Taft Guards Reduced in Line With Economy Plan
Representative Burleson broached the subject to the President, who agreed to cut police guard duty at the White House. Two dozen Metropolitan officers will be reassigned from protection duties to regular patrols, with Maj Sylvester and Commissioner Johnston coordinating the downsizing. The move aligns with broader cost-cutting urged by the House appropriations committee, and Taft directed the new reductions to be implemented immediately.
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Burleson
Metropolitan Police Department
Waite House
Richard Imvester
Johnston
House of Representatives
House Appropriations Committee
Taft
Neming
White House
Veealdent
Vomialastoner Johnston
Sylvester
Reception for Statesmen Draws Washington Social Crowd
A reception hosted by the Congressional Club at its Washington clubhouse drew members of Congress, justices, cabinet officials, and spouses. Hostesses led guests through a formal afternoon with punch, floral decor, and greetings by club leaders Mrs Ernest Wy Hoberts and Mrs Chane Whurk, highlighting a season of social events.
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Teespace
Peralatent
Siscenadon
Rep
Alsters
Fangsters
Cmtly
Tebaug Bs
Chub
Lass
Washington
Ernest Wy Hoberts
Aagsabinetts
Chane Whurk
James Lingod
Mra
Burton TL
Moh Widsha
Atre
Elbert A
Tluhbant
Twa
Mitenel Palmer
Staneington
Toa Shart Willams
Wilson
Misa Wood
White Andrena
Mex
Watson
Pantie Walle
Cesar Brake
Walle
Mra Roberts
Mrs. Lark
AU Neniuys 4
New Year Event at Y M C A Piques Local Crowd
5000 attend New Year’s puppelun at the Young Men’s Christian Association rest room. Jagal president presided with 4 directors assisting. Building opened to visitors. exhibitions and indoor games noted. Champions from Chesley Young Men’s Christian Association won a match. Addresses by Misses Preston, Chappell, Hetingale, Pollard, Gilbert, Lieffron, Bekle, Proudfoot, Rodter followed a playlet “Hox and Cox” with actors Radford Kennedy Whitter. Musical program concluded.
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Cully Ute
Youn Men's Christlar Association
Jagal
Meese Garden
Nhamling
Oftag
Mesers
Chapman Am
Chesley
Youns Mena Chrigides Assoviution
Chapman
Chessey
Atta
Axsenby
Preston
Chappell
Hetingale
Pollard
Gilbert
Lieffron
Bekle
Proudfoot
Rodter
Senate pension committee to report a new Sherwood bill
The Senate pension committee will not amend the Sherwood pension bill. An entirely new bill will be reported with Senator McCumber likely offering an amendment to the 1907 law. Experts say the Sherwood bill would raise the rolls by about 60 percent and the Senate bill would cost up to 30 million dollars annually.
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Senate Pension Committee
Papsta
McCumber
Senate
Prominent Doctor G A White Dies in Washington
Dr George A White a noted chiropodist and Mason died of heart disease yesterday while being transported to Georgetown University Hospital after collapsing on a streetcar at Wisconsin avenue and street northwest. He was 47 and leaves a wife and daughter visiting in Virginia. Funeral arrangements will be made by Hiram Lodge No 0 with Almas Temple Shrine.
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Mystic Shrine
Virginia
George A. White
Wisconsin Avenue
Georgetown University Hospital
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Twiram Lodge
Wincongin Avenue
F Street
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Lynchburg
Dleath
George H. Walker
Lin Newark
Ahe
Maisonie
Dr. White
Washington
de. White
Almas
Mystlo Shrine
Wives Missed Pay as Bohemian Judge Rules at Workhouse
In a New Year tale from Occoquan Workhouse, the alimony club members celebrate while men idle. Judge Jaroslav Bokol denies wives’ pay claims, prompting a lively debate over four days’ wages, amid pork and beans feasts and a men’s stroll, with no contact to wives awaiting support.
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Jaroslav Bo' Kol
Justlce
Themen
Bokol
River Resort
Denied Whisky Slayer in Jail as Lynch Fear Grows
A feud era crime report states Slayer, son of a noted feudist, is jailed under tight guard after the incident. Local residents fear mob action and call for legal process while authorities maintain security and delay further patrols.
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Slayer
Shots on Chevy Chase Car Incident Reported in Mullens
In Mullens West Virginia January 1 a physician Dr Edwin Sherphil was killed in a drug store after refusing to issue whisky to Willis Hatfield son of Devil Anse Hatfield. Hatfield killed the physician with two shots then two more as he approached the prostrate man. Hatfield was captured by a crowd. Passengers in a Chevy Chase car escaped lynching and Hatfield pleaded last night when a negro fired two shots at officers guarding him at Pinaville. Two brothers of Hatfield had earlier killed a man at Harwood Fayette County. The incident was reported to Montgomery county officials by conductor Davis and to Washington police by J Braulley Reed.
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Washington Post
Charleston
W. Va
Willis Hatfeld
Anse” Hatfield
Edwin
Sherphil
Tuaingus
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Hatfold
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Thornhill
Hatflala
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Sire
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Pinaville
Hart
Elias
Davis
Troy
Harwood
Fayette
Cathe+ county
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Matorman
Montgomery County
Davia
Washington
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Tenth Street
Bear Sightings Near Senator Gorman Trigger Laurel Hunt
Laurel residents flocked to Hammonds Branch after reports of a bear near Senator A. B. Gorman's Howard County home. The search, led by Harry Beatt of the Laurel baseball club, lasted hours with no sighting. Some believe a traveling show or park escape. Washington Zoo officials say it escaped from their collection. Dr. Charles S. White plans a two week Rochester visit to inspect the Mayo sanitarium.
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Weahington Post
A. B. Gorman
Howard County
Hammonds Branch
Harry ''Beatt
Laurel Baseball Relab
Washington Zoo
Iy Bear
White
Magda
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Rochester
Minn
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Delayed Jimmy Reagan Chalky Germain bout in Salt Lake City
The Jimmy Reagan versus Chalky Germain match in Salt Lake City was postponed due to Germain's tonsillitis. The San Francisco light heavyweight contender and St. Louis rival were set to fight tonight with plans to stage the bout next Monday night.
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Germain-Reagan
Salt Lake City
Cheb
Jimmy Reagan
San Francisco
Chalky Germain
St. Louis
Germain
Wu Ting Fang’s China Ministerial Night Stirred a City
The story recalls Wu Ting-fang once visiting a Washington area resort as a VIP guest. A publicity agent used a megaphone barker to lure crowds by praising Wu and his suite in Oriental dress and chop sticks. The stunt drew the largest crowd in the resort’s history and revived its fortunes. Wu later returned home without revealing his role as the promoter.
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ACW Atk
Wu Ting-fang
China
Washington
Aiplomatic Corps
Legation
Tuo
Packer
Guarda
Pinkey's New Lodge and the Washington Hiber nians
Pinkey runs a quirky Washington bar known as Pinkey's New Lodge where visiting celebrities and reporters mingle. A late evening clothes mix up leads to a humorous exchange about staying on the job as organizers of the colored Hibernians.
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Washington
New York World
Inkey
Walter
Sab
Pinkey
Jes
Ehlel
How He Fooled Em in the Street Cleaning Scam
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item recounts a fake operation where a forty year old millionaire disguised as a street cleaner swindled two dollars from a job. Surgeons held an indignation meeting denouncing the man as the century’s biggest swindler.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Woman and child found sleeping in Lafayette Park in need
Mrs. Hickman, recently arrived from Philadelphia to visit her dying husband at a tuberculosis hospital, slept with her baby on a bench in Lafayette Park for six hours due to lack of money and a place to stay. Police will hold them pending investigation.
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Lafayette Park
Drug vendor trapped by police in southwest city raid
Witness buys cocaine from Harry Wilson in a setup at Four and a Half Street and Maryland Avenue. Wilson, 30, colored, of 4 Maine Arenus Northwest, arrested for violating pharmacy laws. Police tailed him for a week amid complaints of cocaine sales to colored residents. They found a marked coin and packets on his person. Officers expect more arrests as they pursue a suspected gang trafficking cocaine and morphine.
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Harry ©. Wilsen
Maine Arenus
Heathcoat and
Watts
Fourth Precinct
Maryland Avenue
Wilson
Vacasisa
Riz
Boy Held as Housebreaker
Earl J. Hackley a 17 year old probationer from the reform school was arrested by Bicycle Policeman Castle in the Seventh precinct for allegedly breaking into the florist shop of George A. Comley at 1904 Wisconsin Avenue NW and stealing money. He admitted the robbery saying he needed cash to keep up with his gang and to pay debts to friends for cigarettes, and he resides with his parents at 2727 Twenty-sixth Street NW.
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Reform School
Castle
Seventh Precinct
George A. Comley
Wisconsin Avenue Northwest
Theugh Register
Polles
Hackley
Twenty-seventh Street
Funeral of James W. Allison
Funeral services for James W. Allison, noted leader of the Improved Order of Red Men, will be held today at 11 a.m. at the family residence 1108 Seventh Street Northwest. Rev. Dr. Samuel H. Greene of Calvary Baptist Church and Rev. Dr. Mitchell of Centennial Baptist Church will officiate. Burial at Glenwood Cemetery follows at dawn under the auspices of the Red Men, Patriotic Order Sons of America, and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. Mr. Allison died Saturday night.
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Great Council
Red Men
Seventh Street
Samuel H. Greene
Calvary Baptist Church
Mitchell
Centennial Baptist Church
Berricea
Glen~ Wwend
Patriotic Order Sons of America
Order of United American Mechanics
al- Kigon
Sleek Night Thief Strikes Northwest Home
A sneak thief ransacked Charles Wille’s bedroom on Ivatt Street Northwest at dawn stealing $1 from a purse and a ring while the family slept. Detectives say the burglar used skeleton keys and likely targeted several northwest houses in recent weeks. a 90 year old man with work-seeker visits matches the suspect description. Police urged officers to arrest the described man on sight.
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Wille
Ivat Street
Mr. Willis
Howne
Jimmy
Cox
Police
Willis
Wills
Women host veterans event at Grand Army Hall
Grand Army of the Republic veterans and allied societies were welcomed yesterday at Grand Army Hall by the Woman's Relief Corps, U S Grant Circle, and Daughters of Veterans. Members listed include Agnts Keeler Ferren Parker Mecham Burland Sprague and many others in attendance.
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Grand Army Hall
Woman's Relief Corps
U. S. Grant-Cirelo
Ledes
Daughters of Veterans
Woman's Relief Corpa
Mra Agnts
Sefton
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Elta Washburn
Mary F. Crenshaw
M. G. Spencer
Ming Carrie French
Mina Alice Weaver
Anna Davis
Mina Grace M. Taylor
Pauline Trittipoe
Heater Trittipoe
Bella Howe
Jennie Hamilton
Eagles Club Entertainment At Sixth Street Venue
The Eagles club at sixth and H streets NW hosted a social evening with several speeches led by president W. H. Clark. Vaudeville acts followed with songs and dances and plans for an officers installation and banquet next Thursday anticipated. Prominent Eagles from other cities are expected to attend.
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Dagles’ Club
Sixth
H Streets
Onen Howe
WV. HL Clark
Questa
Fire alarms at northwest residence cause rush of engines
In the basement of Miay Allo M. Adams at 1022 Sixteenth Street NW a fire sent three engines and a water tower to the exclusive residence area last night. Smoke poured from a window and a $100 damage estimate was reported while the blaze’s cause and extent remained unclear.
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Miay Allo M. Adams
Sixteenth Street
Crusade Against Tipping Opens Today in Earnest
A national drive against tipping launches today led by PF. E. Dawe of the Commercial Travellers' National League. He argues hotel owners push high profits on meals and drinks, using tips to subsidize wages, and urges a public boycott to restore fair pricing and respect for workers.
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PF. E. Dawe
Wall Street
Botel
Thalr
United States
Pullman
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