Startled by Cardinal Blessing at Last Presbyterian Sermon
Washington Heights Presbyterian Church held the pastor Rev Lawrence Hunt’s farewell sermon as he resigns effective September 1. He presented a cross blessed by Cardinal Gibbons to a girl, urging continued faith across denominations and reflecting on unity in the church. The article notes the cross’s wider significance and recounts other obituaries and funeral notices.
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Lawrence Hunt
Washington Heights Presbyterian Church
Cardinal Gibbons
Jesus Christ
Hunt
Marie Smith
God
Washington
Jesus
Church of God
Presbyterian Church of Washington
Presbyterian Board
Missionary Pastor Builds Washington Heights Church
The article profiles a Presbyterian minister, John Hunt, detailing his career from Knox Seminary Toronto graduation in 1893 to leadership roles with the YMCA, the William R. George Junior Republic, and national Junior Republic efforts. It notes his move to Washington to lead Westminster Memorial Church and, four years ago, founding a Presbyterian Church on Washington Heights, with subsequent tenure as its pastor.
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Presbyterian Church
Hunt
Knox Seminary
Toronto
International Committee of the
California
Canada
New York City
Henry Drummond
William R. George
Washington
Dr. Bittinger
Westminster Memorial Church
Washington Heights
Grace Culver Taggart fights for child care in court
In Wooster Ohio Mrs Grace Culver Taggart wife of Maj Taggart seeks divorce custody arguing his jealousy hallucinations and liquor use harmed her and her two sons She claims innocence and vows to prove false accusations by witnesses and defend her character as trial resumes with witnesses and legal counsel present.
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Taggart
Ami
Washington Post
Wooster
Ohio
Maj. Taggart
Grace Culver Taggart
Diveres
United States Army
Song for Consul Mason Visits Oyster Bay
Rumors say Mason Mitchel United States consul to Zanzibar will visit Oyster Bay soon after landing in New York. The town, stirred by the prospect, debates the visit as bands practice Oriental tunes and a local song celebrates the consul's honor and Zanzibar connection.
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Washington Post
Oyster Bay
Mason Mitchel
United States
Zanzibar
Domain
Congress
New York
Yellow fever spreads with deaths rise across gulf region
Across New Orleans and Mississippi areas the yellow fever toll climbs with 255 total deaths and 1 743 total cases. Natchez and Bayou Lafourche report outbreaks. Patterson and Lake Providence placed under medical charge as Dr Norton and Dr Krause coordinate control. Quarantine measures expand in Pensacola and Decatur while Jackson declines state action against Memphis.
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Natchez
Mise
Bayou Lafourche
Patterson, la
New Orleans
Migs
Patterson
Amelia
Bayou Boeuf
Pecan Grove
Elizabeth Plantation
Hanvon City
Bayou Lefourche
Bt. Rowe
Port Barrow
Ninth Ward
Jefferson Parish
Lake Frogidence
Gulfport
Mississippi City
United States Marine Hospital Service
Port Chalmette
Wyman
Mississippi River
Mobile
State Board of Health
C L. Norton
South
Lee
Krause
Lake Providence
Marina Hospital
Pensacola
Fla
C. C. Dickens
Flomaten
Marine Hospital Service
American Steamer Montara Captured by Japanese in Bering Sea
The Montara bound for Petropavlovsk was seized by Japanese forces in the Bering Sea on August 2. Rear Admiral Kataoka reported Russians were taken from the Montara, including Commander Eskky, off Nikolaivsk. The San Francisco ship sailed July for Petropavlovsk and is owned by Pacific line. chartered by Roth Blum & Co. and sistered under its tonnage of 45.
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Montara
San Francisco
Bering Sea
Yokohama
Petropavlovsk
Kataoka
Tokyo
Kamchatka
Nikolaivsk
Eskky
Roth, Blum & Co
Pacine Qenetraction Company
Panic in boycott spurs aid to Chinese merchants
Shanghai reports the Chinese foreign board appointing a special commissioner to help Chinese merchants dispose of large stocks of American goods contracted before the boycott. The goal is to avert a financial panic by orderly clearance and sale of inventory.
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Shanghai
Chinese Foreign Board
GOOD WORD FOR COBARTH. CHARGES ALLEGED AGAINST GEORGE M COBARTH
C O Powell of 9% I street northwest testifies Cobarth is a hard working man with thirty years of acquaintance who helped Miss Ross Botley of Washington recover from an opiate effect in Germantown Maryland. Powell praises Cobarth’s character, noting his kindness to strangers and his longstanding support of family, wife, and ten children.
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Ross Botley
Washington
George M. Cobarth
Germantown
C. O. Powell
I Street
Powell
Cobarth
Miss Holley
Georgetown
Mr. Powell
Shonts Talks Canal Labor Plans at Panama Visit
The Isthmian Canal Commission chairman Theo dore P Shonts dined with President Roosevelt and discussed canal work. He explained Prescott’s resignation from the Panama Railway and the succession by Baird. Shonts said steam shovels were laid off until tracks are ready, and noted 75,000 men used under a Bingia contract with potential for 160,000 workers. He emphasized improving quarters and sanitation and ensuring prompt wages before resuming dirt work.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Theodore P. Shonts
Isthmian Canal Commission
Roosevelt
Shonts
Supt
Prescott
Panama Railway
Baird
Rock Island
Panama
Agrarian Uprising Grips Caucasus Amid Peasant Clash
In the Caucasus and elsewhere agrarian agitation surges as villagers refuse crops dues to Prince In ukbransky. The village of Incvaadedshan sees a violent clash with Cossacks who fire on peasants, official counts tallying nineteen killed or wounded while unofficial reports cite seventy casualties.
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St. Petersburg
Caucasus
Incvaadedshan
Inukbransky
Elections to be unhampered by prefects order
St. Petersburg Aug 27 The ministry of the interior issued an order limiting prefects punitive powers to safeguard peasant independence in elections. The measure marks government restraint in communal affairs and ensures local self government in peasant communes during douma elections.
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Polis
St. Petersburg
Ministry of the Interior
Relief for Russian peasants relief funds pledged by monasteries
Monasteries in Russia will use their treasures to aid famine-stricken districts. The Alexander Nevsky lavra, second richest monastery, will earmark 1,125,600 dollars from its treasury and 200,000 dollars in loans to needy peasants amid nationwide appeals for relief.
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Bt. Petersburg
Russia
Alexander Neveky Glotater
Left Curse On Husband Ends In Tragedy At Kalamazoo Farm
Mrs Bere Nice McCarthy aged twenty nine wife of farmer James McCarthy four miles north of Kalamazoo was found dead at the farmhouse. A note in her hand expressed despair over home life and a wish to end all troubles and cursed her husband and his kin. She had quarreled with him prior to a possible divorce and had returned to settle property matters. An autopsy is planned.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Berenice McCarthy
James McCarthy
McCarthy
Ison
Bryan Beard and a Man Jumped Into the Wabash River
Special to The Washington Post from Logansport Indiana Aug 27 Dr IL Short sixty two a patient at the Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane from La Grange County attended W J Bryan Chautauqua address In the middle of the speech Short leaped from his seat screamed rushed through the crowd to the river edge leaped in and swam to shore before hospital guards could reach him He was later found at Spencer Park three miles away Bryan spoke on The Prince of Peace China Monopolizes Wireless Shanghai Aug 27 An imperial edict declares telephones and wireless telegraphs in China are government monopolies.
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Washington Post
Logansport
Ind
IL. Short
Amas
Northern
Indiana Hospital For the Insane
la Grange County
W. J. Bryan
Short
Biddles Island
Wabash
Hospital Guanis
Spencer Park
Bryan
Rogers Family Vanishes in Albany After Leaving Children
Albany Aug 27 Mr and Mrs J W Rogers sailors for Europe are believed to have abandoned their two boys aged six years and six months at the Hotel Ten Eyck after registering from San Francisco The parents were seen leaving the theater and have not been heard from since Police have no trace and neither Mr Rogers nor the Congressional Correspondence Company is known in Washington Sources indicate the Rogers are connected to 144 New York Avenue Washington and the hotel is 186 New York Avenue occupied for mercantile use The children may be placed with authorities if parents do not respond by tomorrow
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Taggart
Lfe
Targgait
Judge Smyser
B. B. Taylor
Albany
J. W. Rogers
Europe
Ten Eyck
Rogeres
San Francisco
Rogers
Chambers
Congressional Correspondence Company
New York Avenue
Washington
Rogerses
New York City
Mrs Theodorus Myers Dies in Saratoga Summer Stay
Mrs Theodorus Bailey Myers dies at age seventy nine in her Saratoga room at the United States Hotel after liver illness limited by ten days of serious condition. Daughter of Sidney Mason linked to New York finance, widow of Theodorus Myers, mother of Mrs Julian James, with son Theodorus Bailey Mason in the navy. funeral at Bethesda Church in Greenwich Village then burial in Greenwood New York. Also reported: John Gibb of Mills & Gibb and Frederick Loeser & Co. dies at Islip, Long Island.
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Dow
Georgetown University Hospital
E . Dow
Charles H. Dow
Owen Thompson
Oak Hill Chapel
Fisher
Capt Henry Fisher
West 188Th Street
New York
Fisk
Ion C Fisk Jr
Jon C
Lotta Rusk
Indiana Avenue
Glenwood
M. Hosmer
Caroline FE. Heamer
Alice W Butts
TL Street
Myers
Saratoga
Catalina J
Theodorus Bailey Myers
Sidney Mason
St Bartholomew's Church
New York City
Greenwood Smith
Big
Fifteenth Street
John Wesley Smith
Washington Post
Mra Theodorus Bailey Myers
United States
Mra Myers
Theodorus Batley Myers
Washington
Julian James
Twentieth
Q Streets
Mason
Theodorus Bailey Mason
Navy
James
Calvin
Bethesda
Greenwood
John Gibb
Mills & Gibb
Frederick Loeser & Co
Howard Gibb
Islip, L. L
Thieves Still At Large Seek Wives In Chicago
Special to The Washington Fort Chicago Aug. 2 The post office thieves Horner Fort Trainor and Andrew Cunningham escapees from La Crosse are thought hidden in Chicago Inspector Stuart has supplied photos and full descriptions based on gang members who aided the escape The gang led by Eddie Fay funded the escape and influenced jailer J M Childers The women tied to Trainor and Cunningham are believed in Chicago with funds. searches were conducted Mrs Cunningham has a sister in Plymouth Place prints shop none found Detective and attorney details end
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Trainor
Cunningham
Chicago
Washington Fort
Horner
Andrew Cunningham
la Crosse
Wis
Jall
James E. Stuart
Eddie" Fay
J. M. Childers
Fay
Col. Stuart
Frank Winter
Winter
Suit Involves Millions in Restraining Order
Des Moines Iowa August 27 restraining order bars Northwestern Life Insurance Company of Minneapolis from dealing with policy holders of Northwestern Life and Savings Company of Des Moines absorbed two years ago Ex Congressman Walter H Butler and four other holders file suit claiming over 4 million in assets involved and 2 16 million held by state auditor hearing set for Monday September 11
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Northwestern National Life Insurance Company
Brecal
Des Moines
Iows
McHenry
District Court
Northwestern Madonal Life Insurance Company
Minneapolis
Northwestern Lifes and Savings Company of
Dea Moines
Minneapolis Concern
Walter H. Butler
Iowa State Auditor
Death by own action at First Baptist Church
A man believed to be W Bowen of Sublette Illinois shot himself in a pew shortly after W B Rileys address at the First Baptist Church in Minneapolis. A $700 draft was found on him. the scene caused panic among crowds of about 200 departing worshippers. The rest of the fragment lists ship arrivals and sailings with dates and ports.
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Minneapplis
Ous
W. B. Riley
First Baptist Church
W. Bowen
Sublette
Charleston Cruiser Ready for Navy Acceptance
Newport News report quotes General Manager W A Post stating the protected cruiser Charleston is completed and ready for transfer to the Navy Department at any time. The Navy has not yet accepted the ship due to an unforeseen hitch in their programme.
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Navy Department
Washington Post
Newport News
Charleston
W. A. Post
United States
Arming Fort Monroe and Wartime Rules Enforced
Fort Monroe Virginia August 27 Wartime regulations ban visitors from the old water battery as the Navy conducts joint maneuvers to display its weaknesses and readiness amid the wartime posture.
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Washington Post
Fort Monroe
Fortified fortress braces for modern batteries
The fortress is being razed and the guns removed. It will be surrounded by modern batteries with quick firing disappearing rifles. When completed, the fortress will be modern and practically impregnable, following recent war maneuvers. The navy was reportedly victorious in the simulations, prompting strengthening of the old fort.
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Tenth St
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Consul Mason
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Charity Hospital
Kalon Wine CO
Misa Holly
Beard Bryan
China
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Frank R. Stockton
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Jack London
Robert W. Chambers
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