Residents oppose Chevy Chase zoning plan for commercial district
A Citizens Association committee denounces a proposal to designate Connecticut Avenue as a commercial street and to allow mixed development along Chevy Chase, urging retention of residential character. It calls for limiting commercial districts to west-side squares and enforcing detached residences with strict setback and frontage rules to protect property values and neighborhood charm.
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ConNecticut Avenue
Washington
National
Hase
Ane
Fugens
Chevy Chase
Canberthout Avenue
Atev
Columbia
Vite
Thevy Chase
Citizens’ Association of
Patterson Street
Cleveland
Wenmeestivut Avenue
Raverus
Northampton Sree
Morrison Brost
Price on Czar's Head: Reds Offer 2,000,000 Rubles Reward
Soviet government offers 2,900,000 rubles for the head of a man claiming to be Czar Nicholas II. The claimant, in Siberia, says a servant impersonated the czar and that the execution at Yekaterinburg involved someone else. The report cites the Jewish Telegraphic Agency as source.
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London
Nicholas
Russia
Siberia
Yekaterinburg
Second Soviet Ark Sailings Soon
Immigration Commissioner Caminetti said a second Soviet Ark will sail for a Russian port within weeks carrying about 99 Russian aliens held at Hillis Island for deportation. He noted 66 deportations have already occurred among radicals, with 2,830 anarchist cases reviewed by the Department of Labor from January 1 to June 30, 1920.
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State Department
Russia
Caminetti
Hillis Island
Department of Labor
Chicago GirI Struck by Car During Street Car Strike
A 14 year old girl was killed and about 50 injured as congestion from a strike by 192 street car electricians crippled Chicago transit. A 40 passenger motor truck struck a telegraph pole during the chaos. Union leaders demanded roughly 33 percent wage increases and complained of nonunion workers being used.
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Chicago
Sees Plot to Keep New Jersey Wet
Samuel Wilson of the Antisaloon League of New Jersey charges a tacit alliance between county authorities and saloon keepers to keep New Jersey wet. He says the Volstead Act is openly violated in Essex, Hudson, Union, Atlantic and Joyfaic counties and provided names of cafes and saloonkeepers to federal authorities. He accuses politicians of seeking campaign funds from liquor and gambling interests.
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Newark
Samuel Wilson
Antisaloon League of New Jersey
Stae
McCran
State Supreme Court
Swayze
New Jersey
Wilson
Essex
Joyfaic
Union
Atlantic
Hudson
Labor Strikes Cause Big Economic Loss Across 1919
Reported unofficial figures estimate 7,044,120 workers involved in the 1919 fiscal year strikes with 1,780 conciliation bureau cases. Wages lost around 175 million dollars, with steel strikes costing about three million daily in wages and railroad strikes nearly that. The conciliation bureau, now with 25 mediators, notes fewer new outbreaks but tougher settlements.
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United States
Hugh Kerwin
Department
Aft Labor
Kerwin
Conciliation Bureau
Keck to Erect Memorial Pedestal at Tuskegee Campus
New York sculptor Charles Keck designer of the Booker T. Washington memorial has awarded the granite exedra pedestal contract to the Lloyd Bros. Company of Washington for the Tuskegee University site in Alabama.
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Charles Keck
New York
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee University
Tuskegee
Ala
Lloyd Bkros. Company
Washington
Stranger Identified After Train Abduction in Danville
A man found Thursday in Danville has been identified as Joseph Pierce. He claims his father mother three sisters and two brothers were killed in a cyclone at LaGrange Georgia. Pierce’s mind has cleared and he plans to travel to Washington to join kin but will stay in Danville for a few days.
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Washington Post
Danville
Joseph Pierce
Lagrange
Georgia
Washington
Kinsfolk
Geddes Trapped By Own Transport Rule At Sheffield
Sir Eric Geddes, British minister of transport, faced public ridicule after enforcing a ticket rule at a Sheffield barrier. Unable to show his ticket or card, he entered his name in an address book to bypass the rule, illustrating the flaw in his efficiency campaign. Giant vegetables cited from Danville and Pittsylvania reveal remarkable crops measuring ten pounds for a cabbage and a near pennyweight for an Irish cobbler.
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Washington Post
New York Sun-Herald
London
Eric Geddes
Sheffield
Eric
Sumaulu OM Bes eLay
Sir Eric
Danville
Pittsylvania
W. G. B. Fitzgerald
T. J. Stowe
White Oak Mountain
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S.de Ion
Unase
D.C
Sidents
Propery Chase
Finacinig Sc
Uae Tin Maarerty
Tin Co
Reds
ARK
Conciliation Board
People’s Drug Stores
Farnitare
Mayer & CO
Just Out
Victor Dance Records
Love Nest
Joseph C. Smith
Arthur Jordan Piano Co
Batkehite
Sts
N. W
Geddes
Avancaoal
The
Law
House & Herrmann
Alaska Refrigerator Co
Hampshire
Hampshires
Ker
Lenox
Kongo
Kongo Bugs Weil
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