Roosevelt Orders Merit Records Only For Promotions
President Roosevelt issues an order barring army and navy officers from soliciting external influence for promotions or assignments. Promotions must rely on War and Navy Department service records, with exceptions only for documented acts of bravery or particularly efficient service.
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War
Navy Department
Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Watt
Army
Navy
White House
Congress of the
United States
Transford
Letalla
War Department
Offrest
Cheodore Roosevols
New Labor Union Officers Installed at Trades Hall
Local Iron Workers’ Union No. 80 installed newly elected officers at Trades Hall Sixth and Streets NW. Retiring president honored. installation followed by a smoker with music and readings. Officers: Jim Kelly president, Winky vice president, George Scott recording secretary, Winslow secretary treasurer, Ewelk and others as editors and delegates to the convention in Philadelphia in September.
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Winky
George Scott J
Bhoenoher
George Nyman
Charles Wo Winslow
Ro O
Tivin J Ro
Ewelk
T Btaherty
M Biggs
Mesa
Biggs
Winslow
Phin
Hha
Death damages sought in suit over William Clayburn death
Administrator of the William Clayburn estate, Hig cv T Winfrid, filed a Supreme Court action seeking 310000 in damages. The suit names District Construction Company and WilSun Clayburn as defendants. Clayburn was a laborer on the Connecticut River bridge project when a heavy timber struck him from a scaffold, sending him into the creek sixty feet below.
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Clayburn
Hig cv T
Pinched By The Steamer Jane Moseley Crewman Fatal Injuries
A steamer Jane Moseley mooring incident left George Jenifer badly injured after leaping to handle lines. He died later in hospital from severe injuries. The report notes Jenifer’s age, residence, and role on the vessel. Also mentioned are a paralytic stroke suffered by Lewis of the Patent Office, a police arrest for seduction, and divorce proceedings filed in the District Supreme Court.
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District Supreme Court
William W. Fox
Laura Fou
Samed
Aroeney Merion T. Gling Beales
Minority stockholder seeks receiver for Cerberite Plant
Alpheus D B Riddle through lawyer Bailey filed in District Supreme Court against Cerberite Manufacturing Company of Washington DC and listed officers including Norris Shoe maker Hendricks Rudolph White Kel ley Lambert and Ramsay Irland as administrator of Smolianinoff and Buckey in own right. He claims he holds Cerberite patents and that majority stockholders block his participation, urging appointment of a receiver to operate Ardwick Maryland plant or wind up affairs. Justice Anderson ordered rule to show cause returnable July Watloam.
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Alpheus DB. Riddle
Lorenzo A Bailey
District Supreme Court Yeaterday
Cerberite Manufacturing Company
Washington, DC
Fone Cern
James I. Norris
Louis P. Shoemaker
Willem J Hendricks
Cuno H. Rudolph
Charles BE. White
J Fred Kelley
Wilton J Lambert
William Ramsay Frederick Irland
Sergey D
Ardwick
Anderson
Wives Beaters Sentenced in Police Court
Judge Scott harshly punishes two men arraigned for assaulting their wives. Lena Bradley testified her husband Daniel Bradley struck her after returning home in a quarrelsome mood, knocking her down. He received 19 years and a day in the District jail. John Ham, accused of similar brutality toward his wife, pleaded not guilty but was found guilty and given the same sentence. this marked a repeat offense for Ham.
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Scott
Lena Bradley
Marble Hall Court
Washington
Daniel Bradley
Bradley
Fourth Precinct
Eay
Leas
John Ham
Ham
Fire alarm at restaurant above St James Hotel
A fire broke out early yesterday in a second floor room of a restaurant owned by George Coldenstroth at 16 Sixth Street Northwest. Night watchman G T Queen notified via box 16 as guests fled to the street and the flames were knocked down quickly with $150 damage. Cause of the fire is not known.
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George Coldenstroth
Sixth Street
G T Queen
St. James Hotel
Queen
Taylor Sent to Grand Jury on Housebreaking Charge
James Taylor, held on $200 bond, was sent to the grand jury after a preliminary hearing in Police Court over a housebreaking case. Authorities allege he entered William Lee's residence at 62 FR Street Northwear, taking two coats and clothing, with one coat found in Taylor's possession when arrested by Precinct Detective Burlingame. The allegation of police beating him for a confession was not reported in court.
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James Taylor
Taylor
William Lee
FR Street
Northwear
Ure Burlingame
Hearing On Plaza Property For New Streets Near Union Station
A District Supreme Court order signed by Justice Anderson directs summon of owners and interested parties in lots 149 149 153 19% 200 S51 90R and 3% square TH to appear July 4 and show cause why the property should not be conditioned for use as a piazza or circle with new streets near Union Station. The jury recently assessed damages at 753.43 and benefits at 808.19 for open space and street openings in Block 6 Ingreside bounded by Lowell Eighteenth and Mount Pleasant streets and Howard Avenue.
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Justine Anderson
District Supreme Court
Union Station
Ingreside
Lowell Eighteenth
Mount Pleasant Streets
Howard Avenue
White House concert programme features Sousa and Wagner pieces
The United States Marine Band, led by Walter F Smith, performs at the White House today from 6 o'clock, including Sousa preludes, a Wagner march and a Star Spangled Banner. A separate legal notice reports Mrs Sarah E F Koeleber suing her husband for alimony, custody, and a restraining order against Lincoln National Bank, claiming desertion in New York on the 6th. marriage from April 20, 1887.
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White House
United States Marine Band
Walter F Smith
Sousa
Paraital
Wagner
Amd
Capitol Steps Rally Draws Thousands to Washington
Baltimore delegates to the Christian Endeavor convention prepared to join a patriotic Capitol rally in Washington at 3:30 PM. District leaders organized station reception at Baltimore sites, while weather concerns lingered over flooding in parts of the city. A large program of denomination rallies, district meetings, and religious addresses followed across Baltimore churches and armories, emphasizing devotion to God and youth work.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
Christian Endeavor
Washington
Capitol
Hermone
Metcalf
Baltimore and Ohio
Howard Tarring
Pennsylvania
Billa Ardelve Payne
Edna Gottlieb
J. McCurdy
Holcombe G Johnson
C C Gilman
Samuel Fallows
D. D
Percy F Foster
H. F Macfarland
Mary
Gifford and Matthews Address Religious Conference
Rev. A P Gifford from Buffalo spoke on Evangelism Abroad urging openness to truth and sharing across nations. Rev. Mark Aliogon Matthews of Seattle discussed pastors as evangelists, while addressing church leadership and conscience training led by Rev. Washington Gladden and others.
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Rey A P Gifford
D D
Buffalo
Mark Aliigon Matthews
Seattle
Wash
Sear
Newall Dwight Hillis
Brooklyn
Gladden
Lytia
James J. Howe
Washington and Lee University
Howard G Grose
New York
Herbert L. Willett
University of Chicago
T H Lewis
Weston Maryland College
Rey Washington
Columbus
Ohio
Oliver Huckle
International Fellowship
Thepworth League
West- Munster League
The
Lutheran League
Baptist Union
Washington delegates scarce at national convention
Washington’s showing disappoints the 190 convention in Baltimore Maryland. Only 217 delegates registered from the city, far below the expected 1,200. B Mather, president, Local Church Society, expresses regret at not welcoming Washington attendees and invites better turnout in future years.
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Washington
Baltimore
Poat
Altimore Endeavorers
B Mather
Cew Society
Austrian Austrian dies by gas in Seventh Street hotel room
Petra Popovitch an Austrian twenty two years old was suffocated by inhaling diominating gas in a room at the Thyssen House Seventh and P streets northwest yesterday morning Found in bed with the gas jet on cause attributed to ignorance of use Coroner certifies death by accident Body moved to morgue identified by a brother police note that a belt containing about $200 was missing but later learned he had given the belt to friends earlier in the evening Popovitch had lived in this country years and ran a store at the Austrian camp Rock Creek shaft and had many friends
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Petra Popovitch
Popovitch
Hartigan and
Baur
Hig
Rock Creek
Attack by Two Negroes Injures Man at Willow Phrase Alley
S B Callahan, 38, of 635 A Street Northeast, treated at Casualty Hospital for scalp laceration, facial bruises, and a right arm cut after two unknown Black men attacked him yesterday afternoon while he served papers in Willow Phrase alley. He says they tried to take his bundle of papers, one patient used a penknife. A separate incident reports Helen Sweeney, five, climbing at her home 2135 New Park Place Northwest, fell from a first floor window to the pavement and fractured her left arm. she was taken to Emergency Hospital.
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S. B Callahan
Casualty Hospital
Willow ‘Frase Alley
Chita
New Park Place
Helen Sweeney
Wes
Joint will filed in Probate Court naming heirs
Samuel Paui Ramund and his wife Adelia Edmundson filed a joint will yesterday appointing heirs Alvin Hugh and Adelia Edgrundson as grandchildren beneficiaries. R H Bhipley named administrator of the estate.
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Samuel Paui Ramundson
Adelia Edmundson
Alvin
Hugh
Adelia Edgrundson
R. H. Bhipley
Injured by Electric Shell Arrests on Assault Charge
Walter Minnis, 223 street northeast, arrested by Ninth precinct police on assault with a dangerous weapon. It is alleged he discharged an electric battery shell that lodged in Mrs Annie Devine’s right hip in her front yard at 45 Fourth Street Northeast on the Fourth of July night. Devine, with husband and daughter present, screamed as the four youths fled. Minnis admits handling the instrument but says he did not foresee harm. A physician extracted the shell. Devine’s condition is not serious but in great pain. The other three assailants remain at large. Minnis is to be arraigned in Police Court.
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Walter Minnis
223 Street
Ninth Precinct
Minniq
Annie Devine
Fourth Street
Mra Devine
Devine
Woman in Typhoid Delirium Rescued by Doctors
A 34 year old woman named Fenny Magruder was found delirious in the street near Eighteenth Street and Wyoming Avenue. She screamed murder and carried a bundle of clothing. Her pulse ran high and she showed signs of typhoid fever before being taken to Freedmen’s Hospital in a precarious condition.
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Eighteenth Street
Wyoming Avenue
Fenny Magruder
Heston Street
Br Prentiss 'Willgon
Georgetown University Hospital
R D Adams
Freedmen's Hospital
No Walk Out Today Over Navy Yard Half Holiday
Navy Yard machinists continue to work as embers of Columbia Lodge of Machinists anticipate a noon decision on Saturday half holiday rights. Emmett L Adams, president, reports no friction with Navy officials and confidence in leaders to press the department for a final ruling.
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Navy Yard
Navy Department
Columbia Loge
International Association of Machinista
Emmett L Adams
Columbia Lodge of Machinists
Naval Gun Factory
Legislative Committee of
Columbia Lodge
Naval UN
Adams
Skull Fracture After Fall on L Street Near North Capital
John Pyemont a middle aged white man fell to the sidewalk on L street near North Capital Street about 4 o clock last night and fractured his skull. He was taken to the Homeopathic Hospital in the patrol wagon of the Eighth police precinct.
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John Pyemont
L Street
North
Capital Street
Eighth Police
Study Potomac Watershed Contamination From Source to River
The Bureau of Forestry with the Geological Survey begins a Potomac River watershed study to locate all contamination causes from domestic and industrial sources. It will examine tributaries in Virginia Maryland West Virginia and possibly Pennsylvania to reduce solid matter carried into the river for future water filtration.
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Bureau of Forestry
Geological Survey
Potomac River
Potomac
Virginia
Maryland
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Cave-in Kills Laborer at Twelfth and B Street
A laborer about fifty believed named William Diggs died after a bank collapsed during foundation work at a northwest city block yesterday afternoon. He suffered a fractured skull and broken ribs. coroner Neglitt will investigate. The body remains at Emergency Hospital as relatives are sought.
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William Diggs
Twelfth
B Street
Negltt
Tounda
Society widens scope as U S Historical Association expands
The United States Historical Society, founded here in 19, widens to a national scope. The National Educational Association adopted a resolution making state superintendents of education vice presidents of the society and heads of state societies. Maj J H Stine, of this city, promoted the plan at Asbury Park. The aim is to uphold the purity of American history from colonial times to the present.
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U. S. Historical Association
The
United States Historical Society
National Educational Association
Agbury Park
J H Stine
Asbury Park
Car Demolishes Wagon After Collision on Brightwood Ave
George Patzler of 1542 Fourth Steps Northwest drove a wagon across tracks when Brightwood Line car No 1417 struck it. The collision overturned the wagon injuring Patzler and the horse. he was taken to Freedments Hospital BL Ward. Also noted is the death of Rev John Wainwright Ray at age ninety three at 1211 Thirteenth Street Northwest. Funeral services to be held at Wright's Chapel with interment in Denville, NY.
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Alec
George M Patzler
Steaps
Brightwood Avenue
Marshall Street
Brightwood Line
Patzler
Tenth Precinct
Freedments Hospital
John Weinwight Ray
Dena Rey
John Wainwright Ray
Thirteenth Street
Wright's Chapel
Dadaville
Weather Summary and City News Notes for Friday
Weather conditions show a broad area of high pressure in the southeast and scattered showers across the Midwest and southern states. Local and Gulf region showers expected through Saturday and Sunday with cooler plains weather. Light to fresh winds vary by region. Also reports from Potomac and Shenandoah rivers and Saks & Co summer hours.
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Dept. of Agriculture Weather Bureau
Washington
Pennnsylvania
Florida
Michigan
Wisconsin
Oma
Areaness
Texan
Ohio Valley
Lake
Atlantic
Misouri
Middle Missinnipp
Gulf Staten
Rocky Mountain
Missouri
Minalaelpp
Plaine States
Mississipp
Ratutel
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Hermann Metcalf
John Lee Allison
Gu Iton Temple Presbyterian Church
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Ninth Street
FD Power
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Associated Press
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James J. Him
Salem
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Condit
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7Th St
Richmond
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Burlington, Vt
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ST. N. W
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Johnson Bros
Players Music
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Eliior Babek
Southern Maryland
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Upper Maridara
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G. A. White
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