Virginia Statue of Washington Unveiled at Versailles Palace
At Versailles on August 18 a bronze copy of Houdon’s Washington statue was dedicated in the palace, with Lafayette, Rochambeau, and French officials attending. Virginia sent the sculpture to France, honoring Washington and the Franco American alliance, with Lafayette’s memory honored and a sealed list of American officers placed in the pedestal. Ambassador Jusserand accepted on behalf of France, praising enduring fraternal ties and the historic treaty site.
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Washington
Lafayette
Suffern
Ambassador Bacon
America
Rochambeau
United States
Nathan B Scott
West Virginia
Teen Brun
James Mann
Virginia Commission
Menna
George Washington
Mann
France
Virginia
Cornwallis
Yorktown
de Grasse i
St. Simon
Capitol
Commonwealth
Jefferson
Republic
Jean Antoine Houdon
Halsey
Don P. Halsey
Virgina
Jusserand
Maichon
Gen. Washington
Count Rochambeau
d’Estaing
de Grasse
Great Britain
Cic Scynce
Marquis de Segur
Bacon
Col. Mann
President Fallieres
Rambouillet
Multiple Obituaries and Funeral Notices Fragmented 1910 1916
Fragmented obituaries and funeral notices from August 1910 to August 1916. Listings include LIMAN Punerat DELLA Colns COONES HELEN JEANNETTE COVELL Garrett Callahan and other relatives. Dates, addresses, and cemetery details appear with names and burial times. several items reference Saint Patrick's, Calvary Cemetery, and Shrine of the Sacred Heart.
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Liman
Idah
Sermuel Altman Punerat
Twenty-Second Street
el Paso
Tex
Lochport
Cotties
Yih
Siath Street
Della Fi
W Jesse Colns
St Patrick's Church
Tal
Waom
Helen Jeannette
Pelyed
Calvary Cemetery
New Oo Covell
P Street
Bernard A
Joseph M
Mary
Garrett Mee Callahan
Asgel
Pela
Loumeru
Holy Trinity Church
L Nom
Elal Road
Yost
Madison SN
Charles Harbis Hives
Entral Theological Seminary
St Paul's Church
Newark
In Memoriam Crossen Husband Earnest A Crossen
In memory of my beloved husband Earnest A Crossen who dies one year ago today a loving husband and affectionate father we miss him by his wife.
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Crossen
Hagerstown Fair Association Plans Septembers Banquet
Western Maryland News reports the Hagerstown Fair Association will host its stockholders and advisory-board banquet on September 10. The 24th annual convention of the Washington County Woman’s Christian Temperance Union met in Williamsport with State president Mrs. Mary Hastup giving an address and a silver medal contest featuring nine competitors. Peach-picking season is active in Washington County with growers facing labor shortages and high wages. In Raleigh, owners of two fire-damaged dwellings seek nearly 27000 in damages from the city due to alleged fire-alarm system neglect.
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Washington County
Methodist Church
Williamsport
Mary Hastup
Washington Pos
Raleigh
N. C
Potomac Curio Fortuna to be Remodeled for Freight and Passenger Traffic
Washington Post reports the stern wheel steamer Fortuna, a Potomac curiosity, has been towed from Aquia Creek to Alexandria shipyard for repairs after a Philadelphia trust company seized it for debt. Built in Chicago in 1903, the Fortuna has served as steam houseboat, freight and passenger boat, and a Norfolk to Carolina sounds route vessel. It is expected to be remod eled and made faster, then relaunched for freight and passenger traffic.
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Washington Post Bureau
King Street
Alexandria
Potomac
Aquia Creek
Philadelphia Trust Company
Chicago
Mississippi
Florida
Delaware River
Norfolk
Carolina Sounds
Fire Laddies Election Delegates for Virginia Convention
The Relief Hook and Ladder Company elected delegates to the Virginia State Volunteer Firemen's convention to be held next week in this city. The lineup includes J H Trimyer F C Spinks EB Steuart Smith and Thomas A Fisher as delegates with alternates W H Wildt J W May A C Hullings and Charles Clarkson and Capt A M Latham as representative vice president. The company will march in the parade next Thursday led by a unit from the U S Marine Band and about 900 volunteer firemen from the state are expected. Folmar Ticer Miss Adam Ticer and C Louis Folmar wed at Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church in Washington. The Rev J F Wendell officiated. Honeymoon to Niagara Falls Toronto and the Thousand Islands. Pythians to Convene Oriental Lodge Knights of Pythias will hold a city convention tonight with Maj J Thomas Herbert of Washington and other members from Maryland expected. Grand Lecturer EH R Boyer plans a Ninth District lodge convention in Alexandria in early October. George H Hawkins to leave Southern Railway for Belle-Pre Bouile. George H Tyler transferred from Armour icing to Armour plant in Chicago.
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Virginia State Volunteer Firemen’s
J H. Trimyer
F. C. Spinks
EB. Steuart Smith
Thomas A. Fisher
W. H. Wildt
J. W. May
A. C Hullings
Charles Clarkson
A. M. Latham
United States Marine Band
Committee On Entertainment
Folmar
Ticer
Adam
C. Louis
Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church
Washington
J. F. Wendell
Alice M. Arnold
Harry BE
Raoks
Niagara Falls
Toronto
Thousand Islands
Pythians
Oriental Lodge
Knights of Pythiss
Maj. J. Thomas Herbert
Order
Maryland
EH. R. Boyer
Alexandria
Virginia briefs sketch Salem church cornerstone ceremony
The cornerstone laying for a new Episcopal church in Salem is set for next Sunday afternoon. Rev J Scott Meredith will be assisted by Revs J W Hubbard Archer Booker J W Co Johnson Archdeacon Gordon G Smead and Lieut Col Patrick of Norfolk the US engineer.
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Salem
J. Scott Meredith
J. W Hubbard
Archer Booker
J. W. Co. Johnson
Roanoke
Gordon G. Smead
Missiissippi
Col. Patrick
Norfolk
United States
Petersburg
Appomatto
Virginia Weddings Feature Montague and Radford Union
In Fredericksburg at St Stephen's Episcopal Church Charles Dele van Montague and Miss Selene Norvell Radford tied the knot with Rev Charles Scott officiating. In Leesburg Ernest E McCauley wed Susie Woodward at St James Church rectory with Rev W H Burkhardt presiding.
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Fredericksburg
Charles Delevan Montague
Selene Norvell Radford
Lucie Randolph Chambliss Radford
Bedford County
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
Charles Scott
Leesburg
Ernest E McCauley
Susie Woodward
Loudoun County
St James’ Church
St James’ Church, This Town
W. H. Burkhardat
Navy report details Norfolk race riot arrests after Jeffries Johnson bout
Rear Admiral Marshall forwarded to the Navy Department a Norfolk riot report naming ten or twelve sailors punished in city courts for July 4 disturbances after the Jeffries Johnson fight. One marine had no role in the race trouble, which involved only bluejackets. The Navy will accept the Norfolk punishments and found no marines involved in the melee.
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Norfolk
William Alexander Marshall
Norfolk Navy Yard
Navy Department
United States
W. H. Ellis
Wall Street
New York
White House
Brownaville
Tex
Winthrop
Marshall
Death by Own Action Here Mrs Steel Suicide
Mrs George W. Steele, 29, wife of a Seaboard Air Line engineer, died at home in Raleigh North Carolina after swallowing thirteen tablets of bichloride of mercury. Husband gave antidotes but she passed away. She left notes about her two children and had sought TB treatment from a specialist whose diagnosis was later challenged by other doctors leading to a medical society suspension.
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Washington
Releigh
N. C
George W. Steele
Seaboard Air Line
Hero Head
Medical
Striking B and O Machinists Vote On Proposal
In Wheeling West Virginia the general committee of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway and Company strikers has decided to submit the railroad’s compromise proposition to a vote of the strikers after a lengthy conference. The committee split on the plan but its exact terms will not be disclosed. The strike has endured fourteen months.
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Washington
Wheeling
W. Va
Baltimore and Ohio Railry and Company
West Virginia Church Call and County Officials Change
In Huntington the First Congregational Church named Rev. J L Hoyt of Hudson Ohio to fill the vacancy left by Rev John McCarthy. Harrison county court discharged Coroner Camp and Janitor Floyd Robinson for incompetency. Dr S M Mason named coroner and Charles W Thomas janitor. The Tay lor County Veterans Association held its second annual reunion in Grafton, continuing today. A camp fire at Brinkman Opera House featured Rep Sturgiss. An old Morgan town gas well on Ruble's Run resumed gas flow. Heirs of Judge McComas plan suit to recover 350 acres in Lincoln county, arguing mineral rights were reserved. Peach shipments from Hampshire and Mineral counties were heavy. Baltimore and Ohio handles Romney branch traffic by special trains. An Elkins electrician, E A Mhles, feared after stepping on a bear while blackberrying near Montes. B&O Railroad plans Paw Paw branch extension to a new mine by Virginia and Pittsburg Co near Rivesville, below Fairmont on the Monongahela.
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Taylor County Veterans’ Association
Grafton
Brinkman Opera House
Sturgiss
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Paw Paw
Virginia and Pittsburg Company
Rivesville
Fairmont
Monongahela River
Obituary notices from Hagerstown Maryland August 18
Mrs. Rachel Hoffmaster 77 widow of Washington Hoffmaster died at her daughter’s home near Brownsville after general debility. Survived by seven children. Dunkard Church member. Frederick C. Nokes 21 died of typhoid fever at Brownsville, survived by wife Miss Smith of Trego who he married two months ago. James Williams 66 died of kidney and heart disease in Sylvan near Hancock, survived by wife and two daughters. Also note advertising for The Sunday Post serial “The Man is Black” to be continued weekly.
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Hagerstown
Rachel Hoffmaster
Washington Hoffmaster
Isaac Carter
Brownsville
Dunkard Church
Frederick C. Nokes
Miss Smith
Trego
James Williams
Sylvan
Hancock
Virginia Tennessee Industrial and Agricultural Association Formed
The Virginia Tennessee Industrial and Agricultural Association was organized in Bristol on Aug 18 with officers led by President General FR. A. Ayers of Big Stone Gap and delegates from Abingdon Johnson City Creston and Rotherwood. Judges Knapp and Martin from Washington spoke for the Farmers Cooperative demonstration work, with Hutton of Abingdon and Dr. Fletcher of Blacksburg also present.
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Washington
Bristol
Tenn
Virginia-Tennessee Industrial and Agricultural Association
A. Ayers
Big Stone Gap
W. E
Mingen
Abingdon
Henry Roberts
Capt
H. B. Clay
Rotherwood
John Thomas
Creston
N. C
A. L. Shipley
Jonesboro
F. M. Runnels
J. O. Lewis
Johnson City
Joseph J. Kelly
Corporation Court
Bradford L. Knapp
C. B. Martin
Frank B. Hutton
S. W. Fletcher
Virginia Experiment Station
Blacksburg
LICENSE BUT NO WEDDING
Special to The Washington Post from Charleston West Virginia on August 18 reports Miss Mabel Wallace and Ed Humbler Jr having reached the brink of marriage but halted by parental intervention. The bride is only 16 and the father halted the ceremony by compelling the groom to return the license amid concerns over the youth.
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Washington Post
Charleston
W. Va
Mabel Wallace
Ed Humbler, Jr
Wallace
Death of J. R. Rutty in Gold Hill at 74
J R Rutty of Gold Hill Rowan County died at home Wednesday night after a long illness. He was 74 and survived by his wife two sons and three daughters. In Salisbury Walter George Newman of New York president of the Gold Hill mines faced a speeding charge but the case was dropped after cross examination. Frank Saffit of Concord faced perjury and concealed weapon charges in a separate Salisbury proceeding. the perjury charge was dropped and the concealed weapon charge substituted. The bride returned to her parents.
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J. R. Rutty
Gold Hill
Rowan County
Salisbury
Walter George Newman
New York
B.B. Miller
New Yorker
A. A. Bost
China Grove Township
Frank Saffit
Concord
Virginia Obituary Roundup from Aug 18
Obituaries from Leesburg Harrisonburg Fredericksburg Salem Petersburg Richmond Danville and Petersburg note deaths of Ida H Rogers Anna Rebecca Figgatt Benjamin Garrison Mrs L Phillips William N Friend E T Lacy James Brewer John A Price and others. Ages range from 19 to 70 with survivors including spouses parents and multiple siblings. Military service noted for Brewer and Price as Confederate veterans.
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Leesburg
Misa Ida H. Rogers
Dover
Lucy Hayes
Benjamin Garrison
Onville
Stafford County
Salem
L. Phillips
Jefferson Hospital
Roanoke
Charles J. Phillips
Petersburg
William N. Friend
Alfred Friend
Richmond
E. T. Lacy
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Danville
James Brewer
Goldsboro
N. C
John A. Price
National Mercantile Agencies elect officers in Richmond
Richmond August 18 The National Association of Mercantile Agencies elected Wm H Burr of Rochester NY as president H A Appling Louisville Ky as first vice president C O Wilcox New Orleans La as second vice president and Wm P Thompson New York as secretary Minneapolis was chosen as the next meeting place.
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Richmond
National Association of Mercantile Agencies
Wm. H. Burr
Rochester
N. Y
H. A. Appling
Louisville, Ky
C. O. Wilcox
New Orleans
Wm. P. Thompson
New York
Minneapolis
Attack Over Indorsed Note In West Virginia
Moorefield West Virginia August 1 P J J Walker of Hardy county is under arrest charged with threatening to shoot John Miley and Miley's son at Moorefield after indorsing a $900 note. The bank held the note and warned of its due date. Walker allegedly waylaid the pair on their return from Virginia, threatening with a double barrel shotgun and demanding money.
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Maker and Son
Washington Post
Moorefield
W. Va
Miley
Virginia
Staunton Faces Hole With Rock Foundation Found
Staunton Virginia August 18 committees to fix land cave in Town council plan to pump water from the hole under the fire house No fire house remains burned soundings show rock foundation and a narrow chasm exposed when water is removed No further trouble expected business returns to normal
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Staunton
Charges Bride With Theft In Gaithersburg Case
Mrs Norman Belt of Gaithersburg faced a larceny charge in a Rockville police court after her husband swore out a warrant over a check she reportedly failed to hand over. Judge Justice Reading refused to try the case and condemned the husband's action, stirring local indignation toward the dispute.
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Washington Post
Rockville
Norman Belt
Gaithersburg
Reading
Galthersburg
Griffin Arrest Ends Baileys Manhunt After Tragic Killing
Zeb Griffin was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Land in Midlesex and brought to Wilson after a posse hunted him near Baileys along the Norfolk and Southern Railroad. Griffin, charged with killing Calvin Thorna last Sunday in Old Fields township, had earlier gone to Norfolk to fetch wages due from the railroad company.
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Washington Post
Wilson
N. C
Baileys
Norfolk and Southern
Zeb Griffin
Calvin Thorna
Old Fields Township
Land
North County
Midlesex
Griffin
Norfolk
Poison for Preacher's Horse at Grindstone Hill
Hagerstown Maryland August reports an apparent poison attempt on the horse of Rev. J J Minmeyer the deposed Grindstone Hill Lutheran pastor. A bag of paris green was found in his stable trough amid ongoing church disciplinary actions.
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Washington Post
Hagerstown
J. J. Minmeyer
Grindstone Hill Lutheran Church
Paris Green
Minmeyer
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