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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1908
Page
19
The article notes renewed demand for high grade bonds and a cautious market mood. It highlights lower money rates, improved but uneven business conditions, and fears of deeper downturn before possible recovery. Rail and industrial earnings report uncertainty, with no immediate widespread bank or business failures.
The article notes financing for Erie, Missouri Pacific, and Rock Island calms worries over American rail lines. It reports firmer Berlin and Paris markets, and Japan’s reaction amid broader global finance trends. It mentions anticipated ship launches and the impact of European events on U.S. industry and stocks.
In Center NY on Sunday a group of barbers tied to a local church faced charges as a test case. The accused, including Glenn and Joseph Chit fri, were not taken to jail and will be arraigned in Morrow.
Boston hosts the National Guard Association meeting with War Department officials and Gen Charles A Drain as speakers. Delegates propose shifting the National Guard from state to federal control as part of a first line of defense, extending wartime deployment and enlarging overall war strength to 250,000.
The Carnegie Steel Company adopts Lieut Cleland Davis’s Davis patent to harden armor plates uniformly. Electrodes melt carbon powder through the plate to the required depth, reducing time and cost versus old annealing methods. The method aims for consistent surface tempering and deeper hardening, improving plate pliability and impact resistance.
A German critic argues the U S Army is ill prepared for war with no mobilization plan or universal conscription and predicts weak strength even with good equipment. He praises some officers but warns of disorganized reserves and low National Guard readiness, estimating only a fraction of the enrolled could serve.
Winchester obituary column reports Edward Haymaker a contractor who died this afternoon after a protracted illness. Widow and four daughters mourn. Oliver Jenneon dies after a lingering illness aged twenty seven. Mrs James H Shenk, wife of the Luray water works superintendent, dies at seventy two, survived by six children.
Gov Glenn of North Carolina announces railroads will cover 17500 dollars for a special legislative session. The Atlantic Coast Line has not agreed, shifting burden to Southern and Seaboard Air Line. Seaboard under receivers, requiring federal court approval to collect. Some see it as coercive, others warn it could backfire on the governor and legislature.
The Washington Fort Cumberland Md sheet reports Rev Asbury Reiley aged 71 died today in Cumberland. He served 55 years in the ministry. his father Rev James Reiley and brother Rev Dr J McKendree Reiley preceded him. An uncle Rev Tobias Reiley pioneered Cumberland Methodist work. in 18 9 he pastored. In 10 he built Center Street Methodist Episcopal Church Cumberland. His wife and four children survive.
Washington Post report describes a crowd of soldiers taking possession of a streetcar bound for Mount Vernon late Saturday. Passengers were frightened as the car was allegedly driven, and a whisky bottle was thrown through a window causing a hand injury. Officers will investigate the incident this afternoon.
Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon for James Houlson and Emma Houlson at Grace Pice Church with Rev Edgar Carpenter and Rex Mof Pishet officiating. Burial followed in Bethel Cemetery. Pallbearers were members of the Veteran Phemans 4s Secretion and the Knights of Pythias. A separate funeral for Leonard Brown was at Demaines undertaking with interment in Presbyterian Cemetery. Leory Brengi’s rites were at the Masonic Temple with interment in Methodist Protestant Cemetery.
Reads as a fragmented Alexandria item noting a church benefit by the Dramatic Club of the Loungen 5 Solality Lyceum of Mexandrit with medical aid by Alexandrans, plus revival services at the Methodist Protestant Church led by Rev G I Humphreys. Mentions deaths of Olive May Shinaxel and Katie Williams, and a poisoning incident near Windel with four children affected and Mabel Powe dying.
Special to The Washington rest reports the Norfolk Vi incident where the Motel Dihait between Ocean View and the expansion grounds was completely destroyed by fire last night. Estimated loss runs to about 8000 dollars.
A violent easterly gale and heavy rain lash Virginia and Carolina coasts. Norwegian steamship Fortuna travels from Norfolk to Hasana but returns battered past Cape Henry with part of its rigging and boats lost. Old Bay Line vessel Edge Carned Away and Bay Line ships suffer broken bows and damaged decks as waves wash over them. Many passengers are seasick and reports from the storm’s peak are still unsettled. Telegraph wires along the coast are down, delaying weather updates.
Antonia Lanasa and Alfred Goffe post $1000 bail each as hearings unfold on a alleged plan to dynamite the home of Joseph El Giorgio, president of Atlantiel Drint Company. The case ties in Cilgaro Monteleone and others with ties to political figures and a large defense team.
Washington Post reports tobacco sales down with cold windy weather and muddy roads delaying reopening. About 18000 pounds of good quality leaf were offered, average price near 11 cents per pound. Half the crop sold, further drops expected in two months as price holds. In North Carolina, breaks remain high after holidays, with over half the crop sold and most remaining held by planters to be offered soon. City banks have recalled notes and are using farmers in currency for their products.
Special to The 71 Ingtan Boer Cumberland Md Jin 11 4 boy and girl romance culminates as John Ho Resrits and Miss Tore we Henepper wed in Trin Ity Latheria Chin Somerset. Rev Robert JL Petterson of Somerset officiates with Ros George Wo knepper of Wil Kinsturge a cousin of the bride assisting. Dr Join Meisenhelder of Washington DC attended. The bride, given away by her brother Liett Com Chester 3 Knepper, and Chester 3 Knepper were among wedding party. The couple met in school and shared classes, finishing graduation together. They plan to honeymoon in the West.
Parents Bernard and Mrs Kahn forbid union but Edna B Kahn quietly left home on Mowbray Road to wed John McComber Ferriss of Cleveland Ohio at the Monticello Hotel. The ceremony, officiated by Dr Tanson, occurred without the couple's families knowing beforehand. The bride is described as a Jewess.
A sweeping January electrical storm drenched Baltimore and surrounding towns. Thunderbolts struck a Walbrook residence wrecking shingles while Westminster telephone exchange suffered fire and furniture damage. Flooding from thaw and rising streams forced crews to clear Winchester streets as water invaded basements and sidewalks.
Miss Dish Ward, 16, of Portsmouth, tried to end her troubles by swallowing laudanum in High Street after midnight. Found by a constable and a citizen, physicians treated her and she recovered. She now says she does not want to die.
A 35 year old man named Crute hanged himself in the afternoon at his father Capl Crute’s home in Poanoke Washington. The act involved tying a strap to a headboard or similar support before the death. Family and authorities are reporting the death as suicide by self inflicted hanging.
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Mr McConnell promotes a self cure via vital force, claiming chronic diseases and paralysis can be treated by increasing the body’s vital power. He reports 100 experiments, opening the Life Electricity Institute in Washington for instruction, including mail courses and lectures.
Sergeant Oscar Gatling of the Twentieth Coast Artillery was killed at Fort Barrancas early today by James Hart, a negro, who fled but was later captured. Gatling, stationed seven years at the fort, came from Atlanta where he had relatives.
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