Roy Joyce Murder Trial Opens in Five-Year Dragnet Case
New York court heard the case of Regan and alleged accomplices for the 190? Joyce stabbing in a West Thirty-First Street cellar. Witnesses described a brutal brawl with knives and fists, a fleeing woman, and a crowd of Apache-style patrons. Regan pleads guilty to a minor assault. potential electric chair pending May 6.
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New York
Tubey
West
Regan
Johnny
Harry” Anderson
Littig' Har- Divis
Big Jack” Magee
Red” Gray
Minnie Manzy
Johnny” Regan
Nee Sterling
Weston
Joyce
Jack’ Magee
Doyle
Oliceman Henry Brueck
Temiertoln Station
Sterling
Levy
Ida
Foster
Rewax
Abraham Lavy
Acte
Tctal
Kiy
Plan to Build Thompson Episcopal Orphanage Plant
Directors announce a plan to erect a $100,000 plant and a $90,000 administration building for Thompson Episcopal Orphanage in Charlotte. The new facilities replace the inadequate present structures. Announcement made April 28 by the board and associated guilds.
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Washington Pontatrlotta
MN. C
Tm Associated Guilds
Thompson Episcopal Orphanage
Charfeck
New
Danville Votes Wet After Dry Era Ends
Danville Virginia returned to a wet regime after two years of dryness, with a 10 vote majority out of 1,154 cast across four wards. North Danville areas remained dry due to annexation terms. The result signals broader liquor access for neighboring states and outlines anticipated mail order liquor growth as liquor interests secured options on city properties. Women did not vote and no public parade occurred.
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Washington Post
Danville
North Danville
Drya
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Colonial Dames Feted on Second Conven tion Day
The national society of Colonial Dames closed its second convention day with routine business and social events. President Mrs. William Ruffin Cox conducted the session with reports on memorials printing and relics. District Dames hosted delegates at Rauscher’s and a Sheridan home reception followed.
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National Society of Colonial Dames
William Ruffin Cox
National Museum
Rauscher
F. B. Moran
Sheridan Aircle
Congressional Club
Colonial Demos Club
Connecticut Avenue
American town in Hungary English speaking voters reveal ties
Baron Levay addressed a political meeting in the Slovak village Za Kopeze Hungary and spoke in English after villagers requested it. About eighty percent of the 2000 residents are returned immigrants from America, explaining their familiarity with English.
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Washington Post
Vienna
Baron Levay
Za Kopeze
Hungary
America
Digestive Aid Tablets Offer Quick Relief and Trial Pack
Instructional ad for Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets claims natural digestive support from plant extracts. It explains how normal digestion works, contrasts with indigestion, and promotes a tablet that supposedly digests food and improves digestion. Free trial offer directs readers to send name and address to F. A. Stuart Co. Marshall, Michigan.
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Stuart
Jamaica
F. A. Stuart Co
Stuart Bldg
Marshall
Hawaiians Sing for Taft at White House
The Hawaiian Quintet performed at the Executive Mansion recalling Secretary of War Taft’s Pacific tours. President Taft expressed pleasure, shook hands, and praised their performance. The group, arriving Tuesday, heads to Atlantic City for a summer tour managed by Frank J. Vierra with H P Wood overseeing the art exhibit.
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Pacific Islands
Taft
White House
Executive
Washington
Atlantic City
Frank J. Vierra
P. Wood
Lian
Commiesstoh
Veterans March at Mobile Seeks Copy of Confederate History Report
Thousands of veterans from the Confederacy paraded in Mobile on April 28 with Dixie played by bands as Maj. Gen. George Harrison led the Alabama division. The United Confederate Veterans chose New Orleans for 1915 and Little Rock for 1912, as officers were elected, and a copy of the historical report was to be sent to Senator Heyburn.
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Mobile
Ala
George Harrison
Alabama
Little Rock
Ark
Reunion
New Orleas Indorsed
United Confederate Veterans’ Association
New Orleans
Crescent City
George W. Gordon
Memphis
Department of Tennessee
Clement A. Evans
Atlanta
Gordon
Irving
Bennett Young
Louisville
Heyburn
Lewis to Try for Congress in Sixth District
Former Maryland state senator Davis J. Lewis announces another bid for the Democratic nomination in the Sixth district. Friends say he should try again after nearly winning two years ago, while Hagerstown entrepreneur Joseph C. Roulette is also seen as having strong sentiment for a nomination in the district.
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Maryland
Congress
Cumberland
Davis J. Lewis
Lewis
Hagerstown
Joseph C. Roulette
Perststent
Avery County
Roulette
George A. Pearce
Nuns Arrive to Found Passionist Monastery in Pittsburgh Area
Five nuns of the Passionist order arrive in the United States from Caveto Italy to establish the first foundation in this country. They will join St Michael's West Hoboken and later Pittsburg, where a monastery and novitiate are planned in the mill district. The order follows strict contemplative rules with early rising, perpetual prayer, and minimal meals.
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New York Evening Post
Caveto
Italy
Brooklyn
Joseph Anheim
Pasaianists
Rt. Michael's
West Hoboken
J. F. Regis Canevin
Dishop
Pittsburg
Great Mill
Thia
St. Paul of the Cross
St .Paul of the Cross
Ban on Low Neck Dresses at Eucharistic Congress
The Washington Post reports a decree banning low neck gowns for female attendees at the Montreal Eucharistic Congress this September. Women must wear mantillas or veils. men, non clergy, should adopt proper evening attire. Cardinal Vincent Vanutelli will represent the pope, with Cardinal Gibbons in attendance.
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Washington Post
New York
Montréal
Cardinal Vincent Vanutelli
Pope Pius
Cardinal Gibbons
May Remodel City Jail Examination Prompts Plan
Washington Post report covers a local jail assessment by J T Mastin of the State board, urging a new jail for 10 inmates with sex race and illness separation. City officials discuss remodeling options with architect B F Smith and list key participants including Judge L C Barley and Commonwealth's Attorney A Brent. A separate note reports Andrew Jackson, about 40, found dead on a North Fairfax boardinghouse doorstep. coroner cites natural causes. Also reported: a burglary at J C Mipurn’s North Royal street gro cer y store and a reception for Episcopal bishop delegates at Christ Church parish hall. Charles Blair, Negro, found guilty of larceny and sentenced to six months.
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Washington Post Bureau
Gil King Street
Alexandria
J. T. Mastin
State Board of Charities ‘and Corrections
Ita
Alse
Andrew Jackson
Fairfax Street
Moore
Dead by Snake and Bullet in Granite It District
Newton Hancock an 11 year old boy died at Eilen M. Osborn Hospital after a snake bite and bullet wound complicate four days of swamp exposure near Granite It. He had run away from home weeks earlier and a playmate accidentally shot him in the ankle before the snake bite.
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Granite
Newton Hancock
Eilen M. Osborn
Hancock
Charlie Taft Ducked by Watertown Students in Water Trough
Special to The Washington Post reports in Winsted Connecticut on April 8 that Charlie Taft, President Taft's nephew, was nicknamed The Duck after Taft students at his uncle's school in Watertown ducked several peers. They rolled two youths into a large watering trough, then some fled to a brook. Taft submitted when summoned, emerging muddy and soaked.
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Washington
San Francisco
Taft
Fred Andrews
New York
Assault convict Harris amid lynch mob in Georgia
Harvey Harris, known as Harris, was convicted in two minutes for assault on Mrs. Mary Dutton after a day of mob violence in Thomasville. Militia protected the court as 2060 men vied to lynch him. several mob injuries and one shooting were reported. Harris was sentenced to hang on emancipation day in Georgia and jailed in Macon under guard.
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Harvey ‘Harris
Mary Dutton
Georgia
Macon
Curtis
Fallands
Alexander Parrymore
Dutton
Houston
Twin
Harris
Gift to retiring official at Washington Fest in Rockville
The Washington Fest at Rockville on April 28 honored county treasurer Robert G. Hiestening as he retires May 1 to become secretary of Partners Banking and Trust Company. A banquet presented him with a diamond scarfpin, with remarks from Prof. Har B. Wood and several officials including State Senator Bish Lee and Edward C. Pater.
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Washington
Rockville
Robert G. Hi
Partners Banking and Trust Company
Boks
Har B. Wood
Bish Lee
Edward C. Pater
John Ta. Garrett
John L. Brunett
Robert B Peter
George H. Lamar
Berry E. Clark
Eugene Cissell
Bowie F. Waters
W. C. Spates
Murder jury disagree in bigamist’s murder trial
In Hetersburg, Virginia, Junius A. Williamson, previously convicted of bigamy, faced a retrial for his wife’s arsenic poisoning after a two hour jury deadlock. The jury split six for first degree murder and six for acquittal, prompting discharge and a renewed hustings court term. Williamson was summoned from Fort Russell, Wyoming, where he had enlisted after his wife’s death.
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Washington Post
Hetersburo
Junius A. Williaenson
Fort Russell
Wyo
Falls Take Life Of Miss Kate Manakee At Kensington Home
Miss Kate Manakee aged 77 of Kensington died after losing balance while brush cobwebs from ceiling. She fell down stairs information says her head struck a washboard at the foot of the hall fracturing the skull and death occurred in about twenty minutes. She was a Montgomery county resident held in high esteem and survived by a brother Dr Frank H Manakes and two sisters Mrs Rebecca Murphy and Mrs Mary Nicholls.
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Minnie Munzy
Florence Sterling
Johnny Regan
Mt Kegan
Johnny
Regan
Wwe
T. Roy Walter Joyce
Agver
Col
Walter Joyce
Seventy-fist Regiment
Doyle
Florence Ug
Wit
Wes
Washington Post
Rockville
Kate Manakee
St Kensington
Wille
Mise Manakee
Montgomery County
Frank H. Manakes
Rebecca “Murphy
Mary Nicholls
Leap from Train Leaves Rider Injured Near Luray
Oliver Shaffer, a Norfolk and Western freight rider, leaped from a fast train near Luray in a suburb, suffering a broken leg and multiple wounds. He lay unconscious along the tracks for about twelve hours until found at daylight, while briefly conscious, recalling his attempt to reach his father’s home four miles away.
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Oliver' Shaffer
Norfolk and Western
Shaffer
Sheriandoah City
Middies to See the Sights on European Cruise
Annapolis April 28 Midshipmen sailing to English and Mediterranean waters will likely visit cities during the voyage. Each midshipman may carry a 10 by 20 garment bag replacing the former dirty bag. It is understood ships at Plymouth will allow two days in London during the stay. Dawson May opposes Warner in Rockville political race. Englar in the district race seeks GOP nomination and faces rival Thomas Dawson. Englar, a Japanese veteran, was sentenced to three years for attempting to kill his wife and himself.
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J. C. “Mipurn
Alexandria Follee
North Hoyal Street
Washington Post
Annapolis
Mediterranean
Plymouth
England
London
Dawson
Warner
Rockville
Brainard H
Wilewomner, Jr
Miner Shoots Three. One Dies in West Virginia Rampage
John Morris, drunk and enraged, killed two men in Sharon and wounded several others, then shot two African Americans, severing a finger and wounding a woman. He robbed a white man after holding up a freight train, and soon afterward was killed when he fell under moving cars near Shannon.
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iVeich
W. Va
John Morris
Sharon
Cape
Virginia
Morris
Samuel Walker
Shannon
Virginia Hine
William Lewis
Prsck
Charges Against Warden at Maryland Penitentiary
Dr. Theodore Cooke Jr. accuses Warden John F. Weyler of running the Maryland penitentiary for profit, condemns the food as the worst seen, notes brutal practices including a dark cell, a tuberculosis patient starved from milk diet and whipped, and calls for an immediate independent investigation. Weyler denies the charges, blaming them on spite over his refusal to appoint Cooke as penitentiary physician.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
John F. Woyler
Maryland Penitentiary
Theodore Cooke, Jr
Weyler
Weagler
J Dunlop Harris Marries Miss Gordon in Baltimore
Joseph Dunlop Harris chief motive power superintendent of the Baltimore and Ohio wed Martha Herbert Gordon daughter of Capt and Mrs Robert H Gordon of Cumberland at the First Presbyterian Church Baltimore. Rev Dr James N Moffatt officiated with Mrs Thompson matron of honor sister of the bride. Charles Harris brother of the groom was best man. Reception followed. The couple left for the Pacific coast. Guest Guy Harris of Washington attended.
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Cumberland
Washington Post
Joseph Dunjlop Harris
Motive Power
Baltimore
Ohilo
Martha Herbert Gordon
Robert H. Gordon
James N. Moffatt
First Presbyterian Church
Skeleton Found in Old Well Near Police Station
Special to The Washington Poet reports the skeleton of a man found in an old well adjacent to the Hagerstown police station and near the courthouse. An old dagger lay beside the remains, sparking murder speculation and ties to a Civil War era rendezvous on the site.
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Hagerstown
Washington
D. A. Thomas& Co
Nuckols Dies in Baltimore Hotel Room at 60
D Nuckols a Clifton Forge dry goods merchant and wealthiest resident in Allegany county Virginia was found dead in his room at the Eutaw House Baltimore. A hotel porter discovered him and Dr B Phillips ruled death due to apoplexy after examination. He had arrived in Baltimore Saturday to finish purchases of a large merchandise lot.
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Baltimore
R. D. Nuchols
Nuchols & Foster
Clifton Forge
Allegany County
Eutaw
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