Lighting Plan Considered for Key Washington Streets
Washington commissioners review Walter C. Allen plan for improved street lighting on Pennsylvania Avenue Seventh to Sixteenth Streets and Massachusetts Avenue and Sixteenth Street. Proposals include flame arc lamps on isles of safety with nightly half to full night operation and alternate lamp types to balance cost and brightness.
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Isles of Safety
Pennsylvania Avenue
Seventh
Sixteenth Streets
Mareachusettts Avenue
Walter C. Allen
Macfarland
Macfarland Poroniay
Washington
Isag
Isles
Seventh Street
Pennsylvania
Avenue
New York Avenue
Fifteenth Streets
F Street
Fifteenth Street
Treasury Building
Massachusetts Avenue
Ninth Street
Twenty-third Street
Sixteenth Street
H Street
Columbia Road
New Mains Ordered and Sewers Planned by Cosby
Commissioner Cosby issues orders directing eighty feet of Sinch water main in Genesse place between eighteenth street and Quarry road northwest and one feet of grid water main east from the dead end to Eighteenth and Fendall streets southeast. Sewers to be laid along Park road between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets. engineer Walter J. Douglas to inspect bridges in Philadelphia New York and Boston. a pipe across Fourteenth Street north of Kearney Street NE.
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Cosby
Genessse Place
Eighteenth Street
Quarry Road
U Street
Fendall
Eighteenth Streets
Park Road
Seventeenth
Eighteenth Stresta
Square
Walter J. Douglas
Pastors to Hear Senator Dolliver at City YMG
The Pastors Federation of this city will hold its first meeting since formation at 11 oclock Monday in a YMG building. Senator J. P. Dolliver of Town will deliver the address. Federation officers are Rev. J. G. Butler president Rev. J. J. Muir first vice president Rev. Wallace Radcliffe second vice president Rev. M Ross Fishburn secretary and Rev. Robert M. Moore treasurer Clergymen are invited to attend.
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Pastors’ Federation
YMG
Federation
J. P. Dolliver
Town
J. G. Butler
J. J. Muir
Wallace Radctiffe
M Ross Fishburn
Robert M. Moore
Bankruptcy Decree Sought Against Keane by Creditors
Creditors claim Thomas F. Keane owes over 815,000 and sue in District Supreme Court to adjudge him bankrupt. Petitioners Henry Ostter dinger, Simon Lewald, and Michael Keane, all of Washington and New York, allege debts exceed 16,000. Attorneys Wolz & Rosenberg represent the petitioners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas F. Keane
Michael 4. Keane
Henry T Ostterdinger
Washington
Simon Lewald
New York
District Supreme Court
Fourteenth and
City to ban sensational billboard displays
Washington officials announce an end to melodramatic posters on billboards. Commissioner West says posters featuring dancing girls corsets and nude-like figures will be removed, following a unanimous stand by city posters printers and Maj. Sylvester after talks with billboard boss John Shoemaker and a National Billposter convention. The move aims to shield youth from provocative images and brings the city in line with industry leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
West
Maj. Sylvester
John Shoemaker
Oklahoma City
Insurance law movement to set up a model for DC
A committee of the American Bar Association on Insurance Law began a drive to create a commission to draft a model statute regulating insurance companies in the District of Columbia. The group met in Raleigh with members from Nebraska Pennsylvania Washington Chicago and Texas. They plan to report to Congress for action and aim to present a plan at the ABA meeting in Detroit in August.
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District of Columbia
American Bar Association
Raleigh
Ralph W. Breckenridge
Omaha Nebr
Robert A. Marcur
Towanda Pa
William R. Vance
Washington, D. C
Robert Dunlap
Chicago
William H. Burges
el Paso
Tex
Mr. Dunlap
Nathaniel Wilson
District of Columbia Bar Association
Congress
Detroit
Two Weeks Wed Deserted in District Divorce Suit
Walter H Bouis seeks absolute divorce from Lillie M Bouis alleging marriage in Washington on June 13 1901 and desertion June 26 after three years in a Baltimore suburb. Attorneys Car rington for plaintiff report the filing in District Supreme Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter H. Bouis
Guit
District Supreme Court
Lillie M. Bouis
Washington
Baltimore
E Carrington
May E Phillips
Preston C Phillips
Ina
Hqnor
Lips
R Bennett
R Gordon Finney
Baur and Cornwall Lead in Central Detective Report
Central detectives Baur and Cornwall top the quarterly report for October to December with most arrests and largest property recovery. Barbee Vermillion O'Brien Parham and others follow. total arrests exceed twenty seven with property recovered valued around 1 440 93 dollars.
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Baur
Cornwall
Barbee
Vermillion
O'Brien
Parham
Berman
Cox
Evans
O'Dea Burlingame
Weedon
Central Office
Sues Secret Society For Expulsion In Reinstatement Plea
Frank Storry files mandamus petition seeking reinstatement after expulsion from Societa Unione e Fratestranza Italiana in Washington. He says he was notified May 14, 1907, resimitted, then charged in September with no chance to present witnesses and expelled again. Attorney George P. Hoover represents him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Societa Unione E Fratestranza Italiana
Washington
Frank Storry
George P. Hoover
City Wastes Water and Legal Judgment Sought
A district court filing by Clarence Lewis against John W Caldwell seeks a decree directing Caldwell to sell property to satisfy a $1993 judgment plus interest from May 4 197 and $860 costs. No property could be found to levy upon. Additional items note district meetings and various small ads and notices.
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District Supreme Court
Leckie
Fulton & Cox
Clarence Lewis
John W. Caldwell
Caldwell
Lema
Connecticut Republican Association
Grand Army Hell
Connecticut
Schneider
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Rosenthal
Cluett
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Potomac Electric Power
14Th Street
St. N
Barnett Vates
Friedlander Bros. Cor
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North Capitol Street
Walliington
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Emrich’s Markets
Wisconsin Ave
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M Sts
11Th Street
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Senator
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Barbar & Ross, O
Yale Laundry
New York Ave
The
Sues Secret Society
Frank Storty
Ttscan
Florida
Harris Taylor
Florida State Bar Association
St. Augustine
St Se
J TD Pyles
Phila Oyster and Chop House
Panama
Ysthmian Canal Zone
Bureau of Agriculture
McFarland
Cecil Rhodes
Yousand Son Srey
Supt
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National Metropolitan Bank
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Excise Board
Wagner
F. J. Wagner
Washington Fire Decar Ment
International Association of Fire Engineers
Col. Townsend
Col. E. B. Townsend
Mount Pleasant
Heurich's
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Arlington Bottles Company
Jewel and Gan Stem
Hong St
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Muddiman’& Co
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Stetson
Rosner
PA. Ave
Grand Canyon
Arizona
Thomas Moran
N. A
Easthampton
L. A
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Tovar Hotel
Fred Harvey
Geo. GC. Dillard, Gen. Agt
A.T &S FP. Ry
Broadway
Gallery of Foreign Arts
Dupont Circle
Directors
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Wm. Hahn & Co
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S. EB
Prince Albert
Theas
Ema
Henry Evans
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Ysters Direct
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Julius Lansburgh Co
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Berkeley
Uneeda
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Rochester
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U.S. Tr
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la. Ave
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