Inauguration Preparations Pushed for March Parade
Chairman Wilson reports progress on the inaugural ceremonies with ten days until the event. Decorations rise on Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the Treasury as stands, palm parades, and flags are installed. The Grand Marshal color guard is announced with cadets from West Point and midshipmen from Annapolis. Ball tickets go on sale at banks, hotels, and merchants along the avenue with extensive street telephone booths planned for march coordination.
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Wilson
Wilann
Inaugurel
Rerard
Owen
Capitol
Treasury
Court of History
Pennsylvania Avenue
Olur
Court of Hastery
Louisiana
Florida
Avenue 19
Grand Marshal
Chaffee
Military Academy
West Point
Annapolis
West Point Academy
Tis Guard
Titus
Peking
Miles
G. P. Bohre
Convention Hall
Bohrer
Waldo C. Hibbs
New Jersey Avenue
B Street
Peace Monument
First Street
Sixth Street
Eleventh Street
Fifteenth Street
K Street
Vermont Avenue
United States Signal Corps
CO. Howard
A .S. Perham
Pension Bureau
Llewellyn G. Feestes
Perham
American Security and Trust Company
Washington Loan and Trust Company
Laion Trust Company
Higes National Bank
Columbia National Bank
Commercial National Bank
National Metropoltan Citizens Bank
Central National Bank
Second National Bank
American National Bank
Washington Savings Bank
Saks & Co
Woodward & Lothrop
Washington Gas Light Company
Tenth Stree
Lanaburgh & Bro
Seventh Street
Cosmon Club
Madison Place
H Street
Offferdinger
Ninth Street
Thompson
Pharmacy
Metropolitan Club
J HH. Small @ Sons
Fourteenth
G Streets
Fraudulent release and trustee removal in Waggaman case
Justice Morris in Maryland filed suit in the District Supreme Court seeking to set aside a deed of trust release on Baltimore property and remove Thomas E. Waggaman and John F. Waggaman as trustees. The filing names Cardinal Gibbons and the Sisters of Mercy among others, alleging false statements and misused trust funds in a complex debt and title dispute dating to 1891.
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Thomas E. Waggaman
California
Martin F. Morris
District Court of Appeals
Samuel F. Vinton
District Supreme Court
Thomas BE
Waggaman
Cardinal Gibbons
Baltimore
Sisters of Mercy
Metropolitan Bavings Bank of Baltimore
John F. Waggaman
Charles P. Crandell
Cecilia M. Coughlin
Edward S. Morse
Salem
Mass
Ernest
Crandell
John M. Henderson
Squar
Thomas E. Wagssman
Morris
Morse
Thomas B. Waggaman
Miss Coughlin
Schriver
Bensainger
Schmidt
Metropolitan Savings Bank of Baltimore
Thomas E. Wagerman
Wagga
Samuel ©. Vinton
Mr. Wagguman
Charles B. Crandell
Thomas Eb, Waggaman
Justice Anderson
Thomas H. Wargaman
John P. Franklin
Stephen P. Franklin
Sara F. Sutton
Alice A. Lavender
Escaping gas rescue and gold watchman’s note at post office
Post office watchman Erwin, 60, nearly suffocated by gas in his room at 468 Pennsylvania Ave NW. He was revived at Emergency Hospital after being found unconscious when a gas jet had been left open. James West, a porter, alerted police. Erwin works for the Post Office Department, from Guilford County, NC. Damages awarded in an unrelated case involve Henry Couper and Dean & Shibley after a dirt-car collision at the filtration plant.
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Erwin
Frank Erwin
Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest
James West
Post Office Department
Guilford County
N. C
Circuit Court No. 2
Clabaugh
Henry Couper
Dean & Shibley
Couper
General Llewellyn G Estes Dies After Illness
Gen Llewellyn G Estes senior vice commander elect for the Department of the Potomac G A R died at his Washington home after a heart attack brought on by pneumonia. He was praised by Roosevelt for his Civil War record and will be buried at Arlington after a Thursday funeral. Estes rose from private in Maine to brevet brigadier general, earning the Medal of Honor for bridging a burning river at Flint River Georgia and for capturing his captors in 1863. He led a distinguished postwar career in business and veterans groups, leaving a widow Miss Whiting and two children.
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Department of the Potomac
Rooosevelt
Arlington
Liegellyn G. Estes
Roosevelt
United States
T Street Northwest
G. A
New Willard
Estes
Grin
Gen. Estes
Department of the G. A. R
Adit
Albert Scott
Medal of Honor Legion
Arlington Cemetery
Bytes
Vadlefeld
Maine
Kilpatrick
Gen. Hooker
Richmond
Falling Waters
Pettigrew
Flint River
Georgia
Howard
Gen. Howard
Sherman
Flo
Washington
White House
Gen. Sherman
J. C. Julius Langbein
New York
Scot
John A. Rawlings
Pene
Ebbitt House
Tasker
Llewellyn G. Bates
Stat Lnst
Hetex
Gassenheimer Convicted After Three Trials
Samuel Gassenheimer was found guilty in Criminal Court No. 1 on receiving embezzled railroad tickets after three trials. Jury polled at defense request. bond set at $2,000. Motions for arrest and new trial likely. appeal possible to District Court of Appeals. Verdict included a recommendation to the court. Mrs. Gassenheimer present.
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Samuel Gassenheimer
Gassenheimer
District Court of Appeals
Justice Wright
Gassensheimer
Frank W. Smith
Courte House
Correction on Huyett death attempt misidentification
The Post retracts its Feb 21 report naming Ernest A. Huyett as the attempted self harm. It was his brother Eugene T. Huyett who shot himself. Ernest A. Huyett, a Bureau of Engraving and Printing employee, is engaged to Miss Susan C. Bradt and to wed today. Eugene T. Huyett is improving at Freedmen's Hospital and has offered no reason for the act.
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The
Post
Ernest A. Huyett
Corby Brothers
Seventh and
Grant Streets
Eugene T. Huyett
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Susan C. Bradt
Freedmen's Hospital
Protection for painters prompts scaffold inspections
Building Inspector Ashford asked the Commissioners to appoint inspectors to oversee painters scaffolds after the death of Frank Hamby who fell from Cairo. Charles A. Lynch had warned of careless scaffold swinging and painters risking rope weathering.
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Frank Hamby
Cairo
Ashford
Charles A. Lynch
Alleged Forger to Be Extradited
The late Department issued a warrant for the surrender to British authorities of Walter Bagshawe Harding charged with embezzlement forgery and larceny at Newton Chester County England. He is held in Indiana and has waived examination there.
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Walter Bagshawe Harding
Newton
Chester County
England
Indiana
Widow sues attorney over pension loan scheme
Mary A Stoddard files in district supreme court against Robert J Strong alleging misuse of funds from her deceased husband Charles J Stoddard. The suit asks show cause why Strong should not be enjoined from disposing of notes and a receiver appointed to seize funds. Stoddard claims Strong offered high risk loans at six percent monthly, kept most investments, and deducted office rent from interest.
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District Supreme Court
Mary A Stoddard
Lambert & Baker
Robert J. Strong
Stoddard
Strong
Lieut Alphonse Strebler Missing at Fort Hunt
First Lieut. Alphonse Strebler of the artillery stationed at Fort Hunt Virginia has disappeared about two weeks ago and military authorities are seeking his whereabouts. He served over a year at the post and previously in the Philippines, rising from the ranks. He was last known as manager of the fort football team and there are rumors of tangled accounts, though no official report has been received.
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Alphonse Strebler
Artillery
Fort Hunt
Strebler
Philippines
Fort
War Department
Curtis
Rescue in progress as husband and brother assault officer
Police officer Waters, responding to a distress call at a home on Four and a half street south west, was attacked by Archie Evans and John Little. Waters retreated to summon reserves, then returned to arrest the men. They were taken to the station on assault charges.
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Archie Evans
Waters
John Little
Jern
Harvard Receives $200000 From James C Carter Bequest
Announcement from Boston dated February 21 reports that James Coolidge Carter, a prominent New York lawyer who recently died, left Harvard University a bequest of 200000 dollars. The gift is stated to be practically unrestricted in use.
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Boston
Mais
James Coolidge Carter
New York
Harvard University
St Johns Best Debaters At Azarias Society Meeting
The Azarias Literary Society of St John’s College held its annual public debate in the college lecture hall. The question: Resolved that the success of Japan in the present war with Russia would be detrimental to Caucasian supremacy. The negative side won unanimously. judges praised the speakers.
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Friends of the Azarias Literary Society
St. John's College
Japan
Russia
John J. Drury
Joseph T. Fitzgerald
Denis #. Connell
Kenneth R
Weather report and accident death in Washington area
Weather Bureau reports generally fair weather with rain on the South Atlantic coast and in Florida, snow in the Upper Lake region, and incoming low pressures likely to bring snow or rain in the Middle Atlantic and Lake regions. Local temps show highs near 44 and lows near 28, with modest sunshine. A separate item notes Brent Paynter, eight, died at Children's Hospital from a compound skull fracture after a sledding accident on Thirteenth Street. coroner cites accidental death.
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Dept. of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
Washington
South Atlantic
Florida
North Pacifice
Upper Lake Region
Dakotas
Upper Lake
Middle Atlantic
Mississippi Valley
Lake
New England
Gulf Coast
Lake Michigan
European
Grand Banks
Brent Paynter
W Street
Children's Hospital
Nevitt
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Waggamans
Judge Morris
Vinton Estate
Shorb
Cal
Fry
H. Rogier Dulany
Trone Tee Hood
C. L Hoad
B. W. Grove
L. G. Estes
A. P. Tasker
Lanssurgh & Bro
Petticonia
Madras
Toy
Lansburgh & Bro
Seventh St
Utill P
Lieut
Harvard
Tharp
St. N.W
Peter Grogan
Tron
7Th St
Bet. H and I
Roa
George £. Hebbard
Droop’s Music House
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ST. John’s
Azarias Literary Society
Ratn- Max
Min
Asheville
N.C
Atlanta
Atlantic City
N. A
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Chicago
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Ohio
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Wye
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Town
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Colo
Galveston
Tex
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Montoor
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
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Little Rock
Ark
Marquette
Mich
Memphis
New Orleans
Omaha
Pitteburg
T. Salt Lake City
St.Laura
Bt. Paul
Springfield
American Security and Crust Company
Charles J. Belli
Albert M. Read
Mer
A. Aspinwall
Collins
Steed
Macdonnall School OF Phrenology and Psychology
Gs 9Th
District of Volumbia Realty
I. Eakin Gadsby
Ne &Fno
B. B. Earnshaw & Broq
Syren
Alexandria
Mt. Vernon
Tennessee
Shoomaker GO
Selinger’s
Sho
Charles H. Gano
Posevon
Pape Bigg
Matt
Clara A Westlake
Bronnwick
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