Tip-Driven Garbage Service Sparks City controversy
Keister Brothers complain that district garbage collectors demand tips, a 15 cent gratuity provoking refusal and skipped pickups. Superintendent Stidham reports drivers rely on tips, demoralizing service, with Washington Fertilizer Company under scrutiny as bids and Contract terms face overhaul.
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Keister Brothers
General Commission
Center Market
Keisters
A& Neighbor’s
Supt
Godham
Washington Fertilizer Company
West
Super Intendent
Stidham
Keister Bros
Acton
Commission
Georgetown
District Building Notes Update on City Bridge and Streets
District notes repairs and replacements for bridges 75 and 44 designating costs of 500 and unknown, a steel concrete replacement, and 200 for bore holes. An inspector at 4 per diem will oversee terminal project bridges while smallpox scare is ruled chickenpox in Takoma Park. Grade adjustments planned for Sixth street and I street southeast with total costs around 9600 from grade crossing funds.
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Mr &. E Helm
de Berent
New York
Pleasant Drive
T J Johnson
Takoma Park
Washington Hydraulic Press Brick Company
Fifteenth
Sixth Street
Sixth Street Southeast, Between and I Streets, and Alleys In Square 878
I Street
Raff Charged With District Liquor Law Violation
Filias Raff a Seventh Street liquor dealer was arraigned in Police Court on charges he refilled whisky bottles from a known firm and used imitation labels to sell the product under District Code creation 873. The hearing was continued to May 1 at the defendant's request and Raff demanded a jury trial.
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Raff
Filias Raff
Woman Dies After Fire Escape Leap at Manhattan Building
Miss Kate Miller, about thirty, died from a fractured skull and severe injuries after leaping from a third floor window during a fire at the Manhattan Building on Fourteenth street near G street northwest. Coroner Nevitt ordered an accidental death certificate. remains likely sent to Baltimore for interment. She was unconscious at Emergency Hospital, mother and relatives at her bedside. The fire started from an oil lamp explosion.
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Kate Miller
Manhattan
Fourteenth Street
G Street
Nevitt
Baltimore
Misa Miller
Miss Miller
Mackey moves to seize speakeasy kegs in Alexandria County
Commonwealth attorney Crandall Mackey announces that kegs found in speakeasy raids in Alexandria County Virginia will be destroyed and not returned to breweries even if their name appears on the keg. He believes this will curb unlawful traffic. Last raid led to sentences for Lizzie Thomas and Thomas Wire, the latter receiving the heaviest fine yet in the county for a speakeasy case.
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Mackey
Alexandria County
Crandall Mackey
Commonwealth
Washington
Sup Face
Burrell
Lizzie Thomas
Thomas Wire
Wood's College Commencement at Lafayette Square Opera House
Wood's Commercial College holds commencement at Lafayette Square Opera House on Wednesday May 31 at 8 o'clock. The program includes a series of musical selections, an annual address by Rev William Hart Dexter, diploma presentations by President F. Wood, and various awards. Tickets priced 17.75 to Atlanta and Return via Southern Railway, with final limit June 1 and 15 for ticket sales.
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Wood's
Commercial College
Lafayette Square Opera House
Olympia
Metz
Dod Luders
Merch
Wheeler
James Nicholson
Renaix
William Hart Dexter
Court F. Wood
Wohanka
Louis P Shoemaker
America
Tobani
Fortune Herbert
Gavotte
Levy
Benediction March
Hrandywine
Mullen Haley
Atlanta
Southern Railway
Master Plumbers Association
Orm Heise Oe
Camp Good Will Opening Day Plans Progressing
Arrangements for Camp Good Will on May 2 are advancing with activities for all ages. The new grounds are prepared including a 25-child sand box area, baseball diamond, tennis, croquet, basketball, and volleyball courts. Food available, shelter provided, and a stereopticon song program at Pythian Temple Sunday at 7:30. EH W Farnsworth to speak at World Seventh-day Adventists congress. News notes: Lawson rumors, local ads, and court sentences listed among miscellaneous items.
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Camp Good
Pythian Temple
W Farnsworth
England
Congress of Seventh Day Adventists
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Goodyear
Viel
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fanHive
Morsell
District Building Notes
Gude
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Im Washington
Horn
Caiton
Mens
Ecuador
Panama
Wood's College
City Bulletins
Lawson
Thomas W Lawson
Nat Cap Hrewing Co
Fry Relsinger
Harner Gas Range
A Ietty
7Th
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O Neal
Becker & Duke
Rusterhaltz
Spicer
la Ave
Choles Patatous
Berg
MD Avenue
Monroe
Anacoatia
Colonial Beach
Gould's
9Th St
Harris
Gould
Sth
Sheperdoz Gould
Princeton
Irving Payne
Coliege
Herbert Dodd
Payne
Muller and
Cornwell
Muddiman & Co
Cannon
Hopkins & Co
Madras
Emahed
Friedlander Gros
W.l.douglas
W. L. Douglas
W.L. Douglas
W. L Douglas
Gorona
Mall Awit Gorona Colt
Express
Aeel
W. K. Douglas
Barton Bender
Brockton
Mass
Douglas
Penn. Ave
N. W
Asf Rig
D. J. Kaufman
G&g
Herrmann
Eye
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J. T. Walker Sons
Tenth St
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