New Rules Cut Delays in District Supreme Divorce Cases
District Supreme Bench adopts new rules to expedit e trials of divorce suits annullments and related actions starting December term. Parties and witnesses to be heard in open court only in exceptional cases. Fiduciaries must file annual reports or accounts by May 1. Defendants must answer plainly, state defenses, and admit or deny facts succinctly. Continuances to be limited. master in chancery avoided. Justice Wright and Justice Stafford helped formulate the rules.
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District Supreme Bench
District Supreme Court
Oper Court
Daniel Then Wright
Wendell P. Stafford
Clabaugh
Wife Seeks 10 Dollar Weekly Alimony in 1912 Separation
Mrs Mary Bombardier asks District Supreme Court to ratify a separation agreement with Leon J Bombardier and to require weekly support of 10 dollars. She states they married July 1, 1907 and lived together until last October, when he expressed desire to separate. She alleges frequent night absences and infidelity, saying he refused to explain where he was.
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Mary ©. Bombardier
Leon J. Bombardier
District Supreme Court
Bombardier
Mrs Jennie W Robinson Dies in Washington
Mrs Jennie W Robinson of 167 Northwest Street died at Sibley Hospital Wednesday afternoon. Funeral at 2 from her residence, Arlington Cemetery burial. Born 1856 in Cape May New Jersey, she married Jesse H Robinson, longtime chief of the US Weather Bureau telegraph division, who died two years ago. A founder of the Northwest branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, she served a third term as vice president of District W C T U and helped secure the home of the District WCTU. She led work at Central Union and People's Missions and since 1918 was an active Calvary Baptist Church and Sunday School member.
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Jennie W. Robinson
167 & Street Northwest
Sibley Hospital
Arlington Cemetery
Robinson
Cape May
KN. J
Jesse H. Robinson
United States Weather Bureau
Northwest
Women’s Ishristian Temperance Union
Sixth Street Northwest
Central Union and
People’s Misslouls
Calvary Baptist Church
Wilson Accepts Gridiron Dinner Invitation
President Wilson accepted the Gridiron Club invitation to its December 13 dinner and said he would attend only one banquet since his inauguration. He also accepted honorary membership in the Carabao Society but told the committee he could not attend the society's annual dinner on December 18.
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Wilson
Gridiron Club
Wilson Centerday
Philippines
Exemption Notice on Eight Hour Law for Reclamation Work
The Comptroller Downe rules that the June 19 1912 act requiring an eight hour day for mechanics and laborers does not apply to the reclamation service. The service operates under a 1902 act and the 1912 act cannot apply to work authorized and finally registered prior to that time.
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Comptroller of the Treasury
Downe
Alleged Bandits Indicted In City Robberies
Lincoln Davies of New York South and Thomas J. Martin were indicted for robbery after attempting to hold up a café cashier and firing into the street near the National Theater. Others named include Stein, Willan Scaggs, and multiple defendants charged with housebreaking larceny assault and related offenses.
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Lincoln Davies
New York South
National Theater
Davies
Thomas J. Martin
Martin
Hia
Pal
Jwise Stein
Willan
Scaggs
Thin City
St A Theater
Frank Mercer
Woodley Brown
David Exum
John Butler
Thomas Rowle
William Staley
Henry P Dawson
Edward Bradley
Upun
James A. Tolson
Injunction Sought Over Automatic Fenders and Guards
Washington and Virelma Railway Company filed in the District Supreme Court to block the public utilities commission from enforcing an order for automatic projecting pick-up fenders and automatic wheel guards. The company argues the commission lacks authority to issue such an order and asks the court to vacate it as void. It also seeks a certified transcript of all proceedings and testimony, including Interstate Commerce Commission evidence, filed with the court clerk.
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Washington and Virelma Railway Company
District Supreme Court
Public Utilities Commission
The
Utilities Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Coun YY
Lawrence will filed for John Porter Lawrence estate
The late John Porter Lawrence died October 29 and his will dated June 19 1911 was filed in probate. It provides for his mother Mary Elizabeth Lawrence a life interest in all real estate in Richmond Park and $3000 in life insurance, with specific shares to his sisters Helen Lawrence Brainard Annie Lawrence Tabor and Emma G Greenfield and to the District Title Insurance Company. If the mother predeceased him the gifts to the sisters and Mrs Greenfield remain and the rest of the estate goes to the sisters.
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John Porter Lawrence
Mary Elizabeth Lawrence
Helen Lawrence Brainard
Glen Ridge
N. J
Richmond Park
Annie Lawrence Tabor
Independence
Iowa
Mary Elizabeth Russell
Fontella
Emma G. Greenfield
District Title Insurance Company
Cathedral Heights
Judge awards 5000 for alleged false arrest
Jackson G. Parry, 21, sued Harry R. and Louis V. Carroll trading as Carroll Electric Company for 10000 damages claiming false arrest on January 6 1912 after being accused of stealing electrical fixtures. A jury in Justice Anderson's court awarded 5000 to Parry with his father representing him since he was a minor.
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Anderson
Jackson G. Parry
Harry R
Louis V. Carroll
The
Carroll Electric Company
Parry
Richard L. Parry
Carrolls
KR. T. Miller
Crandal Mackay
Irving Williamson
8. D. Truitt
T. M Baker
Diges & Rothschild
Uneasy Over Income Tax Status for Washington Officials
District officials drawing salaries may be exempt from the 1 percent tax above a 4000 limit, though the United States Internal Revenue Office has not ruled. Auditor Alonzo Tweedale says he has not heard official word yet but expects a decision soon. Washington hopes for exemption like other municipalities.
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United States
Internal Revenue Office
District of Columbia
Alonzo Tweedale
Washington
Tweedale
Home Club Membership Racial Admission Hearing Set
The question of admitting colored employees of the Interior Department to the Home Club will be settled after the constitution committee reports at Wednesday's meeting. A. A. Jones, assistant secretary and temporary club president, indicated that many applicants favor excluding Negroes and noted potential difficulty securing suitable quarters despite expected funds. Funeral services for Marshall L. Smith, 50, of 417 Ninth Street SW, were held at his home with interment at Holy Rood Cemetery. he was a Washington grocer for years and is survived by his wife and seven children.
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Department of the Interior
Committee On the Constitution
A. A. Jones
Elks
Marshall L. Smith
Ninth Street
Holy Rood
Georgetown
Washington Lodge
BP. O. E
Mr. Smith
Washington
Nowland Kills Self and Unloading of Schooner Reported
A 40 year old Georgetown customs employee, Charles W. Nowland, shot himself at his brother in law Edward Downes home and died two hours later at Alexandria Hospital. The schooner Emma F Angell from Nova Scotia docked and was unloaded under supervision of Baltimore district inspectors before departure to load coal for a New England port. Two men were jailed for 30 days in Roanoke for not paying a hotel bill.
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Nova Scotia
Nashington Post Burual
King Street
Alexandria
Charles W. Nowland
George Nowland
Georgetown Customs House
Edward Downes
Royal and
Wilkes Streets
Alexandria H
Sime
Police
Mr Nowland
Board Motor Truck Company
Emma F. Angell
Chevenne
Alexandria “Fertilizer and Chemical Company
Norfolk
Baltimore
New England
Customs Department
John A. Corwin
Washington
Angell
W. H. Myers
8. L. Englar
James J. Ferrell
Baltimore Customs’ House
Rammel
C. R. Levine
R. Devine
Walter Russell
Allas
Walter Kiser
Roanoke
Fredericksburg
Foes of Alcohol Delegates Welcome in Washington
American delegates to the World Temperance Congress in Brooklyn and Ashbury Park arrived in Washington and were greeted informally at local W T U members homes after the death of vice president Jennie W Robinson. Mrs. T. J. Henry spoke on the congress’s temperance gains. Delegates stay in Washington for the rest of the week.
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Brooklyn
Ashbury Park
Washington
Theodore T. Moore
Jennie W. Robinson
Henry
Congress
Ex Presidents to Lecture for National Geographic 1913 14
Gilbert H. Grosvenor announced the 1913 1914 lecture season by the National Geographic Society with two former presidents. Taft opens on November 14 followed by Roosevelt on November 21. Other talks include Henry H. Kolb on the Canyon and Sibert on the Panama Canal. Lectures will be at the new Masonic Temple on Friday afternoons at 4:50 and again at 8:15.
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Gilbert H. Grosvenor
National Geographic Society
Society
Wham Howard Taft
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Sibert
Masonic Temple
City Bulletins Special Raans Tomato Te Co Event
City listings note grocery items and prices seeming to mark daily specials. Items include tomato product, salt, soap, bones, matches, evaporated peaches, and canned goods with assorted quantities. The fragment mentions a theater event at Virginia Theater and a piece about a restless spirit.
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Deans
Pyles
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Baltimore & Ohio Express
Om Ali
D. J. O’connell
Pa. Ave
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Gee
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Schmid
Jennie Robinson
Lamation Service
Orchestre Af Stanier
Soiwera Ho Ua
John S. Mo Zimmermann
Maren
Faft Zimmermann Orectura Stretela Flotow Orchestea
Riwanse
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Baia Fine
Ifte Leanohe
Lincol Davies
Railway
J. P. Lawrence
J. G. Parry
Tella
Horlick
Nowland
Downey
Mr. Nowland
Matilda Foote
James
Joseph Nowland
J. B. T. Thornton
Circuit Court
Bnitchey Faresuch
Tony Gustava
Southern Railway Company
Railway Company
Francis L. Smith
S. G. Brent
Howard W. Smith
Odd Fellows
W. B. Allen
Virginia
Cora BE. Benedict
Rebeksh Assembly
Odd Fellows and
Hebekahe
Falls Church Lodge of
Odd Yellows
Commissioners of Election
Taft and
Roosevelt
Geographic Society
City Bulletins
King Solomon's Bays
Virginia Theater
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Socmna
Zell Motor Car Company
H Street
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David Chidlow
Corby’s
17Th Street
Real Estate Trust Company
F Street
Washington Post
Grogan
Peter Grogan & Sons Co
Seventh St
Horning
Diamond
Munich
National Capital Brewing Co
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Potomac Electric Power Cor
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Byron
Adams
11Th St. N. W
Sia
Tharp
Berkeley Rye
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Dichlye
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