Health department rules upheld in Hanover court case
A Hanover court conviction vindicates emergency health rules. A parent fined for letting children leave quarantined diphtheria premises, despite absence of a local health officer, underscores state powers to enforce protective measures. The case follows previous Norfolk county rulings and affirms public health safeguards.
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Admiral Potts' Daughter to Join Carmelite Convent in Baltimore
Rear-Admiral Robert Potts reveals his third daughter Frances will enter a Carmelite convent at Biddle and Caroline Streets Baltimore tomorrow joining sisters Marie and another who already reside in religious life in Manila and Philadelphia. The admiral laments loneliness after wife’s death and hopes Frances may return within a year if dissatisfied. Nuns live cloistered, unseen, and must seek permission to raise their veil.
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Severn Apartments
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Frances Potts
Miss Potts
Marie
Manila
Philadelphia
Lewis J. Potts
New York
Admiral Potts
Biddle
Caroline Streets
Fire destroys Lowmoor Iron Works in Clifton Forge
A major blaze at the Lowmoor Iron Company plant near Clifton Forge Virginia consumed the machine shop and blacksmith shop, with both locomotives inside the yard also burned. The fire broke out Thursday night and left the facilities and contents completely destroyed.
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Clifton Forge
Lowmoor Iron Company
Wmoor
Damaged machines in Lowmoor Company fire loss estimated
The article reports stored items in the Lowmoor Company machine shop were so badly damaged they are unfit for use. The fire origin remains unknown. Officials have not released loss figures. estimates place the damage at about 56000 dollars.
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Lowmoor [Ron Company
N Y Subway Cave In Threatens Buildings On Fourth Ave
A quicksand cave in at Fourth Avenue and Thirty-eighth Street in South Brooklyn damaged a section of the new Fourth Avenue subway. Water flooded the tunnel undermining nearby tenements and a public school, with pumps and cement bags deployed to seal the pocket while police and fire crews worked to avert further collapse.
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Thirty-eighth Street
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Brooklyn Rapid Transit Emergency
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Massacre Reported as Imperialists Press Hankow
Wireless messages from Hankow claim a massacre by Imperialists is under way as Yuan Shikai moves to recapture Han-an. Thousands of Chinese are said slain or homeless after native quarters burned, with gunfire on a Japanese steamer feared to risk international incident. Peace talks reportedly held at Wu Chang by Yuan.
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Gen Uan Kali
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Wu Chang
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United States
Independent Kwang-Si Rebels Form Wu Chow Capital
Hong Kong dispatch reports Kwang-Si proclaimed an independent province with Wu Chow as capital. A mass meeting urged ceasing taxes to Pekin, reopening the arsenal, and raising an independent army. Hankow lists 4,000 killed and 1,000 wounded as rebels defend the city amid bombardment and Red Cross aid.
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Red Cross
Mystery in Vermilya deaths haunts Barrington village
Chicago police probe continues into the deaths in the family of Louise Vermilya from Barrington Illinois. Undertaker E M Blocks reports Louise allegedly revelled in death citing three family burials in two years.
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Louise Vermilya
Barrington
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President Taft to Visit Hot Springs and Midwest Tour
President Taft will rest four days at Hot Springs Virginia then depart for a six day swing through Kentucky and Tennessee, beginning with a banquet in Cincinnati after leaving New York. Physically in good shape but tired from a transcontinental swing and speeches, he altered plans to ride from Twenty third Street to the Pennsylvania Depot for the 5 08 train.
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Tennessee
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Pennsylvania Depot
Donation to Virginia orphanage secures $2000 gift
Rev. Robert H. Fleming, superintendent of the Presbyterian Orphanage in Lynchburg, received a $2,000 check from Mrs. Cyrus H. McCormick of Chicago. The donation came with terms that changes be made to the new building plans to align with Mrs. McCormick’s ideas, which have been completed.
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Robert H. Fleming
Presbyterian Orphanage
Cyrus H. McCormick
Chicago
Kemper Helps Close Noted Strasburg Revival
In Strasburg Virginia a highly successful revival in the Christian Church ended with Rev George W Kemper of Richmond’s Marshall Street Christian Church preaching alongside local pastor Rev J B Hamaker There was a large turnout and the meeting drew about forty attendees to the congregation.
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J. B. Hamaker
George W. Kemper
Marscal Street Christian Church
Richmond
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