Fire rules for Washington 5 cent theaters after Boyertown blaze
Fire officials tighten limits on five cent shows with two exits and fire resistant curtains. In Washington the number of operating moving picture theatres rose from 3 to 21 since last October. Daily audiences surpass 15,000 with 80 percent over eighteen and 20 percent middle aged. women and aliris remain about one fifth of attendees.
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Boyertown
Washington
Chief Belt
East Capitol Street
Stock broker sued over unaccounted funds
Harry Hermanns sues I Q Wilson a stock broker at F Street Northwest in District Supreme Court for 395 dollars balance on recent stock deals. Hermanns had placed 950 dollars to buy shares in Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad American Smelting and others, claiming 576 dollars lost and asking court intervention for an auditing of accounts and a money decree if owed.
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J. C. Wilson
I. Q. Wilson
F Street
Northwest
District Supreme Court
Harry Hermanns
M. Hermanns
Wilson
Chicago
Milwaukee, and St. Paul
American Smelting Company
Hai- Tuanna E
Kermanak
Lim
Ketchum School Building Nears Final Steps
The Ketchum public school at Harrison and Adams streets Anacostia is completed with a $45000 cost. Building Inspector Snowden Ashford recommended an inspection before official acceptance. Plans for two sixteen room and one twelve room buildings with bids to be invited soon total about $100000, with sites near Howard University Washington Heights and Southwest Washington.
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Harrison and
Adams Streets
Anacostia
Snowden Ashford
Howard University
Washington Ireights
Washington
Hearing on Liquor Bill at District Building this morning
Public hearing on district prohibition and liquor bills before Congress to consider absolute prohibition at the District local option and Union Station sale ban. Delegations expected. Commissioner Macfarland urges spokesmen. Licenses issued to numerous individuals to operate motor vehicles in the District including members of Soldiers' Home Congress Hall Hotel and several street addresses.
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Congress
Sims
Tennessee
Lamb
Virginia
Heary
Alabama
Union Station
Macfarland
Lcenses
Michael Bocask
Albert G Collins
Irving Street
W B Craig
Congress Hall
H J. Cresson
M Street
Charles Donald
van Ness Park
Sanne
Duvall
Church Street
C. I Terrell
Fourteenth Street
Joseph Fitzgerald
Eleventh Street
William G Gross
Seaton Street
Arthur R Haen
Twenty Second Street
J.C Matcher
Second Street
Ben Johnson
Cochran
Laster L. Kahlert
Maryland Avenue
J. A.D McCurdy
Connecticut Avenue
William A Marburg
Ninth Street
Thomas Millington
L Pettus
War Department
Barton Rees
Rexford M Smith
New Berne
William Smith
Massachusetts Avenue
Charles Spencer
The
Washington Times
Joseph F.storey
George FL. Washington
City Post Office
BJ. Werner
Salt to Recover Damages From Hyde in District Supreme Court
Virginia H. Bovee sues Thomas Hyde in the District Supreme Court seeking $1000 in damages. She operates a Turkish Bath establishment next to Hyde's property. She alleges that recent repairs on Hyde's adjacent premises caused her flora to sink and frames to slip, reducing business.
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District Supreme Court
Virginia H. Bovee
Thomas Hyde
Platinom
Mr. Hyde
West Improves Slowly After Hospital Operation
Commissioner West, operated on at Providence Hospital Monday for a stomach trouble, remains weak but is gradually improving. The serious operation likely keeps him from returning to District Building duties for about three weeks. Mrs Dizabeth Kohler’s will filed for probate names Ferdinand Schmidt as executor and leaves most property to relatives including Rose Faulener, Willam Michelbacker, and George J. Mihelbacker.
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West
Commissioner West
Providence Hospital
Kohler
Dizabeth Kohler
Ferdinand Schmidt
Rose Faulener
Willam Michelbacker
George J. Mihelbacker
Will test whisky law in United States case in court
District Attorney Baker files a bill against James Clark Distilling Company seeking a ruling on what qualifies as whisky under the pure food law. Thirty eight barrels of whisky seized as misbranded await decision. The National Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association backs the defendant in this test case.
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United States
Baker
James Clark Distilling Company
Tia
National Wholesale Liquor Dealers’ Association
Warwick Hough
Bonaparte
Hough
Colton Domicile Gave Up in Ongoing Will Dispute
Witnesses testified in a District Supreme Court trial over Ellen M Colton’s will. The estate totals more than 1.06 million dollars with a granddaughter Helen Margaret Beatrice Sacher challenging probate, alleging Mrs Colton’s domicile was in California rather than Washington.
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Justice Barnard
District Supreme Court
Ellen M Colton
Helen Margaret Beatrice Sacher
Siegfried Sacher
Paris
Colton
John B. Dahlgren
California
Donaldson
Catifernia
Washington
Connecticut Avenue
Europe
Mrs Thornton
Miss Thornton
Sacher
Dahlgren
Santa Cruz
Cal
Grip Epidemic Declines Amid Fewer Deaths and Borns Rise
The weekly health report shows grip deaths down to fourteen from the prior week with sixteen fewer total deaths. Pneumonia deaths dropped to twelve while total deaths reached 125, births totaled 172 with whites majority. Also listed are elected trustees and officers for Equitable Industrial Life Insurance Company and a batch of prisoners sent to Atlanta federal prison under recent orders.
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Grip
Washington
District Health Office
Woodward
District Criminal Courts
Awd
Atlanta
Wardan Urner
Barnata
Mrs Smith Granted Absolute Divorce in Equity Court
Mrs Mery E Smith of 1124 Florida Avenue Northwest was granted an absolute divorce yesterday from Willem H Smith formerly a messenger at the Tracers National Bank. The decree was signed by Justice Gould in Equity Court No 2 and cites huddleity as the grounds, with the couple married an Acrilist and proceedings about a year ago.
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Smith
Mery E. Smith
Florida Avenue Northwest
Willem H. Smith
Tracers
Natonal Bank
Justice Gould
Equity Court No 2
Washington Chamber of Commerce selects Brentano building as temporary headquarters
The Washington Chamber of Commerce board decided to rent the Brentano building corner Twelfth and F streets as temporary headquarters until a permanent home is secured. They plan clublike furnishings, social activities, and meetings in the new space, with several thousand dollars allocated for furnishing. They also urged newspapers to pursue smoke law legislation and discussed civil service testing for census job hires, elections for secretary and treasurer, and member growth to 331 paid-up members.
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Washington Chamber of Commerce
Intual
Gude
F Street
Committee On
Arthur C. Moses
Brentano Building
Twelfth
F Streets
Uniil
2. K. Guy
John L. Weaver
A. C. Moses
Washington
Committee On Law
Census Bureau
A. Llaner
Wm. F. Gude
Harper
Chamber
A. Lisner
Louis J. Silverman
Adem A. Wenchler
George W. Stuart
Eugene A. Jones
John G. Pattee
B . Barnes
Citizens’ Associations
Chamber of Commerce
District police short of men and funding cited
Commissioner Macfarland told Representative Sims that Maj Sylvester reported the force is inadequate not inefficient. He said before recent holdups the Commissioners sought an appropriation for 10 additional patrolmen. The district covers seventy square miles, larger than any city of 351000 inhabitants, with extra guard for embassies and the national government reducing street policing levels.
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Sims
Tennessee
Macfarland
Maj. Sylvester
Jusserand to Speak in New York and Grand Rapids
French Ambassador Jusserand will give three speeches soon. He will address the Automobile Club in New York City on January 26 about France as the Mother of Automobiles and, on January 28, attend a medal presentation to Mayor George B. McClellan for beautifying New York. He will speak on Abraham Lincoln in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on February 12.
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New York
Michigan
Jusserand
France
New York City
Grand Rapids
Midh
Automobile Club
George B McClellan
Jusserand Willl
Abraham Lincoln
Mich
Funeral of Mrs Bristol Led by Church Elders in Washington
The funeral for Mrs Angeline Bristol mother of Dr Frank M Bristol pastor of the Metropolitan M E Church was held at the family home on C Street Northwest yesterday at 1 pm. Dr Bristol accompanied the casket to Kan kakée where burial will occur. Alfred H Ames elder in the church presided with Rev J W Sumwall assisting as presiding elder of the Washington district.
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Angeline Bristol
Frank M. Bristol
Metropolitan M. E Church
C C Street
Bristol
Kankakée
Alfred H Ames
J W. R Sumwall
Washington
Painter Killed by Fall at Patten Hotel
James A. Noyes of 404 South Capitol Street reports his son Howard J. Noyes 22 died in a fall at the Patten Hotel on Tuesday while working as a painter and decorator. The father arranged for the body to be sent home from Chattanooga. A separate item notes a Washington Post educational contest offering $500 in cash prizes and 26 prizes, with instructions to order the paper by postal card or phone.
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James A. Noyes
South Capitol Street
Howard J. Noyes
Chattanooga
Tenn
Patten Hotel
Washington
Washington Post
Government Printing Costs Investigated for Printing Reduction
Dr. George C Havenner directs a Roosevelt ordered inquiry into whether department printing volumes and total expenses have fallen, and if costs have increased under Mr. Stillings. The probe aims to compare current expenditures with several years ago and assess department reports on printing trends.
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Roosevelt
George C. Havenner
Department of Commerce and Labor
Pub Hc
Stirlings
Government Printing Office
Stillings
Tyler Relics Distributed Under Mrs Semple Will
Mrs Letitia Tyler Semple widow of President Tyler who died recently in this city left a will executed in 1902. Provisions include educational bequests for Louis A Jones and Thomas G W Settle at William and Mary and sale of an 80 year old Venetian cabinet for education funds. A large oil painting of Mrs Semples mother goes to the Virginia governor for display in the Richmond executive mansion. Other items include chairs from President Tyler office and a portrait of Gov Tyler to E Gordon Schooley. Executor is Curtis Edwin Gresham. estate valued in the thousands.
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Letitia Tyler Semple
President Tyler
White House
Louise
Semple
William and Mary Powers
Willamsburg
Venice
Council of Ten
Louis A. Jones
Swanson
Herhalf
Virginia
Tylersoffee
Mary ‘Eyler
Key John P. ‘Eyler
Church of the Advent of Philadelphia
Cupid
Grace Scott Tyler
Ballle Gresham Jones
I Street
Curtis Edwin Gresham
Bond
Nash W. Barksdale
Fireman Loses Arm In Narrow Baltimore Line Collision
Edwin McNamara a Baltimore and Ohio fireman lost his right arm yesterday morning when leaning from the cab at First and IX streets northeast as two engines passed a switch. A collision was narrowly avoided as the trains came within three inches. McNamara, 28, of 48 Q street northwest, was taken to Casualty Hospital where an operation was performed. doctors report his condition critical.
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Edwin McNamara
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
First
McNamara
Casality Hospital
Q Street
City Bulletins and Local Advertisements
A compact collage of product prices and notices from various vendors. Items include canned foods and groceries such as Butter 2c, Cheese 9c, Sardines 8 1 2c, Tomatoes, and Apple Butter, plus beauty and health products like Satin skin cream and olive oil. Also references to a local bottling company, bread, and malt bread marketing, a gas light sale, and loan offers from Mercantile Society with a contact at 3006 B St. NW.
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Connecticut
Atkinson
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Mets
Ray
House & Herrmann
N. W
Prince Albert
Chas. Kaufman & Sons
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Espey
John
Munyon
Ketchum School
Last
Whisky
Clark Company
Risoners
Merchants’ Transfer & Storage Co
M. GK
Mr, Jusserand
Kankakee
Painter
Tyler Relics Distributed
City Bulletins
India
Herseradiah
D. Byles
Heartch’s Beer
Myerson
Senate—brewery
Bottlin Arlington Bottling ‘Company
Same Old Place
W. i
Schneider
Fe Jong
Gatt
Mercantile Society
Muddiman & CO
D. J. Kaufman
Pa. Ave
Washington, DC
Heurich
Liege
Jamestown
Maerzen
Senate
Heurich Brewing Co
Sts
W. L. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
W.L. Douglas
W.L Douglas, Rege Mass
W.L. Douglas Shoe Store
Pennsylvania Avenue
Nel Nokal
Iil Teks
Vigtore
Adler Sere
Wood
T. W. Wood & Sons, Seedsmen
Richmond, Ya
Burchell
N. W. Burchell
Friedlander Bros. Cor
Royal Pilsen
Abner-Drury Brewing Co
Phones West
Kerth
Potomac
Tric Light
Science
Castelberg’s
Jewelers
Opticians
Duffy
Uty
Rochester
Cravenette
Goodyear Raincoat Co
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