Clean streets drive Pugh handbill crusade gains support
Commissioner Rudolph Roth and Superintendent Richard Sylvester endorsed Judge Pugh’s effort to curb litter from handbills. They urged merchant cooperation and warned that distributing handbills causes street litter and extra work for city cleaners. The campaign follows a recent fine on grocer Harry Cavanaugh for distributing flyers.
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Pugh
Richard Sylvester
Canon Rudolph Roth
Judge Pugh
Harry Cavanaugh
Cavanaugh
Rudolph
Scattered Handbill Distribution Reported Across City Streets
Police urge crackdown on unmarketed handbills amid widespread postings on vacant houses alleys and main routes. Judge Pugh notes polls show enforcement in the crusade against the indiscriminate distribution of handbills throughout the city as officers are instructed to report offenses and arrest those responsible for the distribution.
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Judge Pugh
Alt
Outing for Poor Mothers by Navy Yard Workers
Navy Yard employees plan an annual outing for about 50 mothers and children. The event funds luncheons refreshments and amusements with music by the Naval Gun Factory Band. This year’s outing will be at River View on July 14 and is organized by a departmental committee led by Wil lmer L Moody.
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Navy Yard
Navyard
Naval Gun Factory Band
River View J
Navy
Willmer L Moody
Harry Meyer
J Walter Edelin
S D Cole
Ladd
Ruff
Wyatt
Reynolds
DeGroot
Kiel
Shultz
Crown
Fluittle
Disney
Jones
Anberger
C A Meyer
Booze
Johnson
Shreeve
Griffith
Eckhardt
Bright
Fridell
Hebbard
Wiliams
Gilmore
Deaths Mark Brooklyn Publisher After Friend’s Suicide
Edward Marryatt, a wealthy retired music publisher of Pierrepont Street Brooklyn, said it’s brave to end one’s life when no longer useful. He died by his own action of gas Saturday in his home, found by his wife. Marryatt had been ill about two years.
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Washington Post
New York
Edward Marryatt
Pierrepont Street
Brooklyn
James G Tighe
Marryatt
Hearse Crew Spends Night on Roadside Trip
Two unidentified men stopped for gasoline near Huntluston Long Teland on June 4. They spent the night in a coffin-shaped hearse after a return trip burial from Port Mastington to Port Jefferson. The driver and mechanic slept under the stars before resting inside the vehicle.
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Washington
Huntluston Long Teland
Mra
Mdeward Townsend
Loong Island
Port Mastington
Port Jefferson
AlbinO ends his life in Toledo tragedy
Despondent 18 year old John Walkowski, an altuna, killed himself in the front yard of his home in Toledo on June 4. After a day downtown he spoke to a frightened nine year old child on a porch saying he would kill himself, then died from a self inflected gunshot wound. The incident occurred as the lad ran for help.
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Toledo
Ohio
John Walkowski
Watkowsk
Walkowski
Berwind Marries Katherine Wood in Church of the Ascension
John E. Berwind, noted coal operator, wed Katherine M. Wood of Philadelphia in the Church of the Ascension. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. Percy Stickney Grant. Berwind's second marriage follows the 1894 death of his first wife. the couple plans a honeymoon before settling at his home on East Thirty ninth Street.
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Washington Post
New York
John E. Berwind
Milllionaire
Katherine M. Wood
Philadelphia
Church of the Ascension
Percy Stickney Grant
Berwind
Francis Wood
East Thirtyninth Street
Graduation program details for Eastern Western McKinley and Central High
Graduation exercises for Eastern Western and Central High Schools set for June 16 to 20 at venues including the Columbia and National Theaters. Speeches by Senator Miles Poindexter and ex-Senator E J Burkett, invocation by Paul Hickok and Wendell Stafford, diplomas conferred by board of education members, Marine Band music, and 70 to 145 graduates across schools.
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Eastern
Western
Business
McKinley
Poindexter
Justice Stafford
Hastérn High School
Columbia Theater
Paul Hickok
Metropolitan Presbyterian Church
Miles Poindexter
Washington
Henry P. Blair
Board of Education
Rudolph
Marine Band
Wendell Stafford
Western High School
Ernest H. Daniel
E J. Burkett
Paul Menzell
Concordia Lutheran Church
Central High School
National Theater
James F. Oyster
McKinley Manual Training School
Three Graduates on June 19 to Complete Exercises
There will be three graduates on June 19. Arrangements for the exercises of the graded schools have not been completed, but they will be finished within the next week.
Forced Out Says Hill
June 4 Berlin The American Association of Commerce and Trade of Berlin plans a June 27 banquet honoring retiring American Ambassador David Jayne Hu with top court, diplomatic, and business figures expected. Former Minister Peiberg to deliver the chief speech. Ambassador Hill says resignation was forced by the State Department.
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Washington Post
Berlin
American Association of Commerce and Trade of Berlin
David Jayne Hu
Peiberg
Hill
State Department
Geneseo Man Slashes Throat as Death Is Passed
Geneseo New York June 4 a man named James Williams a Black defendant convicted of murder slashed his throat with a razor just as the all‑preme court sentenced him to death Williams caused a disturbance in the courtroom before being carried from the room He was taken to an upper room where doctors dressed the wound and surgeons say he will recover from the self inflicted injury
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Geneseo
N. Y
James Williams
Wiliams
Benton
James Duffy
Honeoye Falls
Dr. Howell Elected Mayor in Wilmington Election
Wilmington Republicans won the biennial city election with Dr. Harrison W Howell elected mayor by 382 votes over Dr. J Harvey Spruance. Samuel H Benson Jr remained mayor and was chosen president of the council, with William Ledman elected city treasurer. The council will be seven Republicans and six Democrats. council remains Democratic. Local issues dominated the campaign.
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Wilmington
Del
Harrison W. Howell
J. Harvey Spruance
Samuel H. Benson, Jr
Wiliam
Ledman
Laws for Rich Make Cost of Living Higher He Says
Judge James L. Pugh denounces unjust discrimination in the muzzling law as root of high living costs. He rails at trusts and calls for even enforcement, citing Charles J. Allen's poolroom dog case at 3087 M Street NW and noting widespread prosecutions in police court. He questions why Allen should be fined while others escape.
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James L. Pugh
United States
Police Court
Charles J. Allen
M Street Northwest
Allen Tather
Allen
Pugh
Judge Rules Uniform Harshness For All Offenders
A stern court tone is set as the judge declares uniform treatment for all defendants regardless of charge and emphasizes continued law enforcement with firmness. The speaker notes the offense is serious, though the offender may not grasp its weight, and mentions a fine.
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Ft ' Allen
Silent Mount Kisco Hold Up Ends With Police Trail
Howard Weeks, superintendent near Mount Kisco, was held up by three masked bandits seeking 1600 dollars in payroll money. He grabbed his revolver and shot the bandit leader Goth, while the other two fired at him. Weeks escaped on horseback. A crimson trail led into the woods and a posse later found tracks, suggesting the highwaymen fled on horseback.
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White Plains
Howard BP. Weeks
Shan Estate
Mount Kisco
Goth
Weeks
New London College Offer Ties Name Change to Connecticut College
Morton F. Plant of New London has reportedly offered 1 million dollars to the woman’s college to be located at New London. The proposal requires the name change to Connecticut College and a second million dollars in fundraising. The trustees have not confirmed or denied the offer.
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M. F. Plant
New London
New Haven
Conn
Morton F. Plant
Woman's College
Thames College
Connecticut College
Plant
Board of
Mad horse shot after barking like a dog in stable yard
New York June 4 Special to The Washington A mad horse that had barked like a dog was shot and killed late Saturday by Policeman Costin in the stable yard of John A Armstrong. The animal, bitten by a small dog six weeks earlier, drew hundreds of onlookers as it attempted to gnaw through its stall door and veterinarians diagnosed rabies.
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Washington
New York
Costin
John A. Armstrong
Taft Grants Exception for Naval Aid Palmer Marriage
Lieut Comdr Leigh C Palmer, naval aide to President Taft, will marry Mrs Bessie Draper McKeldin of Atlanta next Saturday. The President waived the unmarried aide rule, saying he wants Palmer’s services as long as he desires. Palmer, a long-time Taft confidant, served in the Spanish war era and held roles including naval aid to Mr Root and representative at King Alfonso’s wedding.
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White House
Leigh C Palmer
Taft
Bessie Draper McKeldin
Atlanta
Comdr Palmer
Comdr
Palmer
Hudson
New York
Santiago
Naval Academy
United States
Alfonso
Spain
Root
South America
Guarded Lincoln Deathbed Veteran Beaubien Dies
Louis L. Beaubien a 9 year old civil war veteran who helped carry President Lincoln from Ford s Theater and stood guard near Lincoln s deathbed in Washington has died in Detroit. Beaubien served in Company F Twenty fourth Michigan Infantry during the assassination period.
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Detroit
Mich
Louis L. Beaubien
Lincoln
Ford
Washington
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White House Place
L. L. Beaubien
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Pennsylvania Ave
N. H
Rt and
Lansburgh & Brother
Seventh Street
Eighth Street
WM. Stiebeling
Agency
Singer Sewing Machines
Pennsylvania Ave. Nw
Claflin Optical CO
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Sieunds
Near Post Building
Whiskey of
D. J. Connell
Edward J Quinn
Televiews Main
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A. H. Church
C A Mnuddiman
Fraser
C. A. Muddiman & CO
Twelfth Stoo
Gav
Sidney West
Stein-Bloch Smart Clothes
Dunlap & Cou
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Berlitz School OF Languages
St . W.kor
Equitable
14Th St
OPEX
Tran
P. H. Sheehy
7Th St. and
Fla. Ave
N. W
Our Monogram Flour
Elphonza Youngs CO
6Th St. Nw
Groceriezs
Darling
P Nmin
Ree Sae
Stieff Pianos
F St
J. ¢. Conliff
Mgr
Weeweeer
Pittsburg Water Heater CO
James R. Wheeler
Ll. Miner
Olt
Eer
Hydraulic Press Brick Company
Colorado
JOS. Richards & Co
R. Harris & Company
D Sts
Cheesman’s Pharmacy
Kwong Wah Hing CO
St NW
M. H. Philpett
Iker
E Street
Cor
L. F. Lusby
East Capitol Market, Ltd
E. Cap. Sts
Samuel ¢. Raub
8Th St. Nw
Geo. A. Young
Grant Place
9Th St. N. W
Ernest Gichner
Thirteenth St. N. W
Storaghe
Fred
Littlefield
Alvordec
14Th Street
Lanman Engraving CO
R. P. Andrews Paper CO
LA. Ave
John J. Costinett
ST. N. W
Templar
Washington, D
E. F. Droop & Sons CO
Steinway Fieu
Danpe Pianos
James Linskey & Sons
American Security and Trust Company
Fifteenth St
Charles J. Bell
Shoomaker’s
Gude Bros. CO
Washington, D. C
Center Market Cafe
Sts. N. W
C. & Bowling
WM. Cannon
Harry B
Amrein
N.Y. Ave
J. H. Magruder
Conn. Ave
Ekst. Nw
National Sporting Goods Co
Robert E Volkner
A Tappan
Ninth ST NW
Baltimore St
Baltimore
Main
Sherratt’s China Art Store
13Th St
Chisses Moruuyy
Whit
China
House & Herrmann
Sts
Army
Washington Branch
A. G. Plant & CO
Bankers and Brokers
Fourteenth Street
Washington Stock Exchange Private Wire
the Paradise Springs Co., Inc
12Th ST. N. W
Evans Building
New York Ave
John C. Evans
A. W. Evans
Agis
New York Ave. Nw
A.W. Evans
Agts
Evans
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