York money market rates show strong demand with time loans firm at 5 1/2 to 6 percent for 60 to 90 days and call money near the ruling rate. Bond activity remains easy for government and railroad issues while dairy prices in Maryland Pennsylvania and Virginia edge lower on creamery extras and dairy prints.
Readable entries show poultry classifications by region including Pennsylvania West Virginia Ohio Maryland and North Carolina with weights and conditions. Also New York wheat corn oats and cottonseed oil market quotes dated February 14 include price ranges and freight notes.
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