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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1915
Page
9
The first progress report on the block valuation of public service properties details Capital Traction Company cooperation and notes increased work and cost. It outlines the commission’s reach, budget overruns, and the lack of inventories and records by several firms.
Farmer Menalor Nathat Th Scott hosts an annual company picnic at the Continental Trust resort in Chenaneake Heath. President Jones of the Chesy Peaks Beach Railway Company will attend. The party will learn the Napatian at 2 o clock and return at 9 o clock.
A local man at 523 Fifteenth Street Moline has been declared winner of a long name contest run by a rural post office. The event drew entries from across the United States amid publicity of the bride’s Guinness style name and several congratulatory letters from distant correspondents.
A Baltimore woman, Grace Wendt, taken into custody in Pittsburgh just minutes before her wedding to Robert L. Jacobs, is charged by postal inspectors with using the mails to defraud. She allegedly posed as J. V. Cowels of Waterloo Iowa to buy a Cincinnati razor sharpening machine for 465 dollars, paying some in cash and the rest on notes. Jacobs urged accepting property in lieu of bail, but federal officials refused.
Police recover a tied package on the Potomac park seawall containing a woman's clothes shoes and a mourning handkerchief marked with F and stained possibly with blood. The bundle includes a flatiron and laundry items. Detective Sergeants and bureau officials take charge as the case unfolds with forensic examination of the handkerchief.
A broad notice lists transfers and examinations for Brig. Gen George Activen and Maj Bowell Fauntleroy, with arrivals at Letterman General Hospital and tests for promotion. It includes multiple cavalry and infantry officers detailed for instruction, a board to examine fitness for promotion, and assignments to Fort Wiles and Jefferson Barracks.
A list of naval orders and detachments dated 1915 noting Captains and lieutenants reassigned or sent on duty, including Captain Albert Cleaves, H. G. D. for Wyoming, D. H. Dismukes at Isthmo n Canal Zone to Kentucky, Halsey to Naval Academy, Montgomery to Columbia, and others assigned to yards, stations, and ships such as Vestal, Wisconsin, and Texan, with various dates in 1910 1915 and locations across Philadelphia Annapolis and New Orleans.
In a disrupted notice Marine Corps actions at Artaue Stores are listed. Names include J Mitchell RB Dr Roode O Tt Rubwele J A Minnis B A Del Valle De Wit Peck A F Howard Ri Lee O Neill and T M RerstAn. Retached headquarters Marine comma ty diswtruction. Marine officers' actuol Neefole.
W F Peabody president of the Safety First Association spoke at Grover Cleveland School to about 200 children in a Margaret Wilson Social Center program. He warned that 75 000 people are killed or injured yearly on U S streets and urged early safety training with stereopticon slides while announcing prizes for future safety first essays.
Terrified turfmen at Terrace Park Ohio mourn the deaths of several prize horses after the New York Ayer wreck during a hurricane. The value of the dead animals is listed around 50 thousand dollars with names such as Dortseh Brig Sister Blood Taxi and others identified by Darden and Bradley. One horse Prince Hermis is missing and a rider Wigmnt reportedly is safe at Galonia.
Interstate Commerce Commission and Department of Commerce data show nine principal express firms reversing a March deficit of 4,619 last year into a 762,920 operating revenue in March 1915. Railroads overall gain in May and nine months in 1915 surpass 1914, with costs down and revenues rising despite wage pressures, except in the Southern district where gains lag. mileage rose to 400,601 for March 1915 from 296,517 in 1914, while total operating revenue jumped to 6,455,922 and expenses fell to 5,945,602. Over nine months, overall revenues declined to 64,881,089 from 69,684,694, and net operating revenue dropped from 4,549,028 to 1,117, ?
The ten month period shows the United States exporting 3442,367,414 of crada condition foodstuffs and food animals, versus 465,644,763 in 1914 for partly manufactured foods and 252,668,062 for earlier. Ready for consumption manufactures total 601,900,000, about 7,006,000 less than the prior ten months, while war materials activity is noted. April exports reach 90,603,476, up from 62,000,09 in April 1914.
New York social notice states Robert Guggenheim son of Dante Guggenheim will marry Margaret Weyher a noted amateur horsewoman from Scranton Pennsylvania tomorrow. The wedding follows the recent divorce and remarriage of Mrs Jace Bernheimer Guggenheim who wed Morton Keschnesterburg of Philadelphia after a Wednesday divorce from Alt Guggenheim.
Charles Ferguson once a Wilson ally and administrative ambassador to business interests faced a libel suit from Georgia Ferguson in Littleton New Hampshire. The case notes Ferguson alleged abandonment since 1910 amid claims of a White House letter calling him a friend of mine used to bolster his position.
Aster Bay won today's yacht race from Vanitie, completing 38 miles in 4 hours 7 minutes and 12 seconds. Vanitie dropped out on the last leg of the second round as a strange northwest wind blew across the course.
Readable price sheet lists weekly market rates for seafood poultry dairy eggs meats and produce. Notable items include fresh salmon 25 cents per pound halibut 26 cents per pound oysters not listed crabs 35 cents per dozen sea foods and standard market staples such as beef veal lamb pork and various fruits and vegetables with multiple price points per unit or weight.
Howard J Byrns 40, driver at Engine Company 11 in Washington, killed himself with a double barrel shotgun in the rocket room as fellow firefighters worked. He had threatened suicide two years earlier over financial troubles and lived with his wife at 774 Hobart Place NW. Coroner says death self-inflicted. no funeral plans yet. Byrns, a 18-year District firefighter from Culpeper, was well regarded by peers. Mrs Byrns had gone to Culpeper to visit relatives.
Special to The Waenington vent reports a balanced entry list for the Albemarle Horse Show Association with fourteenth season events in Charlottesville Virginia. The show, the fourth in the Virginia circuit this season, will be held Wednesday and Thursday of next week with a final electric light performance Wednesday night.
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