Decision upholding gas franchise as property in New York case
A New York federal ruling affirms that gas company franchises are property and may be capitalized. Justice Peckham leads a 9 to 0 court decision reversing a lower court, remitting the injunction against enforcing an 8 cent gas law and outlining criteria for just returns, value, and potential constitutional issues.
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Eircuit Court
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New York
Ueciaun Gour Court
Stat. Hay
Astral Court
Avidente
Court of Equity
Cirumstances
Mdgidaal Copsaumer
Aty
Mndi ‘Ual
Tne Company
Good Wa
New Fork
Plaase
Jackson Green of Bedford County Dead at 101
Special to The Washington Post from Cumbaland Maryland dated January 4 reports Jackson Green described as Bedford County’s oldest resident. He died at age 101 years 5 months and 1 day at his home. For over four decades he worked as a relative in the community and was once sold to satisfy his master’s creditors. His first owner was "Jack" Stewart.
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Washington Post
Cumbaland, Md
Jackson Green
Bedford County
Budd
Jack” Stewart
Raleigh murder trial opens for Cotton and Holdenfield
In Richmond Virginia on January 4 the Henrico county court began trial for Earl Cotton and Tim Holdenfield charged with the murder of Dr Edgar W Smith. The victim is described as a wealthy coal salesman. The case centers on the night of November 1 last year. A second item notes Henrico County voting on January 31 to issue a $300,000 bond to fund macadamized road construction over the next ML years.
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Sprial
Washington
Raleigh
Jaw
Superio
Earl Cotton
Tim Holdenield
Edgar W Smith
Richman
Richmond
Henrico County
Mail fraud charged in decoy postal scheme in Cumberland
Washington inspectors arrest Henry Lewis alias John Roberts of Shepherdstown on fraud charges after decoy letters offered a horse prize and required money to cover expenses. Postal clerk Jane Powell of Germania WV also jailed. decoy whisky orders found. Inspectors seized marked money and a revolver. Powell confessed to mail theft and conspiracy with Cumberland merchants reporting complaints.
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Washington
Cumberland
Maryland
Washington Post
Hagerston
Henry Lewis
John Roberts
Shepardstown
United States
Hagerstown
Hoffman
Hagner
Lewis
Campbellanu Sid Jane—Hoy Powell
Germania
W Va
Meiling
Davis
Dobbin
Af Powell
Bom
Start Alone For Prison In Raleigh Penitentiary
Special to Tie Washington Post Asheville North Carolina January 4 A young man named Joseph Lence declared he would begin his sentence of mine years in Raleigh penitentiary without awaiting the court of appeals decree He claims the shot that killed Alma Green during a Christmas celebration came from his pistol and insists he would serve the punishment rather than flee alarming his aged father and risking property loss
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Washington Post
Asheville
Ncg
Raleigh
Court of Appeals
Joseph Lence
Alma Green
Farmer Shot From Ambush Near Selma Virginia
Danville Virginia January 4 a widely known farmer Charles Brown age 35 to 40 near Selma was shot and killed last night returning from a tenant visit. A report of a gun followed by a cry I am jailed! was heard. Brown lay dying found by neighbors. Suspect fled. Bloodhounds used on trail. No motive known though rumors speak of a woman in the case leaving a wife and seven children.
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Danville
Charles Brown
Selma
Heart Brown
Pocahontas Lumber Camp Superintendent Ends Life
Burnet Woova, 4-A Blocher, superintendent of Pocahontas Lumber Company, died by self inflicted gunshot at Cam four miles away on Little River. In bed, the bullet passed through his head. He was a Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows and Eagles member and left a letter to his children saying his health was broken and he could not work, ending his life.
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Washington Post
Burnet
Woova
Dan
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Pocahontas Limber Company
Cam
Little River
Fred
Knights of Pythias
Odd Fellowvs
Hagles
Theater Declared Unsafe in Baltimore Condemned
The Washington Past Baltimore reports Jane Holliday Street theater, one of the oldest in the country, was condemned and ordered closed by UK building inspectors. Two principal roof rafters were found in bad condition as the matinee crowd assembled. Fire and safety crews removed lofts and seats. theater may reopen tomorrow night if work finishes.
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Baltimore
Washington
Jane Holliday Street
Swamp Root Promises Kidney Liver Bladder Relief
A vintage advertisement touts Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a pure non stimulant remedy for kidney liver and bladder troubles. It claims vegetable ingredients and a teaspoonful dose, offering a free sample by mail and a detailed information booklet, with both 5 cent and dollar size bottles sold in drug stores.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghaston
Washington Daily Post
Loudoun hounds chase long fox in frosty Virginia hunt
Fox hunting near Teesbing Virginia produced the season’s fastest and longest run led by master Harry W Smith. The pack crossed Broad Rut and Sugarland Run then Bigvad Run, stretching to Coton before darkness halted the chase. Riders from New York Baltimore and Maine joined the field.
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Loudoun
Harry W Smith
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Broad Run
Sugarland Run
Coton
J E Davis
New York
Oa Lainard
Kenneth Schrey
John W Walker
JB Garrett
Baltimore
Mris Westmorland Davis
Minion
Chichester
Castleman
Fendall Shepherd
Buell
HT. Harrison
W A Metzger
IDR Green Declines Coadjutorship at Virginia Seminary
The Rev Tr Berryman Green, professor of the English Bible at the Episcopal Theological Seminary of Virginia near Alexandria, announced he declines the bishop coadjutor election from a December council. He will remain on the seminary faculty, prompting another council to elect a bishop coadjutor.
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Wabitington Post Bureau
King Street
Alexandria
Berryman Green
Episcopal Theologia! Seminary of Virginia
Virginia
Decrees and legal notes from Alexandria circuit court
In Alexandria circuit court Judge J B T Thornton presiding routine business included several decrees and dismissals In cases Webster versus Van Metre Wallis versus Continental Savings and Loan five year decree no decree entered in five years Burroughs versus Burroughs divorce for desertion sale of real estate in estates of Beach commissioners appointed Chewing versus Mahood sale of house and lot at 22 South Washington St and sale commissioners named Ho Tnungen versus Washington Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway suit set for trial with special jury. In U S District Court Judge Wadibility presiding information filed against Smoca and Bissie Brisene for assault on Loveless on government reservation. Other business included cases involving internal revenue laws plea of guilty with judgment suspended and administrator qualification for Henry Smoot estate valued about 100 dollars. Funeral services for Mrs Anna Cockrell held at Methodist Episcopal Church South with burial in Bethel Cemetery.
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JB T Thornton
John D Webster
van Metre
Elizabeth T Wallis
Continental Savings and Loan Association
Nettle C Burroughs
James H Burroughs
Bessie Bowler
Annie E Crawford
John 3. Beach
James R Ca~ton
James R Ca~ton and A Grdner I
Boothe
Ernest G Chewing
Clara
United States Court
Eastern District of Virginia
Edmund Wadibli
Jleave
Howard Smoca
Bessie Brisene
Johm Loveless
Thenderaon
Cours
Dade
Guity
Thomas Dore
Internal Revenue Laws
Quiet Raleigh Session Aims for Calm Leadership
A Raleigh session opening on Wednesday promises a quiet start, with Graham and Dowd seeking speaker posts. A bank deposits tax bill is debated but likely to fail, while Gov Glenn backs enforcement against whisky manufacture and sale, citing sheriff authority. Cumberland Sheriff Watson praised for seizing illicit distilleries.
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Spreial
Washington Post
Raleigh
Graham
Hayes
Dowd
Glenn
Hay
United States Revenue Authorities
S Watson
Cumberland County
Illiclt
May Get Carnegie Aid At West Virginia University
Special to The Washington Port Mogantown West Virginia Jan 4 Dr Henry S Pritchett president of the Carnegie Foundation delivered the convocation address at the opening of the winter term of West Virginia University The visit holds significance amid Carnegie Foundation discussions to include the university among fund beneficiaries Professors listed as eligible include St George Tucker Brooke William P Willey Robert M Douthat James S Stewart and President D B Parinton
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Washington Port
Mogantown
W Va
Henry S Pritchett
Carnegie Foundation
West Virginia University
Pritchett
Ae & St George Tucker
FIRE DRILL SAVES PUPILS AT SMALL CITY SCHOOL
Baltimore report notes Public School No 97 on Jackson Place emptied of about 300 children in 20 seconds after a basement fire alarm. Teachers orderly evacuated upper rooms as smoke filled the building. damage described as light. Other items mention obituaries and local notices from Maryland and Virginia communities.
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Baltimore
Dackson Place
Richmond Death in Chair of Norfolk County Rifle Killer
Frank Davenport, a Black man, was executed in the electric chair at the State penitentiary in Richmond on January 4. He had shot and killed John Taylor, a respected Black man from Norfolk County, in November. The execution was witnessed by jurors’ mothers, surgeons, and officials.
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Frank Davenport
John Taylor
Norfolk County
State Penitentiary
Multiple incidents stain Hallimore Nas area with crime and chaos
A string of late 19th century crimes and incidents flows through Hallimore Nas and surrounding counties. John Lewis Banks is alleged to have killed bartender Tim Betlake six years ago and reportedly confessed in custody. Frank Young, a twice-deadly-adjudged murderer, reportedly escaped life imprisonment by lunacy plea. W E T Bass, Richmond coroner, was knocked down by a horse but unharmed after a prior stroke left him deaf. John Wood of South Norfolk killed an unknown negro guarding a henhouse, with coroner’s jury involvement. An indictment for Morgan Hayes, killer of Vivian Saunders, was presented to Norfolk county land jury. Col George Cabell aids in the prosecution for the dead girl’s relatives, while Attorney Archer Pilegar is retained in a wet abolition saloon controversy in Lynchburg. A Bristol baby abandoned on a doorstep prompts police investigation. Former Gov A B White denies a run for Congress and presidency of West Virginia University.
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Charles Eliiott
Richmond Howitzers
Lee Camp Soldiers Home
Elliott
Fachmand
Alexandria
Newpoit News
James Bowen
Fauquier County
W of Cooper
Mosby
Culpeper
Timberville
Jane
Joseph Jordan
Winchester
Elizabet
Hodgson
William Hodgson
Frederck County
Harrisonburg
Amanda Crocher
A D Wauchope
Bridgewater
D R_ Clem
Wauchope
W. J. Radcliffe
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John Johns
Viralnia
Sadles
Anne Arundel Counts
Tomorraa
John Lewis
John Lewis Banks
Hallimore Nas
Barles
Tim ‘Betlake
Longs Farm
Frank Young
Mecklenburg County
T Bass
Richmond Cortratto
M Ramsey
Grace Street
Morgan Hayes
Vivian Saunders
Norfolk County Land Jury
George
Cabell
Business Estates and Trusts in Insolvent Estates
In many estates the largest item is a business house a store or a factory. Trust companies as Executor or Administrator of such estates by skill and good management and the ability to make temporary advances of money have often saved them from insolvency. Inquires Invited Northwest Corner of Fifteenth and Pennsylvania Age. Charles J. Bell President.
Maryland Happenings and Local Weddings Report
At Annapolis Savines Institute annual meeting directors for one year were elected. The Rev William Hammond Parker withdraws from a college church call while Rev George Whiteside continues at the pulpit. In Fredericksburg John W Warner of Switzerland and Miss Lizzie Sutterle of Chicago wed with plans to reside in Spottsylvania. Rockville reports three marriages: Cecilia Grimes and James Montgomery Boswell. Julia M Beech and Andrew E Birth. Emma J Hoopes and Frank T Ream. All ceremonies conducted by local pastors.
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Frank H. Stockett
Same Brooks
George W. Wilcox
John B. Flood
James M. Munroe
Bernard Wiegard
Lewis Holhen
Wiliam N Woodward
Wiliam M. Holladay
Eugene Worthington
Frank 4. Munroe
Samuel W. Brooks
William Hammond Parker
Cincinnati
College Avenue Baptist Church
Annapollis
George W. Whiteside
Baltimore
Fredericksburg
John W Warner
Switzerland
Lizzie Sutterle
Chicago
Spottsylvan County
Decatur Edwards
Spottsylvania County
Rockville
Cecilia Grimes
Travilah
This County
James Montgomery Boswell
Glen
Ernest L. Woolfe
Southern Methodist Church
Julia M. Beech
Andrew E Birth
Washington
Emma J Hoopes
Frank T . Ream
Thomas J Packard
Christ Episcopal Church
Health Office Deaths Record from Northwest Dists
Deaths listed with names ages and addresses across Washington area. Names include Beesle Trent seven to twenty two, Floret Phelps Plana California, Minnie Krupean nineteen, Thomas Duncan four, Morris Lippman four, Rosina Prince years, Henry Saunders, John Harris forty one, Laura Dunley thirty eight, and several others with street and avenue references such as 1010 2d st 4B, 125 Tenn ave ne, 1441 Harvard st nw, 1812 Sth st nw, 242 9th st se, and 520 U et nw. Records note ages from under one to seventy seven and multiple locations including northeast and northwest districts.
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Northwest
PE Kowler
Floret Phelps Plana California
CIA Dudley
George
Pears
L Street
Minnie Krupean
Easp
Harvard St
Rosina Prince
Pic Vo Roberts
Hamilton
Grego
Kenyon
Doyaph Miletti
Sth
Lulu
Lark Bo
Henry C Saunders
U Et
Dohn A
Harris
Thefrees
Laura Dunley
Marion St
Carver
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