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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1909
Page
9
The State Department weighs further action after dispatches from Managua. Cabinet members avoid commenting on Zelaya, while Secretary Knox and Wilson attend to details. The Navy readies troop transport for swift response should Nicaragua erupt.
The event featured Ballinger and Woodward with Drs. Ward and Sowa, urging student action to study and disseminate bygone laws. Discussion centered on urgent need to address deterioration and racial measures, stressing strict data collection and advocacy for institutional reform. The report notes attention to the negro race and calls for informed, lawful progress through organized study and public outreach.
Backers of Project Propong seek broad citizen input to nominate two or more candidates for the District commissionerships in a planned meeting urged by the Washington Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade. Aimed at a single head of district government, the plan envisions residents presenting names to influence the President’s selections.
The Mercantile Transit and Merchants' Trust storage firm announces changes in local police assignments. Bicycle officer dismounted, several officers reassigned to other duties, and new appointments as special police for business houses on Seventh Street North. Edward So Moxtey and others remain in special police roles while commissioners review a negligence case.
Epworth Citizens Association filed papers with the commissioners endorsing the Anacostia flats reclamation project and budget preparation reform. Brethrenwood Citizens Association urged early consideration of dredging the Anacostia River and reclamation, urging Congress to act soon.
Wyatt Goodman colored, a 17 year water department employee, was sentenced by Justice Gould in Criminal Court No 1 to two years and six months for assault with a dangerous weapon. Annié Waters, his boarding house mistress, testified he shot her three times after she delayed supper.
In Washington city officers from the Second precinct chased a late possum through Fifth Street at night. A notice on the precinct wall warned that if the animal is not claimed by tomorrow night a lottery will decide who will take it home for Thanksgiving dinner.
Dr Frederick Power leads Vermont Avenue Christian Church nursery to allow parents to worship. Caregivers Annie Helder Roberta Pauline Braddock supervise 14 months to 6 years with toys pictures and movable cradles. Fathers and relatives line up to see their little angels while the service proceeds.
Mr and Mrs Tule Windmuller of Walden Lane Long Island plan a second honeymoon to Washington to visit President Taft. Married two years before the Civil War, they first honeymooned near the President James Buchanan era. Windmuller, 44, heads Windmaster Roether firm and presides over Walden Lane Savings Bank. He is active in New York charities, Chamber of Commerce, and a founder of several organizations.
Hug Reidman, head of the Caledonian Club, asks District commissioners to attend a Thanksgiving day soccer match at Union League Park between his club and St John of Baltimore. The officials declined, citing other duties on that day.
Commander Peary was escorted amid handclaps at the National Press Club as Walter Wellman and peers celebrated his Arctic achievements. Peary praised the Arctic Club and acknowledged the welcome letter from Wellman, while photographers sparked a brief, silent moment as a flashlight went off.
The Road Drivers and Hiders Association held a meeting at the Metropolitan Hotel where Clash 15 was added to the December program on the speedway. Officials approved an out of town tax on jumpers and announced judge selections including T J Meetse of Manasgge and Gen Clarence Edwards, with Mehin Hagen noted for prior work in promoting interest.
Weather conditions show a primary disturbance exiting the South and a secondary system near the Carsline coast. Rainfall affected Ohio Valley and Great Lakes, with a warmer Missouri Valley and central regions. Storm warnings issued for northern New England and coastal areas as winds shift west to northwest and temperatures vary across regions.
Seek bane employees examined witnesses in the John Ward Sturgis case. Sturgis, an employee at Ka onal Savings and Trust, allegedly disappeared months ago with 7000 dollars. Last seen near Gabriel de Brandon by Quebec before Detective Sergeant Pat O Brien arrived. A $300 reward offered for his capture.
The Wright brothers announce they will begin selling biplanes in Washington then move to Dayton to aid their Wright manufacturing plant. They intend to place the seven ton unit of their own and each other on the market and consider Dayton the central site for their operations due to prior activity and existing plant. The legal trial on the Wright-Curtis patent act is set for December 16 in New York.
A cable from Pan a reports Stilson Hutchins III arriving in the city with serious illness. His son Walter and Lee are managing affairs during his absence. Later the dispatch said Hutchins was well enough to return to the United States and would sail home on the next steamer from Harrett.
After the gavel vanished from Vice President Sherman's Capitol room last Thursday, all movable items were removed amid a visitor inquiry. Friends at the Capitol pressed the issue as officials undertook a room search for the missing gavel.
Levy Warner Osears a foreman at the Mall Bag Repair Shop at 1501 Vermont Avenue NW died at Casugity Hospital after a sudden collapse last night. He had lived in the District about five years and came to the city from Michigan.
A message from Washington reports Lawrence Washington of the Mentene Manual Training School in West Virginia lost his right arm when it was caught in machinery on his father's farm. His mother, who resides at Thirteenth Street Northwest in Washington, lives in West Virginia.
Report notes a mahogany Wag and a metal trimmed door crafted by the Camtel company. A party of tourists visited the Vice President’s room and an elevator, with the gavel then missing. Officials believe the gavel was replaced by the same signseer after the event.
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