New York University Students Strike Over Freshman Hazing
On April 2, New York University students called a campus-wide strike after Alfred A. Young, president of the junior class and varsity captain, was suspended for involvement in hazing freshman Henry Bloch. The episode began when Bloch refused to wear the freshman badge and escalated into clashes near the library and public spaces, drawing in student arbiters, faculty discipline, and reactions from student organizations.
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Washington Post
New York
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Henry Bloch
Hege Etiquette
University Custon
Tienry Algeh
Fleury Bloch
Souset
Pipa
Cael
Hall of Fame
Treasury notes and trade prices in mid 1800s market report
A dense ledger style market summary lists items across food and commodity categories. It cites values for sugar molasses tea coffee copper and refined products, mentions Florida potates and Brazilian or South American sources, and notes varied pricing per barrel bag and ton with occasional regional references.
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Santos No
Silyinud Eatres Dal
Cordova
SM@IE
Preuhts
Florida
Garman
Local stock market shows steady gains and bond demand
Washington Railway and Electric shares rise with durable demand for bonds. Potomac and Chesapeake issues also gain while cananea and Greene Cananea mines plan April reopening. Wheat corn and oats trade mixed on drouth, cold, and cash demand. dairy and live poultry prices steady. cotton futures close slightly down after steady start.
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Washington Railway and Electric 46
Chesapeake and Potomac
Potomac Eilectric Istra
Columbia Railway
New York Grain Market Summary in April Wheat and Corn
New York reports April grain trading with firm spot wheat under pressure from Nebraska weather. No. 2 red and No. 1 Northern futures show fractional gains with May deliveries around 1.02 to 1.03. Corn receipts at 2,150 bushels. spot prices steady to firm with No. 2 white and No. 2 yellow afloat. Oats receipts 109,300 bushels with neutral spot activity.
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Kansas
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Minneapolis
Duluth
Eagh Oala
May
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Nearbu
Virginia
West Virginia
Southwest Virginia
North Carolina
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Greenings
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Spy
York Imperials
Florida
New York
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Spotstead
Banks to Run Provident as bankers win election
Four banks holding Provident Savings Life Insurance stock won the annual election by a 950 to 7 vote while the Philadelphia Coyle faction vows to block new officers. Banks claim control of the board by a 9 to 8 vote, though the syndicate holds seven shares enough to qualify seven directors. Berlin also reports a Prussian loan of 162.5 million dollars to be offered for subscription on April 11 with 10 million in Prussian consuls.
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Capital Traction
Ste. 10
Washington Railway
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Rhingouen
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Union Trust
Pinanae Fire Insurance
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Provident Savings Life Assurance Society
Thomas Loans
Coyle Philadelphia
Prussia
Berlin
Alleged murderer dies awaiting second trial in Tennessee
Paul Garst of Bullivan County died suddenly in Bristol on April 2 while awaiting his second trial for the murder of J. Miller, a companion. His initial trial ended in a hung jury.
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Apecial
Washington Post
Bristol, Tenn
Paul Garst
Bullivan County
J. Miller
Garst
Virginia Weddings Report From Bristol And Petersburg
Virginia wedding notices from Bristol and Petersburg report J Walter Dovel son of Thomas W Devell of Luray Va and Mise Hilda Sgreaves married in Bristol with Rev George R N Cowan officiating. In Petersburg Frank W Harper a Richmond businessman and Mira Besse Balloring of that city wed in the afternoon by Rev F W Moore.
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J. Walter Dovel
Thomas W. Devell
Luray
Mise Hilda S.greaves
DD. Watgranves
George RN. Cowan
Petersburg
Frank W. Harper
Richmond
Mira Besse Balloring
F. W. Moore
Wife Escapes in Tragedy After Goochland Shooting
Special to The Washington Post Richmond Va April 2 In a jealous rage John L Baltimore shot and fatally wounded Byron Waldrop then killed himself in Goochland County He had separated from his wife who later armed herself with a shotgun and hunted for him to avenge her father’s death The couple had a year and a half old child and had lived in Richmond before moving to Goochland Waldrop a farmer and former public official stood between Baltimore and his wife and child before Baltimore opened fire The wife learned of the shooting and joined in the deadly confrontation leaving her husband dead in the yard
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Washington Post
Richmond
John L. Baltimore
Byron Waldrop
Goochland County
Baltimore
Waldrop
Cardwell
Orville
Haltimore
Lowndes Denies Deal In Congressional Race
Lloyd Lowndes denied collusion with GR. UW. Warner in the Maryland primary arguing he runs on his own ticket. The report notes allies accusing Baltimore custom house officials of intervening in Allegany County as part of the contest while Brainard Warner supporters held a large Rockville campaign meeting with speeches by Warner, Fox, Pagt, Braddock.
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Custom House
Baltimore
Allemany County
Rockville
Anril
Brainard Warner
Hom
Charles 3. Fox
Mr. Warner
William Tyler Pagt
A. A. Braddock
Staunton Votes Ashburner City Business Manager
At a joint meeting of the Staunton common council and aldermen Charles H. E. Ashburner a Richmond railroad contractor was elected city business manager at a salary of 2000 He will oversee purchasing and direct work of all city departments with an office force Attached form of government inspired the appointment and duties for the new post.
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Washington Post
Staunton
Common Council
Charles HE. Ashburner
Richmond
Galveston-Houston
Busin
Easton Defeats Bonds in Double Special Election
In Easton Maryland on April 2 voters rejected a 70340 dollar municipal sewerage bond and a 30000 dollar electric light and power plant loan by large margins. Sewerage 301 158 against and for. electric light 256 against and 195 for. White vote nearly even. a large bloc of black voters opposed both bonds.
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Washington Post
Easton
Byrd Denies Candidacy for Virginia Office
Richmond April 2 Richard Evelyn Byrd Winchester speaker of the house denied he is a candidate for any Virginia office. Byrd has been named as a possible candidate for governor lieutenant governor and attorney general. He is expected to chair the State Democratic convention to be held in Roanoke. Also in Boyds Maryland Lena Rice aged twenty daughter of W A Rice died this morning survived by father a brother and two sisters.
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Richard Evelyn Byrd
Winchester
Virginia
Byrd
Roanoke
Washington Post
Boyds
Lena Rice
W. A. Rice
New York
John E. Sankey
Ira D. Sankey
Aste
Fanke
Sankey
We Be Conference Condemns Men Created Local Option
Snow Hill Maryland April 2 The second day of the Methodist Protestant conference adopted resolutions protesting the defeat of the local option bill in the Maryland legislature urging members of the church to vote against legislators who did not support the measure Gov Crothers is urged to withhold appointments to such legislators Also opposed for police justices in Baltimore J A Dawson and E M Ash The Wolfe case: investigators found nothing against Rev George L Wolfe’s character though they judged his conduct unwise
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Washington Post
Snow Hill
Methodist Protestant Conference
Hocel
Maryland
Ten Years His Sentence In Ga. Infernal Mail Case
Hardin Germany, a former Cone mill employee, was convicted in Greensboro Superior Court and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary for sending an infernal machine through the mail to Caesar Cone, a leading cotton manufacturer. Germany, twenty, had no counsel or testimony and denied the charge. Cone testified for the prosecution. The case had been moved from federal to state court due to lack of applicable federal statutes.
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Washington
Greensboro
N. C
Cone
Veteran Guts Throat After Drinking Patent Medicine
Joseph S. Arnold seventy two at the soldiers home near Johnson City attempted suicide by cutting his throat after severing his left hand and left foot with a butcher knife. He discarded the limbs and knife then slashed his throat with a pocket knife. A bottle of patent medicine lay nearby as he had been drinking instead of whisky. The chief surgeon believes he may recover.
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Washington Post
Bristol
Tenn
Joseph S. Arnold
Johnson City
Arnold
West Virginia oil queen Frances Thiell dies after long clash with Rockefeller
Special to The Washington Port Wherling W Va April 2 West Virginia's Oil Queen Frances Thiell dies at St Joseph's Hospital Parkersburg after an operation. She began as a twenty year old independent operator and fought Standard Oil for years, amassing a fortune and winning key lawsuits over leases and titles against John D Rockefeller, who called her his bitterest foe.
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Washington
Wherling
W. Va
West Virginia
Frances KF. Thiig
Standard Ql
St. Joseph's Hospital
Parkersburg
John D. Rockefeller
Wellington Silent On Suit Rumors In Cumberland Md
Former Senator George L Wellington refused to discuss rumors surrounding a $25.09 damages suit filed by Dr Pierce B Wilson of Baltimore. Attorney Weeks said a formal declaration would come in the April term starting next Monday. Wellington’s friends expect a political motive and a full defense. In Rockville Md Miss Tison Wilson and Frank Th Walpole were married at the Baptist Church this afternoon.
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Cumberland
United States
George Ls. Wellington
Pierce B. Wilson
Baltimore
Wellington
Thomas c. Weeks
Haltimore
Washington Post
Rockville
Tston Wilson
Ticonderoga
N. Y
Frank TI. Walpole
Oswego
Thomas H. Campbell
The
Baptist Church
Dining at the Hotel St Regis in New York City
The article extols the Hotel St Regis as the premier dining choice in New York City valuing good digestion and happiness. It highlights faultless tables, refined surroundings, a fireside atmosphere, and popularity with foreign and American elites. It notes democratic pricing with rooms and meals comparable to other first class hotels and invites transient patrons with rates mentioned for single or two persons.
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Lfe
New York City
St. Regis
Virginia obituaries report local deaths in April notices
Fredericksburg Virginia Smith aged sixty two of Stafford County died yesterday at her sister Miss Mary Smiths home in Fredericksburg. Alson Pierce longtime Luray resident and former stage driver between Culpeper and Newmarket died this morning after a paralysis stroke. survived by wife and two sons. Jacob Peterson died near Radford Tuesday night after an illness of a week. aged eighty one. survived by wife and three children.
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Mira Busan
Virginia Smith
Stafford County
Mary Smith
Luray
Alson Pierce
Tompkins County
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Newmarket
Radford
Jacob Peterson
Hoe
Lure Girl From Home Is Captive In Washington
Margaret Curran a sixteen year old Philadelphia girl told police in Alexandria that she was kidnapped Monday afternoon near Broad Street Station Philadelphia by a man and woman. She was taken to Washington and kept prisoner until Wednesday night when she fled. She described threats of violence and said she sought help at police headquarters. Authorities seek the alleged abductors and she was later taken to Alexandria Hospital for care.
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Alexandria
Washington Post Bureau
King Street
Margaret Curran
Polie Department
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Private Roberts
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Broad Street
Washington
Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon
Twelfth Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
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Braddock House
Robbers Blow Open Bank Safe at Mounds Oklahoma
Robbers blew the Bank of Mounds safe today in Mounds Oklahoma securing 5400 in currency and silver and fled behind a barricade of barbed wire and boxes. Posses are in pursuit as they mount horses and ride toward Muskogee.
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Mounds
Okla
Bank of Mounds
Muskogee
Hotels Welcoming Notables Across the Nation
A sprawling list shows guests at hotels from Baltimore to Montreal, naming individuals and couples by hotel and city. The roster includes social figures such as Mrs. Edwin Ginn, Miss Tap ley, Joseph B. King, and many others staying at establishments like New Willard, Shoreham, Metropolitan, and Eb bit t, reflecting patterns of cross country travel and elite attendance.
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Alvert ‘Weber
St. James
Ole
Booton
Edwin Ginn
Antonio Glens
Eftwin Ginn
G. & Winko
Min A
HH. Batchelier
Robert Batchelier
Alfred Batch- Walier
New Willard
H. ©. Mills
Riggs
Bertha Cushing Child
Amos P. ‘Tapley
Miss Tapley
Shoreham
Pier
Hugo C. Loewi
S. D. North
Harry Keenan
George W. Inn
B. McCaulay
G Wood
G. Bacon
John Hoyle
W. A. Callen
Shoretam
J. Odom
Johnston
Tonneon
FW. Cole and Wit
T. Taylor
C.L. Haynes
Milton Jones
H. S. Parker
Armatrag
National
Wiliam Harrison
G. F. Shader
J. B. Wooten
Atex
Corcoran
Metropolitan
Fred C. Rentling
R. WN. Booth
Mia
John T. Brady
Misse Brady
J. E. Lorimer
A. E. Hikcock
Raleigh
Philadelphia
Joseph B. King
Net C. Dean
H. G. Hollenberg
E. Clemons
Richmond
W. B. Woods
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Salifornia
Frank F. Chase
Riverside
A. L. Dahlgren
San Francisno
Cnnecticut
SB. Mallary
New Brita
M. Josephine Johnson
Gana
New Haven
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Monticello
Ndiana
Thomas Neal
William G. Sebardt
Indianapolis
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Omaha
New Hampshire
J. Howard Gale
Nashua
Jamnes
New Jersey
F. B. Andrews
Henry R. Trambower
Westcott
Princeton
W D. Forbes
Hoboken
Charles I. Clemens
West Grange
BE. B. Dixon, Jr
Wien
Arlington
M. RR
van Kenden
Benjamin van Kenden
Crawford
New York State
Sharon Stathon
Hidden
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A. M. Kent
Jamestown
George H Moore
M. G Moore
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Abbitt
Charles M. Jovop
White Plains
H. Woodford
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Henry R. Cool and
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W. Os. Taylor
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Rich oil strike in Texas spurs rush on land deals
Special to The Washington Post from Lufkin Texas April 2 reports a oil gusher at 4000 barrels per hour driving excitement. Thousands arrive investors flood the area and land within miles of the well rapidly changes hands with prices leaping from $2 to $50 1000 per acre and some near by tracts quoted at $10 000 per acre as the new field lies 109 miles north of the Beaumont field.
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Wedding Day Tragedy in New York Bride to Be
Mary Green aged twenty two daughter of a former near captain died by gas asphyxiation in wedding attire after a party two days before Easter. She was engaged to William Hasington an electrical engineer and left a note asking forgiveness without stating a reason for her death.
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Mary Green
Lor
William Hasington
Chris
Army Orders and Prairie Fire Devastation in Nebraska
Army orders detail officers reporting for examinations and promotions, transfers, resignations, medical treatments, and station changes across several detachments including the Corps of Engineers and Coast Artillery. A prairie fire in the sandhills near Paxton, Nebr., has killed James Kane, destroyed many homes, killed livestock, and burned thousands of acres.
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Johnson Fight Begun with Johnson for President Chicago Campaign
Chicago April 4 Headquarters opened at Grand Pacific Hotel for Gov. John A. Johnson Minnesota Democrat candidates pursue an educational campaign. Frederick B. Lynch in charge says Johnson can win and that Democrats are tired after twelve years of defeat. The issued statement says no animus toward Bry and criticizes Roosevelt while outlining Johnsons views on states rights trade income tax and regulation.
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White House
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Minnesota
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Democratic State Central Committee
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Manila Hero Surrenders In Boston Check Case
Howard Edward Dunn, 33, said to have been assistant engineer on the Olympia at Manila Bay in 1898, surrendered to police in Chicago. He faces charges in Boston of passing altered worthless checks. Dunn protested his innocence, claiming the check drawn on a New Bank was worthless and handed to him by a man he met.
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Man Claims Creator Role in Odd Court Case
Fragmentary OCR text notes John E. Sankey and Ira D. Sankey involved in asylum petition and mental health claims. References to a sanitarium, hallucinations, and accusations about being a creator. Court documents cite petitions and charges amid unclear relations and locations.
Peaceful Picketing Bill Heads For Report in Tasston Session
Local lawmakers in Tasston April 2 vote on a peaceful picketing bill. The measure aims to allow peaceful persuasion of strikers while restricting disruptive or unlawful actions, with a reported lack of a clear majority.
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Sittung
Silk mufflers for sailors awarded navy contract
Special report notes Silk mufflers for the sailors in the navy awarded a contract. The cost to the government is about $85,000 for silk mufflers, each about a yard square, and made of the finest black silk. The item is described as high quality and intended for naval use.
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iinel+ Hien
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