District Leaders Seek Amendments to Land Condemnation Code
A draft amendment to District Chapter IV, prepared by the District Commissioners, aims to reduce litigation by clarifying land condemnation procedures. The proposal, prepared alongside comparisons to current law, seeks to separate condemnation actions from other provisions, noting that jury verdicts would reflect net damages and benefits. The bill was forwarded to Congressman Babcock for review.
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Congress
District Commissioners
Babcock
District Committee
House of Representatives
United States
District of Columbia
Damag
Filtration Plant Plan Draws Sanitary Fire In DC
A. W. Thomas, attorney, protests the abandonment of Franklin Square spring and denounces filtration plant sanitary handling. He urges preserving the spring, warns against taking water from Potomac sources, and asks health authorities to review plant conditions. Commissioner Woodward reports no water supply danger and forwards the matter to the Washington Aqueduct for review.
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A. Woms
Franklin Square
Thomas
Mrv. Thomas
Potomac
Ameer Woodward
Washington
Washington Aqueduct
Therfore
Stamp Out Usury Bill Introduced In House
A bill produced by Representative Jenkins aims to curb interest rates in the District. It would prohibit verbal contracts from charging more than a stated rate and limit written contracts to a separate maximum. Penalties include forfeiture of the interest and fines or imprisonment.
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House
Iast
Jenkins
Commissioners Disapprove House Bill 4220 on Public School Lectures
The District Commissioners rejected House Bill 4220 relating to lectures in public schools, finding no need to change the current arrangement and opposing separation of this education branch from the general system. P. G. Burton seeks six telephone poles on Linton avenue for Chesapeake and Foreman Telephones to serve Miss Taliaferro. Erncst Mattingly applies for a wholesale liquor license for Congress Heights. excise board heard arguments and will consider the case.
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Board of Education
P. G. Burton
Chesapeake and Foreman Telephones Company
Linton Avenue
Bilvens Avenue
Hillsaele
Atacostla
Taliaferro
Erncst Mattingly
Congress Heights
Excise Board
Will Not Lie in Pauper's Grave Editor Post
The Post answers that Willis Lucas Sr will receive a church burial by his children, denying claims he would be buried in a paper's grave. It thanks friends for sympathy but asserts the family will care for and bury their father, recounting his service to Gen. Robert Anderson and nursing him.
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Willis Lucas
Robert Anderson
Fort Sumter
Davenport Wields Crayon at Columbia Theater
Homer Davenport lectured yesterday afternoon at the Columbia Theater, introduced by Senator Carter as the undoubted king of living cartoonists. He shared career stories with humorous anecdotes and caricatures of notable figures, praising Nast and Tenniel, meeting Senators Soon es and Plitt, Admiral Dewey, Reed, and other notables, as the Vice President and Mrs. Fairbanks watched from a box and Congress members filled the seats.
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Homer Davenport
Columbia Theater
Senator Carter
Davenport
Lenfe
Lenfe With Whom He Has Come In Toontact
Thomas Nast
Si Jdshu ‘Tenniel
Great Britain
Ian Homer Davenport
Wishtning
Soones
Plitt
Dewey
Thomas R. Reed
Fairbanks
Congress
Sunday Closing Favored by Georgetown Businessmen
About 200 Georgetown businessmen and residents signed a resolution urging passage of the Allen Bill to enforce stricter Sunday observance in the District. The measure was sent to the District Commissioners after a public hearing, with hundreds of protest letters received and only a handful showing support for Sunday closing.
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Georgetown
Mrs Brown seeks absolute divorce from William H Brown
Anna Page Brown, of Baltimore birth, filed in local court for an absolute divorce from William H Brown whom she wed in Baltimore in February 18. She left him Oct 30, 1930s. She cites chronic quarrels and cruelty including curses striking her and breaking a vane. She prays for alimony and custody of seven year old daughter Carolina with a co respondent named.
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Anna Page Brown
Wiliam H. Brown
Baltimore
Brown
Anna Page
Walter
Oreée
Ferguson Case Delayed After Jury Impaneled
In Criminal Court No 1 Edward Ferguson faces a first degree murder indictment over the killing of Bertha West near Anacostia last June. The hearing is postponed to Monday at 1 o clock as the jury list is drawn and the case awaits scheduling.
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Edward Ferguson
Bertha West
Anacostia
George M. Goce
J. Stuart Poole
Reuben MM. Prank
George W. Offutt
Clifton Lowe
Moses Pach
Sewall A. Reeves
Frank Fpine
Charles Verguson
Samuel G. Cranwell
Wilson L. Haker
Luther B. Snyder
George E. Green
George W. Beavers
United States
Stadt and merchants feature in city bulletins
City items list Herrmann Bottling Works and D C Bergner Engel products with prices, goods at J T D Pyles stores, several local business notices, and a call for a new interne at Washington Asylum. Also notes on candy, cigars, ice cream, fishy repairs, and a jail term for John Kelly.
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Herrmann Bottling Works
A. G. Herrmann
D. C
Bergner & Engel
10Th St. Se
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A.W. Thomas
Emily Hllis
W.H. Lucas
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Clara Monford
Mrs. Brown
Ferguson
Nest
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Wright’s
D. J. Kaufman
Pa. Ave
Iouse
Kuppenheimer
S. Grosner
Penna. Ave
City Bulletins
J.T. D. Pyles
L. PF. Zinkham
Washington Asylum
Gill's
Pennsylvania
Rosenfeld
East
Grand Jury
District Supreme Court
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Marine Hospital Service
Richard H. Chubb
Amos M. Brown
Charles Fairbanks
Lawrence Volmer
Wiliam Diggs
Wiliam Dines
Solomon Dixon
Clairles K. Metcalf
Johnston
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Hamilton College
Hamilton College Alumni Association
Shoreham
Reisinger
Baltimore and Return
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Royal Limited
Miss Bristow
Pauline H. Bristow
Fairmont Seminary
Weimar
Public
League of American Pen Women
Lindsay
Welebach
12Th. Co
A. Muddiman & Co
Rusterhaltz
Spicer
Louisiana
Keene's Shoe
G St. Nw
William H. Rynes
Wiliam H. Rynes
Selma B. Sharrotts
Caroline Rynex
Martha Stirling
Otto H. Rynex
Richard
W. Smith
Washington, D. C
N. Cap. St
Kelly
Workhouse
John Kelly
BR. EB. Dalley
Mien
Coopers
Whett’s
Friedlander Bros
Ninth and
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St. and
Mass, Ave. N.W
Victor E. Adler
Clothing House
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J. Maury Dove Go. Incorporated
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Kroeger
Xath
Ceres
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Faber’s
R. P. Andrews Paper CO
la. Ave
A. Eherly
Potomac Electric Power Company
Fourteenth St. N. W
Ehmann’s
California
Magruder’s
Conn. Ave
E Sts
Hubbard Heating Co
F Street
Wabash Ave
Chicago
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