Gifts for Ladies Catalog of Handicrafts and Accessories
A scanned advert lists Gifts for Ladies including hand-painted miniatures on porcelain from $2 to $5, telephone/address books, imported game counters, Japanese gongs, novelty key racks, postal card albums, hair brushes, cut glass, Austrian glass, hand-painted china, sugar and cream sets, after-dinner cups, beaded chains, Christmas bells, cloisonne vases, ivory figures, salt and pepper shakers, lace fans, gold-plated handbags, bead necklaces, leather bags, pocketbooks, mirrored sets, manicure sets, dolls, children's books, games, and numerous jewelry items with wide price ranges from under $1 to about $25.
Xmas Special Offers Triple Extract in Original Package
As an Xmas special we offer pound triple extract in original package for three dollars and twenty five cents.
Devastating Gale Causes Telegraph Poles to Fall
A 52 mile per hour gale struck at dawn causing telegraph and telephone poles to topple and signs to blow down across the city. Shipping damage feared offshore as fires tangled wires and the storm disrupted the Norfolk to Virginia coast. Authorities report a heavy hail storm preceding the wind and crews begin assessing damage.
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Reval
Washington Post
Storm tears through Washington County wrecking barns and roofs
A severe early morning storm in eastern Washington County from 2 to 4 am caused heavy rain and snow melt, flooding streams around Leitersburg Beaver Creek Hagerstown areas, distorting several homes. The Newman and Newcomer properties suffered unroofed houses while multiple barns and stables belonging to local residents including Funk Kaylor Waltz Merrick Huyett and Harbaugh were blown down or damaged.
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Washington County
Washington Post
Hagerstowh
Leiternburg
Beaver Creek
Fee
William Funk Gehn Kaylor
Jacob Waltz
Merrick Huyett
John F. Harbaugh
Unroofed or Purl and Demolished Fence With Wires Blown
Unroofed or purl and demolished cut quantities of fencing were ated ered and telegraph and telephone wires were blown down.
PARDONS FOR CARTER AND OTHERS MOVED BY A CHILD S PLEA
In Annapolis six year old Imma Warfield influences Gov Barson to pardon Robert Edison for larceny and Advighe Frossard for bigamy after brief prison terms. Elmer McBee, age seventeen, also pardoned for larceny of a lantern. The governor acted amid public sympathy and support from jurors and prominent citizens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Annapolis
Robert Eiison
Atte Imma Warfield
Barson
Jarceny
Allegany
Jagi Baron
Government House
Carson
Advighe Frossard
Frossard
Warve
Frank P Connel
Philadelphia
Elmer McBee
Frederick County
Ferie Eigheen
No Fever in Panama Says Former Alexandria Foreman
Charles M Cuvillier, previously a contractor in Alexandria, now in the Panama Canal Zone for fourteen months, visits Alexandria and reports no yellow fever in Panama. He is general foreman on the Chagres River division under engineer J Gales Holcomb and plans to return February 1 with his wife. Several Alexandrians are already in the isthmus, including J Edward Kidwell, W P Henshaw, and machinists Donald Atcheson and William Crupper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles M Cuvillier
Alexandria
Panama Canal Zone
Cuvier
Big Ditch
J Gales Holcomb
Cuvillier
Mn. Cuvillier
Man Rescued From Mill Creek Flood Near Bunker Hill
Special to the waning in Fost Winchester Va Dec 21 John Tabb a prominent resident of Bunker Hill Berkeley County W Va narrowly escaped drowning this morning in Mill Creek after attempting to ford it in a buggy. The floodwaters swept him downstream as the horse broke loose. Dr H A Rogers who was passing sprang into the torrent and rescued him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fost
Winchester
John Tabb
Bunker Hill
Berkeley County
W Va
Mill Creek
Tabb
H. A. Rogers
Falconio at Annapolis special 10
Mer Felconts apostolic delegate to the United States visited Annapolis to day as guest of Rev Father Hanley rector of St Mary's Roman Catholic Church. He toured the Naval Academy with the superintendent and viewed completed portions of the new facility.
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Washington
Annapolis
Mer. Felconts
United States
Father Hanley
St Mary’s
Naval Academy
St Mary's
Mrs Payton Collapses in Jury Trial for Murder
Special to The Washington Post Fairmont West Virginia December 21 Mrs Helen May Payton collapsed during closing arguments in the murder trial of her husband Jacob N Payton. After a lengthy defense and prosecution case the jury deliberated for hours without reaching a verdict and adjourned until the next morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Fairmont
W Va
Helen May Payton
Jacob N Payton
Denies Infatuation Pittsburg Love Affair Story
Richmond Virginia December 21 Juliug Usura who vanished from Pittsburg Pennsylvania a few days ago and was later found in Richmond denies the sensational tale that he left Pittsburg over a hopeless infatuation with a prominent young woman He says relatives knew his whereabouts all along and he is studying tobacco to eventually run his father’s Porto Rican factory He admits he is close to Judge McKenna and spoke at a Pittsburg banquet honoring the jurist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Washington Post
Richmond
Juliug Usura
Porto Riso
McKenna
Cuticura Works Wonders for Facial Skin Cure
A Camden reader testifies after tries with three doctors failed to heal facial blemishes. Using Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Resolvent as directed, the skin cleared and could be brushed away like powder. This note from Mia Eris White cites a dramatic recovery.
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Mia
Eris White
Trier Flace
Camden
Be Juy
Gored by vicious boar at Bliss county home
Winchester Va December 21 M E Bay Hes a veteran merchant and former postmaster at Bliss suffered severe gashes when a large boar charged him as he drove it to a pen. A farm headshot the animal to prevent further harm while Bayliss lay nearly unconscious from the tusk wounds and torn clothes.
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Washington
Winchester
M. E. Bay Hes
Bliss
Mr. Bayliss
Mr. Baylis
Four Die in Cambridge Fire on Cedar and Pine Streets
Four members of the Myce family perished in a morning blaze at a two story Cambridge home with a barber shop on the first floor. Victims include Jane Smith, Emma Stanley, Raymond Stanley, and Viola Stanley. Mamie Stanley was badly burned. two men escaped as smoke suffocated the women and children.
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Waslington
Cambridge
Cedar and
Pine Streets
Jane Smith
Emma Stanley
Caleb Stanley
Raymond Stanley
Viola Stanley
Mamie Stanley
Murderers Sentenced In Pittsylvania County Court
In Pittsylvania County Circuit Court Josephus Giles received three months in jail for malicious shooting with no fine stated. William Tapley and Granville Handley were sentenced to six and two years in the penitentiary for second degree murder, Frederick Stills got five years for attempted criminal assault. In Hagerstown Charles Houser, twenty seven, a former school teacher, was killed when an elevator accident crushed his head between the elevator and the second floor at the Hagerstown Furniture Works after an empty truck slipped from the elevator.
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Pittaylvania
Washington Post
Chatham
Josephus Giles
William Tapley
Granville Handley
Frederick Stills
Poe Washington Foou
Hagerstown
Charles Houser
Jacob Houser
Cavetown
Houser
Virginia Obituary notices from Virginia small items
Woodstork Shenandoah County December 2 Wesley Emagiller farmer aged about seventy five died yesterday from pneumonia survived by widow and one son Fredericksburg December 21 Captain Swann Carolina County died recently after a lingering illness aged eighty five he was a Confederate soldier seven children two sisters and grandchildren Woodstock December 21 Mrs Mary Keller widow of L O Keller died last night near Maurertown aged about seventy daughter of Jacob Ott Woodstock She survived by sisters and children Tazewell December 21 Mrs Alice Alexander Allen wife of P R Allen died at her father Capt John D Alexander home aged about twenty eight
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Woodstork
Wesley Emagiller
Calavry
Shenandoah County
Fredericksburg
Swann
Carolina County
Woodstock
Mary Keller
L.O. Keller
Maurertown
Jacob Ott
Tazewell
Alice Alexander Allen
P. R. Allen
John D. Alexander
Despondent Farmer Dies After Window Leap at Maryland University
Joseph Barton a 57 year old farmer from Pinto Maryland leapt from a third story window at Maryland University Hospital shortly after 7 AM. He died from a fractured skull before attendants reached him. Barton had been admitted three months earlier for stomach inflammation and was said to be incurable.
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Washington
Baltimore
Joseph Barton
Pinto
Maryland University Hospital
Barton
Changes in Constitution Amended by Maryland Republicans
The Republican state central committee at the Hotel Rennett in Baltimore amended the party constitution. It grants county ward members within any Congressional district full control of conventions or primaries for Congress nominations and district delegates to national conventions and for electors. The chair may appoint special subcommittees, to be used on unusual occasions. The committee will meet first Wednesday in April 1907 and every two years in Baltimore to organize and conduct business for campaign work.
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Washington
Baltimore
Republican State Central Committee
Hotel
Rennett
State Central Committee
Congress
Baltimore City
Death in Gas Fire Tragedy Narrows Night Attendant
A four year old Frederick Allenbaugh died after his nightgown caught fire from a gas heater in his room his brother Edward nine years old was badly burned trying to save him The parents were unaware until Edward called from a furnace flue in their home at 2 South Payson Street in Baltimore Md on December 31 1919.
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Baltimore
Frederick Allenbaugh
James J.allenbaugh
South
Payson Street
Edward
Marriages and public notices from Strasburg to Richmond
A roundup of local nuptials and society notices across Virginia towns. Married couples include Hurn and Beulah Saffell at Strasburg, Daisy Belle Orndorff to Howard T. Grubb, Fannie Hudgins to Linborn Hammock, Eva Jacobs to Fred J. Schrier, Hattle Surface to Fred R. Steele, Mary Slaughter to Dr Claude Lee, with church and home ceremonies noted. Also reports of area obituaries and a federal matter on railroad bond interest payments and staffing changes for West Penn division replacing foreign workers with Americans.
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Woodlstick
Cerson
Hurn
Constable
Strasburg
Beulah, Saffell
Front Royal
Hopkins
Frederickspurg
Bessie Gill
Lou Gill
Carolime County
J. R. Blank
Richmond
Washington
Gay
Mre Gall
Winchester
Frederick Johnson
Star Tannery
This County
Daisy Belle Orndorff
N. Orndorff
Howard T. Grubb
D Skelton
United Brethren Church
Petersburg
Fannie Alice Hudging
Linborn Hammock
C. O Moss
B. A. Hudgins
Imnwiddie County
Notaway County
Charlottesville
Fred J. Schriber
Torrington
Conn
Eva D. Jacobs
J F. Jacobs
High Street Baptist Church
Henry Wise Tribble
Tazewell
George R. Surface
Thompson Valley
Hattle Kathleen Surface
Fred R. Steele
M Fugate
the Baptist Church
Canewell
Mary Willoughby Duke Slaughter
Charles Slaughter
Lynchburg
Claude Mall Lee
Harry B Lee
Christ Episcopal Church
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C. Rimmel Amber
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Atkinson
Chypre
Norfolk
New Jersey
Virginia Capes
Bath
Marcellus
UN Murfolk Nays
Sanchez Santo Domingo
Warfield
Kensington Masons
Hington Port Rockville
Kensington Lodge of Masons
Paul E Cook
J Shauek
Gh- More van Fosse
Baward Ky de Puytrasimer
Livens H Milliken
Panama
Falconio
Apostolic Delegate
Rear Admiral Sands
Wreton Prat
Ee Soffolk
Henry Frank Baker
William S Jones
Carrie Revell
William Revell
McMurray
Justice of the Peace Joint
Davis
North Carolina
Raleigh
Upper
Cape Fear
Esesener
Waterman
Armen
Coticura
Virginia Farmer
Virginia
Maryland
Baltimore Hospital
Post
Suffolk
WestiNgton
Gov Montague
Hop
John M. White
Eighth Judical Circuit Court
Newsemond
Hmite
R. R. Prentis
Thomas Benson
Sme Warnmigion
Boyds, Ma
Hill
Germantown
Benson
Virginia Weddings
New York
Judson Harmon
Cincinnati
Hamilton
Dayton
Pere Marquette
Michigan
Indianapoli, Decatur and Western
Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Western
Pere Marquette Consolidated
Flint and
Tolédo
Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo and Southeastern Railroad
West Penn
Pennsylvania Railroad
Amer
Richard W
San Domingo
F Street
The
King Paper Co
R. P. Andrews Paper Co
11Th St
John F. Ellis & Co
Annex
Penn. Ave
Sweat Atlantic & Pasifig
Droof & Sons Co., of
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the Sunday Post
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