City Commissioners Push Street Cleaning Funds Use
Commissioner West ordered extra street cleaning crews to clear dirt and snow using the department budget, hoping Treasury auditors will approve. He urged Senate subcommittee chair Gallinger to change law to permit lump funding for cleaning snow and ice from crosswalks and gutters.
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West
Maj
Newall Ball
Treasury Department
Layton
Treasury
Commissioner West
Senate
Gallinger
Congress
Borns
Senator Gallinger
Macfarland
J Henry Robertson Dies In Washington Service Stint
J Henry Robertson of the surface division of the District government died at his home on 107 Seconds Street Northeast after a brief illness. Funeral plans pending under Masonic auspices. He had served over five years and captained the surface division baseball team, gathering many players in the District service. His wife, Mrs Irme Schweitzer Robertson, had married him a year ago. He was a member of Lodge No 1 AF and AM and Naval Chapter Royal Arch Masons.
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J. Henry ‘Robertson
Seconds Street
Masons
Roberteon
Mies
Irme
Schweitzer
Lodge
No. 1
7& M
Naval Chapter
Royal Arch Masons
Alec Srar
Ub OE OG
Randolph Quits Hospital Returns Home After Injury
C. C. Randolph, long admitted to Garfield Hospital for five weeks, is moved to his Eckington home with permission of the surgeon. A Rock Creek Park accident fractured his right arm and shoulder joint. He had improved recently, prompting doctors to authorize his discharge.
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Eckington
C. C. Randolph
Garfield Hospital
Eckigton
Rock Creek Park
Randolph
Uniform Receipts Urged by District Commissioners in DC
District commissioners urge a uniform warehouse receipts act to standardize collateral for bank loans. They report support from national boards and chambers, note 37 Washington storage warehouses, and stress the act’s monetary importance for Washington’s banking community.
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8. W. Smith
Conference of Commissioners of Uniform State Laws
St. Louis
Washington Board of Trade
Board of Trade and Transportation
New York City
Chambers of Commerce
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Washington
City of
Terminal Storage Company
Merchants’ Transfer and Storage Company
Security Storage Company
American Warehousemen’s Association
District of Columbia
Church Baseball Teams Planned at Eckington Presbyterian
City notices report Builders' Castle 1. C. K. A. forming two baseball teams named First and Second Builders with committees to organize. First degrees conferred on Earl Mc Gowan and Ramon Kelley. A debate arranged for February 6. Mentions a Christian symbolisms reproduction by Clarence J. Clark of Los Angeles and various local ads and notices including Army Drum Major Ludwig Jorgensen retirement and local goods offers.
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Castle
Eckington Presbyterian Church
Earl McGowan
Ramon Kelley
Clarence J. Clark
Los Angeles
Cal
Detroit Publishing Company
Detroit
Mich
Third annual Columbia Poultry and Pigeon Show set in Washington
The Columbia Poultry and Pigeon Association opens January 25 at the Old Masonic Temple in Washington with Secretary Wilson officiating. Dr Galloway will lecture on housing and breeding fowls as prizes, with pigeons and squabs also featured. Strong local support boosts premiums and exhibits from major area businesses and hotels.
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Wilson
Galloway
Olumbia Poultry and Pigeon Association
Masonic Temple
Washington
B. H. Warner
A. M. Lothrop
Milton H. Ailes
Dr. Frank Parker
H. Becker
B. H. Stinemetz & Son
F. P. May Hardware Company
Saks & Co
Edmonston & Co
Arlington Hotel
Shoreham Hotel
National Hotel
St. James Hotel
B. Rich's ‘Sons
Weebington Florist Company
Affleck’s Drug Store
House
John D Jaguins
Secretary of Agriculture
James M. Wilson
B. T. Galloway
Bureau of Plant Industry
Department of Agriculture
Spillman
Brot
W. J. Spillman
The Value of the Poultry Show and Other Rural Notes
A collection of front page tidbits includes The Value of the Poultry Show by Robert R. Lincoln, Feeding for Eggs by W Sanborn, a white coffee joke from a waiter in a foreign language context, and an item about fresh men rules at Cornell. Also mentioned are butter tasting and advertisements for Four Leaf Clover Creamery and The Perfect American Beauty fragrance.
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Office of Farm Management
Bureau of Plant Industry
Department of aAgriculture
Robert R. Lincum
Bureau of Ammal Industry
Department of Agriculture
Ege
W. Sanborn
Mulford
Ue Secretary of Agriculture
Four Leaf Clover’ Creamery
Jas. F. Oyster
Gto and
Pau
Ave
Cornell
Ithac
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Saks & Company
Pennsylvania Avenue
Seventh Street
Friedlander Bros. Cor
Oysters Direct
Nomini Oyster Co
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J. E. Rosenthal Haberdasher and Hatter
F Street
N. W
G'Donnell
Unitarian
Bouls
Fourteenth
L Streets
Ulysses G. B. Pierce
Sinday School
A. BR. Husaey
Baltimore
Young Poples Religious Union
Oriental Esoteric Center
Tharp
Berkeley Rye
St. N. W
Ommunity Silver
Avalon
Flower de Luce
Barber & Ross
Cate Aw
Randle, Highland
Capitol OF
Me Highlands
Capitol Ax Dupont Circle
Lote
BR Realty
Werkoest
Fa Opticians
Kuppenhein Attan
Sete
Witter ‘Scopt
Gall Am OF Foreign Arts
Dupont Circle
Sun Dial
Sir Thomas Lawrence
Overbeck
Modrozo
J. Henry Robertson
City Bulletins
Geo. W. Pareto
9Th St. Nw
Alo
N.Y. Ave.nw
Rosenfeld
Army
Varmy
Ludwig Jorgensen
United States Engineer Band
Engineer
Leng & Logsau
Lynn Haven Bays
Phila Oyster & Chop House
J.T. D. Pyles
Reurich
T- Muerzen
Botti Arlington Rot
Jewel and
Gax Steam Hadiators
C. A. Muddiman & Co
Ao Ith
Post
Criterion
J. T. Crowley
Astors Capital Gas Consumers Co
A. Coe
Mgr
Fairfax Dairy
Pa Ave
Secure Resulta
California
Lofta
St. N.W
Siderdys Osc
Cos
Totore
Gude
House & Herrmann
Ith & I
Eye
Sts. N.W. Somventent Credit Terns
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