WooD TO FACE ACCUSATIONS In Street Cleaning Shake Up
Commissioner West vows a general shake up in the street cleaning office after widespread complaints about service since the start of the year. Maj Newell Ball seeks a hearing before resigning February 28 but West and Supt Wood oppose, citing impracticability and pending changes. Ball has lawyer H Ralph Burton and may press charges. specifics of reorganization remain undecided.
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Henry L. West
Newell Ball
Maj Ball
May Ball
H Ralph Burton
James M Wood
Wood
West
Maj
Ball
Annual Junior Republic Day Plans T:
The committee led by Miss Solomons meets with chairwoman to finalize preparations for the annual Junior Republic Day. Members include Mrs Lockwood, Mrs Ackert, Mrs Gilbert, Mrs McNabb, Mrs Vandegrift, Mrs Gregory, Mrs McLaughlin, Mrs Brumbaugh, Mrs Brown, Mrs Ramsay, and Mrs Rodgers. The president Mrs Charles W Fairbanks vows cooperation to ensure the can you spare a car fare project succeeds with volunteers stationed Friday and Saturday at hotels, theatres, Union Station, cafes, and assorted buildings across Denver and nearby towns.
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Miss Solomons
Lockwood
Mra Ackert
Gilbert
McNabb
Mra Vandegrift
Mra Gregory
Mra McLaughlin
Brumbaugh
Brown
Mra Ramsay
Mias Rodgera
Charles W Fairbanks
Jara
Willard Raleigh
Arlington
Kanns
Moses
Lanburgh’s
Gotdenberg's
Palala Royal
Chase's
Columbia
Belasco
Union Station
Colorado
Bend
Ouray
Munsey
Metropolitan Bank
Must Pay Alimony in Contempt Case for Harrison
Ary thur W Harrison, patent attorney, was ordered by Justice Barnard to pay delinquent alimony pending the final divorce settlement in the District Supreme Court. He was given five days to comply after a hearing found him in contempt due to extraordinary expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Supreme Court
Arythur W Harrison
Justice Barnard
Harrison
English client pays fee in Thurston suit
Former Senator Joh M Thurston yesterday agreed to drop his assault for injunction against United States Treasurer Treating William Radcliffe of Kent England upon payment of 4000 by the Englishman. The former senator had sued Trent and Radcliffe seeking to stop paying 25000 to Radcliffe alleging a fee for prosecuting a claim against the U S government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joh M Thurston
United States
William Radcliffe
Kent
England
Lenten Lecture Series Sues Steamboat Company
Anna Reeves filed a $15 000 damages suit against Washington and Potomac Steamboat Company and receivers Richard H Lynn and United States Trust Company alleging carelessness on a pier incident at Catholic University. The claim cites eye injury from a thrown object during a lecture series by Catholic University professors. Attorneys Campbell Hay Johnson represent Reeves.
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Washington and Potomac Steamboat Company
Anna Reeves
Richard H Lynn
United States Trust Company, Ag
Chaintit
Universit
Catholic University
Washington
S¢ Jones
Hom
Campbell and
Hay
den Johnson
Paul Shields
Aron
New Plan to Honor Lincoln Boulevard Proposal With Columns
Maj Hodgson of the District National Guard forwarded ideas to Commissioner Macfarland for a Lincoln memory testimonial. He suggests a boulevard from the Capitol to the river with each state erecting a stone column beside the road, creating a grand memorial flanked by columns.
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Maj. Hodgson
F. 5 Hodgson
Mount Pleasant Street
Infantry
Union
Grocer Fined $100 for Using False Scales
Judge Kimball in police court fined Morris Winthrop a grocer at 1904 Seventh Street Northwest $100 for weighing with a lead piece under the scoop. The court ordered six months in the workhouse if default. Sealer Col William C Haskell highlighted efforts to curb short weighing in city grocery stores. A February 9 visit found a counterbalance scale with lead under the scoop.
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Kimball
Morris Winthrop
Seventh Street Northwest
William C Haskell
Haskell
Coromissionere
Sealer Hows
Winthrop # atore
Severtth Street
Government Entomologist Denies Alimony Allegations in Divorce Suit
Distret Supreme Court records show Daniel W Coquillett, a government entomologist, ordered to pay $0 monthly alimony while divorce proceedings continue. Coquillett denies his wife Annie D Coquillett’s charges, contends his wealth is far less than claimed, and asserts her desertion and nagging led to separation. Attorney Lars Ambros represents him.
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Distret Supreme Court
Daniel W Coquillete
Annie
D Coquillett
Cuifornia
Washington
Coquillett
Lars Ambros
Plan to Aid Liberia Demonstration Set for Feb 4
A district citizens committee organizes a Liberian demonstration meeting at Shiloh Baptist Church on Wednesday evening February 4. The gathering aims to discuss conditions in Liberia and what Americans can do to assist the negro republic in distress. Committee members include Prof Kelly Miller of Howard University and Prof Jesse Lawson, with W C Payne, Francis E. Wells, J H Harrison, and Rev Rilton Waldron of Shiloh Church.
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Shitoh Baptist Church
Negro Republic of
Liberia
Kelly Miller
Howard University
Jesse Lawson
Society of Sociology
W C Payne
Francis E. Wells
J H Harrison
Rilton Waldron
Shiloh Church
Lincoln memorial site urged on Mall near Potomac
A public letter from the council of fine arts to President Roosevelt dated March 11 recommends placing a Lincoln memorial on the Mall near the Potomac River. It argues the Capitol Union Station plaza plan is architecturally flawed and favors extending the Mall to create a grand Lincoln tribute with a spectacular city vista.
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Council of Fine Arts
Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
Potomac River
Washington
Gettysburg
National Capital
Capitol
Union Station
Washington Monument
Alte
Natonal
Mrs Selby Wins Divorce from Elmer Selby
Margaret Selby was granted an absolute divorce on grounds of infidelity by Justice Barnard who also allowed restoration of her maiden name Margaret Kraft. The couple wed at Rockville on August 30, 19 when she was 13. she testified he began associating with other women soon after and deserted her February 17, 190.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Selby
Elmer Selby
Library lecture on New York’s old libraries by Austin Keep
Austin Baxter Keep of Columbia University will lecture in the public library lecture hall on Friday evening to the District of Columbia Library Association. The talk, titled The Library in Colon’s New York, uses lantern slides to show early New York libraries, key figures, manuscripts, book plates, and records.
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Austin Baxter Keep
Columbia University
Colon‘sl
New York
District of Columbia Library
Keepy
Inaugural parade duty assigned to Brooklyn naval militiaman
Albany dispatch reports adjutant general's department ordering Battalion Commander R P Forshew to assign nine men from the Second Naval Battalion for participation in the Washington Inaugural Parade on March 4. Also items note a fatal accident in Baltimore Ohio yards and several local notices including a missing husband and a coroner's inquest.
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Mnaug
Albany
Adjutant General’s Department
R P. Forshew
Naval Militia
Brooklyn
Second Naval Battalion
Washington
Daniel Frye
New Jersey Avenue
Baltimore
Ohio
Nevitt
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Economy Co-Operative Society, Inc
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Price
Henry Evans
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Southern
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Chicago & Northwestern
Union Pacific and
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Anyutre
C. Melbourne
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Henry
I People’s Drug Store
St Nw
Friedlander Bros. Gorner
Thurston
Sues Steamboat Company
River View
Lincoln
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Alasha B. Keep
Mardi Gras
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Ray
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J T D' Pyles
William W Elliott
Phila Oyeter
Chop House
Heurich’s
Maerzen and
Senate—brewery
Arlington Bottling Company
Wilam Moore
Patrick J. Lynch
Seventhtreet Northwest
Ede
Schwab
Beat—Sa
C. A. Mudaiman & Co
Annie Bell
Marfa
Moore
Rosina Batsch
Missouri Avenue
Fourteenth
Riverdale
St! George County
Concordia
Fatefax Dalry
Tri-Wear
Wm. Hahn & Co.’s
Three Reliable Shoe Houses
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Herrmann
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Dupont Circle
Agopian & Son
Musee Oriental
Constantinople
Carl W. Tobolot
Altimore
Rober Brates
Barber & Ross
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Capitol OF
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Potomac Electric
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N.W
Washington's
R. P. Andrew
Te Naokina
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Chesapeake Bay
EN Etre
Chesapeake “Beach ‘Land Company
Manesy
Hart Schaffner & Marx
T Globe
Company
Pa. Ave. N. W
Washington Gas Light Co
Tenth Street
Varner
Warner
Doatpod
Warners
Safe Cyre Company
Roenester RV
Mectan
Washington Post
TRE House-Wares
F St. H.W
Gates & Rich
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