Hermann Trial Begun He Pleads Not Guilty
The trial of Representative Binger Hermann of Oregon, former General Land Office Commissioner, opens with not guilty plea. Jury panel struggles to complete as prosecutors cite destruction of 34 letter press copy books. Hermann claims private property.
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General Land Office
Binger Herrmann
Oregon
District Criminal Court No
Stafford
Hermann
Schiller R Hermann
Boston
of Worthington
Congress
Lincoln H Prescott Gatley
A S Worthington
Hermanns
Baker
Charles H Turner
Jesse C Adkins
Qregon
Mchhinley
Representative Williamson
John Norris
Tennallytown
Herimann
Norris
Harry Sacks
Sacks
Joost H Schneller
Tucson
Ariz
Hyde Benseen-Dimond-Schneider
Mr Schneiders
Frederck A Hyde
John A Benson
Henry P Dimond
Schneider
Golden Donaldson
David Davis
Nitreet
John A Burch
Wisconsin Avenue
Mierles
R. S.hutt
Seventh Street
George F Smith
Walter Murphy Hunt
Vics
Maryland Avenue
Charles Woodward
Fourteenth Street
George Croswell
John J Tunstall seeks authority to adopt stepchildren
John J Tunstall of 1344 Vermont Avenue NW filed in District Supreme Court for power to adopt Harold Aona Han aged eighteen and Claire Monahan aged fifteen, stating he married their mother Alice Monahan ten years ago and she died January 13. He claims the children have treated him as father and his finances can support their protection.
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John J Tunstall
Vermont Avenue Northwest
District Supreme Court
Harold J
Aonahan
Claire Monahan
Mr Tunstall
Alice
Monahan
Hia
Gjard
Veteran heir contest over Cantwell estate in probate court
Heirs of Civil War veteran James Cantwell filed a caveat to a February 1905 will in District Probate Court seeking probate delay. The $4500 estate includes Belt a patent interest and cash bequests to sister Mrs Mary Haggerty and Lillian Sherwood, with challengers asserting lack of capacity and undue influence.
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James Cantw
Soldiers’ Home Hospital
Cornelius T. Belt
Coldred & Fleming
William D. McNulty
John
James Haggerty
New York
Clabaugh
District Supreme Court
Edward Cantwell
Calcutta
India
James Cantwell
Mary Haggerty
East Forty-eighth Street
New York City
National Safe Deposit, Savings and Trust Company
Belt
Lillian Sherwood
Ninth Street
Washington
Hag‘gerty
Cantwell
Haggerty
BH. Z. Cantwell
Cornelius T Belt
Legal Record Shows Appeals and Equity Court Actions 1907
A condensed list of cases before the Court of Appeals District of Columbia and Equity Courts, detailing assignments, rulings, and upcoming hearings. Notable entries include Adams Express Company v Adams and various equity and circuit court matters with dates, parties, and status notes. Also lists several real estate square transfers and a Georgetown Law School class election.
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Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Seth Shepard
Louis KE McComas
Charles 4 Robb
Adams Express Company
Adams
S T Thomas
Appellant
S. W Hayden
Appellee
Davis
NM. N Richardson
HH Glasntor
Healer Schlatter Aims to Heal in New York Exhibition
Special to The Washington Fest reports Francis Schlatter the shoe maker turned healer drew five hundred applicants at the Berkeley Lyceum in New York. His wife says he raised the dead in Indiana, and crowds rushed to see passes over bodies and claimed cures from locomotor ataxia to deafness with blest results. Chicago crowds reportedly hailed a large payment given to him, all donated to the poor.
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Washington
New York
Francis Schlatter
Berkeley Lyceum
Schlatter
Indiana
Denver
Lyceum
Washington Saengerbund Mark 25th Anniversary Carnival
The twenty fifth anniversary of the Washington Saengerbund featured a fool's carnival at the club home on C street near Third northwest. Over 200 attendees enjoyed song, music, and addresses in a jesting, fellowship filled program led by Henry H. Nolda and George Strom as king's Jesters.
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Washington Saengerbund
C Street
Third Street
George Strom
Schabau
Society
Prince Carnival
William Hahnemann
Princess Carnival
Fred Earl
O. Lossay
Germania
H. Bayermann
Columbia
Sophie Nausshbaima
Frank Claudy
Chris Heurich
Rocar
Henry Wassmann
Arion Society
John Waldmann
Dietrich
Fred Carl
Henry Minster
Richard Bartholdt
Simon Wolf
Samuel Gompers
Herbert Levy
Paralysis Proves Fatal Hallie Gillenwater Dies at 1 Year Illness
Mrs Hallie A Gillenwater dies at her daughter's home 1427 Newton Street NW after a yearlong illness. Funeral Thursday 2 PM at 1427 Newton Street with Reverends Power and Dawson officiating. Burial Rock Creek Cemetery. She is survived by husband James I Gillenwater and three daughters.
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Matthew J. ‘Tighe
Newton Street
Frederick DD Power
Vermont Avenue
James I Gillenwater
Post-office Department
Confederate Veterans
Robert E Lee
Gillenwater
M. J Tighe
Alice G. Williams
Wilkes Barre
Charles G. Hambidge
New York
Washington Campaign Against Consumption Costs Lost Lives
A civic drive in Washington estimates annual losses from consumption at about 2 million dollars plus lives. Public and private efforts include education, home care, and 380 lectures in churches and clubs. The budget asks 3,380 dollars, with 1,720 for housing improvements to eliminate insanitary shacks and modernize building safety. Funds raised so far total 1,321.29 for prevention and 572.25 for housing, needing 2,206.46 more.
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Washington
Citizens’ Committee
National Capital
Charity saves two girls through milks eggs aid
Secretary Charles F. Weller recounts how Associated Charities aided two consumptive sisters. One recovered after a milk and egg regimen and nursing care, the other improved only after escalated quantities. January relief topped $200, with funds from Citizens Relief Association and many donors aiding over 1,600 families monthly.
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Charles F. Weller
Citizens’ Relief Association
John Joy Wilson
M. R. Shafer
Saks & Co
Wolf & Rosenberg
Hauge
Mra
Louise K Simpson
Sarah Ralston
Sarah M May
Gen Andrew
Burt
Col. Tillary A Herbet
Joseph Auerbach
Charles Rauscher
Walter Wyman
Theodore P Shonts
John KH. Meffrath
Mary E Symonds
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G Street
Corcoran Thom
Henry W Draper
T. Morris Murray
Wiliam F Draper
Moses & Sons
Worthington
Francis M. Ramsay
George T. Maryn, Jr
Julia Darling Strong
Ellen Spencer Massey
Morphine mania is defense in county jail forgery case
Cincinnati man Hugh G Gathright, an ex New Orleans attorney and one of nine jail escapees, offered a morphine mania defense in Bramwell court for forging the name of C A Walker to a 3380 check dated August 31 1966. The defense marks a historic Ohio court acceptance of drug influence as a total defense.
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Washington Post
Cincinnati
Ohio
Bramwell
Hugh G. Gathright
Gathright
C. A. J. Walker
First National Bank
New Orleans
Comptroller Ridgely Buys Bolivian Legation Residence
William Barrett Ridgely, Comptroller of the Currency, purchases the former Bolivian legation at the northwest corner of Seventeenth and N streets from the Duncanson estate. He plans to occupy the brick and stone three story house next fall after extensive alterations. The deal was routed through William Corcoran Hill. He will move from the Portland apartments during renovations, which will render the residence virtually new.
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William Barrett Ridgely
William Barret Ridgely
Duncanson
Mr Ridgely
William Corcoran Hill
Seventeenth Street
N Street
Ridgely
the Portland
DIES AFTER LONG CONTEST IN GIBSON ESTATE CASE
New York dies after a protracted dispute over the Gibson estate in Cincinnati. Anne Gibson passed at the Murray Hill Hotel soon after a settlement ended the dispute over John McC Gibson and his will. The estate, including Gibson House and Union Trust Building, is valued in the millions. Also notes new city building permits including repairs at Carnegie Institution and a one story brick store project. Washington Post Book Catalogue advertised.
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Anne Gibson
Murray Hill
John McC. Gibson
Gibson
Cincinnati
Ohio
Gibson House
Union Trust
William Gibson
Ashford
Carnegie Institution of Washington
RH. D. Chamberlin
Taj the
Seieste Inatitotan of
Washington
Wood
Duna & Deming
Richardson # Burgess
Fo Bose Broz
Jones & Peters Construction Company
Clinton M. Moore
James H. Warner
R. J. Haxel
Funeral of Raymond W Outwater at Bendsl Ber Bee Church
Funeral services were held for Raymond W. Outwater of the Maryland Agricultural College faculty. He died Saturday after months of illness at his father's home 1312 B Street SW. Services were led by Dr. S H Greene at Bendsl Ber Bee Church Monday at 3 pm. Interment planned in Elizabeth. Pallbearers were Lafayette Lodge No 19 RA A M representatives. The Washington Post beadles catalogue will be on sale at the paper’s business office starting Thursday morning for 4 cents.
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Washington Post
Raymond W. Outwater
Maryland Agricultural College
Theron Outwater
Bendsl Ber Bee
Elizabeth
S. H. Greene
the Neary Baptist Church
Lafayette Lodge No. 19
RA A.M
the Post
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