Baltimore City Weighs Segregation Ordinance in Second Branch
Baltimore officials report the second branch of the city council approved a segregation ordinance aimed at restricting where Black residents may move into white districts. If signed by Mayor Mahool, it could enter courts for constitutional review. The measure targets blocks where a white majority rents, and allows whites to move into majority-Black blocks.
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Council
Baltimore
Mahool
McCulloch
Court Enlarges Norfolk Annexes Huntersville and Lamberts Point
Judge Thomas W. Harrison signed a decree annexing Huntersville and Lamberts Point to Norfolk city. The 14,000 residents and $4,000,000 in taxable property join as the Ninth and Tenth wards. The Lamberts Point coal piers lie inside the new territory amid debates on sanitation and protection.
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Norfolk
Thomas W. Harrison
Winchester
Norfolk County
Huntersville
Lamberts Point
Norfolk City
Norfolk and Western
Harrison
Gilmer Patton Dead Prominent Parkersburg Lawyer
A Gilmer Patton aged 3 is mistakenly shown. 3-year-old is incorrect. Parkersburg Democrat Gilmer Patton dies in St Josephs Hospital from Brights disease. He was elected to the House of Debates from this county in the set election. Native of Monroe County with distinguished lineage. father Judge French Patton served on the state supreme court of appeals. Funeral planned for Sunday afternoon.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Gilmer Patton
House of Debates
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Bright
Patton
Monroe
French Patton
Supreme Court of Appeals
Lynchburg Plant Burned and Traffic Cut by Fire
A large Thornhill Wagon Works plant in Lynchburg Va burned tonight destroying four freight cars and blocking Southern and Chesapeake and Ohio tracks. The blaze halted through and local telegraph lines and caused about 100000 dollars in damage, fully insured.
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Lynchburg
Postal and Western Tnion Telegraph Companies
Thornhill Wagon Works
South
Chesapeake
Onio
Woman shoots brother mistaken for burglar in Bristol
Henry Wilson, 18 years old, was fatally shot by his sister Mrs Haynes Snapp at a farm home near Bristol Tennessee. He knocked at the door and she fired through it after an unanswered call, hitting him in the breast.
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Bristol
Tenn
Henry Wilson
Haynes Snapp
Young Wilson
Ulster
Schenks Meeting Delayed In Wheeling Indictment Case
In Wheeling West Virginia December the expected meeting between John Schenk a millionaire pork packer and the lawyers for his wife Laura Farnsworth Schenk who is indicted for attempting to poison him did not occur as planned. The prosecuting attorney learned the lawyers planned to question Schenk closely and he refused to agree to the plan. A meeting is expected tomorrow under conditions to suit the state.
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Wheeling
W. Va
John ©. Schenk
Milionaire Pork Packer
Laura Farnsworth Schenk
Schenk
Tate
Typhoid Case At Naval Academy Raises Concern
The twenty eighth typhoid fever case among midshipmen at Annapolis involves Zefrin Fontaine Maury from New Jersey, transferred to the naval general hospital after illness.
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Annapoli
Naval Academy
Zefrin Fontaine Maury
New Jersey
Naval General Hospital
Henry Barrett Floated From Jagacs Shoal Off Cape Charles
The five masted schooner Henry Barrett of Bath Maine, stranded Wednesday night on Jagacs Shoal near Smiths Island off Cape Charles, was floated today by the Norfolk tugs Rescue and Dna V. Crew.
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Norfolk
Henry ©. Barrett
Bath
Jagacs Shoale
Smiths Island
Cape Charles
Rescue
Fdna V
Sochety Ladies Claim Epidemic of Sore Feet
In a period piece note, fashionable women blame hot summer and tight footwear for widespread foot ailments such as corns bunions and callouses. A home remedy Calocide compound dissolves in hot water to draw out corns and cool the feet, with repeat use advised for best results. a bottle costs about thirty eight to forty nine cents depending on source.
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Walt
Woman saves man when ice falls on street
Special to The Washington Post from New York reports Millicent Almy of Lawrence Island rescues window cleaner Nagle after an icy fall from a 60 year old scaffold at 2 West Thirty-eighth street. Nagle plunges about 25 feet but escapes serious injury thanks to the quick act.
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Washington Post
New York
West Thirty-eighth Street
Manhattan
Millicent Almy
Lawrence
Leung Island
Nagle
Ife
Miss Almy
Alexandria Annexation Fight Shaped by Fairfax County Stand
Fairfax county officials vow to resist Alexandria moves to annex any border area claiming no commercial need. Commonwealth's Attorney Ford to defend county in court as the two counties may join against the city plan. Alexandria's council pushes ahead with court action while a special committee readies filings. The report also notes a death and an organ recital by Edgar Priest with no admission fee. Judge Barley to aid in Prince William circuit term duties during Judge Thornton's relief.
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Washington Fost Bureau
King Street
Alexandria
Fairfax County
Board of Supervisors
Commonwealth
C. Vernon Ford
Alexandria County
Crandal Mackey
Edgar Priest
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Washington
Washington Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Kenneth Oguen
Named women pallbearers defy weather in Cecil County
In Rising Sun Maryland Viola wife of Harry Hathaway named six neighboring women as pallbearers in her dying request. Heavy weather prevents fulfilling the wish and male pallbearers will serve at the funeral set for tomorrow. The interment will be at Oakwood Cemetery.
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Cecil County
Washington
Rising Sun
Viola
Harry Hathaway
Oakwood Cemetery
Reports That He Is Hostage in Chihuahua Proved False
Enriqu e Creel foreign minister denied from San Antonio that his son was captured by revolutionaries and held as a hostage in Chihuahua. He said Parique Creel was visiting and left for Chihuahua, and other sons were not molested. Federal troops abandoned Falomir after a failed advance on Insurrectos near Ojinaga.
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Mexico City
Ennrique
Creel
San Antonio
Tex
Chihuahua
Parique
Iran
Falomir
Ojinaga
Charles Moore
Okinaga
Texas
Iere
Big Bend
Marfa
Alpine
Marathon
Ojimaga
Pilares
Mulato
Presidio del Norte
United States State Department
Ellsworth
Ciudad
Guerrero
Insurrectos
San Andrea
Pedernales
la Junta
Minaca
Madera
Temosachic
Weds on His Death Bed With Toledo Bride
Byron Ferguson of Toledo Ohio wed Mrs Anna Schultz in Lafayette Ind after doctors warned he had about 24 hours to live. He promised his bride 5000 in life insurance and Toledo property as he lay gravely ill. They had been engaged for a year.
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Byron Ferguson
Toledo
Ohio
Anna Schultz
Lafayette
Ind
Ghio
Ferguson
Russell Utter
G A R Founder Dies in New York Legal Circles
Gen Henry Hawin Tremain founder of the Grand Army of the Republic and a noted New York lawyer died aged 70. He helped found and edit the Daily Law Journal and served five years as president of the Republican Club. He began the Civil War as a private and rose to brevet brigadier general in 1865. He authored several Civil War books.
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Tremain
New York
Henry Hawin Tremain
Grand Army of the Republic
Daily Law Journal
Republican Club
Lynchburg Votes For Return Of Saloon In Narrow Win
Lynchburg Virginia voters approved restoring the saloon by 85 votes amid 2663 ballots, overturning a longstanding no-license policy since March. Antisaloon activists plan to contest the result on alleged unconstitutional registration, claiming no written registration was required by statute.
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Lynchburg
Antisaloon League
Consul General Ozman Dead in Constantinople
Edward Henry Ozman American consul general in Constantinople died today after a brief illness of intestinal trouble. He was born in Rochester Minnesota on August 6 1857.
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Ozman
Constantinople
Edward Henry Ozman
Rochester
Minn
Hotel guest names listed by city and hotel names
A long OCR list shows guests and accompanying names staying at hotels in multiple cities including Boston Chicago New York Philadelphia Pittsburg California Connecticut Georgia Maryland Massachusetts New York State New Jersey Ohio Pennsylvania West Virginia and abroad. Names appear with hotels such as St James Willard Shoreham Ebbit and Arlington.
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Boston
S. D. Muir
W. H. van Aminge
St. James
F. M. Hodgden
Frances B. Tracey
Ebbitt
W. Tarlow
Caran L. Kennedy
Wilard
O . Chicago
Louis C. Cain
J. G. Wood
Shoreham
A. J. Bench
EL W. Halsey
James Stillwell
Willard
New York City
M. A. Walsh
C. E. Rankin
R. 4. White
Paul Barrocto
Misa E. Amato
Mrs. M. Amato
Arlington
Fred Boley
James Speyer
Frederick Townsend Martle
IT. McKnight
J. C. McReynolds
Saoreham
Richard C. Smith
Riggs
Ralph Porter
A. HR. Angelo
H. C. du Bois
J. M. Harding
Charles
Georgia
J. FP. Redding
Atlanta
W. Dunbar
P. McKeny
Augusta
N. Wingfield
B. H. Griffin
G. &. Hawes
Balobridge
Maryland
Craffin Cook
Baltimore
Massachusette
D. T. Groff
Lexington
New York State
B. Elfert
Albany
Charles E. Dickinson
Lockport
Rew Jersey
J. Warner
E. Love
Moorestown
Gauttled Krueger
Mies Smith
TF. Kanther
Newark
Miss I. Hudnut
Princeton
G. Routers
West Orange
Joseph Coult
Ward
Ohio
J. M. Campbell
Columbus
W. P. Day
Cleveland
J. W. Cushmen
Toledo
St. Jame
Virgil P. Kilne
Griff and Wife
Wellington
D. Tier
Cunsinnati
James Joyce
Cambridge
Endbcitt
Pennsylvania
Vasey
Scranton
J. James
G. W. Marsh
Harrisburg
West Virginia
W. Campbell
Charles Town
John W. Davis
Clarksburg
Bam B. Littleby
Chesterton
Death of Mrs. Surratt's Guard in Dubuque
Col P W Crawford longtime Iowa legislator and guard commander at Mrs Surratt execution died in Dubuque aged years. He served multiple terms in the Iowa legislature and lived in the state for 70 years.
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Surratt
Dubuque
Town
P, W.W. Crawford
Aof
Lincoln
Iowa
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Alexandria Hospital
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Mexico
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Dry” Party
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University of Wisconsin Association of Washington
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C. F E. la Vigne
J. D. Wolcott
T. 8. Bradford
James M. Priest
T. L. Cole
F. J. Katz
F. B. van Horn
Z. R. Stone
L. B. Aldrich
Michael M. Doyle
H. L. James
James A. Toomey
Grace B. Myers
Walter E. Myers
District Supreme Court
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Anglers’ Club
Anglers’ Association of Washington
Tbbitt House
H. G. Bergling
Chester L. Cake
C. E. Ingling
W. H. Cooper
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Salifornia
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Los Angeles
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Mies Chalfont
San Jose
Mise
Harriet H. Gage
M. I. Atwood
Oakland
Connecticut
C. D. Wallace
Bridgeport
F. MM. Hatch
Honolulu
E. C. Winslow
Stockholm
Sweden
Mrs. K. Lufschutz
Berlin
Germany
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Tunbridgebody
England
J. Waurer
Brazil
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Daily Post
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