Thieves Break Open Freight Car in Hckington Yards
Thieves broke open a freight car in the Hckington yards of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and stole seventeen cases of whiskey valued at 12 dollars each. Two revolvers a gas tank top and tools worth 25 dollars were taken from Albert C. Thompson at 716 Twelfth Street SE. Silverware valued at 15 dollars belonging to Ruben Adams at 629 C Street SE was reported stolen from the Adams home.
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Bickington
Hckington
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Albert C. Thompson
Twelfth Street
Fourteenth
Ruben BH. Adams
Adama
Brave bicycle officer halts runaway horse on city streets
Policeman Charles W. Lippold of the Sixth precinct used a pressed automobile as a mobile to trap a frightened runaway horse that had bolted from Joseph F. Cooksey's buggy. The chase stretched from Eleventh Street to Massachusetts Avenue and Capitol grounds before the man leaped onto a passing car and stopped the horse at First Street and Massachusetts Avenue Northwest.
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Charles W. Lip Poold
Sixth Precinct
First Street
Massachusetts Avenue
Joseph F. Cooksey
McLean Avenue
Frank Vernon
Georgia Avenue
Eleventh Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Woman dies of burns in northwest Washington apartment
Bertie Jamerson a 30 year old colored woman rooming with Sadie Hopkins at 123934 Sixth Street NW died after her clothing caught fire from an elf stove early yesterday. The house suffered $100 damage. Ernest Bregger 11, of 210 Ninth Street NW, was injured yesterday afternoon when skating at Twelfth and Massachusetts. He collided with a car owned by Robert J. Wynne of 915 Rhode Island Avenue NW and was taken to Emergency Hospital.
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Bertie Jamerson
Sadie Hopkins
Sixth Street
Casualty Hospital
Ernest Bregger
Ninth Street Northwest
Twelfth Street
Massachusetts Avenue Northwest
Robert J. Wynne
Rhode Island Avenue
Samuel Ewell
Antisuffrage group to open New York headquarters
Beginning next Wednesday the Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage will establish headquarters at 1213 Pennsylvania avenue for one week to entertain out-of-town visitors and keep in contact with the public during the inaugural season. Mrs James W Wadsworth Jr president and a cadre of assistants will open the house for inaugural visitors. Also reported in Washington is the death in Seattle of Bainbridge Reynolds, son of Rear Admiral Alfred Reynolds and Mrs Louise Norton Reynolds, after abdominal surgery.
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Pennsylvania Avenue
James W. Wadsworth
Washington
Seattle
Wash
Bainbridge Reynolds
Alfred Reynolds
Louise Norton Reynolds
Reynolds
Army
Navy
Press veteran Marse Henry Watterson Calls for Honesty
The National Press Club honored Marse Henry Watterson on his seventy seventh birthday. He urged the press to expose cant and shameless self exposure shaping public men and undermining national integrity. He emphasized that in perilous times the heritage of glory must guide journalism’s mission.
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Marse Henry" Watterson
National Press Club
Edwin Markham Visits Washington for Free Masonic Talk
Poet Edwin Markham, praised by William Dean Howells, is in Washington as a guest of Mr and Mrs Alfred French. He will deliver Sunday at 3 30 PM in the new Masonic Temple an address What Swedenborg Brings to the Heart of Man open to the public with no charge and no contributions requested.
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Edwin Markham
William Dean Howells
Whitcomb Riley
Washington
Alfred French
Cathedral Avenue
New
Masonic Temple
Swedenborg
Man
City Briefs Hears varied talks and events around town
The Instructive Visiting Nurse Society holds an 8 30 p m meeting at Rauascher s with Prof Joseph Ames of Baltimore to speak. Dr Stephen B Luce Jr lectures Athens in the War at the Public Library tomorrow at 4 p m under Washington Classical Club. Rev James Shera Montgomery discusses Qine sided People at Lincoln Church tonight. The Simoia Society of Washington meets at the Ebbitt tonight to perfect its permanent organization. Miss Helen Nicolay and Miss Florence Spofford speak on The Influence of Liberal Thought on American Life at All Souls Church today at 11 a m. Anthropologist Arthur MacDonald talks to the National Society of Keep Wells at St John s Parish Hall. Vaudeville features at the Florida Society meeting tomorrow night at 1004 F St with A Pair of Lunatics and Potomac views by Commodore Adrian Sizer. A fire destroys L M Overstreet s automobile at East Capitol and Mall with $500 loss. The newly formed ladies auxiliary of the Fraternal Order of Hayles hosts its first clubhouse gathering at 601 E St NW. Plans for the National Shakespeare Society convention in late April to be discussed at the Washington branch meeting at the Cairo with Rev George Buckler presiding. The Washington birthday dance of the Hebrew Junior League at the Old Masonic Temple draws one of its largest crowds for the Jewish Consumptive Society of Denver and local charity. Elliot Strouse dies near Baltimore. funeral at Melville and Linwood avenues Mount Washington today at 2 30 p m.
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Helen Nicolay
Florence Spofford
Women’s Alliance of All Souls’ Church
Fourteenth
L Streets
Arthur MacDonald
National Society of Keep Wells
St. Johny Church
Birth notices list numerous families with newborns and ages of deaths
Birth reports show Richard B M and Emma T Boss have a boy and many other couples welcomed children. The list also records adult ages and residences for deaths at Providence Hospital Tuberculosis Hospital U S Naval Hospital St Elizabeths Freedmen's Hospital and other addresses including 15th Street NW 1th at ne 28d street NW and 619 H Street SW.
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Joel H. Pile
15Th St
Charles Stutsman
Rufus W. Bebbitt
Providence
Edward E. Capehart
U. S. Naval
Schettlin
Isabela R. Fowler
Calvert St
Laws Sarah A. Lonsdale
Edes
Eliza Ann Saunders
K St. Nw
Annie Flon
St. Nw
Lizzia Powell
Henry Jackson
St. Biz
Rose Morgan
Francis BP
Jackson
Morris Rd
George Hubbard
Walter Dozier
William H. Hurd
Eliza Ball
H St
Annie Adams
Jobs Wanted For Men From Border Troops
District organizations seek employment for Troop A Battery B and the Third regiment returning from the Mexican border. Cards were sent to soldiers to locate those without positions and return to Col Rh. D. Simms. About 235 Third regiment members will be mustered out around March 10. Committees include Col E V Sayre and Maj F S Hodgson. The Military Service Legion coordinates with the U S Department of Labor and the Board of Trade and other groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Military Service Legion of
Rh. D. Simms
Military Service Legion Committee
E V. Sayre
F. 8. Hodgson
Sheridan Ferres
BH. W. Zea
John E. Brooks
Ensign Howard &. Wisk
A. F. Ferguson
United States Employment Service
Department of Labor
John Linn McGrew
Department
Board of Trade
Chamber of Commerce
Retail Merchants’ Association
Potash Production Boom Boosts U S Independence
The American potash industry surges as profits and output swell to meet wartime needs. 1916 production reaches an estimated 10 000 tons worth about 3 500 000 dollars, based on incomplete returns of 8 830 tons. 1917 is expected to show a much larger total as the boom continues.
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United States
Geological Survey
Will contest upholds widow Bertha Andrews as estate holder
In Court of District Supreme Justice McCoy Baltimore widow Laura G. Tyler, married in 1902 in Cincinnati to Ben Andrews, a Baltimore politician, inherited a share. Andrews died in 1903. The will left the estate to Bertha Andrews of Washington, and the verdict confirms Tyler's widow's dower claim. The decision awards Bertha Andrews the estate minus the dower portion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice McCoy
District Supreme Court
Laura G. Tyler
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Ohio
Ben Andrews
Andrews
Bertha Andrews
Washington
Tyter
Tyler
Weather and social notices from a 20th century issue
Forecasts for DC Maryland Virginia and North Carolina predict increasing cloudiness Friday with rain Friday night or Saturday, plus fresh easterly winds. Snow fell Thursday in New England and parts of the mid Atlantic and Pacific states, with higher temperatures in the Mississippi valley. Local readings include temperatures from midnight to 8 pm, humidity, rainfall traces, and sunshine percent. Social items note Shaffer's Flowers, dinner at Sterling Hotel, and Dr Gordon lecturing on genius and classical topics at First Congregational Church Sunday.
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U. S. Dept. of Agriculture Weather Bureau
Washington
District of Columbia
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
New Hangland
Middle Atlantic States
Lake Region
Rocky Mountains
Plateau
Pacific
Mississippi
Missouri
Plains States
Mis-sississippi River
Florida
Astern States
Upper Lake Region
Tennessee
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W.l.douglas
W. L. Douglas
le Be Dan
San Francisco
New York
Dinigios Peetl
Brockton
W. L. Douglas Shoes
BOYS
Nsylvania Ave
N.W
D. J. OP Connell
Ave
Byron S. Adams
Llth
Wuran
Electric Light Company
Gem
Mazda
Hudson & Dodge
Wilcox & Vim Trucks
Semmes Motor Company
Lonal
Emerson & Orme
St. N. W
Red Wing
Philip
Julia
Gil
Ramon
Vitagraph
Mr. Vance
Philip and
Nas Mie Vance
Washington Post
Eberly
R. B. Claughton
Vogt
K. Reeve
Ron’ Whipple
tonTtt
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Capitol Grounds
New Avenue
Secret Kingdom
Louis Joseph Vance
Dickey
Marse Henry
Rauascher’s
Joseph &. Ames
Visiting Nurses’ Society of
Athens
Stephen B. Luce, Jr
University of Pennsylvania Museum
Public
Washington Classical Club
Jame Shera Montgomery
Lincoln Ad M. HE
Lincoln Road
Simoia Society of Washington
Ebbitt
Florida Society
College Women's Club Rooms
F Street
The
Potomac
Adrian Sizer
L. M. Overstreet
East Capitol Street
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Fraternal Order of Hayles
E Street Northwest
J. Lewis Weee
M. Meadlon
Pete White
National Shakespeare Society
City
Cairo
George Buckler
Hebrew Junior League
Old Malconic Temple
Jewish Consumptive Society
Denver
Col
Elliot Strouse
Blot Strouse
Dr. Kaufman
Harry Kaufman
Josepha Kaufman
Melville and
Linwood Avenues
Mount Washington
Richard B. M
Emma T Boss
William R
Elizabeth G. Miller
Lloyd
Minnie M. Thompson
James M
Elizabeth M. Mooney
Olinda
Virginia Marseyle
John
Elizabeth Robinson
William
Attie Brown
James and
Estelle Berkeley
William and
Agnes Chittam
Robert H
Anna
Lik
Coltans
Penna Avenue
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Military Legion
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Shaffer
Sterling Hotel
Gordon
First Congregational Church
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Minn
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Washington Loan and Trust Company
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John B. Larner
John Joy Edson
Rayo
Standard Oil, Company
New Jersey
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Charlotte
N.C
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Charleston
W.va
Richmond, Va
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B.f.keith
Brice & King
Peacock Alley’’ Company
Alpa
Vernon Castle
Patria
Loew
Columbia
Afi
Mae Murray
Grand Pipe Orgun
Sentra
Harry Hasting
Dan Coleman
Roseland Girls
Bes Asal
Fle
Seass, Rochuck and Co
Munyon
O’donnell’s Drug Stores
GON Savings
Tharp
Berkeley Rye
NATIO
the Greane's
San Mat
W. Savage
Naughton
Skeats
Gdon Mitchell
L.mendorf
Spain
Mer
Garden of Allah
Mexico
Usaye Violina Godowsky
Cohen & Harris
Doris Kean
Eritz Kreisler
Post
Mrs. Greene
Droop
Belasc
Towmorrow
Senta
Richard Walton Tully Inc
Guy Bates Post
Ty John Unter Booth
Katherine
Eril Thurston
Franz Lehar
Wilfred Lucas
Jim Bludso
Mme. Petrova
Judd & Detweiler, Inc
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