Must Reduce the Rate Freight Charge Decision This Week
The State corporation commission findings in the 2-cent rate case are expected this week. Several railroads may be required to charge 2 cents a mile for passengers, while a few lines might be allowed 3 cents or more. Freight rates will also drop through revised classifications, with fewer classes lowering dates and charges across the state.
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State Corporation Commission
Washington Post
Fiienmand
Corporation Commission
Southern
Chesapeake and Ohio
Norfolk and Western
Atlantic Coast Line
New York
Philadelphia
Norfolk
Baltimore and Ohio
Tidewater
Seaboard Air Line
Western Mint and Railroad Co surveys Cumberland to Wheeling
The Western Mint and Railroad Company completed surveys for a proposed link between Cumberland and Wheeling to connect with the Wytlish Railroad. The 150 mile route passes through Uniontown with some rights of way already acquired. The plan may include a later extension to Pittsburgh to shorten the distance to the Smoky City once funding improves.
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Speal
Washington Post
Bathmore
Western Mint and Railroad Company
Cumberland
Wheeling
Wytlish
Uniontown
Taldntown
Musburg
Cimbenand
Smoky City
Farmer Wilson Disappears From Forest Thi Farm
Special to The Washington Feature. Kelair Maryland April 17 William J Wilson vanished from his farm near Forest Thi after leaving home for Belay three miles away He drew funds from loans then headed to Baltimore registering under an assumed name and buying a Westbound Pennsylvania Railroad ticket Abel Wilson a bank director and another brother Fearl Wilson both know of no reason for the mysterious departure Wilson, 45, is married with three children including a son living in the Dakotas.
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Washington Fea
Kelair
William J. Wilson
Forest
Belay
Baltimore
Pennsylvania Railroad
Abel 1 Wilson
Harford National Bank
Nelar
Garfield Hospital Change Chief Resident Appointed
Dr Wayne Cowan was named chief resident physician at Garfield Memorial Hospital succeeding Dr Tutner XN Reicheldorfer who resigned but remains superintendent and handles daily calls. Cowan a George Washington University graduate, served on Garfield’s house staff with term expiring March 1 and begins duties immediately.
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Wayne Cowan
Garfeld Memorial Hospital
Tutner
Reicheldorfer
Cowen
George Washington University
Garfield Hospital
Obituaries of R Reed and Mrs G N Garvin
In Virginia Winchester R Reed a Watlatrice County farmer aged thirty four died at his Mount try home leaving a wife two brothers and three sisters. In East Radford Mrs G N Garvin died this morning at her sonina Taylorne home aged eighty eight leaving four children.
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Winchester
R. Reed
Wlatrice
Mount Try
East Radford
G. N. Garvin
Allen's Foot Ease advertised as cure for foot discomfort
An old time advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder claiming to cure puntel smarting nervous feet and ingrowing nails. It promises comfort for corns bunions sweaty and swollen feet, offers a trial package free and mail order for 2 cents in stamps. Sold by druggists and shoe stores and warns not to accept substitutes.
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Alen
Allen
al- Ten
le Hoy
Forrest Seeking Work after Embezzlement Charge
Clarence H. Forrest former secretary of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association was released on bail after time in city jail on a embezzlement charge He will repay one quarter of his earnings to the association toward his defalcation and may seek work in Baltimore or Washington with his statements suggesting readiness to restart his career amid acquaintances in either city.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
Clarence H. Forrest
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association
Forrest
Jana
Washington
Body to Be Exhumed in Kinsell Mystery
Hagerstown md april 17 the next move by detective gaylord in the martin kinsell disappearance case is to exhume a body found in the potomac near seneca montgomery county and buried at knoxville the theory is kinsell was robbed and murdered and the body washed down the river the detective will travel to knoxville with friends to aid identification if feasible.
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Washington Post
Hagerstown
Gaylord
Marttin Kinsell
Big Pool
Potomac River
Seneca
Montgomery County
Knoxville
Kinsell
Potomac
Hinself
ELOPERS EVADE PARENTS IN VIRGINIA MARRIAGE
Bristol Tenn April 12 Thomas Rat ch a farmer over sixty and Miss Hattie L Lovell eighteen married here today They eloped from East Radford Va last night Miss Lovell hid at a friend's home until morning fearing her parents would arrest her They returned to East Radford to seek forgiveness from the bride's parents
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Washington
Bristol
Tenn
Thomas Ratch
Hattie L. Lovell
East Radford
Valet Harry Pugh Missing After Show In Petersburg
Petersburg police search for 16 year old Harry Pugh who joined Max Figman’s Man on the Box company in Asheville to be Figman’s valet. He vanished after last night’s performance with Pugh believed to be carrying a $120 purse and a diamond pin left by Figman for safekeeping. Local authorities and citizens are asked to watch for him.
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Washington Post
Petersburg
Harry Pugh
Max Figmen
Asheville
N. C
Figsman
Figman
Pugh
Norfolk peanut market suffers record shortage in price spike
Special to The Washington Post from Norfolk Virginia April reports the world’s largest peanut market facing an acute stock shortage. Only about 17 000 bags remain versus typical April stocks near 250 000, driven by a short crop and high demand, pushing prices upward as dealers struggle to meet needs.
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Norfolk
Swatted Preacher After Sermon on Dorchester Island
A Dorchester County oysterman, John W. Lewis of Hooperg Island, claims he struck Rev. James Hickman after a temperance sermon. He gave court details before Justice Grannan as he faced possible charges following the December 30 incident.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
James Hickman
Hooperg Island
Dorchester County
Methodist Episcopal Church
John W. Lewis
Lewis
Grannan
Oysterman
False murder story shocks Greensboro readership
Greensboro NC April 17 investigation reveals report of Mrs R B Patterson’s murder in Liberty was unfounded. Local papers and Greens boro Associated Press relay are accused of fabricating the tale by an enemy of the doctor. No telephone link to Liberty. telegraph closes at 6, hindering verification.
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Washington Fort
Greensboro
N. C
Associated Press
Mre
R. B. Patterson
Liberty
Patterson
Mother and Child Shot in Maryland Town Home
Special to The Washington Post Annepolis Maryland April 17 Mrs Blanche Davis aged about twenty five was shot in the back while in the dining room at Gere antown on the outskirts of Annepolis and two of the shop entered the arm of her infant child who she held Injuries are painful but not dangerous Ellsworth Golden twenty is charged with the shooting He had lived at the house but quarreled with Mrs Davis yesterday and she had threatened to write to her husband to come home to protect her again Escaping Convict Killed by Guard Raleigh N C April 17 During an attempt to escape from the State Penitentiary today by three young convicts one of them C L Seruges was killed by the guard Jack Williams and Dodd Wilson were recaptured. The men were from Guilford County and were serving sentences of five years each for larceny and forgery.
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Annepolis
Blanche Davis
Gere ‘Antown
Ellsworth Golden
Golden
Raleigh
N. C
C. L. Seruges
Jack Williams
Dodd Wilson
Guilford County
Ius FL B. Cameron
Lynchburg
Picson
W. H
Truett
Cameron
Union Station
New Jersey
Woodstock
Borhood
Falls From Street Car Amid Leap Attempt
John Weaver of 1106 Fourteenth Street Northwest narrowly escaped a fatal fall from a northbound Fourteenth Street car last night. He tried to leap to the trailer steps as the vehicle approached I Street, slipped, and was saved only by the wheel guards. Passengers on the car aided his return onboard. he sustained only bruises. Conductor A Buillack was in charge of the car.
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Merchant
John Weaver
Fourteenth Street
I Street
Weaver
Uonnet
A Buillack
Jamestown Trip Contest Draws Wide Candidate Field
Jamestown Exposition contest grows with new entrants including William Foley and Thomas White vying for a hundred trips. Voters send in ballots boosting scores for Cecelia Beckley and Jules C. Lax while Mrs. Mary Van New leads the standings. a blaze destroys two adjacent frame houses in Glen Carlyn, Alexandria County, with losses estimated up to ten thousand dollars.
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Thomas White
Treasury
White
Bethany Baptist Church
Bloomingdale Athletic Club
A. B. Foster
Douglas Memorial MH
Church
Jules C. Lax
Jules C. LIX
KC Street
Mary van New
Charles F. Lew
Glen Carlyn
Alexandria County
Perkina
Emmie
Eller
McCaualin
Luther Franz
Ballie Dressbeck
George W Harsch
B. G. Dunlap
Donald C. McLeod
Biss Carrie Lowe
Max Caeilia Beddey
G. Elmer Donn
Misa Benale
Jane B. Goul
Bailey
Mise Kathryn
N. Ememan
Joseph HO Free
Frank Lanter
Mary Tord
West
Mrb. Maker
John W. Proctor
J. P. Megrew
Mise
F. B. Levy
Blanche C. West
Charles Moore
William Foley
Fragmentary Listing Of Names And Places In Virginia Maryland
A scanned clipping shows a dense list of personal names with associated towns and counties across Alexandria City Arlington Fairfax Loudoun Prince George Montgomery Montgomery in Maryland and Virginia. The text includes numerous individuals such as Miss Nannie Whiting Miss Mattho Lemon F. and Dr. Josaph addressing residents and locales like Alexandria City Arlington Fairfax County Leesburg and Kensington. No coherent narrative is present beyond the enumerated names and locales.
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H. Fla
Simer Thompson
Prank Martin
Nannie Whiting
W. Selden
Washington Ar
Alexandria County
C. Blanton
East Falla Church
Deuterman
Arlingta
Montgomery County
Joseph B. Glover
Silver Spring
Walter Johown
Kensington
Alexandria Couple Weds at Christ Episcopal Church
Miss Sarah Maude Downham daughter of former Mayor E Downham married Benjamin McEwain Aitcheson at 8 PM in the bride’s parents home 411 North Washington Street. Rev. William J Morton officiated with a reception for relatives and friends. Attendants included Miss Bessix Simpson and best man Dr. William M. Smith. Guests included groom’s uncle B Mezzeto and cousin H L McKnew from San Francisco.
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Washington Post Bureau
Wing Street
Alexandria
Sarah Maude Downham
E. E. Downyham
Downham
Benjamin McEwaw Aitcheson
North Washington Street
William J. Morton
Chiat Episcopal Church
Gourdain Remanded To Chicago In Lottery Case
New York April 17 Tewia Gourdain was arrested here and will be sent back to Chicago tomorrow under a bench warrant issued by a United States Circuit Court judge. He was convicted of conducting a lottery, appealed, posted 330000 bail, and was briefly released at a fashionable hotel. Gourdain, reputedly wealthy from New Orleans, was remanded after the conviction was affirmed and is in marshal custody awaiting transfer.
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New York
Tewia A. Gourdain
United States Circmt Court
Chicago
United States
Shields
Gourdela
United States Circuit Court
Sying
Gourdain
New Deana
Cardinal Gibbons Delays Return from New Orleans
Cardinal Gibbons arrived in New Orleans from Charleston to confer the pallium on Archbishop Blenk on April 24. He will stay ten days or more in New Orleans before returning to Baltimore, after attending the Charleston cathedral consecration.
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Baltimore
Orleans
Cardinal Gibbons
New Orleans
Charleston
D. C
Gardinal Gibbons
New Orleana
Ballimere
Death by Own Action and Greek Consul Held in Smuggling
A fifty year old man named Paddock, believed from Albany, was found dead in a Trinidad hotel room with a hand gripping his face, suggesting self harm after a two week visit. In Boston, Michael Satros, former Greek consul at Lowell, was held for a federal grand jury on charges of conspiring to smuggle aliens into the United States.
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Trinidad
Colo
J. H. Paddock
Albany
Paddock
Gage
Boston
Michael Satros
Lowell
Mass
Federal Grand Jury
United States
Hayes
Mayflower to Carry Officials to Jamestown Exposition
Arrangement for transporting the government of Giials foreign diplomats and their families to the Jamestown Exposition is underway. The President and party depart Washington April 2 aboard the Mayflower, arriving at Hampton Roads before daybreak.
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Gtials
Washington
Hampton Roads
Newport News
Treasury
Cortelyou
Navy
Metcalf
Jeach
Legation
Huntington Wilson
State Department
the Treasury
Howards
Meteplf
Dolphin
Jamestown
Daniel Ransdall
Senate
Henry Casson
House
Joint
Committee of Congress
Jamestown Exposition Opens As Planned Despite Rumor
Norfolk April 17 Rumors of a two week closing after the opening were denied by the Jamestown Exposition board The fair will remain open from April 2 to November 30 1907 Sundays excepted The resolution also urged Tidewater Virginia residents to open their homes to visitors during the exposition.
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Washington Post
Norfolk
Tidewater Virsimia
Death of John P. Dunning and Poisoned Candy Case Link
John E. Dunning a prominent newspaper writer died at 44 in Philadelphia for brain tumor. His wife was a Delaware poisoning victim whose candy sent by mail to her home was the cause in a California prison case. Dunning covered Samoa storms and war fronts, rode with Rough Riders, and reported the Las Guasimas ambuscade.
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Delaware
Philadelphia
John E. Dunning
Samoa
Associated Press
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Plate
Apia Bay
Durning
Manu Ves
Dunning
Cuba
Porto Rico
Philippines
Col Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Las Guasimas
Hamilton Fish
Presbyterians to vote on merging three seminaries
In Cincinnati on April 17 a plan to merge Lane Theological Seminary McCormick Theological Seminary and Western Theological Seminary is to be taken up at the Presbyterian Church United States general assembly opening May 16 in Columbus. The consolidation would involve properties worth millions and would affect the training of most Presbyterian ministers.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Presbyterian
General Assembly
The
Presbyterian Church of the United States
Columbus
Lane Theological Seminary
McCormick Theological Seminary
Chicago
Western Theological Seminary
Pittsburg
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Virginia
Maryland
Garfield Hospital Change
Wayne F. Cowart
Maryland Gold Company
Rockville
Sherif Millian
W. T
F. B. Weaver
Weaver Bros
Maryland Gold Mining Company
Great Falls
State Hospitals
Central State Hospital
Iminwiddie County
Wiliam F. Drewry
C. ©.Brunk
T. A. Dadarnette
Dy. A. 8. Priddy
Danvile
Grand Council of the
Royal Arcanum of
Richmond
R. W. Arnold
Grand Council
William M. Bickers
Perreuhiye
Martin Kinsell
Washington Waters
E. M
Elizabeth Malinda
Solomon Wiling
Philip McGuire
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Verner
Somerset
Hyndman
Juniata Lumber Company
Transsi Rewa
Martin Byrnes
Bowen Hotel
Midland
Byrnes
Virginia Weddings
Sadie Frazier
Henry Frazier
Farmville
George E. Cox
Amos Clary
George W. Plummer
Helen Patteson
Venable
St Paul's Episcopal Church
Eamund T. Plummer
Bessie Venable
J. R. Rennie
R. W. Barnwell
Petersburg Savings and Insurance Company
Ww. UL. Venable
Fredericksburg
William R. Carter
Caroline County
Olivia &. Fleming
Spotteymvania
Decatur Edwarda Richmond
Anna Preson
Robert Preston
Leenburg
Fraser Wilzon
S. C
Leesburg
Wilson
Mary Frances
C. Bryan Williames
Harton Heights
Jera Witherspoon
George T. Hanks
Southwestern Life Insurance Company
George Miles
Monkton
Baltimore County
E. H. Houck
Tom Baker
James Grimage
Stafford Court House
Stafford Store
W. W. Burgner
Company L
Seventieth, Virginia Regiment
C. A. Dempsey
Arnold
Parsons
W. Va
George Arnold
Williamson
Western Maryland
Western Maryland Ralizona
Greendale
Mary van Ness
Treasury Department
Post
Jamestown Exposition
Wiliam Foley
A Foley
G. W. Walker
Miso Helen B. Welmer
E McGuinn
Arthur C. LeDuese
Bt. Co
H. Graham
Mra
A. Murey
John B. Crawford
Jonah
Jacobs
Carlyle Marth
Charles B. Kane
M Williams
Wil J, Evans
T. B. White
Burke
Mae
Laltadule
Mint L
Baller
Caaries
E. Gannon
Anna Wilson
Mos
R. Forter
J. W Pitcher
HK. Spencer
Battle
Mies Cecelia
G. Berry
Mies Helen Manning
Alles Mey Manning
M Ring
Franklin Moore
Myrop J. Jones
Linlda Dongiss
H. Mt. Hi
B. W. Crump
Glick
R. Boss
A. Medehon
Joe Haleht
Alvin Zono Flaws
Williams
Margaret Breanahan
Miss St. Hawkins
Biles Amy Simonds
Chenyon
York, N.Y
Louis Banjos
S. Harada Peters
Dr. Josaph
Well
J.D. Heagturd
Jule C. Six
William
Johnaan
A.ey Hamesher
Genege W. Rowe
Migs M. A. Clancy
J. Tdely
G. W. Leadhey
HR. W. McMahal
Catherion Reid
Iq V. Reeborn
Alexandria City
Bride of
B. M. Aitcheson
Ox. Morton
Christ Episcopal Church
Hedy Court
Mayflower
White House
Boston Baking Co
First and
B Streets
S. W
U. S. Capitol
John P. Dunning
Plan of Presbyterians
Larrest T Western Theological Schools
Atlanta
Nei
Capital Loan Co
F Street
N. W
Potomac Suarartee Loan CO
F St
Atlantic Bldg
Medical
Reed Nim
Seventeenth Street NW
Shade
Chergea i
R. Fisk Elgin
W. T. Saldus
Tel
Seaakce
Citizens Loan & Trust CO
Commercial Bank
Heurich Brewing
Maerzen
Liege
Phone West
Witho
Ayer
C.hyer Co
Lowel
Keeley
Gure
Brink
Keeley Institute
M North
Bircet
Washington, D
Daffy
Ddffy
Duffy
Rochester
Washington Gaslight Co
Tenth Street N. W
Baine Guaranty
Cook Remedy Co
Marvel, CO
G'Donnell
St. Uw
Maurer
Dregei
Jarsancos Rooke Ieee
Dabances
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