Victory in Mythical Detroit Pittsburg Contest Tigers Edge Pirates
Detroit ties score in eighth inning then wins on final turn at bat. Miss Bessie Mallison represents winners while Walter B Sheila Ada ng pirate team. The game features a batting contest with Cobb's home run opening the scoring, key hits by Gibson Wills Clarke Delehanty Moriarty and Jones, and a dramatic finish as Pittsburg fails to push ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Bessie Mallison
Walter B
Sheila Adang
Ung
Brssle Mallgon
Walter B. Shell
Pittshares
Pittsburg
Cobb
Wis
Ies
Gibson
Wills
Clarke
T. Jones
Pittaute
Leach
Jones
Glacke
Relevanty
Wagseca
Miller
Bush
Ti Jones
Secon
Berne
Crawford
Delehanty
Wagner
Apatela
Sr Abstein
Ubsen Foulel
Schmidt
Merriarty
Fones
Martin
Sat Ly Byrne
T Jones
Willis
Byrne
Clarks
T.miller
Bago
Wison
Hush
Cobbert
Secami
Revemtty
Abstein
Sabstein
Pieth
Mildeefaredt
D Jones
Ren Valin
D. Jones
Mulsculug
Tichianty
Moriarty
Hae Hannt
Mullin
Th Jones
Venthinning
Vieteuty
Mit
Basie
el Mullin
Wilson
Latch
Wilson Scors
Larke
Bash
Secor Melehanty
Southern Surgeons Meet at Hot Springs Convention
The twenty second annual session of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association opened in Hot Springs Virginia with about one hundred members attending. President Dr. Stuart McGuire of Richmond spoke, followed by a roster of physicians from Philadelphia Raleigh Ann Arbor New York City and Baltimore among others. Afternoon addresses covered diverse topics as the group plans two daily sessions through Thursday.
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Hot Springs
Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association
Robert C. Bryan
Richmond
H. J. Whitacre
Tineinnadi
William M. Mantih
Mobis
J. Garland Sherri
Lopinville
J. MT. Finney
Baltimore
LeGrand Gurry
Columbia
Jonegh C. Bloodgood
Joseph Ranaohoff
Cincinnsti
R. C. Coffey
Baltimore and Ohio to Build New Cumberland Station
Special to The Washington Post Cumberland Md Dec 1 1906 plans adopted in 1906 will be followed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company as it decides to erect a new Cumberland station. The move follows a recent decision to fund a $100000 station for Grafton stirring Cumberland residents who see Cumberland as a major revenue producer.
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Washington Post
Cumberland
Baltmore and Ohio Railroad
Baltimore and Ohio
Grafton
West Virginia Court Ends Council Seat For McMillan
A court of appeals ruling in Fairmont removes Councilman McMillan from the common council for not owning real estate. In Martinsburg a bond proposal for 40,000 to improve the water system passed by about 75 to 25 with a 5 cent tax levy to fund the sinking fund. Bethany College has raised about 93,000 of 100,000 needed under HR Long’s offer to add 100,000 by January 1. Senator Oliver leads donors with 25,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court of Appeals
McMillan
City of
Fairmont
Martinsburg
Bethany College
HR. A. Long
Kansas City
United States
Oliver
Pennsylvania
Virginia Briefs From Lynchburg and Nearby Areas
Lynchburg court awards Mrs. C H Carpenter ten dollars for a foot bridge impact near her home. Divorce docket at Lynchburg shows eight granted Monday with more to come. West Indian sailor Moses Silvia jailed two years at Newport News after stabbing a man during a beat down incident. University exposes promised by Prof Henry Mace Payne draws attention amid his recent firing. Fredericksburg broke ground for State Normal School with speakers and a silver loving cup to C O Gorrick. Norfolk preacher A J Fristoe named State Evangelist Supervisor with Maryland Baptists. Portsmouth man Ernest J Holt convicted of petit larceny for embezzlement while running a hat campaign. fined ten dollars. Bristol chosen for Appalachian Southwest Insurance Company offices over Roanoke. Danville restaurateur Harvey Millg fined one hundred dollars for selling whiskey without license. jail time assessed. Suffolk man Pearle Clough detained ten days for navy record check. claims Rhode Island battleship service, denies desertion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moses Silvia
Newport News
Willam Jones
Jones
West Virginia University
Henry Mace Payne
A. J. Fristoe
Park Avenue Baptist Church
Norfolk
State Evangelista of Maryland Baptiste
Baltimore
Portsmouth
Ernest J. Holt
Josph H. Neville
Holt
Conway Not Guilty Frees Keeper After Quick Jury Verdict
Richmond jury finds James Conway not guilty of murder in the October 16 shooting of Robert E. Torrence outside Conway's saloon. Witnesses described a dispute over Torrence's alleged relation to Conway's wife. defense said Torrence warned Conway he would "fix" him. Torrence died two days later. Conway had been free on bail, then jailed without bail until verdict. Court warned against demonstrations as verdict delivered after about thirteen minutes.
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Washington Post
Richmond
James Conway
Robert E. Torrence
Abot Sna Killen
Conway
Terrence
Commonwealth
Folkey
Conwax
Maryland Obituary Notices From Rockville Frostburg and Hagerstown
Multiple brief notices report deaths in Rockville Frostburg and Hagerstown. Eliza Jackson Settle of Rockville aged about, survived by five sisters four daughters and one son. Harriet A Kane of Frostburg aged eight died after seven weeks illness. John Lum of Pondville aged 83, a fruit grower in Washington county, died of heart disease, leaving wife and seven children. Vita Cummings of Weverton died of spinal abscess, survived by husband and five children.
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Rockville
Eliza Jackson Settle
J. W. Benvon
Rappahannock County
Shela
Mary C. Carpenter
Rose Richardson
Washington
Elizabeth Benson
Annie Settle
J. Vincent Settle
Culpeper
Frostburg
Harriet A. Kane
Hocking
Dennis Beall
Nelson Beall
Richard Beall
Olin Beall
First National Bank Tdoyd
Beall
Natalie Huntley
Adelza Taylor
Latinia Kalbfus
Hagerstown
John Lum
Pondaville
Washington County
Vita Cummings
George Cummings
Weverton
Golf Dates Not Decided At Annual Meeting
The York area golf association met to design agenda items, with competition for the championship between Morris vols Salishary Garden City Fox Wits and Montelsir Ss pending. The executive committee elected includes President Hia Larkin and vice president F S W Vanderpool among others.
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Sea York
Qer
Witan Galt Associaton
Morris Vols. Salishary
Garden City
Fox Wits
Montelsir Ss
Presi- Hi
Dependable Watch Ad Claims Jeweler Purchase Guard
A Waltham Watch advertisement asserts Dependable quality and warrants buying only from a jeweler for reliability. The copy emphasizes trust in the brand and the retailer to ensure a genuine timepiece.
Waltham Watch Advice for Temperature and Position
N B advises buyers to consult their jeweler to ensure a Waltham watch is adjusted for temperature and position before purchase. This tip emphasizes accurate timekeeping and proper care when selecting a finely made timepiece.
Pasteurizing milk debate in Washington message
Nathan Strang’s offer of a pasteurizing plant prompts wide comment in Washington. Biased toward urging pasteurized milk, the letter claims Washington already has strong sanitation efforts and cites Baltimore and Washington White Cross Milk Company as supplying fresh, sterile milk from Frederick and other plants.
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Nathan Strang
Caambi
Straus
Thare
Washington
Nus
Hus
Frederick
Baltimore and Washington
White Cross Milk Company
White Cross
White Cross Mok Company
Baltimore and
Whits Crose MDx
F. R Horner
Gov. Ninth and Natiets Northwest
Welgphonea North
Deportation Appeals In Immigration Act Cases
Special to The Washington Post from Richmond Virginia December 14 reports United States district court rulings in three habeas corpus cases under the immigration act. Sadie M Spring Rebecca Bloom and Abraham Bloom and their two infants were ordered deported after inspection by the inspector at Norfolk. They challenged the writs of habeas corpus and Judge Wadalls discharged them on grounds the parties are not aliens meant in the act. The government appealed from this decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Richmond
United States District Court
Sadie M. Spring
Rebecca
Bloom
Abraham
Tlon
Norfolk
Jone
Wadalls
Mra
Spring
Carrie Nation of Mountain Carolina Strikes at Distillery
Mrs. Souhua Pruett of Wilkes county acts like Carrie Nation, seizing a distillery near her home to stop whisky sales to her husband. She axed the stillhouse, destroying it before the owners returned. Her brothers vow to protect her if retaliation occurs.
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Winston Salem
N. C
Souhua Proatt
Wilkes County
Carrie Nation
Moun Carolina
Mra. Pruett
Wageman Urged for Maryland U S District Court Seat
Hagerstown Md Dec 11 Former State's Attorney Charles D Wageman of Hagerstown is being urged for a seat on the U S district court of Maryland as the Senate passed a bill creating an additional judge. Wageman had sought the Fourth Circuit chief judgeship this fall but was defeated by D Lindley Sloan of Cumberland who then lost to Judge A Hunter Boyd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
Washington Post
Hagerstown
Charles D. Wageman
United States District Court of
Parker Convicted of Murder Over 20 Cents
Norfolk Virginia jurors convict Walter P Parker for murdering Sam Fisher in a dispute over 20 cents in a card game. Parker struck Fisher from behind with a wooden rail post, fracturing his skull. defense claimed Fisher threatened him with a knife and Parker faces the electric chair.
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Norfolk
Walter P. Parker
Sam Fisher
Parker
Fisher
North Carolina Labor Figures and Local Verses in News
The State labor commissioner reports 310 textile mills operating in North Carolina, up from the prior quarter. The board of health orders vaccination for all residents in infected districts amid about 40 smallpox cases near Winston-Salem. In Winston Salem 4 year old Bessie Foltz died from severe burns sustained by an open fireplace. Salisbury mourns H Colin Williams a hardware dealer who died at a local hospital. Spencer reports the death of William Gobel a Confederate veteran age 70 and farmer, survived by three sons and three daughters. T Murchison a Spencer businessman, age 30, collapsed and died in Baltimore. He leaves a wife and one daughter.
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Tast
Winston Salem
Board of Health
Bessie
FE. D. Foltz
Salisbury
N. C
H. Colin Williams
Spencer
William Gobel
T. ¥. Murchison
Baltimore
Steunton
Martha
Middlekauif
Carroll County
Elizabeth Heneley
John Co. Heneley
Peralysie
Higband
Conrad
William G. Conrad
Montana
Charles H. Owens
Frederick ‘County
Brucetown
Faeven
Virginia Weddings Tie Peters burg Pair to D C Marriage
Petersburg December 14 Miss Bessie Tench and B M Taylor both of Petersburg left this morning for Washington D C where they were married. The bride is the daughter of T Tench and the bridegroom 12 an engineer on the Seaboard Air Line. Alexander F Shortt Jr of Petersburg was married today in Washington D C to Miss Elizabeth M O Hara of New York. The bride once resided in this city.
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Petersburg
Bessie Tench
B. M. Taylor
Washington, D. C
T. Tench
Seaboard Air Line
Alexander F. Shortt, Jr
Elizabeth M. O'Hara
New York
Maryland Weddings Bind Ruth Clugston and James Kauffman
In Hagerstown at St Pauls Methodist yesterday Miss Ruth Clugston of New Franklin wed James K. Kauffman of Mont Alto. The ceremony was conducted by the Rev Edwin T Mowbray. Also Georgia Wolford and Ralph Crawford of Baltimore married at St Marys rectory by Father Sebastian Rabbia. Special to The Washington Port.
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Hagerstown
Ruth Clugston
New Franklin
James K. Kauffman
Mont Alto
St. Paul's
Edwin T. Mowbray
Georgia Wolford
Ralph Crawford
Baltimore
St. Mary's Catholic
Sebastian Rabbia
Alexandria Plant Fire Burns Most Buildings in City Block
The National Electrical Supply Company plant at Franklin Street and the Strand in Alexandria was nearly destroyed by a fire started shortly after 7 o'clock. Police claim incendiary work. The Marine Railway and Coal Company yard and the Virginia police boat Accomac narrowly escaped damage. Locust pins and logs stored at the plant were burned. Fire plug shortages hindered suppression and river water could not be drawn. The brick engine room survived while frame structures housing the mill and storage were wiped out. Insurance will cover losses. officials deem it arson. The plant had resumed operations two years ago after a previous fire.
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Washington Post Bureau
Kings Street
Alexandeen
National Electrical Supply Company
Franklin Street
Strand
Alexandria
Virginia
Accomac
Hudgins
Marine Railway, Shipbuilding and Coal Company
R. B. Grover
Washington
Alexandria council debates smallpox bill and other notices
The semimonthly Alexandria city council meeting briefly discussed Dr. A Gorman’s $762.92 bill for smallpox care costs through November 1, 1909, with debate over indigent coverage and state law. The session also referred school board funding requests and a fire department appropriation, plus a corner-stone ceremony for the Elks and obituaries from Washington and Clarke counties.
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Alexandria
A. Gorman
Snowden
Common Enunels
Burke
Mc. Ohler
Lee School
Washington
Schoo
Committee On Finance
Board of Fire
Worrans
Comelan Smith
Spon
State ‘Corporation Commission
Interstate Scimmeree Commission
Farcom
Washington, Alexandria and
Mount Verton
Obituary notes from Albemarle and nearby churches
An obituary flash reports a bank employee dying at home in Albemarle County leaving a husband and three daughters. It also mentions a marriage at Harpers Ferry and the will of Mrs. Priscilla J Poole probated at Poolesville with legacies to relatives, charges for church salary, and a nephew Leor ata H Poole named executor without bond.
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Rockville
Priscilla J. Poole
Poolesville
Heaths Cay
St Peter's Protestant Episcopal Parish
Diocese of
Wasington
Christ Episcopal Church
Barneaville
Protestant Episcopal Foreign Missions
Leorata H. Poole
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BEW
West Virginia
Virginia Briefs
Lynchburg
C.H. Carpenter
Barksdale
Fredericksburg
State Normal School
C. O'Connor Gorrick
Appalachian Insurance Company
Southwest Agency Company
Bristol
Roanoke
Harvey Millg
Danville
Navy
Suffolk
Dec
Pearle Clough
Flick
Maury
Williams
Clough
Providence
Rhode Island
Hieisorag
Grotsetow
Toom
Burdette
Baden
Widiinson
Fiabe
Glover
Taytor
Tatals
Interior Cooper
Sia Tice
Aueuste
O'Donnel
Garrett
Fowler
Bright
Bethany
Grupe
Bartote
Glaw
Walter
Ne van Hoe
A. Hartat
Gardner
Colummia League
Cubs
Grittos
Gren
Smeanders
Ruxbaum
Benedert
Jrves
Rogera
Kurita
Bens
NeCture
National Union League
Colma
Harmony
Ouaats
Stoll
Norbrek
Green
Dena
Dewey
Atures
MacCares
Ashenback
Army War College Duckery League
Ronrer
S Ave
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Willams
Tolle
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Bignalinen
Arabaugh
Tiayea
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Dal
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Walsmatt
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Kelly Nu
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Hoffer
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Uae
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Smu
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Deshler
Bronson
Boston
Dex
Dave Deshler
Cambridge
Ray Brannan
Indianapolis
Ind
Miling
Armory Athletic
Waltham
Nathan Straus
Wagaman
Negro
North Carolina
Virginia Weddings
Washington Port
A. Hege
Salem
Capt
Parish
Greenland
Gogitok
Angikok
Ariting
Dr. Lyon
Perisha¢as
National Electrical Supply Works
George
Alexandria-Washington
Fredericksboro Lodge
A. F
A. M
Worshinfel
Alexandria Lodge
Mount Vernon
R. W. Fulleran
Wiliam H. ‘Philps
C. H. Callahan
John Graham
Frank Latham
Andrew Jackson Lodge
Fredericksburg Lodge
J. E. ‘Timberlake
Benjamin Thomas
James Tee
N. F. Linder
Carlin
Robert G. Scott
Mary Hillzaneth Minor
William W. Minor
Richard T. Minor
Merchants’ National
HESS
Silenere
Facher
N. Hess’ Sons
Pa. Ave
Newcorn & Green Merchant Tailors
St. N. W
Bank
Albemarle County
Harpers Ferry
W. Va
James Myers
Shepherdstown
Lydia Wagley
Peter's Catholic Church
Somma
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