Wife Held In Shooting Shocks Washington Note
A young Oklahoma woman held after a shooting at a Washington house of detention claims self defense. Gracie Wood 41, wife of Pinckney Wood, says the attack was in response to threats. She and her infant child were present as doctors treat her husband with three gunshot wounds. Police report indicate the revolver was small caliber. motive remains under investigation. The case links to a broader Oklahoma statuary gift project and Cherokee heritage notes in the same column.
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Nemo Fourth Street
Ve. Wood
Pinckney Wood
Theresa
Rave
Poli's Liberty Bond Week at Polis Theater
Poli's Liberty Bond Week launches at Polis Theater with all receipts from S Z Polia chain of 29 theatres directed to Uncle Sam liberty bonds. Poli aims for a 3.2 million milestone, with Infra G Berger ordered to maximize weekly business, supported by District of Columbia liberty loan chairman John Poole and an active Pell Players team led by Florence Rittenhouse and Robert W Braser promoting bond sales.
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Polis Theater
S Z Polia
Uncle Sam
Poli
Ifred G Berger
District of Columbia
Liberty Loan Committee
John Poole
The
New World After War Predicts Social Upheaval
Perkins addresses students warning of upheaval after war. He says preparedness means more than war plans, aiming at lasting peace as industrial and social changes loom. He asserts the country is on the verge of upheaval and that postwar conditions will differ from those before enlistment.
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Eaeks
New New York
Arison
Pardons Slaver to Join Italian Army in Rutland
Gov Horace Graham pardons Vito Turciana, convicted in October 1926 of murdering Accarito Santora, on condition he return to Italy and enlist in its army. Turciana, serving life, will be taken to New York and boarded for Italy. Rev Francis Crociata, a priest who knew of the murder but did not report it, served three years.
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Rutland
Italy
Horace , Graham
Vito Turciana
Accarito Santora
New York
Francis Crociata
France Tightens Rules on Foreign Residents
Paris cabinet meeting focused on enforcing the decree of April 2 creating mandatory identity cards for all foreign subjects. Interior Minister Louis Jo Vatvey announced a comprehensive revision of residence permits, with a special commission working with the police prefect to ensure strict implementation.
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Paris
France
Louis Jo Vat Vey
Poincare
Once Noted Dies in Poverty in Pittsburgh
Police find the body of Sir John James Basset Wooten in a squalid rooming house in Pittsburgh. The doctor of music, fellow of Oxford, once widely famed, had been living here as John Wooten with his four children, eking out a bare existence for months. The coroner’s physician indicated possible suicide.
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Pittsburgh
John James Basset Wooten
Oxford
Grand Conservatory of
New York
Western Conservatory of
Licago
John Wooten
Sureta
Women in anticraft plot described in city briefs
A lengthy clippings blend notes on religious services at Immaculate Conception Church and Academy, a Stanford unit visit to the University Club with Dr David Starr Jordan and Herbert Hoover expected, a Calvary Church organ dedication, sermons on sacrifice, local street incidents including a shooting in Wayz Place, a streetcar collision, and a police report of theft and a coroner’s inquest.
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Stanford University Ambutlance
France
University Club
David Starr Jordan
Ray Tyman Wilbur
Herbert Hoover
Left Handed Soldier Sermon Amid War Rally
Prince Udine lauded Italians for enlisting in a new army and urged loyalty to their adopted country on Italy Constitution Day. Italian Ambassador Celere and Guglielmo Varconi also spoke urging service for liberty worldwide. Dr Wallace Radcliffe warned that breaking nature and customs, as in left-handed fighting, leads to eventual defeat for Germany while right-handed resolve wins in war.
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Italy
Cellere
Guglielmo Varconi
Wallace Radcliffe
Keon Yok Avenue Presbyterian Church
Germany
Mermaid Girls Parade Sets Summer Opening Tone in Atlantic City
Mermaid girls in silvery beach attire drew crowds at the citys formal summer season kickoff. Public safety chief W F Sooy warned that exposed knees could trigger arrests, but models kept to full coverage with bold hosiery. Bathing caps resembled battlefield helmets, and bathing canes appeared in striking candy colors and barber-pole designs.
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Atlantic City
W F Sooy
Public Safety
Red Cross Chicago campaign tops 300000 members
William H. Rankin, chairman, credits Chicago citizens committee leaders and newspaper ads for driving Red Cross membership beyond the 300000 mark in 70 days. Fifty pages of ads and active business support aroused the city, boosting pledges from 166609 to 300000 plus in 30 days.
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Chicago
William H. Rankin
Red Cross
Citizens Committee
Rankin
Citizens’ Committee
Cody Rests on Lookout Mountain in Buffalo Bill burial
Denver mourners packed Lookout Mountain as Col William F Cody known as Buffalo Bill was laid to rest in a rock vault. More than 19 000 people traveled by auto and electric train to the summit while thousands more trekked to Wildcat Point for the Masonic led service and flag ceremony.
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Denver
Colo
William F Cody
Buffalo Bill
Lookout Mountain
Wildcat Point
Golden Masonic Loder
Knights Templar
Geogra
Peel
Brat Plains
Teoorain
Badooa
Changing Opinion on Freight Rates Sparks Petition to ICC
Public sentiment shifts on railroad freight charges as thousands urge the Interstate Commerce Commission to grant higher rates to cover operating costs. Of 673 communications from Eastern manufacturers boards of trade and shippers, 46 to 7 percent oppose a raised fare, with many backing faster carrier rate increases.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Armers
Offrehants Boards of Trade Shippers
Citions Hanks
Valuata
Ordination at Cathedral for Five Washington Clergy
Five men from Washington were ordained as clergy at Bethlehem yesterday morning. The service, conducted by Rochester Thadgerge, featured Bishop Poy and propeers George KR Fowl reartied. Natives 1 v4ster Ha ttohey and Liliw Wishart Walece participated with a sermon by a professor from Berkeley Divinity School.
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Boye Ing
Washington
Bpspa
Bethlehen
Roce Thaderge
Ceorge
Liliw Wishart Walece
Pos Ty ‘Ali
Berke ‘Ws Devinity School of
Middletown
Koon
Inquest to Probe Death at Government Hospital for the Insane
An inquest into the death of John Overton, a colored patient, beaten with a baseball bat at Government Hospital for the Insane, will be held at the District morgue at 3 p.m. today. Attendants John H Shuimate and Cecil Jeffries are charged with murder. Coroner Nevill will summon witnesses, including nurses, doctors, and inmates, as testimony is taken with the bloody bat in police custody.
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John Overton
Government Hospital For
John H Shuimate
Cecil Jeffries
Insane Asylum
Overton
Nevill
Pee Institution
Aid for Dependents of Enlisted Men Proposed by Chamber Report
A Chamber of Commerce special committee urged the government and employers to provide temporary support for dependents of Army and Navy enlisted men based on dependent numbers. The group recommended designating a national body to raise a general fund by subscription to cover gaps not met by federal or state allowances.
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Tlegigration
Army
Navy
Cornci
National Defense
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Baker
F A Seiberling
Akron
Ghlo
Weather and tides brief from Washington region
Sunday June 3 forecast notes fair weather for DC Maryland and Virginia with gentile winds Monday and Tuesday. Disturbance moved to Lawrence valley bringing showers in Atlantic east gulf states and Great Lakes area. Temperatures rising in Mississippi valley and upper Great Lakes. western states cooler. Local readings show highs around mid 80s, lows around 60s, humidity fluctuating with missing data. tide table and river bulletin included.
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Dept of Agriculture Weather Bureau
Washington
District of Columbia
Maryland
Virginia
Re Lawrence
Atlantic
Gulf States
Tennessee
Great Lakes
Bouffalo
Minnesota
Dakotas
Mississippi Valley
Upper Lake Region
Mississippi River
City Bulletin Prominence and Wedding Notices Featured
A compact city bulletin notes Shaffer's Flowers in evidence and arsenals of social events, including weddings and prom affiliations. Public sale details reference 14th Street and Washington Place, with price information for items by mail and priv a 25 cents, 6 cents post.
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Shaffer
Catholic Alumnae Hear War Needs at Reunion
Seventeen Inca alumnae associations attended a reunion at Rauscher’s. Rev Dr Louis O’Hearn spoke on Catholic chaplain appointments for the army. Discussion stressed supplying prayer books and fundraising. Miss Halt Bowie named chair of entertainment committees. Sacred Heart academies and St Vincent’s school supported the effort.
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Catholic Educational
Rauschers
Louis 7
Hearn
BSFP
College of St Paul the Apostle
F . Pare
Catholic Poi
Bowie
Chirman
Sacred Heart
Academy of the Sacred Heart of
Mats
Academy of the Niatation
Ald St Wintennes Tealemy
Rafamnae Orga Igatl
Pink Verde League to Swear In Police Badges
Police badges will be issued this afternoon at the Merk Hess police department ceremony for Home Defies League members and Confederate Veterans reunion attendees. Those who have not yet gone through the required process may receive their commissions and badges today and opportunities will be available for completion.
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Pnce
Merk Hess
League
Sermon for Dr Gordon’s Brother at First Congregational
In Dr James L Gordon's lecture tour absence his brother S D Gordon led the First Congregational Church services. He preached a large morning sermon and an enthusiastic evening sermon, noted as a Bible student with a quiet convincing preaching style that holds listeners to the last word.
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James L Gordon
Middle West
S D Gordon
First Congregational Church
Gordon
Liquor Seen as War Curse by Reform Speakers
A mass meeting at the First Congregational Church under the Womans Christian Temperance Union discussed war prohibitions. Senators Myers and Clyde Kelly urged passing a constitutional amendment. they stressed the public must press Congress to act or alcohol would worsen wartime hardships as Russia falters and Britain and France decline.
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First Congregational Church
Womans Christian Temperance Union Committee
Prohibition
Henry L Myers
Clyde Kelly
Congress
Trey
Myerg
Russia
Foe of Draft Is Held in Hagerstown
In Hagerstown Maryland on June 3 Romanus E Baker age 60 was arrested by Navy Chief Yeoman W J Burdy and Lt Police Thomas H Barber on sedition charges for distributing anti conscription pamphlets at a socialists meeting while a Navy recruiting event occurred nearby. Bail set at 5000 with June 13 bail hearing scheduled. Edwin Firth a potter was arrested the same night on anti conscription literature charges and held without bail for a treason hearing.
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Washington Post
Hagerstown
Romanus E Baker
W J Burdy
United States Navy
Thomas H. Barber
C W Thompson
York Pan Labor News
Company B
First Maryland Regiment
United States
Alexander Fao Hague
Baker
Sylvester L . Young
Bakers Ball
Huntington
W Va
Edwin Firth
Firth
Births Reported in Local Notices
Births reported for several families include Merritt, Everett, Coakley, Thompson, and Coakley with new girls and boys listed. Parents and spouse names appear alongside each newborn, reflecting community records from the period.
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Drew J
Caroline T Merritt Ber
Herbert O
Mabel L Kuntz
Ralph
Annie D Everett
Eincotvin
Beulah Coakley
Abraham
Hattie Thompson
Charles F
Beatrice
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J. J. Basset Wooten
Women IN Anticraft
W. J. Reardon
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Immaculate Conception Academy
Calvary Methodist Church
James Shera Montgomery
Lucius Fark
Hamline
Wavy
William Brown
Peid Johnston
Johnston
Ounce
Grown
Dennis Driscoll
Central Union
Yenterday
Seaton Park
Jmergency Hospital
Lee Hoffecker
New Jersey Avenue
William E. Russell
North Capitol Street
John W. Connelly
Girard Street
J. Ramsay Nevitt
Charles FP Jacobs
Park Road
Sibley Hospital
Jacobs
New York Avenue
Fifteenth Streets
Columbia Heights
Ketchum
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Justice Ashle
We Gould
George Watson
Natinal Metropolitan Bank
Episcopal Trall
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Ninth
Tenth Streets
Vmre
Walter Lindsry
Oni Mhurch Cheir
Patringi
Lbova
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Cincinnati
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Iran
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Prince Udine
Udine
Ms Oan
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Piangs
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O’donnell's
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Byron S. Adan
Emerson & Orme
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Virginia Avenue
Gailinger
Georgetown
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Fidelity & Iinaranty Co
Southern Hide
Con T. Kennedy
Union Station Plaza
Norma Lalmadge
Florence Reed
LOEW
Columbia
Wallace Reid
Gran
Pope Organ Srepleny
St. Louis
Glen Echo
Coney Island
Chevy Chase Lake
Meyer Davis’ Orchestra
Mary Jane Markiiter
Staw Edward S Atkinson
Alline H Jackson
Tila
Aro
Ony Patay Ward
Louise Rilew
Garfleli
Mamie Rifer
Rra
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Ity
Elzabeth Jnchaon
Friein
Ms Hs
Bookiata Felders
Circulara
Brateras Judd & Detweiler, Inc
11Th St
Oprre
Mlle Trentini
Belasco
RADY
Eve
Rawaey
B. F. Keith
Ge Bernard Granville
Chas. T. Aldrich & Co
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Wilmington
Cumberland
Richmond
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Staunton
Winchester
Ferst
Washington Post Building
National Electrical Supply
New York Ave
Southern Auto Supply
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Searrner & Barr
R Bam Adam
Neus
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