Virginia rally push for better roads and bridges
Messrs Saunders and Smith of Mecklenburg County Virginia travel to Washington to promote a state road movement. A good roads rally will be held near Fairfax Court House on Sept 16 with speakers Gov Swanson William Hodges Mann and others. The effort seeks state wide highway and bridge improvements and farm land development.
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Washington Post
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Virgina
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Alexandria
Lassiter
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Culpeper Farmers Rally For County Road Building
The Culpeper county farmers held the annual reunion and praised The Washington Post and Richmond Times Dispatch for pushing highway improvements. Speakers urged a countywide toll free route from Washington to Richmond, noting many roads are contracted or funded by counties, with a possible bond issue planned for late fall.
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Washington Post
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Connecion
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Wasington Post
Richmond Times Dispatch
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Suffragette Protest Sparks Confrontation at Downing Street
Eight suffragists, including Despard and Mrs Saunders, were arrested at Downing Street amid a picket outside the prime minister's residence. Earlier, Mie Westenholz disrupted a meeting, denouncing Denmark's leaders and challenging deputies in a tense session. In other notes, 83-year-old Martin wed 66-year-old Samantha Nei, the county's oldest marriage license grant.
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Tadis
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Wile Westenholz
Despard
Saunderon
Downing Street
Yesterdas
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Tsaw Mart
Walnut Hills
Samantha M Nei
Martin
This County
Births and Names Across City Records
Health office birth records list numerous infant names with parent pairs and addresses, including Henry and Florence Pounsterr, Fedorick W and Sea D Carroll, Lucy E Miller, and a long list of children and guardians. Several adults and youths are noted with ages and locations such as 248 Pa ave ne, 67 years, George Lockwond, 95 French st, and 74 Actual Saur af Host. The fragment includes hospital mentions and various residents from Catharpis and Baltimore, with scattered titles and clerical references.
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Duckett
George Lockwond
Joye
Crocker
Corcoran
Grars
Young
Sear Seraphion & Brown
Mt Veraun Apts
Saur
Jumea Nognas Childrens Hospital
Warren Armield
Berryville Horse Show Ends With Strong Attendance
Berryville Virginia August 19 The third and last day of the Berryville horse show drew a large crowd. Secretary Charles Mullikin ensured smooth events. Mrs John S. Goldsmith won praise in the ladies driving class. Miss Cherbonnier and Keswick E H Wetherbee received top awards in hunters and blue ribbons were common for Grandslam and other entries.
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Berryville
Charles Mullikin
John 8
Goldsmith
C Herbonnier
HB Gilpin
Keswick E H Wetherbee
A P Gsaborne
Weather Conditions and Disturbances Across Atlantic Regions
Weather bulletin from the Weather Bureau Washington notes a disturbance in the western Caribbean center near the Yucatan Peninsula moving west northwest toward the Bahamas and offshore of the south Atlantic coast. It forecasts little temperature change regionally with showers in the southern Atlantic and Rocky Mountain areas and general fair conditions elsewhere.
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Attamis
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False Arrest Suit Filed By Soldieret Home Farm Manager
Manager of Soldieret Home Farm near Hampton sues Chamberlain Hotel management for 12000 dollars claiming false arrest. Devier, recently jailed on a theft complaint, was acquitted of hotel silverware theft charges after allegedly taking silverware from the Chamberlain. Samuel A Matlack, longtime Rockville resident and Ridgely Brown Camp lieutenant commander, died aged 81 at his Rockville home, survived by daughters Agnes and Miss Vamle Matlack.
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Rorkvilles
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Eevans
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Rockville
Pinchot Will Not Resign And Price Comments
President Pinchot will not resign despite rumors. Price defends Pinchot, praising his work and noting broad public support. He avoids Alaska coal case specifics but emphasizes forest protection for national interests. Price outlines how power development is managed in national forests and rejects private monopolies.
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United States
Divorce for Mrs Emery in Baltimore society circles
Mrs Mary T Emery, whose marriage to Wilber Bosley Emery shocked society when public in March, was granted an absolute divorce and allowed to resume her maiden name Mar T Davidson. They wed October 24 at a Hoboken precinct and kept secret for five months. they separated June 2 and she filed July 9. Emery was found injured near his home, unable to name attackers, leaving the assault a mystery.
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Woman III of Pellagra College Reunion at Pen Mar
Special to The Washington Post reports a college reunion of the Juniate College Huntingdon faculty and alumni at Pen Mar Maryland with about 300 attendees. A local case of pellagra is described involving a woman near Mercy Hospital and linked to an outbreak pattern and possible corn-based diet.
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Former Martinsburg Mayor George D Whitson Dies at 71
Martinsburg obituaries report former mayor and noted architect George D Whitson died at home aged 71 of heart disease. A Perryville Maryland native who moved to West Virginia in 1858 he served in Stonewall Jacksons brigade during the Civil War. Surviving are his widow and four children.
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George D Whitson
Perryville
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Stonewall’ Jacksons
Dennis H Barry
Joan Barfry
Williamsport
John Barry
Baltimore
Thomas Barry
Waste
Petersburg
Gustavus Adolphus Erdman
Sysonby Gardens
Dinwiddie County
South Dakota
Germany
Roanoke
Kate Purdy
Lynenburs
J Clinton Kinner
Jefferson Hospital
Virgina Langhorne
Maurice Langhorne
Winchester Va
Nina
Kiger Shearer
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Winchester
Brights
Charles MecCullum
Bristol
Aunis Gammon
Slater
L. H Gammon
Virginia
In Favor of More Representation Planks At Convention
Reports from Annapolis describe Anne Arundel delegates backing four planks for increased representation for Baltimore city at the state convention in Baltimore. Local Republicans favored the nomination of Judges Forsythe and Brashear, renominated by Democrats. A separate item notes a lineman electrocuted while near Camden Station.
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Camden Station
Wright Brothers Sue for Injunction Over Patent Dispute
The Wright brothers filed suit in the United States district court against the Aeronautic Society of New York seeking to halt use and display of a machine bought from Glenn Curtiss and the Curtiss Company under a guarantee it did not infringe Wright patents. They seek an accounting, damages, and destruction of the machine, with Curtiss to defend. The case centers on the Golfen Plus exhibit machine and could set a test standard for patent coverage in early aviation, impacting the future of aerial navigation.
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Leading Woman Named Correspondent in Washington Post Case
The Washington Post reports Leopold W Harburger to testify in the divorce suit of Alice McAloon against William McAloon. McAloon reveals actor Andrew Mack’s involvement and that May Stevenson used as Kate Humphrey is the named correspondent. The couple, married in Boston on December 2, 187?, have one child, Francis Aborn, and allege the husband left her six years ago.
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Rules on P. J. Shipments Payn Tariff Free Entry
Acting Secretary Reynolds told San Francisco customs that Philippine shipments transhipped via Hong Kong or another foreign port do not qualify for free entry under the Payne tariff law. The rule requires direct or in bond movement from the Philippines to the United States for tariff exemption.
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Insurance firms sued for 900000 antitrust penalties in Arkansas
Five insurance companies with total capital around 156990 UK operating in Arkansas entered a rate pact on December 3 1918. Newport based attorney Jerfers filed suit in Newport alleging the 900000 penalties under Arkansas antitrust law. The state claims the combination existed before the law passed and continued to dominate organized insurers in the state.
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Preaches And Disappears In Detroit Church
Reform era style item: an associate pastor at North Woodward Avenue Congregational Church in Detroit vanished after delivering a sermon on August 1. Local authorities and church members are seeking his whereabouts amid unsettled rumors and a possible connection to recent events.
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Virginia briefers report odd ballot result and abduction hint
Christiansburg voters weighed a three to fourteen band issue rejection amid unusual notes on an abduction case involving Mimmos la year. RJ Wright recused by Joan Nimmo. Bristol company formed to run a wholesale grocery with 159000 capital. CC English president, J W Umstadtt secretary and treasurer. West Virginia financiers shown interest. Cipriano Castro formerly of Venezuela departed for Solares resort. seven miles from Santander for a cure.
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