Businessmen Protest Early Presidential Campaign
Washington businessmen from Main to California and Florida protest the opening of the 1916 presidential campaign two years ahead of the election. They warn prolonged campaigning depresses trade and note Cabinet members and lawmakers seek to halt the trend amid broader national pressures. Republican leaders including Senator Borah and Representative Mann push for a party standard bearer and defend the party in Congress.
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Ashington
Main
Cali Tere
Washington
Porida
Indianapolis
Marehall
Clark
Wilcott
Torah
Mann
Idaho
Congress
West Virginia may outlaw parlor gaming under proposed bill
A House judiciary committee backed bill would amend section 5 to ban gambling in any form at public or private venues. Violators face fines from twenty to two hundred dollars, plus a one year good behavior bond and possible 10 to 30 days in county jail. Justices of the Peace share jurisdiction with circuits on these cases.
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Charleston
W. Va
Bridge
West Virginia
House Committee On Judiciary
Court of Justice
Justices of the Peace
Piedmont Tops Blaine In Tri-Towns Basketball Clash
Piedmont basketball beat Blaine 14 to 18 at the Armory with strong performances by Lashorn Gocke and Hart. Westernport meets Piedmont Tuesday. Piedmont Freshmen beat Lightweights 18 to 10, remaining undefeated.
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Tri-Towns
Piedmont
Blaine
Armory
Blaine Lashorn
Miller
Brown
Hannen
Gedea Naameat
McGreevy
E. Hannen
D. Brown
Lash
Westernport
K. of P. Armory
Piedmont High School
Devon Club
Piedmont City
RG Iis
Eave
Aes
Dwain
Davis Morrow
Eta
Ee Res
Sigler
Davis
Right
Morrow
Mullen
Raid Yields Fines and Detention in Front Street Case
Mrs. Mary Butcher, who ran the Front street house raided last night under Assistant Chief Nicely, was fined 25 dollars by Magistrate Freck in Police Court and committed to the station house for nonpayment. Frank Lewis and Fred Butcher received ten days each. Others in the raid forfeited bonds of six dollars.
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Mary Butcher
Front Street
Nicely
Freck
Frank Lewis
Fred Butcher
Betz
Flannagan
McBride
French Hold At St Mihiel Gaining Ground In Sector
Paris reports the official Communique stating French shells wrecked Meuse bridges near St Mihiel and prepare for a drive against Germany. French trenches in St Mihiel were evacuated with a two hundred yard retreat. German efforts to drive the French from higher positions in lower Alsace failed. French gain of a hundred yards along the Lombartryde highway. German bombardment continues at Berry Au Bac.
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Paris
Meuse
St. Mihiel
Lower
Alsace
Lombartryde
Berry Au Bac
Zeppelin Foundered in the North Sea near Nordwich
Fishermen arriving at Nordwich today reported seeing an airship founder in the North Sea far off the coast. It is believed the wrecked craft was one of the Zeppelins said to have raided the British coast.
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Rotterdam
Nordwich
North Sea
British battleship sinks German supply ship in Pacific
The Admiralty announced that on January 6 a British battleship sank a German supply ship aiding German cruisers in Australian waters. The crew was imprisoned. No further details were provided.
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London
Admiralty
Pacific
Pacific Northwest fruit growers seek cooperative market plans
In Seattle on January 23 a conference of growers and shippers discussed closer cooperation to market crops more economically. Similar meetings have occurred in Portland Spokane Wenatchee and other centers. They consider central selling agencies and factories to process orchard by products to stabilize the war affected market.
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Seattle
Wash
Pacific Northwest
Portland
Spokane
Wenatchee
Beckman Buys Bertha Neubiser Property at $38,200 Auction
Conrad G. Beckman purchased the Bertha Neubiser property at 294 N Mechanists at public auction for 38 200. The sale was directed by George Louis Eppler Assignee.
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Conrad G. Beckman
Bertha Neubiser
N. Mechanicst
George Louis Eppler
Jones found guilty of stealing copper from B and C28
Shannon Jones and Clifford Jones were found guilty by a circuit court jury this morning on larceny of copper wire from a Baltimore and Ohio Car. Attorneys Austin A. Wilson and Carl W. Richards represented them. Ed gar Sibley pleaded guilty and was released on his bench. M. P. Murray and Chas Kraft pleaded guilty to liquor and received fines. Remaining criminal docket items will be heard Monday morning.
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Shannon Jones
Clifford Jones
Baltimore and Ohio
Austin A. Wilson
Carl W. Richards
Edgar Sibley
M. P. Murray
John Fisher
Chas, Kraft
Thaw Bound for New York Extradition Ordered
Thaw travels from Manchester to New York under sheriff guard to be imprisoned in the Tombs. Sheriff Drew delivers the man to Duchess County authorities after the Supreme Court mandate is read by Judge Aldrich who reversed his habeas corpus decision. Thaw shows no counsel and appears cheerful.
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Concord
N. W
Thaw
New York
Manchester
Drew
Jerome
Supreme Court
Aldrich
Dacia Fails to Sail from Galveston
On January 23 in Galveston the steam ship Dacia did not clear for Rotterdam. The owner E N Breitung may have sought advice before risking the vessel, which cost buyers in Germany $125,000 previously. The million dollar cotton cargo could not be taken by the British, but the ship could be.
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Galveston
Dacia
Rotterdam
E. N. Breitung
Obituary Jerome S S Tabler 66 retired B&O engineer
Jerome S S Tabler 66, a retired Baltimore and Ohio Railroad passenger engineer, died Tuesday night. Funeral held at his home 1504 Covington St Baltimore with Rev J L Walsh officiating. Burial in London Park Cemetery. Formerly of Martinsburg.
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Jerome S&s. Tabler
Jerome
Tabler
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Covington Street
Baltimore
J. L. Walsh
Fort Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
London Park Cemetery
Martinsburg
Personal notices from Hagerstown area and national brief
George Wright known as Pickles is ill at the corner of Columbia Avenue and Franklin Streets. His mother Mrs. Matthew Wright is also sick. Joseph V. McKenna visited Hagerstown yesterday. Mrs. William G. Damm of LaVale has recovered enough to leave her room. Donald Landis of Bellevue Street was badly injured by a New Year’s Eve improvised cannon blast but was out on the street yesterday. Oppose Immigration Bill New York mass meeting to press literacy test opposition. Mormon Church to Aid War Sufferers to send funds to European Mission for distribution.
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George Wright
Donald Landis
Bellevue — Street
New York
Smith-Burnett
Wilson
Copper Union
of the
Citizenship Committee
Russia
Mormon Church
Salt Lake City
Utah
Church of the Faith
European Mission
Justice Contempt Case Hits Toledo Paper in Fray
Federal Judge fined the Toledo News-Bee seven thousand five hundred dollars and editor N D Cochran two hundred for cartoons editorials and news items about a pending street railway case. The paper's actions tied to a public fight since 1903 over a franchise and three cent fare policy.
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Toledo
John Killets
Toledo News
N. DD
Cochran
News-Bee
Street Railway
Socialista
Resolutiona
News-Hee
Tiusiness
John Quinnivan
Central Labor Union
News- Kee
Newa.lice
Tte
Moses
Alan
Il Yours
John M. Willet'a
News-Kee
N. Corheran
Kiilite
Tfs
W. la Day
Cleveland
U. 8 District Attorency LA
Denman
Local Names Listed Among Westernport Notices
Edwin Vincent Gray of Valparaiso Indiana and Martha Mmily Holmes of Akron Ohio join Harmon Detules Gannon Barton and Christina Stevenson of Lanac oning Wesley Alexander Clark and Viola Ethel Melend of Westernport in the dated notice of upcoming legal actions and property interests.
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Edwin Vincent Gray
Valparaiso
Ind
Martha Mmily Holmes
Akron
Hie
Harmon Detules Gannon
Barton
Christina Stevenson
Life Term Confronts An Officer Held for Patterson Theft
An officer from Charlestown West Virginia arrived to take charge of Frank Patterson a 54 year old Black man arrested Thursday by Assistant Chief Nicely and Officer Flannagan at the Queen City station. Patterson admitted he was the wanted man and had jumped a $1 000 bond on a larceny charge marking his third offense and claiming life imprisonment loomed. He was escorted back by the officer.
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Charlestown
W Va
Frank Paterson
Nicely
Flannagan
Queen City
Patterson
Ile
Assignee Bertha Eppler vs Loula Ro Bertha
Legal notice of court action involving George Loula Eppler as assignee and Bertha, with a court date set for February 16 in the county court. Details are garbled but indicate a summons or order in a foreclosure or debt matter.
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George Loula Eppler
Roe Allewanny
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