Lesner Funds Ties to Norfolk County Political Struggle
Affidavits allege Senator Lesner and allies used campaign funds to pay poll taxes for Tanner's Creek voters to influence a local option election. The document lists contributors, meetings, and receipts while promising further documentary proofs and new disclosures against Lesner and allies.
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Lesner
Eich
Futo
Seonior
Alyah Martin
Norfolk County
Ator Lesner
Mr. Leengr
Avi
Norfolk “County
Heras Creek
John A. Lesner
Maurie G. Long
W. Church Lewis
Savage Leon Hosler
Wallace Arnold
J. W. O’connor
O. B. Gallup
Tanner's Creek
Brew- 3 T
O. B. Gallup, & Co
J. W
Church Lewis
J. M. Gh
Sime
J. W. Ken
Goshe
Coe
Ocean Views
William Hodges Mann
Ocean View
Hn A. Lesner
Allum
Lynnhaven
John Lesner
Lesnér
Maurice G. Long
Long
Cromwell
Portsmouth
Deadlock Over Depew Senate Seat Looms in New York
Albany special reports a legislative stalemate over selecting a U.S. Senator to succeed Chauncey M. Depew. Sheehan’s hopes fade as insurgents and regular Democrats hint at backing Loomis or another compromise, with Glynn declining to run. Roosevelt leads insurgents promising more recruits as Tammany scoffs.
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Albany, &. V
New York State
United States
Chauncey M. Depew
Willian J F. Sheehan
Frank M. Loomis
Buffalo
Franklin DD. Roosevelt
Duchess County
Tammany Met
Holland answers Leutenant Shaw about electoral choice
Congressmen elect E. E. Holland replied to Lieut. C. P. Shaw asking which steel candidate he would support. Holland said he would vote for his chosen candidates and reject using office influence for any one candidate. He asserted voters in the district could similarly choose freely.
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Suffolk
E. E. Holland
Washington
Cc. P. Shaw
Norfolk
Eutenant Shaw
Holland
Martin
People
Judge Waddill appoints Barley special commissioner
Special Commissioner J. Starley of Alexandria named by Judge Edmund Waddill Jr to determine how government funds for the Relvoir White House tract in Fairfax County to the Miterbach heirs are to be divided. The land was acquired to establish a reform school for the District of Columbia, drawing protests from local associations against a penal institution near Mount Vernon.
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Ric
Edmund Waddill, Jr
ham vmamed J. @ Starley
Alexandria
Relvoir
White House
Fairfax County
Miterbach
United States
District of Columbia
Mount Vernon
George Washington
Twain Characters Dressed in French Garb for Paris Play
Mark Twain's figures will appear on Paris stage in five acts and nine tableaux adapted by Vladimir Blenstock and Michel Care from The Prince and the Pauper. The production at Theater Sarah Bernhardt is slated for about six weeks hence. Blenstock has prior experience adapting Pinero and Tolstoy.
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Monsieur Twain
Mark Twain
Sarah Bernhardt
Paris
Vladimir Bhlenstock
Michel Care
M. Bienstock
Prince and the Pauper
M. Blenstock
Pinero
Tolstol
Mystery man Whytehall in Richmond homicide file
Police weigh theories about Evo Whytehall found dead on Grove Avenue Richmond. Detectives piece together clues from newspapers and a patent note, study Norwood connection, and search Norwich and Washington leads while probing Whytehall’s past and a trove of photos and clippings for identity and motive.
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Evo Whytehall
Iaith
Thomas McMahon
Mystery Beeps in Strange Gases Near Grove Avenue Death
Richmond officers investigate the death of Whytehall Whytehall found prostrate in snow on Grove Avenue. A grocer’s son and accomplice moved him to a wagon after he appeared doped. Whytehall tore names from letters and pictures, prompting police to seek a perilous secret mission or dangerous work.
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Richmond, WV
Eno Whytel
Wiley
King Johnson
Johns
Grove Avenue
Johnson
Jalsard
A. Bradshaw
Kerry Run Cumber
Whytehall
America
Werner
Norwich
Conn
Rhode Island Women Fight for Shorter Streetcar Steps
In Providence Rhode Island 354 leading women from the Rhode Island and Women's Club petitioned the City Council to require more and shorter steps on trolley cars. The effort aims to harmonize fashion with passenger convenience and safety.
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Providence
BR. L
Rhode Island and Women’s Club
Dave
Fatal Passenger Train Crash in Wales Kills Eleven
A passenger train plowed into a stationary freight train near Pontypridd Cardiff, killing eleven people and injuring forty two, seven of whom died. The impact crushed several cars and wrecked rear coaches.
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Cardiff
Wales
Pontipridd
Bismya the Oldest City In the World Lecture Tonight
Professor Edgar J. Banks will discuss Bismya, the oldest city, tonight in Homnas Hall. He is the field director of the Babylonian expedition at the University of Chicago and will also lecture tomorrow on Excavations and the Tablet. The lectures will be illustrated and target readers and students of ancient history and the Bible.
Plague in Pekin Sparks Quarantine Orders
A bonic plague case was found in Pekin as a traveler from Harbin Manchuria evaded detection and spent two days in a crowded district. Authorities announce all foreign nations will be quarantined and the outbreak threatens the city if unchecked.
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Pekin
Traeler
Harbin
Manchuria
China
Parmalee Sets New American Flight Duration Record
Parmalee, the Wright aviator from San Francisco, soared for three hours, thirty nine minutes and forty eight seconds to beat the prior record of three hours seventeen minutes. He surpassed Hoxsey who died shortly after his flight, and A L Welsh of the National Aviation Company. He landed at 3 46 to cheers from about 100 000 spectators who carried him to the grand stand.
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Parmalee
San Francisco
Philip Co
Wright
Hoxsey
A. L. Welsh
National Aviation Company
Washington
Eugene Bly
Filles Over War Ships In Peruvian Aerial Feat
The Peruvian aviator Tenarud made a Saturday ascent at Lima but suffered a motor accident causing his plane to fall. he was not injured. Another Peruvian aviator Bielovicic rose to 2060 meters, flew to Callao circling the harbor war ships, then returned to Lima.
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Lima
Phru
Avitator
Tenarud
Bielovicic
Callao
Glass announces candidacy for U S Senate in Virginia
Representative Carter Glass of the Sixth Virginia District declares intent to seek the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat becoming vacant after the death of Major Daniel. He argues the choice should be by the people, rejects machine politics, and defends his anti saloon stance while offering to campaign directly to voters.
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Washington
Glass
Iginia
United States
Hn W. Daniel
Norich
Senate
Rfolk
Portsmouth
Virginia Court
Daniel
Virginia General Assembly
Virginia
Senate of the Wines
Virginia Senate
Cosen
Constitutional Convention
Clark's B00 AM Serious Affair
Washington D C Special Champ Clark's presidential boom is a serious affair. Politicians here are waking up to the fact that he avoids active campaigning while wielding strong influence over committee appointments. Clark seeks to sidestep sectional clashes and build support for 1912 without taking direct responsibility.
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Washington, D. C
Champ Clark
Clark
Joe" Cannon
Riles
Ways and Means
Committee On Committees
Henry
Texas
Fitzgerald
New York
Stanley
Kentucky
Graham
Illinois
Hardwick
Georgia
Burleson
South
Poll
North Carolina
Adamson
Bartlett
Underwood
Alabama
Tles
Committee On Appropriations
Ancient Christian Text Claims Pre-Gospel Sect Evidence
A newly discovered document analyzed by Dr Margollouth at the British Museum is said to record early Christian group activity predating the gospels. Harper's Weekly notes identify two leaders as Jesus and John the Baptist, with a third figure called a man of scoffing Belial possibly Paul the Apostle, while Dr Schechter proposes a pre-Christian Jewish sect instead.
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Margollouth
British Museum
Harper's Weekly
Eousness
Margoliouth
Jesus
John the Baptist
Belial
Paul the Apostle
Christ
Dr. Schechter
Mark Twain as a Frontier Faitor
A witness recalls Mark Twain's early writings largely lost to time. He notes the Territory Enterprise files were destroyed by fire in Virginia City and only Flood and O'Brien's costly Nevada and California back numbers survived. The San Francisco library later burned, erasing more records used to prove mining claim titles.
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Mark Twain
Virginia City
Territory Enterprise
Flood
O’brien
Nevada
California
Jim Flood
San Francisco
Miners Die in Explosion Blame Placed on Company
Henrico county coroner's inquest finds the Old Dominion Development Company negligent in a Gayton mine blast that killed six Polish miners and injured several others. The jury, led by J Fulmer Bright, plans to present indictments for criminal negligence if the grand jury returns an indictment. William Woolfolk, VP of the company, testified among eleven witnesses.
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Old Dominion Development Company
J. Fulmer Bright
M. D
Robert Taylor
Pes
Commonwealth
Jullem Gunn
Grand
Henrico County
Louis Cywingki
Coer
Monkey Burglar Flees During Burst of Gunfire
In New York Harlem the burglar nicknamed the monkey escaped after a basement confrontation at 20 East Ninety-seventh Street. Guards John Smith and Charles Salke fired about a dozen shots, fearing capture, as the agile thief leapt roofs and fences and vanished into a vacant lot.
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New York
Harlem
the Monkey
East Ninety-seventh Street
John Smith
George Fitzgerald
Charles Salke
Ninety-sixth Street
Smith
Salke
Husband seeks court aid as wife deemed incorrigible
In Washington special report Charles H Daly twenty argues his wife is incorrigible at Juvenile Court Judge De Lacy counters that the charge fits children not married women The court commits the wife to the Sisters of the Good Shepherd for a year noting elopement with Daly to Rockville Maryland two years ago and his inability to control her
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Washington
Charles H. Daly
Rockville
Demented heiress Minnie Trowbridge studied for guardianship
Special inquiry into the mental condition of Mrs. Minnie Trowbridge Dowd, heiress of a $1.2 million estate, began with doctors and witnesses testifying she suffers incurable dementia after a stroke in November 1968. The petition seeks a guardian for the Newport born widow, with heirs including James K. Hackett and Emma Wetmore noted but not joining.
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New York
Thos. Darlington
Melvin G. Palliser
Robert Shalkenbach
Prossers Rye
Lincoln
Neb
Minnie Hackett
James K. Hackett
Lovell H. Jerome
Customs Service
W. T. Jerome
M. Allen Starr
Frederick Peterson
State Commission of Lunacy
J. Ramsey Hunt
Starr
Trowbrinpeel
Latham Retires From Flying After Courageous Career
French aviator Latham announces he will quit aviation after witnessing the deaths of friends and peers. Once a top prize winner in 1910 with earnings over $60,000, he cites loss of nerve and signals his farewell to the sport in a cable to his mother in France.
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San Francisco
Cal
Flubert Latham
France
Latham
Madman Amuck in Bank of England
An armed maniac stormed the Bank of England causing panic. He was disarmed after a fierce struggle and arrested. He claimed to be the eldest son of Queen Victoria and demanded money, driving clerks and guards to seek cover during the incident.
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London
Bank of England
Queen Victoria
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