Gall Abattoirs Dirty District Has No Jurisdiction
The health department found two slaughter houses across the Potomac on the Virginia side unsanitary, supplying thousands of pounds of meat to Washington and Alexandria. Dr R Le Murray of the District health office notified Acting Health Officer Henry C McKean and urged immediate action to remedy conditions.
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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 court case and meat plant inspection report
Sherman Cox and John Jackson, youths, pleaded guilty to stealing two bottles of beer and were fined. Cox sent to the National Training School for Boys for failure to pay. Separate inspection trip by Dr. Murray and Charles Ball reviewed Virginia and District slaughterhouses with concerns about sanitation and refuse, noting Washington plants better than Chicago plants.
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Sherman Cox
McLean
Sherman
Virginia
Lawd
Steve
Cox
National Training School
Bogus Check Operator Sought By Detectives
Detectives Herman and Cat seek a well known bogus check operator who has victimized local merchants for large sums over the past month. A man fitting the description recently bought a $25 outfit in a Pennsylvania avenue store and arranged delivery to Fourteenth Street Northwest by C O D. A messenger delivered a check drawn on Westminster Bank Boston, which the bank confirms has no 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
H H Laughton will become the auditor of the entire Southern Railway system on February 1 succeeding C B Hayes who was promoted to Mobile and Ohio Railroad comptrollership. Laughton started in Richmond and Danville Railroad accounting and has eight years as Southern Railway disbursements auditor. 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 Chicago cats shipped to Japan for rodent control
Five thousand cats sent from Chicago to Kobe Japan to serve as rat destroyers in Japan. The shipment aims to help fight plague spread by rodents with further consignments expected, per John H Snodgrass American consul at Kobe.
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Japan
Chicago
Bureau of Manufactures
John H. Snodgrass
Kobe
City Bulletins and Local Notices in Brief
District Commissioners receive thanks for conference use of the municipal building boardroom. Della Hanna Bridges is granted a divorce from Benjamin M. Bridges by Justice Wright. Local ads list grocery specials and store locations, including Paragon plum, Vienna sausage, Kingan’s potted cheese, and Meurich beer among others.
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Washington
Macfarland
Mra. Bridges
Della Hanna Bridges
Benjamin M. Bridges
Justice Wright
District Supreme Court
Mire. Bridges
Webb
Interstate Commerce Board Rules On Fares And Refunding Tickets
The Interstate Commerce Commission issued several rulings including barring special fares for transporting Chinese to ports of deportation funded by government, and that the hours of service law exempts ferry workers. It allowed refunds of unused tickets at legal fare with identity proof, defined per ton and net ton measures, and clarified private sidetracks outside carrier rights.
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Interstate,commerce Commission
Transft
Hubbard given sentence for attack on wife on fire escape
George Hibbard, a machinist, receives three and a half years in the penitentiary after being convicted January 16 of assault with a dangerous weapon and assault with intent to kill for attacking his wife Lulu Hibbard on May 12 at their 48 B Street home. Judge Anderson denied a new trial. defense cited insanity and claimed the wife’s relatives provoked the incident.
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George Hibbard
Lulu Hibbard
B Street
Justice Anderson
Hibbard
Anderson
Churches Plan Conference On Presbyterian Amalgamation
Two committees from New York Avenue and Washington Heights Presbyterian churches will meet early next week to decide on terms for consolidation after Washington Heights authorized four committees to confer with a similar downtown group. A joint three or four member committee from both sides may be formed to handle details. Thomas C. Noyes said official notice would be sent to New York Avenue within the next day or two.
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New York Avenue
Washington Heights
Thomas C. Noyes
Bishop Harding to Open New Chapel in Southeast District
One of the first public duties of Bishop Harding will be the formal opening of the Chapel of the Nativity tomorrow at 7 30 p m The chapel sits at Fourteenth Street and Massachusetts Avenue Southeast and was funded entirely by the congregation and the pastor Rev Enoch M Thompson
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Harding
Mirza Ali Kuli Khan to Lecture on Persian Arts
Mirza Ali Kuli Khan the imperial Persian consul will address the National Society of Fine Arts Wednesday evening February 3 at the New Masonic Temple hall on the Arts of Persia. The lecture will be 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 penal reform push for workhouse and reformatory sites
The District penal commission urged Congress to enact a new plan funding a workhouse and reformatory on large Maryland or Virginia tracts. It calls for temporary structures and land purchase totaling about 100000 dollars with 10000 more for planning, aiming to replace prison conditions and place offenders on probation where possible.
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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
Defendant Upheld Justice Sustains Motion To Strike Out
Justice Stafford sustained a motion by The Washington Post Company to strike parts of the declaration in the case of Alfred Garner infant by Mary Garner against The Post. The court granted leave to amend within ten days to pursue further action. Attorneys 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 in Department of Agriculture
Joseph A Arnold of Indiana is appointed editor for the Department of Agriculture succeeding George William Hill of Minnesota who led the division of publications since 1887. Arnold was previously Hill’s assistant and Hill becomes associate editor due to health. Hill declined a French decoration due to U.S. law.
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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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Horn the Tailor
Julius Lansbungh Co
11Th
Munyon
People’s Drug Store
Dean
O'Donnell
F Street
H. H. Laughton
City Bulletins
Schneider
Paragon
Plumé
UT Auto
7Th St. Ne
J. T. D. Pyles
Lynn Haven Baye
Phila
South
Meurich
Arlington Bottliss Company
Jewel and Gas Ateam Rollators
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hubbard
Churches Plan Conference
Dr. Harding
Tomort
New House of Worship
Indorse - Penal Committee
the Bieber-Kaufman CO
Eighth Street
S. E
Navy Yard
8Th Street
John Quinn Co., Inc
Seventh Street Southwest
Thirteenth Street Northwest
J. A. Arnold
House & Herrmann
N. W. Prmuan
Washington Post
C Tar
Phone Malin
The
Nomini Oyster Co
St. S. W
R. P. Andrews Paper CO
Sargent Paper House
New York
la. Ave. N. WY
J. E. Rosenthal
St.n. W
Price
Lic
Jenry Evans
the Housewares Store
PF St
Mr. Merchant
Potomac Electric Power No
14Th Street
Economy Cooperative Society
Heidens
Carnegie Libra
Washington Gas Light Co
Tenth Street N. W
Duffy
Duffy Malt Whiskey Company
Rochester
Heller
Barber & Ross
Friedlander Bros. Cor
Tharp
Berkeley Rye
Lt. N. W
Randle Highlands
U.S. Agamencose
Pelae Eee
Keeley Institute
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