Six Soda Fountains Sanitation Crackdown in Washington
Health Officer Fowler issued warrants for six soda fountain proprietors for violating the sterilization law. Three prominent Washington establishments on FF street between Ninth and Fourteenth faced police court charges. Inspections found utensils washed in water and dirty towels used to dry glasses. proprietors cited employee negligence as defense. Fines range from 1 to 25 dollars.
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Fowler
Washington
FF Street
Ninth
Fourteenth Streets
Heaith Department
Sphinx and pyramids glow with British aid in Egypt
Special correspondent Ellis Williams visits Giza to describe how the war has reshaped Egypt. British troops, airmen, and Bedouins replace old regimes, while the Sphinx becomes a witness to a birth of a modern Egypt under liberty and law. The piece frames self government as an outcome of British enlightenment and human welfare guiding the pyramids.
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Ellis
Williams
Washington Post
New York Herald
Giza
Egypt
May
Great Pyramids
Sphinx
Cheops
Rameses
Great Pyramid
Pyramid of
Pyramids
New York
Britain
Sam Hound
Longfellow
Giga
Cairo
East
Earth
New York Herald Company
The
Post
More Truth Than Poetry On Thirst And Omar Khayyam
A 1919 Bell Syndicated verse piece reflects on drinking, Omar Khayyam, and changing domestic habits. It contrasts youth’s bacchanal talk with mature restraint, notes Lodge’s covenant stance, and mocks German morale after the Lusitania sinking. The piece ends with a light political jab and a geography quip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Lodge
Germany
Lusitania
Ile
Little Willie
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Free Transfers Discussed For electric line passengers
Officials from the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Line and the Washington Railway and Electric Company, with the public utilities commission, debated the advisability of granting free transfers to passengers. No action was taken as the utilities commission urged settlement by mutual agreement rather than edict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis
Washington Railway and Electric Company
Public Utilities Commission
Utilities Commission
9000 Sailors See Sights of Capital on Shore Leave
About 9000 sailors from the overseas fleet in Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis arrived in Washington for a day of sightseeing and events. Patriotic and social service organizations hosted them, with tours, lunches, a tea dance, and dances at multiple venues. Many sailors expected to visit again before shore leave ends Sunday night.
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Chesapeake Bay
Ammapostis
Jewish Welfare Board
Knights of Columbus
The
Red Cross
Salvation Army
War Camp Community Service
Houses of Congress
Congressional Library
National Museum
War Camp
Geven
Naval Battalion Armory
Trinity Parish Hall
Thomson’ School
Penn Gardens
Coliseum
Roof Band Stand Refused by District Board
With Commissioner Gardiner dissenting the district board rejected the Washington Hotel Companys application to build a musician s stand on its roof garden The building inspector had approved the plans but Commissioners Katz and Brownlow said regulations did not authorize a permit of this character
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Gardiner
Board of District Commissioners
Washington Hotel Company
Katz and
Brownlow
Major Donovan resumes duties as draft director
Major Daniel J. Donovan, who led the district draft, returns to his post as secretary to the commissioners after a year's absence. The move restores leadership to the district’s draft system and enables continued oversight of enlistment processes and related administrative duties.
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Daniel J. Donovan
Board of Commissioners
C. Willard Camalier
Public Utiies Commission
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Sunshine Biscuit Co
Goers
Rumford’s
Wagner
Mac
Armour’s
Porterhouse
Boston
Hamburg
Santos
Norfolk
All States Club
Church of the Covenant
Conn. Ave
N St
Neollh Wholesale and Rubber
Washington Shoe Repair Co
D Street NW
W. A
Maddinian
12Th
Pennsylvania Ave
Health Office
the Sphinx
Napoleon
James J. Montague
Omar Khayyam
Omar
Interurban
Washington Hotel
Maj. Donovan
Paris
H St. N. W
Shoreham Hotel
Pontiac
Michigan
Ren Ass
Connecticut Avenue
Harry W. Burr Washington
District Oakland Company
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
St. N. W
Washington, D. C
Camalier
Kiremm
Pecord
Board of
Commissrunmers
Ponovan
Hotel Arlington
Vermont Avenue
K Street
Financial District
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