Weeds of District Put Up to Commissioners for Needs
Washington citizens associations present fall proposals to the commissioners urging rapid action on playgrounds streets lighting hospitals and park improvements. They seek funds for Fourteenth Street playground site Sherman estate lot for Central High School macadam and concrete paving Garfield Hospital sidewalks park lighting street cleaning and building restrictions. Additional requests cover public water service lighting and sanitation in Garfield North Capitol Eckington and Mount Pleasant areas including a new public park and police staffing.
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Citizens’ Associations
Washington
Fourteenth Street
Columbia Road
Sherman Estate
Eleventh
Thirteenth Streets
Boundary
Clifton Streets
New
Central High School
Macedam
Sherman Avenue
Irving Street
Garfield Hospital
Emer~gen Hospital
Fifteenth Street
Meridian Hil
Florida Avenue
Spring Road
Georgia Avenue
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Streets
Mount Pleasant
Park Road
Mount Pleasant Street
House Committee of the
District of Columbia
Garfield
Garfield School
North Capitol
Eckington
Seaton Place
North Capitol Street
Lincoln Road
S Street
Second
Third
Rhode Island Avenue
North Capital Street
V Street
Michigan Avenue
U Street
Prospert Hill
Bryant Streets
Evarts Street
District plans street and park improvements in old city area
A broad program outlines West Virginia Avenue and New York Avenue upgrades from Langdon to Bladensburg road, Rhode Island Avenue extensions to the district line, and numerous street grading and macadamizing projects. It also calls for school expansions, improved sewers, park naming for Commodore Barney, and a new Eastern High School complex to serve three departments under one administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin
West Virginia Avenue
Twenty-second Street
Langdon
Florida Avenue
New York Avenue
Bladensburg Road
Mickington
Mille Avenue
Douglas Street
Rhode Island Avenue
Congress
Evarts Street
Twentieth Street
Franklin ’Street
South Dakota Avenue
Lawrence Street
Sixteenth
Twenty-second
Eighteenth Atreat
Nawton ‘Street
Fort Drive Avenue
Butternut Street
George Avenue
Flinsy Branch Road
Blair Road
Chestnut Street
District Line
Washington
Commodore Barney
Aita
Anacostia
Terr
Praise for Teachers and School Improvements Debate
Columbia University and the University of Virginia are cited as examples of study abroad. Teachers receive praise for summer courses and dedication. Planned additions include Thompson Building and new classrooms at several schools. The river front and park developments, street extensions, and public facilities are also outlined as priorities for the district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia University
University of Virginia
Oxford
University
W. W. "Cox
Board of Education
Tle
Thompson
Columbia Road
Seventh Street
Chevy Chase
Lovejoy
Potomac
Washington
Admpts
Fowls Die As Infantile Paralysis Scares Bethesda
Epidemic-like infantile paralysis spreads from humans to poultry along the Washington Rockville turnpike near Bethesda Maryland. More than ten fowls die with paralysis while residents and doctors fear transmission to people and ban chicken dinners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethesda
Washington-Rockville
Morgan H. Bench
Henry J. Hunt
R. C. Drum
Maryland
Lewis
Return of Frank Stanley After Brain Hemorrhage
Frank Stanley aged 33, a carpenter, was treated at Emergency Hospital for a brain hemorrhage after falling from a scaffold. He showed improvement and was discharged home hours later. Later, Bran jey was found unconscious at home and rushed back to hospital where an operation relieved some brain hemorrhage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Stanley
Stanley
Bolles
Sixth Precinct
Branjey
Walle
Social Intrigues at an Opera Box in Paris Night
Gossipy notes recount an amusing clash in a theater box between Mme Cavalieri and Mrs Dippel wife of the rector Andreas Tippel and describe how Mme Cavalieri held a box card for M. Gatti-Cazazza while Mrs Dippel’s attendance waned. A later New York society gathering at a director’s home featured a guest withdrawing before supper after learning her husband forbade her attendance.
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Bor
Andreas Dippet
Mme. Alda
Andreaa Tippel
Vet Skeener
Mme. Cavalier
M. Gatti-Cazazgi
Dippel
Mme. Cavalieri
Uge
Marie
Alda
Canazera
Mminv
eRivanlers
New-York ‘Society
Ropolitan
Paris
Ghée
Drowns Off Chesapeake Beach While Fishing
Roswell Baker of 21 Maryland Avenue drowned after falling from a canoe near the Chesapeake Beach pier. The body has not been recovered. Baker, an insurance agent with Berkshire Insurance Company, was employed in Washington at Union Trust Company offices. Survived by his wife, mother, sister, and a married sister in police records. Charles Rector of the Chesapeake Beach Railroad reported the drowning to Washington police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chesapeake Beach
Roswell Baker
Maryland Avenue
Nésthaast
Baker
Sapa
Washington
Berkshire Bo Insurence Company
That
The
Union
Trust
Company Byliaing
Fifteenth
Isthmian Canal-Cormission
Coaldale
W. Va
L. J. Wagner
Nineteenth Street
Charles. Rector
Chesapeake Beach -Railroad
Wasiton Police
Cupid's Special Wedding Run to Washington Court
Morning ceremony by Mrs R B Gil at Richmond Mala Orphans Home sends many travelers to Washington for licenses. A record crowd of Virginians, including belles and beaux, is expected at the courthouse with a brief honeymoon planned in the Capital from Monday to Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cupid's
Gil
Richmond
Ashington
Ange
Navy Weighs Explosive Fuel Risk in Oil Burners
Navy officials warn explosive fuels pose inevitable accidents during development of oil burning auxiliary fuel plants. North Dakota tests show risks in using gunpowder like fuels, urging caution and emphasizing safer burner designs and fuel handling aboard ships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navajt
Navy’ Department
North Dakota
Wera
Little girl fractures collar bone after fall in front of home
Ten year old Collet Bone of Kraemer Street Northeast fell from a tree in front of her home last night and fractured her collar bone. She was taken to Casualty Hospital for treatment.
Child Struck By Stone On City Street
A one year old white boy named Henry Connor was struck on the head by a stone thrown from an unidentified Black assailant on streets between Kirby Street and New Jersey Avenue Northwest. The incident occurred last night as the child played near 1017 New Jersey Avenue Northwest. Authorities seek information to identify the suspect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Connor
New Jersey Avenue
N ‘Streets
Kirby Street
St Andrew Men 10 Meet
The annual assembly of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew of the Washington diocese will convene tonight at 8 o'clock in the Church of the Ascension on Massachusetts Avenue and Twelfth Street Northwest. The Rev d Henning Nelms rector of the Church of the Ascension will extend the welcome to the brotherhood men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Brotherhood of St. Andrew
Washington Diocese
Protestant Episcopal Church
Wil
Church of the Ascension
Massachusetts Avenue
Twelfth Street
Alemadane
d'Henning
Nelms
Church of ‘Th Cenaion
Brotherhood
Weather Summary From the Weather Bureau Bulletin
Weather conditions report scattered showers in the lake region, Ohio Valley and Rocky Mountain region with no major events. Temperatures rose over the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi Valley while most parts of the country saw varied conditions. Northeasterly winds prevail along the New England coast and middle Atlantic coast with brisk shifts expected and variable conditions elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. &Dypt. of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
Washington
Lake Région
Ohio Valley
Rocky ‘Mountain
Great Lake Yoglod
Upper
Mississippi
Newwae
Middle Atlantic
Ile Sisewhery
Winda
New England
Gulf
Buidey
Rein
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Columbia, Heights
Cathedral Heights
Woodley Lane
Association
Park View
Warder Street
Newton and
Otis Streets
Brightwood
Irving, Kenyon
Lamont
Keefer
Sixth Street
Kenyon Street
City Reservoir
Werder
Newton Street
Rock Creek Church Road
Park Place
Takomd Park
South Carolina Avenue
Twelfth
Thirteenth
Graceland Cemetery
Mayrland Avenue
H Street
Fourth Street
Patterson
West Virginia
Capitol Grounds
Anacostia River
Chesapeake Bay
National Capital
Woodburn
Woodburn School
Soldiers’ Home
Woodburn —Sehtool
Rittenhouse Street
Petworth
Selinger’s
F Street
Corner
Henry Green
E. ©. Schroeder
Bureau of Animal Industry
Empire State Surety Company
Lewry
Atir Hun
Iswee
Canal Commission
Ming Heke
NAVY
Olive
Stewart
Weahington-Asviu
Tran, Sulsupale Srt
Aalto
Megra Boy
St, Andrew
Seation
River “Bulletin
Jonh
Mint
Amnerttte
Atlantif Atlan
Bossi N.Y
Incinnath
Jose Oa
Denver
Dea Moinga
Little Rock
Ale
Fabrica
Goldheim & Sons
Young Men's Store
Es Ateman
Seventh St
SOLE
Sanders & Stayman
James S. Topham
F'St
Christian Xander
al x Lyavery Bousath St
Bean Rouse
Virginia
Cosmos
Vaudentlle
Capitol Streets
Columbia
Marvlan
E. Z
O’donnell’s
Rexall
People's Drug
Washington Gas Light Company
Tenth St. Aw
Beington City
D. C
Washington Gas *Light Company
ERIDA
Ueath Say
Perer
Muncipal Agiée
Keath St
Ierane
Bhall Ite
Cntre
Sald
White- Main
Washington Gas Light Comby
William B. Orme
Reid S. Baker
Milburn, Heister & CO
Tovernment Hospitala
Washington, D. Co
Zimmerman
Takoma Park
Harry B. Darlings Printer
N. W
Das
Washington Post
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