Militia Battle Rages In Monocacy Valley Parade Drill
Frederick Md Aug 2 After a dramatic two hour mock battle in the Monocacy valley the District militia organized two rival forces Blues and Reds clashed near Yellow Springs under general observation by army officers and spectators atop houses. Col William E Harvey led the Blues and Col Charles H Durand commanded the Reds as wireless signals and field hospitals operated amid rain soaked fields. The day ended with troops marching back to Camp Ordway and coffee and sandwiches provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saif
Frederick
Reds
Blues
Harries
United States Army
National Guard
William E. Harvey
Army of the Blues
Charles H. Durand
Catoctin
Col. Harvey
Blue Army
Gen. Harries
Red Army
Catootin
Pleasant Hill Church
Signal Corps
Little Church
Col
Utes
Blue
Yellow Springs
Camp Ordway
George R. Fates
Given Pintervala
Beng
Marcus D. Cronin
Col. Durand
Cornwallis
Yorktown
Washington
William E H. Harvey
H. Turnure
Tropica
Field Artillery
Catoctin Turnpike
Hyattstown
Porpa
Ely
H. C. TALBERT A WITNESS IN JUVENILE COURT CASE
Warren C. Talbert of 2813 M Street NW stood in juvenile court Thursday on nonsupport charges, not Harry C. Talbert of 78 Eleventh Street SE as previously reported. Warren paid $8 weekly support after releasing his wife’s rent and diamond ring to Judge Callan, who freed him. Harry C. Talbert, a prominent local businessman, attended briefly but could not stay through the trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren C. Talbert
M Street Northwest
Harry C. Talbert
Eleventh Street
Warren Talbert
Duvente Court
Callan
Armed stranger on Bladensburg road startles car travelers
A. Gacy Carter and a companion are halted by a man with a pistol on Bladensburg road near the District Reform School. The stranger spoke no word, showed no gesture, and vanished into the shadows leaving Carter cautious and puzzled. Police note differing theories, including a possible failed robbery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Gacy Carter
Bladensburg Road
Bladensburg
District Reform School
Gary Carter
Mr. Carter
Porsible
Baby pin lodged in throat baffles doctors at Georgetown
The nine month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Reuben A Bogley of 302 Obert northwest has a safety pin presumed in her throat or stomach. An X ray showed the pin near the thorax and part of it was removed. Doctors plan another X ray next week and hesitate to operate unless pain or location worsens. The child appears well and the family awaits developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reuben A. Bogley
Bogley
Georgetown University Hospital
A. E. Craig
Pennsylvania Avenue
Ping
Bagley
Temperance Day At Great Falls Camp Meeting
Yesterday temperance day was held at the Great Falls camp meeting under the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Evangelist Jennie Smith spoke on temperance while Mrs. Howard Hoag of Virginia spoke of the state's work and the push for state wide prohibition in Virginia. Preparations are for a large crowd tomorrow. Monday closed with special services. Representative Hobson of Alabama was due to speak last night but could not attend due to a New Jersey engagement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Falls
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Misa Jennie Smith
Howard Hoag
Women’s Christian Temperance Union of
Virginia
Hobson
Alabama
New Jersey
Weather Bureau Won’t Extend Seismograph Stations
The Weather Bureau will not extend seismograph stations to Hawaii and other distant sites. Comptroller Tracewell ruled the congressional appropriation covers air conditions only and excludes earthquakes. Agriculture plans for a dozen stations are halted pending new approval. Prof Willis Moore said Congress expected continued seismological work and funded $5,000 for better instruments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weather Bureau
Hawaii
Congress
Comptroller of the Treasury
Tracewell
Department of Agriculture
Willis L. Moore
Bureau
Mrs Mary T Key McBlair seeks aid to reinstate husband
Mrs Mary T Key McBlair of Maryland plans to appeal to President Taft to reinstate her husband A M McBlair as an attorney in the Department of Justice. She notes he was appointed as a special attorney by President Roosevelt and served for years after his grandfather Francis Scott Key inspired her plea. Attorney General Wickersham dismissed McBlair about a year before 1919.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Mary T. Key McBlair
A. M. McBlair
Maryland
Department of Justice
Wickersham
Mr. McBlair
Rabies Fears Rise as Third Cat Attack Shocks District
Health Officer warns of growing danger from stray cats after three rabies suspected attacks in ten days. Navy yard worker J E B Reilley injured by a home cat at 1729 U Street NW. treatment awaits until the cat is killed and head examined. Earlier cases involved John A. Core's son in Fairfax on August 16 and Viola Rusk on August 18 on her porch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. EB. Reiley
Navy Yard
U Street Northwest
Reilley
A. R. Shands
Marine Hospital Service
John A. Core
Fairfax
William Core
Bureau of Animal Industry
Viola Rusk
9001
I Street
Wheeling
Carlo B. Brittain
United States Navy
Board of Inspection
Portsmouth
N. H
Caribbean
Ro Man
Ashe
H. H. Royall
M. F. Draemel
Beck to report on aeros at War Department meeting
Captain Paul W. Beck, U S representative at the Chicago aviation meet, will file a report Monday to the signal corps of the War Department. The government plans to buy two new aeroplanes and requires bidders to demonstrate height, speed and passenger capacity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul W. Beck
United States
Chicago
Aignal Corps
War Department
Beck
Flies and Mosquitoes Haunt Occoquan Juvenile Court
Judge Callan hears two inmates report the flies are less biting than before while at the Occoquan District Workhouse. Inmate testimony notes mosquitoes remain troublesome but improving with weather and rain aiding crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Callan
Occoquan
Funeral Today for Attorney J C Price in Easy Script
Funeral services are held at 3 pm for Attorney J Clarence Price who killed himself at his home on Fourth Street Southeast. Rev Henry S France of Trinity Methodist Church officiates with interment at Rock Creek Cemetery. Delegations from Masona and prominent business outfits attend. Price was brother-in-law of Joseph Harper juvenile court clerk buried yesterday. Also noted is a newly ordered isolation hospital at Fort Benjamin Harrison and a teaser for The Sunday Post Family Magazine featuring The Test Horse by Richard Harding Davis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Clarence Price
Fourth Street
Henry S. France
Trinity Methodist Church
Rock Creek Cemetery
Masona
Price
Joseph Harper
Stocks of Paper Increase in June Under Glance
American Paper and Pulp Association reports a June stock rise of 8799 tons due to lower shipments and revised half year inventories. June output hit a record 4.24 tons daily, with total production 110,300 tons and shipments 102,093 tons. End month stocks stood at 43,716 tons, book and wrapping paper dipped while board paper surged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Paper and Pulp Association
Herbert Knox Smith
THREE FLY AT COLLEGE PARK
The Burgess-Wright was the only army biplane used at College Park with Lieut. Kirtland piloting a 3:45 p.m. flight near the hangars. Lieut. Arnold followed with a brief run and the Tarbox aeroplane by D R Van Kirk nears trial. Frank Kastory achieved a half circle and about 1000 feet altitude as Capt Beck returned from the Chicago aviation meet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burgess-Wright
College Park
Lieut
Kirtland
Lieut. Arnold
Lieut. Kirtland
D. R. van Kirk
Frank Kastory
Fox
Capt. Beck
Washington
Chicago
McKinley Principal Resigns to Lead Kansas Normal
Dr. George B. Myers resigns as principal of McKinley Manual Training School effective immediately to accept the Kansas State Normal School at Pittsburg. Salary increases by $1,000 accompany the move. Dr. William E. Davidson, superintendent, says successor will likely come from current Manual School staff.
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McKinley Manual Training School
Davidson
George B. Myers
William E. Davidson
W. A. Hedrick
Myers
Kansas State Normal School
Pittsburg
Kans
Dr. Myers
McKinley Manual
Inz
Emory M. Wilson
Central High School
Charles P. Cary
Wisconsin
State Board of Regents
Kansas Institution
Kansas
Washington
McKinlay Manual Training School
Ottawa University
Ottawa
University of Chicago
Colorado Springs
Clark University
Worcester
Mass
Havete
Twelfth
M Streets
United States Idaho to Trade 400000 Acres of Land
The United States and Idaho struck a plan to exchange about 400000 acres to form more compact land blocks. Secretary of Agriculture Hays signed cooperative agreements to examine unsurveyed school lands in national forests for exchange along forest boundaries. Officials expect forestry land protection and closer state-forestry cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Idaho
Actig Scretary of
Agriculture
Hays
Aga State
Forestry Service
Must Teach The Farmers Irrigation Reform Plan
H Newell of the Reclamation Service urges education for irrigation pioneers. Frederick H Newell, director, returned from a northwestern tour with Secretary Fisher and will accompany his return from Alaska to visit more projects. He stresses that government irrigation aid is not paternalistic and success comes to workers who study local conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Newell
Reclamation Service
Frederick H. Newell
Interior
Fisher
Alaska
Newell
Trust estate audit shows large income and debts
The auditor details the Hutchins estate finances with gross income estimated at 254 402.10 from sources including Mergenthaler Linotype and Armory Building. Net income set at 138 184.26 but treated as 100 000, debts total 1 603 022, cash on hand 5 889.62, and six month outlook under mortgage pressures with 39 excepted figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gros
Hutchins
Mergenthaler Linotype Company
National Typographic Company
Etoc
Armat Moving Picture Company
Storate Hisss National Bank Company
Atock
Lick Creek and
Leke Rriesaitroad Company
Warder
Ballers Eranenge
la Crott
Eighth Street
TB Mowat Vernon
Armory
Highlands
Fourteenth and
Westmoreland
Hutchina
Sharpers Match Pennies Game Easy Victim in D C
John Gillman of Manchester Iowa fell for a confidence game staged by two sharpers near the Smithsonian Institution. A supposed New Yorker and a South Carolina dealer of a house for $1800 lured pennies to dollars, and Gillman lost $56 before the crooks fled. police seek the culprits as Captain of Detectives Hosrdman calls the scheme clever.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Gillman
Manchester
Iowa
Delaware Avenus
Hosrdman
Gillman
Smithsonian Institution
New York
National Capital
South Carolina
Warren Coffin Bankruptcy Linked to House Restaurant Loss
Warren J Coffin former manager of the House restaurant filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in the District supreme court. He lists liabilities at 2640.99 and assets at 400. Coffin attributes insolvency to losing his House position August 1 and to political fallout over pricing. Attorney George Co Gertman states removal from the restaurant caused the financial collapse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren J.coffin
House of Representatives
Supreme Court
George Co. Gertman
Gertman
Coffin
House
Capitol
R. M. Martyn
Commissioner Sues Over Slander Claim In Federal Dispute
Indian Commissioner Valentine moves to strike damages suit by Joseph R. Farr former superintendent of logging in the bureau alleging that his remarks about Farr were privileged and within official duties. Farr accuses the commissioner of slander in a discharge notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sage
Department
of Indian Affairs
Valentine
Ault
Joseph R. Farr
Bureau
Farr
Rev E M Mott Returns From Post Tour Abroad
The Rev Edward Mott rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Advent and a Washington Post Isuronean tour member returned to Washington enthusiastic about the trip in London he visited Dorchester House and dined with Ambassador Whitelaw Reid and Mrs Reid He met Rev Gilbert Reid a China missionary and noted the hospitality of the Reid family with eleven others at luncheon
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of the Advent
Dorchester House
London
Reid
Edward M. Mott
Protestant Episcopal Church of the Advent
Washington Post
Washington
Mott
Whitelaw Reid
Ambassador Whitelaw Reid
Ambassador Whitelaw Reid and Mrs. Reid
New York
Gen
Gilbert Reid
China
Countess of Granard
Post
Post Party
Paris
Weather Summary From U S Department Of Agriculture
Low pressure dominates most of the nation with general showers in the Ohio valley New England and the lower lake region. Rains extend into the middle Atlantic states south Atlantic and the west gulf while the northwest experiences cooler dry conditions. Fair weather elsewhere with temperatures midrange except cold in North Dakota and Montana. Showers forecast Saturday into New England middle Atlantic and southern regions with gradual clearing Sunday. Winds vary by coast and region, with brisk conditions across the Atlantic while steamers to Europe face showers toward the Grand Banks. Temperature readings for the day noted with highs in the upper 80s and a low near 47. Relative humidity peaks in the mid 90s. The Little Singer feature by Gertrude Brooke Hamilton previews a Sunday Post magazine story illustrated by G Ryder.
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U. 8
Dept. of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
Washington
Atlantic States
Ohio Valley
Middle Atlantic
New England
South Atlantic
East Gulf States
West Gulf States
New Mexico
Atixana
North Dakota
Montana
Plains States
Upper
Mississippi Valley
Upper Lake Region
Rocky Mountain
Lower Lake Region
Florida
Gulf
European
Grand Banks
Identity Mystery: Baltimore Forger Uses Multiple Names
Police seek a young woman who used aliases including Margaret Cox Florencé Morne May Carter and Louise Jones. She forged checks in the names of Bertha Caron Paul Moncure and M. M. McLean, with victims unable to identify her though they suspect involvement. investigators believe she may have had an accomplice and had some knowledge of her victims.
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Baltimore
Nere Shere
Margaret Cox
Florencé Morne
May Carter
Louise Jones
Bertha Caron
Henry Public Bchod
Sherman ‘Slick
Census Office
Paul Moncure
Department of Commerce and Labor
M. M. McLean
General Land Office
Hotels Boston list of visitors to Raleigh Chicago New York
A scrambled OCR of names and residences shows a long, disjointed roster of visitors and residents by hotel and city. The fragment lists people with addresses in Raleigh Chicago New York Philadelphia and other places, including several couples, with partial states and surnames, in a mixed roster-like format.
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Boston
He Rory
A S_ Wright
Raleigh
N. B
Weles
Ain
E. Berryman
Ash Lord
Chicago
Edward Wayne
AL ‘Walls
Releigh
Feed
Frazer
Epbitt
G. Heinemanns
Robert & Turney
Wil B.D Huot
St James
New York
H Keller
Roan
Lbite
Lancon
Thompson
Hall
James Keny
Caras
Thomas W. Cruncher
Aringtom
Fischner
Shoreham
E. Blackburn
Montgomers
Gresham
Willard
Keenan
Ed W. Coes
Lincoln
Georgia
Albany
F Huss
Tincoln
Kentucky
Wiliam P Long
Louisville
Ree Jeigh
Es Zerel
Maryland
Benton Baltimor
Arthur L Shrete
Baltimore
Ebbitt
J HO Pur Bell
Lawrence West
New
YO C
Pettis
Weat Point
Wood
Brooklyn
St. James
Jersey
J W Parry
Princeton
Ohio
Grace Lirbngston
Misa
Lillian Revakr
Cincionati
E. H. Reinek
Cleveland
Enbitt
R Pratt
Delaware
F. F. Fromeyer
Cincinnati
Wilard
David Exter
Springfeld
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Militia
Rea
Catoctin Mountain
Nettle Tuscarora
Durand
Brooks
Sone Fishd
Shannon
Terry
Vand
Fales
Ordway
Signel Corps
Yellow Spring
Cuticurs
Cuticura
Dept. O
Bost
H. C. Talbert
With Pistol
Georgetown Hospital
R. A
Animal
J. E. Reilley
Woodward
Cat
AEROS
Army
J. C. Price
Self
Army Isolation Hospital
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Indianapolis
Ind
Family Magazine
The
Sunday Post
Richard Harding Davis
U. S
Wheeling Record Gunboat
Board
Arnold
Kastory
Dr. Davidson
Bummer Club Duse
Oie
Hutthine
Cottagay
Texes
Met
Towa
Warren Coffin
E. M. Mott
Park Lane
Tata
Pe Man
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
G. Ryder
Raio- Max
Asheville
N. C
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Bismarck
N. Dakast
Buffalo
Otmeinnatl
Cheyenne
Wyo
Davenport
Penver
Colo
Galveston
Tex
Des Moines
Helena
Mont
Jagkeonville
Kaness City
Little Rock
Ark
Los Angeles
Cal
Memphis
Tenn
New Orleans
North Platts
Nebr
Omaha
Philadelphis
Aay
Pittsburgh
Portland
Orsi
Gait Lake City
Utah
Louis
Minn
Paul
Tacome
Tampa
Toledo
Vicksburg
Miss
Harpers Ferry
Potomae
Lestar
Shenandoah
Heriff
Christian Xander
7Th ST
J. Maury Dove Company, Incorporated
F Street Northwest
Union Building Company
South Royal Street
Alexandria
Louis Beyerie Trecretary
Stonem
Odd Fellowes Hall
Seventh Street Northwest
D and E
Congressional Life Insurance Company
6Th
Bailentine
Shoemaker Co. Pionem
Milburn
Heister
Wassingtoor, D.C
Monumental City
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