Veterans at Banquet Laud Taft Praise at Grand Army Dinner
The Forty third annual Grand Army of the Republic banquet at the Riggs House featured Justice Wendell Phillips Stafford praising the administration and the war’s impact on liberty. Senator Lafayette Young honored President Taft while other veterans and dignitaries sent flowers, with Clark overseeing as toastmaster.
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Grand Army of the Republic
Wendell Phillips Stafford
Department of the Fotomac
Riggs House
Justice Stafford
Thera
Young
Taft
Lafayette Young
Gilman
Rose M. Sefton
Daughters of Veterans
Isabella Worrell Ball
Womens Relief Corps
A. P
Tasker
D. HW. Oldroyda
B. P. Emtrikin
John Sinn
R. Strattan
BE. T. Holdbrook
Robert Armour
John Micheton
F. Chase
J. &. McVabe
H. B. Fiarlow
L. P. Seibeld
HH. Patterson
K. FR
Protest Against Crowded Brightwood Schools
Brightwood Citizens' Association told the school committee last night that schools are overcrowded. Promoted pupils from February cannot enter higher classes due to crowding and some students stay in old grades or drop out. The association urged action by the school board and unanimously endorsed the Board of Trade charity crusade.
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Brightwood
Boy Scouts Elect Officers At National Council Session
The National Council of the Boy Scouts of America elected officers for the year and named honorary President Taft and honorary Vice President Roosevelt. Colin H. Livingstone was chosen president, D. I. Dulaney first vice president, Milton A. McKhea second vice president, George D. Pratt treasurer, Ernest Thompson Seton chief scout, Daniel C. Beard adjutant general, William Verback and Col. Peter S. Brown national scout commissioners. Plan to raise 40000 to fund a stronger organization. 20000 had already been subscribed.
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National Council of the
Boy Scouts of America
Taft
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Colin H. Livingstone
Washington
D. I. Dulaney
Bristol
Daniel C. Beard
New York
William Verback
Albany
Peter 8. Brown
Counci
Quick Arrest in Robbery at Pay Inspector Hunt Home
A negro thief entered the dining room while the Hunt family ate lunch and stole a $250 gold dog collar from Mrs. Hunt. Robert Preston was caught trying to sell the jewel at a jewelry store on IF street and held by police, with another unnamed suspect linked to the crime. The collar was recovered within an hour thanks to jeweler recognition and police action.
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Livingston Hunt
Rhode Islan Avenue
Hunt
Robert Preston
Melvin Myers
Waltmore Street
Myers
H R Chamberlain Dead London Correspondent for Sun
Henry Richardson Chamberlain longtime London correspondent for the New York Sun died today after long illness of heart trouble. Born 1859 in Minois he married Abbie Sanger in 1883 in Boston and worked in both New York and Boston before moving to London.
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London
Henry Richardson Chamberlain
New York Sun
Mr. Chamberlain
Minois
Abbie I. Sanger
Boston
City
New York
New York Press
Boston Journal
Amherst
Mass
Edward Hitchcock
Amherst College
Twins Named Cupid And Psyche In Valentine Births
In Brockton Massachusetts on February 15 1926 Mr and Mrs Herbert Tripp welcomed twins born on St Valentine Day named Cupid and Psyche The family already has ten children and another son born February 22 was named George Washington Tripp.
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Washington Post
Brockton
Mass
Herbert Tripp
Cupid
Psyche
Trips
George Washington Tripp
White Wife Describes Mulatto Husband and Destitute Family
Mary Lacy of 1502 Euclid Avenue, a white wife, recounts her twelve year marriage to William H. Lacy, a light mulatto once employed as a butler, now jailed for assault. Their five children, ages 10 to 18 months, are placed in white and colored homes as authorities decide custody. The case reveals hidden color line secrets and family estrangement from Virginia origins to Washington, with the mother appealing for the children's welfare while contending with social stigma.
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Mary Lacy
Euclid Avenue
William H. Lacy
Occoquan
Lacy
Washington
Philadelphia
Board of Children’s Guardians
DeLacy
Muffatto
President Taft appeals for famine aid to China
President Taft issued a proclamation calling for funds to aid famine victims in China. He urged money donations to local Red Cross treasurers or Washington, D. C., and asked Americans to help raise flour and supplies. Congress approved use of an army transport for Red Cross, with Seattle Commercial Club coordinating as receiving and forwarding agent in Seattle.
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Taft
China
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Washington, D. C
Congress
Seattle Commercial Club
Seattle
Wash
William H. Taft
Laymen's convention to fill city churches with delegates
Washington Post reports a laymen missionary convention in Alexandria staffing services at multiple churches Saturday and Sunday. Prominent speakers include Joshua Levering and Rev. George B. T. Stevenson, with sessions at First Baptist, Second Presbyterian, St. Pauls, Christ, Grace, and Grace Episcopal churches. A mass meeting for men is set for Sunday afternoon at First Baptist, followed by a grand mass gathering at St. Pauls with Rep James T. Lloyd and Yutaka Minakuchi.
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Washington Post Bureau
King Street
Alexandria
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Joshua Levering
Baltimore
George Bb. T. Stevenson
United States Navy
First Baptist Church
J. H. Apple
Frederick
Woman's College
Second Presbyterian Church
W. F. Cochran
Woodbrook
St. Paul’s‘Protestant Episcopal Church
C. H. Pratt
South
Christ Protestant Episcopal Church
John W. Wood
New York
Foreign Mission Board
Grace Protestant Episcopal Church
L. R. Lee
Washington, D. C
Livius Langford
Norfolk
MISS PANKHURST TO SPEAK AT COLUMBIA THEATER
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst will lecture at the Columbia Theater at 11 a m on February 23 under the State Equal Suffrage Association of the District. She is a leader in the English militant suffrage movement, sharing arrest and imprisonment with her mother and sister. A luncheon at the Ebbitt House will follow, honoring Miss Pankhurst and Miss Anna C Kelton, soon to be married to Dr Wiley.
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Sylvia Pankhurst
Columbia Theater
State
Equal Suffrage Association
Miss Pankhurst
Equal Suffrage
Ebbitt House
Anna C. Kelton
Dr. Wiley
Modest Hero Identified in Maryland Governor's Son
Philip Carroll of 1501 New Hampshire Street Northwest, son of former Maryland governor, emerged as the brave helper who restrained Mme. Tvon Reider’s runaway horse near Massachusetts Avenue and Eighteenth Street Northwest. The crowd praised his act before he left for a visit to friends in New York. Mme. Reider remains hospitalized with injuries.
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Highteenth Street
Northwest
Gov. Carroll
Maryland
Mme
Tvon Reider
Baltimore
Massachusetts Avenue
Eighteenth Street
Mme. Relder
Mr. Carroll
Carroll
New York
Weather Map Shows High Pressure Over New England
The Weather Bureau reports a strong high pressure area over New England driving cold northeast winds southward to Virginia and the Carolinas. A disturbance over New Mexico brings limited precipitation, with a general dry outlook east of the Mississippi for 48 hours. Temperatures fall in the Northeast and Rockies, then rise in the Northeast. rain likely in the Southwest and lower Mississippi valley later this week with brisk winds along coasts.
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Weather Bureau
Washington
New England
Virginia
Carolinas
Onto
New Mexico
Middle Atlantic States
Iake
South Dakota
Rocky Mountain
Mississippi
West Gulf States
Oklahoma
Arkansas
East Gulf States
Tennessee
Ohio Valley
Middle Atlantic
South Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Lake Michigan
Protest by Hebrews at White House Delays Action
Jewish leaders pressed for withdrawal from the US Russia treaty over passport refusals to American Jews. A two hour White House conference with President Taft and Secretary Nagel produced no definite decision. Leaders cited potential harsher persecution in Russia if the treaty were broken. Representatives included J. Walter Freiberg Bernhard Bettman Simon Wolf Adolph Kraus Philip Stein Jacob Furth Jacob H. Schiff Louis Marshall.
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United States
Russia
Taft
Nagel
Department of Commerce and Labor
Union of American Jewish Congregations
J. Walter Freiberg
Bernhard Bettman
Simon Wolf
Committee On Civil Rights
Independent
Order of B'nai B'rith
Adolph Kraus
Philip Stein
Jacob Furth
Jacob
H. Schiff
Louis Marshall
American Jewish Committee
Traveling salesman arrested in white slave case
Charles P. Leonard a traveling salesman claiming to work for a Washington coal company was arrested at Union Station at the request of Johnstown Pa police. Jennie Collins a Rockwood Pa girl returned home after leaving with Leonard. Leonard denied guilt and cited telegraphs from a New York sanitarium proprietress. Johnstown officials charge violation of the white slave law.
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Charles P. Leonard
Washington Coal Company
Union Station
Horn
Johnstown
Jennie Collins
Rockwood
Leonard
New York City
Sixth Precinct
Yale Professor Taken Ill During Pan American Congress
Yale economist Hiram Bingham, guest of Ambassador Bryce at the British embassy, fell ill Tuesday morning with a grip at the Pan American conference. He is hospitalized at George Washington University Hospital and was reported much better last night. Also noted, U S Minister Henry P Gage of California will resign from the diplomatic service to return to private interests, leaving Portugal since December 21 1909. successor unnamed.
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United States
Yale University
Bryce
George Washington University Hospital
U. S
Gage
Henry PT. Gage
California
Portugal
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