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Library of Congress1925

Image 30 of The Washington times (Washington [D.C.]), November 27, 1925

30 PAPERS STM IH Mill m 111 Louis Berthold Snyder 31 Asks U S Again for Citi zenship Rights Louis Berthold Snyder thirtyone years old a salesman 1234 Euclid street northwest who arrived in this country in 1901 today made application to Mrs Jeanette Loeffel assistant clerk of the District Supreme Court for his first citizen ship papers Applicant told Mrs Loeffel that during the world war he was serving in the gas division of the chemical warfare branch and when it was discovered that he was a native of Germany he was kicked out I Snyders father was English and his mother Spanish They were actors and were playing in Hessen Darmstadt Germany at the time applicant was born Snyder said that he had lost his first papers which he claims he took out in 1915 and was compelled to apply for others He said they had been mailed to him and had rested in the mail box ten years before he found them While reposing in the mail box Synder said that he was traveling around the country When he re turned home he found his tenyear old papers Snyder is married nd told lrs Loeffel that his

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Library of Congress1924

Image 4 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), June 20, 1924

4 NEW YORK HOSTILITY DISTURBS MADOO press and Eastern Leaden Bouse j His Resentment by Attacks will publish own paper Reporters Seek to Smoke Him Oat on Kan Issue Sty a Staff Correspondent NEW YORK June 20William Tlibbs McAdoo Is not enamored of th reception which so far has been ac corded him in New York it appears From his headquarters emanated an atmosphere of dissatisfaction with the attitude of the New York newspapers some of which it was said ap parently are trying to put Mr Mo Adoo in a false position and to stir tip trouble for him If Mr McAdoo had realized six months ago how enthusiastically un friendly New York City can be to a westerner it does not like he prob ably would have fought to a bitter and against agreeing to the Demo cratic national convention being beld here Mr McAdoo has decided to with hold himself for the time being at least from further newspaper con ferences He is not seeing the press today it was said He did not see the press yesterday KUo Issue Intense The Ku Klux Klan issue is becom ing intense The effort to smoke Mr McAdoo out

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Library of Congress1924

Image 3 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), March 4, 1924

The True Story of Woodrow Wilson By DAVID LAWRENCE CHAPTER IX The Private Life of Woodrow Wilson and the Whispering Campaign Os no phase of Woodrow Wilsons life was there less actual knowledge and at the same time more mlsrepre i sentatlon than the personal side The true story has never appeared In print largely because there never was an occasion to take public notice of that which originated in partisan politics Almost from the beginning of his political career Mr Wilson could not bring himself to believe that what he did in the privacy of his home what the members of his family did whom he entertained and whom he did not was of any business to the newspapers or the public On more than one occasion he exhibited indig nation over the inquiries of the press relative to his personal plans from day to dayhe never did become ac customed to the fact that Just as the secret service men were constantly in the company of a President of the United States so also the repre sentatives of the large press associa tions must keep their eyes on their President or at least know where he is every

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Library of Congress1923

Image 1 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), June 25, 1923

WEATHER Partly cloudy and continued warm tonight and tomorrow probably local thundershowers Temperature for twentyfour hours ended at S pm today Highest 93 at 380 pm yesterday lowest 74 at 6 am today Full report on page 7 i Closing N Y Stocks and Bonds Page 20 Vo 9ft 000 Entered as secondclass matter p os t office Washington D C PRESIDENT SERVES NOTICE OF A FIXED DETERMINATION TO ENFORCE DRY LAW Declares in Denver Address Readiness to Assume Bur den If States Continue to Shift It to U S Shoulders CONVINCED PROHIBITION WILL NOT BE REPEALED Cites Spectacle of a State Nulli fying Own AuthorityScores Buyers of Illicitly Sold Liquor as Arousing Resentment of Millions Less Rich BY DAVID LAWRENCE DENVER Colo June 25 President Harding today appealed to the Amer ican people to stop drinking intoxi cating liquors And the President went further than he has ever gone in any prohibition speech arguing that there are literally American millions who resent the lawful pos sessions of the few the lawless prac tices of a few and rebel against the denial to the vast majority Mr Harding made himself 101 per cent dry politically and otherwise in his formal

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Library of Congress1923

Image 14 of The Washington times (Washington [D.C.]), March 12, 1923

W 1 One of Washingtons Industries So tremendous is the business of running the United States Goverment that Washington even to Washingtonians is considered a Government city as applied to industry It is true the Governments one hundred thousand odd employes with a monthly payroll of some ten millions bf dollars is a tremendous factory yet throughout the city are hundreds of smaller industries giving employment to thousands of men and women and turning back in the business channels millions of dollars each year Such an institution is THE WASHINGTON TIMESHERALD Whose Weekly Payroll for 594 Employes Is in Excess of 24000 These 594 employes are for the most part heads of families or at least breadwinners and probably suppbrt 2000 people which is a small community in itself a community spending for the necessities and many of the luxuries of life over a million and a quarter dollars each year Buying Power to be reckoned witha farreaching influence in merchandising real estate and financial circles THE WASHINGTON TIMESHERALD A National Institution With Washingtons Interest Always at Heart will soon move into its new home One of the largest and most modern newspaper plants in the United States is being

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Library of Congress1923

Washington, the beautiful capital of the nation

DCP AACR2 Oriented with north toward the upper right. Bird's-eye view. Includes text and index to points of interest. Map of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on verso. Perspective map not drawn to scale. Library of Congress. Panoramic maps of cities in the United States and Canada (2nd ed.), 111.4 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1920

Kroll's commercial map of Seattle

Shows streets, railroads, and lots. Includes index. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Library of Congress1919

Image 1 of The Washington times (Washington [D.C.]), November 18, 1919, (FINAL EDITION)

WEATHER Fl talikt wit air mm rla4r wMiktr w 7 at 8 43 dfntti INAL EDITION NUMBER 11353 gSS WASHINGTON TUESDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 18 1919 IQtmt Wil Street Pricetl PRICE TWO CENTS OPERATORS TO ASK GOVERNMENT TO PAY INCREASES TO MINERS Rat Week Mifk for America Roper for Secretary Fear a Queer Poison By AITHlI BRISBA5E Otrrrtht I n I A picture hi good old London launch describes the attitude of certain prosperous people in the United States toward Bolshe vism radicalism etc In England they are having fcRat Week to dear out all the _ rata The picture in Punch shows two nice old English ladies going up in a balloon to get away from the rata during Rat Week They do not realize that just when there is most attention concentrated on rats those rata are least apt to be dangerous Otto H Kahn musical financier n Elisabeth Martmry young human dynamo are working to gether on a campaign to get milk for the children of America t time to start such a cam paign for children of America also drink milk and with milk as 5h 21 quart in great cities it was time for charity to

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Library of Congress1919

Image 5 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), July 18, 1919

r National Newspaper Advertising How When and Where to Use It BY WILLIAM H RANKIN President Wm H Rankin Co New York Washington Chicago COMPETITION to secure na tional markets has become so keen that individual business firms are eagerly searching for new methods by which to domi nate the attention of the public and to dominate it first searching for methods that will give more intensive sales results that can be obtained by any usual form of advertising This method has been found it is National Newspaper Advertising As is invariably the case the new method was found not only to be an acceptable substitute for the old but to have certain superiorities over the old meth od of magazines plus newspa pers The ability of National news paper advertising to create large volume national sales has al ready been demonstrated Many million dollars have already been spent for the United States Government in this way helping to bring to the Government bil lions of dollars in return Mil lions more have been spent in this sort of advertising by com mercial firms and the results they have obtained have been highly remunerative The thing has been tried out

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Library of Congress1919

Image 24 of The Washington herald (Washington, D.C.), March 9, 1919

POTASH AND PERLMUTTER AT TKE PEACE CONFERENCE BY MONTAGUE GLASS Illuetrated by ALBERT levering Everything Is Proceeding SatisfactorilyMaybe 4 IIVBIIIT 1 DY THE MrttllRE NEWSPAPER SYNDICAT 5 Morris Perlmut M tir said to his partner Abe Potash a few days after Mr Wilsons return from his j visit to Italy up to a short time ago hardly anybody in America had ever even heard about Italys claim to the Dalmatian territory Naturally Abe replied be cause if there is six people in the whole United States which is en gaged in the business of telling spotted dogs to fire engine houses Mawruss that would be big al ready Morris threw up both hands in a gesture of despair What is the use talking foreign politics to a feller which thinks lhat Italys claims to the Dalmatian territory means she wants the exclusive right to make New York Cleveland Chi ca and Saint Louis with a line of spotted dog for fire engine com panies he exclaimed And I wouldnt even have known that it meant that much Abe retorted entirely unabashed excepting lhat six months ago my wifes sisters cousin wanted me I should advance her a hundred dol lars

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Library of Congress1917

Image 14 of The Washington times (Washington [D.C.]), June 27, 1917, (Editorial Page)

fWPt EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE WASHINGTON TIMES JUNE 27 19T7 WASHINGTON EDGAIt D SHAW Publisher Entered m econd tlui matter at the Postofflce at Washington PiQ Published Every Evening Including Sundays By the Washington Times Company Munsey Building Pennsylvania Ave Ona Year Including Sundays J3B0 Sir Months J17S Three Months SOc WEDNESDAY JUNE 27 1917 What Is a Good Newspaper Here Is One Answer There Are Forty Others The ablest editor in the United States said There are forty ways of making a good and successful newspaper All I ask is tlrat you adopt and follow ONE of the forty ways Dont try to work forty ways at once A reader asks this newspaper to define GOOD newspaper work Here is one of forty possible definitions A good newspaper attends first to the most im portant work at hand Today that work consists in earnest support of those that must get us honorably out of this war Earnest support and friendly constructive criticism but earnest SUPPORT above all and the less criticism the better A good newspaper feels toward its readers the great body of them not a chosen few who can repay favors as an honest lawyer feels toward

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Library of Congress1917

Image 17 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), April 23, 1917

AUCTION SALES THIS AFTERNOON THOS J OWEN A SON AUCTIONEERS inromcEs sale of valuable improved REAL ESTATE NOS 319 321 323 323 AND 327 14H STREET NORTHEAST By virtue of a certain deed of trust duly re _ urili il In Liber No S401 folio 322 et seq of tlM land record of the District of Columbia and al the request of the party secured thereby the BBdertlgBed trustee will sell at public auction tat front f the premises on MONDAY THE TWENTYTHIRD DAY OF APRIL AD 1917 AT HALTTAST FOUR OCLOCK PM the fol lowingdescribed land and premises situate in tha city of Washington District of Columbia and dsalfnated as snd being lots numbered one hun dred and twenty Are 125 to one hundred and twentynine 12 inclusive In Mayse and Clark trustees subdivision of square numbered ten hundred and fiftyfour 104 as per plat re corded la Liber IS at folio 27 In the surveyors office for the District of Columbia together with the Improvements consisting of five twostory brick dwellings Soa 319 321 323 325 and 327 144 street northeast Tarns of ssle Onethird of the purchase JMney to be paid in cash balance in two equal

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Library of Congress1916

Image 6 of Bogalusa enterprise (Bogalusa, La.), July 20, 1916

HUSBAND RESCUED DESPAIRING WIFE Alfter Four Years of Discouraging Conditions Mrs Bullock Cave Up in Despair Husband Came to Rescue Catron Kyln an interesting letter from this place Mrs Bettie Bullock writes as follows I suffered for four years with womanly troubles and during this time I could only sit up for a little while and could not walk anywhere at all At times I would have severe pains in my left side The doctor was called in and his treat ment relieved me for a while but I was soon confined to my bed again After that nothing seemed to do me any good FOR THE HOME AND THE SCRAPBOOK SELECTIONS of poetry and SELECTIONS FROM prose humor and pathos rare THE bits of history and interesting facts from week to week EDITORS SCRAPBOOK A The Confederate ReUnion Git my old knapsack Mary and my uniform of gray Git my battered helmet Mary for Ill need them all today Git mny canteen and my leggins reach me down my rusty gun For Im goin out paradin with the boys of 61 Never mind them blood stains Mary never mind them ragged holes It was left there by a bullet

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