Sunday School Rally Convention Opens May 18
Washington hosts the sixth world Sunday school convention May 3 to 24 with 4,000 to 5,000 delegates. Notables including President Taft John Wanamaker and John D Rockefeller are slated to attend or speak. Calvary Baptist Church serves as headquarters and a 500-voice chorus will perform. A mass Bible class parade is planned with 8,400 to 16,000 men expected to march.
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Taft
John Wanamaker
Ardressea
John D. Rockefeller
Washington
President Taft
Philadelphia
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
P. H. Bristow
Calvary Baptist
Churen
Calvary Baptist Church
Bureau of Information
Ferey Foster
Chicago
W. W. Milan
District Sunday School Association
Hine
Mantelpai
F B Meyer
London
World's Association
Marlon Lawrance
International Association
South
New Orleans
Kindness and Legacy In 1909 Wills Probate
Probate records reveal Elizabeth B. McCondach leaving Ellen Smirie a sum of money and modest legacies to her brother Joseph Grinder and Jennie Richardson's children. The rest goes to Margaret E. Trotter, Adeline Grinder, andJames A. Richardson, with Dr. Millard F. Thompson named executor. Mannah Seaman's 1901 will bequeaths diamond jewelry to Clara Cowan and Addie Pugh, a life interest to son Charles W. Seaman, and contingent heirship to Albert H. Camp's heirs if he has no children.
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Elizabeth B. McCondach
Ellen Smirie
Mcl Cundach
Joseph Grinder
Jennie Richardson
Harriet E. Websterly
Margaret E. ‘Trotter
Adeline E. Grinder
James A. Richardson
Millard F. Thompson
Mannah Seaman
Clara Cowan
Addie Pugh
Charles W. Seaman
Nreviso
Albert H Camp
Norwalk
Onto
Thomas Bowie dies. funeral set at Church of the Advent
Funeral services are planned for Thomas Trueman Somerville Bowie who died at his residence on 17 A Street Northwest. Bowie served twenty years with the War Department and was born June 12 1812 at the family manor near Upper Marlboro Prince George County. He suffered a stroke on December 17 and is survived by his wife Agnes Woods McGregor and several sons and daughters.
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T. T. S. Bowie
War Department
Thomas Trueman
Somerville Bowie
Church of the Advent
Mr. Bowie
Upper Marlboro
Prince George County
Ing
Agnes Woods McGregor
Funeral for Sarah Elizabeth Brown in Colvin Run
Many relatives attended the funeral of Mrs Sarah Elizabeth Brown held yesterday in Colvin Run Fairfax County Virginia. Six grandsons served as pallbearers. A New York native, she lived to 88, married in 187?, joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1882, taught a Bible class for 40 years and led her class for 39 years.
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Sarah Elizabeth Brown
Colvin Run
Fairfax County
Brown
New York State
Salvation Army Commissioner to Speak on The Story of My Life
Salvation Army Commissioner Elijah Cadman, visiting the United States from London as a special representative of Gen Booth, will lecture at Salvation Army Hall on 990 Pennsylvania Avenue Wednesday noon. His talk includes anecdotes of a white slave, a drunkard, a boxer, and riots, plus stories of great revivals and thousands converted. Also mentions safety of streetcars and a separate note about Mrs Russell Sage arriving in Los Angeles for an eight week southern California stay with Maj Stephen Slocum. Valentine’s Day bouquets urged.
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Elijah Cadman
United States
Gen Booth
London
Salvation Army Hall
Pennsylvania Avenue
Russel Sage
Los Angeles
Russell Sage
New York
New Orleans
Reflections On Nose Skin Remedy Poslam Ad
A vintage advertisement touts Poslam as a new skin remedy effective for eczema pimples rash and inflammations. It claims rapid healing and skin restoration after first use and promotes 60 cent boxes or two jars at local drug stores with a free New York sample offer via Emergency Laboratories in New York City.
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Ogram’s
Romance of a 3 Year Egg Reveals Cold Storage Secret
In Oakland City Indiana during an egg famine a restaurant keeper bought cold storage eggs and found a woman's address on one of them. He wrote to the woman who replied from Evansville saying the name was placed on the egg over three years ago. He then contacted Dr Harvey Wiley who confirmed the storage eye’s age and said proof was shared with the reading sub committee studying cold storage products.
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Washington Post
Oakland City
Ind
E. & Neil
Princeton
Evansville
Neff
Harvey W. Wiley
Dr. Wiley
Judge Rules Eldridge Rates Do Not Violate Antitrust
Federal Judge Dana in Topeka ruled that Attorney General Jackson failed to prove a Kansas antitrust case against insurers. The dispute centered on the Eldridge Rating Bureau and its rate recommendations, with the judge finding that adopting these rates alongside the state insurance commissioner does not constitute an offense or block competition.
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Topeka
Kans
Dana
United States District Court
Jackson
Kansas
Eldridge Rating Bureau
Tikige Dana
German American Alliance targets tariffs on food
The German American Alliance in Cleveland resolves that high food prices come from tariffs, not the boycott. They pledge a mass meeting to push Congress to remove food tariffs and seek a law criminalizing gambling in foodstuffs with imprisonment as punishment.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Voycott
Cut 7 Teeth In A Day Fatal For Baby Richard Steven
In Columbus Ohio on February 12 ten month old Richard Hugh Steven son of the Rev W C Stevenson died after a two day illness from teething. He reportedly cut seven teeth in a few hours while five had already emerged causing brain involvement and no hope for recovery. In Oxford England on February 12 M F Woodrow from Kentucky, a Rhodes scholar, won the Vinerian law scholarship at Oxford University, among the most prestigious prizes open to competition.
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Columbus
Ohio
Richard Hugh Stevenson
W. C. Stevenson
Winn Honor
Oxford
England
M. F. Woodcow
Kentucky
Oxford University
City Sues Railroad for Damages in Death Case
Annie Fox as executrix of David King Try sues Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in District Supreme Court for $10,000 claiming carelessness led to the death of conductor Fry on February 13. Fry tripped between moving cars at Third and T streets yard, sustaining fatal injuries. Also notes local ads and brief notices including public events and other items.
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District Supreme Court
Annie Fox
David King
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Fry
Third
T Streets
Cole & Donaldson
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Newman Hall
University of California
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Harvard
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10Th St
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Altamont Dr
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People’s Brug Store
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Louisiana Ave
Lansburgh
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Nissz
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S&5
Pa. Ave
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House OF Lords
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Conn. Ave
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