Chaffee Visits Bolivar Camp Praises Harries Brigade
Lieutenant General Adna R. Chaffee Acting Secretary of War arrives at Boutlvar Heights West Virginia camp. He commends Gen Harries District militia and observes Troop F Thirteenth Cavalry drill including a monkey drill demonstration. Salute fired by Third Battery as Chaffee and party are hosted with hospitality and a chicken dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Boutlvar Heights
W. Va
Adna R. Chaffee
United States Army
Harries
Washington
Chaffee
Bates
Field Artillery
USA
Semerall
Thirteenth Cavalry
Guy M Preston
Harry S Barry
Preston
LICENSED TO MARRY WILLIAM HART GALE AND CORINNE GRAHAM BLACKBURN
Obituary notices and wedding announcement list multiple 1905 and 1965 events including marriages for William Hart Gale of Leeburg VA and Corinne Graham Blackburn of Versailles performed by John Cunningham and Nettie Burke. Also notes several funeral services and interments across locations such as Myre Balbona Bena Lees Chapel Stockport on Hudson and Congressional Cemetery with dates August 4 to August 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Hart Gale
Leeburg Va
Corinne Graham Blackburn
Versailles
John Cunningham
Nettie Burke
Beha
Myre Balbona Bena
Gussle
Edmund Beha
I Street
Beneridges
Mary
Heveri
B Beendge
Charles
Beversige
Taylor Wade
Bergices
Lee's Chapel
Ennsylama Avenué
Baltimore
George Jarvisoe
Stockport
Hudson
N.Y
Eaton
Alonzo J Eaton
Lees Chapel
Pennsylvania Avenue
Congressional Cemetery
Friedrich
Henry
Bernhardt Friedrich
Adelphia
Eleventh Street
Franck H
Echrieber
Walter
Martin
Anna T Schreiber
William H Scott & Co
Eighth Street
Woutheast
Health Office Record From 1905 City Institutions
Health office record listing names and ages of patients and infants from multiple city institutions including Pearl Clayton 407 L St NW and Jesse R Coryelle 1237 4th St W with ages ranging from infancy to 92 years. Hospitals named include Freedmen Hospital Wash Asylum Hosp Childrens Hospital and Sidley Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cs Burrell
Pearl Clayton
Jesse R Coryelle
Levi
Dunmore
Margaret Fource
Sophia Ford
Cecelia A. Henrahan
Cherlea Hauer
Henry Higham
Eleanor M Johnston
13Th
Maud E Mann
Loew's Court
Aloysing Wattrows
Hope
Lavinia Miller
Canal St
Florence E Murray
Gertrude O Nordhoft
Columbia St
Charles AL Pearson
Sidley Hospital
Elizabeth Helty
Columbia
Francis A
Rice Children’s Hospital
Theresa Simpson
Columbia Hosp
William Childen
Helen West
Children's Hospital
Notices of Marriage and Death Routed to Dailies
Marriage and death notices inserted in The Washington Post on application appear simultaneously at no charge in morning newspapers nationwide including New York Times Boston Globe Buffalo Courier Cincinnati Enquirer Chicago Record Herald Philadelphia Public Ledger Pittsburg Dispatch Providence Journal Rochester Herald St Louis Republic Syracuse Post Standard Saint Paul Pioneer Press Minneapolis Tribune Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Washington Pont
NEW York Time
Boston Globe
Buffalo Courier
Cincinnati Enquirer
Chicago Record Herald
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Pittsburg Dispatch
Providence Journal
Rochester Herald
ST Louis Republic
Syracuse Post-Standard
Paul Pioneer Press
Minneapolis Tribune
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Chaffee Tours Camp as Guardsmen Display Feats
At Harpers Ferry camp district militia entertain Gen Chaffee and Gen Harries with daring horse drills led by First Sergt Charles Miller. The event featured pyramids on horses, rapid leaping, and a fearless display that drew hundreds of soldiers and civilian spectators from Bolivar and Harpers Ferry.
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Teenth
Charles Miller
Miller
Bolivar
Harpers
Ferry
United States Army
Chaffee
Commissary Department
Maj Neumeyer
Neumeyer
Cadets Off to Camp at Ocean City N J
High School Cadet Regiment departed from Philadelphia in three special coaches to Ocean City New Jersey. War Department supplied fifty Springfield pattern rifles at three dollars each, forwarded to the camp so cadets drill with arms on their first encampment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
City
Pennsylvania
Ocean City
N. J
Wea
Ordnance Department
Broad Street
Philadelphia
Camden
Océan City
Panama Canal Laborers Sought by Administration
The administration will counter Japanese officials ruling by advertising for laborers to work on the canal. Ads will stress good wages, improved sanitary conditions, and government care to attract workers to the isthmus.
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Crmyein
Panama Canal
Panama
Will Rearrange Schedules For Southern League Clubs
At a Birmingham meeting, owners of the Southern League base ball clubs decided to rearrange the remainder of the season due to yellow fever quarantines. Next week’s dates were set, and each club must be reduced to fourteen men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Southern League Baseball Clube
Kidney and Bladder Troubles Promised Cure
Ad for Dr Kilmer Swamp Root claiming prompt cures for kidney bladder and uric acid issues plus back pain and night time trips. Promises sample bottle and free health book by mail from Binghamton New York. urges mention of Washington Sunday Post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
Washington Sunday Post
Kitver
N. Y
Perjury Charge Shifts in Taggart Divorce Case
Perry Rope eighteen testifies in Maj. Taggart divorce case that Mrs Taggart bought and gave beer to her two sons at Koch's saloon. Major Morton swears in deposition that Taggart was sober on June 30 and July 1. Rope is jailed on perjury charge, bound over for further hearing on $30 bond.
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Perry Rope
Maj. Morton
Taggart
Wrehington Fort
Wooster
Ohio
Maj. Taggart
Vannest
Wartz
Maj. Tagggart
Culver Taggart
Tiddies
Charles C Morton
Army War College
Washington
Morton
Fort Leavenworth
Orrville
St James
Stunner
Jerome Denounces Graft Names Prominent Politicians at Jamestown
Special to The Washington Post from Jamestown N.Y. Aug 65. District Attorney William Travers Jerome of New York denounced graft and named prominent Republicans and Democrats. He praised Carnegie library funding while criticizing the Senate and lobbyists. He praised Republican leaders and contrasted David B Hill with Chauncey M Depew and T C Platt.
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Washington Po
Jamestown
Chautanaus
William Travers Jerome
New York
Jerome
Andrew Carnegie
Homestead
United States Senate
Senate
Chauncey M. Depew
Benjamin B. Odell
Republicana
David B Hill
T C. Platt
Kansas Pipe Line Scheme Fails in Gulf Route Project
The Kansas oil field pipeline to the Gulf stalls as financier W L Mellon of Pittsburgh declines further involvement. He says expert estimates show insufficient oil to justify laying the line, ending the Kansas City scheme.
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Kansas
Kansas City
Kansas Oil Fields
Gulf of Mexico
W. L. Mellon
Pittsburg
Clevelandes Attend Carlisle Funeral in New York
Mr and Mrs Grover Cleveland arrived in New York this evening from their New Hampshire summer home to attend the funeral of Mrs Carlisle wife of John G Carlisle former Secretary of the Treasury. The service will be held at Was Islip Long Island tomorrow with the couple staying in New York until Monday.
British Day Parade in Providence Welcomes Forty-third Canadian Regiment
In Providence on August 6 past and present British subjects gathered for British Day at Crescent Park. The Duke of Cornwall's Own Forty-third Canadian Regiment arrived from Ottawa to join the festivities, with a parade reviewed by Gov. Utter and Acting Mayor Renolds. The group enjoyed a Maypole dance, sports, and a shore dinner after touring the park. The city of Boston had earlier welcomed the regiment as it traveled by special trains to Providence.
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Providence
R. L
Great Britain
Canada
Crescent Park
Duke of Cornwall
Forty-third
Ottawa
Utter
Renolds
Boston
Gommentwearth
Narrow Escape As Train Sideswipes Rocks On Maryland
Passengers on the Colonial Express bound from Boston to Washington were terrified when the New York New Haven and Hartford transfer boat Maryland struck rocks off Sixty sixth street. A collision with barges preceded the grounding, sending cars near the water and prompting passengers to flee to the deck. A boy and a girl leaped overboard to a nearby barge and vanished. The Maryland sustained no serious damage and was freed by wrecking tugs after about fifteen minutes.
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New York
Colonial Express
Boston
Washington
East River
New Haven
Hartford
Maryland
Sixty-sixth Street
Jersey City
Police Poor Marksmen Fire On Robbers In Chicago
In Chicago last night police fired a fusillade at two thieves who stole goods worth 2600 from a baggage car at West Sixteenth Street yards. Three others were wounded, none seriously, including Lieut James Larkin and officers O Hara and Sullivan. The robbers fled, and Cohen and his wife were struck by stray bullets.
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Chicago
West Sixteenth Street
James Larkin
Morris Cohen
Miz Cohan
Israel Jacobson
Tan
Foss
Union Street
Larkin
O'Hara
Sullivan
Cohen
Registration grows for Uintah homesteads in Grand Junction
Grand Junction Colorado August 6 registration of applicants for homesteads on the Uintah reservation passed the 5000 mark with several hundred homeseekers arriving to stay among them more than 500 women. The office was instructed to receive veteran applications on Denver printed blanks via agents and daily overland departures to inspect lands to be opened for settlement. Ground broken at Pittsburgh for two 640 by 140 foot plots by the Pressed Steel Car Company to build steel street cars with tests proving success in New York subways and surface lines. The plants will provide work for about 600 additional men.
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Harries
Harpers Perry
Hill Top
Harpers Ferry
Joel Hillman
Thomas Ward
Signal Corps
Shenandoah
Ward
Grand Junction
Colo
Uintah Reservation
Denver
Pittspore
Aug
Pressed Steel Car Company
New York
Telegraphers Strike Nears End Amid Federal Inquiry
St Paul Aug 5 railroads Great Northern and Northern Pacific report the strike near closure as 7 to 8 percent of stations are staffed by agents while telegraphers deny progress. Trains run more on time yet the North Coast Limited suffers delays. Union leaders welcome federal action to review the dispute and press for a full hearing.
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St. Paul, Minn
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Telegraphers’ Union
St. Paul
North Coast Limited
Twin City Express
Supt Beamer
Spokane
Horn
Haney
Idaho
Perham
Telegraphers' Union
Moody
United States
Madison Wis
Milwaukee
Wis
St Paul
Western Union
Freyou
Bribery Trial Update Ties Farris to 1901 Allegations
Jefferson City reports the resumed trial of Senator Frank H Farris on bribery charges with rigid cross-examination by Attorney General Hadley. Senator Costello testified he did not visit Farris in his St Louis hotel room on March 19 1901 while Senator Smith denied involvement in alleged glam bill bribery, claiming an operation at home that day.
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Jefferson City
Frank H Farris
Farris
Hadley
Whitness
Gov
Lee
Frank Costello
Maysville
Laclede
St Louis
Lee Costello
C A. Smith
Warris
Smith
Cardinal Gibbons Visites Asbury Park Cottages At Spring Lake
Cardinal Gibbons, guest at Bellingary Castle and Spring Lake mansion of Martin Maloney, receives prominent North Jersey cottagers. He stays until midweek and will speak at St Catharine’s Chapel at 10:30 tomorrow morning. The piece notes the cardinal’s third Spring Lake visit and mentions ship movements along the New York harbor.
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Cardinal
Washington Post
Asbury Park
N. J
Cardinal Gibbons
Bellingary Castle
Martin Maloney
Spring Lake
North Jersey Shore
St. Catharine's Chapel
Pigrooe
Great August Furniture Sale at Lansburgh Co
Inter Ocean Building at 412 Ninth Street hosts a Great August Sale from August 7. Hundreds of bargains include parlor suites, divans, tables, dressers, chests, chifferes, beds, sideboards, wardrobes, and carpets with deep discounts like 30 dollar parlor suites for 12 dollars and 90 dollar suites for 47.50 paces. many items sharply reduced plus clearance on brass beds and oak rockers.
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Morris
Smyrna
Ingrain
Axminster
Lansburgh Furniture Co
Inter-Ocean Building
Ninth St
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Wspade
District Guard
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Health Office Record
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Fox
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Missouri
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