Inaugural Committee Advances Taft Ceremonies Plans
The 1906 Inaugural committee adopts rules and forms to organize Taft's ceremony. Key actions include renaming the transportation committee, adding terminal facilities, and establishing a subcommittee on public comfort with a 2000 dollar budget. Subcommittees submit chairmen and secretaries, headquarters open, and planning for parade and vehicle regulations proceeds.
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Pension Building Importaat
Preas
Stellwagen
Aries
Thom
Weller
Subcommittee On Public Comfort
Man shoots at woman on Fifteenth Street North West
Luther Anderson, a Black man, fired five shots at Carrie Gross on Fifteenth Street North West, wounding her and mortally injuring the deputy. Anderson is held at Third Precinct charged with assault with intent to kill. A note found at the station urged his own death and claimed a planned murder of Gross.
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Carrie Gross
Fifteenth Street
Luther Anderson
I Barriel
Uh 'Phird
William Andlerson
Clifton Staten
Anderson
Fumsell
Robbed During Gab Ride by Strangers
Joha Sehenk, a prominent Mason from North Carolina, was drugged and robbed of $0 and 20 shares of Atlanta Milling and Mining stock after being lured into a carriage by two strangers. He traveled to Union Station toward Chicago, drank from a flask, and later awoke in a saloon near Union Station with his stock missing.
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Sehenk
Avone
Atlanta
Bernig
Seheick
Washington
Thien Station
Street paving request filed for KH Street Northeast
Nas filed an application with the commissioners asking for paving KH Street Northeast from Twelfth to Thirteenth streets. Engineer Commissioner Morrow said the square will be included in the next estimates for improvements.
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W Conway
E Street
Nas
Twelfth
Thirteenth Streets
Morrow
Elder Stewart the 80 year old bachelor who never wed
Minneapolis dated December 11 special to The Washington Post reports millonaire bachelor Lavi Mer Fick Stewart known as Elder Stewart celebrated his eighty flat birthday. He says many people think it an achievement to marry but he has never felt called to accept proposals. He notes he has had more than two hundred marriage proposers but feared they sought money more than him.
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Washington
Poisons in the chalice threaten local priest
In Youngstown Ohio on a recent Sunday Rev Louis Lops of St Rocchus Catholic Church was gravely ill after an alleged poisoning attempt. Authorities suspect strychnine in the communion cup and await chemical analysis. The priest reports defamatory letters sent to parishioners from an out of town source.
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Youngstown
Ohio
Louis Lops
St. Rocchus’ Catholic Church
Navy yard workers welcome recall of discharge order
The National League of Navy Yard and Gun Factory Em ployes held a meeting praising Secretary Newberry and Navy officials for recalling the discharge of 30 workers. They announced plans to form a seven member committee to seek legislation and to push for the government to buy the Pennsylvania Railroad branch serving the yard. A double shift was to begin in the breech mechanism shop within days.
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National League of Naval Station and Gun Factory
Secretary of Navy
Navy Yard
Sea Fume
Newberry
National League of
Gam
Apwrica
Pennsylvania Avenue Southeast
Il Ig Ellulble
League
American Generation of Labor
Heston
Mass
Cue Dareague
Frank Brown
Seecures
Barnes
Frank Kerby
Fred Sharp
Wiliam Martin
H.W. Bos
Busiun
Sermay
Navy Newberry
Admral Ehc
Lutge
Coremander IL PB Jones
Sg Aefendem
Uletr
Wien
Navy
Congress Fonis
Het Pennsylvania Railroad
Fiveways Yard
Leper's New Son Named After Father R Barty Jr
A North Carolina leper in quarantine in Washington welcomed a 4 pound son born to Mrs Lottie Bo Early wife of the patient. The child will bear the name of the father and the family’s brick remodeled home, built to prevent disease spread, is to be completed by Christmas. The leper reportedly showed a happier mood after the birth while remaining isolated from his family by a brick wall.
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Jol Ro Bariy, Jr
North Carolina
Washington
Stark
Lottie Bo Early
Spiria
Barlys
DC Budget Conference Set for Morning Session
Commissioners were informed that a district budget conference with the House appropriations subcommittee on the District of Columbia will begin at 10 this morning. They expect the talks to dominate their schedule, preventing any engagements at the District Building for the next week. The commissioners plan to urge full budget estimates sent to Congress, with no reductions by the Treasury Secretary.
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District of Columbia
House Committee On Appropriations
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Dr Howard W Silsby Dead by Own Action at National Hotel
Dr Howard W Silsby a Baltimore druggist registered as H H Brown shot himself in the head at the National Hotel after a period of domestic trouble. He had separated from his wife months earlier and sought a legal separation, with reports she had disappeared and later been found, a factor police say contributed to his despondency. Coroner ruled death self-inflicted. no funeral arrangements reported.
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Howard W. Silsby
Seventh Street
Natonal
Susby
Silsby
H. H. Brown
Baltimore
Nevitt
Sisby
L. M. Forbes
U_ street northwest
Sllsby
Potomac River
Tor, Sulsby
Stwian
Austria moves army as von Buelow warns of Armament limits
In a heated Reichstag debate Chancellor von Buelow defended naval armament policy and rejected a formal push to limit weapons. He warned that talk of arms reductions could worsen Europe’s tense balance. He pledged Austria Hungary as a steadfast ally and cautioned against weakening military readiness.
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Sp Lal Cab's
Washinzion
Htagusa
Dec. U
Unguro-Croato Navigation Company of Fame
Callare
Montenegrin
Lloyd and
Avetra-American Navigation Companies
Spain
Trieste
Hosnia
Tours
Brod
Berlin
Dee U
Tiereichstag
Chancelior von Buelow
Mystery in Club Call in Democratic Organizing Report
Birmingham, December 11. A Washington report on a proposed meeting to preserve the Democratic clubs from the recent campaign is disputed by Col. John W. Tomlinson. He says the national campaign committee has a record of all clubs organized during the campaign and will begin work in due time.
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Birmingham
Ala
Washington
Democratic National Campaign Committee
John W. Tomlinson
Fanatic cured by bullet in Kansas City shootout
James Sharp, leader of Adem God followers, said his faith collapsed after a gunshot in Kansas City and he was arrested near Monticello, Kansas. Louis Pratt died, patrolman Michael Mullane was killed, and farmer A J Belser was in critical condition.
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James Sharp
Kansas City
Adem God
Nanses City
Monticello
Kens
Adam God
Louis Pratt
Sharp
Michael Mullane
A. J. Belser
BUMS IN THE BREAD LINE AND PROPAGANDA
A December letter from Terence V. Powderly of the Bureau of Immigration urges forming colonies for vagrants and drunks. He criticizes bread lines as feeding “bums, slovenly and ambitionless,” and says aid is wasted. Powderly wrote to Robert Weber, commissioner of public charities, who drafted a plan for colonies.
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New York
Terence V. Powderly
Bureau of Immigration
Robert Webberd
Public Charities
Complete Liquor Cure Graduates Face New Work Faithful to Sobriety
Twenty nine of the original forty six men completing Dr McKanna’s free cure class at the Central Union Mission receive tonic doses and are to report for temporary employment with the Associated Charities. Judge DeLacy and Dr McKenna address the group urging them to stay sober, work, and live like men, as they finish a hard but hopeful period of treatment.
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Dr. McKanna
Goelack
Liey
McKenna
Jones
Associated Charities
Stl G Stree
Northwest
Judge DeLacy
Central Union Mission
Washington
MeXannn
Army Gook Takes Bride in Florida Interracial Marriage
Army cook Thomas TL Yancey and Flossie Johnson, a white enlisted man and a colored woman, were married at the home of Rev. Aquila Sayles in Washington. Yancey plans to move to Florida after his discharge to start a business with his wife. He notes strong disapproval but says their union is their own affair. This marks the fourth or fifth such marriage in recent months, all officiated by Rev. Sayles.
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Thomas TL. Yancey
Waslington
Flossie Jonson
Maine Avenue Southwest
Aguila Sayles
Tampa
Fla
Ezekiel Johnson
Yancey
Miss Johnson
Florida
Washington
Aquila Sayles
Patterson Acquitted At Court Martial Restored To Duty
Capt. Patterson of the A S M C was tried at Norfolk for disobedience of orders and was acquitted. The court’s action was approved yesterday by the Secretary of the Navy, restoring him to duty.
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W. A. Patterson
Norfolk
Secretary of the Navy
Judge Gary Denounces Steel Trust Gathering as Not Restraint
Judge Gary addressed a Waldorf Astoria dinner of iron and steel leaders denying any restraint of trade. He framed the gathering as a yearlong effort to share information and avoid antitrust violation, insisting no price fixing or market division occurred and promising to cease if a complaint is filed.
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Steel Trust
Gary
Two admirals to retire from Navy this month
Announcement was made yesterday of the retirement of Rear Admiral J E Pillsbury chief of the bureau of navigation to take effect December 15 and of Rear Admiral W Hi Emory who recently relinquished command of the second division of the Atlantic fleet at Kong Kong to take effect December 17 Admiral Pillsbury at the Presidents request will continue in charge of the bureau of navigation until the end of the present administration The appointment of J H Sears who has been in command of the gunboat Concord to duty as United States naval attache to Tokyo and Peking to succeed Commander J A Dougherty who is ordered to duty on the Pacific station also was announced
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Pillsbury
Emory
Navy
Esterday
J. E. Pillsbury
Bureau of Navigation
W. Hi. Emory
Atlantic Fleet
Kong Kong
J. H. Sears
Concord
United States
Tokyo
Peking
J. A. Dougherty
Pacific
Fearson Seeks Divorce From Bride After Seven Months
Harry J. Fearson filed for divorce from Lilla M. Fearson after seven months of marriage. He says they wed in Rockville Maryland in May. She remained with her Georgetown parents against his order to reunite, prompting the divorce suit.
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Harry J. Fearson
Lilla M. Fearson
Georgetown
Fearson
Rockville
Washington
Hospital Servants Dropped and New Appointments Pegged
The commissioners approved removing Clarence Bailey and Ida Bailey from service at Cubercio Hospital. Herbert Miller and Anne Douglass were appointed to fill the vacancies, with Smith as superintendent overseeing the changes.
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PG. Smith
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WM. H. Sardo & CO
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Thos
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Ordinery
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14Th St. M. W
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Austria
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Army Gook
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The
Washington Post
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casen_t daily
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Iron and Steel Corporation
Bualess
Slucide
H. J. Fearson
Fifteenth and
Pennsylvania Avenue
Sovnder
Peter Grogan
E. F. Droop & Sons Co
Pa. Ave. N. W
Eleele
Washington Gaslight Co
Tenth Street
Ssee
Warner
Algo
Caluebie
Wamerogan
Wayne 'S Late Cure Company
Rochester
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Rancho Highlands
Istanos
Gapital
Dupont Cfrete
DR Realty CO
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