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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1906
Page
5
Architects project a $14.1 million union station at Capitel Hill with a central plaza and a novel umbrella shed option. They expect readiness by late January, after addressing track divisions, labor, and material risks amid debate over weather protection and Capitol Dome impact.
A late 1900s collection of notices includes ATSONAL BANK of Kington Db with board meeting details and shareholding notes, Mutual Fire Insurance District of Washington and Columbia, with dates for meetings and official statements, plus weather and public notices.
A Washington note highlights Hattie M. Shacklette offering scalp and complexion treatments for women and children at 4 F Street. Hartung Dairy advertises KKK cream, safe dairy practices, and party ice cream services with twice daily deliveries. The Wonderful Electric Vibro Massage is promoted as improving scalp circulation at a single location on TAT 2p street.
In United States Steel offices a young man animates numbers by calculating tin horn production for New York's New Year revelry. He estimates 200,000 horns as a base, then traces plant output, sheet sizes, and weekly shifts at American Tin Plate Company to show annual material flow, salvage, and international shipping of tin plate amid New York's post festival debris.
In Lexington Kentucky Sarah Williams a colored woman who shot and killed Carrie Taylor a white woman was yesterday allowed to enter a confession in the Circuit Court and was given a life sentence in the penitentiary. The sentence is said to be unprecedented in a Kentucky court and officials fear trouble akin to Vermont Mary Roage_INC.
District engineers urge a city wide naming scheme for highway extensions to standardize street names across suburbs. The plan replaces duplications such as multiple Joliet and Oak streets with a unified lettered to numbered system, aligning with city streets to reduce confusion and improve civic beauty.
Survey records reflect a city wide shift to a unified street naming system. Enacted by Congress February 16, 194, the changes affect both downtown and the Colombian University subdivision with Belmont Chapin Douglas and other names now official. Post offices and merchants notified, directory publishing underway.
A Zurich plant converts oily garbage into electricity by burning it in twelve furnaces with heated air from blowers. Heat drives steam to run a dynamo, supplying the plant and part of the city’s electric railroads. Slag remaining after combustion is mixed with lime to make bricks and paving blocks.
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