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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1907
Page
18
An incomplete text fragment describes a request or instruction involving a female, writing tasks, and various scattered details. It mentions a doctor office and telephone, addresses, and a box number. The piece reads like a damaged notice with stray phrases and unclear actions.
Classified style notice listing numerous furnished and unfurnished rooms for rent across multiple streets and buildings. Highlights include front rooms, second floor rooms, with or without board, private baths, and proximity to downtown areas. Prices quoted range from modest weekly to monthly rates, with emphasis on quiet, clean, and well maintained accommodations.
A chaotic page of lodging ads shows many rooms for rent and boarding in Washington area. Listings cite roommates and private families seeking furnished or unfurnished rooms, with board or with meals, near Dupont Circle and other neighborhoods. Names such as Fisher & Co and various box references appear, along with conditions like proximity to transit, quiet surroundings, and affordability. The jumble includes multiple filler details, but the core items are room and board requests by young singles, couples, and families, with emphasis on convenient locations and reasonable rates.
District of Columbia probate notice warns creditors to file claims against the estate of J Wesley Swith and J Wesley Swith the District of Columbia deceased. The court requires claims shown with proper executors before July 20. Publication by James Tanner Registrar of Wills and Oscar Nauk Attorney General outlines appointment of Mary Rowenley Smece and Northrop American Security and Trust Company as executors.
Twenty five waitresses gathered outside Nathaniel Marshall’s restaurant during Bike Week protesting promised pay of 25 cents per item and a half dollar for a busting hash. A city bystander crowd formed as officers and a Jamison Hotel manager attempted to calm tensions, with threats of accepting $55 and leaving. The scene ended with the waitresses demanding full payment as managers and police watched.
Coroner to investigate the death of Mrs Grant of 2806 Mutter Street Philadelphia. Annie Becker found her in bed by window after hearing groans. Mrs Grant, widowed with a daughter elsewhere, was described as thin and well dressed. Both husbands were soldiers and she drew a pension.
A 28 year old, identified as Dowling Green, was hanged for murdering his wife last August over jealousy. He died after insisting on recounting his crime to the court, singing the line In the Cross I Know I’m Anchored as he walked to the scaffold amid dramatic testimony and a brief jury verdict.
In New York July 2 near the United Dressed Beef Company at 133rd Street a worker named Ginsberger lost his right hand when a rotating fan blade severed fingers down to the wrist. He collapsed and bled heavily before Jacob Speck, a government inspector, improvised a tourniquet. Dr Bestor attended, noting this and prior similar injuries at the plant.
Two white convicts Ben Beawly and BL Hareran attempted to escape this afternoon and, after gaining revolvers, fired on guard GDuman. The guard returned fire wounding Heasty in the abdomen and Hartman through the shoulder. Duman was not hit.
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