Hat Cause of Battle Sparks Police Court Battle
Anger flares when a friend steps on a straw hat in Georgetown. Tyson Burk defeats Burrs after a melee. Bark fined for disorderly conduct, assault, and resisting arrest with six months in the District jail and a $40 total fine. Other cases involve vagrancy, a floral parade visit from Baltimore, and a bicycle speeding fine.
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Judge Kimball
Middle West
Judge Mulloway
Tyson Burk
Georgetown
John Burrs
Burk
Burrs
Wille
Hunt
Nebraska
Burr
Park
Mulloway
Georgia Census Posts Filled and Appointments Made
Georgia Census Director Durand announced President Taft authorized the appointment of Ingston Forsyth McClelland to the Fourth district and Harry Owing to the Sixth district as census supervisors. They replace Alonzo M Brand and Charles Alterman who had been appointed but not commissioned. Also notes local ads and notices about bread, beverages, plumbing, and a few church and social items.
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Georgia
Durand
Taft
Ingston Forsyth McClelland
Forth
Harry Owing
Georgie
Alonzo M Brand
Charles Alterman
Comptrollers Association Changes Constitution for Delegates
The National Association of Comptrollers and Accounting Officers will admit fiscal officers as 25 city delegates to annual conventions. Municipalities pay fees and travel costs. Initiated in the city five years ago by Alonzo Tweedale, DC auditor and current president. The District government funds the city's delegation from its appropriation.
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Comptrollers’ Association
National Association of Comptrollers and Accounting Officers
Ihe
Alonzo Tweedale
District of Columbia
Washington Gas Inspector Reports Low Impurities and Meter Accuracy
District inspector Runyan submits annual report on Washington Gaslight Company operations. Mean candlepower 2345 with highs and lows near 2828 and 1957. Ammonia traces mostly within limits, no hydrogen sulfide detected. Meter inspections showed 707k meters processed, 851% fast or slow errors, 68.9% registering correctly. District-wide readings indicate gas quality and meter performance generally within standard expectations.
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Elmer
Runyan
District of Columbia
Washington
Georgetown
Washington Gaslight Company
Washington Consumers
Washington Gasticht Company
Gompers Set to Arrive for Big Labor Welcome
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, sails from Havre on the steamer La Sovore and will reach New York October 9. He then travels to Washington October 12 for a mammoth parade and meeting at Convention Hall, with 3,000 union members expected from Baltimore and large delegations from Virginia and New York.
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Amardeer Federation of Labor
Aails
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France
New York
Washington
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Sem de Nedrey
Trades Unionist
Convention 4
General Labor Union
Fresident Taft
William Jennings Bryan
Alton E. Parker
Congress
Peace Monument
Pennsylvania Avenue
Fifteenth Street
New York Avenue
Convention Hal
Baltimore
Virgina
Booker T Washington to Speak at Howard University Chapel
Booker T Washington, principal of the Tuskegee institute, will deliver an address next Monday at noon in Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel, Howard University, marking the opening of the medical department. He serves on Howard’s board of trustees and champions training colored professionals to meet Southern demand for physicians and dentists.
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Booker T Washington
Tuskegee North
Tndustrial Iutstute
Tuskegee
Ala
Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel
Howard University
Washington
South
Whit tlesey Funeral Today for Noted Educator and Soldier
Funeral services for Dr Eliphalet Whit tleey, noted educator and soldier, will be held today at 2 o clock at the Town side home. The Rev Dr Samuel Woodrow, pastor of the First Congregational Church, assisted by the Rev Dr Newman, will conduct the services. Interment will be at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Eliphalet Whittlesey
Townshde
Samuel Woodrow
First’ Congregational Church
Newman
Ariington National Cemetery
Auto Parade Expresses Navy Yard Gratitude to Chamber
An entry by Washington navy yard workers in a Chamber of Commerce parade wins a $500 silver bowl, celebrating the help of the chamber in delaying work from outside firms. Admiral Lautze approved the entry with guns and palm fronds, funds raised by workers, including apprentices, and a six member gunnery class volunteering as crew. A steering committee led by Thomas E Carroll and J L Yoockel organized the effort with many yard staff contributing.
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Chamber of Eves
Washington Navy Yard
Navy Yard
Chamber of Commerce
Navy Department
Thinsten
I &O
Admiral Lautze
Segman
Robert Dalton
Catholic University to Resume Classes Amid Faculty and Library Reorganization
The Catholic University of America will reopen next Tuesday as scholarships from the Ancient Order of Hibernians and Knights of Columbus endowments boost enrollments and clergy numbers. Rev Dr William F Hughes resigns to serve at Ud Cathedral School in New York. Rev Dr Nicholas Weber and Dr Frank O'Hara announce new appointments. The university library, totaling 109000 volumes, has moved to the first floor of the western wing of the hall of philosophy with a new large reading room and redistributed departmental libraries.
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Catholic University of America
Order of Hibernians
Knights of Columbus
Ud Cathedral School
New York City
Nicholas ‘Weber
Marist Order
John Cooper
St Matthew's Church
Daniel J. Kennedy
Dominican House of Studies
Iivinity
Josep Galligan
Providence
R. J
Frank O'Hara
Divinity Hall
War Department circulates pamphlet on army promotion rules
The War Department issued a circular pamphlet guiding army officers and promotion boards. It explains amendments to the 18 reform act, detailing final promotions and retirement provisions for majors in the medical corps incapacitated by service. The amendments set retirement at colonel rank and take effect July 1, 1908.
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War Department
Ferest
Death of Mrs Hattie Lewis Patrick in Denver
Mrs Hattie Lewis Patrick wife of G F Patrick assistant chemist in the Department of Agriculture died September 28 in Denver after a brief illness. She visited relatives in Colorado for two months. Daughter of Mr and Mrs A C Lewis of Lawrence Kansas she married Mr Patrick June 18 19. Her body was brought home to 22 V street northwest for service Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock with Rev A G B Pierce of All Souls Unitarian Church officiating.
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Hattie Lewis Patrick
Patrick
Department of Agriculture
Denver
Colorado
A.C Lewis
Lawrence
Kan
V Street
Wynrrey
A. G. B. Pierce
All Souls’ Unitarian Church
Two Hundred Boys Attend YMGA Dinner and Classes
Two hundred boys attended a dinner hosted by the boss' department of the YMCA. Hubert Carlton, national secretary of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, spoke. After the meal twenty citizens were organized for the coming year.
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Boss’ Department
M.C. A
Astocraugh
Hubert Carlton
Brotherhood of St. Andrew
Fragmentary Musical Program Notes From 19th Century Concert
A jagged OCR fragment lists Julius Kemper as Chief Musician and Director, with scattered items including Supp Shot Overture Piccolo solo and Rigoletto related elements. Mentions corps Leven Heed Von Sappe Phlere Sebelion, Vienna, My Old Kentucky Home and Gems from a comic opera, plus medics and a year 19637.
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Leven
Heed von Sappe Weteeee Phlere
Sebelion
Walts
Vienna
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