Virginia measures pass in debate on reapportionment and lobby ban
The Richmond Richmond area House records show a Virginia General Assembly session debate on a congressional reapportionment bill recommitted for district reasons, with a move to exclude lobbyists and a contested railroad merger, while funding allocations for the University of Virginia and other state institutions are approved or adjusted. The session notes include appointments and local political shifts, with arrests and legal matters, and a fire in Fauquier county.
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University of Virginia
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Technic Institute
Medicsl College of Virginia
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Cardwell
Tichard
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Winchester
Jaco Jiennel
Richmond Fredericksburg
Kmng
Fmace
Taverne
Iwligads
Otis
Aitect
Baltimore Girl Lena Otterbein Goes Missing After Christmas Gift Request
Lena Otterbein, sixteen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Otterbein of 187 Basley street, vanished after a December 21 request for money to buy a Christmas present for her suitor was refused. Police are investigating. her striking appearance and age 16 are noted as authorities seek clues to her disappearance.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
Lena @tterbein
Joseph Otterbein
Basley Street
Will Fight Nominations In House Over Child Labor Bill
The Jamestown Exposition in Annapolis prompts a clash as governor's allies clash with Democratic senators still unreconciled over appointments. The Child Labor bill passes its second reading with an age limit of twelve and a September 1 1908 start. A two mile rail mileage book deposit ban and eight hour telegraphers' workday are approved. Education expansion gains support. a strong Baltimore delegation lobbies for the proposals.
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Washington Post
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Committee On Executive
Tucker
Jamestown Jixposition Company
Maryland
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Baltimore
M Wool
Allegany
Scott's Emulsion Promises Nourishment For All
Scott and Bowne advertise Scott's Emulsion as superior for nourishing wasting bodies. They claim it helps children and anaemic girls gain weight and even aids those with consumptive tendencies to improve flesh and strength, with a New York address on Pearl Street.
Threat for Virginia if joint oyster law fails
A Maryland Virginia effort to close the Potomac to oyster dredging for two years faces Virginia resistance. A common action seeks uniform penalties and a two year closure, with fines from 100 to 250 dollars and possible jail up to six months. The plan would shift oyster pressure to the Chesapeake.
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Montgomery county school board expansion debated
Senator Blair Lee comments on a proposal to increase the Montgomery County school board from three to six members to improve district representation and reduce political influence. He notes no action yet and that a salary-equality bill for teachers is being considered, with Kensington school board backing it. Other local obituaries follow.
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Washington Post State House
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Rice
Roger B Farquhar
Hazel W Cashel
Warfield
Maryland Obituary Notice of Two Men in Baltimore
Baltimore February 21 William H Pagon sixty eight head of Armetrong Cator Co died after a few days illness of pneumonia at his residence S37 Bt Pal street survived by a widow two sons and a daughter also William Harrison Gill sixty four prominent real estate dealer and member of Revolutionary societies died last night at the Church Home and Hospital from Brights disease after several years illness
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Thomas B Gallahan
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Garrisonville
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Warenton Rifles
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Fauquier County
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John C. Hdwards
University of Virginia
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William Wilson
Virginia Senate
Capitol
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Armetrong, Cator & Co
Pal Street
Pagon
William Harrison Gill
Bright
Lawless Named to Gov Swanson's Staff in Virginia
Richmond Va Feb 21 Joseph A Lawless of Norfolk will join Governor Swansons staff tonight The previously named appointees include Capt Cunningham Hall Richmond chief of staff Leonard G Pettit Wise Counts William Wait Culpeper Thomas B McAdams Richmond T Reid Chatham Pannill Rucker Martinsville and Dr R N Harper Loudoun all listed as staff members
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Busby Roanoke
Suffolk
Nancy Leigh
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Clarksville
Valey
Beverly Egegleston
Richmond
Petersburg
St Joseph's Catholic Church
Annie Laune Hall Raa
Frederick Hunk
J ‘T’ Q'Ferrell
Isaac Hall
Gramm
Price George County
Clifton Forge
W G Dudley
Mary Byrd
Dudley
Marris
George K. Roper
Caimth
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Heanove
Gerald Culberson
Canned Ham Sickens Norfolk Family in Portsmouth
Special to The Washington Post. Norfolk Virginia February 21 Mrs A P Chawcross and her twelve year old son are critically ill at their home in Portsmouth the result it is supposed of eating canned ham.
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Warrenton
Waverly
E. Astley Cooper
Norfolk
Portlock
Portsmouth
A. P. Chawcross
Cannes
Escape From Jury Duty by WV National Guard
West Virginia National Guard proposes a fund drive by enlisting 150 contributing members per company. Members paying at least five dollars yearly gain exemption from jury duty. Clerks and company commanders authorize the scheme, drawing business men to join to avoid service.
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Washington Post
Clarksburg
W Va
Rooster Attack Leaves Child In Critical Condition
Special to The Washington Post reports a game rooster attack in North Bristol Virginia. An eighteen months old child of Mr and Mrs Stanford Jordan was severely wounded in the face and head after the rooster, which the father had just brought home, attacked the child. Blood flowed freely before the mother intervened. The child remains in critical condition.
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Bristol
Stanford Jordan
North
Delicate health on eve of marriage ends in tragedy
Special to The Washington Post from Fayettesville NC reports Miss Gar rie Hair twenty five daughter of a prominent farmer shot herself in the head. She died instantly on the eve of her marriage, with melancholia and delicate health cited as causes.
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Washington Post
Fayettesville
Garrie Hair
Three men saved from fatal fire on Hester Street top floor
In a Lower East Side tenement blaze on Hester Street three men were rescued from a smoke filled room. They awoke to flames with no escape route and one man went momentarily insane while the others could not save themselves. A patrolman climbed the fire escape to pull the two to safety and then found the third man shredding clothing as flames reached their room.
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New York
Hester Street
Lower East Side
Cured by Cuticura in Five Weeks
A 1905 testimonial from East Orange New Jersey reports a severe eczema case cured in five weeks using Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Soap after hospital failure. The narrator describes widespread itching, raw flesh, and inability to work, crediting the regimen for complete recovery and recommending the products to others.
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Hotter Drug & Chem. Corp
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Manemar
Hazing at Naval Academy Nears End Says Panel
A Washington Post report notes the House Naval Affairs Committee subcommittee, after four days in Annapolis, expects Friday adjournment. Chairman Vreeland praises Admiral Sands for handling hazing and the discipline system, urging suppression of hazing and noting 200 plus incidents this year. The panel urges all classes to end hazing, with some midshipmen resisting class promises.
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Annapolis
Naval Affairs Committee
Naval Academy
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Department of Discipline
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Admiral Sands
Midshipmen
Panama Canal methods discussed at publishers' meeting
The American Newspaper Publishers Association held sessions at the Waldorf Astoria with Charles W. Knapp of the St. Louis Republic presenting The Proposition of Keeping Costs. Industrial Commissioner Frederick E. Driscoll reported labor troubles and settlement efforts. A flat rate for advertising was debated but no vote taken. The group considered government advertising stories via agents. President Lynch and others paid courtesy calls as the convention continues.
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American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Panama Canal
Agenta
Lynch
International Typographical Union
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Friel
Castro Plans New Move Against Foreign Firms
From Willemstad Curacao Feb 21 a Caracas official says President Castro, buoyed by inaction from France and the United States toward Venezuela, ordered preparations to sue La Guaira Harbor Corp and La Guaira Caracao Railroad. Both firms are British owned and highly capitalized, with similar fates expected as other concerns. The letter notes Caracas has created a cigarette monopoly forcing manufacturers to join the trust in which Castro and allies hold a major stake.
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Hanna Home for Sale in Cleveland Area
The home of the late Senator M. A. Hanna called Glenmere on Lake Avenue Northwest in Cleveland has been placed on the market. Mrs. Hanna likely will move to the East or to Dan Hanna’s home once the sale completes. Miss Mary Phelps, a relative who travels with her, and several servants have returned to Glenmere and will stay until late April.
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Cleveland
Ohio
M. A. Hanna
Glenmere
Lake Avenue
Mianna
Dan Hanna
Farmers Meet at Tuskegee Conference
Negro farmers from every Southern state gathered in Tuskegee for the fifteenth annual Tuskegee conference. President Booker T. Washington urged industrial education for the race as teachers and representatives from Negro educational institutions and about thirty states attended the event.
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Court bars crossing by Suffolk and Carolina Railway at Hover
Raleigh February court order prevents the Suffolk and Carolina Railway Company from crossing the Norfolk and Southern Railroad tracks at Hover, issued by Judge Thomas R. Purnell.
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Raleigh, N. C
Thomas R. Purnell
Suffolk and Carolina Railway Company
Norfolk and Southern Railroad Company
Court Admits Twiggs Testimony in Greene Gaynor Case
In Savannah February 21 Judge Speer allowed A J Twiggs of Augusta to testify about persecution and pressure tied to a 1893 contract with Capt O M Carter for Savannah River implement. Twiggs says the Gaynors offered 1090 to drop bids but he refused, then faced harassment.
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O. M Carter
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Court frees man after manslaughter charge in insult case
Boston officials discharged James Mars after ruling the victim provoked the disturbance and threatened him. Mars had admitted striking Caesar Daigle who died last Wednesday, asserting Daigle insulted a woman Mars was with at the time.
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