City honors new Vocational High School building dedication
Commissioner Macfarland speaks at the dedication of the Ninth Street and Rhode Island avenue Vocational High School. Officials, alumni, and guests hear praise for the school’s progress, the need for expanded facilities, and the role of technical education in preparing efficient workers. The program includes remarks by J Holdsworth Gordon and S W Woodward, with presentations of the building keys and a tour of the new permanent home.
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Macfarland
S. W. Woodward
Washington
Theness High School
Ninth Street
Rhode Island Avenue
Board of Education
Board of ‘Trade
Sehoval
Hichard Wingsman
Eubay Atlon
J. Holdsworth Gordon
Young Men's Christian Association
T. Stuart
Charles\. Jones
Lieusaness High School Alumni Association
Miosickat
Holdsworth Gordon
Alumi
Alaifim
Clarins A. Jones
Puea
Alumni Hold Reunion in the New Building
Alumni of the Business High School celebrate the seventh annual reunion in the new hall with a dinner and dance. Charles A. Jones presided, a letter from J Wanamaker’s associate Robert C. Ogden was read, and Representative McCreary of Pennsylvania attended. MacFarland introduced McCreary and voiced delight at the opening of the new building.
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Business High School
Charles A. Jones
Jones
Drobert C. Ogden
John Wanamakers Busines Associates
Presi
Southern Board of Education
Oden
McCreary
Pennsylvania
Macfarland
Lent Observances Begin Across Churches in Toledo
Ashes will be distributed at 6 7 9 oclock across Catholic churches with an Ash Wednesday service at St Patrick s at 7 30 led by Dr D Stafford who will start a Lent lecture series. Protestant churches plan Ash Wednesday services at usual hours and Episcopal congregations may offer nooning services. Bishop Satterlees Lenten charge prompts strong parish participation. Toledo Ohio Feb 27 Oil North Lima 94 South Lima and Indiana 89.
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St. Patrick's
de. D. Stafford
Laxiacopak
Bishon Satter~lee
Toledo
Ohio
Lima
Indiana
Le Nard's Uric Acid Solvent Promises Relief for Rheumatism
An advertisement claims Le Nard's Uric Acid Solvent removes the uric acid cause of rheumatism by keeping uric acid in solution and aiding kidney elimination. It cites relief for backache gout cystitis and inflammatory rheumatism and offers the product at drug stores prepared by Dr L S Nicholson at 1305 H Street Northwest.
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le Nard
Bryan
St. Nw
Nicholson
H Street
Music Publisher Testifies in Tracey Grand Larceny Trial
John A. Felix, a New York music publisher, testified he lost about 100 000 gambling and 59 000 swindled by Christopher Tracey through a wireless tapping scheme. Felix described Nelson and others pressuring him into a pool scheme, leading to a 50 000 loss at Wasserman Bros. in the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Tracey faces grand larceny charges in General Sessions before Judge Foster.
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New York
John A. Felix
Christopher J Tracey
Stand Today
Monte Carlo
Felix
Tracey
Foster
James Gw. Osborne
Charley Nelson
Nelson
Twenty-first Street
Western Union Telegraph Company
Mahoney
Lou Ladlum
Twenty-second Street
Western Union
Wasserman Bros
Fifth Avenue Hotel
Hotels Hotel Guests List Across Cities
A long OCR list enumerates hotel guests by city including Baltimore Chicago New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh Richmond California Connecticut Delaware Indian Territory Iowa Indiana Kansas Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota and more. Names such as William Burgess Cornwell John Fritz Leonard Mann Julius Schipps M. Ward George Wailand Dr. Trout Higgs and many others are named alongside hotels like Willard National and Ebbitt. The fragment ends with a crime item: a life sentence for an attempted assault in Worth Worth, Texas, for Houston Thomas, a young black man, pled guilty.
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Baltimore
William Burgess
Cornwell
John G. Fritz Gerald
Leonard J. Mann
Julius Schipss
M. Ward
George H. Wailand
New Willard
Dr. Trout
Higgs
B. Howard Richards
Bt. James
N. M. Davis
W. T. Ingham
Harry 2. Wright
Lester Sepstein
John Weasel
L. K. Lannon
National
Wallace Send
G.rb. Supplea
Raleigh
Borton
A P. Pease
A. H. Folger
Winthrop Fischer
Wits
Bubitt
R. H. Goffin
Alfred Banks
Alfred Clark
A. B. Morgan
Russell B. Morgan
Alvan B. Morgan
Chicago
K. D. Hubbard
Colonial
F. A. Martin
Thomas T. May
St. James
J. N. Redfern
J. . Cleveland
Jackapp
Monahan
A. W. More
C. C. Linthicum
Charles W. Funter
A. Hurtzel
New York City
H Johnson
Ghiver
F. T. Allen
F. Johnson
Matham Pech
A. W. Kemper
I. Cowan
Mewhouse
Wonalazer
Marshall Gusting
WM. Schoenker
Charles L. Barber
Pyngelton
Allen Hugin
H. L. Friend
Cyrus
Furner
George
Mimner
James A. Fmery
H. Harris
BA. Williams
S Vixen
B. Brooks
Albert H. Harris
F. MN. Dyer
J. J. O'Connor
UL. D. Whiting
R. £. Kevin
L. Marklein
A. Thorne
H. Lissauer
C. Kf. Katerheim
P. J. Manning
W. 8. Campbell
John Stable
H. J. Oldring
P. Kelm
K. A. Kromm
Thomas Aldeen
J Hangelman
J. V. Stewart
L. Fritsch
C. F. Duffy
J. H. Curran
F. W. Gutman
G Taylor
Philadelphia
W. Meads Fletcher
H. J. Williams
B. F. Lewis
Horace Lettis
J. C. Baker
Shorelam
F. L. Cooper
H. A. Rohmer
Frederick C. Mencks
Riggs
Ruth Weaver
Ebbitt
Edward German
T. 3
Harrison
J. L. Davis
Mre
Jacob Walkerson
P. T. Perroth
T. Rollings
Segal
W. F. Sickle
A. F Bates
Amg
J. H. Davis
James Cullnane
J. Bf. Caperone
Spacitt
B. G. Bloomfield
Julius Nanvar
M. A. Shearer
M. R. Woodbury
Nan Willard
F. J. Chester
Arlington
Fred Voelker
Simon Burns
Mary Cunningham
Robert F. Hertsel
A. H. Ven Bort
Ferdinand S. Woelheel
A. S. Gana
Richmond
F. J. McCarthy
W. F. Smith
J. J. H. Hayes
J. Culver
California
H. Kuntze
San Francisco
Connecticut
B. Miller
Lorin Delridge
Bridgeport
J. M. Birmingham
Hartford
Shoreham
F.C. Lum
M. L. Thompson
New Haven
James Cochran
New Britain
St.James
A. L Strall
Hartfort
Delaware
G. Gordon Massey
Rover
BG Bucknar
Wilmington
J. J. Satterwake
Indian Territory
P. B. Hopkins and Son
Muskogee
Wort Worth
Tex
Houston Thomas
Miss Koeltman
St Louis police barred by Supreme Court border limits
The Supreme Court ruled St Louis police lack authority beyond city lines prompting comment on summer racing and Sunday liquor raids in county. Capt McNamee defied county warrants from Justice Stobie over raids on Melmar track and gardens. Governor Folk vowed to use militia if needed to enforce laws.
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St. Louis
Supreme Court
Summer Gardens
Melmar
Capt. McNamee
Jefferson City
Folk Today
Oyster Powered Car Feasibility Shown by Chicago Lab
The Chicago Tribune reports Otto Greenberg's oyster powered engine concept as a cheaper safer propulsion, using oyster muscle contraction driven by a light current to drive a piston. Larger oysters could power bigger cars, with sea water and waste as feed, promising decade long durability and no gasoline odor.
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The
Chicago Tribune
University of Cicago Laboratory
Otto Greenberg
Greenberg
Rockaway
India
Runkel's Cocoa Ad Claims Finest Cocoa Quality
Runkel's Cocoa is described as a natural, digestible cocoa made from rare growths and produced by mechanical extraction of oil without starch flour or sugar. It claims superiority over imitations and urges sending 2 cents for a sample of chocolate and a miniature can of cocoa from Run ken Brothers in New York.
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Runkel
Patient Courtesies at the Telephone Exchange
Rhoda Lovelace profiles the young women who staff a city telephone exchange. Operators work nine hours with half hour lunches, must be quick and courteous, and may rise to supervisor within a year. Training begins at seventeen to twenty three and "central" demands constant calm under pressure.
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Rhoda Lovelace
Griseld
Chaucer
Hfe
Central
Reeves
Lowe Wins First Prize In English Professionals Golf Match
English professionals touring the United States concluded a golf event at the Country Club in Augusta with George Lowe as champion on 324 strokes. Alexander Rosas placed second on 326, while Davie Olgivie and Alexander Herd tied for third at 328 as the field completed 144 holes. The purse was 200 dollars and the visitors planned to sail for Europe soon.
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Europe
Augusta
George Lowe
Alexander Rosas
Pinehurst
Davie Olgivie
Alexander Herd
England
Aiken
New York
Suit to Foreclose Involving Chicago Terminal Railway
Bondholders allege insolvency as United States Trust Company of New York and John A. Stewart file a federal suit in Indianapolis seeking foreclosure of Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad Company mortgage bonds issued in 1897. Multiple railroads named as defendants to restrain claims on property. $16.5 million bond authorization, $15.195 million issued, interest payments in arrears since Jan 1, 1906.
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Chicago Terminal Railway Company
Indianapolis
Ind
United States Trust Company
New York
John A. Stewart
Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad Company
Baltimore and Ohio
Chicago
Burlington and Quincy
Pere Marquette
Milwaukee
Paul
Pennsylvania
President Holds Two Jobs In Lehigh Coal Firm
Philadelphia February 27 President Lenda A Riley and the old board of directors of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company were reelected at the annual meeting. Riley faced opposition from some stockholders but won 314233 votes of 46900 total. He disclosed a 20100 salary as Lehigh Coal president and 5000 as president of Lehigh and Judson, while noting interest in several coal ventures. Riley cited company profits of 22 cents per ton of coal mined.
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Philadelphia
Lenda A. Riley
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
Riley
George H. Farle, Jr
Lehigh and Judson Company
Kiley
Manchester Spinners Commission to Study U S Cotton Trade
The cotton spinners of Manchester England appoint a commission to visit the United States and study baling marketing and transport of raw cotton. They aim to determine commercial cotton growing costs in the Southern States and expect to be joined by American spinners. The group forms March 4 and will attend the Washington planters and spinners conference on May 1.
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Manchester
United States
England
Planters and Spinners
Washington
Santa Fe plans $17 296 000 bond issue to upgrade Overland Line
San Francisco February 27 President E P Ripley of the Santa Fe announces a proposed fifty year 4 percent bond issue totaling 17 296 000 dollars. The funds will complete last year s 60 000 000 authorization and will finance California over land improvements including grade reductions cut offs and a second main line track. The second track has partly extended from Chicago. Also included are various commodity price notices and market tidbits from New York and Chicago listings.
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San Francisco
E. P. Ripley
Santa Fe
California
Chicago
Washington Produce Prices Rise Amid Light Receipts
Markets report tighter supplies and rising prices across eggs cheese and poultry. Fresh Virginia eggs reach 1544 16% and 15% in other lots while buttercreamery gains on light receipts. dairy and dressed poultry show firm demand with minor price advances across multiple grades.
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New York
Florida
Minnesota
Aldstead Cordova
Wnearby
Virginia
Southern
Butthr
Western
New York State
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West and
Buldle
Pr. A. Pl Varndon
Genson M. Wilson
Cte Hoard of Trades
John W. Douglass
Tore Cormessioner
Mes. Lieary J. Weel
Ruthard Parker
Upt
J. Bf Travis Pivang4 Pret
Rabbi Stern
Jonas Larner
Percy M. Doughes
Nights
J. Aa. Chammberlaint
Bowerman
de Heleman
James If Wrst
Allan da Drwipal
Schol
Cumimssinter
Sune
DP Wien
Cena
Teuton
OW Woodward
Iuun
Jeden
Ber Cals
Congress
Ogden
Charlies Sumnerwell
Association
Gordon
Committee On Appropriations
M-Creary
Longfellow
Idk
Allan Davis
Tusiness High School
Percy M. Hughes
Richard Kingsman
E. 5. Parker
A. Jones
Arthur G. Newinger
Eb R. WA. Porterfield
P. Corbett
H. A. Works
Lampstar Smith
James Fitzpatrick, Jr
W. C. Blast
J M Fincher
Stanley Fischer
Paul E. Sleman
N. Fischer
Herbert Rich
J. Homer Smith
James
W. Uamaler
Lee G. Loughran
A W. Miller
James E. West
J. Lester Brooks
BL. Thurston
J. W. Mansing
J. Suter
James B. Lackey
L . Kimper
M. Boernstein
A. C. Fleher
B. Stanley Simmons
Fryer
Hon. H
F Maclarland
John Nimmo
William King
T. Lemon
W. P. Wood
N. T. Hinson
C. A. Shannon
BR. D Danials
Speare
ES. Elliott
Fanb Charch
Mars
Grace L. Hurlbut
May Vo Wurlbuc
Pearl Kreuer
H.R. Bunch
Vayo
Ada W. Connor
B. Boernstédin
Mignette Curtis
Augela Ridgler
B. Wilmoth
Irene Dietrich
A. Davis
Hf. E. Stringer
M. Thacher
I Gans
J. €. Suter
Meg
Fisher
Hilectrie Bitters
Runkel Brothers
Sand Chocolate Manufacturers
Adam
Lowe
Brookland
John W. Crome
Crome
Teducell
Downington
John Cohen
Thirty-sixth Street
O’brien
Third Precinct
Cohen
Washington Produce
Washington Post
J. de Moll & Co
Hardman
Sanders & Stayman Go
Weber Pianola
Pianola
Wm. Knabe & Co
Knabe
Charles M. Stieff
Stief
E. F. Creep & Sons Cs
Secoma
F. G. Smith Piano Co
Bradbury Ideal
Apollo
Bradbury
Apollo Music
Washington, D. C
Thamas
Vance
Washington Paih
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Jt Post
Ashingary
Allan
Asking Post
K. Lis. Iel
Beecham
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