Playground officials seek depot site for city indoor fields
The Playground Commission allied with Associated Charities plans to urge Congress to turn the Pennsylvania depot at Sixth and B streets into an indoor athletic field with a swimming pool and clubrooms after rail traffic moves. They seek $316,000 for maintenance and equipment plus authorization to buy land up to $85,000, aiming to fund model playgrounds and extend current facilities.
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Henry S. Gurlis
Charles FL. Weller
A. W. Craig
Wallace Hatch
Mr. Weller
KE. D. Shaw
William H. Baldwin
Arthur J. Kellogg
New York
Elizabeth Brown
Giles Ratter
District Commissioners back DW extensions amid minority protests
The District Commissioners plan a favorable report to Congress on DW extensions within Suban lines despite protests by Jane Shea and minority stockholders. They say a hearing last week highlighted objections to the free transfer system and the impact on small suburban lines since consolidation. They submitted a will to Congress for streetcar operation and defer transfer recommendations until broader legislation.
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Suban
Jane Shea
Board of Commissioners
Shea
Woman forfeits $20 bond in swindling case
Rose Daviidison, aged suspect, forfeits a $20 collateral bond after failing to appear for trial on charges of swindling with spurious Irish point lace. Prosecution witnesses Annie Chamberlaine and Anna L Howard testified they paid $5 and $7 for lace worth only 30 cents. Detectives Peek and Warren traced the vendor, with Davidson claiming Baltimore residence, as police watch for her next appearance with a satchel of lace.
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Rose Daviidison
Annie Chamberlaine
8 Street
Anna L. Howard
Peek
Warren
Injured Laborer Sues for Damages in District Supreme Court
John Dorsey, a laborer for James Mendell, seeks $26,000 damages in a District Supreme Court suit over injuries from an elevator fall at a Sixth and H streets NW apartment project. Defendants include his employer and owner Emmett C. Elmore. At issue are alleged leg injuries and negligence. attorneys W. B. Ambrose and Kappler & Merillat.
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John Dorsey
James Mendell
Sixth and
H Streets
District Supreme Court
Emmett C. Elmore
W. B. Ambrose
Kappler & Merillat
Sunday closing resolutions urged before Congress
The Retail Clerks' Association of Washington and the Central Labor Union of the District endorsed House Bill 10510 for Sunday closing. Delegates representing eighty groups and over 20 000 residents sent the resolutions to the District Commissioners who will study the issue before reporting to Congress.
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Retail Clerks’ Association of Washington
Central Labor Union of
District of Columbia
Indorse
H. R. Bil
Congress
Plumber Sues For License Reinstate By Mandamus
Joseph E. Daly petitions the District of Columbia Supreme Court to compel the Board of Commissioners to reinstate his master plumber and gasfitter license. He alleges the license was revoked improperly on August 25, 1905, without due process after charges about work at 501 B Street Northeast. Daly claims no evidence supported the charges and seeks a writ of mandamus to restore his license, with Justice Anderson setting a show cause date of March 2 next.
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Wastitct Supreme Court
L. A Dedsley
Daly
B Street
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Justice Anderson
G W Cook & Co Assigns for Creditors
Geo W Cook and Bertha A Cook trading as G W Cook & Co carriage dealers at 328 329 M Street NW filed an assignment for creditors. They report real estate valued at 15000 carvi ngoes at 2000 and 762 owed to them. Total debts 9058.21. Individual debts 70.98. Assignees Daniel W O'Donoghue and Patrick T Moran. Chief Justice Clabaugh to administer. Bond of 20000 authorized. All creditors expected to be paid in full.
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Bertha A Cook
G. W. Cook & Co
M Street
Daniel W O'Donoghue
Patrick T Moran
Clabaugh
Ferguson Found Guilty in Second Degree Murder Case
A Griminal Court No 1 jury under Justice Gould convicted Howard Ferguson, a Black man, of second degree murder in the June shooting of Hertha West. Prosecutors said jealousy sparked Ferguson to fire three times, one fatal shot. Ferguson claimed the deceased and two other women attacked him, and he fired in heat of passion.
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Justice Gould
Howard Ferguson
Hertha West
Ferguson
Jailed for Abusing Women in Local Case
John Fleetwood was sentenced to six months in jail and one month in the work house by Judge Kimball on a charge of abusing his mother. Fred Matthews was fined $30 by Judge Kimball for striking Blanche Call, a neighbor, after she accused him of abusing his wife.
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Fred Matthews
Blanche Call
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Fall at Conention Hall Breaks Mrs Goss Arm
Mrs A J Goss aged thirty six toppled on roller skates at Conention Hall yesterday. She broke her left wrist, had the bone reset at Emergency Hospital, and was driven to her home at 1913 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest.
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Conention Hall
A. J. Goss
Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest
Overstocked sale cuts prices and offers free trousers
A dealer announces drastic reductions to clear remaining stock, cutting prices to nearly half and offering a free striped worsted trousers worth 4 to 5 dollars with orders for suit or overcoat and trousers for 11 dollars. Window displays show seasonal suitings and overcoatings in smart styles.
Pace divorce petition cites desertion and infidelity
Charlotte M. Pace filed in the District Supreme Court for divorce from Albert E. Pace alleging desertion and infidelity. They married in Rockville Maryland on December 28 1901 and lived here briefly. She says he left January 10 1902 and has not supported her since. A co respondent is named in the petition.
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Charlotte M. Pace
District Supreme Court
Albert E. Pace
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