District Sees Pay for Absent Teachers Cut to One Day
Auditor Tweedale weighs ruling on pay for absent educators after February 28. Board of Education delays action as Secretary Hine withholds pay for eighteen teachers. federal rules and last day of month absences add complexity. A final decision expected by Saturday with possible appeal to the Comptroller Tracewell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alonzo Tweedale
Harry 0. Iine
Board of Education
Tweedale
Comptroller of the Treasury
Mnally
Mnal
Tracewell
Hine
Tweeunis
Tt. Stuart
William Tindall
District Commissioners
District of Columbia
Finne
Henry Blair
the Treasury
Lea
Callinger
Senate District Committee
Senate
James F Oyster
School Promotions and Transfers At Smallwood District
Davis principal announces promotions Miss Katherine Harrington from third to fourth grade. Miss R Capers moves from second to third grade and transfers within Corcoran to Addison. Miss M F Chapman advances from first to second grade and shifts from Corcoran to Addison. Miss T D Adams becomes kindergarten principal and transfers from Adams to Smallwood. Appointed Miss Margaret Cummins as kindergarten assistant at Adams School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Cummins
Adams School
Hen Restores Lost Coin in Tarrytown
John Grohan of Glenville trains a white leghorn hen to follow him to the trolley. The hen flew to his shoulder as he boarded and recovered a dropped nickel, then ran after him, proving the bird’s clever tricks and claims of intelligence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tarrytown
N. Y
John Grohan
Glenville
Beleves
New York State
Grohan
Shanghaiing Case Ties Baltimore Sailor to Mutiny on Irene Ruth
Daniel Haddaway a Baltimore saloonkeeper was arrested on a charge of shanghaiing John A. McNamara of Williamsport Pa and placing him aboard the oyster sloop Irene Ruth where McNamara died attempting escape. The Irene Ruth crew later mutinied killed captain Alice Dortsay and injured mate John Allen who died in Washington hospital. Federal officers allege McNamara was drugged robbed and consigned to the sloop after displaying money and fine clothes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Haddaway
Potomac River
Baltimore
United States
Zimmerman
John A. McNamara
Willamsport
Irene Ruth
McNamara
Haddaway
Bond
Alice Dortsey
John Allen
Washington, D. C
Richmond
Williamsport
East Pratt Street
$5000 Rembrandt Seized in Secret Police Find
A sensational case from Saint Petersburg reports a missing Rembrandt of an aged woman in black. A chamberlain paid $5000, ordered restoration, and the antiquary later said two police agents took the painting. A parcel brought by a youth contained a cut canvas and the work is now with the secret police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antiquary
Washington
St. Petersburg
Caat
Will of Mrs. Hicks patronizes hospitals colleges and charities
Bequests totaling over 350000 in the will of Mrs. Allen A. Hicks of Old Westbury New York leave an estate valued around 3 million dollars. The will provides 100000 for Nassau Hospital Association Min eola and for Swarthmore College 25000 for a memorial fountain honoring Henry Bergh and 40040 to the New York Association for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Allen A. Hicks
Old Wesbury
Swarthmore College
Henry Bergh
The
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To
New York Association For the
Movements of Ocean Steamers Reported Arrivals and Departures
A list of ocean liner movements includes New York Rotterdam Antwerp Gothland Queenstown Ivernia Boston Marseille Roma Noordam Lusitania Naples Naples Naples Liverpool Naples Southampton New York Kronprinz Wilhelm Empress of Ireland Slascsonset Chiraxo Havre New York Celtic Naples New York Sable Taland Saint Paul Southampton New York Dover Campanella bound for Rotterdam and Liverpool with arrival and docking times noted.
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Aringen
New York
Vaderland
Ant
Rotterdam
Antwerp
Gothland
Queenstown
Ivernia
Boston
Marseille
Madonna
Roma
Lusitania
Liverpool
Ovennia
Naples
San Giovanni
Southampton-Adriatic
Cape Racé
John. N. DL
Chiraxo
Havre
Wil
Celtic
Wll
Sable Taland
St Paul
Southampton
Dover
Campanella
Mothers Seek Relief with Mwuet Grays Remedies
Mwuet Grays offer relief for teething feverish gums and stomach upset. Claims include breaking up colds in 24 hours and soothing headaches. Promoted as pleasant tasting for children, used by over 10 000 mothers for two and a half years, sold by all druggists with free sample mailed to Allen S Olmsted Leley VW.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mwuet
Allen S
Olmsted
Leley
Supreme Court legal record in Washington year brief
The document lists justices and attorneys admitted to practice, rulings from the United States Supreme Court and United States Court of Customs Appeals, case numbers and participants, adjournment notices, and a sequence of district court equity, probate, criminal, bankruptcy, and other court actions with numerous property and party details and dates. It preserves official docket entries, notices, and procedural orders across multiple courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
District of Columbia
Equity Court, No
Justice Staffan
Nancy Green
Real Estate Transfers in Northwest Washington Partnerships
North Randle Highlands and surrounding squares show numerous property transfers and security deeds. Trustees and buyers such as American Security and Trust Company, Harriet D. Yates, and Edward W. Whiteside secure parcels ranging from square 132 to 960 with prices from 400 to 34,280 dollars. Multiple entries detail lot numbers, square designations, lender names, and terms including 3 to 9 year periods at 5 to 8 percent interest, often with semiannual payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas M. Carrot
Catherine W. Godey
Columbia Heights
Clara S. Simondy
James Marti
Fourteenth Street
Sarah E. Posey
Robert H. Featherstone
Thomas Hyde
Reynald W. Beall
Seventh Street
Mary R. Hillyard
Frances R. Hillyard
Ermaer
May C
Catherine L. Spengler
Mary
Mary Widmayer
Katherine A. Baltz
Saul
Horace G. Smithy
Mabel Tyree
Willetta CG. Larkin
Edgewood
American Security and Trust Company
William von Bernsevitz
Sixteenth
Seventeenth
Albert M. Schneidar
T. Franklin Schneider
Thirteenth Street
Nathan Hurwitz
Pompeia Company
Petworth—Clarente B. Rheem
William L. Browning
Barry Farm
Strattlet P. Shadd
G. T. Long
Massachusetts Avenue Heights
Jarvey Durand
Amos H. Plum
Lee W. Funk
Pauline Augenstein
University "Heights
Harry “Barton
Patrick F. Hanna
North Randle Highlands
Harry W Fox
Nineteryts Street
Georgia M. Robinson
Harriet D. Yates
Kate
James F. Payne
Edward W. Whiteside
Harvey T. Winfield
Home Building Association
Pleasant Plains
John H. Nolan
Eldridge EH
Jordan
H. Bradley Davidson
James Trimble
Square
Robert H. Featherstons
WE. Schmidt
Walter A. Brown
Francis R. Hillyard
Henry H. Bergmann
Julius A. Maedel
Oliver W. McDonald
Richard E. Patro
Herbert A
Fetworth
Alexander T Hensey
George W
Swartzell
Harry T. Domer
Robert H. Terrell
Jamey A. Cobb
Harriet P. Shadd
James E. Balnes Dux
Samuel Hart
Lida BR. Long
Samuel W
Charles M. White, Jr
Samuel J. Millard
Lee W Unk
George W. Barkman
Charles D. Liebermann
George G. McElwee
John W. Farkness
Mabel E. Tyrée
Willetta c. Larkin
Francis Saul
Norman L. Lansbury
Scheutzen Park
Charles Garratson
Heber L. Thornton
Wilmot W.trew
Claud Livingston
Wellison P. Atlen
Alfred Higble
Willan Donahue
Harrison G. Dyar
William S. Mtnnix Et al
Harry L. Trust
Robert J3. Bradley
George C. Bowle
Paris hotel and theater venture planned by Gould
The story describes Gould and ally Taft pursuing a Paris hotel and playhouse project with a seven story glass upper series, linked by tunnel to a New York Thirty Fourth Street hotel. Hennessy may run both ventures. cost estimated at 6 to 7 million dollars, aiming to outshine several Paris stages. The piece also notes art sales at American Art Galleries and a Washington social wedding in New York with the Dick and Havemeyer families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boulevard Des Capuchins
Gould
Paris
Charles P. Taft
Thirtyfourth Street
New York
Frank Hennessy
Playhouse
Hennessy
Casino Theater
Maxine Eliott Theater
Thirtyninth Street
Sarah Bernhardt
Comedie Francaiss
Robert Hoe
American Art Galleries
Limoges
J. Goldschmidt
F. W. White
St. Thomas
Becket
Canterbury
Frank Partridge
Solomon
S. C
Susanne Curtois
Reveals Relics Of Past At G Street Cornerstone
Local Scottish Rite Masons recover relics from the old Masonic Cathedral cornerstone. Articles include a copper box with papers, a Washington Post from October 11, 1888, and twenty five dollars in coins. Contractor F P Gormley handed the box to Elmer D P Simpson for safekeeping. The artifacts will be stored in the new Scottish Rite Cathedral cornerstone on Sixteenth Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Masonic
G. Street
Eleventh
Washington Post
F. P. Gormley
Elmer DP. Simpson
Sixteenth Street
Man with weapons committed to Bellevue for observation
Lewis Edwards described as mild man who carried three revolvers and a long knife. After two weeks of trying to see Police Commissioner Cropsey he is committed to Bellevue Hospital for observation. Edwards frequently spent days at police headquarters, even bringing lunch there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lewis Edwards
Bellevue Hospital
Cropsey
Edwards
Police
Woman Acid Thrower Sentenced in Alberta Carter Case
Alberta Carter colored with her two year old baby in her arms pleaded guilty to acid throwing at Prof. de Vaux on January 2. She received a two year penitentiary sentence with good behavior non-operable. Parole was urged by Assistant District Attorney Turner and Chief Justice Clabaugh placed her under Probation Officer Porter. De Vaux survived thanks to prompt treatment. John Merven Carrere, New York architect, died after injuries from a trolley car collision with a taxicab two weeks earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alberta Carter
Con de Vaux
Charles H. Turner
Clabaugh
Isaac D. Porter
de Vaux
John M. Carrere
New York
John Merven Carrere
Presbyterian Hospital
Dolly Madison and other acts at area theatres this week
Washington theatergoers can expect Dolly Madison starring Elsie Ferguson at the Columbia next week with Orme Caldara and Albert Chevalier in Daddy Duford at the Belasco. Additional showcases include Seven Days at the National, Keenan in Man to Man, vaudeville by the Stewart Sisters, McGreeveys Village Fiddler, Jolly Fanny Rice marionettes, Five Brown Brothers, and Har ry Howard ponies. Columbia also brings Miss Isadora Duncan’s ensemble in a Bach Wagner program and Mischa Elman in recital on March 10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dolly Madison
Washington
Charles Nirdlinger
Owill
Columbia
Miss_Elsie Ferguson
Orme Caldara
Chase
Frankeenan
Jack Rance
Belasco
Maryland
Warrens
Virginia
Helghts
Mr. Keenan
Dan Burke
Isadora Duncan
New York Symphony Orchestra
T. Arthur Smith
Mischa Elman
Evanta
Columbia Theater
Elman
Outdoor sleep boosts vitality says New York camper
A columnist cites women who sleep outdoors for health benefits. They claim outdoor beds yield color, vigor, and energy, noting both sick and apparently well people may gain from such practice. One New York woman even made a rooftop outdoor sleeping space for the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Simple Talks on Health Sleep Outdoors for Purified Blood
The piece praises sleeping out of doors for health benefits and better complexion. It argues outdoor sleep flushes blood through the lungs, purifying it and improving color, asserting 30,000 pints purify daily and that open air yields greater vitality for work and life. It urges trying the outdoor sleep experiment this summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jess
Gayety to Present Edward F. Rush Burlesque and More
Next Friday the Gayety presents Edward F. Rush's Bontons noted for snappy music and 30 merry merrys. Mrs Back Boys Benton College heads a burletta with James J. Lake and a supporting cast. The Lyceum airs Moulin Rouge Burlesquers and Prevost and Brown offer a distinctive vaudeville act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward F. Rush
Lyceum
Moulin Rouge Burlesquers
Moulin Rouge
Pythian Suit Hald by Supreme Lodge Plea in Abatement
The Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias faces a receiver bid by John H Turpin alleging mismanagement and $400000 diverted between funds The lodge seeks to halt proceedings citing Indiana court jurisdiction and comity The Indiana court may decide first Dr C F Windigter spoke on The Subconscious Mind Its Powers and How to Use Them to Washington Psycho-Therapeutic Society at WCTU headquarters answering audience questions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias
John H. Turpin
District Court
Circuit Court of Indiana
Indianapolis
Indiana Court
C. F. Windigter
Washington Psycho-Therapeutic Society
Winbigier
Winbigler
New Board of Trade Admits Five Members
Five applications for men to join the Washington Board of Trade were favorably acted upon by the membership committee yesterday. The new members are Walter McDonnell George Plitt George G Cornwell Dr L W Engster m and John F Murrell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Board of Trade
Walter McDonnell
George Plitt
George G. Cornwell
L. W. Engsterm
John F. Murrell
Lent services begin at Christ Church Georgetown
Bishop Harding opened Lent with an 11 am service at Christ Church Georgetown. Assisted by Rev. Dr. Jamed H. Blake, he delivered the sermon on Lent’s meaning and offered communion to most of the large congregation including several young boys. Archdeacon Percy C. Webbber of New York began an eight days mission at Christ Church last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harding
Christ Church
Georgetown
Jamed H. Blake
Blake
Percy C. Webbber
New York
Colton Residence Sells At Auction In Prestige District
The Colton residence at 1617 Connecticut Avenue Northwest, home of the late Mrs. Ellen M. Colton, was sold yesterday at auction by the estate trustees for 61900. Purchaser was Miriam D. Thropp. auctioneer was Adam A. Weschler. The four story, 19 room, 4 bath building stands in a fashionable residential area with surrounding grand homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colton
Connecticut Avenue
Ellen M. Colton
Miriam D. Thropp
Adam A. Weschler
Oldest Inhabitants to Remodel Fire Engine House
Funds to remodel the old volunteer fire engine house at Nineteenth and H streets NW by the Oldest Inhabitants Association of the District have been raised. Architects will complete plans in about a week. A committee will devise a method to frame and protect old pictures and ornaments. Cotter T. Bride and Charles J. Bell are new members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cotter T. Bride
Charles J. Bell
Virginia Democrats Elect Officers at Ebbitt House
The annual meeting of the Virginia Democratic Society of Washington was held last evening at the Ebbitt House. Officers for the ensuing year were elected: Roger C. Glasscock president, L. P. Shoemaker vice president, M. R. Buckey secretary, and J. B. Baugh treasurer. Steps were taken toward consolidating the society with other Virginia organizations in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Democratic Society of Washington
Ebbitt House
Virginia
Roger C. Glasscock
L. P. Shoemaker
M. R. Buckey
J. B. Baugh
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Tard of Education
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Ellen Spencer Musaer
Sehoalx Stuart
Percy M. Hughes
Publi Schools
Crades
M. K. Firpkins
C 2D Adams
John Henderson, Jr
Adelaide Waring
Cl, Jones
Tenley School
M. L
Ehachive
Hen
Intelligent Bird
Sloop
Rembrandt
Big Sum
Charity
Noordam
United States Supreme Court
Justice Harlan
Justice McKenna
Justice Holmes
Justice Pay
Justice Lurton
Hughes
Justice van Devanter
Lamar
W. B. Craig
Salem
Ala
Howard G. Cosrove
Seattle
Wash
Paul A. Staley
Springfield
Ohio
Teach, Rice
New York City
David Carll
Henry Melville Walker
Edward J. Harriman
Mary W. Harriman
Edward H. Harriman
Maxwell Evarts
Appellee
Diamond Rubber Company of New York
Consolidated Rubber Tire Company Et al
Frederick P. Fish
Charles H. Omald
Marble Tiger
Western Investment Company Et al
W. L. Sturdevant
George S. Rameey
United States Court of Customs Appeals
Montgomery
Smith
Barber
DeVries
Martin
Jackson
Rossman
Granite
United States Va
National Aniline and Chemical Company
Henry J. Webster
Charles B. McNabb
Mark Cross Company
D. Frank Lloyd
Austin, Baldwin & Cove
Cornelius Kahlen
Wickham Smith
T. J. Doherty
Carr
Margaret M. Murray
Examiner
Plaintif
A. B. Duvalli
Leckie, Fulton & Cor
Matthews
Rudy
Blair
Equity Court
M. Hi. Beard
A. A. Lipscomb
Copeland Vs. Girard Trust Company
M. V. Elliott
J. D. Coughlin
Arlington Breway Company
Plaintiff
W. F. Columbus
Cmcurr
Justice Anderson
Hart +s. Capital Traction Company
Platout
Alexander Wolf
Worthington
R. Ross Perry & Son
GT. Dunlop
Towner Ve. Saunders
Truxton
Circuit Court No
Justices Barnard
Barber Va
Criminal Court NO
George Carrett
Samuel Thomas
Richard Smith
James Daniela
Ambrose
Thomas
Taylor
D. Truitt
Alverta Carter
Rot
Waring
Charles E. Lang
A. A. Hoehling, Jr
Jacob Crockett
M. TF. Brangan
Lemuel Ross
Rice Hope
James Magruder
M. E. O'Brien
Justha Stafford
Waggamean
City Harnies Compan
Cedar Street
Sarah E. Zepp
Will
Arthur Peter
William’ L. Miller
May B. Miller
C. D. Garrett
Henrietta Dunn
Mary Dunn
Sleman & Lerch
Frederika F. A. von Biedow
Waldeman I. von Biedow Guarilan
George E. Hamilton
Lane
Blair, Drayton & Hillyer
Catherine M. Coonsy
M. F. Mangan
Willis BR. Speare
E. L. White
Harley Cooper
Aled
Johannes Berber
Benamin
Wright
Myron L. Story
HM. Baker
Lucy N. Copeland
Girard Trust Company
Welch
Arlington Brewing Company
Michael McNamara
Columbus
George H. Dorrell
George BE. Crosell
Www
J. Brown
Naomi Herring
Clay M. Herring
J. E. Laskey
William C. Ricks
Richard E. Pairo
W. G. Gardiner
W. F. Shepherd
Lewis C. Ferrell
George W. Blankenship
Theodore Carys Lula B. Davis
Doris A. Dick
J. Henry Dick
Horace Havemeyer
Henry C. Havemeyer
Gathieringa
Gociery
Philip Cook
Eastifty-third Street
Mr. Havemeyer
Julia A. Dick
J. Watson Webb
Eleanor Hastings
Ruth Adams
Lisa Stillman
Alice Dixon
Elizabeth Bacon
Harriet Ferry
Maurice Edgell
Charles H. Jackson
Eliot B. Cross
Joseph W. Burden
Harry T. Peters
William I. Dick
Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen
Japan
Tokyo
L. L. Perkins
Ager
Colorado ‘Blue
Elsie Ferguson
Albert Chevalier
Daddy D Dufard
London
Daddy Dufard
Chevalier
Lechmére Worrall
Daddy Duford
Chase’ ’G
Frank Keenan
Stewart Sisters
Slater
Darrell
Parl
Bernier
Goyette
Ethel Goodwin
Perry
Elliott
Hazel
Academy
Lillian Mortimer
E. M. Newman
Denmark
Barbara Boyd
America
Jepners
St. N. W
Atlantic City
Gayety
Bontons
John H. Turpin Piles
Board of Trade
Bishop Harding
Christ Church, Georgetown
Fund TO
OLD House
Ital
Waverley Electrics
Waverley Electric
North
Carpenter Automobile Company
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