Contests and Primaries Roil Second District Race
Richmond scene buzzes over the Maynard Young primary struggle with talk of irregularities and a possible contest. The Virginia plan vests contest power in the district committee with appeals to the state body amid disputes over legalized primaries and Thomas Day’s stance.
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Martin
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Isle of Wight
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Mann
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Trehy
Norfolk
Virginia
Why Jake Wells Was Downed
National Theater Owners Association in New York expelled Jake Wells from membership and as Leath Circuit president stripped him of his franchises. The move ends Wells authority over towns he represented and unsettles his open-door policy amid battles over syndicate and anti-syndicate clashes.
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Richmonder
Association
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Shuberts
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Richmond
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Jake Wells
National Theater Owners’ Association
Metropolis
Mr. Wells
Treif Admits Stealing Flour In Virginia Warehouse Case
S T Tinsley a yard porter at the Virginia Bonded Warehouse on Cary Street pled guilty in Police Court to six petty theft charges involving ten sacks of flour valued at about 460 dollars. The manager said more than sixty barrels had disappeared that year, but Tinsley received one month in jail on one charge and the others were continued.
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Virginia
Cary Street
S. T. Tinsey
Theioyatehouse
George Wise
Wise
Tinsley
Wiltshire
Mars and Airship Drop Into Water
New York aviator J. C. Mars narrowly escaped death when his Curtiss biplane plunged about sixty feet into the Narrows opposite Fort Wadsworth during a daring flight from Sheepshead Bay to Staten Island. He was rescued by a tug crew as the machine sank, and he returned to Sea Gate with wreckage. Eyewitnesses saw the dramatic circulation above Manhattan and Coney Island.
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Courageous Jamaica wife saves husband from quicksand
Mary Barth of Jamaica, N Y, stretched across a tree limb to reach her sinking husband James Barth as quicksand claimed him to his ankles and knees. She held on despite exhaustion while he pulled free, then carried her to safety after both narrowly escaped a deadly trap.
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Elegant Chesapeake steamers offer southbound sailings
The Chesapeake Steamship Company advertises elegant passenger steamers Columbia Augusta and Atlanta for Old Point Comfort and Norfolk with daily departures from Baltimore at 6 30 P M except Sunday and morning calls to Gloucester Point Cement s Clay Bank and Allmond s. Connections with rail lines to the South are available and through tickets and reservations can be made at listed city offices in Baltimore.
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Woman Heroically Rescues Husband From Fatal Fall
A brave woman carried her injured husband home after a fall. Physicians said Mrs Barth reached the limit of her strength while bearing both her husband and herself. The full extent of Peaultima’s injuries from the muscular strain remains uncertain, but her nerves were seriously affected by the ordeal.
Editorial correction on McCarthy election stance in Augusta County Argus
The Augusta County Argus admits a prior error in claiming Captain Carlton McCarthy supported statewide prohibition and lost the mayoral race due to a dry stance. The paper recalls that McCarthy's speech alienated the dry faction and notes the “live wire” with strong liquor views will speak later. It ends by stating a conditional future vote after Tucker’s tenure.
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Richmond
Verner
Harry St. George Tucker
Augusta County Argus
Mexican killers of Topia mining chief sentenced
Jesus Monarres and Emilio Montenegro, both Mexicans, were sentenced for the murder of William R. Boggs, superintendent of the Topia Mining Company in Topia, Durango. Monarres received the death sentence, Montenegro ten years in prison. Boggs, a son of General W. R. Boggs of Winston-Salem, had enforced discipline among company workers.
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William Northrop and wife survive Princess May wreck off Alaska
William Northrop president of the Virginia Railway and Power Company and Mrs Northrop were passengers on the Princess May when it struck rocks off the Alaskan coast near Skagway. They spent hours in lifeboats before rescue and later sent a San Francisco letter noting their safe condition.
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Wiliam Northrop
Virginia Railway and Power Company
Mrs. No
Northrop
Lewis Blair
Cholera Epidemic Spreads in St Petersburg and Kiel
Reports from Kiel indicate renewed cholera activity reaching St Petersburg after a period of calm. The outbreak is described as especially severe in the Jewish quarter, with authorities blaming arrivals of Jews who returned home after expulsions.
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