District Building Plans and Street Renaming Move Forward
District Commissioners met to review next year estimates and finalize street renaming in northwest and northern city areas. Granite base stones for the new District Building arrived aboard the Jennie Peak from Maine, with 250 tons to be conveyed to the site at Fourteenth and EB streets.
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Florida Avenue
Col. Biddle
Washington
Jennie
Blue Hill
Maine
Ernst Loeffler
Ling
Brightwood Road
Loeffler
Excise Board
District Loses Suits In Double DC Injury Cases
The jury awarded Mary B Meetze three thousand dollars for injuries from a January 31 1903 sidewalk fall at Second and C Streets NW after a prior trunk verdict was set aside. Ida Dotey and others sought damages. a separate Detes case settled for a twenty dollar verdict following appellate guidance.
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Mary B Meetze
District of Columbia, ii
Second
C Streets
Thompson and Lasker
Corporation
Thomas
Lia Detes
Ralston and Siddons
Ida Dotey
Suit for Right of Way Across Davie Tract
Whitney E B Davie and others sue for 4000 damages against T Cushing Daniel and agent James Ogden over a fence removal on Fairview Heights near Woodley Inn. Daniel claims a historic right of way across the Davie property tied to the old Varnelle site and that the fence was cut to settle the dispute.
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Whitney
Davie
Familly
Woodley Inn
Fairview Heights
T Cushing Daniel
James Ogden
Daniel
Ogden
John Ridout
Davies
Wooley Inn
Varnelle
Postum Aids Nursing Mothers Then Baby Growth Says Reader
An Iowa mother relates abandoning tea and coffee for Postum Coffee and describes improved appetite mood and weight gain for her six month old infant within three months. She praises Postum as superior to ordinary coffee for nourishment and endorses the product from Postum Co Battle Creek Michigan noting the slogan There’s a reason and The Road to Wellville in every package.
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Inatron
Baby
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
City Should Clean Itself Supt Stidham Defends Municipalization Plan
Superintendent Stidham argues for a streamlined army style street inspection system to boost efficiency and cut reports. He favors municipalizing street cleaning under contract with his own crews and equipment, claiming no extra cost for service and a future aim to keep streets cleaner and dust down by sprinkling.
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Harrison Stidham
Washington
Stidham
Army
Sertien
Smoke Drags Nuisance Through Southeast Homes
Residents in southeast sections from Heckmann to F streets complain of smoke and cinders drifting through windows from coal fired engines at the roundhouse South Capitol street near Second and Gq streets. The new freight tunnel worsens property damage, with homes now valued higher than before the tunnel work.
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Heckmann
First
Second
Roundhouse
South Capitol Street
Jersey
Monument death ruled accidental in Washington Monument fall
Coroner Nevitt's Jury found the death of painter Joseph G Owings, who died after a scaffold broke while he worked at the Washington Monument Tuesday afternoon, caused by a knot in the wood. The scaffold, built months ago, had been recently inspected and deemed safe. Owings’ funeral set for 3 p.m. at 95 Second Street Northeast.
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Nevitt
Joseph G Owings
Washington Monument
Littleton
Joshua Mastin
Gwings
Owings
Second Street
GITY BULLETINS Buttera items and grocery ads
A mixed page of grocery and general merchandise ads lists butter brands and dairy items, canned goods, crackers, meat products, teas, sugar, and chocolate. Local stores Johnston's 781 Tth st, C A Muddiman & Go 12th and 6sts, and Keene's Shoe Store advertise prices and specials.
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Johnston's
St. Wee
Chicago
C. A. Muddiman & Go
School board holds routine meeting and schedules special sessions
The board of education met at the Franklin School for routine business and set a Friday special meeting to discuss estimates to be submitted to the District Commissioners. Monday will feature another special session to hear Mrs. Anna J. Cooper’s briefing amid an ongoing board investigation. Various school staff changes and appointments were announced across divisions and schools, including promotions, transfers, resignations, substitute and temporary teachers, and kindergarten admissions.
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Board of Education
Franklin School
Anna J. Cooper
M. ‘W. Tombon
Wild
Cppoint Grace "McLaurins
Beulah
Bohrer
May Suyon
Meg Hersey
Alma HL Biecho
R. EH. Guy
T. Heathman
EH. Jackson
Gertrude Early
Richard Gilem
J Catlebt
O. Shepherd
Hattie Gillem
Erie C. Billet
Mary FF. Benn
Manetia’y. Price
Anna R Holmen
Louise W McCoy
Anna W. Fairgeld
May Weide
Louise Arnold
Cortelia Suey
Mary B. Farquhar
Stella Holly
Bigie Tenny
Mary Morrison
Recorders Report Shows Fewer Incorporations This Year
The District Recorder John C Dancy released a quarterly report showing 71 incorporations filed to Septem ber 3 last, down from 447 a year ago, yet office revenue rose due to a new recording fee on capital stock. Revenue for the period reached $698.15, up from $61.97 the prior year, with a notable increase since the February 1905 amendment.
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District Recorder of Feeds
John C Dancy
Woman Admits Theft of Lace and Silks
Dora Wenzer a about twenty four year old woman admits stealing lace silk and a sold water chain from her former dyeing shop on Twelfth Street Northwest Detectives Pratt and Howlett arrested her last night she confessed and was sent to the House of Detention for police court today pawn tickets for the stolen items were found among her belongings.
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Dora Wenzer
Pratt and Howlett
Twelfth Street
Money and Jewels Reported Stolen at Cairo Apartment
Mr and Mrs Sleicher accuse Cairo Apartment House Company of theft involving a bag of money and jewels worth 3553983 left in their room during breakfast on March ?. They returned to find the items missing and say management blamed them for not using the safe. Attorney John W Dchola represents Sleicher.
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William Sle
Cairo
What It Means From the Philadelphia Press
A humorous exchange from a Philadelphia Press item features a cook asked to resign replying with a pun about diking and references. Mrs Hiram Offen questions the idea of a letter with no reference, highlighting a playful domestic dialogue.
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Philadelphia
Hiram Offen
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Victor E. Adlar
Clothing House
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Rain Coats
Friedlanderbros
A. Kahn
F Street
Neyer
Streuis
District Building Notes
Roland P Hough
First Street
B Street
Massachusetts Avenue
Fifteenth
Fourteenth
New Jersey Avenue
New York
Saturn
Universal Electric
Library of the
New Willard Hotel
Supt
The
Capital Bicycle Club
New Willard
Gity Bulletins
Ae A. Darneton
Cornucopia
Arpless
James F Oyster
9Th
Pa Ave
E. Mlour
T.D Pyle
Keene's
School Board
M Street
Instruments
Anabe
Knabe Angelos
Tmerson
Givernon Angelus
Angelus
Smith & Barnes
Thushek Fiano
Laftargue
Heller
Knabe
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Pense
Herrmann
Eye
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Severith Stavet
Wilton
Ting
Rowai
Extra
Salere
Herman
A.herman’s Sons Co
Seventh Street
Corner H Street
William Sleicher
Library
F St
America
D. J. Kaufman
Selinger’s
Lassex
Arlington Brewing CO
Rosalza, Va
Dangler
A. Eberly’s
J. T. Walker Sons
Streat
N. We
Phene M
Andoline
Home Savings Bank
Gth
Mass. Ave
Horn, the Tailor
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the Sunday Post
Mall
U. S. Realty Co
Firemen’s Insuance Co
7Th St
la. Ave
Pa. Ave
Washington, D. C
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