Week of gaiety marks a brisk Frederick scene
A longtime column poetically reviews a week of social life in Frederick. The piece notes bitter cold turning to springlike days after a lunar eclipse, with numerous clubs, suppers, plays, teas, and lectures lively. It highlights YMCA canvass success, Hood Seminary plays, Grace church chicken waffles, and civic groups, plus local events, temperance talks, and upcoming attractions. It closes with charity efforts, library value, and a light farewell to Frederick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Men's Christian Association
Hood Seminary
Bachelors’ Club
Grace Church
Bandit Kills Policeman in Chicago Bank Office Hold Up
A lone bandit robbed the Thomas Cook & Sons office at 15 East Jackson, wounding the cashier and killing Policeman B A Johnson who tried to stop him. The thief fled with $900 as a female accomplice rode away in a waiting car amid downtown shoppers and panic.
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Chicago
Thomas Cook & Sons
Axexis
East Jackson Boulevard
E. L. Walsh
B. A. Johnson
State Street
Clover Leaf and allied literary society notices
Several school literary societies held January meetings with programs including Bible readings, poems, essays, recitations, and debates on topics such as voting rights for women and the usefulness of electricity. Judges favored affirmative sides in two debates. adjournments set for later meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clover Leaf
Clover Leaf Literary Society
Arthur Myers
William Knock
Fabrney Young
Frank Nin Welty
United States
Allen Tracy
Eldred Vanfossen
Francis ‘Miller
A. Anderson
Nelson Smith
Austin Thomas
Westie Burgee
H. Routzalen
John Moran
Carol Etchison
M. Roelke
Lewis Specht
Juvenile Literary Society
D. A. Yasse
RK. Putman
M. Urner
E. Solt
C. Isintz
R. Cline
F. Notnagle
J. Worthington
Harry Sherald
Russel Myers
Charles Shipley
Herman Spence
Francis Biser
Charles Ross
Aubrey Harris
Willard Lipps
Reno Harp
George Hendrix
Charles Trail
Oscar Coblentz
Lester Ebert
Five Lynched by Mob in Georgia
Albany Ga Jan 22 five negroes taken from Worth county jail at Sylvester were hanged from a tree near Starkville three miles from Leesburg. Bodies bore bullet holes. Mob of forty or fifty men used pre planned action including cutting wires northward. They kept the prisoner in a bathroom and secured keys from the sheriff. Four victims were Felix Lake and his three sons Frank Dewey and Major. Radius Seamore was the fifth. James Keith the prisoner most wanted was moved to another jail. Moreland had arrested a suspect at Feliz Laie home during Christmas killing. Authorities planned a coroner's inquest with a jury empanelled.
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Albany
Worth County
Sylvester
Starkville
Shelf Moreland
Lee County
Leesburg
L. A. Potts
Felix Lake
Frank
Dewey
Major
Radius Seamore
James Keith
Potts
Moreland
Feliz Laie
Fire damages Houston Hall at PennsylvanIa University
Fire at Houston Hall in Philadelphia on January 22 endangered books files records papers and early scientific moving picture films valued at over 40000 dollars. The students club building sustained damage while authorities fought the blaze.
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Houston Hall
Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Bit Aims at Improper Films
Washington reports a bill by Representative Towner of Iowa to make interstate shipment of improper motion pictures a penal offense. Motion picture interests, opposing the pending censorship, endorse the Towner bill.
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Washington
Representative Towner
Iowa
Towner
Ninth Grade Recitation and Play Delight School Fans
Miss Helen Hemp and Miss Rebecca McCutcheon performed solos and a recitation as part of a program by the ninth grade. A rendition of The Minister's Wife featured Flor ence Schroeder Gertrude Haberkorn Mary James Isabel Houck Katherine Lamar and Katherine Albauch. Helen Delauter wrote the closing journal. Ice cream cakes mints and nuts were served and the two societies sang Tipperary at the end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Hemp
Rebecca McCutcheon
Maretta Hershberger
Florence Schroeder
Gertrude Haberkorn
Mary James
Isabel Houck
Katherine Lamar
Katherine Albauch
Helen Delauter
Tipperary
Blame Group B For Escape In New York
Federal agents concluded Ignatius T. T. Lincoln a German spy and former British MP escaped from a U S deputy marshal last Saturday with help from Group B a European political refugee network Lincoln remains in New York City and boasted of walling the streets while offering to surrender for immunity Group B formed in 1872 aided political exiles including Pouren whose extradition was demanded by Russia and whom Roosevelt released.
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New York
Federal
Secret Service
Ignatius T. T. Lincoln
House of Commons
United States
Lincoln
New York City
Manhattan
William H. Offley
Jan Pouren
Pouren
Baltic
Russia
Theodore Roosevelt
Father and Girl Burned In Farmhouse Fire
Chambersburg Pa Jan 22 Standing too near a fire at a butcher block on the farm of her father John C Dettich near Green Castle Miss La Let Tichs clothing caught fire and she was fatally burned The father also died of burns.
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Chambersburg
John C. Dettich
Green Castle
General Carpenter Dies at 77 in Philadelphia
Brigadier General Louis Henry Carpenter U S A retired died at his home 2018 Delancey Street Philadelphia at age seventy seven funeral arrangements pending
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Carpenter
Philadelphia
Louis Henry Carpenter
Delancey Street
Coroner urges canned blood for gas victims in Chicago
Chicago coroner Beffman notified every hospital to preserve blood from operations for life saving transfusions in gas poisoning cases. He cited a recent successful transfusion saving a laborer and cited Dr. Burmeister's tests showing blood can be kept for about thirty days.
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Chicago
Beffman
W. H. Burmeister
Widow Wins Against Saloon In Liquor Death Suit
In Philadelphia Jam 22 Judge Patterson's court awarded Mrs Virginia Alexander 2500 against saloon owner Jacob Bosch for her husband's death in 1914 after years of excessive liquor. The case notes similar claims in other counties but no prior Philadelphia verdict.
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Philadelphia
Patterson
Virginia Alexander
Jacob Bosch
North Twenty-seventh Street
Alexander
Boyd
McKean
Lebanon
Allegheny
Braddock
Turks in Caucasus and Mesopotamia headlong flight
News from the front reports Turkish forces retreating before Russian and British troops in the Caucasus and Mesopotamia. Turkeys are said to be out of ammunition with some retreats turning into routs as Russians advance toward Barajird from Sultan Abad in Persia.
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Caucasus
Mesopotamia
Rome
London
Teheran
Sultan Abad
Persia
Hamadan
Barajird
Grant Increase to D. H. Repair Men in Scranton
Delaware and Hudson railroad car repair workers between Wilkes Barre and Albany receive a one percent wage increase. The raise takes effect February 3 and totals about $10,000 per month.
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Scranton
Delaware & Hudson Railroad
Wilkes Barre
Aftbany
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Sunshine Literary Society
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Catherine Burgee
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Catherine Dean
Hilda Burgee
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Flora Taylor
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Daphne Kepner
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Edith Albaugh
Alice Eichelberg
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Excelsior Sanitary Dairy
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Phene
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ANG Steiner Bros
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