Court Items and Indictments Highlight Washington Docket
Charles Craughn, chauffeur in the fatal Sixteenth Street crash, was released by order of Chief Justice Clabaugh after promising to answer any grand jury action. In other cases, Harry Godfrey and George Wilson pleaded guilty to thefts and received jail terms. The grand jury indicted multiple defendants for robbery, larceny, and assault, while a traffic violation charge against a chauffeur was upheld. Emma Reed’s will was probated, naming her husband as life tenant and detailing shares for twelve nieces and nephews, with a codicil appointing A. S. Caywood as executor after the husband’s death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Craughn
Pattie Lyle Collins
Santa Claug
Post Office Department
Sixteenth
H Streets
Clabaugh
Harry Godfrey
United States
Police Court
William Dawson
Wolf Bush
Pugh
George Wilson
New York
Catherine Hunter
N Street
Northwest
Wilson
Baltimore
Lavallleres
Charles Bailey
John McDonald
William McNeal
John B. Williams
Francis Johnson
Ernest Culbert
James Porter
Joseph Washington
Clarence Hail
Arthur G. Davis
Joseph L. Bateman
William H. Caldwell
Emma Fr. Reed
James H. Reed
Columbia Road Northwest
Massachusetts Avenue Northwest
Statieg
A. 8
Caywood
City Bulletins Mixed Grocery and Local Notices
Five package lists include macaroni two cents and other prices for canned goods, breakfast items, and produce from J. T. D. Pylea Stores Eureka Basket Co and Bear 1217 D St Sw. Street baskets offered. race memories noted as sensational today. Kathryn at five cents. Perfection In Oyster Cooking promoted at Oyster and Chop House 618 Lith Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eureka Basket Co
Bear
D St
Fri
Kathryn
Disease scares prompt school board on sanitation and staffing
The board of education heard parents plead for medical inspections to curb deadly diseases in public schools and discussed installing sanitary towels, with paper towels as a costlier alternative. Stephen B. Kramer was unanimously elected assistant superintendent, succeeding Thurston’s promotion to superintendent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. L. Ransome
Parents’ League of
J. M. Michaelson
League
Board of Education
Franklin Building
Stephen B. Kramer
Kramer
HB Ll. Thurston
W. M Davidson
Centr High School
Emory Wren
Central High
Thurston
Ransome
Michaelson
Morgan and
Ross
John B. Larner
Metropolitan Club
J. N. Burton
M. Hi. Moulton
B.8. Jacobs
Hugh Phillips
Ainsworth Rucker
Stevens School
I. D. Morton
C. V. Tippett
Deanwood
V. Hi, Willams
Reno
WN. B. Staley
Birney
E. A. Matthews
Ambush
C. H. Murdock
Mra
C. W Wilkinson
Elmer Kerper
Peabody
Thomas Hattaway
Webster
William Spencer
Phillips
Corcoran
E. A. O'Neil
Congress Heights
W. M. Carey
Lincoln
L. B. Hoover
M. B. Lawrence
N. A. Stinemetz
W. W. Griffith
University Bequest Puzzle Aims at Court Instruction
George Washington University seeks the District Supreme Court's guidance on a $10,000 bequest from Eleanor J. Cooper to fund malaria research once linked to sewer gas. The will declares the fund perpetual and to support a research lab, but sewer gas has since been shown not to cause malaria. Attorneys Clephane & Clephane filed the petition against Attorney General McReynolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington University
Columbian University
District Supreme Court
Eleanor J. Cooper
New York City
Clephane
McReynolds
Ig Ae Tollews
Medical Department of
Washington, D. C
Fight On New Fare Likely in Bethesda District
Residents of Somerset Drummond and Friendship Heights plan an appeal to the Interstate Commerce Commission to block Washington Railway and Electric Company from enforcing a 5 cent fare between Somerset and the District line starting February 1. A mass meeting at 3 PM Friday at Richard Ough’s home in Friendship Heights is called, with further meetings likely to follow as officials prepare to seek commission approval for the extra fare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethesda
Pailway Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Somerset
Drummond
Friendship Heights
Washington Railway, and Electric Company
Bethesda District
Richard Ough
W. F. Ham
Red Cross Receives $10000 for Bulgarian Relief
Ten thousand dollars, received yesterday from the Rockefeller Foundation in New York, will be forwarded by the American Red Cross Society to aid the American Bulgarian committee in Sofia. Five thousand dollars was recently cabled to Bulgarian authorities. Reports from Sofia show severe Bulgarian suffering from food shortages and Balkan war conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockefeller Foundation
New York
American Red Cross Society
Sofia
Red Cross
Deaths Recorded in Local Hospitals and Homes
List of individuals with ages and birthplaces including Caroline Littleton a government inmate aged 7 years and others in hospitals such as Tuberculosis and Sibley Providence and Freedmen s Hospital. Notables include Sophia Pratt 65 at Sibley Hospital and Everett Strother 20 at Freedmen s Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caroline Littleton
Anna M Rock
St Now
Virginia Simmons
Lewis Brandt
Arthur Nichole
Francis Graham
Georges Washington University
Ospital
Joseph J. Mingort, Jr
Ann DE. Patterson
William Lyons
Courtney G. Glenn
Sophia Pratt
Sibley Hospital
Allen I. Berry
Swann Sinn
Catherine Bell
Providence Hospital
Joseph F McGee
Park
Maria I. Lynch
Pa Ave
War G Crawford
Ga Ave
Hiram Brodas
Westley Smith
Alice J. Gant
20Th St. Nw
William A Lavalette
12Th St No
Ann E. Magrudar
St Sw
James Dent
Eastern Branch
Fotomee River
Everett Strother
Freedmen's
Births Reported For Staunton and Nearby Areas
Multiple birth notices list couples from Staunton Virginia and surrounding locales including Philadelphia Boston Culpeper and Washington with parents George Scheels Margaret Scheels Arthur Milter Hibbert Haistipp and Haistipp James Johnson Georgiana Chase Banks Luther Rosserman and Cordelia Tribbett plus Mont gomery Ruppell Thompson Coates Weaver and others. Fragments indicate names ages and officiating reverends among the listed couples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gestano
Vincenzo Tozzolo
George A
Margaret C Scheels
Arthur G
Bessie B. Milter
Howard H
Lena A Hibbert
Joseph
Ide M. Haistipp
David D
Lucea Collins
John
Sarah Crawford
John H
Harrist
B. Bangs
James J
Phyllis C. Johnson
Georgiana Chase
James L
Vanhetter Banks
Luther
B. Rosserman
Cordelia B.tribbett
Staunton
FT. H. Dunham
Franklin
Weaver
Helma M. Bug
Philadelphia
Montgomery
Alpert G. Ruppell
Helen M. Thompson
C.E Wheeler
Dick Coates Weaver
Boston
J. J. Buhrer
Robert L. Lasseter
Coralee Strann
Louisa County
Carbelic acid mix harms woman in hospital shock
Mrs Bessie Canfield of 652 Ei street northeast is in serious condition at Casualty Hospital after mistaking carbelic acid for cough medicine. She sustained internal burns and facial injuries after spilling the acid in fright. Police report speeding motormen and a collision near the District line and Fifth and M streets details follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bessie Canfield
Ei Street
Canfield
Casualty Hospital
Also Mentioned on This Page
District National Bank Service
Mr. Lodge
Robert N. Harper
Edymlads
Wolfe
Hestor R. Walters
Savings Dept
Wits
C. A. Muddiman & CO
Foot
Georges & Son, Inc
St.n.w
H. N. D. Parker
St. N.W
Wash
D.C
Riterion
John T. Crowley
M. Sree
Byron
Adams
St. N. Ww
Thorp
Berkeley Rye
F Street N
Heurich Brewing Co
National Electrical Supply CO
MN. EL C As
Judd & Detweiler, Inc
Elk Grove
Golden & Co
la. Ave
Masda
Information
Potomac Electric Power Co
C Sts. N. W
City Bulletins
J. T. D. Pylea
Henry P. Blair
Secretary of War
Army
National Capital Dental Society
Congress of
Richmond
J. J .Cardoza
W. A. Magruder
Genevieve Burke
Briggs
William Mann
600 Street
Eckington Place
Mina C. W. Arnold
Harrison
Eaton
L. A. Barbour
B. B. French
Deanwood School
McKinney Manual Training School
William T. Galither
Edith Kingman Kern
Ernest H. Deniel
Ernest I. Thurston
Business High School
Susie Root Rhodes
Stephen &. Eramer
ER Mee EY
University
West 435
Abner-Drury Brewing Company
Royal Pilsen
Old Glory
Burgaria
Police
Bernard Geyer
Benning
Edward Hesse
David Knight
Baltimore and Annapolis
Ninth Precinct
Geyer
Hengel
Knight
al Three
Marine Barracks
Brooklyn
Frederick W. Wilson
M. C
Tittle
Eunice
Highth Street
William T. Levi
Bricklayers’ Union
Joseph J. Mingon
I Street
Allegheny Coal Company
Katherine Mann
Myrtle Street
M. M. Stern
Seventh Street
H. A. Hormer
Hi Street
First Street
Thomas Miller
Hremedy
Grover Graham
McDermott
S. Grover Graham Company
Newchurgh
N. Y
Riker Hegeman
People’s Drug Store
Affleck’s
Ers
Aimee Crocker Gouraud
the Sunday Post
Jessie McCann
Gen. Sigel
Post
Prof. Rice
Durian Hawthorne
Atlanta Fideral Penitentiary
Sunday Post
Elbert Hub
Samuel Armstrong Hamilton
Miriam Bitting-Kennedy
Pacific Coast
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