West Pointers in Continent Talk at Army Dedication Night
West Point alumni gathered across the nation to mark the 114th anniversary. In New York over 300 dined at the Hotel Astor while San Francisco hosted similar crowds and Chicago hosted others. Generals colonels and cadets exchanged greetings across the continent as the ballroom at the Astor was transformed to resemble West Point.
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New York
Hudson
Atlantic
Pacific
Military Academy
West Point
Hotel Astor
San Francisco
Chicago
Sons of the Point
St. Louis
New Orleans
Galveston
San Antonio
Honolulu
Manila
Armay
American Telephone Company
John N. Bellinger
Governors Island
Chum Holabird
Holabird
South Carolina
J. Franklin Bell
Western Department of the Army
Pacific Coast
J. C. F.tillson
Will
United States
Vera Cruz
Frederick Funston
Bell
Border Command
Little Kansan
J. C. Younus
W. H. Hart
Charles King
W. H. Hunter
Pancho Villa
Phil Mathews
Fort Totten
A. J. Davis
Annapolis
C. P. Townsley
George W. Goethals
Panama Canal Zone
John L. Chamberlain
Edwin F. Glenn
Halstead Dorey
Sheriff Tate and Police Chief Arrested in Alleged Raid
Mrs Anna Lawson sues for 5000 dollars alleging that Sheriff Will Tate Chief Gottlieb Haag and Patrolman Archie Black abused and insulted her and her eleven year old daughter during a 2 am break in at 426 Pennsylvania Avenue on March 26. The officials were bailed at 500 dollars each after arrest by Coroner George DeForest and arraignment before Justice Wheeler.
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Anna Lawson
Will Tate
Gottlieb Haag
Archie Black
George DeForest
Justice of the Peace
Wheeler
Lawson
Pennsylvania Avenue West
Earle McDonald
Justice Wheeler
Chief Haag
de Forest
Sheriff Tate
Corry
DeForest
Suits Seek 5 Million for Care of Insane Wards
Harrisburg report says at least 5 million dollars may be recoverable from estates of relatives of insane feeble minded or other wards. The attorney general's office and state board of charities have led years of accounts review and court actions. Suits are filed in several counties to recover maintenance costs from those able to pay, with more suits in preparation.
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Harrisburg
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Attorney General’s Department
State Board of Charities
Philadelphia
Delaware County
Supreme Court
Gas Gusher Hits Smethport Back Yard Sparks Town Boom
Smethport Pennsylvania April 22 excitement grows as a 160000 foot gas gusher erupts behind the Wright Hotel owned by J Ss Hull. Drilling progressed from 900 to 1700 feet before the main strike, sending gas prices up and prompting local companies to organize rapidly.
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Smethport
Wright
J. Ss. Hull
Russell Man Fred Pettit Found Dead in Barn
The body of Fred Pettit was found swinging from a rope tied to a barn rafter on R. J. Lindsey’s farm three miles west of Russell. Coroner George DeForest ruled it death by own action. Neighbors cite family troubles and two weeks of brooding. Pettit had worked for Lindsey and boarded at the nearby Stanton farm. He left Stanton early Thursday and told Mrs. Stanton he would pay his board, though it was not due yet. Pettit’s chores were completed and his death discovered about half an hour after the act.
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Fred Pettit
R. J. Lindsey
Russell
Pettit
George DeForest
Mr. Lindsey
Stanton
Lindsey
Compensation Board to curb attorney fees in workmen claims
The Workmen's Compensation Board directed a letter to every state insured carrier noting cases where claimants paid excessive fees to their attorneys without Board approval as required by Section 501. Hence carriers should pay all compensation directly to the entitled person unless the attorney provides Board approval for legal services and expenses.
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Workmen’s Compensation Board
Druggist Charles H. Hay Dies in Ridgway
Charles H. Hay, about 50, proprietor of a Ridgway drug store and a partner in Du Bo's, dropped dead this afternoon in St Marys while with Knapp Commandery Knights Templar. A prominent Mason, he was entering St Agnes Episcopal Church for divine worship.
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Ridgway, Pa
Charles H. Hay
du Bo’s
St. Mary’s
Knapp Commandery
Knights Templar
Ridgway
St. Agnes’ Episcopal Church
Military training for schoolboys gains citywide enlistment
New York youths aged twelve and up enrolled to join a summer camp planned by the National School Camp association. General Wood backs the effort with officers present at armory enrollments in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The Staten Island site is eyed for a large gunless camp near trolley lines, with a medical student corps to study camp sanitation.
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New York
National Guard
Manhattan
Brooklyn
National School Camp Association
Broadway
Leonard Wood
Twenty-third Infantry Regiment
Bedford Avenue
T. E. Murphy
Fort Wadsworth
Chamberlain
General Wood
Mitcham
Jessup
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute
Staten Island
Two Oil Tanks Burned at Kinzua
Lightning set fire to two large wooden oil tanks at Kinzua on Thursday night around 9 o clock. The National Transit Company tanks held about 1000 barrels of oil and burned until 10 o'clock Friday morning, causing about 5000 dollars in damage. The blaze destroyed a tool house and its contents as oil spilled and fed the flames, spreading toward the river and lighting the countryside for miles. Firefighters, led by John Maitland, fought the blaze but could not confine it as oil oozed from the tanks into the river and surrounding area.
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Kinzua
National Transit Company
Warren
John Maitland
Seven Villa followers condemned to die in New Mexico
In Deming New Mexico on April 24 Judge Edward L Medler sentenced seven Villa followers captured after the Columbus raid to death on May 19. The six showing no emotion included Juan Sanchez Eusebio Renteria Taurino Garcia Jose Rodriguez Francisco Alvarez and Juan Castillo. Jose Rangele cried for mercy as he was brought in on a cot. The prisoners were ordered transported to the Santa Fe penitentiary for safe keeping.
Mexico describes Villa’s fleeing land as strange and arid
A veteran Negro servant in the twenty fourth infantry, now in Casas Grandes country, describes the region Villa fled to as a land with more rivers and less water, more cows and less milk, and less to see than any country he has known.
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Fe] Paso
Villa
Twentyfourth Infantry
Casas Grandes
Mexico
Moree Named Atlantic Division Red Cross Director
Edward A. Moree of Yonkers New York appointed director of the Atlantic division of the American Red Cross with headquarters in New York City. He will help organize new chapters and campaign for members as the Red Cross pursues its one million member goal. Moree previously led public health and charity efforts in New York and served as editor and journalist before joining social work.
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Moree
Washington
Ernest P. Bicknell
The
American Red Cross
Edward A. Moree
Yonkers
N. Y
Atlantic Division
Red Cross
New York City
Bicknell
Atlantic
Ohio River
Mississippi River
Moree Res
New York
Elmira
Brooklyn Eagle
New York Tribune
New Jersey
Tribune
Geneva
Russell Sage Foundation
Whiskers Coming in Again in Chicago
Chicago reports whiskers returning to fashion as barber costs rise about 20 percent due to higher prices for soap bay rum and related grooming items.
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Chicago
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Eastern Department
American Press Association
Tate
Central Park
Russell Farmer
Compensation Board
General Wood Co-operates
National Transit
A. Moree
Adward A. Morer
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