District Attorney Alleges Misrepresentation in Medicine Case
District Attorney Baker filed charges alleging a medicine sold as a headache remedy misrepresentedits labeling is misleading. Robert N Harper posted 1000 bond as trial slated in February with several drug firms named in equity suits. hundreds of bottles seized. Also notes Rev Dr Denis J Stafford will probate with estate around 310,000 bequests to two orphan asylums and Catholic University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baker
Robert N. Harper
Harper
Equity Court
Abels
Temple Drug and Pharmacy Company
Ninth
F Streets
Stone & Poole
Pennsylvania Avenue
Henry Evans
F Street
T. B. Ogram
Thirteenth Street
Denis J. Stafford
St. Patrick's Church
Stafford
St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum
St. Joseph's Male
W. J. Carrol
St. Patrick’s Church
Cardinal Gibbons
Baltimore
St Patrick's Church
Helen C. Whitten
Dr. Staffords
Margaret Statfort
Mrs. Whitten
Grip prevalence and cautious measures reduce winter spread
Washington faces a high grip burden this winter with above average deaths. Dr Woodward cautions that cold weather alone won't curb the disease and that repeated precautions reduce spread from contagious nasal excretions. Health records show easing deaths as cold weather closes in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Woodward
Five Cases of Smallpox Reported in Washington
Five smallpox cases were found in Washington yesterday, four in the southwest area and one involving Carl P Vitz, assistant librarian at the Carnegie Public Library. The library is closed for disinfection, 63 employees vaccinated, and Vitz sent to the smallpox hospital.
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Washington
Southwest
Carl P Vitz
Carnegie Public Library
Woodward
Vitz
Smallnox Hospital
Ilinois
Addie T Stewart
Prat Street
George H Smnks
Third Street
John Buchannan
M Street
Juan Brown
District hearing postponed to January 23 at 10.4
The District Commissioners delayed a public hearing on bans and tax measures for alcohol in the District. The meeting moved from tomorrow to Thursday January 23 at 10 40 am due to Commissioner Morrow's congressional testimony and possible absence of Commissioner West because of illness. The House bill to prevent sale of intoxicating liquors in the District will also be reviewed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oclouck
West
Sloan
G St
M. N. Hekimian & Co
N’s Art Galleries
Ednesday
Kermanshah
Bokhara
Iran
Mecca
Daghestan
Tabriz
Hekimian
Lath
M N Hekimian & CO
Sealer Haskell Reports Case Against Flour Seller
Sealer of weights and measures Col W C Haskell told Commissioners that four customers filed charges in Police Court yesterday against H Kays local manager of the Washburn Crosby Milling Co Minneapolis Minnesota for sale of flour of short weight. He said he had notified Mr Kays of the complaints but that district commodity laws seem to have been disregarded.
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Sealer Haskell
W. C. Haskell
H Kays
Washburn-Crosby Milling Company
Minneapolis
Permit Approved for Railway Line Construction
Engineer Commissioner Morrow yesterday approved the Washington Spa Spring and Gretta Railroad Company permit to begin work on the line. A $500 deposit is required before issuance, with construction along lines approved by the Engineer Commissioner. The electric railway will run along Bladensburg road from H Street to the District line. Will Address Social Service Club. Peter Witt, city clerk of Cleveland, Ohio, will speak at the Young Men’s Christian Association assembly hall this evening under the Social Service Club auspices, displaying about seventy stereopticon views of Cleveland’s progress under Mayor Tom L. Johnson. Macfarland spoke in Montreal on Monday on “The National Capital of the United States” before the Canadian Club and guests. Decorators noted Flowers for Receptions by Gude Lad F.
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Morrow
Washington, Spa Spring
Peter Witt
Cleveland
Ohio
Young Men's Christian Association
Witt
Tom L. Johnson
Macfarland
Montreal
United States
Pennsylvania Railroad
Washington
Baltimore
Philadelphia
New York
Boston
Rochester
Buffalo
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Oil City
Pennsylvania
B. M. Newbold
15Th and
G Streets
N. W
Washington, D.C
Justice Delayed in Land Fraud Trial Until Funds Arrive
Justice Stafford set March 16 for the land fraud trial of Hyde Limond Benson and Schneider in Criminal Court No 1. A further postponement hinges on a Congress appropriation of about 50 000 to cover trial expenses. Defense attorneys Worthington Golden Donaldson and Birney intend to bring over a hundred witnesses from distant western states to Washington.
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Stafford
District Supreme Court
Hyde, Limond, Benson
Schneider
Congress
Department of Justice
Worthington
R. Golden Donaldson
A A Birney
Washington
Funeral of Maj Hart Civil War veteran in Washington
The funeral of Maj James P. Hart a Civil War veteran who died Sunday was held from 621 Maryland Avenue NE at 1 pm. Dr Easton of Eastern Presbyterian Church officiated. Interment followed at Arlington with pallbearers former comrades Capt T McKer Capt B F Hasson Maj S L Wilson Maj B F Billett and Messrs Sprowies and Littejohn. Survived by wife Lida A Hart and eight children Anna Isabel Etta David Ringgokd Clara Hayward Griffin and M J Paxton Hart.
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James P. Hart
Maryland Avenue
Dr. Easton
Eastern Presbyterian Church
New York
Arlington
Hart
T. St MeKer
B. F. Hasson
L. Wilson
B. F. Billett
Mesers. Sprowies
Littejohn
Maj. Hart
Washington, Pa
Lida A. Hart
Anna C
Isabel M
Etta G
David Aiken
Ringgokd
Clara Hart
Washington
Hayward C. Griffin
Almona, Pa
M. J. Paxton Hart
Wilkingburg, Pa
Sues Railway for Damages in District Supreme Court
Charles W. Neilson a cabinet maker of 1217 G street northeast sued the Washington Alexandria and Mt Vernon Railway Company and the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad Company in the District Supreme Court for 10 dollars damages claiming injuries from a collision at Fourteenth and B streets several months ago. Ann Eliza Patterson also sued the District of Columbia and the Capital Traction Company in the District Supreme Court for 10 thousand dollars alleging a fall over an excavation on August 12 near Pennsylvania Avenue and Thirteenth street that broke her collarbone due to lack of warning.
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Sues Railway
Charles W. Neilson
G Street
Sait
District Supreme Court
Washington, Alexandria and Mt Vernon Railway Company
Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad Company
Fourteenth
B Streets
Donnelly's
4Th & I
Capital ‘Traction Company
Ann Eliza Patterson
District of Columbia
Capital Traction Company
Hff
Pennsylvania Avenue
Thirteenth Street
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Health Office
Weather Bureau
Grace
A.F
Bornot, Bro. & CO
Potomac
Nants
MEM Rosner Ols PA. Ave
Hepes
Tabre
Gude, Lad F
the Gallery of Foreign Arts
Gallery of Foreign Arts
Dupont Circle
Justice
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company
Washington D.C
India
Polk Miller
Prea Polk Miller Drug Co
Main St
Richmond
People’s Pharmacy
Affieck’s
Panve- Lehmid
Cloczewski Pharmacy
City Bulletins
Upham
A. Muddiman &Co
J. T. D. Pyles
Great Bear Spring
11Th St
Phona Main
Hearth’s
Maerzen and
Senate—brewery
Arlington Bottling Company
Donnelly Idth and
Merchants’ Transfer & Storage Co
BE Street
Bulletin
Fourteenth ST NW
Eva Ee
Nee Repeating Rif Walford’s
Sporting and Athletic Goods
Pennsylvania Ave
Chas. Kaufman & Sons
Seventh St
Friedlander
Ste
Iere
America
D. J. Kaufman
Pa. Ave
A. Herman Sons CO
7Th Street
Cor
Prince Albert
Thorp
Berkeley Rye
F St. N. W
Castelberg’s
Jewelers
Opticians
Penna
Ave
United Cloak Company
Goodyear Company
12Th
Washington Post Building
Victor E. Adler
Ster
Masa
Maerzen
Senate
Heurich
Paris
Liege
Jamestown
Heurich Brewing CO
Burchell
N.W. Burchell
Seer
Keelet Instituts
Capitol Street
Washington, D. C
Lagey
North Wowhe
Washington Gaslight Co
Tenth Street N. W
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