Board hearings set on engine Neglect at Western High
A district committee special hearing at 10 am before Representative Redfield will probe charges raised by Superintendent Storey about an engine runaway at Western High School last winter. Witnesses include Miss Firth Westrott, W J Conlyn, Harry Hine, Snowden Ashford, and Alonzo Tweedale as investigators by the board. New board members expected next Wednesday, except Henry P Biatt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Redfield
Capt. Oyster
Board of Education
Western High School
Miss Firth Westrott
W J Conlyn
Sharge
Harry ©. Hine
Snowden Ashford
Alonzo Tweedale
Rase
Henry P Biatt
Meeting at Murphysboro Board to Elect New President
Participants include John B. Larner C W Harris and new member Mrs Busan Rhodes. Capt Oyster and Blair are talked of for the presidency with Blair promising to return from vacation for the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Blair
Capt. Oyster
John B. Larner
C. W. Harris
Busan R. Rhodes
Senty P. Blair
Untagged dogs may be impounded in district drive
District tax collector C C Rogers warns that if 6,000 dogs remain untagged by month end a city wide campaign will begin to impound canines lacking the new tag. Only 36 percent of licenses issued this month, leaving over six thousand dogs untagged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C C. Rogers
United Shoe Considers Settlement in Antitrust Suit
The United Shoe Machinery Company resumed talks yesterday with Attorney General Wickersham to casually settle the federal antitrust suit. President Ridney W Winslow and general counsel Charles F Choate met with James A Fowler and William S Gregg to discuss the issue, but no definite agreement was reached.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Shoe Machinery Company
Wickersham
Ridney W. Winslow
Charles F Choate
James A. Fowler
William S Gregg
Sanity Court Detains 17-Year-Old Goldie Mullen
Goldie Mullen, a 17-year-old, was brought before the lunacy branch of the District Supreme Court for an inquiry into her sanity. She collapsed in a fit at the jurors during the hearing. Physicians restored her, and after expert testimony the jury ordered her incarceration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goldie Mullen
Thatrict Supreme Court
Woman Survives Fall From Seventh Floor Window
Mrs. Florence E. Massey wife of J G Massey a Interior Department clerk fell five stories from a seventh floor window at New Berne apartments landing on a concrete basement. Doctors say she is recovering with a compound leg fracture and twisted ankle. She saved herself by gripping a fire escape chain, though palms were burned.
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Hary
Florence E. Massey
J. G. Massey
Secretary of the Interior
New Berne
Massey
Charlea
Mrs. Massey
Howard
Baltimore
Mr. Massey
Metropolitan coaches ordered cleaned after inspector’s report
G H Dawson in a district hack inspector report condemned the Sixteenth street coaches for unsanitary and unsightly conditions. The Metropolitan Coach Company was warned by a commission letter to clean and brighten the vehicles by August 22, 1912 or face a warrant under police regulations. Coach No 11 showed thick dirt under seats and dirty windows while No 6 was in worse overall condition. Dawson discussed possible prosecution with Assistant Corporation Counsel Gus A Schuldt, who advised issuing a preparatory letter instead.
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G. H. Dawson
Sixteenth Street
E. A Nelson
Metropolitan Coach Company
Dawson
Gus A. Schuldt
Metropolitan
Schuldt
Damages Sought in Two Street Car Injury Suits
Richard Kingsman as administrator filed suit in District Supreme Court seeking 10000 damages from Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad. He alleges Mrs Seitz was thrown trying to board at Eleventh and Massachusetts NW on January 2 1912 and died June 9 1912. Charles E Smith sues Washington Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway over an ambulance collision on June 10 1910 on the High way bridge seeking 15000 damages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Kingsman
Mice BE. Seitz
District Supreme Court
Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad Company
Settz
Eleventh Street
Massachusetts Avenue Northwest
Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway Company
Charles E. Smith
City Bulletins Excursions and Steamship Schedules
Daily steamer and rail schedules feature Charles Macalester to Marshall Hall and St Johns to Colonial Beach from Seventh street. Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Co and Chesapeake Beach line run from Fifteenth street and New York avenue and Thirty-sixth Street. Nearby rail timetable notes and a Rocher Electric Scoreboard at the Cosmos for a doubleheader with Cleveland. The Driflery and bottled beer service offered with late deliveries through Crowley Lilith.
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Charles Macalester
Marshall Hall
Leaven
Seventh Street
Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company
Old Paint Comfort
Norfolk
Fifteenth Street
New York Avenue
Main Entrance Zoo Park
Chavy Chase
Great Falls
Washington
Dominion Railroad
Chesapeake Beach
Chesapeake Beach Railway
St. John's
Colonial Beach
Birch Furniture Pricing Notice
A brief price list shows items including a Birch Rocker at 10.00 and a Birch Armchair at 10.00 with a 5.96 subtotal and 11.50 total appears as Birch. The entry records simple furniture pricing, likely from a local ad or catalog.
Reorganization Sale At W B Moses & Sons
W. B. Moses & Sons announces a comprehensive Reorganization Sale to move all on hand stock at unprecedented reductions. The retailer expands sales forces and streamlines the delivery department to handle volume, promising better service, longer sale period, and access to high grade furniture at notably low prices.
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America
W. B. Moses & Sons
Fine Leather Pieces in Mahogany and Golden Oak
Leather pieces in mahogany and golden oak suited for library den or living room. Other leather pieces at equal reductions, all excellent quality.
Linen Suiting Colors and Prices Advertised
An advertisement lists linen suiting colors including blue brown tan natural and cream. Various widths 36 27 and 54 inches show all pure linen and French linen options with prices ranging from 18 to 75 cents. Names such as Peter Thompson appear among the described fabrics.
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Vrain
Peter Thompson
TOSC
Ceee Eens Eee Eee Sas
District approves new auto hose-chemical engine for fire service
A district official test of the new auto hose and chemical engine by department officials satisfied the requirements. The six-man machine features an electrical self starter and a large searchlight. The Ahrens-Fox 120 horsepower engine, also with six men, is claimed to be the largest automobile fire engine built and will be housed at No. 8, with the hose unit moving to No. 5.
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Fra
Rosedale playground pool to be built and city projects listed
A new swimming pool will be built at the Rosedale playgrounds at Seven teenth and Kramer streets NE. Bids to begin by tomorrow with work starting about August 1. Pool dimensions 60 by 20 feet, depth from 3 1/2 to 7 feet. Gallinger playground leveling and grading at Nineteenth and E NW also to bid tomorrow. New apparatus to be installed. Central Citizens Association elected officers at Gonzaga College with Dr James J Kilroy as president and Maurice J Sheehan as first vice president. Regular meeting next Sunday at 2 PM. Real estate deals include Col Orin G Staples conveying property to Real Estate Trust Co for about 28 blocks, $450,000. Francis H Duehey mortgage on Rochambeau apartment house, $250,000. Staples tract to be subdivided. $100,000 to be spent by the trust company. George Gibson to receive 1712 Rhode Island Ave property for $70,000, with possession in fall.
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Rosedale
Seventeenth
Kramer Streets
Martin
Gallinger
Nineteenth
E Streets
Central Citizens’ Association
Pennsylvania Avenue
First Street
Seventh Street
N Street
Gonzaga College
James J. Kilroy
Maurice J. Sheehan
Bernardin F. Rover
Henry C. Reinhardt
Leo. A. Rover
R. Golden Donaldson
Col. Orin G. Stapies
Real Estate Trust Company
Queen Street
Bladensburg Road
Florida Avenue
Trinidad Avenue
Rochambeau
Preston Gibson
Washington
the Beautifuls
Rhode Island Avenue
Staples
Trust Company
Fidelity Trust Company
Philadelphia
Gibson
Donaldson
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Probe Engine Room
Shoe Machinery
United States
Sanity Court
GTRL
Tour Dealer's
Washington Brewery
Tae
Brojen
Mr. Merchant
The
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PAC
Cleveland
Rocher
Cosmos
Sheboygan
Crowley
Lilith
Wmeritiog
Gol
Uogany
Pierre
Ruiting
Seca Bay Fiat Mageee
Central
William J. Neale
George L. Reese
Hugo Warch
John H Borger
Old Gonzaga College
Burchell
Tharp
Berkeley Rye
Judd & Detweiler, Inc
CG. A. Muddiman & GO
12Th Street
G Street
Prince Albert Ang Bress
U. S
Horn
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