Bank doors close as Smithville Bank faces $30,000 shortage
Smithville Bank in Parkersburg area shuts its doors amid a $30,000 shortage alleged by a state bank examiner. Cashier George Crammer is held on $2,000 bond after waiving examination. he denies wrongdoing and cites exchanges in Pittsburg to cover the deficit. Local small depositors fear losses as details unfold.
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Bank Examiner
Grand Jury
Parkersburg
W. Va
Smithville
Ritchie County
George
Crammer
Justice of the Peace
al Wilson
Pittsburg
Firemen Hold Barbecue At National Convention
The Washington Post Roanoke Va Aug 15 The second day of the National Firemen's Convention drew a larger attendance than the first The Oklahoma delegation was in evidence and aims to capture the convention next year Oklahoma City leaders like Nick Grusher planned to control competitive points The Oklahoma group wore uniforms and offered incentives to win prizes Weather delayed travel with 600 delegates unable to attend The afternoon featured an old fashioned Virginia barbecue at Mountain Park Delegates were photographed and several organizational questions were discussed.
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Yell
Washington Post
Roanoke
National Firemen's Convention
Oklahoma
Nck Grusher
Oklahoma City
Wall
Mountain Park
Mail postcards depicting lynching ordered unmailable
Postmaster James H Ramsey of Salisbury was advised by the First Assistant Postmaster General in Washington that the postal cards showing the Gillespie lynching are unmailable. He was instructed to withdraw all such cards from the Salisbury office and send them to Washington. A large quantity of the cards had already been mailed bearing the gruesome photograph.
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Washington Post
Gaindury
James H Ramsey
Salisbury
Washington
Postoffice Department
Explosion Kills Boy in Virginia Thrashing Accident
Special to The Washington Post reports near CarrisonyMe Stafford County Virginia a boiler explosion on a thrashing machine killed 17 year old Norman Fields son of policeman William Fields Washington DC and seriously injured Elmer Fritter. The incident occurred as the youth worked alongside local farmhands.
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Washington
Fredericksburg
Norman Fields
Elmer Fritter
CarrisonyMe
Stafford County
WiLliam Fields
Petersburg Couple wed at residence ceremony in Leesburg
Ford B Parkin ton and Susie Mayes both of Petersburg were married by Ray F W Mowe at the bride’s residence in Leesburg. The ceremony was attended by close relatives and friends, and the couple will reside in Petersburg.
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Petersburg
Berkeley
Cummings
Round Hut
Roanoke
Willam McCue
Samuel McCue
Charlottesvile
Florence Vaneyard
Nicn Oas J Vineyard
Near Vinton
Roanoke County
Hey James W Grubb
Methodist Church
South Vinton
G. Gordon Snead
Christ Church
Little Rock Arch
Atlantic City
McCue
Tidewater Railway
Identified assailant in Pimlico road attack
Baltimore Maryland August fifteenth a colored man William Wright was arrested on suspicion of attacking Mrs Theodore Anders on Pimlico road Monday afternoon He was positively identified by Mrs Anders Wright at a hearing before Justice Bevan at the Arlington police station He was committed for court to Towson jail where he will await trial He is fifty three years old with a wife and five children
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Washington Post
Baltmore
William Wright
Theodore Anders
Pimlico Road
Anders Wright
Bevan
Arington
Anders
Aid
Bevan Wright
Towson
Hag
Glasgow Justice Sustained in Staunton Police Case
Judge George Watts Morris sitting for Judge Holt in Staunton Virginia sustains that Joseph A Glasgow is the lawful pollen justice of Staunton and not Cot H Wayt. The city council lacked appointive power and Glasgow holds the office through the next general election three years hence. Wayt will appeal the decision.
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Appelal
Washington Post
Staunton
George ‘Watts Morris
Charlottesville
Henry Holt
Corporation Court of
Glasgow
Col Wayt
Grocer Holds Mob at Bay at Watermelon Theft
A thousand African Americans gathered outside George W. Wills store on Thirtieth and N streets after a youth was caught stealing four watermelons. Rumor claimed he was locked in a ice box to freeze to death, prompting Wills to arm himself with a shotgun as police arrived to quell the mob and protect the grocer and his property.
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Washington Post
Richmond
George W. Wills
N Streets
Jon Adams
Wills
Gompers Backs Maynard in Virginia Race
Norfolk August 16 Harry L Maynard, incumbent House member and Democratic candidate in the Second Virginia district, receives AFL endorsement. In a letter Samuel Gompers urges nomination and victory, praising Maynard’s past service to labor and the people.
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Washington Post
Norfolk
Harry L. Maynard
Congress
Virginia
American Federation of Labor
Labor Congress
South
Mynard
Federation
Samuel Gompers
Railway Bid Opened for Cameron Street Franchises
The Washington Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway bid $100 in cash and $50.8 yearly for Cameron street use from Payne to the corporation line. August Oehlert was re elected police commissioner, with Carter H L Smith chosen as wood and lumber measurer. The bid, reviewed by both boards, was referred to the streets finance and general laws committee.
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Washington Port
King Street
Alexandria
Washington
Charles Goodrich
Electric Railway
Cameron Street
Snowden
Board of Aldermen
Electric Railway Company
Ferry Wharf
Spring Park
Committee On Streets, Finance, and General Laws
Alexandria Day funds delivered to hospital from Luna Park event
The Alexandria Day committee met with Mayor Pal and reported $612.68 from Luna Park for Alexandria Hospital. Treas. Julian T. Burke to hand funds to hospital trustees. Thanks extended to local groups, Railway head for rain service, park staff, pastors, and Sunday school leaders. The Ramblers Club sailed ten days on Laurenia Bramble. Woodbury ferry service halted due to accident, repairs begun, service to resume soon.
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Luna Park
Alexandria Hospital
Pal
Julian T. Burke
Alexandria Light Infantry
Osceola Tribe of Red Men
Riendship Veteran Firemen's Association
Joseph Colvin
Georer EH Gill
Ramblers’ Club
Laurenia Bramble
James Elliott
Aloyangra
Samuel Hillett
Ervin Roberta
George Roberts
George N. Proctor
James Deane
Howard Harty
John Langley
Clarence Teer
Albert MaCune
Henry Kieherer
Milford Self
Avariet Roberta
Mercer Langley
Harvey Lunsford
Staruader
Woodbury
Pinnege Street
Washington
Tries Death by Own Action in Cell in Richmond Case
Special to The Washington Post Richmond Va Aug 15 Groans and choking sounds drew Police officer Atkinson to the First precinct station at 2 pm Finding 4 E Kessler a prisoner hanging by suspenders from his cell window He was cut down and left in his car two minutes later Kessler torn his trousers in a bid to repeat the attempt He fought the officer and was restrained He faces a charge of assaulting and breaking the arm of John Robinson an aged colored man who threatened to report him for selling whisky on a Sunday Kessler was under influence of cocaine at the time of the attack on the negro
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Waanington
Norfolk
Hunter
Richard Blount
Portsmouth
Washington Post
Richmond
Atkinson
E Kessler
Kessler
John Robinson
Morgantown
W. Va
Carl Grogs
William Grogs
Pennsylvania
Buck Kettlewell
Jef Taylor
Kettlewel
Lynch Threat Colors Maryland County Robbery Case
Richmond Aug 15 Bernard J McNeill and Bushrod Elmore two Richmond boys arrested for robbing Powall store at Mangohick last Saturday confessed at preliminary hearing this morning. Threats of lynching and mounting anger in King William County prompted their attorney to seek governor protection for transfer to Richmond, but the boys remain in King William County.
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Washington Post
Richmond
Bernard J. McNeill
Bushrod Elmore
Richmon
Powall
Mangohick
King William County
C. P. Cardwall
Realizird
King ‘William County
Claims to Own Fort Fort Caswell ejectment suit filed
Thomas M Thompson Jr of Southport sues M F Harmon commanding officer at Fort Caswell in an action of ejectment claiming 3 acres of land where the fort sits. The case will be heard at the next term of the United States Circuit Court. United States District Attorney Harry Skinner has been in town to oversee surveys and maps of the fort.
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Washington Post
Wilmington
N C
Thomas M. Thompson, Jr
Southport
F. Harmon
Fort Caswell
United States Circuit Cort
United States
Harry Skinner
Wife shoots husband in Berkeley Springs dispute
Mrs Rapid Whitlock shot Luther Whitlock in a Berkeley Springs restaurant after a late evening quarrel. He was mortally wounded with the pistol shot to the lower left breast near the spine. Mrs Whitlock was taken into custody. both resided in Hagerstown previously with three children.
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Washington Post
Hagerstown
Berkeley Springs
W. Va
Rapid Whitlock
Luther Whitlock
Whitlock
Whitlocks
Hangerstown
Martinsburg
Berkeley
Bernice Stevens Pleads At Henrico County Jail Desk
Richmond aug 15 Miss Bernice Stevens a pretty young blonde after a brief stay in Henrico County jail went to the county magistrate’s office to answer a charge of improper conduct at West Hampton Park the day before She claimed the arresting officer was harsh and pleaded for leniency She styled herself a friend of Nan Patterson the Florodora girl once linked to Caesar Young’s case and has worked as a reporter and stenographer in various cities She left court in an angry mood and was told to return to her family home.
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Washington Post
Richmond
Bernice Stevens
Henrico County
West Hampton Park
Nan Patterson
Utoeight
Casear Young
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Russian Refugee Weds in Richmond Landmark Ceremony
Special to The Washington Fest reports one of Richmonds largest Jewish weddings at Kenneseth Israel Church. Bride Rosalia Ahoenmaker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Shoe maker. groom Michael Sherif, who fled Russia after the insurrection and has been in the United States one year. They celebrated with a dance and supper at Sanger Hall after the ceremony.
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Washington
Richmond
Kenneseth
Israel
Rosalia Ahoenmaker
Benjamin Shoemaker
Michael Sherif
Sanger Hall
Beuce Leads In Contest At Virginia Ninth Convention
Delegates arriving in Bristol Virginia on August 15 for the Democratic ninth district convention show strong support for Robert P Bruce a former state senator and Wise County commonwealths attorney. Judge Duncan is the Lee County favorite while Byars garners Bristol backing. The convention opens at noon tomorrow with A K Morrison of Bristol selected temporary chairman.
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Virginia
Washington Post
Bristol
Tenn
Ninth
Robert P. Bruce
Commonwealth
Wise County
Duncan
Lee County
Byars
Nooh
A. K Morrison
Judge Morrison
Train Kills Railroad Clerk In Wilmington
A Coast Line Railroad clerk named Alex P. Miller aged about eighteen was killed when run over by a train in Wilmington North Carolina. He boarded a city train to reach the edge and perhaps fell while attempting to jump off. The body was found mangled.
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Washington Post
Wilmington
N. C
Alex PF. Miller
Coast Line
Harrison Promoted at Petersburg Grays Meeting
Special to The Washington vas Petersburg Virginia Aug 15 Lieut Benjamin Harrison elected captain of Company G Seventy second Regiment Virginia Volunteers to succeed Capt H V Parham recently retired Gov Swanson Freeman W. Jones elected first lieutenant of the company
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Washington Vas
Petesburg
Petersborg Grays
Seventy-second Regiment
Virgina
Madman Berner slays, blinds, then dies after escape attempt
In Chicago on August 16 Emil Berner, a Batavia mechanic, killed his brother in law Ernest Franzen by slashing his throat, wounded himself, and died minutes later. While delirious, he attacked his wife and sought his daughter and a boarder, who fled by jumping ten feet to the ground. Earlier the family had noticed no violence. Jimenez, former president of Santo Domingo, sailed to New York August 15 disavowing knowledge of Santo Domingo revolutionists in Porto Rico.
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Emil Berner
Batavia
Til
Ernest Franzen
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Berner
Branzen
J ‘Berner
Jimenez
New York
San Juan
Porto Rico
President Jimenez
Santo Domingo
Coam
Man Jumped From Hotel Window in Baltimore
A 23 year old man identified as F A McCarthy of Washington DC leapt from a hotel bedroom window at Edward Viereck, 310 West Camden Street, to a roof twelve feet below. He sustained a contusion to his right side and was taken to University Hospital in stable condition. Police say he had been drinking and may have misjudged the distance.
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University Hospital
Burglar Shot Through Door Ends Escape
News from Spechal te The Washington Past Spencer North Carolina reports a homeowner fired through a front door at an attempted burglary last night. The assailant fled. a wounded negro reportedly found in a colored settlement near a mule in town. Separate notices list local deaths and brief obituary details from Virginia to West Virginia, including Estelle Welch Dowings Fredericksburg Charles Snellings Front Royal Catlett Wiseman AmuSmith nurse Lucy Bowlen and other residents.
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Washington
Spencer
Loman
Warsaw
Estelle Welch
J W Welch
Dowings
Front Royal
Robert Grant
Linden
Fredericksburg
Charles If Snellings
Maesz
Strasburg Hospital
Hampson Borden
Saumsville
Warfield appoints deputies and a justice of the peace
Gov Warfield issues commissions to Bernard N Baker of Baltimore County as deputy State game warden Isaac Mo Emmett of Montgomery County as deputy State game warden and Harry Hartman as justice of the peace for Washington County The Blue Mountain House wedding featuring Mrs Isabele Sberger and John Edward Forrester is reported plus Catherine Ward Carr and Roger Shaw wed at Rockville Rev Philp McGuire officiates The Washington Post notes a coal mine strike over pay day date and Jamestown Exposition announces Deaf mutes convention in Norfolk Ohio River area reports conclude with John A Hurnton and Bertha Browning wedding in Wellshire with state guests
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Synelel
Washington Fost
Annapolis
Bernard N Baker
Baltimore County
Isaac Mo Emmett
Montgomery County
Harry Hartman
Washington County
Atlantic City
George Shaw
War Department
Washington
Wheeling
W Va
John A Hurnton
Hurriton
West Virginia University
Bertha Browning
University Preparatory
Wellshire
Romance of Yale West Point Romance Ends in Secret Wedding
The Wasnington Post reports the secret marriage of Grace Henrietta Klege comes and John Brohawk, Yale-West Point football romance participants. They wed in Highland Falls, New York, by Rev Withe Ridgeway of the Methodist Wyiscopal Church. She returned home, he back to duty at the Military Academy.
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Baltimore
Grace Henrietta Klegecome
Andrew Klesecome
John Brohawk
Lirarian
Miliary Academy
Mest Port
Withe Ridgeway
Methodist Wyiscopal Church
Highland Falls
Military Academy
West Indian stowaways jump overboard in Newport News storm
Four stowaways on the British steamship Craigearn leapt into the harbor during a heavy storm near Newport News. Henry Thomas reached shore and was arrested. he believes the others were drowned. The Craigearn heads to Baltimore after burning woodwork for coal shortage earlier.
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West Indien Metro
Craigearn
Henry Thomas
Wee
Balthmore
Dalquiri
West Virginia sheriffs form organization amid commission debate
In Huntington WV on August 15 forty of WV’s fifty five county sheriffs met and debated sheriff commissions. They plan efforts to restore commissions in 1905 legislation. The association elected D H Taylor of Wheeling as president J Melton of Charleston as vice president D N Means of Gratton as secretary and H B Purbee of Fairmont as treasurer.
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Charleston
D. N. Means
Gratton
H. B. Purbee
Fairmont
Judge Martins Recovery Progress Reported in Maryland
Judge William R Martin of Maryland shows rapid improvement while at Preston R Spring’s home in Long Island. He can sit up converse and progresses toward recovery, with Dr L Munroe noting steady gains. Other items: Jugendbund League youths arrive in Annapolis for the German Lutheran convention. A torpedo flotilla sails from Norfolk to Newport News to join Admiral Evans, then to Oyster Bay for Roosevelt’s fleet review. Darnestown holds reunion of Arrew Small Academy pupils with notable Maryland Virginia figures. Robert Bell, cook aboard the schooner William H Whiting, again attempts suicide by leaping into the Basin and is pulled from the water.
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Maryland
Washington
Hampton
Long Island
William R Martin
Preston R. Spring
L . Munroe
Martin
Norfolk
Third Torpedo Flotilla
Tingey
de Long
Stockton
Blakeley
Wilkes
Norfolk Navy Yard
Newport
R. 1
Evans
Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Cure At Hand With Cuticura Remedies
A reader from Walnut Kan. credits Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills with a complete cure after two years of an itchy skin eruption. He studied the Cuticura book, bought the trio, and reports relief from the first application and full recovery after two sets. He offers the letter for publication.
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Cutlture
Drover
N. Johnson
Maple Grove Farm
Walnut
Third National Bank to Open 24 Hours Daily
Baltimore on August 15 reports the board of directors will run Third National Bank as a day-and-night bank starting September 1. The institution will be open twenty four hours each day year round.
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Baltimore
Third National Bank Today
Itch Itch Itch Scratca Itch Cure Soap Cleared by Baths
A fragment claims millions suffer itching and rashes. promises relief by warm baths with Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment plus Cuticura Resolvent Pills. Mentions physicians fail and broad global use with various mispelled product references.
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