Maine Sinking Anniversary Observed by Navy Union Held at Public School
The nineteenth anniversary of the Maine sinking will be marked with patriotic services at the Business High School in Washington. Gen. Oden Lake and Rear Admiral George W. Baird are among speakers. ceremonies include flag displays, music by the Mayflower band, and tributes from Cuba. Separately, Otto Raesler faced a court case over alleged love scenes with a star boarder, was fined then given clemency after vowing to move.
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Maine
Army and Navy Union
Fort Myer
Father Chadwick
Habana Harbor
Army
Navy
Secretary of the Navy
Daniels
J. Walter Mitchell
U 8&8
Mayflower
Army and Wavy Union
U.S. S
Cuba
Carlos Manuel de Cespedes
Cuban National Air
Harold Putney Bailey
George W. Baird
U. S
Mayflower Band
George Francis O'Shaunessy
Rhode Island
Columbia
Mallette Roach Spengler
Margaret L. Huss
Francis M. Ball
Barry Bulkley
Carl Hornisher
Thirteenth Street Southwest
Otto Raesler
Mr. Hornisher
Hornisher
Mullbway
Poltice Court
Raesler
Law Class of 1915 Banquets at Georgetown
The Georgetown University Law School class of 1915 held its second annual banquet at the Hotel Continental. Frank J. Flogan presided as host master and introduced John J. Honan who urged national unity behind the President. Speakers included Wilbur C. Hale and G. W. Kreis among others. Officers elected for the year: Henry Fowler president, Henry Driscoll vice president, Bertrand Emerson second vice president, G. W. Kreis treasurer. Executive committee: Lewis Grieb, James Corey, Fritz Giesler, H. V Wanderwerker, Claude De Baun.
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Georgetown University Law School
Frank J. Flogan
Bastmaster
John J. Honan
Wilbur C. Hale
Leesburg
G. W. Kreis
Frank J. Hogan
Henry Fowler
Henry Driscoll
Bertrand Emerson
Lewis Grieb
James Corey
Fritz Giesler
H. V Wanderwerker
Claude de Baun
SeeK US Nitrate Plant for Columbia S C
A brief filed with Secretary Baker by Senator Smith and Columbia Chamber representatives argues for a nitrate plant unit in Columbia South Carolina and counters coastal security concerns with plane advances. The interdepartmental committee may review the submission.
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Columbia
8. C
Bite
Baker
Smith
South Carolina
Columbia Chamber of Commerce
War
Agriculture
Interior
Richard I. Manning
Lewis A. Griffith
Edmund A A. Felder
Gadsden
EF. Shand
H. Williams
William Banks
Fly's Cream Balm Stops Catarrh and Cold Nose
An advertisement promises rapid relief from head catarrh and nasal congestion. It urges buyers to ask their druggist for a small bottle, applying a fragrant antiseptic cream in the nostrils to clear air passages, soothe inflamed membranes, and restore breathing. The copy emphasizes instant relief and urges avoidance of lingering misery.
Morphine Wife Hid Addiction Four Years From Husband
Mrs Pearl Virginia Stewart a 34 year old of 522 Kenyon Street NW was arrested for forgery and pharmacy law violations after forging prescription blanks to obtain morphine she could not buy since the Harrison drug law. Police say she used unsigned blanks and forged doctors’ names and hid a four year habit from her husband claiming a two grain daily intake recently. She was committed to Washington Asylum Hospital for treatment pending court action.
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de Quincy
Pearl Virginia Stewart
Kenyon Street
Northwest
Stewart
Washington Asylum Hospital
Odda
New York
Gha
Washington
Sanders
Mix-Up Over German Trouble Sparks Local Fight
An argument over US policy toward Germany led to a violent clash between Frank Smith and Charles Hammer. Smith, 34, was hospitalized with a broken ankle after the fight, while Hammer, a local merchant, was held on $300 bond at the police station. The dispute traces to election loyalties between Wilson and Hughes, with the men meeting at Four-and-a-Half and H streets southwest yesterday around 3 p.m.
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Germany
Frank Smith
Seventh Street
Casualty Hospital
Charles Hammer
C Street
Smith-Hammer
Wilson
Hughes
Smith
Will Give Plays for Charity by Washington Stage Society
The Washington Stage Society presents three plays at the Casino Theater on Saturday to benefit local charities. The program features A Purely Relative Matter by Prof Samp son, Rosalind with Edith Goode in the lead, and One Day More a melodrama by Joseph Conrad. Casts include Lillian Birney Mason Young Mason Wright Theodore Jewell Frederic Michels Edith Goode George Triplett Leslie Cameron Hanna Taylor Jr John W Thompson. Half the proceeds from charity ticket sales go to the designated charity. other buyers may choose a beneficiary. Tickets available at Specialty Shops 1009 F Street Hotel Lafayette and T Arthur Smith’s.
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Washington Stage Society
Casino Theater
Prof. Sampson
Cornell
Oscar Wilde
Rosalind
Barrie
Joseph Conrad
Lillian Birney
Mason Young
Mason Wright
Theodore Jewell
Frederic Michels
Edith Goode
George Triplett
Leslie Cameron
Hanna Taylor, Jr
John W. Thompson
F Street
Hotel LaFayette
T. Arthur Smith's
Warning to Poor of Coal Swindler Alert
Police warn residents to beware of a suave white man visiting low income homes to sell coal on a small cash payment with weekly balance. The swindler, 25, 5 ft 7 in, 135 lbs, smooth face, two gold teeth, wears dark hat gray overcoat and tan shoes, wanted for false pretenses.
Porto Rico Citizenship Bill Moves Ahead in Senate
Responding to President Wilson, the Senate set aside the postoffice appropriation bill and pressed the Porto Rican citizenship measure with an expected passage tomorrow. An amendment by Senator Brousard aims to curb land monopolization by requiring US approval for any new land laws on the island. Charles Starck resigns as Reserve Bank Director. William L. Saunters of Plainfield, N. J., is chosen as his successor.
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Wilson
Senate
Broussard
United States
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Charles Starck
National
New York
Federal Reserve Board
William L. Saunters
Plainfield, N. J
Valuation Work Near End for Public Service Firms
The public utilities commission nears final valuations for properties of public service corporations. Washington gas case nears closing, Potomac Electric Power virtually closed, Capital Traction to resume Tuesday, Washington Railway and Electric cross examination this month, Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company last case with possible compromise. Valuations expected to clear by summer and then rates targeted.
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Public Utilities Commission
Washington Gas
Potomac Electric Power Company
Capital Traction
Washington Railway and Electric Company
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Flag Presentation At Central High School Thursday
A 10 by 14 foot American flag will be presented Thursday at 9 am by the Willam B. Cushing Camp flag committee to Central High School. Principal Prof Emory Wilson will accept the flag with 2000 students in attendance. After the indoor ceremony, the flag will be raised outside south of the stadium as patriotic groups from DC are invited to attend.
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Willam B. Cushing Camp
No. 30
Sons of Veterans
Central High School
Emory Wilson
Flag Committee
District of Columbia
Comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic
Ladies of the A. R
Woman's Relief Corps
Legion of Loyal Women
Daughters of Veterans
Daughters of the American Revolution
Ladies of the Auxiliary of Sons of Veterans
Women's Hope to Vote Rises Over Porto Rican Citizenship
The President's push for Porto Rican citizenship yesterday spurred the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage to intensify efforts for the federal suffrage amendment. Invitations go to state chairmen nationwide to join a White House demonstration in March. About 5,000 women, voters and nonvoters, are expected to participate.
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Porto Rico
Congressional Union For Woman Suffrage
White House
Thief Steals 21 Pints of Liquor in DC Store
A thief at Sam Minster’s wine and liquor shop on 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW selected the 21 pint bottle lot and carried off a bag containing 21 pints while the owner Charles Richardson of Wilson NC left his suitcases unattended. Police pursue the missing liquor and investigate the momentary lapse in guarding the goods.
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Sam Minster
Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest
Charles Richardson
Wilson
N. C
Merchants Elect Tuesday Officiers Meet on Taxes
Keen interest surrounds the Retail Merchants' Association election of officers at the board of governors meeting Tuesday evening. It marks the first meeting of the new board and will address the aidewalk vault tax and the proposed 8 percent tax on the profits of copartnerships and corporations.
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Retail Merchants’ Association
Board of Governors
Washington
Washington Athletic Club Names 150 New Members Ahead of Groundbreaking
The Washington Athletic Club announces 150 new members approved by the membership committee at its Union Savings Bank building offices. Officers expect to reach a 1,600 unit target by March 1 and break ground within weeks. Architect Frank Milburn to return from a national tour to finalize plans promising the finest club edifice in the country.
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New Washington Athletic Club
Union Savings Bank
Frank FP. Milburn
Chris Evans Dead Former bandit chief dies in Oregon
San Francisco reports the death of Chris Evans once a notorious California train robber famed for spectacular heists near Visalia and Collis. Paroled from Folsom in 1921, he later received a gubernatorial pardon. He left a wife and daughter, after a long pursuit ended in a wrecked farmhouse where he was mortally wounded.
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San Francisco
Chris Evans
California
Portland
Oreg
Folsom Penitentiary
Visalia
John
George Sontag
Southern Pacific
Collis
Evans
John Sontag
Fresno
Mexico
Evang
Sontag
City Briefs Show Local Talks And School Events
Mrs Jessie N Lane a Riverdale Md uplift worker addresses the Womens Wage Earners Association this afternoon at 4 at Columbia Academy Washington. The Woman s Army and Navy League seeks reading matter for soldiers at border posts. donations may be left at Seven Teenth and streets depot or with chairwoman Mrs W C Borden. Webster P T A meets next Wednesday at 246 o clock with Myra M Hendley on the League for the Decoration of Public Schools. J L McBrien US Bureau of Education speaks to Gage School P T A on Lincoln s Birthday. Robert W Woolley ex Mint director speaks to Kentucky State Association at the Melbitt Wednesday night with music. The Arcade kids perform The Old Woman In the Shoe Friday evening at the Arcade auditorium in a new version by James A Willard with dance.
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Jessie N. Lane
Riverdale
Ilinois
Woman’s Wage Earners’ Association
Columbia Academy
T Street Northwest
Woman’s Army and Navy League
W. C. Borden
Tracy Place
Webster Parent-Teacher Association
Myra M. Hendley
League For the Decoration of Public Schools
Mra. S. Kalisher
Mra
R. H. Tucker
J. L. McBrien
United States Bureau of Education
Parent and
Arcade
James A. Whllard
Caruana to Lead Ballet Feature With Poor Butterfly Song
Funeral services for W Wallace Anderson, who died yesterday at Georgetown University Hospital, will be held at St Aloysius Catholic Church Tuesday morning with interment at Mt Olivet Cemetery. He is survived by his wife and mother. Katharine Donovan will perform Poor Butterfly joined by a chorus of 25 children.
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Caruana
Maitre de Ballet
Butterfly
Katharine Donovan
W. Wallace Anderson
Georgetown University Hospital
St. Aloysius Catholic Church
Mt. Olivet Cemetery
Mr. Anderson
Patriotic Service at St John’s in Lafayette Square Today
A patriotic service under the District of Columbia Society Sons of the Revolution will be held at St John’s Episcopal Church Lafayette Square at 4 30 this afternoon. Rev R F Humphries of Baltimore is principal speaker, assisted by a roster of clergy led by Rev Roland Cotton Smith.
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District of Columbia Society
Sons of the Revolution
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Lafayette Square
R. F. Humphries
Baltimore
Roland Cotton Smith
St. John’s Church
R. H. McKim
John van Schatck, Jr
George H. MelGraw
William Taylor Snyder
G. Livingston Bayard
Navy
Society
Leonard Wood
Leo H. Lutsich
Coast Guard Service
Fraunces Tavern
New York
United States
Battery Park
Robert R. Bennett
Tracy William Bennett
Magon
Twentieth Street
Women's Section
Navy League
Mothers Pension Bill Promised By District Congress
District Congress of Mothers and Parent Teacher Associations launches work on a comprehensive mothers pension bill to be drafted before the next Congress session. A Raleigh council of presidents appointed a committee to investigate the field and coordinate home and school instruction with plans for a child welfare day and a February 20 program.
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Congress
Congress of Mothers
Raleigh
Leonard 3. Doten
Z. Lewis Dalby
Charles A. Bohannan
Foster Causey
A. Goodson
David T. Sandoe
James W. Byler
G. G. Davis
Joseph F. Randall
Hyattsville society events and weddings noted
Hyattsville Afternoon Hundred Club entertained by Mrs Alfred Hyatt Wells with luncheon and games. Frances Mudd of Flatbush is guest of Dr and Mrs Paul Herring. Hyattsville Club hosted a county dance in Masonic Hall with many couples from nearby areas. Riverdale Grange also held a town hall event and a Prince Georges County branch meeting of the State Government League with Miss Mary O Toole to speak. Several social visits, a versified entertainment by the Prince Georges Dramatic Club, and Lincoln's birthday exercises were observed. Arthur Sonnenberg and Augusta Fredericka Marquard were wed at Bethesda. Mary Cocke and Eugene Mattingly announced for a near-future Hyattsville ceremony. Various visits and club meetings filled the week.
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Hyattsville
Alfred Hyatt Wells
Frances Mudd
Flatbush
N. Y
Paul 3. Herring
Hyattsville Club
Masonic Hall
Washington
Baltimore
Messrs
Kenneth F. Brooks
Waldo H. Burnside
Harry Roome
Levin P. Handy
Theodore J. Vandoren
Lucian Ho Vandoren
John Holden
Edward A. Fuller
Riverdale
Prince Georges County
State Justovernment League
Mary O'Toole
Washington Bar
H. D. Howell
Misa Sue Campbell
Lincoln
Prince Georges Dramatic Club
Henry Thomas
Pinkney Memorial Church
Thomas
Arthur Theodore Sonnenberg
Theodora Sonnenberg
Hyattaville
Augusta Fredericka Marquard
Bethesda
Mont-gomery County
Elale Sonnenberg
Slater
Charles Reed, Jr
Wiliam Marden
Oxon Hill
Want& Gueat
J. Enos Shreve
Charles A. Wells
Hilda
Josephine Fuller
New York
Women's Civic Club
Arthur W. Tupper
Carrie Hardesty
Mabel Drury
Friendship
Anne Arundel
Arthur W. Gambrill
Dorothy Coates
McFarland
Annie Fischer Hies
Carlisle
Charles O. Appleman
Doris Williamson
Mount Washington
Baltimore County
Angela Ervin
Dallia Ervin
Clothes and Gowns Loot From Two Northeast Homes
Thieves yesterday ransacked two wardrobes at home addresses 2930 Twenty-fifth Street Northeast and 720 Sixth Street Northeast. John W. Roch reported items valued at 82.50 and 107 dollars stolen, including clothes, a gold chain, a locket, a revolver, and kitchen groceries. Roch said entry occurred between noon and 2 PM after front window glass was broken. Jessie Allen lost a large quantity of clothing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Roch
Twenty-fifth Street
Jessie Allen
Sixth Street
Mr. Roch
White Slave Case Plea Seeks Supreme Court Rehearing
Application soon will be made for a rehearing of the Diggs Caminetti Mann Act case. The Supreme Court has not issued its mandate affirming the convictions of Maury I. Diggs and F. Drew Caminetti of California, and the issue may be held up pending the rehearing request. Former Senator Bailey, Caminetti’s counsel, is expected to present new arguments on Mann Act construction.
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Supreme Court
Diggs
Bailey
Caminatt
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Chicago
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Wheeling
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Richmond, Va
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