Local theaters must install standpipes for fire protection
Officials warned theater owners to equip with three inch standpipes fed from four inch mains and hose, or risk loss of annual license and prosecution. The program follows four years of inspections after the Iroquois Theater disaster, and aims to elevate fire safety with wiring rules, standpipes, water curtains, and improved safeguards across venues.
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Macfarland
Tre
Congress
Fire Department
Belt
Facforland
Electrical Department
Building Department
Weeds Declared a Nuisance at Corner Lot
Health Department cannot remove weeds due to lack of funds. Fifteen to twenty residents urged removal of weeds filling the triangular lot at First Street and Rhode Island Avenue Northwest, deemed a health nuisance. Health Officer Woodward reported the department cannot act without a specific appropriation to enforce weed laws on nonresident property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Health Department
First Street
Rhode Island Avenue
Woodward
Ice for the Poor and Free Ice Fund Distribution
Commissioner Macfarland announces ample free ice for the sick and poor funded by a Washington philanthropist. Free ice and an ice blanket will aid poor families and infants. the program enters its third year, with agents ready to assist as needed. Policeman Hauschild fined $10 for a post midnight lunch room violation and given two months to pay. The incident aligns with prior enforcement. Increased water usage near Government Hospital for the Insane prompts halt of sprinkling unless hospital provides water. road officials order conservation measures on surrounding streets.
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Missione Macfarland
Macfarland
Washington
Associated Charities
C Hauschild
Hauschild
Sergi C J. Plemmons
May Sylvester
Morris Hacker
Government Hospital
Col Biddle
Local Farm Girl Injured by Buggy in Street Incident
Hortenss Warfield a four year old of 822 A street northwest was struck by a buggy carrying Dr J D Preddy yesterday afternoon and sustained a broken collarbone. She received home treatment from her family physician.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hortenss Warfield
J D Preddy
Death of aged Indian Bureau official Joseph Bender
Joseph T Bender aged 69, chief of the Indian Division in the Interior Department, died at 1330 Howard Street NW after a year of poor health. A Civil War clerical worker, he served nearly three decades in Indian affairs, left in 1880s for private business, returned in 1900, and earned trust of Secretary Hitchcock. He leaves a wife and two married children. funeral arrangements to be announced.
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Joseph T. Bender
Indian Bureau
Joseph T Bender
Secretary’s Office
Department of the Interior
Howard Street
Bender
New York State
Commissary Department
Army
Commissioner of Indian Affair
Indian Office
Department
Hitchcock
Indiana
Dublin
Hospital contract awarded for Freedmen's Hospital annex
The Interior Department committee awarded the $277 300 contract to George A Fuller Construction Co for the Freedmen's Hospital annex. James Berrall of Washington will supervise. Bids ranged up to 467 700, but cost was cut by lowering specifications and eliminating the nurses home morgue and stable. The building will be fireproof and begin immediately.
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Freedmen’s Institution
Hitchcock
Interior Department
Freedmen's Hospital
George A . Fuller
George A Fuller Company
Mater
Collision Kills Horse and Injures Ice Wagon Helper
A collision on Fourteenth and Fifth streets northwest yesterday involved Capital Traction Car No 26 hitting an ice wagon. Driver Levin Sanford was unhurt. helper John Law, a Black man, suffered cuts and bruises. One horse died beneath the other after the crash. The injured man was taken home by the Eighth precinct patrol wagon.
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Capital Traction Company
John Law
Levin Sanford
K Street
Sanford
Law
Eighth Precinct
Dingman Court
Wagon and Buggy Collide In Northwest Street Crash
A wagon from Union Transfer Company crossed Pennsylvania Avenue near Sixth Street NW and struck a buggy owned by George W Linkens of Nineteenth and H streets NW. William Linkens was thrown from the seat but unhurt. A rear wheel broke and a wagon shaft cracked in the collision. Ernest Brown fell about twenty five feet from a scaffold on Howard Avenue Mount Pleasant injuring his legs and arm. He was taken home on F Street NE and treated by the family physician who called the injuries slight.
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Lavi Patusuay
Uyndon H Storegs
St Lawrence
Stevena
Mirg Stevens
Young Stevens
Union Transfer Company
Pennsylvania Avenue
Sixth Street
George W Linkens
Nineteenth
H Streets
Linken
William
Ernest Brown
Howard Avenue
Mount Pleasant
F Street
Burnett
Burnett’agani
No 18 Engine Company
Eleventh and
Water Streets
Enoch Dunnington
Yoss
C H Chevell
Health officers target adulterated soda syrups and lard in city
Health Inspector Woodward pursues violators under the pure food law enacted February 17 1908. Warrants issued for druggists using salicylic and benzoic acids in syrups and for selling cottonseed oil mixed with lard labeled as pure. Several cases already reached Police Court as inspectors probe drug stores and grocery shops for adulterated food and drink products.
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Woodward
Congress
Health Department
Pharca
Woodward's
Dare
Dr Wootward
Reform School vacancy filled by Nye appointment
The promotion of I V Porter to superintendent of the Reform School of the District led to J M Nye, formerly record clerk at the Atlanta federal penitentiary, taking the vacancy. Bronson J Miles resigned July 1 to pursue private business. The Justice Department acted on merit in promoting Porter.
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I V Porter
Reform School
J M Nye
Nye
United States Penitentiary
Atlanta
Bronson J Miles
West
Porter
Department of Justice
Annual report filed by District of Columbia Dental Examiners
The District of Columbia Dental Examiners filed their annual report for the year ending June 30, 1906. Of 25 applicants examined, 19 were certified and 6 disqualified. Certificates total now 4. Yearly receipts from fees were 59. Also notes ferry service changes with a Norfolk line plan to resume and use a temporary boat between Washington and Alexandria.
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Board of Dental Examiners
District of Columbia
Sheldon Graves
Commissioners
Awar
Washington
Alexandris John Callahan
Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company
Washington-Alexandria
Mary Dillon Beaten by Husband Seeks Help. Pat Dillon Arrested
Mary Dillon of 103 Third Street Northwest reported her husband Pat Dillon battered her, police at Ninth precinct took him into custody. Dillon was charged as Mary Dillon, 40, sustained severe bruising requiring treatment at Casualty Hospital Star of the East. A separate item notes a warehouse fire at Thirty-fourth and K Streets Northwest with unknown cause and minor loss, plus various local ads and notices.
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Mary Dillon
Third Street
Ninth Precinct
Pat Dillon
Pat
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