Impostor posing as Lieut Harry King arrested in Los Angeles
Thomas Heaney of Massachusetts traced a five year impostor who posed as Lieut Harry King of the U S Army. The man used forged identity papers to borrow money across states, evading debts as a son of Gen Horatio King. Arrest followed telegraphic tips and War Department inquiries.
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Massachuseite
Los Angeles
Horatio King
Harry King
United States Army
Huratio
West Svorg
Jared
Ibiima
Harry
Fesi
Paty
Army 1
Tarry King
Philippines
Too Thick for Slots Causes Penny Recall Fear
Washington slot owners cry foul as a new minted penny entry stalls game receipts. Minted pennies labeled VoD B face recall after 79 8 100 produced. Treasury notes public rush to own Lincoln cents amid penny panic. Merchants use the recall as a sales hook. newsboys and peddlers benefit from the craze.
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Tincela
Washington
Amlexs
Beeratary
Linvain
Philadelphia
Treasury Department
Lincoln
Independence schooner cleared after coast guard probe
The American sloop Independence was cleared at Mobile after investigators found no evidence of involvement in a filibustering expedition to South America. The collector of the port reported the vessel carried only merchandise and no contraband. Clearance papers were issued following final review by the Department of Commerce and Labor.
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Independence
Mobile
Caribbean
Bea
South America
State Department
Rimant of Commerce and
Bold Street Robbery Stuns Washington Neighborhood
Mrs Alice Smith wife of former Representative Smith of Minot reports a daylight handbag snatch on Columbia road near Belmont. A brown skinned man about 35, 5'8\"-5'9\", wearing brown suit and blouse hat, fled toward woods with the bag as bystanders aided in pursuit but the suspect remains at large. Witnesses note parasol untouched. Police review similar crimes and search woods with Woodley avenue tenants. The incident occurred about 52 oclock yesterday afternoon.
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Alice Smith
Winose
Columbia and
Belmont Roads
Orlock
Polic
Mra M Allee Smith
Smith
Minot
Columbia Road
Belmont Road
Woodley
Beela
Precinc
Prof W H Ragan Dead and Funeral Planned
Professor W H Ragan, noted pomologist and longtime government horticulture official, died Friday at Homeopathic Hospital. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 2 PM at Leas Undertaking, with burial in Arlington Cemetery. He served as Indiana and national horticultural leader, authored pomology works, and held posts at Purdue and in state and national societies.
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Department of Agriculture
Homeopathic
Chapel
Leas
Pranaante Avenue
Tomor
G A Rand
Arlington Cemetery
Ragan
Indiana Horticultural Society
New Orleans
Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society
Chicago
Putnam County
Tad
Reuben Ragan
Mr Ragan
Indians State Board of Agriculture
Purdue University
Nomn Yeese
Indiana Legistature
John Clark
Ridpath
Camp Pleasant Excursion For District Colored Children
Every two weeks or more colored children from slums and tenements near Washington travel by River Queen steamer to Camp Pleasant near Tuxedo Ma for fresh air sanitary conditions and good food. The camp run by Miss Wilson for the Colored Industrial School is rented from J H Jones of the Associated Charities. A large gathering is planned for AWEMa 12 to support the industrial school.
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Washington
Camp Pleasant
Tuxedo
Camp
Colored Industrial School
Gerlah Lampkins
J H Jones
Ango
Miss Wilson
Washington Steamboat Company
Awema
Knox Aaks Protection for Greeks
Secretary of State Knox asks California governor to provide protection for Greek subjects who allege arrest and mistreatment at Lincoln California several weeks ago in a cruel incident. The request emphasizes safeguarding Greek residents and ensuring lawful treatment by authorities.
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Knox
Knox Haw
California
Lincoln
Cal
Crue
Golfing Honors Even Between West and Mahool in Baltimore
Commissioner West and Mayor Mahool played a golf match at the Baltimore Country Club and Columbia Golf Club, the contest ending even after West and running mate Moses edged Mahool and Morrow by two up at the turn. Plan for a new Columbia Golf Club course and a $5000 clubhouse were announced, with work to start the next morning and a spring opening anticipated.
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Henry Hi. West
Baltimore
Barry Mahool
Heltimore
Monumental
Commissioner West
Baltioore Rena
Mahoo
Commissioner
Rm Willing
Columbia Golf Club
Whien
Washington
Anueduct
Wayor Mahgolg
West
Moses
Gut
Tnka
Mahool
Mal Marrow
Weat
Mr Moses
Jlinner
Chevy Chase
WH Barker
United States
Chevy Chase Club
Young porker at large causes Fort Myer stir
Ed Meem and wife bought a pig at Center Market in Fort Myer Virginia. The pig escaped from a burlap bag after being tied to a stall. Police searched after a general alarm as crowds picked up the three month old, gentle but noisy animal.
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Ed Meem
Fort Myer
Helgnts
Axtis
Meem
First Precinct
Notable Flyer Plans a Novel Aeroplane Test Flight
A flyer named Frederick Haleman of Beelin announces a plan to test a new heavier-than-air machine he believes will surpass existing models. He will travel from New York aboard the Red Cross liner Rosalind to Kewfoundland with stops at the Bras dOr Lake area and the experimental station of Prof Bell. He hints at a tetrahedral kite style, aims to study Prof Bell’s work, and will test the concept on Prof Bell's estate before presenting it to the government.
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Wes
New York
Red Cross
Rosalind
Kewfound
Frederick Haleman
Beelin
Bras d'Or Laken
Gisham
Sale of Three Per Cent Stocks Reordered to Cover Deficit
A local notice states certificates will be sold in a sequence to meet a shortfall. The plan shifts only if necessary to cover the deficit, with actions governed by the official order and financial need.
Treasury delays on one year certificates amid canal deficits
Secretary MacVeagh said no decision yet on issuing one year certificates tied to customs and internal revenue receipts. The move aims to preserve a healthy cash balance, with later action possible if the Aldrich-Wheeling plan requires it.
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Treasury Department
Aia
Treasury
Customs Internal Revenue
Trasury Department
Panama Canal
Murray
Wall
Fifth Precinct
Sirat
Second Y
Giles County memorial shaft honors Confederate dead
Special to The Washington Poet Pearlsburg Vnlug 7 A monument to the memory of Confederate Velevans was unveiled here today. An immense crowd attended as James D Johnston of Roanoke, a former Giles County citizen, delivered the address praising the county’s Civil War sacrifices. He noted Giles supplied volunteers from Gettysburg to Chickamauga, with 17 of 31 men from Company D at Gettysburg killed or wounded. Rev Kyte Frazier of Pearisburg also spoke, and Cornelia Branch Bennett of Galveston Texas, president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, participated in the ceremonies.
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Washington
Pearlsburg
James D Johnston
Roanoke
Giles County
Gettysburg
Chickamotes
Kyte Frazier
Pearisburg
Mra
Cornelia Branch Brena
Galveston
Tex
United Daughterr
Confederacy
Will Report On Escapes From Asylum
Dr William A White, superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane, is expected to report this week on the numerous escapes at the asylum. The request came from acting Secretary of the Interior Jeane MM Wilson as White was leaving New York for a vacation. Wilson said the report would be forwarded to the department as soon as White prepared it.
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William A White
Government Hospital For
Secretary of the Interior
Jeane MM Wilson
White
New York
Department of the I Oterior
Alty
Sterelary Wilson
Age no bar to romance Thwing wins license to wed Yerby
Charles Thwing a 78 year old of 1011 Eleventh Street Richmond Virginia obtained a license to wed Miss Carrie Yerby a 46 year old housekeeper living at 919 North Twenty Seventh Street Richmond. Thwing is employed in the Treasury Department redemption division and has lived at his Eleventh Street home for years. His first wife died last winter and Miss Yerby has been his housekeeper. Neighbors say Thwing is on annual leave and not expected home for two weeks.
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Yerby
Richmond
Officer Slayer to Face Court Martial at Fort Crook
Corporal Claude Crabtree of Troop B, Second United States Cavalry, who killed his commanding officer Captain John C Raymond at Fort Des Moines Iowa, will be tried by court martial at Fort Crook Nebraska. The trial date is August 16, with transfers made due to apparent prejudice against the accused at Fort Des Moines. All Second Cavalry officers will be excluded from participation.
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Omaha
Claude Crabtree
Second
United States Cavalry
John C Raymond
Fort Des Moines
Iowa
Fort Crook
Nea
Second Cavalry
Accuse Broker of Larceny in Mexico Real Estate Case
New York broker Frank N Bradshaw was arrested on Tennessee authorities’ request after a Shelby County grand jury found indictments charging him with grand larceny embezzlement and fraudulent breach of trust related to funds of the Bierra Juarez Mining Company. Authorities say $100 was advanced for property in Oaxaca Mexico. He is detained on $2,000 bond awaiting extradition papers.
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New York, Ang
Frank N Hradshaw
Tennessee Authoritie
Former Soldier Early May Not Sue District Over Pension
Former soldier John Early, living under an assumed name with his wife and children in Brooklyn, denies plans to sue the District for damages. Pension officials and attorneys express no belief in a coming suit, noting Early’s statements and the board of examiners’ upcoming review of his disability claim.
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John Earry
Washington
Brooklyn
Barly
PC Geaver
Salvation Army
Early
Pensiona Davenport
Saxter
Board of Examiners
Haris
Wysel
Davenport
Kansas court weighs mandamus on state guaranty law
Aug 7 in Kansas Foneka the Supreme Court considers a mandamus filed by Attorney General Tred Jackson seeking to test the legality and constitutionality of the Kansas guaranty fund law. The suit targets the State Bank Commissioner and State Treasurer to enforce the law and restrain noncomplying banks from interfering with its enforcement.
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Foneka Kans
Supreme Court
Tred
Jackson
Kansas
Weather conditions and racey coastal disturbance forecast
A weather bulletin notes a low pressure disturbance moving northwest over the Gulf of Mexico affecting western Florida to eastern Texas with scattered rains and thunderstorms. The forecast calls for warm, heavy rain in the Gulf and Gulf Coast regions, high temperatures near 100 in western states, and light variable winds on the Northeast coast with brisk southeast winds elsewhere.
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US Dept of Agriculture
Warkington
Mexico
Louisiana
Gulf Cetat
Florida
Taras
Gulf
South Atlantic
Missouri Valley
Becky Mountain
Mater
Middle Western
Mt Davige
Hochy Mountain
Aranty
Yountaine
Onle Valley
Lake Gion
New England
Midite Aunulis
Cavalry to Exhibit at Madison Square Garden Show
United States cavalry officers will join a national horse show at Madison Square Garden in November. Brig. Gen. W.W. Wotherspoon notified directors that War Department sanctions a group of selected army officers to participate in tests of military horsemanship and daily cavalry maneuvers drawn from a western post regiment.
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Igbow
Madison Square Garden
United
WW Wotherspoon
Stam
War Department
United Graken Army
Will of Robert Pitcairn filed for probate in Pittsburgh
The will of Robert Pitcairn former Penn Central railroad executive was filed for probate in Pittsburgh on August seven. It disposes of an estate reported to be about 15 million dollars, left to his widow Mrs Mary Pitcairn who is named executrix. No charities are named, and it notes his generosity in life.
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Mitata
Weshinetm
Pittsburg
Robert Pitcairn
PennsylvanaaRailroad
Wit
Teft
Mary Pitcairn
Pitcarn
Suffrage Lectures at Marble House Open to Public
Mrs Belmont will admit the public to Marble House Newport for suffrage lectures: tickets at 5 dollars. On August 24 Rev Dr Anna Howard Shaw speaks, and on August 3 Charles B. Zushlin of Chicago's Litverstts will present. Proceeds fund the suffrage crusade.
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Belmont
New Fork
Oliver HP Belmont
Marble House
Newport
Dranna Howard Shaw
Charles Zushlin
Litverstts
Chicago
Printers' Delegates Gather for Union Convention
St Joseph Missouri August delegates and visitors attend the International Typographical Union convention opening Monday. President Lynch said key topics include expanding the income of the insurance department and proposed increases in funeral benefits from the current level to 1200 or possibly 2500 dollars.
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St Joseph Mo
International Typogaphical Union
Lynch
Insurance Department
Lafontaine Fire Destroys Post Office and Hall
A fast spreading blaze in Lafontaine caused $100000 in damage injuring three people. Eleven buildings were burned including the post office and Magonle hall as flames swept through the area before a brick fire wall halted the fire. The town lacks fire protection and the frame structures were gutted in two blocks.
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Lafontaine
Tragic double murder and suicide at Cameron farm
A man identified as Baron Wisaug-curlsuan Han ton killed his wife and two daughters then hanged himself in the barn near Cameron after a late berry picking trip. Neighbors and children found the bodies, with insanity cited as a possible motive.
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Wisaug
Curlsuan Hanton
Cameron
Yeslirda
Hinself
Thieves Raid Postoffice in Montgomery Versed Town
Two masked men armed with revolvers robbed the Montgomery post office early today. They bound and gagged Mrs Behr while she and her husband operated a general store nearby. The couple awakened at daybreak, Behr called for help, and the robbers escaped aboard a freight train with stamps and money.
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Washington
Aurora
Behr
Montgomery
Gm Post Office
Died Alone in Cottage Near Brunswick Georgia
A woman identified as Mrs A Littleton, 62, was found dead in a cottage near the coast after her dog reportedly guarded her body for three days. She had arrived from Tampa Florida. formerly of Alexandria Virginia. Two brothers listed as Walter and Cash are named. A spiderweb of errors and typos cloud the report.
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Brunswick Ga
A Uittleton
Gidiment Island
Death of a Python at Goat Exhibit in Lagerspart
Special to The Washington. A Royal Rajah python over 27 feet long and 200 pounds killed a tame goat during an exhibition in Lagerspart Aug 7. The 10 year old reptile, in a predatory display, wrapped around the goat and strangled it as workers struggled to separate them. The creature then consumed the goat, causing chaos in the exhibit area.
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Washington . Lagerspart
Ind
Gus Lambrigger
John Hidebrandt
Local
Humane Society
Not
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