Shaping Up the Fight at Democratic Headquarters
Virginia Chairman en route to the Ninth District to review the situation and order printing of a million campaign documents. West Virginia nominees seek funds as Democrats shape their campaign sureties and money remains scarce for direct contributions. Col Taylor Ellyson, state chairman, visits headquarters to advise on field work and district strategy against Col Slemp. Joseph Wysor seeks party aid while Davis as Vice Presidential nominee may aid fundraising efforts.
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Virginia
Ninth
Games and Tobacco Trust
Imi
Ierature
Taylor Ellyson
Cowherd
Col
Ellyson
Slemp
Joseph Wysor
Congress
Col. Elly- Son
Washington
West Virginia
Congressional Committee
New York
Davis
Notice of Auto-Insertion for Marriage and Death Notices
Notices of marriage and death inserted in The Washington Post will, upon application, appear simultaneously and free of charge in multiple morning newspapers including The New York Times, Baltimore Herald, Boston Globe, and others listed. The notice details various newspapers and the process for insertion across editions.
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Washington Post
NEW York Times
Baltivmors Herald
Boston Globe
Buffalo Cocrier
Cincinnati Enquirer
Icago Record Herald
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Pittsburg Dispatch
Providence Journal
Rochester Herald
Lolis Republic
Post-Standard, &T Pall Pioneer Press
Minneapolis Tribune
Cleveland Plain Dealer
MARRIAGE AND FUNERAL NOTICES MIXED FROM WASHINGTON AREA
Notices list multiple obituaries and wedding notices with names such as Charles Denton, Flossie Garnet, Frank Noble, John Lambden, Theophilus Roessle, and others. Funeral details include dates, residencies, and interment notes, with addresses in Washington DC and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H Donaldson
Fannie E. Warring
William T
Lambden
John H. Lambden
Florence M. Lambden
Kershaw
Roessle
Paris
France
Theophilus EL Roessle
Washington, D.C
Undertakers Advertise First Class Service in Washington
J R Speare Undertaker and Embalmer at 940 F Street N W offers first class embalming and funeral services with telephone 340. Joseph Gawler at 1730 82 Pa Ave NW also advertises, established 1850. R F Harveys Sons Funeral Directors and Embalmers at 1325 Fourteenth Street NW promote strict first class service, moderate prices, and a commodious chapel with telephone North 379.
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J. R. Speare
F Street
N. W
Joseph Gawler
Uner
Pa. Ave
R. F. Harvey's Sons
Smbalmers
Fourteenth Street Nw
Rommodious Chapel
North
John R. Wricht
Tooth Street
West Virginia Democrats lack funding for campaign
West Virginia Democratic nominees for Congress have not received financial support from Congressional headquarters and may obtain some. The party plans to distribute campaign literature in West Virginia towns where useful. Cowherd will visit New York to discuss northern districts and possible relocation of headquarters.
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West Virginia
Congress
Congressional
Cone
Cowherd
New York
Washington
South
Taggart
Chicago
Parker
New Jersey
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
National Committee
Gaines
The
Tobacco Trust
President halts removals of dept officials in Alabama
Special to The Washington Post Birmingham Aug 12. Justice Department officials in Alabama received Washington copy of Roosevelt letter dated Aug 9 ordering a halt to removals of deputy marshals and assistant district attorneys for political reasons. The president urges retention of staff on fitness alone and warns no politician may dictate to these officials.
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Washington Post
Birmingham
Ala
Department of Justice
Alabama
Washington
Roosevelt
J. O. Thompson
Charles Scott
A. B. Colguitt
Campaign Bureau Heads and West Campaign Plans
West campaign work discussed with President Roosevelt by Tawney and Jawney from the Speakers Bureau. Tawney backs off West speaking push, predicts fewer national speakers this year, with intense effort planned in each Western state.
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Tawney
James Jawney
Minnesota
Republican
Chicago
Roose
West
New York
Cortelyou
Babcock
Republican Congressional Committee
National Committee
Republican Party
Executive Committee
Ali
Local Old Boys Fremont and Lincoln Club Formed in Washington
About fifty old Lincoln and Fremont supporters organized the National Old Boys Fremont and Lincoln Club and a local Washington unit at Riggs House. Hon. E. M. Marble elected local president. aims include backing President Roosevelt and Republican candidates, with organizers to be sent nationwide to rally the “old bloods.”
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John P. Hale
John C. Fremont
Abraham Lincoln
National Old Boys
Fremont and
Lincoln Club
First Old Boys
Fremont and Lincoln Club
Washington
Riggs House
M. Marble
Patents
National Club
Roosevelt
PopulistsNominate Full Electoral State Ticket in New York
New York Aug 12 announcement from Populist headquarters that a full electoral and state ticket will be fielded in New York. Jay W Forrest announced speakers for Cooper Union meeting Aug 18. Watson will be informed by Judge Samuel W Williams. Tibbes by William V Allen. National HQ at Union Square.
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Taggart
White Sulphur
New York
Democratic National Committee
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Henry G. Davis
Sheehan
Bar Harbor
Delancey Nicoll
People’s Party
Jay W. Forrest
Cooper Union
Thomas K. Watson
Samuel W. Williams
Vincennes
Ind
Thomas H. Tibbies
United States
William V. Allen
Madison
Near
Union Square Hotel
Newark
J. Edward Addicks
Republican National Committee
Delaware
Republican gossip weighs Indiana West Virginia and Oregon gains
A political gossip column from a reliable source reports Eastward Republican visitors discussing Indiana’s fate and fear of New York and New Jersey losses. Ohio and Illinois efforts are outlined, with Meade Turner in Washington State and Wall Street signals shaping the campaign.
Promise From Porte Demands Will Be Granted
Text of a reply to American demands on rights of citizens in Turkey discussed by Nacum Pasha and Imzet Pasha with Leishman at Therapia. State Department seeks concrete binding language. Germany may advise. American squadron anchored at Smyrna. Cabinet meets as Adams Hay receives Jewell cable.
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Sultan
State Department
Germany
Constantinople
Nacum Pasha
Leishman
Therapia
Bosphorus
Turkey
Imzet Pasha
Selim Pasha
Foreign Office
United States
Hay
Admiral Jewell
Smyrna
Navy Department
Occupation of Tibet and Allied World News Briefs
Reports from London, Toronto, Paris, and Stockholm cover Tibet occupancy plans, India budget debates, and Russia Britain cooperation on Lassa terms. Also notes Friends conference in Toronto, French expo officials leaving Paris for Havre, and a groundless murder report in Nakhichevan amid European diplomatic updates. Sixty-one Hungarian deputies sail for New York to attend the St Louis Parliament Congress. An arbitration pact between Sweden and Norway is signed. The Temps reports a Sultan of Turkey mission with gifts to Italy.
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Russia
Plana
London
House of Commons
India
Brodrick
Tibet
Lassa
Great Britain
Broderick
Lord Curzon
Kedleston
Fiume
Hungary
Sug
New York
St. Louis
Sympathy of Monarchs for Waldeck Rousseau Family
Paris reports telegraphic condolences to the Waldeck-Rousseau family from the German Emperor and Kings of England Portugal Norway and Sweden plus Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria. Baron dEstournelies de Constant conveyed messages for the French international arbitration group. Foreign Minister Delcasse returns for the funeral as a private attendee.
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Waldeck- Rousseau
Paris
M. Waldeck-Rousseau
Corbell
England
Portugal
Norway
Sweden
Ferdinand
Bulgaria
Baron d’Estournelies de Constant
French International Arbitration Group
Delcasse
French Convention Bill Clears Commons and Advances
Passes its third reading amid cheers in the House of Commons and moves to the Lords. Conservative MP Thomas Gibson Bowles urged delay until the French Deputies acted, but Premier Balfour said delaying would be inconsistent with Britain’s spirit toward France. Bowles then withdrew his objection.
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Commons
House of Lords
London
House of Commons
Thomas Gibson Bowles
French Chamber of Deputies
Balfour
Great Britain
France
Bowles
Canoe Makes Ocean Voyage From Azores to London
The Tillikum, a two and a half ton dugout canoe carved from a single tree trunk by an Alaskan Indian in 1848, sailed from Ponta Delgada toward London. Capt. J. C. Voss commands with one companion Harrison. The voyage started in May 1901, routing via Pacific islands, Cape Horn, and the Azores, having already covered nearly 10 000 miles.
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Vancouver
Azores
London
Ponta Delgada
Azore Islands
British Columbia
Europe
Pacific
Cape Horn
J. C. Voss
Harrison
British Subject Arrested in Tangier War Secretary Case
Hamet Jaiya principal secretary to El Menebhi Moroccan minister of war has been arrested and imprisoned with confiscation of his goods under the Sultan's orders. Jaiya is a British subject and European residents protest that life and property are unsafe. The British legation protests have been ignored by the Moroccan government.
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Tangier
Hamet Jaiya
el Menebhi
Jaiya
Paraguayan insurgents capture ports and ship with minister aboard
Rumor from Buenos Ayres on August 12 reports Paraguayan insurgents seizing Humaita Vila Pilar and Concepcion. They are said to have captured the steamer Villa Rica carrying the minister of the interior who escaped.
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Buenos Ayres
Humaita
Vila Pilar
Concepcion
Villa Rica
Seymour D. Thompson Dead in New Jersey
Seymour D. Thompson former associate justice of the Court of Appeals at St. Louis died of diabetes at his home in Orange New Jersey. He was born in 1842 in Illinois a Civil War veteran and had been appointed by President Roosevelt as a delegate to a Union Congress of Law and Jurists to be held in St. Louis next month.
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Wall Street
J. Pier- Bont Morgan
Roosevelt
New York
The
Stock Exchange
the World
Sun
Froosevelt
Parker
Lase Wex
W. H. H. Miller
Indianapolis
Harrison
Utiica
N. Y
Deansboro
Yes
Cortelyou
Judge Parker
Gov. Odell
Platt
Orange
N. J
Seymour D. Thompson
Court of Appeals
St. Louis
Thompson
Union Congress of Law and Jurists
Illinois
Fatal trolley wreck rocks Defiance Ohio
Three people died and three injured when a Baltimore and Ohio trolley crossing in Defiance Ohio was struck near noon. Victims include Helen Reison Wetter of Cleveland and two Gaede children ages five and three, sons of Rev. M Gaede. Survivors include Olga Gaede Earl Barnhart and Harold Fraght. Barnhart and Fraght are Ohio National Guard members en route to drill. The crossing at a curve limited the motorman’s view, the crowded car had a trailer, and the injured are expected to recover.
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Defiance
Ohio
Baltimore and Ohio
Helen Reison Wetter
Cleveland
Gerald Gaede
Rollin Gaede
M. Gaede
Olga Gaede
Earl Barnhart
Harold Fraght
Ohio National Guard
Hicksville
Maumes Valley Chautauqua
Miss Barton to Visit Boston for Grand Army Encampment
Miss Clara Barton will guest of the National Woman's Relief Corps during the Grand Army Encampment next week in Boston Massachusetts. Gov Bates issued a proclamation announcing state offices will close next Tuesday the parade day and urged business closures and building decorations in honor of the Grand Army of the Republic.
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Woman's Relief Corps
Boston
Mass
Clara Barton
National Woman's Relief Corps
I Grand Army
Gov
Bates
State Department
Grand Army of the Republic
A Knight of the Garter
A fragmentary tale describes a knightly scene with a girl named Peggy who blushes at a broken blue eating band. She worries over the clamp and contemplates leaving her sweetheart, who offers to go with her. The street scene shifts as one person steps away and another returns with uncertainty.
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Peggy
Cherka
Prominent Democrats Named for National Committee Roles
The New York Times report lists De Lancey Nicoll born Shelter Island 1954 and Princeton graduate, a former district attorney and partner at Nicoll Anable & Lindsay. It highlights George Foster Peabody of Lake George and Brooklyn homes, William F. Sheehan of Buffalo, August Belmont of New York, ex Senator James Smith Jr of Newark, Col James M Guffey of Pennsylvania, John R McLean of Ohio, Thomas Staples Martin of Virginia, and Timothy E Ryan of Wisconsin. A anecdote recalls the Elkins boys and their Grover Cleveland Junior Campaign Club portrait, amid Republican parent reactions.
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New York Times
de Lancey Nicoll
Taggart
Shelter Island
N. Y
Princeton
New York
Jacob Sharp
Nicoll, Anable & Lindsay
Nassau Street
James M. Guffey
Pennsylvania
United States
John R. McLean
Ohio
Cincinnati Enquirer
George K . Nash
Harvard
Washington
Thomas Staples Martin
Virginia
Scottsville
The
Independent
Elkins
Mryikine
Gen. Harrison
Senator Elkins
Harrison
Marrison
Grover Cleveland
Elkins Fboys
Ike
Oddities From Cassell's Journal Of World News
A collage of curiosities lists European birth rates, blindness, and sturgeon size, compares banana productivity to potatoes and wheat, and notes a Atlantic fog diameter. It describes a gold engraved Qur an and a long bearded man’s growth, plus a local Selma tramp-running punishment in North Carolina.
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Casselle Saturday Journal
France
Ehiropodist
P Europa
Russia
A My Atlantic Maer
Atlantic
St Triphony
Rhone
India
Natchet
Mohammedan
Isanan-Ruza
Persia
Far East
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Pleasant Ct
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Tennessee
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Haverford College
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Morocco
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Brickner Woolen Mills Company
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Georgia Industrial Home
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DEM
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Buffalo
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August Belmont & Co
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Rothschilds
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Lves
Wilmington
Del
United State
Timothy E. Ryan
Wisconsin
Waukesha
University of Wisconsin
Elkins Boys In Politics
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Selma
N. C
Sunday Post
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MR. Dooley
Edward W. Townsend
Reuben
Scottsboro
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