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Library of Congress1929

Image 59 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), November 1, 1929

SALEHOUSES Continued 9250 NEAR GRANT CIRCLE Colonialtype tapestry brick home with concrete front porch and Mansard roof with attractive dormer windows 30 ft wide mat ins all rooms large and desirable Contain ing 6 bright beautiful rooms 3color tile bath with builtin tub and shower break fast porch and sleeping porch 30 ft wide b 10 ft deep hardwood floors and trim throughout large clothes closet with plate glass mirror door beautiful electric fixtures Red Jacket boiler automatic hotwater heat er well planned kitchen with special built in cabinets onepiece sink and large Frlg idalre garage to match house large yards beautifully shrubbed and planted Located on one of the highest points In Washington and convenient to parochial and public schools stores cars and busses Reasonable terms to responsible person This Is an unusual value being a 20ft house at the same price as one 18 ft wide For appolnt ment Adams 8317 A Smart New Home of Eliza bethan DesignBuilt by W C A N Millerin Cleveland Park 13950 All brick 3 baths Including shower slate roof copper guttering and spout ing open fireplace large attic and beautiful decorations breakfast and sleeping porches OARAGE At a very reasonable price

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Library of Congress1950

Image 2 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), June 26, 1950

Printers Given Raise Of 150 and Control Of Teletypesetting Contract terms for a 150 weekly wage increase and a joint committee to gather information about teletypesetting procedures have been accepted by Columbia Typographical Union members employed by Washington djdly newspapers The oneyear contract effective May 1 was ratified by a 178to 152 vote of union members at Turners Arena yesterday Nego tiations have been under way since last September Represen tatives of publishers and Local 101 had 35 collective bargaining sessions before reacing an agree ment last Tuesday It gives the union jurisdiction over operation of any teletype setting equipment that may be in stalled in newspaeper plants here It sets up a Joint Experimental Committee including two man agement and two union represen tatives to work out procedures and conditions covering the in troduction of training for proper manning requirements standards of competency scales of wages and other matters pertaining to their use and operation Tape Perforated by Keyboard Newspaper plants in Washing ton set type by manually operated linotype machines Teletypeset ting equipment consists of a type perforating machine operated by a keyboard similar to that of a typewriter and an operating unit attached to the standard type

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Library of Congress1953

Image 1 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), May 25, 1953

Weather Forecast Fair tonight lowest about 66 degrees To morrow fair and warmer Full report on Page A2 Midnight 67 6 am 65 11 am 74 2arn__64 8 am__ 66 Noon 75 4 am_ 65 10 am 70 1 pm 76 An Associated Press Newspoper 101st Year No 145 Phone ST 35000 WASHINGTON D C MONDAY MAY 25 1953FORTYFOUR PAGES Nations First AShell Fired On Nevada Flat Brilliant Flash Seen in Las Vegas 75 Miles Away By the Asociatd Press LAS VEGAS Nev May 25 The Army fired the Nations first atomic shell today from a huge cannon dubbed Atomic Annie It burst with a brilliant flash over a simulated enemy target The shot fired from the 280 millimeter cannon on French man Flat came at 830 am 1130 am EDT Within five minutes the cus tomary atomic cloud formed visible in this resortgambling town 75 miles away It developed a lazy S form and appeared to have an ice cap Sunlight glinted on the white top of the cloud Its wispy stem led down to a purple base Cloud Rises Swiftly The cloud rose swiftly and seemed to be traveling fast It did not have the true mushroom shape

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Library of Congress1958

Image 8 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), April 20, 1958

A8 THE BUNDAY BTAR Washington D C SINIIAV AfBII N IN j 7 j BEFORE ASSAILING COMPLACENCYSenate Majority Leader Lyndon B Johnson gives the incoming and outgoing presidents of the American Society of Newspaper Editors a look at his notes before addressing the society last night With him are George W Healy jr new ASNE presi dent left and Virginius Dabney the outgoing president rightStar Staff Photo Clapper Award Goes To Chalmers Roberts By th Associated Pru Chalmers M Roberta foreign affairs reporter for the Wash ington Post and TimesHerald last night was awarded the 14th annual Raymond Clapper Memorial Award Five newspaper executives acting as judges credited Mr Roberta with the first exten sive disclosure of the essence and fundamental findings of the Gaither Report This still unreleased report was made to President Eisen hower last year by a commis sion of national security ad 0 OPEN MON EVENING 9 til 9 Park Free Next Door on F St kits Un Mat kit high prices with I BELTOX IH ft ml PLYMOBTH FIIIE BUBS W f rotors use them tor model homes Three differ M ent designs Cochin diamond Madros plaid and cV Molobar in green Jk M J

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Library of Congress1958

Image 40 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), December 29, 1958

C4 THE fVENING STAR Washington 0 C Monday December 29 19St Personals Special 1 Notices Official Notices and Pro posals on Page A3 AUCTION SALES TBOI J OWEN a SON Auctioneer mi t t WFVSW w val M DWELLING WITH BASEMiNT Bj virtue of Deed of Truat re corded lo Über No 10U80 at folio 821 o r the Lend Records of the District of Column we snsll sell n font of the orcmlses on TUE3DAY THE BIXH DAY OF JANUAR AD 1050 At TWO l OCLOCK PM Lot numbered fortrflsht 46 In Square num bered Thtrtysi Hundred end likhtyflve f3M In the sub division mode by Morrk Calritx s i posit of SSOO required et time of C safe Terms of rule to be com piled with within thirty days Iro n date of sele otherwise the trus tees reserve the right to resell the property at the risk sad coet of the defaulting purchaser after five days advertisement of such resale In some newspaper pub _ fished In the District ol Cofiim bla or deposit may be forfeited or without forfeiting depoett trustees may aval themselves ol any legal or equitable rlshta T against defaulting purchaser Further psrticulars

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Library of Congress1909

Washington, District of Columbia

F15804 U.S. Copyright Office Covers central Washington. Shows radial distances. Text, map of Lehigh Valley Railroad, and ill. on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy mounted on cloth backing. DCP

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Library of Congress1889

Washington Yard : tracks for which company is indicted, shown in red

Covers area in central Washington D.C. bounded by Pennsylvania Av. N.W./S.E., 9th St. S.E., N St. S.E., diagonally northwestward to 14th St. S.W. Shows railroad yards, connecting trackage, and city block numbers. "October 1889." Typewritten on label affixed to verso: Ground covered by House bill 8243. Blueprint with selected tracks emphasized in red pencil. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing to fold to 22 x 14 cm. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. DCP

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Library of Congress1902

Image 8 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), February 15, 1902

I If I r r There arc only two essentials of Btisiness Successin any business First adequate capital Second a fair price for your goods with a reasonable profit A newspaper like any other commodity should be sold at a profiteach individual copy Any newspaper which is not thus sold is not independentits dependence is upon its advertisers or some other contrib utory powerand this dependence is inconsistent with abso lute honesty FRANK A MUNSEY U A Newspaper Devoted to intimate Information as to Their Important Interests THE SUNDAY TIMES Tomorrows issue will be so well worth its cost so valuable to every resident of this city that it would be an offense against common sense as well as business wisdom not to call attention to it in every possible way It will be beautifully illustrated contain thirtysix pages and be full of strong able authoritative ar ticles on important subjects interesting to every member of the family The price of the Sunday Times tomorrow and thereafter will be FIVE cents because it is worth FIVE cents and so good a newspaper cannot be sold for less Since its former price was set it has grown from eighteen pages to

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Library of Congress1915

Image 5 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), April 5, 1915

AN APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE Let us alleviate human suffering and preserve lifenot help to destroy it AS a result of receiving hundreds of thousands of letters the plants devoted to the manufacture of ammunition cables and messages through various sources containing e 1 1 j heartbroken appeal prayer nd plea from the people of our for nabons at war to immediately cease mother countries we the undersigned editors and publishers making powder shrapnel and cartridges destined to have concluded to place this appeal before the great American destroy our brothers widow OUT sisters and mothers people on behalf of our readers I7 The readers of our newspapers are vitally affected almost Orphan their children as well as destroy forever the without exception by this disastrous conflict of the European priceless possessions handed down by our ancestors nations Their brothers their sisters parents children or rela tives live in the warring countries This does not mean that the We appeal particularly to the American manufacturers and American people as a whole is not vitally affected but our read their workmen engaged in manufacturing any of these articles to ers are more closely linked through the bonds of blood relation

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Library of Congress1915

Image 10 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), December 12, 1915

SIXTYFIVE MEN IN CONGRESS HAVE WORKED ON NEWSPAPERS Of These Twelve Are Senators and Fifty three Are Members of the House of Representatives Sixtyflve members of Congress have served as newspaper men in one ca pacity or another according to the Congressional Directory Of these twelve are senators and fiftythree are members of the House Their newspaper jobs have ranged from typesetter to editor and owner Senator Henry F Ashurst of Arizona served as a reporter on a Williams Arizona newspaper Ever is A Hayes of the eighth Cal ifornia district with his brother is publisher of the San Jose Daily Morn ing Mercury and Herald and Charles H Randall the new member from the ninth district was a newspaper editor and publisher Edward Keating of the third Colo rado district started in at the age of fourteen as copyholder in a proofroom He served on Denver newspapers for twenty years as reporter city editor and managing editor In 1912 he pur chased the Pueblo Leader P Oakey Davis of the first Connecticut district for four years was connected with the Hartford Courant Senator James H Brady of Idaho acknowledges that he edited a paper for two years Clyde H

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Library of Congress1916

Image 2 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), June 11, 1916

Senator Warren G Harding of Ohic chairman of the convention Mr Fairbanks will be notified by i committee headed by Senator W11 liar E Borah of Idaho Leaders All Talk Harmony At 201 pm the convention ad journed There were expressions o harmony from all the leaders an among the delegates The delegation which on the final ballot had cas votes for others than Mr Hughes mad statements declaring their loyalty t the nominees Six months ago said Chairmai Charles D Hilles of the republican na tional committee I said the nom inee would be born in the convention and he was T am very much pleased of course said Mr Hitchcock It means a re united republican party and victor In November The nomination of Mr Hujrncs was mad possible so soon by an overnigh breakup of the allied favorite sons combination which early this morninj released its delegates practically al of whom were known to favor Mr Hughes when freed from their instruc tions Favorite Sons Withdrawn When the convention began business shortly before noon the withdrawal o the favorite sons was announced fron the platform one after another ant the votes began flopping into th Hughe column

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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 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 Congress1926

Image 59 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), December 9, 1926

AUCTION SALES THIS AFTER NOON j TROV T OWEN A SON AUCTIONEERS j Business Property Large Brick Store and Garage No 3706 Fourteenth st NW At Auction B T authority vested tn us w will ml publi suction m front of the premise on THURSDAY THE NINTH HAT OF DE CEMBER 1926 AT FOUR O CLOCK Pt lot 40 tn oui 2692 improved ns shove Terms Sold suhjeot to a first deed of rit sot sioon 00 due in shoot two and half years with interest at 6 W per rent thp purrhasp prie above said trust to he paid onehslf rash and halanrp as second deed of trust payable 7500 per month with Interest at 61 per rent tn mature in two rears A deposit of 30000 required Conreranrin recording etc at purchasers cost Sale to he closed within thirty days or deposit forfeited THOfl J OWEN A SON Allots d4dds etSu ADAM A WESCHIER A SON Aiisuoneers Trustees Sale of a Twostory Brick Dwelling No Eye Street Northeast By virtue of a certain dead of tru4l re corded in Liber No 5443 folio 14 one of the land record of the Histrirt of Columbia and default havint been

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Library of Congress1927

Image 52 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), November 18, 1927

52 AUCTION SALES TOMORROW SHANNON CALDWELL CO Large Sale of Household Effects 5 S Every Description At Public Auction X AT SHANNONS f 304 10th NW SATURDAY Nov 19 1927 at 10 AM C SHANNON CALDWELL A CO Buick Touring Willys Knight and Chevrolet Sedans for Trustees and other Automobiles By Auction At Weschlers 920 PENNA AVE NW SATURDAY November 19th 10 AM This ale also Included several stand rd make late model ears by order Inanee Company to be sold in good i order nr no sale C G Sloan II Co Inc i jg Aucts liGISTEREB 715 13th St Household Furniture Opalite Tables Bentwood Chairs Steam Table and Counter Water Cooler Etc At Public Auction AT SLOANS GALLERIES 715 13th St Saturday November 19th 1927 At 10 AM And at 12 M j Podge Sedan by order of E C Snyder U S Marshal and Others Terms Cash n017i8 Automobiles By Auction Saturday Nov 19th at 12 oclock f 462 Pa Avc NW V All MakesAU Models V A Car For Everybody t GUS EICHBERG V Auctioneer Official Auctioneer tor IT S JS Government V A Remember the Number VL t 18 V ADAM A WKSCHIKK SON Auctioneers

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Library of Congress1929

Image 41 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), May 21, 1929

SALEHOUSES iCmllmri NORTHWEST 8750 750 CASH 6750 MONTHLY Nine Pooms 2Car Brick Garage Excellent Condition FISCHER ft MANNAKEE 1010 VERMONT AVE MAIN 566 near war dm an park Opposite Private Estate Allbrick MILLERBUILT S rooms 4 bedrooms 3 baths and 2car garage plen tiful shrubbery and terraced lawn excep tionally attractive 2621 29th st n w W C A N MILLER 1119 17th St NW Decatur 610 Big 4Bedroom Home 3 Covered Torches Garage 10950 Terms A beautiful colonialtype brick home with mansard roof in the charming Petworth section conven iently located near Sherman Circle Covered concrete front porch and 2 wide covered rear porches 7 large rooms 4 bedrooms tile bath with builtin tub and shower bright kltch n completely equipped builtin re rigerator large dry cellar with laundry trays and toilet This home is In excellent condition lust redeco rated hardwood floors hotwater heat automatic hotwater heater large wardrobe closets numer ous floor plugs all modern im provements It is 20 feet wide by 35 feet deep with a nice yard with garage paved street and alley Gas and water connections on the second floor making it possible to use this home as a twofamily apartment This is

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Library of Congress1929

Image 49 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), September 6, 1929

1 ALEHOUSES fMtIHSMI IDEALLY SITUATED FOR ROOMING HOUSE One Sq From 14th and Park Rd 10500 Modern brick residence containing nine rooms lire bedrooms one block from 14th and Para rd business section TtroU Thea ter market and car line near school Own er will sell on very reasonable cash and monthly payments Address Box 181M Star office DETACHED BRICK 2610 4th ST NK 6 rooms tile hath hotwater heat open fireplace attractive design a fully detached brick home for the price of a row house for sale hv the builders WOODWARD YIETH 2002 R I Ave NE North 7M 1 xSnTMOV EOR RENEW YOUR LEASE Without first seeina those new homes for 100 cash balsnce fU month at 4th A T Sts ne This is a good new neishborhood Cars pass the door New hiah school across the street 6 rooms 3 porches builtin aa raxe Inspect 1926 4tb st ne Open and lighted until 9 oclock or call H R HOWENSTEIN CO 1H5 H St NW District 090 P NORTH CLEVELAND PARK Beautiful semidetaclied brick larae rooms and bath 2 rear porches concrete front porch copper screens throughout Kelvinstor brick garage high elevation overlooking Bureau of Stardarda The

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