Sunday law crackdown nets dozens of violators in Alexandria
The Retail Merchants Association seizure reports fourteen milk dealers twelve railroad workers four druggists four newsboys three Black residents two liverymen and other shop staff fined or placed in custody for staying open on Sunday. Arrests spanned street vendors to factory workers as police prepared a large Monday docket.
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Washington Post Bureau
King Street
Aiexandria
Retail Merchants Association
J Birron
J E, Baker
T. J. Cole
Winey Blunt
Christopher Lyles
Ro Finrence
Eldsward Clark
Thomas Tayior
Ben. Brooks
L. A Popkins
Woolf
BE. E. Reed
BR. Grover
Creerge C Smith
Tayles
al Ten
Flencher Smith
Roberts
Nicholson
Arengtn Clark
Great
Smith
Washington
Atlantic City
Randall
Ditl
Arrowsmith
Harry Randall
T. V. Arrowsmith
Stra Arrowsmith
Harry Rad
River View Wharf
7Th ST
Alexandria
Colonial Beach
Accidental Neck Break Darkens Newport News Report
Special to The Washington Post Newport News Virginia August 14 1944 a negro man named Cobbell fell down stairs early today and broke his neck police arrested his wife on suspicion of pushing him but the coroner jury exonerated her. Also Clarke Lumber Co organized in Hampton with 20000 capital to consolidate J T Howard Hampton plant and Clarke Brothers Tampico Petersburg. Peters burg Knights of Pythias encampment left for Louisville Captain A R Moody leading twenty two men. a body found drowned in Bakers Creek Gordonsville. a furniture warehouse fire destroyed the storage building of S Elliott on Hast Tabbe street Petersburg.
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Washington Post
Newport News
Cobbell
Clarke Lumber Company
Hampton
C. C. Clarke
N.C. Clarke
John F. Howard
J. T. Howard
Clarke Brother
Tampico
Petersburg
Petersburg Company
Knights of Pythias
A. R. Moody
Louisville
United States
Creek
Gordonsville
Jack Hughes
Bakers Creek
Waslington
of & S. Elliott
Incendiary Fire Damages Furniture Warehouses in Town
A blaze yesterday morning destroyed two tobacco warehouses and a furniture warehouse in the locality. The furniture warehouse held furniture, mattresses, wagons, and hay. Fire officials deem the cause incendiary and are investigating suspected arson.
Alexander Cochran Killed at Wheeling Station
Alexander Cochran seventy five prominent Quaker City magnate killed in Wheeling after being crushed between a freight train and platform. He dictated his will shortly before death leaving estate to his wife and a share to his married daughter in Massachusetts. He owned a bank hotel sawmill glass factory and other businesses.
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Wheeling
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Alexander Cochran
Ohio
Quaker City
City Hospital
Baltimore and Ohio
City
BR. J. Heed
Massachusetts
Dynamited Home of Coal Supt as Miners Suspected
Unknown assailants tried to kill Austen Coal and Coke Company superintendent F M Herchler by dynamiting his Austen Preston County residence. The blast tore through the floor and ceiling but the family survived, save for a bruised infant. Police seek suspects amid ongoing wage strike tensions.
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Washington Post
Wheeling
W. Va
F. M. Herchler
Austen Coal and Coke Company
Austen
Preston County
Tobacco Offerings Small on Danville Market This Week
On August 14 Danville Virginia reports very small offerings of old tobacco mostly inferior grades. Receipts are often poor and damaged with limited good wrappers and prices generally well maintained. New primings fetch full value amid rains feared to injure crops across the bright belt and eastern Carolina. Petersburg notes little loose selling as old crop sold earlier. new crop looks well though recent rains caused some disease in Brunswick County. A large acreage is planted and a good season could yield a large crop.
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Washington Post
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Bright Belt
Carolinas
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Petersburg
Brunswick County
Court Martial at Camp Delays in Ocean View Drill Recap
The Seventy first Regiment broke camp at Ocean View after a week of hard drilling and target practice. A general court martial heard Capt. G W Fitchett of Newport News on charges from Capt. B W Solomonsky of Norfolk. findings were sent to the governor in Richmond for approval. The unit packed up 400 tents in record time following parade.
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Washington Post
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Ocean View
G. W. Fitchett
Newport News
B. W. Solomonsky
Richmond
Sailor Vessel Sunk To Save It From Fire At Norfolk
The schooner Josep Glaverri bound for Savannah from Long Island caught fire in the hold due to heat in fish scrap cargo. Fire engines failed to control the blaze. the Merritt & Chapman tug Rescue and the navy tug Mohawk assisted. To save the vessel the ship was sunk after removing much of the cargo onto barges. Capt Hewitt commanded the vessel which had been at sea twenty three days.
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Thurman Suit Settled in Virginia Out of Court
In Staunton Aug 14 Mrs Olivia Thurman of Bristol Tennessee settled a $30,000 damages suit against her husband Gen Charles Thurman of Berryville Virginia. The petition charged false imprisonment in the local insane asylum though she was not insane. A divorce suit from Berryville was also to be settled out of court. The Thurmans were prominent in Virginia and the Southwest and the expected trial drew much attention.
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Staunton
Olivia Thurman
Bristol
Engine Demolishes Bridge Breaks Through Floor
The engine of J M Newcomer drawing a thrashing outfit broke through a flooring and the engine crewman George Shockey was crushed between the engine cab and the bridge railing, rescued by two workers, with the fall igniting a can of oil on the bridge near Waynesboro Maryland. The report also covers Rockingham Horse Show entries at Harrisonburg with contestants from Fairfax Charlottesville Winchester New Market Manassas and Giles County, and a Parkersburg incident where Alice Pentley aged forty swallowed carbolic acid and died after lying by the Ohio River following a quarrel with her lover.
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J. M. Newcomer
Antietam Creek
Waynesboro
George Shockey
Shockey
Harrisonburg
Fairfax
Charlottesville
Winchester
New Market
Manassas
Giles County
Cameron Run Hunt Club
Alexandria
Gov. Willard
Wraruusien
Parkersburg
W. V
Alice Pentley
Ohio River
Not Congressional Timber Decline to Run in Md District
Spencer C Jones and Battersly W Talbott of Rockville Md will not seek the Democratic congressional nomination in the district. Bowie F Waters has been rumored but declines. Col Buchanan Schley of Washington County is suggested. Montgomery County may lack a candidate. Republicans expect Col George A Pearre to win easily despite district discontent.
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Battersly W. Talbott
Washington Post
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Bowie F. Waters
Waters
Frederick
Montgomery
Buchanan Schley
Washington County
George A. Pearre
Col. Pearre
Post Office Opens in Cumberland With Modern Plant
Cumberland's new post office began use today under Postmaster William Pearce and staff. The building features a modern, well lit interior with tiled floors and metropolital ambiance. The first mail canceled was a souvenir card to Albert Eyler, signed by Pearce and Assistant Postmaster Shuck. Nearby Hagerstown reports a church call to Rev. Dr. Conrad Clever. Eight hundred coke ovens will be built by the H Frick Coke Co at Yorks Run near Morgantown, W Va.
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Albert Eyler
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Washington Post
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Christ’s Reformed Church
Salem Reformed Church
Conrad Clever
Third Reformed Church of
Baltimore
Potomac Synod
Clever
George Albert Snyder
Catawba College
Newton
N. C
August Sale of Floor Coverings Updated
August sale of carpets rugs and mats advertised with prices stated as lower than usual. Store offers to hold purchases with a small deposit for fall delivery by W B Moses & Sons on F Street at Eleventh. Robbers frustrated because two pairs of trousers saved an elderly Georgetown man from theft by three hold up men near the canal. Henry Holmes, warned by luck, explained the mast pocket hidden double pair prevented plunder. Police detained three suspects Ysaac Turner Frank Harris and Edward Matthews as Henry recounted the incident.
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Henry Holmes
Georgetown
Henry
Thirty-third Street
Ysaac Turner
Frank Harris
Edward Matthews
How to Be Beautiful In Mind And Body
An article from the Chicago Chronicle argues that beauty comes from health and mindset, not cosmetics. It cites H L Piner on beautifying the face through harmony of mind and spirit, citing examples from Adelina Patti and Christian Scientists, and stresses exercise, rest, and joyous recreation as essential to beauty.
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Chicago Chronicle
H. L. Piner
Adelina Patti
Negro Carpenter Is Arrested for False Pretenses
George Reaves, a 29 year old carpenter, was arrested by headquarters detectives at 11 last night on false pretenses charges. Charles J. West reported Reaves took $2 claiming it was deposited with District Commissioners as a guaranty for repairs to a stable behind West's house. A second item notes a fire caused by a defective flue at Maria Shivering’s home on 213 Trial Court Northeast. Engine Company 6 extinguished the blaze with $75 loss and no insurance.
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Alonzo Apel
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Herchler
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Wounded man refuses details after assault at Second Street
John R. Turley of 106 Sixth Street Southeast was treated at Providence Hospital for a head wound after saying he was struck by a man at a Southeast house. He offered no further particulars. Source: Chicago News.
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