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Petersburg Daily Progress in Petersburg, Virginia
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Newspaper
Petersburg Daily Progress
Location
Petersburg, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1909
Page
1
Police Court Docket Summary Presided by Justice Plummer
In a Police Court session Justice Plummer discharged Robert Jones Henry Scott Austin Scott James Green and Waverly Jackson all with suspicions of felonies. Mary Hill faced suppression. Tom Hobbs jailed eighty days for larceny while tickets sold at Boags and Moonlight Steamer Pakano ket depart Peteraburg at 8 pm with 25 to 26 cent fares.
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Robert Jones
Henry Scott
Austin Scott
James Green
Waverly Jackson
Mary Hill
Tom Hobbs
Boags
Pokanoket
Peteraburg
Rail yard changes at Norfolk and Western Station
Improvements at the Norfolk and Western Station involve removing tracks between Second and Third streets except the two main lines moved toward River street and the platform relocation to align with a proposed new pan- Benger station. Tickets for boat trips priced at 25 and 26 cents, with departure from Peteraburg in the evening.
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Second
Third Streets
Norfolk and Western Railroad
River Street
Pan- Benger
Anniversary Service at First Ebenezer Baptist Church
Rev N B Brown of Richmond preached an excellent sermon as First Ebenezer Baptist observes an anniversary. Dr J Harvey Anderson of Oak Street A M E Zion is the speaker tonight. Public invited by Rev E Watts. 5B Boot Lawn Settee special at 426 Kent Fur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. B. Brown
Richmond
First Ebenezer Baptist Church
J. Harvey Anderson
Paator Oak Street
A.M. E. Zion Church
E. Watts
Kent Fur
Manie Clements Gentry obituary at 117 Liberty Street
At her residence 117 Liberty street on Tuesday June 29 1909 at 1115 PM Manie Clem Ents Gentry aged 65 years. The funeral will be Thursday afternoon at 530 from the First Baptist church of which she was a member. Friends and those of her children are respectfully invited.
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Gentry
Liberty Street
Manie Clements Gentry
First Baptist Church
Public Sale Of Desirable High Street Residence And Lots
Public auction on Wednesday June 30 1909 at 5 pm offers for sale the desirable High Street residence between E E Titus and C M Barksdale and two Gilliam street lots, all occupied by Mrs W M Winfree. The property fronts 46.5 feet on High Street and 200 feet deep, plus Gilliam street lots 27 and 70 feet fronts, 166 feet deep. Three lots may be sold together or separately with terms including one fourth cash and deferred payments secured by deed of trust, taxes and insurance to be paid by purchaser, possession September 12 1909.
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Albion
High Street
Gilliam Street
George Mason
T. Pannill's Sons
Parcel stamps and Uncle Sam cards at Par Tin’s Drug Store
Parcel stamps and Uncle Sam postal cards are offered at Par Tin’s Bollingbrook Drug Store at cost, with prices listed for customers.
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United States
Uncle Sam
Partin
Bollingbrook
Personal Mention Notes Of Interest
Local notes report weddings engagements travels and health events. Waverly Moore and Maud Benson plan marriage this evening at 9. J Reed D D to conduct service at High Street M E church with Dorothy Brooke Pleasanta visiting Hot Springs Virginia. Dr and Mrs Nixon return from Washington. Dorothy Mabo Walthall departs for New York for months with relatives. John W Manson, a respected colored citizen, underwent amputation at Petersburg Hospital. Thomas G Watkins and Mrs. W L Watkins travel to Shadyville Montgomery County Virginia for July and August. A Shiloh Baptist church picnic is planned at Carson's Dinwiddie with dinner and addresses. Tobacco season winds down with about 6,600,000 pounds sold so far. Co E M Field struck by a backing team but escaped injury. William Simmons, a known colored man, suffered a paralysis attack on Halifax Street. Prince George county residents disappointed as two local candidates for Superintendent of Schools fail. H Edwards of Sussex chosen for new district. Dinwiddie residents oppose automobile use on improved roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waverly Moore
Maud Benson
Jamestown
Reed D. D
High Street
Dorothy Brooke Pleasanta
Hot Springs
Nixon
Washington
Mabo Walthall
Sutherland’s
New York
John W. Manson
Petersburg Hospital
Thomas G. Watkins
W. L. Watkins
Shawayille
Montgomery County
Carson’s
Dinwiddie County
Shiloh Baptist Church
Bank Street
Co. E.M. Field
William Simmons
Halifax Strees
Dixie Daisy 4 Passenger Lawn Sowing at Bargain
Kent Fur Company offers the Dixie Daisy four passenger lawn sowing unit at a bargain price of 4.75. Limited stock and discount terms available.
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Dixie Daisy
Kent Fur, CO
The Old Man vs The New Man Tonight at Church
Services continue each night at Washington street Christian Church with Rev D R Henkel of Harrisonburg preaching on The Old Man vs the New Man. Tonight’s subject is Fraternalism Its Place in the World with Mr Henkel preaching Sunday night. Regular one dollar porch rockers now seventy five cents at Kents.
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Washington Street
Brilliant Home Wedding This Evening
A home wedding will be held at 6 o'clock at the bride’s parents’ residence 508 W High street for Miss Edma Radcliffe Beasley and Mr. Aubrey Hinton Layton of Washington DC. The ceremony by Rev William G Starr and Rev J B Wiss with a party including sisters and relatives, wedding journey to New York Niagara Falls Atlantic City and more.
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W. High Street
Edma Radcliffe Beasley
W. P. Beasley
Aubrey Hinton Layton
Washington, D. C
William G. Starr
D. D
Norfolk
J. B. Wiss
Sarah Radcliffe
S .A. Turner
John J. Nelma
Evelyn Adelia Beasley
Florence May Clayton
Eppa Radcliffe Beasley
Ernest 8. Jones
Howard Daugherty
Baltimore
Wm. Radcliffe Beasley
Washington
New York
Niagara Falls
Atlantic City
Typhoid Mary Seeks Freedom From Containment
New York June 29 A cook Mary Mallon known as a living culture of typhoid bacilli seeks release from custody. She has been confined on North Brother Island for two years. The habeas corpus case brought by George Francis O Neill aims to challenge her deprivation of liberty while health officials request adjournment.
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New York
Board of Health
North Brother Island
Juztice Giegerich
Superior ‘Court
Mary Mallon
J. Coleman Drayton
Henry Gilsey
Healy
Mary
Health Department
Gives Officers the Slip in Virginia Court
Rosnoke Virginia June 29 T J Bryant of Franklin county fled from the United States district court as a guilty verdict was read for removing and concealing whisky lacking government stamps. Marshals have not yet located Bryant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosnoke
T. J. Bryant
Franklin County
United States District Court
Bryant
Thweatt’s body found and coroner’s inquest held
The body of John Thweatt, a colored boy, was recovered from the river behind the Norfolk & Western Freight yard after a Sunday drowning. A coroner and jury viewed the body, adjourned to the police station, and returned a verdict of accidental drowning. Witnesses named Henry and Austin Scotts as suspects, but testimony was inconsistent. All boys present were discharged after the verdict.
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John Thweatt
Norfolk & Western
Henry
Austin Scott
Thwestt
Thweatt
Hot Weather Specials From Kent Furn. Co
Nursery Refrigerators for the sick room Eddy Ice Chest and Ice saver Vador Ham mocks Hand Woven extra wide Vador Sun Proof Porch Shades The perfect shade Orex Rugs Blue Flame Wick Oil Stoves The Reliable Kind Kent Furn Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eddy
Vador
Kent. Furn. CO
Cantas Cota Regular Now At Kent's
Regular Cantas Cota priced at 1.50 in ads listing discount offer. Kent's store details sale price as 91.00?
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Kent's
Confederate Monument Planned for Dinwiddie County
Dinwiddie Board of Supervisors discussed a Confederate dead monument to be placed at the county seat. The design calls for Dinwiddie granite, 8 feet 2 inches base, 24 feet high, with a full size Confederate soldier statue, costing 2000 dollars split evenly between the county and the Daughters of the Confederacy, Burns & Campbell awarded the building contract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Supervisors of
Dinwiddie
Daughters of the Confederacy of
Messrs. Burns & Campbell
Excursion Monday July 5 Round Trip Fare
Public notice announces a Monday excursion on July 5 with a round trip fare of one dollar and fifty cents. Details of departure times and origin are not specified in the fragment.
Special fast train schedule Petersburg to Norfolk
Special fast train of very best Ventiluled Coaches will leave Petersburg 8.45 a. m. Monday July 8th arriving at Norfolk 10.65 a. m. Returning leave Norfolk 7.00 p. m. arriving at Petersburg 9.00 p. m. C. H. Bosley, W. D. P. A, 229 jy2 3.
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Petersburg
Norfolk
Election of Teachers In the Public Schools
City School Board met yesterday afternoon to elect teachers for the next term. All old corps were reelected except Mrs. J A Strachan who retires after thirty five years of service. New teachers chosen include Miss Edith DuVal Miss Sallie Cox Miss Olira Hayes and Miss Blick and Ryland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Strachan
Leavenworth
Hardaway
Branch
Brown
Strachan
Edith DuVal
Sallie Cox
Olira Hayes
Robberies Reported Night Of Theft On Gill Street
Two robberies were reported last night. The store of W. T. Hubbard on Gill Street was entered through a window and about $30 in money was taken. Later, T. W. West reported being robbed of $20 by a man described as a negro. a search failed to locate the suspect.
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W. T. Hubbard
Gill Street
T. W. West
Ttrick
Must Ride In Jim Crow Cars
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled against five AME bishops who alleged discrimination on Southern railroads including Pullman trains. Bishops Gaines Turner Evans Tyree O. S. Smith and E. W. Brampton claimed poorer cars and refused sleeping and meals for Black passengers. The ICC found no evidence of discrimination and dismissed the complaints.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Pullman Company
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
Southern
Central Railway of Georgia
Wesley J. Gaines
H. M. Turner
Evans Tyree
Smith
E. W. Brampton
Tim Crown
Cowboys Carrie Nationing in Endo Mexican raid
In Tucumcari on June 29 masked raiders rode into an Endo saloon and shot up the premises wrecking mirrors glassware and the dance hall and bar during an anti saloon campaign climax. The event disrupted a dance in progress and followed by destruction of property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tucumcari
N. Mex
Endo
New Mexico
Georgia bill to bar Negro firemen and trainmen
In Atlanta on June 29 a committee representing firemen and trainmen of the Georgia railroad began drafting a bill to exclude Negroes from employment as firemen and trainmen. The measure will be submitted to the Georgia Legislature now in session. A separate bill already proposed in the house would require educational seats for Negro firemen.
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Atlanta
Georgia Railroad
Georgia
Brandenburg 5 Acquitted By Jury In New York Trial
In New York on June 29 Brandenburg was acquitted by a Supreme Court jury of obtaining $500 from the New York Times by selling an article claimed to be by the late Grover Cleveland. The jury forewent a longer deliberation, citing failure to prove nonauthenticity of the Cleveland signature. Brandenburg was rearrested in St Louis on a Missouri kidnapping charge involving his stepson, and held for examination with bail set at $5,000. He declined resistance to extradition. Mrs. Grover Cleveland and Richard Watson Gilder testified for the prosecution, asserting forgery of the signature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hroughton Brandenburg
Supreme Court
New York Times
Grover Cleveland
Brandenburg
Cleveland
St. Louis
James
Cabance
Bradenburg
St. Louta
San Francisco
Ater
Olnce
Cornell
Combs
Missouri
Richard Watson Gilder
Times
Fitzgerald
Lightning Struck Her Rat in Scranton Pennsylvania
Mrs. Sarah Hughes, while walking in Scranton on June 28, was struck by a flash and fell, finding her pompadour supported rat smashed but she uninjured aside from shock. The incident notes a lightning strike reduced the rat to a useless corpse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scranton
Sarah Hughes
Eight More Counties Dry in West Virginia
Charleston June 29 West Virginia will add eight counties to the dry list July 1 bringing total saloon free counties to 142 and reducing state revenue by 142000 Kanawha Wyoming Taylor Randolph Mineral Marion Lewis and Greenbrier are the new dry counties More than half the state is now dry and the legislature must seek revenue from other sources to cover appropriations for the year.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Kanawha
Wyoming
Taylor
Randolph
Mineral
Marion
Lewis
Greenbrier
Heatwave blamed for court beating cases in Whiting
In Whiting Indiana seven men jailed for beating wives pleaded that the heat drove them to assault. James Brown threw a shoe tearing a wife's ear, fined 25 dollars. Thomas Bonock knocked his wife down, kicked her. John Brezina interfered as the women fled to police. Another man claimed heat erased him as tensions rose.
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Whiting
Ind
Assannt
James Brown
Thomas Bonock
John Brezina
Brezina
Boscok
Edgings and Embroideries Sale Highlights Vintage Patterns
Salem Maasha advertises a broad sale of edgings and insertions at low yard prices up to 10¢, with embroideries 15¢ yard and assorted 18 inch pieces ranging 23¢ to 59¢ yard. The catalog includes new match sets, shirt waist fronts, bands for princess dresses, and a selection of men’s and women’s undergarments and accessories at discounted rates.
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Weather Report
Police Court
Plummer
Ebenszer Baptist Church
Prince Powell
R. S&s. Powell
Brunswick County
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Knights of Columbus
Appomattox
James Rivers
Prince George J
Schoole
Prince George
Sussex
H. Edwards
N. & W. Railway
Norfolk, Va
Ocean View
Cape Henry
Virginia Beach
Jonas
Cowboys Carrie Nationing
Eureka
Kent’e
Bill
Writer
Salem Maasha
Halifax and Market
Reine
Petersburg Hardware Co, Incorporated
L. D
Sycamore ST
Titmus Optical
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