Baltimore Segregation Ordinance Clears City Council
Baltimore officials advance a plan to segregate residents by race, with the second branch approving an ordinance restricting where Black residents may move into white districts and vice versa. Mayor Mahool is expected to sign, and legal challenges over constitutionality are anticipated. The measure targets blocks where a white majority resides, or vice versa, as Black families move into previously white areas.
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Council
Baltimore
Mahool
McCulloch
Court Enlarges Norfolk Annexes Huntersville and Lambert Point
Judge Thomas W. Harrison of Winchester signed a decree annexing Huntersville and Lamberts Point to Norfolk, creating the Ninth and Tenth wards. The territory has about 14,000 residents and over 4 million dollars in taxable value, including the Norfolk and Western coal piers at Lamberts Point. The decree takes effect tomorrow amid a hard-fought battle over sanitation, fire, and police 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? no, three is incorrect. Gilmer Patton prominent Parkersburg lawyer and leading Democrat dies in St Joseph Hospital from Bright's disease. He was elected to the house of debates from this county in the set election. Native of Monroe county he came from a distinguished Patton family. His father Judge French Patton served on the state supreme court of appeals. Funeral set 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 Fire Blocks Traffic In South
A large plant of Thornhill Wagon Works in Lynchburg Virginia burned tonight destroying four freight cars. The blaze blocked Southern and Chesapeake and Ohio tracks for hours and caused about 100000 dollars in damage fully covered by insurance.
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Lynchburg
Postal and Western Tnion Telegraph Companies
Thornhill Wagon Works
South
Chesapeake
Onio
Sister shoots at burglar in Bristol home
Henry Wilson, 11 years old, was fatally shot by his sister Mrs Haynes Snapp near Bristol Tennessee. He went to her farm home and, after knocking, she demanded identification. Upon no answer she fired through the door striking him in the breast, mistaken for a burglar.
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Bristol
Tenn
Henry Wilson
Haynes Snapp
Young Wilson
Ulster
Schenks Meeting Delayed In Wheeling
In Wheeling West Virginia the planned meeting between John Schenk a wealthy pork packer and Laura Farnsworth Schenk his wife under indictment for attempted poisoning did not occur. The prosecuting attorney learned the lawyers would question Schenk closely and he refused to agree to that plan. A meeting is expected tomorrow under suitable conditions.
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Wheeling
W. Va
John ©. Schenk
Milionaire Pork Packer
Laura Farnsworth Schenk
Schenk
Tate
Twenty Eighth Typhoid Case At Naval Academy
The twenty eighth case of typhoid fever at Annapolis Naval Academy involved Zefrin Fontaine Maury of the third class whose home is New Jersey. He was admitted to the naval general hospital.
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Annapoli
Naval Academy
Zefrin Fontaine Maury
New Jersey
Naval General Hospital
Barret Five-Masted Schooner Floated Off Norfolk
The five masted schooner Henry Barrett of Bath Maine, stranded Wednesday night on Jagacs Shoale near Smiths Island off Cape Charles, was floated today by Norfolk tugs Rescue and Fdna V. crew.
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Norfolk
Henry ©. Barrett
Bath
Jagacs Shoale
Smiths Island
Cape Charles
Rescue
Fdna V
Sochety Ladies Face Foot Ailments From Fashion
In the hot season and stiff stylish footwear, well dressed women suffer from corns callouses bunions and swollen feet. A home remedy calocide compound dissolved in hot water promises quick relief by drawing out moisture cooling the feet and softening troublesome areas. Regular use may lead to a full cure. the preparation is sold by pharmacists for about fifty cents per supply.
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Walt
Old window accident saves man a fall in Manhattan
Special to The Washington Post reports Millicent Almy of Lawrence Island saves 60 year old window cleaner Nagle from a 25 foot plunge at West Thirty-eighth Street Manhattan. Nagle was hurt though not severely. Passersby witnessed the icy moment as the pair collided with the ground era.
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Washington Post
New York
West Thirty-eighth Street
Manhattan
Millicent Almy
Lawrence
Leung Island
Nagle
Ife
Miss Almy
Alexandria Plan Fought Annexation of Territory
Fairfax county board of supervisors vows to resist Alexandria's bid to annex territory, arguing no commercial or population need exists. Commonwealth's Attorney Ford to protect county interests. both counties likely to contest in court. Also reports burial transfer, organ recital by Edgar Priest, and Judge Barley assigned to relieve Judge Thornton in Prince William circuit court cases.
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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 in dying wife request
Viola Hathaway of Cecil County wished female pallbearers during her final moments and named six women from the neighborhood. Weather prevents meeting her request at tomorrow's funeral. The service will be followed by interment at Oakwood Cemetery.
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Cecil County
Washington
Rising Sun
Viola
Harry Hathaway
Oakwood Cemetery
Reports On Hostage False In Chihuahua Crisis
Mexico City and San Antonio reports are contradicted by Enrique Creel who says his son Parioque is visiting and left for Chihuahua. Federals retreat from Ojinaga as insurgents grow stronger. 2,000 claimed insurgent forces, with 1,500 likely. US consular inquiry continues. rumors of executions of Mexican officers and rebel gains spread through border areas.
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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
Gustavo A. Madero
Mexico
Revolutionary Committee
Washington
Revolutionary Movement
Zacatecas
Weds On His Death Bed In Indiana Marriage Before Death
Byron Ferguson of Toledo Ohio, near death per doctors, marries Mrs Anna Schultz of Lafayette Indiana. He declares he will leave his bride five thousand dollars in insurance and Toledo property. The couple 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 Gen Henry Tremain Dies in New York
Gen Henry H Tremain a founder of the Grand Army of the Republic and a prominent New York lawyer died aged seventy. He helped found and edit the Daily Law Journal and served five terms as president of the Republican Club. He began as a private in the Civil War and was brevetted brigadier general in 1865.
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Tremain
New York
Henry Hawin Tremain
Grand Army of the Republic
Daily Law Journal
Republican Club
Lynchburg Turns To Wets Defeat For Dry Party In Lynchburg Va
Lynchburg voters ended a long no license policy by a 85 vote margin on 2663 ballots, returning the saloon amid dry suspicions of unconstitutional registration challenges. The wets celebrate as the Antisaloon League vows to contest on registration grounds. In related items, UW Association of Washington officers were elected, a divorce suit was filed in District Supreme Court, and the Anglers Club reelected officers.
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Dry” Party
Antisaloon League
Lynchburg
Anglers’ Club
Anglers’ Association of Washington
Tbbitt House
H. G. Bergling
Chester L. Cake
C. E. Ingling
W. H. Cooper
C. W. Fairfax
Consul General Ozman Dead in Constantinople
Edward Henry Ozman American consul general in Constantinople died today after brief illness of intestinal trouble He was born in Rochester Minnesota on August 6 1857 and had served in the consular service for many years This obituary notes his death and birthplace in a concise notice from the era.
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Ozman
Constantinople
Edward Henry Ozman
Rochester
Minn
Hotels Register List of Guests by City and Hotel
A compiled guest roster shows patrons staying at prominent hotels across cities including Boston Chicago New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh California Connecticut Georgia Maryland Massachusetts New York State New Jersey Ohio Pennsylvania West Virginia and foreign entries. Notable names include Muir Van Aminge Hodgden Tracey Boley Speyer Mar tle Hollowell Wright and many others at St James Willard Shoreham Ebbitt and Arlington houses.
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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 dies in Dubuque at age years old. Resident of the state for seven decades and a notable figure in Lincoln assassination era security efforts.
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Surratt
Dubuque
Town
P, W.W. Crawford
Aof
Lincoln
Iowa
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