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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1905
Page
2
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District Commissioners seek to reserve Sixteenth Street for homes hotels and apartments with a ban on business uses and a height limit. Residents property owners and even a U S Army officer Frederick Fisher urge congressional action to enact preservation legislation and rename the street Executive Avenue.
Priests and Sisters depart Washington for Philadelphia to attend the fiftieth anniversary of the Third Order of St. Francis. Sister Pauline and Sister Edwards of Georgetown Hospital join Fathers Becker and Kelly as jubilees begin at 505 Reed Street, moving location to Glen Riddle. Archbishop Ryan leads the order founded fifty years ago to teach parochial schools and run orphanages and homes for the aged with 1030 members in Eastern Western and Southern provinces.
A Washington journal details the rise of Woodward and Lothrop from a small Market Space shop to a mammoth eight story store at Seventh and streets, highlighting their expansion across New York and Paris, their art and millinery buyers, and community contributions including a 25000 gift to the Young Men's Christian Association. It notes Mr Woodward's civic roles and family hospitality at his hilltop mansion near Rock Creek Park.
A promotional flyer extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a remedy for indigestion and stomach troubles. It asserts the tablets digest food, not irritate bowels, and cites experiments claiming one grain of active principle digests 3,000 grains of raw meat and other foods. The text emphasizes regular postmeal use and availability in drugstores.
An order canceling a 4700 restoration project on Second street northeast is noted. Promotions and reassignments affect E H Grove, George L Ayton, William F Sullivan, George F Green, W R Charpell, and others in the water registrar and registrars office. Smallpox cases drop to the lowest level this fiscal year. Peyton Sweet improves and is near release. Daniel Bradley discharged from hospital.
George Brown and James Thomas fell from a Georgetown gas house roof twenty five feet to the ground while laying cement. They were taken to Georgetown University Hospital in Seventh precinct patrol.
John R. Fearne, a Washington jeweler, sues the Southern Railway Company for 5000 damages claiming a gateman refused him entry to the train shed on a Round Hill Va. round-trip ticket on September 5 damaging his reputation. Attorney A B Webb represents Fearne. Burnett's Vanilla Extract ad copy remarks conclude the piece.
Engineer Hunt defended a city order to grade 1 Twenty fourth street from M street to Rock Creek bank citing building upgrades on square 35 as the reason. He said the project aligns with existing graded neighbors and will eventually benefit property owners despite temporary mud and hardship for residents.
The will of Mrs. Mary Davis has been filed for probate with her husband Roger Davis named executor. She leaves the bulk of her real estate to her children John R Nellie T Margaret Mary G Nora and William Davis. The itemization includes miscellaneous ads and business notices from local vendors and service providers.
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