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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1906
Page
6
Ohio Governor delivers a reform oriented speech criticizing lobbyists and Milking bills while urging primaries on a single election day. He backs tax relief for property, direct primaries, municipal reform, and stronger mine and forest protections, citing modern industry needs and public accountability.
Multiple funeral directors listed with addresses in Washington area. W R Speare at 940 F Street N W offers first class service. J William Lee Funeral Director and Embalmer. R F Harvey's Sons at 1201 Fourteenth Street. John R Wright Co at 1337 Tenth Street Northwest. George P Zarhorst at 201 East Capitol Street offering parlors and chapel use. Telephone numbers and prices implied.
Special to The Washington Post reports Mayor Dempsey and the new Municipal reform administration inaugurated after November elections. Dempsey's first act as mayor appoints A. Lundensee as private secretary and appoints Samuel Allen as health officer. The city council convened with Republicans holding most seats as committees were formed.
Manning C. Palmer, president of the American Exchange National Bank of Syracuse, was found guilty on all but ten counts after a trial on seventy charges. He received five years in Auburn prison, but remains in U S marshal custody pending appeal. The bank failed in 1904 with about 200000 in liabilities, 73 percent paid to depositors after 67 percent stockholder assessments.
In Albany on January 1 1920 Republicans clash over whether the speaker nomination vote will be secret. Wadsworth supporters fear loss if ballot is open Merritt backers push for secrecy amid charges of money use and party infighting, while Odell aides weigh the odds and press for Wadsworth.
New York June 1 Orlando H Peck a fens manufacturer was blown by wind from his hat near the Flatiron Building corner and was run down by a car in front of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Philip Lehman a New York merchant, who was driving the automobile, was arrested.
The New York movement list shows La Touraine arriving from Havre Queenstown January 1. Bowie sails for New York from Liverpool while Carmania heads to New York from Liverpool. Liverpool January 1 sails Bowie to New York Laurentian bound for St Johns N F Halifax and Philadelphia.
Mme Sarah Bernhardt opens a week at the Belasco Theater with Sardou's The Sorceress, delivering magnetic, ardent performance as Zoraya. Her Paris company aligns with her energy, elevating a melodramatic plot to vivid theatricality amid Inquisition intrigue and lavish stagecraft.
Davenport and Annie Dougherty headline a review of a varied bill with the vaudeville troupe Knot of Blue by Elizabeth Young. Enchanting novelties, grand costumes, and a large chorus drive a lively program including La Valle Trio and Henry Froudin's escape act. Me Him and I brings three comics to the Majestic, while Bedford’s Hope debuts at the Academy with a West-inspired melodrama.
Mrs F M Smith wife of a millionaire borax manufacturer died suddenly at Arbor Villa Oakland California of apoplexy. She supported social settlement orphan wards and donated thousands to causes. Born Mary K Thompson in Brooklyn sixty years ago she married in New York about thirty years ago. Brisbane report notes Sir Hugh Muir Nelson lieutenant governor and former premier of Queensland is dead born 1835.
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