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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1906
Page
4
A Baltimore criminal, twice confined and awaiting trial, illustrates what Warden Weyler calls a failure of short-term sentences to deter repeat offenders. He argues for a progressive sentence law after multiple reformless failures, claiming it would reduce crime and state costs by keeping incorrigible thieves incarcerated longer.
The readable portion shows a stray sentence about a cat and a name like Rea Awen but lacks coherent details to form a complete news item.
From the Buffalo Commercial and the New York World reports on political receptions and a potential ticket. Governor Warfield is praised as honest and affable yet independent of machine politics while Secretary Root’s Latin American tour is described as clarifying U S purposes and encouraging self‑government among Southern nations.
A lively 1920s style piece celebrates joining a summer journey. A narrator invites readers to hop aboard a hopeful wagon toward clearer knowledge and brighter days while weaving in playful dialect and local color. The text touches on seasonal change, curiosity, and community sentiment.
The fragmentary notes from Baltimore and Cumberland talk of public figures and a potential meeting with President Roosevelt. Mentions Mary Comment and William T Jerome, naval greetings, and Richard Croker rumored to be involved, but text is garbled and lacks coherent events.
Fragmentary text mentions a baby may eat a book and a father figure. references Ally-ea and Philadelphia. Lacks coherent events or clear entities to form a full news item.
Philadelphia August 17 a warrant out for Rev George H Culley pastor of the Sixth Christian Church accused of embezzling about 1900 raised to pay the church mortgage. The money raised by congregation member Mrs Beveridge was used to purchase a mortgage but only interest was paid. Culley disappeared with his wife and child possibly to New York. church members swear out a warrant through secretary C A Bender.
A volunteers firemen convention in Canton Pennsylvania ends in a riot as about 100 firemen seize and destroy gambling devices on the main street. Gamblers are beaten and a man who refused to surrender money is threatened with lynching while a hotel windows are broken.
Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati was elected secretary of the International Policyholders Committee of New York Life and Mutual Life Insurance companies, succeeding Seymour Bator. The executive committee met with Longworth present and listed members including Alton B. Tath er, Governor Roberts, J Hemphill, Colonel Shook, Higinbotham, and Samuel Untermyer. A clerk will handle duties as Longworth leaves for home to attend to political interests.
William Mooly and John G. Barrett of Jersey City are dying after a Milwaukee automobile crash near Hammond ton Atlantic City. Their car ran off a road into woods the gear failed and the occupants were injured Barrett crushed by the vehicle and Mooly badly injured with broken ribs and internal injuries. They were en route to the seashore when the accident occurred.
In a reported incident near Whitlock, Helen Whitlock shot her husband after a disturbance at their home. She fired as he confronted her after entering from a retreat, claiming fear for her safety amid a custody dispute and marital tension.
Brownsville Texas August 17 1916 escalating tension after a firing incident. Citizens guard of 150 blocks road to Fort Brown amid fears troops may leave the partition. Reports say officers fear the soldiers and locals abandon homes near the fort as calls grow for state troops and guards.
A lifeguard on duty at Atlantic City rescued an entire family of five after they were swept into deep water by a breaker near Missouri avenue. Jonas Bergman, the father from Pottsville, Pa, brought his wife and three children to shore after all were pulled into the current. The lifeguard towed them to shore through the heavy surf, and the group quickly recovered.
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