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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1910
Page
2
Excited crowds filled a fair day with ragtime bands playing tunes like Tammany and Pony Boy while light chatter about Washington rang through the air. Jokes about the city’s southern location and sea wall crowd antics provided the day’s humor as earnest discussions on oarmanship drew laughs.
Special to The Washington Post reports Mayor Gaynor in a Pictorial Review article argues American boys cannot be sissified by fight pictures. He supports prize fights, dancing in public spaces, and limited schooling, asserting dancing is wholesome and boys will choose to dance despite opposition.
New York August 13 a man about 60 feet above Berry Street near the Williamsburg bridge dangled from the steel roadway support while police officers held him by the neck and fought to pull him back to the roadway after a ten minute struggle the man Folomen Preazine 60 a pocket book maker admitted he attempted self harm due to unemployment he was locked up at the Bridge station
Darius Wilson, who claims to be grand magi te of a bogus lodge, was held on $1,000 bail by U S Commissioner Darling for August 20 in a mail fraud hearing. prosecutors say he created fake Masonic lodges, diverted initiation fees for personal profit, and had once held the thirty second degree in Rochester.
Indianapolis Aug 14 The condition of Ames Whitcomb Riley who suffered a stroke three weeks ago shows improvement with hopes of recovery though a second stroke remains a concern. Carmen's Brotherhood Receives Charter in AFL Move toward amalgamation with the International Association of Car Workers has failed but both unions align with the federation awaiting a later deal.
Baltimore August 13 The direct primary law reshapes the sixteenth district contest with four Republican candidates Pearre Bratchard Warner Blair Hagner and Motter opposition steers toward Pearre while Frederick and Washington counties back Lewis and Etchison for the Democratic nomination both Bryan supporters.
In London Auguit reports Miss Zena Dare, 23, will wed Olver Sylvain Butler Bratt, 29, eldest son of the second Viscount Esher. Bratt, assistant private secretary to Lord Morley, educated at Eton, authored The Reckoning. Dare, sister of Phyllis Dare, has a noted stage career including Babes in the Wood 1899 and The Catch of the Season among others.
New Orleans telegram reports a sleeping car named Sympathy carried only bridal couples on a Louisville and Nashville August excursion from New Orleans to the North. The event occurred amid a rice bombardment scene noted by investigators. Census figures released show population changes in Colorado Englewood City and several towns in New Jersey North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma and Texas with 1910 and 1900 figures.
Wilkas County court sentenced John A. Huffman to five years on a charge raised by his daughter. New developments suggest the six year old allegation that Huffman murdered his wife may be true, as neighbors report pressing claims and the daughter promised to disclose the full affair to protect herself.
A husband struck his wife with a chair, killing her, then misled locals by saying she died from vertigo. In other news, the Army of the Philippines elected officers in Chicago after a three day reunion, with A. H. Anderson as commander in chief and W. H. Keating as vice commander.
Joe Kee, arrested aboard the Saxonia at Cunard docks, confesses to a large scale Chinaman smuggling scheme. Two crewmen William Hackett and James Evans are arrested. Kee alleges a white passenger organized arrivals from England with crew help. Immigration officers recover hidden quarters and evidence on the ship.
John J. Maugham, vice president of Ferguson Contracting Company, a major railway builder in receivership since August 3, was found clinging to a rope under a West Thirty-ninth Street pier. He claimed $40 remained in his pockets and said he had been robbed. A straw hat with initials was found, and he was taken to Bellevue Hospital.
In Newark New Jersey on August 13 special state counsel Louis Hood stated the prosecution of Mrs Carolina B Martin and Mrs Mary Snead would not be affected by Virginia O Wardlaw s death. The three sisters are charged with the crime and aiding and abetting. Autopsy showed Wardlaw died of starvation and she will be buried beside Ocey Snead.
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