Murder Mystery in Annapolis Deepens as Leads Falter
Annapolis detectives fail to unlock the Lottie Brandon murder case as motives stay unclear and suspects remain undisclosed. Grace Humston, the New York lawyer who solved Ruth Cruger’s case, begins new work while autopsy findings dismiss fainting claims. Brandon returns from Washington for talks with local authorities amid theories of theft, aspirin clues, and possible involvement by a woman. Governor Harrington backs Maryland sleuths, and telegrams from Washington fuel ongoing confusion. Meanwhile Northcliffe crisis notes trace war effort and Atlantic routes, urging U S shipbuilding and antisubmarine measures to aid Britain.
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Washington Post
Annapolis
Lottie Brandon
Valentine Brandon
Brandons
Grace Humston
New York
Ruth Cruger
Joseph de Joyce
Brandon
Washington
Naval Experiment Station
Valentine N. Brandon
R. J. Haislup
Washington Police Extend Hunt For Crew In Mrs Brandon Slaying
Washington and Annapolis authorities chase leads across the District after days of baffling clues in the murder of Mrs. Brandon. Detectives Burlingame and Kelly work late as Maj. Pullman urges progress while James Davis denies Annapolis presence and faces larceny charges. Funeral held for the victim at St. Paul’s with over 300 attendees.
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Balimors
Brandon
Washington Police Department
Central Office
Burlingame and
Kelly
Maj
Raymond Pullman
Washington
James Davis
Thomas
Annapolia
Davis
Government Hospital
Robert Talbot
St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church
Ninth Precinct
Glenwood Cemetery
Fire destroys half of gun cotton plant in Gary Indiana
Gary Ind Aug 11 Fire believed incendiary destroyed about half of the 1,000,000 dollar Aetna Explosives Co plant near Gary. Two employees Holt and Choister were arrested as investigators probe antecedents. The plant with a 46,000 pound daily capacity was under government contract and will take about 60 days to resume operation. Civilian guards replaced national guardsmen after they were recalled. One thousand men worked in three eight hour shifts.
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Gary
Ind
Aetna Explosives Company
Holt and
Choisser
Miss Evlyn Burden Fined in Smuggling Case
New York Aug 11 Evlyn Byrd Burden worth about 5 million was fined 2500 after pleading guilty to undervaluing an opera cloak and clothing on arrival from Europe November 15 1915 with Mrs Charlotte Warren. Government valued the garments at more than 11000. Mrs Warren faces a pending criminal case and civil suits.
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New York
Evlyn Byrd Burden
Europe
Charlotte Warren
Whitney Warren
Washington Post
Bianes de Saulles
John L. de Saulles
East Sixtieth Street
West Fifty-seventh Street
Joan Sawyer
Son
Supreme Court to hear conscription law challenge
A case from northern Ohio will reach the United States Supreme Court on or before August 24 to test the constitutionality of the conscription act. Charles E. Ruthenberg, Alfred Wagenknecht, and Charles Baker, all Socialist party leaders in Ohio, were convicted of conspiring to induce others to evade the act and were sentenced to one year in the Canton workhouse.
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District Court of
Northern
Ohio
Charles E. Ruthenberg
Cleveland
Alfred Wagenknecht
Socialist Party
Charles Baker
Canton
Kaiser Pages To Go From School Spellers
Chicago August 11 The Kaiser page in school spellers will be removed at the start of the new term. Superintendent John D Shoop said he would take responsibility for the removal. The school board had previously declined to authorize removing the page.
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Chicago
John D. Shoop
Kansas City riots amid streetcar strike action at barns
A mob of strike sympathizers set fire to streetcar barns housing strikebreakers in Kansas City Missouri. A general fire alarm and riot call followed days of unrest with one man shot and others injured by bricks and stones as chaos spread through the city. The report notes heightened violence and clashes during the strike period.
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Kansas City
Kansas
City
Whitman for Mitchel Kept Apart by Dancer
New York Aug 11 Governor Whitman declared support for Mayor Mitchel as fusion nominee, reducing the chance of a Cropsey opposition in Republican primaries. The tension over a full fusion ticket and Tammany Hall’s influence dominated discussions.
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Mitchel
Cropsey
Tammany
Washington Post
New York
Fusion Committee
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Jacob A. Livingston
Kings
Justice Cropssy
Lke
Justice Cropsey
Fusion
Tammany Hall
Wan
Navy promotion board cites Niblack for warning on German submarines
A Washington dispatch to the New York Sun reports Capt. Albert Parker Niblack, then naval attache in Berlin, warned of Germanys submarine plans in 1913. His disclosures to U S officials about German naval intentions helped alert the United States to potential submarine threats against merchant ships.
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Washington Post
New York
Washington
New York Sun
Naval Promotion Board
H. T. Mayo
Albert Parker Niblack
Firet
Sparthy
United States
Germany
Capt. Niblack
Naval Intelligence Department
Berlin
Teuton Banners Rally Outside White House Gates
Pickets plan to display German language titles for Wilson cabinet members outside the White House this week with a new banner per official. Suffragists briefly disrupt by marching a Kaiser Wilson banner. police intervene as the crowd tears the banner away.
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Wilson
White House
Socialist Leader Garmer Freed After DOJ Questioning
Adolph Garmer National Secretary of the Socialist party was released from custody after being questioned by Federal Department of Justice agents for alleged seditious remarks at a meeting of the American Liberty and Defense League in Chicago.
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Chicago
Adolph Garmer
Socialist Party
American Liberty and Defense League
Federal Department of Justice
Richmond Bay Rum Faces Blacklist Rumor
Richmond readers report Bay rum branded as unnecessary on the hair only but colored men question the ruling as days pass, calling its status unofficial and likely to be banned.
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Richmond
Bay
Fishermen Break Up Shark School Attacks Boy
Bridgeport Conn Aug 11 a dozen large sharks were shot today by fishermen after a school threatened the sound pelted. Capt John Wirth of the sloop Mary and Ann reported three sharks up to 13 feet captured and taken to Mattituck. He said a boy named Jonathan Briggs from Mattituck was attacked and flesh torn. The sharks fought among themselves, leaping five to six feet as the wounded drew blood. Groups sighted in the sound ranged up to twenty, beaches reported no casualties and watchouts warned of the approach of the big finned fish.
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Bridgeport
Conn
John Wirth
Mattituck
Jonathan Briggs
Wirth
New Haven
Woman Robbed of 10000 In Jewels In Philadelphia Hotel
A gang of alleged blackmailers lured Mrs Grace Welsh to the St James Hotel and robbed her of 10000 dollars in jewelry and 930 dollars in cash after beating and binding her. The police identified Miss Blanche Gray of Atlantic City and Harry C Kelly in a 3000 bond case as complicit.
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Philadelphia
St. James
Grace Welsh
New York
Decatur
Blanche Gray
North Carolina Avenue
Atlantic City
Harry C. Kelly
Helvering to Enter Camp at Fort Sheridan
Fort Riley Kansas August 11 Guy T Helvering representative in Congress for the Fifth Kansas district will join the second reserve officers training camp at Fort Sheridan at age forty Capt L P Swift ex aminer for Kansan announced today Also named for Plattsburg entry if successful are Reuben L Haskell Brooklyn congressman veteran of the Spanish America War and guard unit sergeant joining alongside H C Bud Fisher James Embrie William M Evarts Rufus Gaynor and Henry Fairfield Osborn Jr justices and heirs listed for the camp training plans
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Kans
Guy T. Helvering
Congress
Kansas
L P. Swift
Kansan
Fort Sheridan
Mr. Helvering
New York
Reuben L. Haskell
Brooklyn
Twenty-second New York Volunteers
Thirteenth Regiment
National Guard of
Plattsburg
H.C
Bud") Fisher
James, Embrie
William M. Evarts
Rufus Gaynor
Mayor Gaynor
Henry Fairfield Osborn, Jr
American Museum of Natural History
Curb Draft Foes Declared By Chamberlain in Florida
United States Senator George E. Chamberlain of Oregon told Florida lawyers and Jacksonville citizens that Kaiser propagandists inflame anti draft activity and urged vigorous action against enemies at home and abroad. He defended Congress power to enact selective draft laws and cited Washington's appeals to the Continental Congress about the need for a stronger army.
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Jacksonville
United States
George E. Chamberlain
Oregon
Military Affairs Committee
Florida
America
Chamberlain
Congress
Washington
Continental Congress
Slain by Boys Who Pelt Girl in New York
Two youths Benjamin Hyman thirteen and Louis Goldstein twelve pelted a girl with cantaloupe rinds and others harassed her. Charles Friedman seventeen intervened and was beaten to death. The boys are held at police headquarters after the fatal assault.
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New York
Charles Friedman
Hght
Benjamin Hyman
Louis Goldstein
Jordan Chosen as Stockholm Envoy by Labor Councils
New York Aug 11 Plans to send three American labor representatives to the Stockholm international conference on September 9 are announced by the People's Council and the Workman's Council. Dr David Starr Jordan is believed among the delegates, with passport approval by the State Department needing only confirmation.
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New York
Stockholm
People's Council
Workman’s Council
David Starr Jordan
State Department
Misa Letla Fave Secor
United States
American Federation of Labor
Morris Hillquit
40th Year Opens October 1 1917 catalogue notice
Catalogue containing full information will be mailed on request by letter or telephone addressed to The Secretary National University Southern Building Washington DC Tel M 6617 A session of Almas Temple MSue Shrine is ordered to be held at 1224 H Street Northwest Patrol Headquarters Thursday Evening August 16 1917 for business and work L Whiting Estes Potentate
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Washington, D. C
Almas Temple
M.sue Shrine
H Street
L. Whiting Estes
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