City Bullets on Contracts and Local Ads
Fireboat building contract awarded to Joseph 8 Reynolds for wharf facility to serve firemen. District officials eye stock prospects in Magus, with price rise forecast around July 61st. Jerome investigates Equitable Life, reporting no wrongdoing found. Local ads tout Munich beer, Great Beat Spring Water, Schdnider’s crab feasts, pure ice cream, Eppinger's, and assorted goods and services across G and nearby streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph
Reynolds
Lways
Magus
Jerome
Frobe Equitable
Equitable Life Assurance Society
NW Cap Brewing Co
Munich
Marital Ties Sundered in District Supreme Court Divorces
Justice Stafford granted Billa M Padgett a divorce from Charles Padgett for infidelity and awarded custody to Padgett, with a return to her maiden name. He also granted Herman Bocorselski a divorce from Barbara Socorselak with custody of their child. Nettie L Ley sought separate maintenance, alleging desertion since October 193, with no support. A petition by Milton Thomas against Christabell Tomas named a co respondent and sought custody of their son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Stafford
District Supreme Court
Billa M Padgett
Charles 8
Nettie L. Ley
Charles Ley
Tita
George C. Aukam
Ley
Milton ‘Thomas
Christabell
Tomas
Charles W. ‘Darr
Thomas
Regro Hiding Ended. Neill Williams Surrenders to Police
Neill Williams, described as a negro, surrendered to Detectives Hartigan and Baur after a week on the run for allegedly striking Michael Nolan on the head with a brick. He will be arraigned in Police Court today if Nolan is well enough to attend. Williams says he and another man were in a stone-throwing dispute when the injury occurred. In a separate incident Christopher Argefer, 25, was treated for a severe laceration to the left leg at Casualty Hospital after an on-the-job accident with a telephone company. Hugh Cryer, 14, sustained a fractured right wrist from a fall from scaffolding at Twenty-third and M Streets NW and was treated at the Emergency Hospital after claiming a bricklayer kicked him from the scaffold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neill Williams
Neill Willams
Michael Nolan
Hartigan and Baur
Willams
Nolan
Christopher Argefer
G Street
Casualty Hospital
Chesamake
Potomac Telephone Campas
Hugh Cryer
Twenty-third
Esro
New Member Agast Witness Challenges Attorney in Brandenburg Trial
The trial of Patrolman Brandenburg for unbecoming conduct featured a tense exchange as witness Bursey threatened a hostful confrontation across the Long Bridge. Attorney Lambert pressed Bursey on prior house visits, prompting a heated response. Other witnesses described past meetings, while Mrs Brandenburg’s absence delayed part of the hearing. A second Brandenburg session is scheduled for Wednesday at 1 pm with Mrs Mayberry anticipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lambert
Brandenburg
G. BD. Brandenburg
James Frantin Smith
Wilton J. Lambert
Bursey
Long Bridge
Ambrose
C. K. Metcalf
Sinclair
Smith
Swindell
Lieut
Elliott
Fifth Street
P. Bursey
Lieut. Daley
Chairman Smith
Clais
Mr. Lambert
Joseph Beckwith
Frank Mayberry
Bladensburg Road
Otters
Mr. Smith
Pumphrey
Fourteenth
Pumphrey Hiad
Hac
G. A. Wilson
Eighth
Robert Moore
Seventh Street
Pamphrey
Wilson
Assessors Clerks Protest Engineer Dept Parking Horses
Assessors clerks in the District building complain about horses and vehicles parked in the alley beside the office. A health inspector calls the arrangement a nuisance and urges the Commissioners to require the engineer department employees to move the vehicles or to flush the alley more often.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Engineer Department
Assessors’ Office
Woodward
Commisstonera
Found Dead Infant on Flats Near Navy Yard
Two young men in a rowboat found the mangled body of a white infant about one week old wrapped in old newspaper on the flats opposite the navy yard. The infant was taken to the morgue by order of Coroner Nevitt. No clear identifiers or surrounding injuries pointed to the parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Yard
Nevitt
Harris charged with stabbing wife in Police Court
William Harris alias Br Barrows, two negro, arraigned for harming his wife with a dangerous weapon. He pleaded not guilty and bond set at 1500 for grand jury hearing. Sadie Harris testified of the assault after Harris returned intoxicated and quarrelled with her. The prisoner claimed his wife inflicted the wounds and was apprehended in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Harris
Br’ Barrows
Scott
Harris
Sadie Harris
Emica
Beder
Fredericksburg
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Saks
Washington
Saks’ Store
Panama
Sea Island
Russia
Pennsylvania Avenue
Saks & Company
Sts. N
Mayer & CO
Mie
City Bulletins
New York Health Journal
American Authority On
C. J
Magwie TL
Gee
Thomas Geary
Schneider
Hartung's Sanitary Dairy
Ma. Ave
Joe Gat
Bebwelder
Esisinger's
Ferrara
Union Tabor
Denver
Col
Epworth Ledgue
July & Addéres Frank ‘Tarael
Golorads
Chicago
Toaat
Muddiman & Co
Monastery
Keane's
St. Ne
Regro
All Colora
Atzes
Loweat Agurem
R. P. Andrews Papar Co
la. Ave
E SL
Philippine Monthly
M. A. Leese
Entscinrine Cotician
A. Kahn
F Street
Jesd
Esscseeseees &Burner
Crn
A. Eberly's Sons
J. T. Walker Sons
Tenth Street
N. W
Aghast
Hague
Baltimore
Jght
Lan
Serge C
Anama Ha
Baf & Mers
Grow
Eith Bove
Friedlander Bros
Ninth and
E Streets
Horn
Talon
M. Som
Lisie
D. J. Kaufman
Pa. Ave
Sunday Post
F St
Manhattan Laundry
Florida Ave
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