Inventions for Tracing Concrete Asphalt in Spector Hargrove Office
Julian Largrove District Inspector of asphalts reports two devices to test waterproof quality of concrete and bitumen content in asphalt mixtures. He notes time reduction from 48 to 5 hours for bitumen to asphalt, cites 11 742 samples tested in a year, and lists rejected work and yardage. He urges raise in Durand’s pay to 300 and seeks 1000 for new apparatus.
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Julian Largrove
Hergrove
Hargrave
Hla
Hargrove
Grace Van Buren Shopnell executor named in will
Miss Grace Van Buren Shopnell appoints her father Robert W Shopnell as executor of her estate. The distribution goes to several relatives, with half interest in Albany Wyoming property and other legacies including jewelry, bonds, and a note, while the remainder goes to her father.
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Grace van Buren Shoppell
Grace van Buren Shopnell
Robert W Shopnell
Dr van Buren Lockrow
Albany
Mary Frome Herbert
Long Island
Pinia
Wolin Herbert
Olendart Charlotte Hudson
Adelia Hufson
Nation Tribune Company
Lyarhington
Water department reports surge in district revenue and meter rollout
Superintendent McFarland presents annual water department revenue at 559,509 with a $12,150 increase from last year, noting it as the highest annual total. He forecasts lower next year due to moving from flat-rate to metered billing and outlines meter installations, leakage reductions, waste detection methods, and district-wide monitoring efforts.
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District Water Department
W . McFarland
Water Department
Commissionera Iate
Mc McFarland
Maine
City
Washington
Boston
Opan &c
Thin Ayate
McFarland Mays
Tennallytown
Wilerrviog
Metari Ag Bony
Poison death of infant tied to nurse error in Maryland
Ten month old Margarette Heilly, daughter of Dr and Mrs Joseph Heilly, died after a nurse mistook bichloride for calomel and administered poison. Dr Reilly's family recently moved to their Maryland country home. The body was moved to Mount Olivet Cemetery for burial. A trained nurse reportedly mixed up the bottles during Wednesday morning medicine administration. The case follows an earlier loss of a drawer case on a Pennsylvania depot train. Police were notified of the missing chiselled case. Funeral services were held for James Westerfield, a longtime building contractor, who died at his home on Twentieth Street Northwest. The Rev Dr Murray officiated, with interment at Glenwood Cemetery. he was eighty-eight, survived by his wife Elizabeth.
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Duea
Margarette
Mra Joseph i
Heilly
Reilly
Amuntry
Maryland
Mount Olivet
James Westerfield
James Westerfeld
Twentieth Street
Murray
Glenwood Cemetery
Westerfield
Mra Elianbeth' Westerfield
Mail Team Overtures Wagon Runaway in Rock Creek Park
A horse attached to a nine United States mail delivery wagon, driven by FX Cole, frightened by a passing car in Rock Creek Park yesterday morning, ran away. The wagon overturned on an embankment, throwing Mr Cole to the ground. He landed on his chest but escaped injury. The wagon was damaged in several places. Cole had finished delivering mail and was returning to the city.
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United States
Cole
Rock Creek Park
Caiv
Cars Collide on Aqueduct Bridge No Injuries Reported
Two cars of the Great Fata end Old Dorataion Railway Company collided yesterday morning on the Aqueduct Bridge. Officials cannot account for the accident, but no one was injured. Police are investigating. Local notices mention janitor appointments and various retail ads amid scattered clipped lines.
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Fata End
Old Dorataion Railway Company
Aqueduct Bridge
Teed
West for Psych Grathy Urges Hospital Link with St Elizabeths
Commissioner West urged establishing a paychopathic hospital in Washington connected to St Elizabeths to modernize insanity treatment. He backs Congress funding and says a formal board review is needed before any action. He cites a push by Dr Robins and Dr Simpson for a scientific approach with observation hospital care prior to asylum confinement.
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St. Elizabeth's
Paychopathic Hospital
Washington
St Eliabeths
West
William L. Robing
Congress
Board of Charities
Germany
Went
Robina Simpson
Compton
Robins
Itix Hin
Rock Creek Valley Park Plan Tied to Congress Action
Rock Creek Valley park prospects hinge on a recommended method of treatment and securing congressional approval. Commissioner Macfarland states the board will study expert input, coordinate with the Senate Park Commission, and seek early action after final data collection.
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Rock Creek
Commins Stoners
Congress
Cotominstoner Macfarland
Petworth Cidaens Association
National Fine Arts Society
Rock Creek Valley
Ue Zoo
Commission
Ers
Senate Park Commission
Engineer Allens Needs 15000 for Electrical Dept Supplies
A historical clerk notes a $15000 requirement for the Electrical Department. Included is a $1600 allotment for District Electrical Engineer Walter Aden to cover general supplies for the next fiscal year with allocations for telephone rental, office expenses, store room rental, tools, batteries, electric current rent, repairs, labor, vehicles, line supplies, and wire and cable among others.
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Afkld Foray District
Walter Aden
Veteran Policeman Retires After Thirty Two Years Service
District police officer Private J E Lyddano retires after thirty two years with a monthly pension of 50 dollars the retirement effective September. The pension board recommended the retirement noting he is permanently disabled from disease contracted in the line of duty and unable to perform the same duties.
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J E Lyddano
J E
Lyddano
Pension Board
Thia
Typhoid Deaths Fall Sharply in Week Report
The health department weekly summary notes improved typhoid fever figures versus the prior year. Last Saturday 29 cases were under treatment versus 32 the year before, while mortality dropped to three. Births totaled 14, with 97 white and 37 colored.
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Health Department
Pythane to Have Hearing on Water Meter Install at Pythian Temple
District Commission considers granting a hearing for Knights of Pythias regarding installation of a water meter at Pythian Temple 1012 Ninth Street Northwest. City commissioners may form a committee to review whether the $169 expense should be charged to the organization or not.
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Pythane
District Commission
Knights of Pythias
Pythian Temple
Ninth Street
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Jamestown
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Engineer Allens Needs
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