Fire-Department budget seeks 304750 for new equipment and houses
District fire department chief Belt proposes 304 750 for next year including 120 790 for salaries and 201 250 for equipment. Plans call for new engine and truck houses, a repair storage building, nine new engines and two chemical units, plus two new houses near Third and H streets northeast to protect government offices and the Union Station area. Increases for ranks, repairs, forage, and an automobile for the chief are also recommended. Police promotions and decorations discuss floral wedding decor.
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Chief Belt
Asta
Engine Company
HS Oon
Twelfth
Rhode Island Avenue
Capitel Street
Union Station
Senate
House
Insteacen
Invorar
Belt
Elieves
Tim
Tims
Washington
City Bulletins. Carpets Cleaned and by Experts
Local notices list housekeeping services by EP Hinkel and Co at 458 Maine Ave with phone 205, plus Krouse's printing on Ninth Street Northwest. A pocketbook lost at Center Market by Mrs J Noble McGill near Zoological Park, containing money and trinkets. search urged. WT W D Pyles stores advertise groceries with prices on 611 Gock and 616 1th streets. Heurich beer sold for twenty years at Arlington Bottling Company with contact details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hinkel & Co
Thorp Carses Cleaning Co
Maine Ave
Muemons
D. Pyles
Gock
College Lamps
Muddiman & Co
Heurich
Maerzen and
Sénate—brewary
Arington Bottling Company
Manhattan supply rep robbed on Pullman coach
A Manhattan Supply Company representative reported theft on a Pullman car after sleeping aboard the train. A diamond ring worth 15 and a purse with 22 in cash vanished, along with a diamond rag from a coat, as the train arrived at the station. Captain Boardman delayed a central office detective on the case.
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Franklin
New ‘York
Manhattan Supply Company
Penmsylvania
Poltea
Pullman
Touer
Ale
Toner
Boardman
Call for National Drainage Congress at Johns Hopkins
G Berard, chairman of the National Desiinge Association executive committee, issued a call for the next annual congress to be held at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore on November 26-27. Prominent government officials and scientists will speak. The call highlights swamp land drainage across 37 states totaling about 80 million acres with potential dramatic economic gains for farmers and related industries.
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G Berard
National Desiinge Association
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Cal
J Uchal
Police Seek Three Missing Boys Described by CapL Boardman
Police search for Henry Weisfield fourteen of 57 Fing's Court Northwest Joseph Goldberg fifteen of 102 Eleventh Street Southeast and John Rubino fifteen of 815 D Northwest. The trio disappeared yesterday after being described to precinct officers. Weisfield wore blue cap and dark shoes while Goldberg wore a dark suit and hat and Rubino wore a dark suit.
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Henry Weisfield
Josephi Goldberg
John Rubimo
Capl Boardman
Tas
Varlon
Joseph Goldberg
Us2
Eleventh Street
Ushi Bat Joan Rubino
Dreged
Larga
Commissioners Rule They Lack Jurisdiction in Fenton Case
The Commissioners ruled they have no jurisdiction over the commitment of Mrs Fenton to the Government Hospital for the Insane. The district attorney may be asked to review whether prosecution should follow, but no action will be taken. Mrs Fenton was reported discharged as recovered from the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Enton
Government Hospital
Oetion
Fenton
West
Macfarland
Hadeen
More land for hospital in front of Tuberculosis building
Secretary Wilson urged the Commissioners to buy additional land for the municipal hospital. With 101,000 appropriation from Congress in 1901, a $4,300 balance remains. Two tracts totaling over thirty-three acres were bought earlier. the front parcel may be available at a reasonable price due to its strategic location for district use. Brookland improvements denied as suburban street funds are stretched. Regulational cuts on Fourteenth Street approved to stop before Park Road crossing. Isaac Roland’s saloon on Ninth Street NW robbed. cash register contents taken through rear entrance.
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Wilson
District Board of Charities
Wilton
Brookland Improvements
Haat Brookland Citizens’ Association
Irving Street
Fort Drive
Hamlin Street
Sixteenth
Seventeenth Streets
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Hare
the Saks
Saks & Company
Pennsylvania Avenue
Seventh Street
Ces Herrmann
Herrmann
UNION
Winslow's
Isstrams
Baldree Mayer & CO
7Th St. N. W
Harek
Sing Hue A
Ahs
Essaer
Barber & Ross
J. Walsh
Clnsa
M. Howard
City Bulletins
Krouse
Ninth Street
Northweat
D. Doody
J. Noble McGill
Woodley Lane
Zoological Park
D. J. Kaufman
Pa. Ave
Bing
Baltiamore
Win. Hatin & Co
H. W
Penna
Wiserne
Idrop
Massachusetts Avenue
Oime
Pye
Horn
Gar
Columbia Heights
Issac Roland
Fil Ninth Street
Capt. Boardman
Potomac Electric Power Co
14Th Street N. W
The
Sanitary Paper Bottle Co., Inc
Cratre
Sao Henry Evans
F Street NW
Randle Highline A
Manlomen
Sandie Spinels
Sea Four
Wein Geerendiett
Muay Purber
Giddings & Steele
Pennsylvania Ave
Eli Twaire
Craig & Royce
Hibbs Building
15Th St
Adler
Victor E. Adler
TU St
Sanna
Haas & CO
Ngton Post
Potomac
Citizens Loan & Trust CO. Bane Boildine
Twelfth Street
Moir Street
Mee
Hetrich
Dex
Heurich Brewing Co
Frchiy
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