Stable Fire Spurs Push for Stricter Stable Laws
After Monday night’s blaze at the Virginia stables on C street north west that claimed twenty horses, Marshal Nicholson urged banning upstairs stables and widening runways. Fire officials and stables owners called for stricter inspections and detailed stability plans to protect horses and insurers.
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Virginia
J. A. Jones
E. A. Barker
C Street
Chief Belt
Nicholson
Marshal Nicholson
Itig
Fourteenth Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Woman Held as Bigamist in Police Court
Mrs Georgiana De Vaughn waived preliminary hearing in police court on bigamy charges and is held in bond to the grand jury. Arrested Wednesday by Central Office Detectives Weeden and Burlingame. She is alleged to have married James De Vaughn in 1879 and Hans Mortensen last year. Neither husband testified.
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Georgiana de Vaughn
de Vaughn
Central Office
Weeden and Burlingame
James de Vaughn
Hans Mortensen
Aairineriaay
Wife As Gourding Aid Ends With Husband Arrest
In Jersey City a young husband writes a plea to his wife to vouch that he is single, prompting her to write to a friend. The letter led to his arrest on a New York warrant, return to the city, and a workhouse sentence. His father funded a release on condition of $5 weekly support. The juvenile court heard the case as the husband, Harry, attempted to rejoin his wife Adele and child.
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Howeve
Jersey City
New York
DeLacy
Mabel
Adele
Adela
Avingly
Harry
Mumbel
Rabies Crusade Continues as 298 Dogs Euthanized
The poundmaster reports since June 1, 1,489 dogs captured under the unmuzzled dog order with 1,298 euthanized and 191 redeemed. The six month campaign, doubling pound capacity, employs ten men and three wagons to hunt unmuzzled dogs, with about 50 daily captures. The city claims to be out of danger from rabid dogs though few remain at large.
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Roosevelt
Samuel Einstein
Railroad Office Entered in Failed Safe Loot Attempt
Police say the Pennsylvania Railroad offices at Fifteenth and G streets NW were entered Thursday night. Det. Cornwell investigated. $4 was taken from a desk, a heavy hammer lay on the floor, and the safe dial was tampered with. Burglar(s) fled after being startled, likely through a cellar and a nearby window.
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Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Fifteenth
G Streets
Cornwell
B. M. Newbold
Saltwater batching at Chesapeake each delight
CITY BULLETINS Engineer Fink to Visit New York authorized by commissioners to travel to New York and Syracuse on business relating to purchases. Other items include diet advice, grocer promos, and local notices for police appointments, hotel rates, and transportation services.
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Chesapeake
Engineer Fink
New York
J. T. Fink
Iistrict
Syracuse
Schneider
J. T. D. Pyleg
Chicago
Ca. Muddiman & Co
12Th St
Power of board questioned over steamboat licenses
Chairman Trimble questioned whether the excise board could grant licenses to steamboats plying the Potomac run when the Independent Steamboat Barge Company applying for a retail liquor dealer license, operating the River Queen, drew a referral to Corporation Counsel H E Thomas for an opinion.
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Excise Board
Potomac River
Trimble
la Retail Lquer
Steamboat Barge Company
Macfarlana
HE. H. Thomas
Funeral Rites for Mrs. H. A. Cobaugh at Western Presbyterian
Funeral services for Mrs. H A Cobaugh who died Wednesday at the Maury apartments were held yesterday at 2 p m with Rev Dr George Bailey officiating. Pallbearers were her brothers Walter Jesse and Theodore Sloat and nephews Eymest Horace and Hirst Sloat. Burial followed in Arlington Cemetery.
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H. A. Cobaugh
Maury Apartments
M. Streets
George Bailey
Western Presbyterian Church
Mesher Fined For Accosting Miss Favor on Third Street
Ferdinando Angelo a shoemaker was fined 18 dollars in police court for accosting Miss Helen Favor Thursday evening on Third Street Northwest. She appealed to Detective Dalhouse who arrested him after he followed her several blocks and spoke to her. Also noted is a missing commissary sergeant at Fort Myer, Michael E. Murray, last seen in a blue serge suit and straw hat since Monday. A travel note mentions Chesapeake Bay and a Bee round trip ticket.
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Ferdinando Angelo
Miss Helen Favor
Third Street
Angelo
Miss Favor
Dalhouse
Michael E. Murray
Fort Myer
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Horn
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Hirsh
Ss. Shoe Stores
Invisible Procdls
Wineberg’s Optical CO
Mt. Vernon Place
Burchell
N. W. Burchell
Liberal
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Eye N. W
Munyon
Inauguration
Ca Ste
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Fnn
Downey
Fire Department
de Opinon
Diamond
Munich
Golden Eagle
National Capital Brewing Co
Lincoln
Ewspar
Georgiana de Vaughan
N. J
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Ell
Model
Kuonheimer
Ods
Nener
PA. Ave
Marine Band
White House
William H. Santelmann
Egmont
Nell Gwyn
Robert E. Seel
Hanner
Zickel Heethoven
Popp
Peneblellt Santelmann
Dvorak
Washington
Poundmaster
Pennsylvania Company
City Bulletins
Wm. Cannon
Maj
Richard Sylvester
A. M. Green
J.W. Cromie
Clarence Ward
Congress Hall
A. Manuel
Baltimore
McLennan's
Scarth
Maerzen and Senate
Arlington Bottling Company
Columbia’Photo’Supply Co
N.Y. Ave
Hersford
Busine
Union Trust Co
Vincenzo Slaselli
Andrew Burno
Aukam
Annapolis
U. S. Naval Academy
Masher
Chesapeake Bay
Chesapeake Beach
Rochester
Friedlander Brothers
Ninth and
E Streets
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the National Highway Builder
Preston Gibson
Sunday’s Post
Bay of
Tig Goséon
Cuke
D. J. Kaufman
Henry Evans
Si. N
Barber & Ross
Warner
Warners
Warwra
Warner's
Safe Cure Company
Men- Mon
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Shaw-Walker
Orice
Lansburgh Furniture Co
9Th Street
Randle Highlands
U.S. A
Dole Highlands
Dupont Crele
U.S. Realty Company
A $ Realty Company
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Olsen
Tonal Bank
Gentral
Ava
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14Th St. N. W
Keeley Care
Keeley Institute
North Capitol Street
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District of
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Maryland
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