Mellon Refunding Program Progress Reported by Treasury
Treasury officials announced progress on the first stage of a massive refunding operation set to retire or refund about $8.04 billion by December 1, 1929. The initial step covered refunding 1925 notes, the third liberty loan bonds, and Treasury certificates maturing March 15, with a new 20 to 30 year 4 percent bond issue.
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Treasury
Liberty Loan
Dewey
The
Federal Reserve
Mallon
Obituary notices for December 1924 served in Northwest Washington
A sequence of death notices and funeral details for December 5 to 9 1924 in Northwest Washington. Names include Emma Berry Johanna Connor Peter B Darr Eric Rend Edmund Hickey Emil Laber Helen Dane and related survivors, with funeral times, venues, and interment plans listed.
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William J. Anderson
W. R. Speare
Berry
Sumiay
IE Street
Emma L ‘Klow
George Mr Berry
Harriet Berry Timm
George
George Jr
Syracuse
Union M
Peter B
Edith L. Carr
Clarendon
H. Ti. Nevins
New York Avenue
Columbia Gardens
Twenty Third Street
Glenwood Cemetery
Hickey
Providence Hospital
Edmund Plowbeye
Jane Perry Ickey
St Paul's Catholic Church
Fifteenth
V Streets
Tueaday
Terment
Emil
Maryquer
Quincy Place Northwest
St Mary's Church
St. Mary's Cemetery
Dane
Kenyon Street
Helena
Lawrence le Dane
Santa refunds fees for Creston visits by order
Creston Iowa December 7 Santa Claus will not visit the children of Creston by mayor Ed Keith order. George F Gorman of Maryville Mo must refund money collected from residents for a canvass to play Santa Claus. Gorman’s solicitors collected 30 cents from each home for a call a week before Christmas and planned a second appearance on Christmas Eve for which 25 cents was to be paid in advance.
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Creston
Iowa
Santa Claus
Ed Keith
George F. Gorman
Maryville
Saint Nicholas
Oanvas
Santa
Obituary notices from December 1924 Washington paper
Multiple funeral notices list names and details for MacDonald McKerichar Unfred Parbace Pursell Roche Wetzler Towle Smith and others. Entries include dates December 4 to December 9 1924 with residences Washington DC Mt Olivet Arlington interment Providence and Pittsburg and church services at St Aloysius Hines Co and Lee’s chapel.
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Palbace
Hig
Charles Augustus Parbace
Tis
Providence
R. I
B. I
Cornelia Ann
Thomas
Mary A. Pursell
New York Avenue
M¢ Olivet
Wyer
Stanton Park Hospital
Minnie
Charles W. Sawyer
W. Chambere
Fourteenth Street
Chapin Street
Pittsburgh
Schusteis
Garfield Hospital
Agnes M
Herman J. Schuilteis
Sire
J .H. Cavanaugh
Charles N. Snyder
Farragut Street
Remalna
Frank Gelers Sons’ Co
Seventh Street
Smith
Fort Lervenworthhang
Emery T. Smith
Field Artillery
Post Chapel
Fort Myer
Arlington National Cemetery
Dewey Division
Boston
San Francisco
Towles
Fifteenth Street
Margaret C
William Beverley
Harriet Washington Towle
Lee's Chapel
Pennsylvania Avenue
Wetzler
Paul J
Mary L. Wetzler
Barry
Helen Wetzler
H. ©. Fleetwood
Norval K. Tabler
L Street
Gunton Temple Memorial Presbyterian Church
Sixteenth
Newton Streets
In Memoriam Bevans Loving Remembrance
In memory of Eugenia Bevans who died December 8, 923 the family recalls a voice we loved a place in our home that cannot be filled God recalled the boon His love had given the body lies here but the soul rests in Heaven a memorial note from family.
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Bevans
Eugenia
Bavans
Morgan exhibs priceless British manuscripts at New York Library
New York December 7 A P dispatch reports J P Morgan organized and financed a public display of 150 British authors manuscripts and drawings from the Pierpont Morgan library. The exhibit in the New York Public Library runs until March 1 with items ranging from Milton to Kipling and Bunyan to Dryden.
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New York
A. P
Pierpont Morgan Library
New York Library
J. P. Morgan
Mr. Morgan
Pierpont Morgan
Morgan
Murray Hill
Memorial
Morgan Library
New York Public Library
William Dunbar
London
Lang
Rudyard Kipling
Nicholson
Sir Thomas More
Crosby Hall
Charlotte Bronte
Milton
Anne
John Bunya
Morgan's exhibit feast of famous literary works on display
Pierpont Morgan spoke of seven years of viewing a rich display including Byron's Corsair manuscripts, Keats letters, and originals by Moore Lamb Hunt Dickens Thackeray Wilde Kipling and Hardy. He noted his pride in Browning Browning caricatures and classic pieces from Dickens and Thackeray as he recalled his long journey through the collection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Gordon Byron
John Keats
Meg Merrilles
Keats
Fanny
Mr. Morgan
Frederick Marryat
Mr. Midshipman
Laila Rookh
Thomas Moore
Charles Lamb
Leigh Hunt
Abou Ben Adhem
James T. Fields
Boston
Pierpont Morgan
Robert Browning
Charles Dickens
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray
Alfred Tennyson
James Thomson
Oscar Wilde
Dorian Gray
Thomas Hardy
Emmeline
Passion
Jakko Hill
Rudyard Kipling
Quizzing of Mortimer Opens in Forbes Thompson Trial
In Chicago Elias H. Mortimer chief government witness in the Forbes Thompson veterans bureau conspiracy trial, will be subjected to cross examination tomorrow. James H. Easby Smith counsel for Charles R. Forbes will handle the questioning. The government has 40 to 50 witnesses, but the on the stand time is expected to be brief. Col Forbes will be the chief witness in his own defense. Both sides hope to conclude evidence before the holidays.
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Chicago
Dec
Elias H. Mortimer
Forbes- Thompson Veterans’ Bureau
James H. Easby-Smith
Charles R. Forbes
Col. Forbes
Veterans’ Bureau
Bride Going Home Hillman Notified in NY Flight
Dorothy Martin Hillman, wife of Chicago millionaire Edward Hillman Jr., fled to New York with her mother Mrs. George W. Martin of Evanston Ill. They planned to return home after a period in hiding. Telegram informed Hillman that the two were on their way back.
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Young
New York
Dorothy Martin Hillman
Edward Hillman, Jr
Chicago
George W. Martin
Evanston
Young Hillman
Dorothy
Mrs. Hillman
Dayton's Death: U.S. Vice Consul in Belgrade Shoots?
Belgrade December 7 A. F. reports the shooting of Henry Dayton American vice consul at Belgrade and the death of Anna Ousoupaitais remains a mystery. Police say Dayton shot from behind then his revolver was handled after the shot and the woman likely did not kill herself. The vice consul remains gravely ill and deposition for court was postponed.
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Belgrade
Jugoslavia
A. F
Henry Dayton
Anna Ousoupaitais
Anna Oqusoupaitaig
Dayin
Dayton
Man Hangs Two Hours by Foot in Elevator
Benjamin Dixon a 60 year old watchman in the Mills building hung head downward with his leg wedged between the elevator top and second floor for two hours before two passers by heard his cries and alerted police. Fireman Cross and Ruben Butthers notified the Third precinct and Dixon was treated at Emergency hospital for a crushed leg.
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Mills
Benjamin Dixon
Dixon
P. M. Cross
No. 2 Truck Company
Ruben Butthers
G Street
Stevens Court Northwest
Gold Stampede Begun By Discovery in Yukon
Dawson Yukon Territory December seventh a mild stampede to Glacier Creek sixty miles west of here arose from an assay showing forty ounces of gold per ton in a well defined vein found by George Kennedy a noted prospector who traced the vein for several miles
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Dawson
Yukon Territory
Glacier Creek
Here
Ora
George Kennedy
Kennedy
Boy Born As Mother Awaits Ambulance
Mrs Lula Tellant aged 20 gave birth to a boy in the doorway of a rooming house at 3340 M street NW shortly after 5 am yesterday. Policemen Kellam and Brown of the Seventh precinct assisted and helped place mother and infant in an ambulance en route to Emergency hospital then to Columbia hospital where both were reported doing well last night.
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Lula Tellant
Kellam and
Brown
Kellam
Coumbia Hospital
Heat Record Broken Sunday at Norfolk
Norfolk Va December 7 The warmest December weather recorded here since the local weather bureau was established 54 years ago was registered today. At 3 o clock the thermometer stood at 75.7 degrees just 19 above normal. The previous high mark was 75 degrees on December 26 1899.
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Norfolk
Invasion of Honduras 5 Seen Near Frontier
Managua reports Gen Julio Peralta with 500 troops near the frontier preparing a new invasion of Honduras from Nicaragua. It is claimed Peralta plans to join Gen Ferrara the revolutionary chief in another attempt to overthrow President Tosta.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Julio Peralta
Honduras
Peralta
Ferrara
Tosta
Armageddon Near, Dr Wilkinson Warns Of World Revolt
Dr B G Wilkinson of Washington Missionary College warned last night at Capital Memorial Church that Armageddon is near as world unrest grows. He linked reports of Japan seeking peace talks with the Soviet Union and Sun Yat Sen’s in Japan to a coming millennium of universal peace and a great spiritual victory foretold by the Bible.
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B.G. Wilkinson
Washington Missionary College
Memorial Church
Fifth
F Streeta
Yoshigawa
Peking
Karakhan
Japan
Soviet
Sun Yat Sen
Slayer After 11-Year Chase Ends With Capture
Wallace R. Schrader, 63, sought by police for 11 years, was held in Binghamton for Everett, Washington authorities. He faced possible transfer on a 1913 conviction count for murder of his wife, two men, and a police officer.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Wallace R. Schrader
Everett
Wash
Schrader
15 KILLED BY GANGSTER IN CHICAGO SHOOTING
Chicago police report two men felled in a city incident near road houses northwest of Chicago. Park policeman Albert Burgeson died after a struggle with gangsters while Stanley Syzmanski was shot by a fellow boarder. Walter Gerbing William Flewsnili n Edward Egeikrant were detained in connection with the policeman death.
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Chicago
Park
Albert Burgeson
Stanley Syzmanski
Walter Gerbing
William Flewsnilin
Edward Egeikrant
Burgeson
Albert Christenson
B&b
Cessville
Gerbing
Seized in Warehouse a Man Pleads Poverty Tale
Claude Aloysius Baker aged 42 of 459 Missouri avenue northwest admits stealing groceries from Kidwell Grocery Company at 918 C street northwest to feed a sick wife and baby. A pedestrian alerted police after seeing a ajar warehouse door. Detective J E Kane found Baker hiding behind a barrel on the third floor and filed house breaking charges.
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Claude Aloysius Baker
Missouri Avenue Northwest
Kidwell Grocery Company
C Street
Baker
J. E. Kane
Fire Alarms At Yale Cause Three Arrests
Three Yale students were arrested in New Haven after three false fire alarms were rung near the campus during a dormitory celebration of fraternity elections. Crowds mobbed firefighters. Assistant Fire Chief P. F. Redmond suffered a black eye in an altercation. Dormitory windows were broken. Suspects identified as James B. Bruce, Joseph Barrett, and Charles B. Compton face charges of drunkenness and tampering with the fire alarm system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
den T
Yale
P. F. Redmond
James B. Bruce
Joseph Barrett
Charles B. Compton
Workman Overcome by Coal Gas in Cellar Fall
William Johnson colored, 50, wags, overcome yesterday afternoon by coal gas from a stove while working in the cellar of a bug store at Ninth street and Pennsylvania avenue northwest. He was revived in Emergency hospital.
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William Johnson
Ninth Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
RectorInstalled as Pastor at Two Berkeley Springs Churches
Special to The Washington Post from Berkeley Springs West Virginia dated December 7 reports the installation of Rev George H Rector as pastor of the First Presbyterian church and the Duckwell Presbyterian wing with Rev Dr F T McFaden of First Church Winchester VA preaching. In Keyser West Virginia on December 7 Rev John A Wood of Canton Mississippi was installed as pastor of the local Presbyterian church.
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Washington Post
Berkeley Springs
W. Va
George ‘H Rector
First Presbyterian Church
Duckwell Presbyterian
F. T. McFaden
First Church
Winchester, Va
Keyser
John A. Wood
Canton
Miss
Presbyterian Church
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Commodious Chapel
Temratorium
Thos. S. Sergeon
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New York Ave
Frank Geier’s Sons Co
Mexican Chapel
St. N.W
V.L. Speare CO
F. Costello
Amis W. Cap
North
Gawler Service
WM. H. Sardo & Co
Care OG
Wy H Street
N.W
Chas. S.zarhorst
Blackistone
Ericen
Mth & He
Orate Frices
Mth & Hy
Geo
Flobiots
Frank
Lorises
Memoriam
John Dryden
Eleonora
Abingdon
John Locke
Samuel Pepys
Pepys
Isaac Newton
Richard Sympson
Jonathan Smith
Gulliver
Alexander Pope
Samuel Johnson
Dr. Johnson
James Boswell
Boswell
Laurence Sterne
Man
Mary Wortley
Thomas Gray
Strawberry Press
Edmund Burke
Robert Burns
Pope
Hssay
Luukou
Mortimer
Bride
Hillman
Yukon
Wilkinson
Washington
Pars
Julius Garfinckel &Co
Landowska
National Theatre
Victor Products
Laovsee
Eerennet
Idrol
Victrola
Piggly Wiggly
Alexandria
Fairfax
Vienna
Falls Church
Fredericksburg
Piggly Wiggly Northern Virginia Co.,Inc
Piggly Wiggly Stores, Inc
John L Power
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