Annual Reception Given Off Officialdom
Washington February 4. Wives and members of the House hosted an annual reception at the Rayburn Hall for wives of cabinet officers and lawmakers. Secret service guarded the Congressional club home as Vice President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson were invited guests for a St. Valentine party. A separate event featured a stereopticon travel lecture by Rep. Fred A. Britten of Illinois planned for March.
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Aii
Fred A. Britten
Illinois
China
Japan
Philippines
Taft to Speak at Philadelphia Law Academy Anniversary
Former President William H. Taft accepted an invitation to deliver the chief address at the 138th anniversary exercises of the Law Academy Philadelphia. The ceremony will feature the academy’s traditional theme and program.
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Taft
LAW Academy
Philadelphia
William H. Taft
Law Academy Philadelphia
Newspapermen Visit Cumberland Telephone Exchange
Local reporters toured the Cumberland Co P telephone exchange led by District Manager J Brooke Boyle and staff. They viewed the busy operator room handling about 28 000 calls daily, the signaling system, and the modern facilities including a rest area for operators and a luncheon hosted by Boyle.
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J. Brooke Boyle
F. G. Adams, Jr
Mabel Shifler
V &i! Vistors
Cumberland
Central
Boyle
William Devries
Clark
C. & P. Company
Baltimore
Charles W. Donnelly
H. S. Hayward
The
Daily News
Jos. B. Finan
Richard P. McCardell
Harry H. Robinson
Beverley Milholland
the Times
Frank Lee Carl
J. William Hunt
the Press
New Glass Factory Planned Near Owens Plant Site
Baltimore and Ohio industrial agents announced a 36 blower window glass plant will be built on the Nathan Goff farm in Clarksburg during spring near the Owens bottle plant. Details on the builder and employment were not disclosed.
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Clarksburg
Baltimore and Ohio
Nathan Goff
Owens Bottle
Board of Ade
Frederick Examiner ceases. local notes from Maryland briefed
Discontinued publication of The Frederick Examiner is noted along with a batch of Maryland items. A 75 year old Beaver Creek resident is seriously injured after a fall. Dr C R Scheller seeks the Republican mayor nomination in Hagerstown. A Laurel Grove farmer suffers injuries from runaway mules. A gray railroad worker is struck by an iron rail. Tomato growers in Fairlee district set a minimum price of 174 cents per bushel. Ridgley firm Day Swing & Co will build a 12000 canning plant at Price's Station. Principio Forge resumes full operation at Principio Furnace. W Oscar Collier and Edward C Stoops sue Eastern Gazette for 10000 each. Lincoln birthday plans rise in Baltimore German American Lincoln Club with dinner at Hotel Emerson. Major Koerper inspects Maryland National Guard ambulance unit. infantry inspection to follow. Billy Sunday campaign builds a mammoth choir for Baltimore meetings. City Solicitor Field says 1912 legislature allows Baltimore to negotiate natural gas supply. Opposition grows to Fourth Regiment Army building at North and Maryland avenues. St Johns College Alumni meet at Rennert Hotel, Baltimore, next Saturday night. Wanted: Lady roomers at 402 Fayette.
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Day, Swing & Co
Ridgley
Price’s Station
Principio Forge Company
Principio Furnace
W. Oscar Collier
Edward C. Stoops
Talbot County
Eastern Gazette Publishing Company
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln Club
Baltimore
Emerson
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Ambulance
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Mammoth
Tabernacle
TO REBUILD CHURCH AFTER WRECKED TABERNACLE
The Bucks Valley Mormon tabernacle in Fulton county Pa. was dynamited as it neared completion. The twenty to forty member congregation led by J J Hendershot intends to rebuild despite a feud with locals. The Tomstown group in Franklin county earlier dissolved after building a prior Mormon church nearby.
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Bucks Valley
Fulton County
Congregation of Mormons
J. J. Hendershot
Tomstown
Franklin County
George Rock
Dunkard
Waynesboro
Nightingale Eyes WV Counties for Sealer Assignments
Charleston West Virginia Feb 9 Labor Commissioner J H Nightingale head of the Department of Weights and Measures said he plans a test case in court to determine if the department can compel 15 counties to name sealers of weights and measures He notes a shift from dry measure to weight based measuring in many counties raising the issue of enforcement.
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Charleston
W. Va
J. H. Nightingale
Department of Weights and Measures
West Virginia
Nightingale
Durbin case in Grafton awaits judge's ruling on indictment method
The Durbin pleas in abatement trial concluded with closing arguments in Circuit Court Grafton. Judge Neil J Fortney said a decision would be handed down today. The dispute centers on whether personal summons must be served on grand jurors or if mailed notice to a juror suffices, a ruling that could affect West Virginia criminal procedure and prompt Supreme Court review.
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Grafton
W. Va
Charles R. Durbin
Grafton Bank
Neil J. Fortney
West Virginia
Supreme Court
Malley Body Sighted Near Chesapeake Bay
Dwight F. Malley, the Baltimore clubman missing since a November duck hunt on the Susquehanna, has been sighted in upper Chesapeake waters at Whartens Creek. Col. Arthur D. Foster plans a drag to recover the body with a $5,000 reward offered.
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Baltimore
Dwight F. Malley
Susquehanna
Whartens Creek
Chesapeake Bay
Arthur D. Foster
Worker Killed Amid Snow Flurries On Railroad Yard
Altoona Pennsylvania February 9 William P Bush aged 69 a material clerk for the Pennsylvania Railroad was killed in the yards by the train he planned to ride to work He was blinded by snow flurries and carried all the stockroom keys when he died
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Pate
Altoona
William P. Bush
Pennsylvania Railroad
Bush
Wade Succeeds Sweeney as Hagerstown Postmaster
At the Washington County Democratic central committee meeting John B. Sweeney resigns as Hagerstown postmaster and Dr. J. Hubert Wade of Boonsboro is appointed to the position.
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Hagerstown
Democratic State Central Committee
Washington County
John B. Sweeney
J. Hubert Wade
Boonsboro
Martinsburg quarry death claims Charlestown youth
Roger M. Ballenger, 19, son of George W. Ballenger of Charlestown, was killed in a stone quarry accident near Martinsburg on Monday. The notice promotes an I C S course as an inexpensive path to success with the tagline The Man With a Purpose Will Succeed.
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Roger M. Ballenger
George W. Ballenger
Charlestown
Martinsburg
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