Weather and price swings amid drought in Richmond area
The dry spell has driven vegetable and fruit prices up sharply with beans and cantaloupes doubling and strawberries ruined by heat. Meat sales lag while fish and chicken markets remain steady as rainfall today promises partial relief. May 1911 rainfall set a record of low precipitation and temperature patterns show a mixed, hot month with limited storms.
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Richmond
T. W. Wood & Sons
Norfolk and Sea Coast
Norfolk
South
Weather Bureau
Bureau
Bureau Aix
Eathier Bureau
Congressman Jones
Martin
Senator Martin
Stand Corporation
WU AU Strike At A Standstill In Pittsburg Pa
Labor disruption continues as Secretary Morrison of the AFL delays arrival to supervise the Pennsylvania Railroad strike. Three arrests tied to the shooting of Mrs. Mary Senick in Brownsville, fatally injured after clash between strikers and strike-breakers. Pitcairn trainmen return to work. protest planned to Congress.
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Pittsburg
Frank Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Pennsylvania Railroad
Morrison
Altoona
Mary Senick
Brownsville
President Taft to visit Appalachian Exposition
President Taft announced plans to visit the Appalachian Exposition in Knoxville Tennessee during the second week of September. The trip will showcase regional industry and culture with official engagements across the city.
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Appalachian Fair
Washington, D. C
Taft
Knoxville
Tenn
Richmond Confederate veterans refuse to donate portraits
In Richmond Virginia the R E Lee Camp No 1 refuses to contribute its valuable portrait collection to the Confederate Memorial Institute despite a room offered and the institute needing funds. Trustees praised site choice at the Soldiers Home but the motion to donate the pictures was tabled without discussion. Some fear the decision may hinder future contributions to the memorial effort.
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Richmond
Confederate Memorial Institute
R. E. Lee
No. 1
Confederate Veterans
J. Taylor Ellyson
Lee
Trustees
The
Memorial Institute Association
Little Rock
Ark
Lee Camp
J. Taylor Stratton
Memorial Institute
Police Court Rumpus Ends With Fines and Bonds
A heated police court scene erupted as a rowdy crowd clashed while Wingfield was injured. Officers contained threats from spectators and fined several men and women. Melton remained at the center as witnesses surged for safety.
Shotting near Wood X Roads shocks Gloucester County
In Gloucester County a shot in the back wounded Mr J M Shackleford as he rode along the main road near Wood X Roads. The assailant fled but Shackleford survived, while a judge and officers struggled to calm the scene amid a court dispute and separate domestic tensions involving Melton and Wingfield.
Why Hampden tenants move in Chicago tale of a king snake
Hampden apartments manager explains tenants fled after odd incidents. Alfred Knight, a druggist in the building, received a four foot king constrictor from Louisiana. The snake escaped from a box with mice, a boy recaptured it in a corridor, and Knight now must move.
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Chicago
C. A. Hartwell
Hampden Apartments
Hartwell
Alfred T. Knight
Louisiana
Knight
Clayville and Dorset Train Dispute Settled by Court
Judge William F. Rhea of the State Corporation Commission upheld Dorset as the preferred station over Clayville for future trains. The decision follows a long local dispute sparked by Southern Railway plans in 1908 to discontinue Dorset, with Dorset deemed better located and suited to travelers.
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Richmond
Clayville
Dorset
Southern Railway
William F. Rhea
State Corporation Commission
Moseley Junction
Southern
Claywill
Oe Arene
Clayville Ost
Earl of Sefton Buys Chickens in Norfolk Note
The Earl of Sefton stationed at Washington paid $625 for five chickens four hens and a cock to Andrew P. O'Connor of Norfolk who breeds top fighting game fowls in the United States. The birds were insured for $150 each and shipped yesterday to Liverpool. A keeper accompanied them. Sefton admired O'Connor’s birds during Europe visit last year and won seventeen of twenty fighting cocks.
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Norfolk
Earl of Sefton
Washington
Andrew P. O'Connor
United States
Liverpool
O’connor
O'Connor
Europe
Classified exchange about Willie as family bloom
Miss Sweet We all consider Willie the flower of the family. Mr Spooner Yes, hes a blooming nuisance.
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Miss Sweet
Willie
Mr. Spooner
Youth Carries Out His Threat in Fairfax County
Special report from Fairfax Courthouse details the death of 21-year-old carpenter Ageie Kerns who shot himself at home after threatening suicide earlier in the day. He left behind questions about motive with friends suggesting financial distress linked to losses at the Confederate Memorial Day exercises on June 1.
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Fairfax
Special
Kerns
Fairfax County
Runaway Grocer Marries Crippled Girl in New Haven
Yonkers grocer Charles H. Roth and Clara Risk eloped from Fags Sage and wed in New Haven after a visit to Peekskill. Mrs Risk suspects Roth, a married man with a son, used their unpaid groceries as leverage. Roth provided a false license name Carl H Bornedorf. Mrs Risk’s son-in-law confirms the couple traveled to New Haven and the wedding occurred. Roth faces bigamy charges with a New Haven hearing adjourned.
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New York
Chas. H. Roth
Yonkers
New Haven
William Risk
Roth
Gilleos
Clara
Gilleo
Art
Carl H. Bornedorf
Miss Risk
Fought duel around girl ends in death and jail
In Raleigh a pistol battle Sunday night left John B. Robertson dead and H W Montague with a bullet wound in the arm. Miss Flossie Hicks, Montague’s companion, tried to halt the fighting as Robertson and Neht-bean fought near the wedding procession. The clash stemmed from an alleged assault on Robertson’s sister.
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Raleigh, N
John B. Robertson
H. W. Montague
Flossie Hicks
Montague
Robertson
Fred
Banks Get $3,000,000 From Walsh Estate
Chicago banks that underwrote the Walsh debt after John R. Walsh's conviction have recovered $3,000,000. The sum comes from the sale of the Alliance Coal Company to Monon Coal Company, linked to the Monon railroad, involving 20,000 acres of coal lands across Sullivan, Clay, Green and Vigo counties in Indiana.
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Chicago, Ill
Chicago
Walsh
John R. Walsh
Alliance Coal Company
Monon Coal Company
Sullivan, Clay, Green and
Vigo Counties
Ind
Woman's Value In Charity Work Highlighted at Conference
Boston mass Special. Woman's aid and value in charity work was the theme of the first session on the second day of the National Conference of the St. Vincent De Paul Societies. Chairman Briggs of Baltimore and Dr Jos B Lyons spoke. A general discussion followed with Thomas M Mulrey, president of the Superior Council of New York City.
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Boston
Mass
St. Vincent de Paul Societies
Briggs
Baltimore
Jos B. Lyons
Thomas M. Mulrey
Superior Council
New York City
Abandon Hope For Missing Aviator In Nice France
Six torpedo boats patrolled the sea for Lieutenant Bague the missing army aviator who set out to fly to Corsicana and returned with no trace of him. hope that he escaped was abandoned.
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Nice
France
Bague
Here
Corsicana
Lightweight Bout Hinted Between Britton and Ward
Officials of the Madison A C aim to arrange a ten round bout between Jack Britton of Chicago and Jack Ward an English light welterweight who arrived in New York yesterday for the proposed match.
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New York
Madison A. C
Jack Britton
Chicago
Jack Ward
Randolph-Macon Woman's College Closes in Lynchburg
The 1911 graduating class of fifty-five from Randolph-Macon Woman's College heard Dr Knight Bobcock of the U S Educational Bureau deliver the commencement address. The 55 seniors hailed from many states, the largest class in the college's history, with 526 enrolled this session and plans for facilities to add fifty more students next year.
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Lynchburg
Randolph-Macon Woman's College
Knight
Bo‘cock
United States Educational Bureau
Washington
Committee Inspects Catawba Sanatorium in Virginia
The tuberculosis committee of the State Board of Health concluded its annual inspection at the State Sanatorium in Catawba, VA, and returned to Richmond. The visit ahead of the board meeting in July was described as eminently satisfactory with favorable remarks on conditions at the institution.
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Catawba Sanatorium
State Board of Health
Richmond
Williams
Mexico City Riots Stall Diaz Insurgents Reach Across Nation
In Mexico City police backed by rural guards hold mobs as Diaz regime turmoil deepens. Maderistas clash with Diaz Corral supporters in Atzcapotzalco injuring scores in a bid to shape the capital’s politics ahead of expected leader arrival. Officials report Reyes’s stance may decide if order or factional war prevails, while trains resume southbound service amid insurrectionist threats to rail links.
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Mexico City
Diaz
Madero
Diaz Club
Atzcapothalo
Diaz and Corral Club
Cuervo
Joze P. Alman
Rodrigo Meraz
Bernardo Reyes
Reyes
Gilberto Crespo
Senor Zacamona
Austria
Richmond Court Backs Ban on Second Hand Guns
Judge Witt upheld a city ordinance barring pawnbrokers and dealers in second hand articles from receiving buying or selling pistols dirks razors knives and similar weapons without a police permit. The ruling supports strict police supervision of deadly weapon traffic amid high local pistol sales and rising crime concerns.
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Richmond
Witt
Richardson
Hastings
Commissioner of Revenue
Hawkins
Supreme Court of Appeals
United States
Werner
City of Richmond
Council
City of
Police Justice of the , of
Women Attends National Wholesale Liquor Dealers Meeting
Delegates gathering for the National Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association convention in Chicago list Miss Vivienne Lang of St. Louis as the sole woman attendee. She appears with her father representing a St. Louis firm as speakers Levi Cook of Washington, Schwab of Nashville, Korhing of St. Louis, and Linemann of Milwaukee address the assembly.
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Chicago
Ill
National Wholesale Liquor Dealers’ Association
Vivienne Lang
St. Louis
Levi Cook
Washington, D. C
George A. Schwab
Nashville
F. H. Korhing
F. C. Linemann
Milwaukee
Auto fire truck crashes into tree in San Francisco
Rev Cecil M Marrach pastor of St Stephen s Church is dead Rev Hubert C Carroll of St John s Church Ross Station is probably fatally injured and six other ministers are wounded in a wreck of an automobile fire truck on its first trial trip invited by the fire chief. The truck struck a tree.
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San Francisco
Cal
Cecil M. Marrach
St. Stephen's Church
Hubert C. Carroll
St. John's Church
Ross Station
Taft May Attend Anti-Horse Theft Barbecue in Kansas
Washington dispatch reports President Taft may accept an invitation to attend a barbecue in Arkansas City Kansas on July 19 as guests of a large anti-horse theft association. The group, said to include 40 000 citizens from Kansas and Oklahoma, campaigns against horse stealing.
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Taft
Kansas
Washington, D. C
Oklahoma
Arkansas City
Kan
Lynchburg Police On Trail Of John Gray
John Gray, charged with assaulting Albert Atkins with a knife last Thursday, is still at large and police believe he has fled to parts unknown. Atkins remains hospitalized at City Hospital, recovering from his injuries.
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Lynchburg
John Gray
Albert Atkins
Atkins
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