George Washington Opens New Scholastic Term
The opening exercises of George Washington University marked the 85th year with Dr Charles W Needham delivering welcome remarks at university hall on Fifteenth and H streets. Deans announced term plans and freshmen were greeted amid college spirit and class yells, while faculty highlighted prospects for a productive year and athletic cleanliness.
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George Washington University
University Hall
Fifteenth
Charles W Needham
University College
George Wweashinton
George Washington
Gion Washington
Afro American Congress Meeting to Be Presided by Bishop Walters
Bishop Alexander Walters of the AME Zion Church will preside at the Afro American Christian Congress on January 25, 1906. Rev R B Robinson will deliver an address on aims and objects. The event is endorsed by numerous clergy and leaders and will elect a general committee to raise funds for education and missionary work within the race.
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Alexander Walters
Alexander Walters DD
Ame Zion Church
Afro-American Council
Afro- American Christan Congress
Afro-American Christian Congress
R 3B Robinson
R S Willams
E Cottrell
Maggie Walker
Richmond
Giles B Jackson
L Bouly
L H Halsey
Atlanta
F A Barkhalten
Front Royal
H J Williams
Pennsylvania
H C Coleman
Philadelphia
Z Johnson
Harrisburg Pa
J H Lewis
New Jersey
C B Walters
Staten Island
Congress
Catholic University of America opens amid faculty limits
The Catholic University of America begins its scholastic year next Tuesday with few faculty additions and limited building improvements. An undergraduate school will be established, broadening the university’s scope and career focus. The opening program starts at 9:30 AM, and Prof David A McCabe is named to succeed Prof Charles McNeill in economics.
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Catholic University of America
Isttution
Board of Bishops
David A McCabe
Charles 2 MclNet
Scrool of Economics
McCabe
Fiarvard
Royial University of Dublin
Repairs Stop Owl Cars On I Street J U¢ Night
Repairs to the roadbed at the First and E streets northeast curve disable trolley service as several track supports broke from sinking caused by a railroad tunnel. Eastbound track on the curve sinks rapidly. repairs will take a few days to restore traffic and ensure the route remains open. Afterward Tarst street sections will be raised to proper levels.
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First
E Streets
Tarst Street
Right Foot Cut Off by Cars on Baltimore and Ohio Tracks
Italian laborer TDowibeig Viscico, 21, working on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad along First and M streets northeast, was struck by an incoming passenger train yesterday. His right foot was severed and he was taken to Casualty Hospital.
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Tdowibeig Viscico
Wwe
Baltimore and Ohio
First
M Streets
Sertie
Points for bankers souvenir of the convention
A handsome engraved programme prepared under William W Cox of Second National Bank documents the American Bankers Association meeting in Washington on October 10 12 3 with no advertisements. It features thirty full page illustrations headpieces of Treasury secretaries and the White House panorama, plus articles by Shaw Taylor Keep Reynolds Yerkes Ridgely Roberts Meredith Huntington Sample Hogers Lantz Dasham Wilkie Macfarland Hunt ington Hunt ington Litchfield West Huntington and others on national finance Washington politics and banking, with three thousand copies planned.
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William W Cox
Second National Bank
Washington
American Bankers’ Association
National Finance
Shaw
Treasury
Macfarland and West
White House
Leslie M Shaw
the Treasury
Treasury Department
Horace A Taylor
Charles H Keep
James B Reynolds
John W. Yerkes
Franklin W Lantz
National Bank Depositories
Eugene B Dasham
Secret Service
John & Wilkie
Henry B . Macfarland
National Capital
Anticles
Henr Litchfield Wast
Gaillard Hunt
John B Larner ‘Weshington
Marcus Benjamin
Glenn Brown
Walter C Clephane
Wiliam E Chandle
Spanish Treaty Claims Commission
bankers banquet opens with Washington finance theme
Fifty one officers of the American Bankers Association are invited to the New Willard for the opening banquet. The event promotes a text book concept on Washington and national finance. Notables invited include Lyman J. Gage, Gis Yok, and Governor Myron T. Herrick.
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Ernational Banking
J Selwin Tait
International Banking Corporation
Washington
National Finance
Treasury Department
Council of the
American Bawkers’ Association
New Willard
Lyman J Gage
United States Trust_Company
Gis Yok
Myron T. Herrick
Fall Prayer Service Begins at St Matthew’s
The first fall meeting of the Society of the Apostleship of Prayer at St Matthew's parish takes place tonight at 8 o'clock in the church on Rhode Island Avenue near Connecticut Avenue. Rev Edward J Buckey leads, delivering an address that Buckey will present with a mixed-voice choir under Miss Jennie Glenn, organist. Regular meetings occur on the last Thursday of each month.
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Society of Apostleship of Prayer
St. Matthew's
Society of the Apostleship of Prayer
St Matthew's
Rhode Island Avenue
Connecticut Avenue
Edward J Buckey
Fu the Buckey
Jennie Glenn
President O Connell backs referendum for IAM officers
James O Connell, president of the International Association of Machinists, returns from Boston where the eleventh annual convention approved major constitutional changes including electing national officers by referendum. Dues rise from 25 to 1 dollar per month. The union pledges support for strikes on the Santa Fe and Grand Trunk lines as it continues.
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James O'Connell
International Asociation of Machinists
Washington
Boston
Organization
Santa Fe
Grand Trunk
German Day at Benning Track Planned by Gundlach
Carl E Gundlach announced final arrangements for German Day at Benning track on October 2. The celebration will feature athletic games with Frank Raymond as referee and Maj Richard Sylvester, C E Wood, and M L Schaefer as judges, with alternates Dr FY Brooks, David Moore, and George Wainwright, and Bert Thomas as clerk of the course.
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Gundlach
Carl E Gundlach
Benning’ Track
Frank Raymond
Téferiee
Richard Sylvester
C E Wood
M L Schaefer
FY Brooks
David Moore
George Wainwright
Bert Thomas
Hill Agrees to Extradition in Maryland Indictment Case
Michael Hill, sought in Maryland on an gambling indictment, refused habeas corpus against the marshal and agreed to extradition. He was taken to Marlboro. Attorneys George F. Hoover and Robert W. Wells represented him. Mrs. Alice Boylan reported the theft of a diamond solitaire ring valued at 90 dollars from a washroom at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing yesterday afternoon.
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Alice Boylan
Vob
Florida Avenue Northwest
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Subpoenas Issued in Beef Trust Case and Secret Meeting
United States prosecutors win a point over the meat packers in a grand jury dispute. Max Sulzberger and D B Fish face subpoenas as witnesses in the beef trust case while prosecutors seek evidence of a secret meeting of Packers. George L Yoffly of Hammond & Co is located and subpoenaed after weeks of search.
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Max Sulzberger
Fish
Packers
Foffin
Maxi Snulzberger
Chicago
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Packing Company
DBB Fish
Beef Trust
Armour & Co
Schwarzschild & Sulsberger Company
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Company
E B Fish
Joseph Weissenbach
Canada
Secret Service
Sulzberger
Weissenbach
Schwarzschid & Sulzberger Co
George L Yoffly
Hammond & Co
Dillon Sues Husband for Support and Restraining Order
Mary Dillon sues her husband Patrick Dillon seeking support for herself and their child and asks the court to restrain him from leaving the district to avoid any sum the court may award. James S. Easby-Smith is her attorney.
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Mary Dillon
Patrick Dillon
Couc James 5
Easby-Smith
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