Taft Urges Riflemen Endowment at National Ill Association Meet
Taft backs an ambitious 109.0 percent endowment for the National Rifle Association as prominent leaders attend the New Willard gathering. Meyer and Bacon are highlighted among many officials while the group plans a nationwide drive to teach citizens how to shoot.
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National
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Bacon
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Spencer
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Arthur Bridge Adsuert Xeteral
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Michigan
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Columbia
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Poonath
Omitebes
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An inquirer named Ta Cow and Merah in a Dear ya dom tere Purr context appear in fragmented text. Readers expect a concise narrative with identifiable people and actions, but the readable portion shows garbled phrasing hindering a clear event, date, or location. Further readable details are needed to form a complete summary.
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Nat Inquirer
National Rifle Association Holds 1909 Plan Meeting
A briefing outlines proposed changes to state and national associations, prize funds, and a larger board. It notes potential prizes funded by entrance money, a possible cancellation of matches, and adds new members including Roosevelt, Taft, and Root. An endowment fund plan seeks 106000 dollars with nineteen donors targeted by year end.
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National Rifle Association
Ufe
Roosevelt
Taft
Root
Bacon
the Navy
Newberry
Cornelius N Bliss
Henry White
T J O'Brien
F 19 Briggs
James A. Stillman
John Jacob Astor
James A Drex
Labor Federation to Fight Contempt Sentences in Gompers Case
The American Federation of Labor held a two hour session with Judge Alton B Parker and local lawyers discussing appealing Justice Wrights contempt sentences against Samuel Gompers John Mitchell and Frank Morrison. If affirmed the case goes to the US Supreme Court with funds sought from unions.
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Samuel Gompers
John Mitchell
Frank Morison
Justice Wright
Bucks Stove and Range Company
Amerian Federation of Labor
Alton Walker
Mesers Ralston & Biddens
Agaians
Justice Wrights
District Court of Appeals
Supreme Cant of
United States
Comue Legal
St Jomg Stove
Wedont
Judge Parker
Newith
Samuel Gampers
James Duncan
Jom Mitchell Dimes
G Connell Vox Mole Vol Tuber
Ballentine JR
Mipme
JF Lennon
Monison
Pucaldent Gamp
Water as sponsor for Delaware ship christening
Word spreads that Delaware plans to christen the battleship with water, while whisky will be shown at Newport News shipyard. A Norfolk firm distributed whisky samples to spectators, and a Virginia company planned to supply champagne bottles for the launch. Critics urge water only, asking Goo Lee to influence the choice.
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Deaware
Spenl
Washington Post
Wimiington
Delaware
Wan
Newport News
Viginia Company
Drs
Goo Lea
HER PEARLS NOT A NECKLACE New York Jane-In a decision rendered Wednesday in Leeds case
United States Court of Appeals reversed lower court finding and ruled that a famous string of pearls bought in Paris in 1963 for Mrs Leeds was not a necklace subject to duty. The court sustained a 10 percent duty on importation valued at 320000, after seizure and prior full duty paid, noting the invoice must state the value for tax purposes.
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New York
Jane
Leeds
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Paris
Willam B Leeds
Board of General Appraisers
Eniaim
Many To Build Hall New Auditorium Interest Grows
Forty nine names surfaced as prospective incorporators to erect a large auditorium near the Corcoran Gallery of Art. An option on an entire block fronts Seventeenth Street, with plans to form a company next week and hold a public meeting to explain the project.
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Corcoran Gallery of Art
Robert Bacon
Charles J Bell
Scott C Bone
John T Devine
Charles C Glover
George W. Hamilton
Christian Heurich
Abram Lisner
Jobo R McLean
Clarence F Norment
Theodore W Noyra
James W Oyster Cune
Rudolph Emil Berne
J Ismal
W Woodward
Edward J Stellwagen
F Schutt
George Truesdell
Thomas F Walsh
John M Wilson
Henry BF Macfarland
Frank A Mungey
R Rosas Perry
Corcoran
Thom Duncan
Pillups
Willam
Henry C. Corbin
Levi P Morton
James Elverson
Thomas Netton Page
Han
George Dewey
Charles D Walcott
Henry H Flather
Lauriatin Hardin
William Holland Witmer
William W Finley
Root
Auditorium Company
National Convention Hall
Seventeenth Street
Bureau of American Republics
Cor Uran Art Gallery
Forts
Judge Dayton Considered for Navy Secretary Role in Taft Cabinet
Friends of Judge Alston G Dayton of the U S District Court in the Northern District of West Virginia say he has been tentatively offered a cabinet post as Secretary of the Navy. Dayton, who adjourned court at Parkersburg, plans to travel to Washington to meet Ratification figures and the President-Elect to discuss the move. He has served in Congress and on the federal bench after succeeding the late Judge Jackson.
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Wheeling
Alston G Dayton
United States Court For
Northern District of
West Virginia
Taft
Thia
Dayton
Parkersburg
Washington
Knox
Daston
Augusta
Secretary of the Navy
Mercantile Club Elects Officers at Annual Meeting
Members of the Mercantile Club held their annual meeting at the clubhouse for officer elections. Harry King was elected president, FR B Lyon named vice president, M Cinermann treasurer, KR B Gusders secretary, with J Seldenheimer C H Reizen awen A J Stragburger A D Prince A J z Bachrach L Freirich and Milton Strasburger named to the board of governors.
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Mercantile Club
Motion Picture Queen Targeted in $10600 Suit
Special to The Washington Post Richmond Va Jan 14 Mrs Sadie Skeggs of 8 North Twelfth Street sues Mrs Alice E Thorpe known as the Motion Picture Queen for 10600 damages alleging Thorpe lured her husband away from their marriage Mrs Skeggs says she and her husband Dived happily until Thorpe attracted J Franklin Skeggs a steel engraver Thorpe owns and runs a chain of Virginia theaters The suit was filed late Wednesday
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Washington Oat
Richmond
Alice E Thorpe
Sadie 1 Skeges
North Twelfth Street
Seak
Thorpe
Virginia
$1,000,000 Coke Concern Formed In Morgantown WV
D R Davidson Gap and Coke Company has been organized with a $1,000,000 capital to develop 3000 acres of coal land on the Monongahela River near Morgantown. Incorporators include Prince stockholders of Union Drawn Steel Company, which runs plants in Beaver Falls Pennsylvania Hamilton Ontario and Monterey Mexico. The firm will produce coke for its steel plant, currently buying from H C Trick Coat and Coke Company, a United States Steel subsidiary.
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Morgantown
W Va
H C Trick Coat and Coke Company
United States Steel Corporation
Stevens Named President of Colorado and Southern Railroad
Denver Jan 14 John M Stevens former Isthmian Canal Commission chairman and current vice president of the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad has been offered the presidency of the Colorado and Southern Railroad to succeed Frank Trumbull who will retire next Wednesday The Colorado and Southern was recently audited by Hill interests
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Cola
John M Stevens
Isthmian Canal Commission
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Colorado and Southern Railroad
Frank Trumbull
Colorado and Southern
The
Hill Interests
Treasonous torpedo blueprints surface in New York case
Special to the Washington Post reports Englishman Robert Lobbett, once with EW Bliss & Co, in possession of torpedo plans and patents from several firms. He planned to sail for England within days, claiming the copies were for showing potential employers as a draftsman. Police detained him amid a copyright dispute and suspected espionage.
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Washington Post
Ew York
Robert Il Lobbett
Lobbett
Biss & Co
Willard Po Meyers
Vernon Avenue
Long Island City
Ehls Engpicion
Lovuett
Mevers
Torpedo
National Tin Plate Company
Pittsburg Feed and Water Company
Scheffer Bridge Company
Erie Sim Worka Company
Schenectady Railroad Cay Company
Tebbett
England
Anest
Hebbett
King Alfonso to Fly in Wright Plane Around Madrid
King Alfonso of Spain plans to learn to fly and use an aeroplane around Madrid instead of a motor car. He has bought a Wright aeroplane and will train under Wilbur Wright, aiming to become the first monarch to navigate the air. He shipped the craft to Pau for lessons and has contracts with a French firm.
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Washington Post
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Wilbur Wright
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Paris
Orville Wright
France
Ameria
SA R LADIES NIGHT MEETING AUSPICIOUS PROGRAM
More than 300 guests attended the District of Columbia Society Sons for the American Revolution ladies night. Mrs Donald McLean and Judge Henry Stockbridge gave addresses while Mrs Bischoff sang solos. a buffet luncheon and dancing followed with Marine Band music and a large reception committee.
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Sons For the
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Sons of the American Resolution
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Samson Thad
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Rob Tully
Joseph & Welk
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Warner Jr
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Wedon
Odell & Whipple
Maniac attacks in home as Wirtz rages injuring six
Rudolph Wirtz secretary of the Wirtz transfer Company went insane Wednesday and attacked his wife at home and several bystanders. He cut and stabbed the woman 44 times and severed her right thumb. Wirtz slashed his brother Julius and injured others. bystanders disarmed him. The interior of the parlor was bloodstained and the assailant was held by police. The maniac had been in a sanitarium and is said to be obsessed with the murder of Mrs Frank Donnely of Oxford.
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Charles Martin
Martin ‘Transfer Company
Harry Simimerton
William Firscine
George Longhet
Wirtz
Frank Donnely
Oxford
Typhoid Kills Griswold at Yale Rowing Meet
New Haven Connecticut January fourteenth to Julyan s Curtiss Yale graduate advisory coach writes Yale Alumni Weekly on the San Francisco death of Dwight T Griswold stroke of the Windsor clan who collapsed during a Harvard Thames River race at New Tongon Inst Jute. He says the death was due to typhoid fever and not connected to the race collapse. He notes the collapse was nervous not physical and linked by doctors to a nervous flutter at the throat and a false start lingering after the race.
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Julian' S Curtiss
Yale
San Jancisco
Dwight T Griswold
Harvard
Thames River
New Tongon
Kelsey resigns as insurance superintendent in Albany
Ian Kelsey, longtime superintendent of insurance for the state, resigns at close of business in Albany. Gov Hughes appoints Otto E. Kalney as first deputy State Comptroller at 35 000 a year with 1000 for expenses. Kalney to assume duties immediately. Kelsey served nearly full term until reform insurance laws marked his tenure.
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Albany
N.Y
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Otto E. Kelsey
Peer
Hughes
Kalney
Nosittom
Kelsey
Legislative Insurance Investigating Committee
Ryan Gets Berth as Grand Rapids Manager Next Year
Special to The Washington Post Jimmy Ryan, a former West Side star, appears set to manage the Grand Rapids team of the Central League next season after terms delay a contract. President Carson and President Murphy discussed Ryan’s wave to the circuit while noting a likely Monday league meeting to finalize details.
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Chicago
Jimmy Ryan
West Side
Brooklyn
Herry Lumley
Grand Rapids
Carson
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Evenaville
Cubs and Sox chase Cy Young in Chicago bidding war
Chicago clubs Murphys and Comiskey press after Cy Young with strong bids and high stakes. Young could become the season’s top drawing card as both teams plot to land the veteran pitcher, amid rival offers from other clubs and a push to pair him with his catcher Criger.
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Chicago
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Charlie Cornishe
Cy Young
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Denton H Young
West Side
Board named to plan submarine artillery at Fort Stevens
A board of officers led by Maj George T Bartlett Maj James McIndoe and Capt William K Moore was appointed to study artillery questions affecting Fort Stevens Fort Canby and related fire control installations. The panel will meet at Fort Steven Greg to review courses for cables and fire control needs across departments.
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Columbia River
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George T Bartlett
James McIndoe
Corps of Engineers
William K Moore
Burton Chosen U S Senator Warns Lawmakers on Powers
TheodRe Burton elected to succeed J B Foraker in the U S Senate with 46 votes to 1 for Campbell. He urged balance between state and federal power and warned Congress and the Ohio General Assembly to protect state individuality against excessive centralization. He pledged no ambition beyond earning trust to keep his seat.
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Columbus
Ole
Theodore E Burton
United States
J B Foraker
Burton
James E Campbell
Senate
Congress
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Commonwealths
Dress makers seek license exams before marriage
In Chicago the Dress Makers Club pushes a plan requiring marriage license applicants to pass a civil service exam and show references from former employers. They argue this will protect women from unsuitable partners and raise community morals by ensuring applicants can support themselves.
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Lorider
No Pay for Mind Healing in Delaware County Suit
Philadelphia January 14 The common pleas court dismissed a claim by George William Strong eclectic physician and hypnotist seeking 344 percent from the widow of John E Wooten for treatments in Secone Delaware County Strong a graduate of Selective Medical College New York testified his specialty was suggestive hypnotism and he treated Wooten from March 1898 to December when the patient died He stated the services were extra and he remained twenty one and a half weeks charging at a rate of seven dollars a week and that mind healing was not recognized by state law.
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George William Strong
Common Pleas
John E Wooten
Secone
Delaware County
Stong
Selectic Medical College of
New York
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Ino
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Wooten
Preacher Charged With Murder Contends Victim Alive
Special to The Washington Port Suffolk reports preacher on trial for murder of Rev James L Smith and brother clergyman Lyons. Defense claims victim alive in New York jail under alias Caesar Hives and linked to pirate activity with Lyons sister. Trial underway in Nansemond circuit court as expected to proceed with testimony about Lyons disappearance and possible tactics.
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Suffolk
James L Smith
Tyons
Lyons
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Princess Anne County
Law for clean sheets proposed for hotels
Special to The Washington Lancoln Nebt reports Representative Link introduced a bill mandating annual hotel inspections and mandatory cleaning and disinfection of bedding. It requires each guest to receive a clean towel, pillow slips, and sheets washed after each use, with white cotton pillow slips and undergarments supplied and laundered before the next guest.
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Suffragette Pickets Churchill Dinner in Birmingham
A suffragette disrupted a political dinner in Birmingham as Winston Churchill, then president of the Board of Trade, sat with his wife. A woman argued for votes for women, refused to leave when asked, was towed by the shoulders and escorted to the door as shouts of battle cry echoed.
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Winston Spencer Churchill
Board of Trade
Evertug Draa
Churchill
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Battle Crien
Unclear text with coin toss win at Washington Port
Fragmentary report describes a large win by chance involving Rafferty and a broker in Pittsburgh area. The text mentions a coin toss determining money or nothing and references a Waldorf Associa tion in New York and a prospective sum around six thousand, with several names and places obscured.
Torpedo expert injured in explosion aboard river craft
A torpedo expert sustained injuries after an explosion aboard a boat near the Poe River. The incident drew naval authority and an investigation by officers, with reports noting compressed air and blast effects on the vessel and crew.
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