War Department driver dies saving Secretary’s granddaughter
Edward McQuade, long time War Department driver and Taft aide, sacrificed his life to shield Helen Dickinson, two year old granddaughter of Secretary Dickinson, as their buggy ran along Sixteenth Street. The fatal crash occurred when a horse spooked at a paper, throwing McQuade and a governess from the horse drawn carriage. Funeral services set for St Matthew’s Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamitfeli
Edward Mequade
War Department
Taft
Helen Dickinson
Dickinson
MccQuade
Walter Ro Pedrman
Joan Ccscofeld
Chef Clek
Denurtmoent
Mc‘Quane
Diver Tame
St Matthew's Church
Father Athey
Aonstant
St. Mathews
Mugnade
Niascana
Tne
Fanase
Helen
Miss Panning
AlcQuarle
Alfred Weenne
Sixteenth Street
Connecticut Avenue
Edward McQuade
Miss Dunning
Died Died names in Washington area notices
An assortment of death notices and funeral details from February. Forms list multiple individuals with dates, addresses, and funeral arrangements, naming Joseph Ganter's Sons chapel in Pennsylvania Avenue, Glenwood Cemetery, Waight's Undertaking, and various residences. The notices mention Wallace G Bone, Ed W Cowling, Honry M Del, Theodore Lewis Jr, Eble Andre, and other relatives in Washington and nearby Maryland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bone
Wallace G Bone
Joseph Ganter
Pennsylvania
Ave Ale
Cowling
Oklahoma City
Olda
Edward O. Cowling
Glenwood Cemetery
Chanel
Waight
Undertakis
Tenth Street
IL A. m
Satunday
Honry M
G Street
Hagerstown
Williamsport
Holbrook
Theodore Lewis Jr
Northwest
McQuade
Mar- Karel Methande
F Street
Satalor
St Matthews Bred
Tragedy as Carriage Crashes. McQuade Dies in Washington
A carriage accident on a city street injures a woman and Miss Dunning while McQuade, guiding the horses, is thrown and dies at Garfield Hospital from a fractured skull. McQuade, a longtime War Department stable master born in Ireland, served with the Marine Corps and Army, and drove secretaries Endicott to Dickinson. He leaves a wife and eight children residing in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Department
Srexteenth Street
Lamont Street
Metavide
McQuade
Ireland
States Marine Corps
Quartermaster's Department
Army
Fourteenth
K Streets
Endicott Proctor
Elkins
Lamont
Alger
Root
Taft
Wright
Dickinson
Washington
Not Colder but Older Love Letters at Breach Case
In New York a $100,000 breach of promise suit by Annette Berthe Grunspan against William English Willing centered on letters alleged to show escalating threats and jealousy. Grunspan claimed Walling’s letters from Vienna and Europe proved his love cooled, with warnings of vengeance and notes urging commitment despite her seasick distress and pleas not to abandon her.
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New York
Annette’ Berthe Grunspan
William English Willing
Miss Grunspan
Wathh
Europe
Taok
Wally
Ler
Wallme Pax
Walling
Vienna
Philadelphia Church Receives $500000 Estate
Mrs Emily Yarnall widow of His H Yarnall dies in Philadelphia leaving a $500000 estate to St Clements Protestant Episcopal Church. Mr Yarnall died three years ago with no relatives, and the will directs the estate to pass to the church on Mrs Yarnall’s death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Emily Yarnall
H Yarnall
St Clements Protestant Episcopal Chuch
Yarnall
Yar- Rall
Woman Overcomes Armed Intruder in Home In Chicago
Emma Eichner a 16-year-old from Illinois Street fought off Robert Braun who forced his way into her home. He fired repeatedly wounding Eichner and an acquaintance, then injured himself while handling another gun. Braun was arrested after seeking medical care and held for mental evaluation.
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Chicago
Robert Braun
Emma Wichner
Fastlinois Street
Feu
Braun
George
Eichner
Lntter
Miss Tichner
Joseph Stumpf
Prince Frederick William to visit Quirinal in April
Berlin reports an official announcement that Crown Prince Frederick William and the crown princess will travel to Rome in April to present Jubilee felicitations to King Victor Emmanuel and Queen, marking fifty years since Rome became the capital of United Italy. The plan aims to settle debates over a German royal visit to the Quirinal amid papal attitudes toward the Jubilee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Frederick William
China
Rome
Italy
Quirinal
Antipapal
Victor Emmanuel
Jury Sets Gardner Free in Bribery Trial Verdict
Former Senator Frank J. Gardner of Brooklyn is acquitted of offering Otto G. Foelker 12000 for a vote against the Hart Agnew track bill in 1908. The jury deliberated one hour as Gardner smiled, his wife cried, and Judge Seabury cautioned about courtroom behavior amid the rapid verdict. Gardner testified repeatedly denying bribery while cross examined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
New York
Frank J. Gardner
Brooklyn
Otto G. Foelker
Gardner
Justice Seabury
Nott
May D. Steuer
Foelker
Telegrams Explain Missing Dorothy Arnold Mystery
Reports from Atlantic City and Richmond clarify the Dorothy Arnold case. A. J. Bradley disavows any connection to the Arnold family or the missing heiress, while a hospital sighting of a woman presumed to be Arnold was ruled incorrect. Liverpool police seek a woman seen with two foreigners on the docks, distressed and ill, who vanished with them.
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Atlantic City
A. J. Bradley
Arnolds Nor
Griscoms
Liverpool
England
Dorothy
Miss Arnold
Daily Press
George S. Griscom
Chalfonte
Richmond
Griscom
North Seventh Street
Bloomfield
N. C
Dorothy Arnold
New York
Florence Garrabrant
T. J. Garrabrant
Brookdale
Capt Collins of Cameron Highlanders Files Bankruptcy
Capt Charles Glen Collins retired Cameron Highlanders officer and former husband of Miss Wallalie Schenck filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in U S court. He lists liabilities of 414 8 and assets of 838 750. He says years of marble property consolidation and creditor pressure prompted the filing to be free of suits and able to work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles Glen Collins
Cameron Highlanders
Wallalie Schenck
Newport
United States
Collins
England
Miss Schenck
Capt
Famous war chief Parker dead at 67 in Oklahoma
Quanah Parker, famed Comanche leader who once terrorized settlers in the Southwest, dies at age 67 at his home near Lawton Oklahoma after rheumatism and asthma. He had three wives and fifteen children at his death. seven wives and twenty children over his life. Parker led raids on whites in Oklahoma and Texas and surrendered to Gen McKenzie at Fort Sill in 1877. Eschill, a rival, is expected to succeed him.
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Washington Post
Lawton
Oklo
Quanah Parker
Erdat
Parker
Oklahoma
Texas
Gen
McKenzie
Fort Sill
Eschill
Gale tosses girl to death in Bradford playground
Mary Batley, 16, a schoolgirl in Bradford, was taken by a gale while waiting for school to open. A whirlwind lifted her about 30 feet before she fell to the concrete pavement and died instantly, in the extraordinary accident witnessed during the February gale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Mary Batley
Bradford
Plague Ravages China Prompting Famine Crisis
A Harbin report details a Chinese village where the entire population died of plague. New York dispatches warn famine in Kiangsu and Anhui, with 2.5 million Chinese at risk without aid. Pneumonic plague advances toward famine districts. cremations rise as bodies pile up along frozen roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
St. Petersburg
Harbin
New York
American Red Cross
Kiangsu
Anhu
Manchuria
Chefu
Changtung
Wilder
Shanghai
Red Cross
Health Office Births and Deaths Record
Births list includes Vincenzo and Carmelo Stasulli, a boy, and many others with parents and infants named. Deaths cite Lucie Young, Clara Bradford, Theo Holbrook Jr., Frances Mitchell, and numerous residents with ages and addresses across Washington area hospitals and streets.
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Vincenzo and
Carmelo Stasulli
Timothy J
Dorothy K. Butler
Ralph C
Florence
Smith
Zolo V
Rosa P. Lester
WitMera F
Anna A. Burgess
Benjamin
Elizabeth Gordon
John W
Dolly la Clear
Charles
Sarah W. Edwards
Joseph
Maud S. Dudeck
Norman R
Anna V. Hit
James A
Carolyn A. Stoutenburg
Hubert N
Lulu A. Roberts
Benjamin F
Fannie Welsh
Bernard Poland
Bertie Dougherty
Robin N
Mary B. R. Joba
Harry EB
Anbellie McCullough
George M
Mona Grimsley
Claude W
Rena Fletcher
Richard and
Mamie Jinsey
I. Moma
Lucile Bell
Thomas V., Jr
Mabel J. Smith
Millard A
Ruth B. Haley
Emily A. Emory
Frank
Goldie Jones
Edward
Edith Crum
George
Mary Slater
Mary Knight
Albert
Esther Lewin
Marcellus M
Annie C. Syphax
Wiliam E
Elizabeth Lindsay
Frederick
Sarah L. Harris
Joseph F
Eugenia West
Amy West
Sear
Margaret A. Dougherty
G St. Nw
Francis ©. Jarvis
Mase
Ave
Morris Krick
Georgetown University Hospital
Frank Shannon
Providense Hospital
Ellen L. Brosnan
Louisa Poole
5Th St
Graham Cobb
Freedmen's Hospital
Matilda Mack
Riggs St, Nw
Sterling Hester
Washington Asylum Hospital
Arthur Dutch
Ramseys Court Se
Charles Buchanan
Liberty St. Ow
Lucy Washington
John
T" Sayles
Sth St. Nw
James Bowser
Defrees Court
Eleanor Green
Mabel Carson
St Mw
Carol Dyson
St. Aw
Young Jenks Fined for Riot at Lyceum Theater
Ithaca N Y Feb 23 Benjamin L Jenks son of Cornell professor was found guilty in police court of disorderly conduct for a February 4 Lyceum Theater incident when Cornell students rough housed a show He was fined 20 or twenty days jail His lawyer obtained a stay and may appeal Sidney Sichel and Ralph Perkins also pled guilty and were jailed Sichel was pardoned by Governor Dix Officials signers for the pardon prompted a pledge to hold further arrests without city official support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Ithaca
Benjamin L. Jenks
J. W. Jenks
Cornell
Lyceum Theater
Sidney Sichel
Ralph Perkins
Sichel
Dix
Powder explosion kills 3 in Silver Lake shack
Belleville New Jersey February 23 A 13 year old girl Bessie Monda her father Salvatore and his helper were killed when a shack on North Belmont avenue Silver Lake where men were making fireworks exploded a cane containing 25 pounds of powder caused the blast.
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Belleville
N. J
Bessie Monda
Salvatore
Belmont Avenue
Silver Lake
Licensed to Marry Names and Ages in Virginia and Maryland
A list of intended marriages is given with brides and grooms names ages and home counties in Virginia Maryland and the District. The Rev. ministers are named for each couple and the text includes several combinations such as James A Wilson 35 of Fort Monroe Virginia and Jeannette Godal 29 of Phoebus Virginia and others with ages from teens to eighties. The long roster shows multiple couples paired with clergy and locales in a dense OCR fragment.
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James A. Wilson
Fort Monroe
Jeannette
Nicholas Yareltt
Joseph W. Rabbitt
Florence Iida
Baltimore
T. G. Smyth
Thomas A. Della
France
George County
Christian P. Friederick
John van Schaick, Jr
Umberta Anessi
Bertha Dotrice
License Tags for Aeros in Connecticut
Hartford February 23 A bill to regulate aviation was introduced to the judiciary committee by A Holland Forbes of the Aero Club of America. It calls for licenses for aviators and balloonists, fitness examinations, aircraft registration, and registry numbers eight feet high visible from the ground, plus landowner permission before any ascent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Conn
Judiciary Committee
The
General Assembly
A. Holland Y Forbes
Aero Club of America
Nmust
Ten Thousand For Wright Memorial Dormitories
The Wright Memorial dormitory committee in New Haven announces that the class of 1878, including President Taft, pledged $10,000 to honor Justice Edward B. Whitney of New York State and Fleury M Hoyt. The gift funds two suites in the dormitory as a memorial and support for the institution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
Wright Memorial
Taft
Supreme Court of
New York State
Edward B. Whitney
Fleury M Hoyt
State Department
Knox
Expulsions of He Brews From Tchernigov Province
Gov Maklakoff orders mass expulsion of He brews from the province in Little Russia. Two hundred nineteen families, including land owners and manufacturers, are driven through deep snow to the district outskirts and marched out of the region. Police pressure remains heavy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Maklakoff
Tchernigov
Russia
Police Seek $1000 Ring After Theft Near Sixth and E
Central office detectives asked for aid from retired U S A sergeant Laint Robert B Wat kine of 18 Town circle northwest in locating a $1000 diamond ruby and sapphire ring missing yesterday around Sixth and E streets northwest.
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Robert B. Watkine
Circe Northwest
Sixth and
E Streets
Revolt spreads in Guatemala backed by Zelaya funds
New Orleans dispatch reports preparations for a new Central American uprising in Guatemala. Jose Santos Zelaya, long time dictator of the region, is said to finance the movement from exile in Belgium. Juntas in New Orleans discuss acquiring the torpedo boat Winlow and Hawker gunboat Siren for revolutionary use while promising a free country to avoid retaliatory bloodshed.
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Jose Santos Zelaya
Central America
New Orleans
Honduras
Guatemala
Belgium
New York
United States
Winlow
Siren
Puerto Cortez
Winstow
Missing Clubman Found in Harlem Street Search
New York tech figure 23 John Gardner, octogenarian iron manufacturer and Union League Club founder, long sought after leaving his office last Tuesday. He was found in a Harlem street this afternoon and taken to a hospital. His relatives had been anxious as authorities pursued clues.
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New York
Tech
John Gardner
Union League Club
Harlem
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Lense Rocksille Phony
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Frank Geier
Seventh ST
Eva Chant
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Stirletlh
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Frank A Speafe
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P. Zurhorst
Endertaker
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East Capitol
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Gude
Reachive
Milionaire
Kalon Wine CO
Ihea Phone
Speal
Stimmond
Arnolds
Bis
Bradley
Nathalie Schenck
Gale
Price
R. Harris & CO
the Jewelers
D Streets
Percival K. van Yorx
Angelus Virtuoso
Anna Case
Metropolitan Opera Co
Hans Kronold
Cello
Mr. Lewis B. Thompson
Washington, D.C
Angelus
O. J. Demon & CO
Columbia Theater
C.j.demonl & CO
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Health Office Record
Young Jenks
Workman
AEROS
Connecticut
Junta
14Th ST
14Th St. N. W
Parkwood Place
Shannon & Luchs
Armhiy
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