Streetcar Demand Grows. Commission Backs New Lines
The District electric railway commission reports traffic congestion requires extra streetcar routes and new equipment. It notes existing cars are near capacity during peak hours and urges legislation to add tracks. Capital Traction plans to end trailers by June 1, 1912 and Washington Railway plans to replace its twenty trailers with new cars.
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District Electric Railway Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Corm
Capital Traction Company
Washington Railway and Electric Company
Defense of meat dealers faces beef price claim
Wilbur M. Gale responds to a Chicago dispatch accusing retailers of inflating beef costs. He cites receipts from Washington branch packers charging high grades, details per cut, and argues the burden of high prices rests with packers, not retailers. He blames Chicago packers for profit margins and defends local dealers.
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Chicago Dispatch
Washington
Chicago
Chicago Packer
Chicago Packers
Wilbur M. Gale
40 Australian Boys Coming to Washington
Washington hosts 40 Australian schoolboys arriving February 18 for study in U S schools. Ambassador Bryce to present them to President Taft. Chamber of Commerce to take sixteen boys into homes. Also Lincoln and Douglass birthday events planned by the Grand Army of the Republic. C of C seeks data on annual District spending for goods and services.
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Taft
Washington
United States
Lidnt
Cecil Jemfrey
Chamber of Commerce
Pacific Coast
Washington Public Schools
James Bryce
Bonor Lincoln
Douglass
Grand Army of the Republic
Department of the Potomac
Abraham Lincoln
Frederick Douglass
Cosmopolitan Baptist Church
Simon P. W. Drew
Murder Trials Delayed Over Capital Punishment Clause
United States Attorney Clarence R. Wilson said no death-penalty cases will be tried until the District Court of Appeals rules on whether juries may append without capital punishment to their verdicts. The case involves Arthur Johnson, sentenced to death for the murder of John Offenstein. The hearing is set for February 6 with a March decision anticipated. Johnson’s attorney contends the new penal code allows such an addition.
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District Court of Appeals
United States
Clarence R. ‘Wilson
Arthur Johnson
Wright
District Supreme Court
John Offenstein
Johnson
Thomas M. Baker
Salvation Army Women and Children Report Commerce
The report of the American Salvation Army for Women and Children at 339 Street Northwest shows 2,060 dollars donated by Washington residents for the year ended January 1. The funds were spent by authorities on rent light and heat laundry and other necessities.
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American Salvation Hame For Women
Northwest
Washington
City Powers for County Meant to Grant Authority to Judge
The Virginia senate passed a bill granting the Alexandria county board of supervisors powers like city council authority to approve county town improvements. Attorney General Samuel W Williams deemed the measure unconstitutional arguing counties are already political units with established governance. The bill would let the circuit court judge act with mayorlike powers, including taking evidence on ordinances. The senate move follows Alexandria city annexation battles amid ongoing legal actions.
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Williams
Ashington Post Bureau
TCX
Kingstreet
Alexandria
Samuel W. Willams
Virginia State Senate
Richmond
Board of Supervisors
Alexandria County
Whcb
Circuit Court
Trode
General Assembly
Senate
Alexandria City
Fairfax Counues
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Clyde Tennings
T. Te. Turner
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LL Partlow
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Mercantile Railway Badding and Loan Association
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W. G. Plaskett
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Burt’s Clearing Sale
Raleigh Penna. Ave
HL. Weston
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Ryan Devereux
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Webster's Dictionary
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