Insurance Year Highlights New DC Law Aids Policy Holders
Superintendent Drake reports the District's insurance laws since 1902 restrained chaotic practices, reducing risky firms, boosting licensed companies to 120 by 1905, and increasing premiums by 978,600.83 since 1902. He notes no losses among insured from the 1906 earthquake era, and cites strong fiscal results and wider license activity.
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Drake
San Francisco
District of Columbia
United States
Macfarland
United States Treasury
Wask
Plumbers Without Licenses Charged By Master Plumbers
Charged journeymen with using master plumber licenses to aid unlicensed workers. Public hearing scheduled as secretary Schaefer warns of abuses and seeks orders to stop them. Also: Women win Christian Endeavor contest at Metropolitan Church with solos, recitations, and prizes.
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P C Schaefer
Master Plumbers’ Association
Schaefer
C. E
Intermediate Christiany Endeavor Society
Metropolita Presbyterian Church
Washington
Miles Margaret Dailey
Frances Bethune
Edith Cowl
Frieda Hamilton
Lepper
Ethel Harper
Conday
Ruth Harper
French Reception Given At Mile V Prid'homme Residence
The reception at Indiana Avenue featured Mrs W C Wells singing Lachanson a Prisonnier by Rubenstein and L mes vers Avainet des Alles by Hahn. Miles Prud'homme read a Napoleon story, and M Schulte performed Lafete de Monocle. W Baldwin Johnson offered White Ash Coal at 50 cents a ton off for cash city delivery.
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Mile V
Prid
M. Schulte
W. Baldwin Johnson
High School Cadets Drill Plans For May
Four drill programmes for the annual High School Cadets drill were sent to battalion officers. Thirty minutes allotted per drill. Companies will form in line fifteen yards in front of cages and report to the senior board officer. Movements follow the programme order, but not every movement can be done from the preceding one. Movements are announced by the captain who must use his own means to execute them. Any movement pass marked O cannot be retaken. Distances must be ample for judges to assess proficiency. Movements must be completed before proceeding. After the drill, the company marches to the grand stand to be judged.
Fire damages Thompson School in noon blaze
Fire discovered in Thompson School on Twelfth Street during noon recess. Miss Brown, fifth grade teacher on the top floor, raised the alarm as flames shot through the floor. Fire started in the manual training room from an overheated furnace in a lower room. pipes ran through the area. Loss estimated at 2200 with most pupils outside.
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Thompson
Brown
Request for Half Holiday for Navy Yard Workers
A congressional committee led by Representatives Weeks Roberta and Dawson and George L Cain president of the National League of Employees urged the President to renew last year’s executive order granting a half holiday to Navy Yard Arsenal and gun factory workers on Saturdays in June July and August. The President asked for a written statement of the request but is expected to extend the prior leave order. The Velvet Kingm Just Right. it s 8 Quality Ice Cream Druggists.
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Navy
Weeks
Roberta
Dawson
George L Cain
National League of Employes
City Bullets Building Permits Issued by Inspector Ashford
Building permits announced by Inspector Ashford include Yo J B Henderson for a four story brick dwelling at 69 Sixteenth Street Northwest with architect George Oakley Totten and builder George A Tuller Co. estimated $75,000. E OC Jordan for repairs at 1203 Gatecot Northwest with architect B Stanley Simmons and builder E E Jordan estimated $1,500. Public notices also promote sales, products, and services from local firms and advertisements for travel and household goods.
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Inspector Ashford
Yo J B Henderson
Sixteenth Street Northwest
George Oakley Totten
Builier
George A. Tuller Company
OC Jordan
Gatecot Northwest
B. Stanley Simmons
E. E Jordan
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Pennsylvania Ave
House & Herrmann
Vth
H Sts. N. E
7Th St. S. W
Mayer & Coo
7Th St
Goa
A. Muddiman & Co
12Th St
Rae Hallet
Reg Davis Piane
T.P. Culley
Eleventh St. N. W
White House
Rolla
Boston Baking Co
Sts. S. W
O'Donnell Sicc
Stoces
St. N
BIC
Supt
Ordera
City Bulletins
B. F. Brooks Co
15Th St
Julius Lansburgh Furniture and Carpet Co
Inter-Ocean Building
Schneider
Pengion Free
S, J. Block
Notary Public
St, Nw
van Houten
Bendori
Hartley
Norfolk and Washington
Norfolk
Old Foint
Camenron
Kentucky
Great Bear
Great Bear Boring Water Co
Td Hth St. Nw
Voigt's
Washington Post
AL MudBimean & Co
Bragks Co
D. J. Kaufman
Pa. Ave
Wm, Hahn & Co,s
N. W
Union Savings Bank
St. W
Pag
Booklat
F. Barnet
F. ST. In
Frank H. Edmonds
New York Avenue
Sterling Fountain
R. P. Andrews Paper CO
Incorporated
la. Ave. N. Ww
Castelberg’s
Penna. Ave
E. Morrison Paper CO
Hecht
Tne
Goodyear Rubber Co
Stumph & Lyford
Massachusetts Avenue
Washington Gaslight Co
10Th St. NW
Ceres
Rollet
Hicks
Capucine
Fela Bette
Potomac Electric Power Co
T. A.W
Hudson's
Keeley Gore
Keeley Institute
Altreet
Washington, D. Gy
Tevin
Marzlant
Henry Evans
F St. NW
Victor E.adler
Ten Per Cent Clothing House
Somer Sf
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