Gall Abattoirs Dirty District Has No Jurisdiction
Health department reports two abattoirs across the Potomac on Virginia side show insanitary conditions. Dr R Le Murray of District health office notified Acting Health Officer Henry C McKean and urged immediate action. Abattoirs supply thousands of pounds of meat to Washington and Alexandria annually.
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Washington
Alexandria
Murray
Virginia
Plante
Health Department
Potomat
Vilgins
R. le Murray
District Health Office
Henry C. McKean
Dr. Murray
Charles B. Ball
Chicago Board of Health
Sanitary Department
Bail
Chicago
McLean
Woodward
Atlantic City
Murray Wit
Maryland
Potomac
Ball
Juvenile theft and court action over two bottles of beer
Sherman Cox and John Jackson, both youths, pleaded guilty in Judge DeLacy's court to stealing two bottles of beer. Cox, 11, was sent to the National Training School for Boys after defaulting on his fine. Jackson paid his. The article contrasts local meat plant inspections with Chicago, noting Virginia plants' poorer conditions and a plan for general cleaning.
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Sherman Cox
McLean
Sherman
Virginia
Lawd
Steve
Cox
National Training School
Bogus Check Man Sought by City Detectives
Detectives Herman and Cat seek a known bogus check operator who has defrauded local merchants in the past month. A recent incident involved a man buying a suit in a Pennsylvania avenue store and paying via a $25 Westminster Bank Boston check delivered to a Fourteenth Street NW address. the bank denied any account for the signer.
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Herman
Cat
Pennsylvania Avenue
Fourteenth Street
Westminster Bank
Boston
Mass
Laughton Promoted to Auditor of Southern Railway
Hunter H. Laughton will become auditor for the entire Southern Railway system on February 1, succeeding C B Hayes who was promoted to comptrollership of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. Laughton, a young son of Richmond and Danville Railroad origin, has spent years rising from accounting to auditor of disbursements at Southern Railway. He is noted in Masonic circles.
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Southern Railway
Hunter H. Laughton
C B. Hayes
Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Mr. Laughton
Richmond and
Danville
Richmond
Laughton
Five thousand cats sent to Japan to fight plague
Five thousand cats shipped from Chicago to Kobe Japan to serve as rat destroyers in Japan. The cats are sent to aid in fighting plague spread by rodents. Further shipments are expected from the United States, per John H. Snodgrass American consul at Kobe.
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Japan
Chicago
Bureau of Manufactures
John H. Snodgrass
Kobe
City Bulletins and Divorce Report From District
District Commissioners receive thanks for use of the municipal boardroom after a conference on dependent children in Washington. A divorce is granted to Della Hanna Bridges from Benjamin M. Bridges signed by Justice Wright. Local grocers advertise weekly specials and a line of products at 7th Street NE and J. T. D. Pyles stores.
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Washington
Macfarland
Mra. Bridges
Della Hanna Bridges
Benjamin M. Bridges
Justice Wright
District Supreme Court
Mire. Bridges
Webb
House & Herrmann
N. W. Prmuan
Interstate Commerce Board Rules On Rail Fares And Refunds
The Interstate Commerce Commission announced rulings limiting special fares for transporting Chinese to deportation ports and outlining refunds on unused passenger tickets. It held that subsistence and cargo in transit for Chinese are contracts between carriers and the government, not tariff matters, and defined ton metrics for tariffs.
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Interstate,commerce Commission
Transft
Husband gets three and a half years for wife attack on fire escape
George Hibbard a machinist was sentenced to three and a half years in the penitentiary for assault with a dangerous weapon and intent to kill after stabbing Lulu Hibbard during a struggle on the fire escape at their 48 B street home on May 12. Convicted January 16 in Criminal Court No. 2 by Justice Anderson. Hibbard claimed he tried to make a home for his wife but her relatives ruined it. The court denied a new trial motion.
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George Hibbard
Lulu Hibbard
B Street
Justice Anderson
Hibbard
Anderson
Churches Plan Conference On Presbyterian Amalgamation
The New York Avenue and Washington Heights Presbyterian churches appoint committees to discuss amalgamation. A Washington Heights action authorizes four committees to confer with a downtown church committee. Next week a joint committee may be formed to detail terms and entry into consolidation. Official notice of the action was expected to be sent to the New York Avenue committee.
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New York Avenue
Washington Heights
Thomas C. Noyes
Bishop Harding to open new Chapel of the Nativity
The event marks one of Bishop Harding’s first public epiacopal duties with a formal opening tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at the Chapel of the Nativity located at Fourteenth Street and Massachusetts Avenue Southeast. Funds for construction were raised solely by the congregation and the pastor Rev. Enoch M. Thompson.
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Harding
Persian Art Lecture by Persian Consul at Society
Mirza Ali Kuli Khan, the imperial Persian consul, will lecture before the National Society of Fine Arts on the Arts of Persia. The address will be given Wednesday evening February 3 at the New Masonic Temple hall and will be fully illustrated with examples of Persian art.
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Mirza Ali Kuli Khan
National Society of Fine Arts
National Society of Fine Arte
Masonic Temple Hall
Perata
District urges new prisons and workhouse plan
The District penal commission urged Congress to enact legislation funding land tracts in Maryland or Virginia for a reformatory and a workhouse to replace the jail. A temporary complex with 100000 dollars in land and buildings is proposed, with 10000 additional for planning. Probation authority would expand to supervise convicts except for treason murder rape arson or kidnapping.
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Congress
Justice Stafford
John Joy Edson
Robert V. la Dow
Maryland
Virginia
Macfarland
Penal Commission
Courta
Federal Penitentiary
Atlanta
Workhouse
Reformatory
Typ
Washington
Commissioners of
District of Columbia
Justice Stafford sustains motion to strike libel suit
In circuit court No 1 Justice Stafford upheld the defendant The Washington Post Companys motion to strike portions of the declaration in the case Alfred Garner infant by Mary Garner against The Post Company seeking 20000 for a libelous article The court granted leave to amend within ten days if the plaintiffs aim to continue the suit The plaintiff was represented by Charles F Diggs and Wilton J Lambert appeared for The Post Company
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Alfred Garner
Mary A Garner
Washington Post Company
Justice Stafford
Circuit Court No. 1
Charles F. Diggs
Wilton J. Lambert
Post Company
Arnold Promoted to Editor of Department of Agriculture
J A Arnold of Indiana is named editor for the Department of Agriculture succeeding George William Hill of Minnesota. Arnold was previously Hill's assistant and now heads the division of publications. Hill steps to associate editor due to health after leading publications since 1887. he was offered the French decoration Monte Agricol but cannot accept due to Congressional prohibition.
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Department O Agriculture
Joseph A Arnold
Indiana
Department of Agriculture
George William Hill
Minnesota
Ammold
Hill
Hil
Jerry Rusk
Congress
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